9,000-Year-Old Structures Deep Beneath the Great Lakes Reveal Archaeological Evidence of an Ancient “Lost World”
It began with a curious discovery: a series of unusual structures located more than 100 feet below the surface of Lake Huron, first detected in 2008.
What resulted was an ongoing investigation of curious sunken features beneath the Great Lakes, which are helping to reveal clues to a lost chapter in the prehistory of the ancient Americas, and the lives of its late Paleoindian-period inhabitants.
Close to 9,000 years ago, humans who once thrived on a land bridge that existed in a now submerged region deep within Lake Huron were assembling campsites, hunting pits, and “drive lanes” to aid in hunting caribou using the region’s local stone.
Following their discovery nearly two decades ago, researchers at the University of Michigan have continued to document these remarkable archaeological features, which are regarded as the earliest evidence of human activity ever discovered at the bottom of the Great Lakes.
Since their initial detection, John O’Shea, curator of Great Lakes Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology and professor in the Department of Anthropology, has become something of an evangelist for the remarkable discoveries preserved at the bottom of Lake Huron, frequently giving talks to historical societies and archaeology groups about their significance.
“We have been working continuously out in Lake Huron since 2008, and will be continuing the work this summer,” O’Shea recently told The Debrief. Since the initial detection of stone structures on the lake’s bottom, O’Shea says that several additional features have been identified, adding to the expanding picture of what the lives of the region’s ancient caribou hunters must have been like.
Professor John O’Shea, shown while working in the field
(Image Credit: John O’Shea)
“To date, we have identified 80 locations with likely stone constructions,” O’Shea says. Most of these newly identified structures include drive lanes like those initially discovered in 2008, in addition to hunting blinds, and also caches of stone where ancient hunters had left behind material that could later be used to fashion lithic tools needed for hunting and processing caribou.
O’Shea says these 9,000-year-old features are mainly associated with the Lake Stanley low stand in Lake Huron.
“A summary of the research current to 2015 is published in the Museum of Anthropology Memoir series,” O’Shea told The Debrief. “I recently presented an update of developments since that time at the recent Society for Historical Archaeology meetings in Detroit this past January.”
Involved since their initial discovery in the early 2000s, O’Shea said in a statement in 2009 that the discovery marked “the first time we’ve identified structures like these on the lake bottom,” adding that they were of great importance “because the entire ancient landscape has been preserved and has not been modified by farming, or modern development.”
“That has implications for ecology, archaeology and environmental modeling,” O’Shea said.
Reflecting on how the research initially came about during a 2023 lecture, O’Shea said the two factors that led to the discoveries had been the initial publication of data about the subsurface features of the Great Lakes by NOAA. Around this same time, O’Shea had been reading a book about the methods used by modern-day Siberian reindeer herders.
“In that book they were talking about how do these very small groups of families manage a herd of thousands of semi-domesticated reindeer?” he said. “And it turns out when they wanted the reindeer to move from one pasture to another, they went out … and cut brush, and laid it on the ground, and this was enough to deflect the movement of the animals.”
“And it was kind of seeing these two things together,” O’Shea says. “You know, out there, there’s gonna be rock. Maybe they were doing this.” What followed was a high-risk National Science Foundation-funded research effort, and soon afterward, the confirmation that such practices had indeed once occurred on portions of the ancient landscape now submerged.
Those discoveries also led to the publication of a paper, in which O’Shea and his co-author Guy Meadows, the director of the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratories and a professor in the departments of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, detailed the ancient features which had been preserved on the lake bottom for thousands of years.
One of the most significant features of their study was a 1,148-foot structure that appears to be the remnants of an ancient caribou drive lane, not unlike the Siberian varieties O’Shea had read about, and also similar to ones still seen today on Victoria Island and in other locations in subarctic Canada.
Stretching for more than 100 miles between Presque Isle, Michigan, and Point Clark, Ontario, the 9000-year-old features are located on the surface of an ancient ridge that was still exposed many thousands of years ago.
This ten-mile-wide feature, formally known as the Alpena-Amberley ridge, once formed a natural bridge across the region, where water from melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age steadily began filling the region’s basins more than 10,000 years ago. For a time, the ridge offered a unique opportunity for the region’s ancient hunters, whose mark was left in stone on the ancient landscape long before it was consumed by Lake Huron’s rising waters.
Many similar sites from this period are believed to exist along coastal regions as well, although, unlike the Great Lakes, those areas have been so covered by sediment over time that their rediscovery now would be almost impossible. By contrast, the archaeological features on the base of Lake Huron are almost devoid of the sediments that entomb their coastal counterparts and are also remarkably well preserved.
It was long suspected that the ancient Alpena-Amberley ridge would be a prime candidate for preserved archaeological remains, but their discovery had remained elusive until 2008. By narrowing their search based on models of the ridge as it would have appeared before Huron’s water levels began rising between 10,000 and 7,500 years ago, reconstructions of the ancient land bridge soon produced several candidate locations to begin their search.
That educated guesswork paid off, and with the assistance of computer science professor Robert Reynolds from Wayne State University, the team discovered archaeological features during scans of their three primary candidate locations using sonar technologies and remote-controlled underwater vehicles equipped with cameras.
For many years, very little was known about the earliest inhabitants of the region, primarily because the archaeological evidence of their presence had been submerged by the rising waters that became the Great Lakes.
Thanks to the ongoing efforts of O’Shea and his colleagues, some of the previously unanswered questions about this mysterious period in America’s prehistory have gradually come into focus. Much of this work was chronicled in the 2015 volume Caribou Hunting in the Upper Great Lakes: Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives, for which O’Shea was an editor, and which offers a comprehensive overview of the underwater Paleoindian archaeology of the Great Lakes.
Discovering Extraterrestrials Offers Benefits, Not An Existential Risk
In 2010, Stephen Hawking warned that aliens might pose an existential risk to humanity, and that we should therefore be careful about broadcasting our existence to interstellar space.
Six years later, I hosted Hawking for a Passover Seder at my home. However, this was a year before the anomalous interstellar object `Oumuamua was discovered in 2017, the same year I became interested in the possible passage of extraterrestrial technological objects near Earth.
After thinking about this topic over the past six years since the discovery of `Oumuamua’s anomalies, I now respectfully disagree with Hawking on this matter.
The author with the late physicist Stephen Hawking in 2016
(Credit: Avi Loeb).
First, our modern science and technology are only a century old. The basic principles of Quantum Mechanics, which establish the foundation for our electronic devices, computer technology, and artificial intelligence (AI), were discovered merely a century ago. This period represents merely one part in a hundred million of the typical age of habitable exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy.
Other civilizations are unlikely to be synchronized to the precision of a century with our phase of technological development because their stars formed billions of years before the Sun. If they were seeking terrestrial resources, they would have reached Earth long before we developed our modern science. Moreover, we did not reach them as of yet, and so by reaching us first – they would demonstrate that they are farther along in their technological progress. From a cosmic perspective, they are likely to have benefitted from thousands, millions or even billions of years of scientific progress. The slow spacecraft that they launched early on were overtaken and outnumbered by advanced probes that they manufactured subsequently.
Given these cosmic circumstances, advanced extraterrestrials would not be threatened by our current scientific knowledge. Our species would look as insignificant as an ant colony in the crack of a pavement appearing to the eyes of a fast biker.
Since extraterrestrial technologies will likely be far more advanced, we can benefit greatly from encountering them. For that reason, we must proactively search for technological probes near Earth as a learning opportunity about our cosmic neighbors. This is the rationale behind the Galileo Project that I lead. The Project’s team assembled a new observatory on Harvard University property, which is already providing fresh data that AI software is analyzing in search of extraterrestrial technological objects near Earth. We also plan an expedition to study the composition of the fragments left over from the first interstellar meteor, IM1, which was tougher than all other meteors in the CNEOS catalog of NASA, including those made of iron.
An encounter with a superior form of extraterrestrial technology would offer humanity the opportunity to acquire new scientific knowledge that goes beyond what we had learned over the past century. It would also provide us with a glimpse at our own technological future, offering a quantum leap if we will be wise enough to import its innovative content into our terrestrial life. By using our own AI systems to interpret extraterrestrial AI probes, entrepreneurs could manufacture new products in our future economy. At the very least, our own AI systems may learn how to imitate extraterrestrial AI astronauts, giving the traditional “imitation game” of Alan Turing a new meaning. The discovery of interstellar visitors may also inspire new aspirations of humans for interstellar space travel.
Second, my take on `survival of the fittest’ in interstellar space favors a wise, peace-seeking, space-exploring species, because aggressive or militaristic versions are likely to get bruised by conflicts and therefore have a shorter lifespan.
Encountering a peaceful neighbor would be a teaching moment for us. We might be reminded of John Lennon’s words: “Imagine all the people living life in peace,” and choose to re-allocate our current global military budget of 2 trillion dollars per year to space exploration, allowing us to send tens of billions of probes towards every star in the Milky Way galaxy by the end of the 21st Century. The most successful space explorers from the billions of habitable Earth-size exoplanets could have accomplished this goal by now. Most Sun-like stars formed billions of years before the Sun, and it takes less than a billion years for an interstellar probe using chemical propulsion, like Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and New Horizons, to travel across the disk of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
The question of whether we live in a reality where interstellar probes are visiting the inner solar system can be answered by looking through our telescopes, the way Galileo Galilei realized that the Earth is not at the center of the Universe. Confirming that they do would remove any centrality we assign to our technological achievements within the Universe.
Based on our own spacecraft, most interstellar probes will likely be smaller than a football field, the size of `Oumuamua. Such small objects would be too faint for our survey telescopes, including the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory, to detect them from their reflection of sunlight within the Earth-Sun separation. Probes with non-conventional propulsion might not be detectable because they are moving too fast, potentially up to a fraction of the speed of light. The Starshot project, for which I chair the scientific advisory board and which Hawking celebrated in his 2016 speech at my home, aims to do just that. Any Starshot-like probes moving through the solar system at semi-relativistic speeds would be missed by the current software employed by astronomers to monitor our sky.
Altogether, I hold the optimistic view that encountering extraterrestrial probes would promote our scientific knowledge and, through that, advance our status in the class of intelligent civilizations. The Webb telescope shows us that the sky is full of stars and galaxies in every direction, with plenty of potential hubs for neighbors.
And there are also societal benefits to extraterrestrial encounters. Recognizing smarter kids in our cosmic neighborhood should convince us that the differences among us Earthlings are insignificant, and we should treat each other as equal members of the human species. Perhaps this will finally lead us to fulfill Lennon’s wish. Here’s hoping that searching through the third dimension of space will bring us more wisdom than exhibited by our bruising history of wars on the two-dimensional surface of the rock we call Earth.
Perhaps I am naïve, but I believe that life is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we do not search for new knowledge, we will never find it. And if we do not imagine a mutually-beneficial relationship with our neighbors, we will miss the opportunity to benefit from them. In my forthcoming book Interstellar, I outline how our future might be better than our past thanks to the inspiration we draw from extraterrestrials. It is up to us to imagine scientific prosperity rather than terror in humanity’s future.
Lucid Dreaming Could Allow People to Experience Other Genders, or Even Other Life Forms, New Research Suggests
A new peer-reviewed study suggests that some lucid dreamers may be able to experience “dream-body transformation” into animals, or even another gender, while remaining fully aware that they are dreaming.
Lucid dreaming describes a unique dreaming state in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming. This hybrid state of consciousness allows the dreamer to gain conscious control over the elements within the dream.
In a new study conducted by the California-based company REMSpace, researchers argue they have uncovered a previously unexplored form of neuroplasticity that operates at the level of personal identity.
In recent years, debates about gender have been controversial in Western countries. To add context to this article and the gender debate, understanding the term’s origins could help.
“The word ‘Gender’ originates from Latin genus, and means ‘Kind’ or ‘Type,’ and it was first used in Grammar prior to its use in describing Identity,” says Dr. Lori Bohn, a board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and medical director at Voyager Recovery Center.
“The modern distinction between ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ did begin to take shape in Psychology and Sexology in the Mid-Twentieth Century via John Money,” Bohn said in an email to The Debrief.
“John Money is probably the first one to introduce the term “gender identity”, which he thought to be the private experience of gender role,” according to Professor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience from Tel-Aviv University, who is also a member of The NeuroGenderings Network, an international group of researchers in gender studies and neuroscience.
“So for Money, there was a strong link between what people do (including sexual behavior) and their gender identity,” Professor Joel told The Debrief. Joel went on to explain how Robert Stoller, American professor of psychiatry at UCLA Medical School and a researcher at the UCLA Gender Identity Clinic, was the first to use the term in the sense of “a person’s inner, psychological sense of being male or female.”
“This is already divorced from gender roles, and is more similar to how we now understand gender identity and the type of identity the researchers asked the participants to manipulate in their lucid dream,” Joel adds. “Note, however, that the meaning of the term ‘gender identity’ in more recent years is also divorced from the body being male or female (as there are many more gender identities than sex categories).”
Of the new lucid dreaming study, Joel, who was not involved in the research, says it demonstrates that people can embody the body of the other sex, as they can with animals.
“Does their ‘gender identity’ or ‘identity’ also change while doing this (to the identity of the other sex/gender or of an animal)? At least the descriptions of some of the lucid dreams suggest there are also psychological components to the body transformation,” Joel said.
“We don’t know where or how gender identity is constructed in the brain, but in principle, if an experiment like this has been done while brain activity is scanned with MRI, we could have gain information regarding which brain circuits/regions change their activity as a person manages to transform their body into a wolf or the other sex,” Joel adds.
The Debrief also reached out to Luigi Sciambarella, Chief R&D Officer & Trainer from The Monroe Institute, who offered perspectives on the new study in terms of its implications to consciousness studies.
“Our study was conducted in The Project Elijah, where we have hundreds of advanced lucid dreamers who test our hypotheses in lucid dreams,” said Michael Raduga, founder and CEO of REMSpace and one of the new study’s authors. “Using the data, we’ve already published a few papers (since 2020).”
Raguda explains that gender within the study was used “in a phenomenological sense (how participants experienced their body and identity within the dream).” But also states that the team “did not strictly distinguish between biological sex and gender identity.”
“The study was not designed to comprehensively categorize all gender identities because we were glad to find a large enough sample of lucid dreamers just to accomplish the study,” Raduga told The Debrief in an email, noting that “Participants reported transformations relative to their own waking identity.”
“The analysis focused on the transformation experience itself,” Raduga said.
The researchers asked participants to attempt to reach a lucid dreaming state and, once in the dream, to try to alter their bodies. When the data were collected after each test, a surprising 79% reported some form of transformation, with around 85% reporting that they embodied an animal, specifically a wolf.
“The 79% reflects participants reporting some degree of transformation, not complete success. Full transformation into the opposite gender was less common, with many reports describing partial changes,” said Raduga.
After the lucid dreaming test, many participants said what they experienced wasn’t just imagination, and that they felt fully embodied during these dream-body transformations. Participants noted changes in their senses, anatomy, movement, and behavior, as well as shifts in their emotions and perceptions.
“This study points to a form of neuroplasticity operating at the level of the self,” says Raduga. “It suggests that the sense of identity is not a fixed construct, but a dynamic process that can be intentionally modified under specific conditions.”
According to one male participant described in the study, “I found myself near the mirror and twirled around. The transformation didn’t work the first time, but on the second try, I saw in the mirror a very beautiful woman, somewhat like me, with long hair and a beautiful body. I touched my breasts (they were large) and felt a pleasant sensation, then I decided to touch my vagina, but I didn’t experience any pleasant sensations. I just felt it.”
In another instance, a female participant described her experience: “While walking around the apartment, I began to imagine myself as a man. Almost immediately, my back became wider, my gait became masculine, and I felt more confident inside, as if I was no longer afraid of anything.”
To verify that the study participants were genuinely experiencing these changes rather than imagining or reconstructing them after waking, Raduga said the research team employed a specific system.
“We use a specific system to sort out imagined reports from actual ones,” Raduga told The Debrief. “It consists of a few rules and semantic markers that we use before accepting any single report.”
While the system is not flawless, Raduga says that “for non-lucid dreamers, it is almost impossible to submit a report that we will count,” describing their system as “a standard approach for studies like this.”
Based on their analysis of reports that passed the study’s screening, Raduga says that, in many instances, participants experienced difficulty undergoing the requested dream-body transformations.
“It appeared that, for psychological/cultural reasons, for many people, it is hard to transform into the opposite gender,” Raduga told The Debrief. “That is why it was much easier to transform into an animal. As a result, many people couldn’t fully accomplish the task. Some even got stuck in a transitional ‘hermaphrodite’ stage, being both man and woman.”
Not all the professionals The Debrief spoke with were entirely convinced by the study’s findings. While applying a critical eye to new research, Sciambarella said he finds the results interesting from a phenomenological standpoint, however, and suggests that lucid dreaming may involve dramatic shifts in body representation, spatial perspective, and identity. This fits with wider findings in dream research suggesting that the “sense of self is known to be fluid and context-dependent.”
Still, Sciambarella cautions others when reading this study that interpreting these findings as evidence about gender identity or the fundamental nature of consciousness, since the study relies primarily on self-reported experiences and asks participants to intentionally imagine specific transformations.
“The methodology relies heavily on self-report, with participants following explicit instructions to imagine specific transformations,” Sciambarella told The Debrief. “That introduces a significant role for suggestion, expectation, and imaginative compliance, which makes it difficult to separate genuine insight into identity from guided experiential content.”
While the term gender is not clearly defined in the recent study, nor is the gender preference of many participants, Raduga explains that “we did not collect participants’ gender identity beyond basic fields, so we cannot identify transgender participants. Maybe some of them have participated, but we don’t know it,” he said, adding that this would “be an interesting idea for a follow-up study.”
“By studies like this, and given the unique features of lucid dreaming (awareness without physical limitations), we explore the fundamental psychophysiological boundaries of perception,” Raduga explained. “For example, if gender identity can be intentionally altered, even within a lucid dream, it may reveal underlying mechanisms of human behavior and help explain the spectrum of sexual self-identification.”
Studies like this, Raduga argues, could also help to foster more understanding and empathy for those who are transgender, and thereby may encourage positive societal shifts.
However, Joel also suggests that “society abuses science against marginalized groups,” and she believes the results of a study like this one could similarly be misused, adding that “I would prefer that people would use the results of this study to inspire imaging (in LD, in daydreaming or guided imagination) how it feels to be in someone else’s body, to increase tolerance, sympathy, and empathy for others.”
Lucid dreaming is gaining traction as a potential tool for exploring consciousness and self-perception. Researchers like Raduga believe that a dreamer’s ability to intentionally alter their dream identities or genders could provide meaningful insights on an academic level and help those who may be struggling with gender identity and transitions, all while exploring those possibilities in a safe place.
As their research progresses, Raduga and his team say they plan to go beyond the limits of gender and animal embodiment.
“We’re conducting at least a few more experiments regarding bodily perceptions in lucid dreams,” Raduga says, which include dreams where individuals may be able to experience “having more limbs … or separating some body parts to observe the connectivity of visual and bodily perceptions.”
This humanoid robot does all your housework for you — and its makers say it's ready for your home
UniX AI's humanoid Panther robot cooks breakfast in the kitchen.
(Image credit: UniX AI)
Could a humanoid robot perform household chores for you? Soon, that might be the case. Chinese robotics company UniX AI has announced the release of Panther, a humanoid service robot designed to help with common household tasks.
The robot — which weighs 176 pounds (80 kilograms) and stands 5 feet, 3 inches (1.6 meters) tall — can operate for up to 12 hours on a charge, its engineers announced in a statement. In addition to releasing a promotional video showing Panther performing chores like making the bed, cleaning countertops and toilets, and cooking breakfast, UniX AI has started commercial deliveries of the model — suggesting it's ready to be deployed in a real-world setting.
"UniX AI is not only building advanced technology and products, we are bringing robots into homes, hotels, public spaces, and security operations, making them reliable productivity tools for society," Fred Yang, founder and CEO of UniX AI, said in the statement.
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To accomplish household chores, Panther uses two of the world's first mass-produced 8-DoF bionic arms, which give the robot joints with 34 degrees of freedom, UniX AI representatives said.
At the end of its arms are intelligent "grippers" that adapt to different shapes and sizes of items that the robot can grab. In the promotional video, Panther is seen holding a plastic spatula when frying an egg and a toilet brush when cleaning the toilet. The robot even washes its hands in the sink at the end of the video, drying off its grippers on a bath towel.
Panther's body can extend vertically by 31 inches (80 centimeters) to access hard-to-reach areas from tall shelves to ground level. It uses binocular vision and a webcam to see its surroundings.
Whereas other humanoid robots rely on legged locomotion and thus have a higher tendency of falling, Panther uses an omnidirectional four-wheel steering and four-wheel drive (4WS+4WD) chassis, allowing it to smoothly maneuver varying indoor environments.
It uses both lidar and ultrasonic sensors to determine its spatial position and moves around 6 feet (1.89 m) per second — roughly the speed of a brisk walk. UniX AI representatives noted in the statement that engineers focused less on building the "most human-like robot" and more on making sure the model could accomplish a variety of tasks with stability and flexibility.
In early tests and demonstrations, Panther handled multiple prompts, including making tea, cleaning the kitchen, and operating a washing machine. To do this, Panther runs on UniX AI's integrated technology stack, which includes imitation learning and long-term task planning so that it can perform tasks seamlessly one step at a time.
Engineers designed Panther for a wide range of applications in addition to housework, including assistance in retail, reception, guided tours, elderly care, companionship, research and education.
The price of this model could not be found on UniX AI's website.
EXCLUSIVE : Dead Los Alamos chief's secret UFO files revealed in stunning drop: '100% proof'
A senior cybersecurity official at one of America's most secretive nuclear laboratories died several years ago, leaving behind files that an insider claimed reveal classified UFO studies that were never intended to become public.
The documents, described as containing internal memos, scientific reports and historic images, were allegedly discovered among the belongings of the former head of cybersecurity at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
After the official's death, his son Johnny was sorting through personal effects when he reportedly stumbled upon files labeled with references to 'atmospheric anomalies.' The identities of the deceased staff member and his son are being withheld to protect their privacy and safety.
What initially appeared to be routine paperwork quickly raised alarm when the material appeared to detail classified scientific research into unidentified flying objects.
The discovery was later passed to investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell, who said the contents shocked even him. 'This is a real scientific study at the classified level within our military of UFOs,' he told the Daily Mail.
Corbell, who featured the details in his new documentary Sleeping Dog, set for release on May 12, claimed the material included records of high-level government meetings and scientific studies linked to UFO propulsion systems.
He described the documents as evidence that the US government had been studying unidentified craft far earlier than publicly acknowledged.
'Los Alamos was always a place where there were elements of the study of the UFO phenomenon… these documents are 100 percent proof that Los Alamos was taking it very seriously,' Corbell said.
A senior cybersecurity official at one of America's most secretive nuclear laboratories died, leaving behind files that an insider claimed reveal classified UFO studies that were never intended to become public
The documents, described as containing internal memos, scientific reports and historic images, were allegedly discovered among the belongings of the former head of cybersecurity at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
The case is now drawing renewed attention to LANL, a laboratory long associated with nuclear weapons development and deep government secrecy.
The lab, located in northern New Mexico, approximately 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, is linked to UFO lore primarily through its proximity to New Mexico's 'Nuclear Triangle' and reported sightings of 'green fireballs' near atomic sites in the late 1940s.
As a premier nuclear research facility, it has been connected to Cold War atmospheric surveillance, classified aerial research and conspiracy theories regarding retrieved technology, including unverified worker claims of alien materials stored at TA-33.
According to Corbell, the discovery began when the cybersecurity chief's son began reviewing stored materials left behind after his father's death.
'This kid, after his dad passed away, starts going through and realizes, "oh, this is some heavy stuff,"' Corbell said.
In Corbell's Sleeping Dog, a film by Michael Lazovsky, he receives a package from Johnny, bursting with files reportedly from LANL.
Johnny told Corbell on the phone that the files included 'official documents from the lab that talk about meetings they had about atmospheric anomalies.'
'There's also some information in there about Russian sightings,' Johnny can be heard saying to Corbell over the phone.
The lab, located in northern New Mexico, approximately 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, has a historical and ongoing connection to UFOs
A cylinder-shaped UFO from the files sent to Corbell
Corbell told the Daily Mail: 'I mean, everything from original Polaroids of very studied UFO cases throughout history, to internal memos and documents of when they have meetings and they're discussing this at a high-level government capacity.'
Corbell shared several pages with the Daily Mail showing what appeared to be mysterious saucer-like craft, crop circles etched across fields and a cylinder-shaped UFO.
There was also a document titled Illustrations and Photos by the Gulf Breeze Witness, which contains dozens of witness sketches and photographic enlargements depicting unidentified flying objects repeatedly seen over the coastal Florida town between 1987 and 1991.
The files pointed to a sustained pattern of sightings rather than isolated incidents.
Many witnesses described disc-shaped craft with rows of bright white lights, red and green flashing lights and visible 'portholes,' with some objects estimated to be 10 to 20 feet tall and up to 120 feet wide, hovering silently above homes, shorelines and wooded areas.
Several photographs attributed to key witness Ed Walters show glowing objects with overexposed white centers surrounded by red or blue-green halos.
Later images appear to show ejected material or protrusions from the craft, details that investigators highlighted as unusual visual characteristics.
Across multiple pages, the appendix documents repeated sightings of glowing red, white and yellow objects moving across the sky, sometimes leaving thick luminous trails or streaks, reinforcing claims from residents that the sightings occurred frequently and over several years.
There was also a document from 1987 titled Illustrations and Photos by the Gulf Breeze Witness, which contains dozens of witness sketches and photographic enlargements depicting unidentified flying objects repeatedly seen over the coastal Florida town between 1987 and 1991
Several photographs attributed to key witness Ed Walters show glowing objects with overexposed white centers surrounded by red or blue-green halos
Corbell claimed that some of the names listed in the documents were recognizable to him as scientists he had encountered during previous investigations.
'I start noticing, I know some of the names. I know some of the scientists personally. They've never told me that they did these studies on UFOs,' he said.
He further suggested that the material pointed to decades of government attention on unexplained aerial phenomena.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, located in New Mexico, played a central role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and continues to support US national security and nuclear research programs.
The facility has long been associated with high-level classified work, making any claims of additional secret research particularly sensitive.
Corbell said he spent years verifying the authenticity of the materials before discussing them publicly, noting that intelligence agencies often attempt to identify or pressure sources connected to UFO-related investigations.
The files included several pictures of crop circles from undisclosed locations
The files were obtained by the son of a deceased lab cyber chief, who sent them to investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell, above
'I've researched them down… I've gone to every single author that I could find that's still alive, and I said, "Can you talk about this now?"' he said.
Despite his claims, Corbell acknowledged that the documents alone may not convince skeptics but insisted they confirm longstanding suspicions about government secrecy surrounding UFO programs.
'There's nothing I would say revelatory to me in these documents, but it's confirmation that I'm on the right track,' he said.
He also warned that whistleblowers connected to classified programs often fear retaliation, adding that some individuals have reported threats after speaking publicly.
'There have been some situations that give everybody pause… whistleblowers have been squeezed,' Corbell said.
The release of the material is expected to coincide with the upcoming documentary, which Corbell said aims to bring hidden information into public view and spark renewed debate over what governments may know about unidentified aerial phenomena.
For now, the claims remain controversial, but the alleged discovery of files linked to a senior Los Alamos official has added another chapter to the growing public fascination with UFO secrecy and national security.
The immense power of black holes: Scientists record 'dancing jets' as powerful as 10,000 SUNS coming from voids
The immense power of black holes has been revealed, as scientists make the first accurate measurements of a distant void.
Using a radio telescope scanning the entire planet, scientists recorded the 'dancing jets' erupting from a black hole 7,000 light–years from Earth.
These jets unleash power equivalent to the output of 10,000 suns and travel at 150,000 km per second – nearly half the speed of light.
However, the terrifying fountains of superheated matter only use about 10 per cent of the energy gobbled up by the black hole as it feeds.
These incredible discoveries come from a binary system called Cygnus X–1, which is home to a supermassive star and a black hole.
The supermassive star creates enormous solar winds, kicking out 100 million times more mass every second than our sun at speeds three to four times as high.
Those winds are so powerful that they actually bend the jets by about two degrees, like wind buffeting the water emerging from a fountain.
Co–author Professor James Miller–Jones, of Curtin University, told the Daily Mail: 'Since we know how strong the wind from the star is, we know how much force it creates on the jet. This allows us to figure out how powerful the jet is.'
Scientists have revealed the immense power of a black hole as they make the first accurate measurements of the jets emerging from a void around 7,000 light–years from Earth
Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the entire universe, containing matter so dense that not even light can escape their gravitational pull.
However, while these super–dense objects absorb light, they also create a spectacular burst of energy in the form of black hole jets.
As matter is pulled in, it orbits the black hole like water circling the drain, accelerating to velocities approaching the speed of light.
Professor Miller–Jones says: As matter spirals in towards a black hole, it carries magnetic fields with it, and as these magnetic field lines get wound up, they help launch the jet.'
The jets from the biggest black holes can stretch several light–years out from the black hole, pumping vast amounts of energy into the surrounding area.
Understanding how powerful these jets really are is extremely important if you want to work out how fast a black hole is really feeding and growing.
Scientists can work out how fast it is eating by measuring X–rays released by the matter falling in, but they also need to know how much matter is being shot out in the jets.
Together, these measurements would give astronomers the black hole's 'energy budget', which Professor Miller–Jones says is 'a bit like counting calories, only for a black hole'.
These incredible discoveries come from a binary system called Cygnus X–1, which is home to a supermassive star that bends the 'dancing jets' emerging from its neighbouring black hole with solar wind
Scientists measured how much the solar wind bent the black hole jets over time to work out how much energy these contained, revealing that they release the power of 10,000 suns
The issue is that scientists have only been able to measure the average energy going into the jets over tens of thousands of years.
This is done by looking at how the jets inflate bubbles in surrounding gases, but it isn't the most reliable method.
'We can’t accurately compare that to the black hole feeding rate from the X–rays, since we don’t have measurements of how fast it was feeding thousands of years ago,' says Professor Miller–Jones.
'This new measurement finally allows us to accurately determine what fraction of the energy available from the matter falling in is able to be channelled into the jets.'
This is great news for astronomers because our best theories about how black holes work suggest that the physics should be the same no matter how big the black hole is.
That means this one accurate measurement can 'anchor' future studies of black holes, whether they are 'five or five billion times the mass of the Sun'.
In turn, that discovery should help astronomers get a better understanding of how the universe as a whole reached its current state.
The jets from supermassive black holes play a key role in determining how planets, stars, and galaxies form.
Using a series of images, the scientists also worked out that the jets are travelling at a velocity of 150,000 metres per second – about half the speed of light
In some cases, black hole jets can even inflate bubbles of gas that exceed the size of the host galaxy itself, exerting a profound impact on the galaxy's evolution.
Lead author Dr Steve Raj Prabu, of the University of Oxford, told the Daily Mail: 'This process, known as “feedback”, plays a crucial role in regulating how galaxies grow and evolve.
'In large–scale simulations of the Universe, scientists have had to assume how efficient black holes are at converting infalling energy into jets.'
'Our result provides the first direct observational measurement of this efficiency, giving these simulations a much firmer observational foundation.'
White House finally breaks silence on 10 missing scientists... but leaves more questions to be answered
The White House has broken their silence on the disturbing string of deaths and disappearances involving scientists with knowledge of America's biggest secrets.
During Wednesday's briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked for the first time about the ten people linked to space or nuclear secrets who have mysteriously died or vanished without a trace since 2023.
When asked if the Trump Administration was aware of the incidents and if the US intelligence community was already investigating whether they were connected, Leavitt did not have a definitive answer for reporters.
The press secretary said: 'I haven't spoken to our relevant agencies about it. I will certainly do that, and will get you an answer.'
'If true, of course, that's definitely something I think this government and administration would deem worth looking into. So let me do that for you,' Leavitt continued.
The comments have been immediately met with criticism from the public, who claimed without evidence that federal officials have not been taking the pattern seriously or have been working to cover it up.
'Does that infer that they’re not looking into it now? For crying out loud there was a general involved,' one person said, referring to retired Air Force General William Neil McCasland, who vanished on February 27.
McCasland's disappearance set off a flurry of activity by independent investigators looking for clues. What they found was a series of links to multiple nuclear officials who have gone missing and a string of scientists who were either murdered or found dead.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke about the ten missing or dead people tied to US nuclear or space secrets since 2023
'Truly sad that somebody has to bring it up before they look into it. Scientists with sensitive information that many of our enemies would absolutely love to have and do have now. They were NOT abducted by aliens,' one person posted on social media.
'That's code for stop noticing and shut up,' another skeptic claimed.
'FINALLY! You mean she didn’t know until today??? I call B*******!!' one X user commented.
Among the most prominent voices dissatisfied with the government's response to the alleged national security threat has been Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett, who has claimed McCasland was deeply tied to the country's secret UFO programs.
Burchett previously told the Daily Mail he had been demanding answers regarding the search for the retired general and others, but had received no answers from the US intelligence community - including the so-called 'alphabet agencies' such as the FBI.
'I've been constantly ran down different rabbit holes with them, so I don't have any need to talk to them at all,' the congressman said in March.
'The numbers seem very high in these certain areas of research. I think we'd better be paying attention, and I don't think we should trust our government.'
The Daily Mail has reached out to Burchett's office for comment on the White House response on Wednesday.
McCasland, 68, was the most recent official to disappear, as he was last seen leaving his New Mexico home without his phone, wearable devices or glasses less than two months ago. He was only carrying a pistol and his wife told 911 dispatchers that it appeared he was trying 'not to be found.'
William Neil McCasland, 68, was last seen around 11am on February 27 near Quail Run Court NE in Albuquerque, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office said
The strange circumstances surrounding the general's disappearance were almost identical to four other missing person cases taking place between May and August 2025 in the Southwest.
Concerningly, all four have been tied to McCasland through his work overseeing the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which has been rumored to study extraterrestrial technology since the 1947 Roswell UFO crash.
While at Wright-Patterson, McCasland oversaw and reportedly approved the funding for scientist Monica Jacinto Reza's work on a space-age metal for rocket engines called Mondaloy.
Reza, 60, disappeared while hiking with friends in California on June 22, 2025. She had just become the director of the Materials Processing Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The three other disappearances all involved workers at some of America's most important nuclear facilities, and all three were last seen walking out of their homes without their phones or keys, just like McCasland.
Steven Garcia (Pictured) was last seen leaving his New Mexico home with a handgun and no phone, keys or wallet
Steven Garcia, 48, vanished without a trace on August 28, 2025. He was last seen leaving his Albuquerque, New Mexico home on foot, carrying only a handgun.
An anonymous source told the Daily Mail that Garcia was a government contractor working for the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), a major facility in Albuquerque that manufactures more than 80 percent of all the non-nuclear components that go into building the military's nuclear weapons.
Anthony Chavez and Melissa Casias both worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of the nation's most important nuclear research sites.
Chavez, 79, worked at the lab until his retirement in 2017, although his role there has not been made clear. Casias, 54, was an active administrative assistant at the facility and is believed to have had top security clearance.
All three were last seen leaving their homes in New Mexico on foot, leaving behind their cars, keys, wallets and phones before disappearing without a trace. Police have not had any updates in the cases since last year.
In addition to the string of disappearances, five scientists in key areas of research have died over the last three years, including two who were murdered in their own homes.
Nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro and Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair were both shot to death in their homes in recent months.
Independent investigators have noted that Loureiro's revolutionary work in nuclear fusion may have made him a target of a greater conspiracy against US scientists, as his work may one day upend the energy industry.
Grillmair's work with NASA's NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor has also been linked to the Air Force, as the telescopes used the same systems the military relies on to track satellites and missiles.
Scientists Nuno Loureiro (left) and Carl Grillmair (right) were both murdered in their own homes after making significant progress in the fields of nuclear fusion and astrophysics
Meanwhile, NASA scientists Michael David Hicks and Frank Maiwald, who also worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, died from unknown circumstances at early ages.
Maiwald, 61, was the lead researcher on a breakthrough that could help future space missions detect clear signs of life on other worlds just 13 months before he died in 2024.
Hicks, who passed away just a year after leaving JPL at age 59, had been involved with the DART Project, NASA’s test to see if humans could deflect dangerous asteroids away from Earth.
NASA JPL has not commented on the deaths of Maiwald or Hicks, and did not reply to the Daily Mail's inquiries into the nature of the scientists' work before their deaths.
In another mysterious incident, Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical researcher testing cancer treatments at Novartis, was found dead in a Massachusetts lake on March 17, 2026, after disappearing without a trace in December 2025. Local police have claimed there was no foul play suspected.
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Discover the truth about Jesus Christ
Discover the truth about Jesus Christ
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Discover the truth about Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is a central figure in Christianity, with his life story forming the foundation of the New Testament in the Bible. Depending on your beliefs, Jesus can be viewed as either the Messiah or a historical figure (or both). While the Bible provides insights into his life, there are few surviving historical records from his era. As a result, secular historians face challenges in sourcing information about Jesus beyond religious texts. Nonetheless, recent decades have seen intriguing findings. Some corroborate biblical narratives, while others tell a very different story.
Read through the gallery to find out what historians have uncovered about the life of Jesus Christ.
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Sources
Although references to Jesus beyond the Bible are limited, historian André Chevitarese explains that a handful of authors have recorded comparable details about his life.
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Sources
The most recognized written accounts are associated with Flavius Josephus, a Jewish scholar from the 1st century CE. In his work 'Antiquities of the Jews,' Josephus mentions Jesus on two occasions.
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Appearance
A specialist in forensic science, British researcher Richard Neave used his expertise to reconstruct the face of an average adult from the era in which Jesus lived. The outcome revealed a dark-skinned man with short hair—a stark contrast to the conventional portrayal of Jesus as a fair-skinned individual with long hair and blue eyes.
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God's messenger
The Gospel of Luke highlights that Jesus possessed considerable knowledge from a young age.
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Stance on homosexuality
An often overlooked fact is that the Bible does not record Jesus condemning homosexuality. In fact, he never even mentioned it.
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Birthday
Despite the widespread celebration of Christmas on December 25, it's worth noting that the New Testament doesn't specify the actual day of Jesus' birth.
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Jesus wasn't born on December 25
Based on research, it is suggested that Jesus' birth is more likely to have occurred between May and November—the hottest months in Israel.
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Three Wise Men
Upon spotting the guiding star signaling the birth of Christ, the Three Wise Men embarked on their journey to Bethlehem. Researchers have retraced their probable route and determined that it would have taken them approximately two years to reach their destination. This means that they couldn't have visited Jesus in the stable shortly after his birth.
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Star of Bethlehem
Astronomers theorize that the star that heralded Jesus' birth could have resulted from a conjunction between Saturn and Jupiter. This astronomical occurrence took place in the Pisces constellation in 7 BCE.
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Nazareth
The town of Nazareth held little significance and was relatively small. It's even playfully criticized in the Gospel of John. In this context, Philip the Apostle informs Nathanael that the Messiah has been discovered in Nazareth, to which Nathanael responds, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?"
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Career
The Greek term for Jesus's occupation is "tekton." While "carpenter" is the frequently used translation, scholars clarify that the term encompassed craftsmen and builders. It's more probable that Jesus worked as a mason.
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Wealth
His lineage can be traced back to King David, a figure known for his considerable wealth in biblical history. Various aspects of Jesus' life also indicate that his family was relatively affluent.
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Stable
The misconception of Jesus being poor likely stems from the fact that he was born in a stable. However, this was primarily due to unfortunate circumstances. A census was underway in Bethlehem precisely when Mary was going into labor, leading to an influx of people from nearby areas to the town. With all the inns already occupied, the couple had no choice but to seek shelter in a stable for Mary to give birth.
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Clothes
During his crucifixion, Jesus is mentioned to have been clothed in a distinctive tunic that was typically worn by wealthier individuals of that era. The Bible says that the soldiers even fought amongst themselves over who got to keep his clothes.
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Fulfilled Old Testament prophecies about Jesus
There are those who hold reverence for the teachings attributed to Jesus but reject the notion that these teachings were divinely bestowed upon him by God.
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A philosopher and humanitarian
For Christian atheists, Jesus isn't seen as the offspring of an omnipotent deity; instead, he's regarded as a philosopher and humanitarian.
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The sacred book of Islam
In the Quran, the holy text of Islam, Jesus is referenced more frequently than the Prophet Muhammad. Jesus is mentioned 25 times, whereas Muhammad is mentioned only four times.
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Prophet
In Islam, Jesus is acknowledged as a prophet, although he is not considered the son of God. Interestingly, there is a designated tomb for Jesus Christ next to Muhammad's tomb in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
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Divine rage
While filming Mel Gibson's 2004 movie, 'The Passion of the Christ,' two people were struck by lightning. One of them was Jim Caviezel, the actor who portrayed Jesus in the film.
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More lightning...
A 65 ft (20 m) statue of Jesus situated beside a church in Monroe, Ohio, was hit by lighting, which caused it to burst into flames. It was completely destroyed.
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Siblings
According to historical accounts, Jesus had four brothers and at least two sisters. The names of his brothers were James, Joseph, Jude, and Simon. There are theories suggesting that these brothers might have been his father's sons from a previous marriage or even cousins. In the Bible, Jesus' brother James (pictured) is tragically stoned to death.
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Sentencing
Following 15 years of excavation efforts, archaeologist Amit Re'em and his team successfully unearthed Herod's Palace. Situated in the western region of Jerusalem, this palace is historically recognized as the site where Jesus was condemned to death.
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Married?
An astonishing ancient text originating from the 9th century CE was verified by historians and revealed to the public in 2012. This document, sometimes called the "lost gospel," suggests that Jesus was married. The text also contains references to the name Mary, prompting some to speculate that his wife could have been Mary Magdalene.
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Burden of the cross
Evidence indicates that Jesus likely bore only the horizontal component of the cross, known as the patibulum. Due to its weight of approximately 60 pounds (27 kg), he probably dragged the cross instead of carrying it on his back.
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The crucifixion
Contrary to common depictions, historical understanding suggests that Jesus was not crucified through his hands but rather through his wrists. If his hands had been used, they likely would torn due to his body weight and he would have fallen.
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The crucifixion
While the process of death by crucifixion could theoretically last for days, Jesus died around six hours after it began. The crucifixion took place around 9 am, and he passed away at approximately 3 pm that same afternoon.
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Death
According to the Bible, Jesus' death is believed to have taken place on Good Friday.
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Death
Historians have deduced that Jesus' death likely took place in either 30 or 33 CE. Clues derived from records on figures such as Pontius Pilate and Tiberius suggest that 33 CE is more likely the year of his death.
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