Mysterious structures spotted in NASA Mars images fuel claims of ancient city on the Red Planet

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By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Mysterious formations on Mars have fueled extraordinary claims that an ancient city was built beside a long-lost shoreline.

The wild theory centers on the Cydonia region, where unusual hills and mesas have been compared to a human face, a pyramid and the remains of buildings.

Supporters claim NASA's Mars orbiter has captured a distinct boundary between rugged highlands and a smooth basin where an ancient body of water may once have stood.

Several of the region’s best-known formations, including the so-called Face, D&M pyramid and City, appear to be clustered along that boundary.

UFO researcher Jason Martell, a regular guest on the History Channel's show Ancient Aliens, argued that their arrangement resembled the waterfront cities built throughout human history.

Martell suggested that the Face may even have been positioned as a monument overlooking the water and nearby settlement.

But the argument is based largely on visual interpretations of the landscape rather than geological analysis or physical evidence.

There is no proof that the formations were constructed, that the proposed boundary was genuinely a shoreline or that an intelligent civilization ever inhabited Mars.

The wild theory centers on the Cydonia region, where unusual hills and mesas have been compared to a human face (pictured), a pyramid and the remains of buildings 

Supporters claim NASA's Mars orbiter has captured a distinct boundary between rugged highlands and a smooth basin where an ancient body of water may once have stood

The claim began with an apparent change in the terrain visible in orbital imagery of Cydonia.

On one side of the proposed dividing line, the ground appeared elevated, rugged and filled with prominent formations.

On the other was a flatter, smoother expanse that the writer suggested could once have been covered by water.

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A hand-drawn line was then added to the image to illustrate where the supposed ancient shoreline may have run.

The writer argued that the unusual formations appeared to follow this boundary in a pattern that was too striking to be accidental.

If they were artificially constructed, their location beside a possible basin would mirror the way civilizations on Earth developed around water, according to the claim.

Waterfront settlements gained access to food, transportation, trade and other resources that allowed them to grow.

In a blog post, Martell compared the proposed Cydonia settlement with cities including Venice, Alexandria, Amsterdam, Singapore, Dubai and Manhattan.

Several of the region’s best-known formations, including the so-called Face, D&M pyramid and City, appear to be clustered along that boundary

Ancient settlements such as Memphis on the Nile and Ur beside the Euphrates were also offered as examples of humanity’s tendency to build near water.

The theory further claimed that major monuments are frequently positioned where they can be seen from surrounding settlements or waterways.

From that perspective, the Face may have overlooked both the proposed basin and the elevated formations identified as a city.

However, that comparison depends on first assuming the Martian formations were monuments and buildings, the very assertion the theory is supposed to demonstrate.

The smooth basin does not, by itself, establish that an ocean or lake existed there, while a visible change in terrain can result from numerous natural geological processes.

The wild theory claims that the Face may have overlooked both the proposed basin and the elevated formations identified as a city

The proposed shoreline was also traced by hand, meaning its position depends heavily on the observer’s interpretation of the image.

No measurements, sediment analysis or geological examination were presented to confirm that the boundary was shaped by water.

Likewise, the apparent alignment of several formations does not demonstrate that they were intentionally positioned.

image credit nasa

Humans naturally recognize familiar shapes and organized patterns in random landscapes, a phenomenon known as pareidolia.

The Face, pyramid and supposed buildings may therefore be natural landforms that appear artificial when photographed under particular lighting conditions or viewed from certain angles.

The writer acknowledged not being a geologist and said specialists would need to determine whether the differences in the surface were actually caused by water.

Despite that admission, they described the visual evidence as compelling and suggested Cydonia could have represented the Martian equivalent of waterfront property.

For now, the idea remains an imaginative interpretation of orbital images, not evidence of a lost city, constructed monuments or an ancient civilization on Mars.

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Mysterious bright flashes were spotted near a top-secret military base in California over the weekend, triggering speculation over what caused the unexplained bursts in broad daylight.

Footage of the area, published on X by The Informant, shows a series of intense bursts of light erupting across the Mojave Desert before expanding glows illuminate the surrounding landscape near Edwards Air Force Base.

Edwards Air Force Base, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is known as a premier center for flight research and aircraft testing.

The lights were spotted in footage from a public ALERTCalifornia wildlife camera, part of the University of California San Diego's monitoring network.

While no official explanation has been released, X users have proposed their own theories, with some suggesting the lights are from secret weapon testing.

'This is a test,' one user shared, while another commented: 'It looks like a phenomenon coming from underground military authorities. Must investigate ASAP.' 

However, more people have suggested that the flashes are nothing more than light reflecting off the field of solar panels in the area.

The base hosts the massive Edwards & Sanborn Solar and Energy Storage Project, which spans 4,600 acres of private land and leased base property on the northwest corner of the facility.

Mysterious bright flashes were spotted near a top-secret military base in California over the weekend

The Daily Mail has contacted Edwards Air Force Base for comment.

A sprawling solar facility was unveiled on the northwestern edge of Edwards Air Force Base in February 2023.

Developed with Terra-Gen LLC, the project included nearly two million solar panels, making it the largest solar array in US Air Force history.

The facility could generate up to 1,300 megawatts of electricity for California's power grid, enough to supply more than 238,000 homes while preventing an estimated 320,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. 

Although solar panels are designed to absorb sunlight, their glass surfaces can still produce intense momentary reflections known as glint when the sun and observer align at certain angles. 

The enormous solar farm near Edwards could therefore be one possible explanation. 

However, not everyone online is sold on the idea.

'Probably moving a secret aircraft and they're using floodlights to screen it from observers,' one user commented on the video.

Edwards Air Force Base, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is known as a premier center for flight research and aircraft testing

The footage has trigtgered speculation over what caused the unexplained bursts in broad daylight

Another said: 'All the people saying solar panels are bots you can easily tell. This is most likely some weapons test, or us getting got by a foreign state.' 

Described as an 'irreplaceable national asset,' these days Edwards Air Force Base remains at the center of a significant portion of the US Air Force's aircraft test and development efforts.

All Air Force aircraft are tested there, along with some Navy and Army aircraft, according to the base.

'Arguably, more major milestones in flight have occurred at this base than anywhere else in the world,' according to the base.

It’s run by the 412th Test Wing, which also conducts developmental testing of Air Force weapons systems, software and components before purchase by the service as well as throughout their life span. 

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Are UAP Orbs Adversary Drones?

 Avi Loeb

A UAP orb spotted in the Gulf of Oman on September 8, 2021. A U.S. AC-130 Gunship was conducting live fire training during a period of darkness. The AC-130 first observed UAPs when the aircraft dropped a water-activated flare to use as a mock target. The AC-130 entered an orbit around the flare and the Combat Systems Officer conducted collateral scans with the aircraft’s Electro Optical/Infrared sensor. When the infrared sensor was slewed back to the flare, two ~4-foot diameter cold orbs between 0 and 20 feet above the surface of the water were observed to be stationary over the flare for about 15 seconds. Afterwards the aircraft fired its 105mm cannon. Immediately upon pulling the trigger, during the slight delay between trigger pull and the cannon’s recoil, the pair of UAPs rapidly flew away from the flare and out of the sensor feed without changing altitude. The AC-130 crew observed ~25 instances of UAPs viewed in the infrared as cold orbs during the sortie. Two UAPs were observed flying in a loose but coordinated formation, increasing and decreasing altitude like a wave while maneuvering around, over, and under each other in a manner similar to how dolphins swim. UAPs were also separately observed flying in a formation of three and separately observed flying erratically and maneuvering aggressively. The AC-130's crew attempted to save the footage of the UAP observations but the aircraft’s Digital Video Recorder (DVR) inexplicably failed and the video data became corrupted. ( Image credit: DoW)

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) are a mixed bag. It is therefore important to separate the wheat (truly anomalous) from the chaff (human-made technologies). Let us illustrate this challenge in the context of orbs.

The mysterious orbs mentioned in the records of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) here, have the following physical properties:

1. Size: of order 1 meter.

2. Speed: 100–600 meters per second, between 0.3 and 1.7 times the speed of sound, as reported in videos from the Gulf of Oman, available here, here, here and here.

3. Thermal Signature: The orbs appear cold on infrared sensors, meaning they register as colder than background on thermal imagery, the opposite of what one might expect from any combustion-based propulsion or from aerodynamic heating at the reported speeds.

4. Radar Cross-Section: some orbs are independently tracked by multiple radar systems while others appear to have been characterized primarily via optical/infrared sensor data rather than confirmed radar returns. Note that infrared-only detections are more vulnerable to sensor artifacts, lens flare, and out-of-focus point sources than radar-confirmed contacts.

5. Color and Visual Appearance: Reports span black, white, and unspecified metallic/reflective appearances.

6. Coordinated Behavior: Formation flying.

7. Apparent reactivity to aircraft firing its main cannon in the Gulf of Oman incident.

8. No visible propulsion, exhaust, or control surfaces.

9. Transmedium behavior: Air-water transition capability was documented in some cases.

The following properties fit conventional drones:

1. Size: The inferred dimension is squarely in the range of fielded small quadcopter or multirotor drones used for both commercial and military applications.

2. No visible propulsion, exhaust, or control surfaces: Small electric multirotor drones have no exhaust plume and their rotors are often too small and fast-spinning to resolve on standard military infrared or handheld camera footage.

3. Coordinated behavior: This is common technology of fielded drone swarms, either pre-programmed or centrally piloted, which is likely deployed in the Gulf of Oman where several such incidents occurred.

4. Apparent reactivity: Response to weapons fire is fully explicable by a remotely piloted or sensor-equipped drone. A human or AI operator or onboard threat-detection system responding to being shot at (visually, acoustically, or via radar-warning-type sensing) is unremarkable. This is precisely the kind of evasive behavior military drones are designed to exhibit. The concentration of reports in active conflict zones, such as the Gulf of Oman, Bagram in Afghanistan or U.S. Central Command, is expected if these are adversary drones rather than a phenomenon indifferent to human geopolitics. A genuinely exotic or natural phenomenon has no reason to cluster around the most heavily-instrumented, most militarily contested airspace on Earth.

5. Transmedium behavior: Experimental and fielded transmedium drones (labeled as UUV-UAS hybrid programs) exist (as discussed, for example, here). They include Chinese research into craft that can transition between air and water (as discussed here and here).

However, the drone interpretation is strained by the following properties:

1. Speed: The Gulf of Oman orbs reach sustained supersonic speeds which is not currently possible for small, rotor-based or ducted-fan drones. The aerodynamics and propulsion requirements for a multirotor-type craft at that speed are not remotely compatible with known small-drone engineering. If the high end of that speed range is accurate and correctly attributed to the same small objects rather than reflecting a measurement error, sensor artifact, or conflation with a separate fast-moving object like a missile in the same scene, this genuinely exceeds what any known drone technology, small or large, can do.

2. Thermal signature: Small electric drones typically do show a modest but detectable thermal signature from motors, batteries, and electronics and should not appear as cold orbs. Appearing cold relative to background is unusual for an active, powered device, although it might reflect a novel drone design which evades a thermal fingerprint given the distance and sensor sensitivity threshold.

3. Radar Cross-Section: Small drones, especially plastic/composite-bodied commercial ones, notoriously have very low radar cross-sections. This could explain why some orb incidents lack solid radar confirmation, but it suggests that other objects which were tracked on radar with a strong return, are different.

The most likely resolution for the mixed message in the above analysis is that not a single explanation covers all reported orbs. It is plausible that the majority of the low-speed, formation-flying, radar-quiet orbs are genuinely human-made drones, while the outlier high-speed or high-radar-cross-section cases within the same dataset represent either measurement error or an attribution mistake, whereby a fast-moving object like a missile or aircraft momentarily conflated with a slower drone swarm in the same scene.

Better digital data is needed to decide whether any of the UAP orbs represent a new class of objects of non-human origin. Such data could be obtained through future campaigns for new data collection, coordinated by the partnership between the U.S. Government and the UAP Science Advisory Council (https://uapsac.com/) under my leadership.

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The Greek Roswell: UFO Sightings in Greece Nobody Talks About

While international attention tends to focus on the Pentagon’s declassified files or sightings over the American Southwest, Greece has quietly accumulated its own extensive catalog of UFO sightings—also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs)—rivaling anything held in United States or United Kingdom government archives.

UFO sightings in Greece include mass sightings witnessed by entire village communities in the 1950s and hard radar contacts tracked by Hellenic Air Force controllers. The country’s documented history of anomalous aerial activity is indeed substantial and largely overlooked by the wider world.

The UFO sightings of Thessaly and Lesbos in the 1950s

One of the most well-documented incidents of UFO sightings in Greece takes us back to the autumn of 1954. A massive wave of sightings swept across the country, particularly over the Eastern Aegean island of Lesbos and the region of Thessaly in central mainland Greece.

What is worth noting here is that these weren’t isolated stories from some lone shepherds out in the hills. Entire villages, places like Vrisa, Anemotia, and Agiasos, watched the skies light up. The witnesses included local council presidents, police officers, and whole crowds of people backing up each other’s stories—a fundamental ingredient in a story like this to be considered at least somewhat credible.

Keep in mind, this was 1954. You couldn’t blame a weird light on a rogue consumer drone or a Starlink satellite. Even airplanes were a rare sight above Greece at the time, especially in places like Lesbos or Thessaly. People were watching intensely bright objects perform maneuvers that effectively defied the laws of physics. Even today, with all our advanced sensors and tracking tech, we would struggle to explain what those villagers saw.

The radar incident of 1990

Things took an undeniable turn in 1990, moving from village squares right into the control towers of Greece’s airports. Three separate air traffic controllers, watching state-of-the-art radar, picked up something entirely unexplainable. It was a cigar-shaped craft ripping through Greek airspace at over 3,000 miles per hour.

At first, people thought this was probably a glitch. However, it soon proved to be a physical object painting a hard target on military radar screens, prompting the Hellenic Air Force to open an official file for the case.

When aviation professionals witness something like this, it carries serious weight, as the number one hypothesis is enemy aircraft. These are people trained to instantly recognize weather balloons, civilian planes, and natural atmospheric tricks. It is their job to differentiate among these to avoid unnecessary concerns. At the time, someone floated the idea that it might just be classified American laser testing.

That said, a laser doesn’t usually trip highly calibrated radar systems designed to track physical mass. This was not the first time airport experts spotted something akin to a UFO. Elite radar operators tracking impossible machines is a frequent phenomenon, proving that whatever these things are, they don’t care much about international borders.

The “Roswell” UFO incident of Greece

Perhaps the most outrageous event, however, one that researchers often refer to as the “Greek Roswell,” happened that same year on September 2, 1990. Over the area of Megaplatanos in Central Greece, witnesses watched a squadron of strange lights moving across the night sky before one of them seemed to suffer a catastrophic failure. People reported seeing it plunge to the earth, causing a massive fire, slicing cleanly through tree trunks, and scattering metallic debris everywhere.

The weirdest part was that the surviving lights didn’t disappear. They reportedly hovered right over the crash site, almost like they were running a rescue or recovery operation, before finally shooting away into the dark. Naturally, the Hellenic Air Force showed up fast. They cordoned off the entire area and quickly put out a statement blaming the mess on a falling Soviet satellite. In practice, though, that explanation didn’t sit right with the locals who had just watched other craft stop to pick up the pieces.

It’s that exact kind of disconnect, the government’s official line versus what people actually saw with their own two eyes, that keeps the UFO (UAP) disclosure movement pushing for answers today.

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Steve Pierce confesses the Travis Walton UFO Abduction Hoax

The Travis Walton "UFO abduction" back in 1975 is one of the best-known and most widely believed of all UFO cases. It was depicted in the movie Fire In The Sky. Serious researchers have known for a while that the case was a hoax. Now Steve Pierce, one of the woodcutters in the truck with Travis, not only admits the hoax, but explains how it was done.

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In August of 2026, researcher Ryan Gordon traveled to the 'abduction site' with Pierce to try to untangle the confusion. Gordon published a YouTube video to document their discussions about the case. He writes,

On November 5, 1975, deep in the chilling timber of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests just outside of Heber, Arizona, a logging crew experienced an event that would cement itself in UFO history forever. What started as a routine day in the woods ended with 22-year-old Travis Walton vanishing without a trace for five agonizing days and allegedly taken aboard an extraterrestrial spacecraft. But as the years have passed, cracks in the world's most famous abduction story have begun to show. What really happened in the forest that night?

In this exclusive and gripping deep-dive interview, producer Ryan Gordon sits down with original logging crew member and eyewitness Steve Pierce to unravel decades of mystery, rumor, and shocking revelations.

The video begins with Pierce and Gordon at Turkey Springs in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. This is where the woodcutters were working on their forest service contract. It is also where Travis Walton claims he was "abducted," leading a group of researchers there, amid absurd claims about 'radioactive trees' and the like. 

But a little reflection tells us this cannot be true. The woodcutters normally returned home using Black Canyon Road, a primitive but direct route through the forest, starting before it gets dark. However, on Abduction Day, Mike Rogers, the crew chief and driver of the truck, had the crew work until it was dark. He then chose to return via the Rim Road, a forest road they had not taken before. At the intersection of another road, they reportedly saw a UFO. Rogers stopped the truck, and Travis ran out to see the UFO. When Travis was reportedly struck by a beam of light from the UFO, Rogers hit the gas and sped away from the site, reaching a speed of 60 MPH on Rim Road, until they decided to stop and go back to try to find poor Travis, which of course they could not.

The Gentry Tower as seen from the road in daylight. Travis Walton's "UFO."

At the site of the Gentry Tower, Pierce says that he is "100% certain" that this was Travis Walton's UFO. A brief description of the case as we now know it:

• The hoax was planned by Travis Walton and Mike Rogers. The other woodcutters (including Steve Pierce) knew nothing of it at the time.
• There was a third hoaxer working in the Gentry Tower. He shone a searchlight on Travis, to make it look like he was being "zapped".

More recently, Travis has been claiming that the beam from the UFO 'killed' him. Fortunately, the aliens took him aboard their craft, and restored him to life. 

Mike Rogers died this past February. According to his daughter, he made a deathbed confession of  the Travis Walton hoax. Rogers had "confessed" this in 2021 in a phone call with Ryan Gordon, but then retracted his confession soon afterward. Rogers also reportedly "confessed" to his daughter to having hoaxed the famous Phoenix Lights using balloons or something, which is preposterous. Those "lights" traveled 400 miles in less than an hour, so they were obviously aircraft. Frankly, this detracts from the credibility of Rogers' other confession, although I still don't doubt it..

Steve Pierce at the Gentry Tower.

Forest Service CL-100 lookout tower (same model as Gentry Tower in Apache-Sitgreaves Natl. Forest)

The National Enquirer was offering $1 million for "proof that UFOs come from outer space." The Walton/Rogers crew was hoping to win that prize, but fell short. However, they received instead $2,500 each for '1975's most extraordinary encounter.' 

 

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What NASA’s Apollo Astronauts Actually Photographed — And Why It Still Matters

A look at newly surfaced lunar surface images and the declassified transcripts that go with them.

 Alejandro Rojas 

The word “UFO” tends to trigger one of two responses: credulous excitement or immediate eye-rolling. But when the source material is NASA mission photography and declassified crew debriefing documents — some originally stamped Confidential — it becomes harder to dismiss out of hand.

A set of recently surfaced images from the Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 17 (1972) lunar surface missions has been circulating alongside newly released government UAP files. The photographs show the grey lunar terrain, astronaut shadows stretching across the regolith, and — annotated with yellow zoom boxes — small, anomalous luminous objects in the black sky above the lunar horizon. The objects vary across the frames: a vertical blue streak in one, a tight cluster of white-blue points in another, a solitary bright orb in a third, and in one striking image, what appears to be a larger rectangular luminous form.

The honest answer, scientifically speaking, is that we don’t know what they are. And that uncertainty is actually the interesting part.

NASA: Apollo 12, 1969

What the Transcripts Say

These images don’t exist in isolation. The project files include declassified NASA transcripts and crew debriefings from multiple missions, and the astronauts — trained engineers and test pilots, not given to loose talk — reported unexplained visual phenomena repeatedly.

During Apollo 17, Commander Gene Cernan explicitly radioed Houston about an object he was tracking from the spacecraft window. “I just want to emphasize,” he told Mission Control, “that it’s definitely not one of these particles that tends to look like a star out there. It’s something physical in the distance.” Houston’s response was telling in its matter-of-factness: “We don’t doubt it, Gene.” Ground controllers then worked to establish gimbal angles so they could try to locate the object through the spacecraft’s optics.

In the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing — originally classified Confidential and declassified years later — Buzz Aldrin described observing what he characterized as a fairly bright light source in lunar orbit that the crew could not immediately identify. Neil Armstrong, methodical as ever, suggested it was likely an optical effect near the horizon. They disagreed mildly and moved on.

Earlier still, in 1965, Gemini 7 commander Frank Borman reported “a bogey at ten o’clock high” — a phrase that got Houston’s attention quickly. Borman clarified it was a separate object from both the spent booster stage and the particle field the crew was also observing. The PAO commentary on the tape release noted plainly that there were three distinct objects in question.

None of these accounts prove anything exotic. What they do establish is that credible, trained observers repeatedly reported objects they could not explain, that NASA took those reports seriously enough to document them in formal debriefings, and that the government saw fit to classify some of that documentation for years afterward.

NASA: Apollo 12, 1969

The Scientific Case for Curiosity

The skeptical position — that these photographs show film artifacts, lens flares, cosmic ray strikes on the film emulsion, or simply distant stars — is entirely reasonable and should be the starting point. Hasselblad cameras shooting on the lunar surface operated in an extreme radiation environment, and cosmic ray tracks on film are well documented. Several of the anomalies in these images have the characteristics you’d expect from that explanation: point-source brightness, slight color fringing, appearing above an otherwise featureless horizon.

But the scientific method also requires that you account for data that doesn’t fit the model. Cosmic ray strikes don’t explain an object that a crew commander tracks across his window for an extended period, gives attitude angles on, and requests optical tracking assistance for. Film artifacts don’t explain a formally documented crew report that survives in a declassified debriefing.

The intellectually honest position is not “this is proof of alien spacecraft” — it isn’t — nor is it “this is obviously nothing.” It’s that there exists a genuine category of unexplained aerial and orbital phenomena observed by some of the most carefully selected and rigorously trained humans ever put into space, and that the U.S. government has historically classified documentation of those observations. That is, on its own terms, a story worth following.

NASA: Apollo 12, 1969

Where Things Stand Now

The federal government’s posture toward UAP has shifted meaningfully in the past several years. The Pentagon established a formal UAP task force. Congress has held open hearings. Legislation has required reporting. And classified files have begun to move toward the public domain — slowly, incompletely, but measurably.

• If you want to track what’s actually been released and what’s still being withheld, PentagonUFOFiles.io is worth bookmarking. The site, built by the team at Enigma Labs, tracks congressionally requested Pentagon UAP video files — what’s been released, what the military nomenclature in those files actually means (their “Decoder” section is genuinely useful for cutting through jargon), and what’s still outstanding. It’s a clean, no-nonsense resource for anyone who wants to follow the paper trail rather than the speculation.

The Apollo images discussed here represent one thread of a much longer story. Whether that story ends with mundane explanations, scientific discoveries about poorly understood atmospheric or space phenomena, or something more consequential, the only reasonable approach is to keep looking at the data carefully — and to push for more of it to be made public.

The astronauts were looking. It seems reasonable to keep looking too.

Sources:

• NASA Apollo 12 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (1969);
• Apollo 17 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (1972);
• Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing (1969, declassified);
• Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing (1973, declassified); Gemini 7 PAO Commentary Transcript (1965).
  
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that President Donald Trump would be showing pictures and videos of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and would likely hold a primetime address if the administration knew more about it, addressing how some people think the government is covering it up.

Katie Miller, host of "The Katie Miller Podcast," asked Rubio in an interview about a conspiracy theory he believed in, and he brought up UAPs, but clarified he didn't think it was a conspiracy theory.

Rubio discussed how he's been interested in UAPs ever since he was in the Senate, and said, "I don't know who it is. I don't know what it is, but there are things flying over our military installations, and they're not ours, and we should look into this, be serious about it."

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"So, I don't call it a conspiracy. I don't know if I — I don't know the answer to any of it," Rubio said. "I'm just, you know, asking the questions about, we should know what's flying over our airspace. But I don't think that's a conspiracy theory as much as it is just — it can be in some sense, because people do believe we're covering something up."

"And I assure you, like in this administration, if we knew, like, the president would be all over," he continued. "Like there would be a primetime address. He would, he'd be showing the pictures and the videos." 

The Pentagon has released several UAP videos in 2026.

"President Trump directed the Department of War to identify and release government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects because he is the most transparent president in history," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

"While past administrations have sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, the President is focused on providing maximum disclosure to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files," she added. "The American people asked, and President Trump delivered." 

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The Secretary of State also conceded he sometime used UAPs as a diversion tactic while speaking to reporters, but said the topic was nonetheless very serious.

"I did that for a long time in the Senate … It was extraordinarily effective as a diversionary tactic. In addition to — now, that said, it's also a very legitimate topic that we should be covering," he added.

Trump directed federal agencies to waive prior nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for former government employees and contractors cooperating with unidentified anomalous phenomena investigations in July.

"President Trump recently directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to allow former government employees or contractors that have relevant information about the disclosure of UAP, to come forward to meet with designated government representatives — AARO or the President’s UAP taskforce, ‘PURSUE’ — and have their prior NDAs abrogated," said a senior administration official with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Pentagon office established to investigate UFOs and other unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).

Another senior administration official emphasized the move was not a "declassification directive" and only allowed employees to come forward through government channels.

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Officials say years of congressional inquiries, whistleblower allegations and newly declassified records have raised questions about whether additional witnesses have remained silent because they believed prior nondisclosure agreements prevented them from cooperating with government investigations.

Lead UFO Investigator for Gaia and host of "Cosmic Disclosure," Joshua Golembeske, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Rubio was a big reason the UAP report existed, citing his work on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

He criticized Rubio's "diversionary tactic" remarks, and said it was "funny," but that it was the exact thing the Secretary of State was trying to fix.

"This is the same guy who spent years saying the stigma is the problem, that guys won't report what they see because they'll get laughed at. And now the Secretary of State is on a podcast saying he used it to change the subject. Pilots hear that. Witnesses hear that. That's the exact thing he was trying to fix," Golembeske said.

"Where he says if we knew, Trump would be on primetime showing the pictures. Maybe. But that assumes he'd be told. [Intelligence whistleblower David Grusch testified under oath that these programs were kept from Congress — kept from AARO, the office we built to look into it. Rubio himself said whistleblowers came to him scared of retaliation. So 'I wasn't briefed' doesn't mean there's nothing there. It might just mean the compartment did its job," he added.

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A top commander responsible for defending the U.S. homeland warned Thursday that American military bases are "ill-equipped" to repel a swarm of small attack drones.

The vulnerability persists even as the Pentagon seeks billions for new counter-drone weapons, and Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Jarrard said the shortfall begins well before troops try to shoot down a drone.

Some bases do not have the sensors to spot and track an incoming swarm or the weapons to take it out, said the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command and vice commander of the American contingent at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

"We don’t have the sensors, and depending on where that swarm is going to attack, it depends on whether we have any sensors at all, and also whether we’ve got any effectors to go after that problem," Jarrard said at the annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium.

Jarrard said NORTHCOM is folding counter-drone tactics into Operation Noble Eagle, the long-running U.S.-Canada homeland air-defense mission. For now, he said, NORAD is relying on radars already in its inventory while working to connect with local law enforcement and other agencies that operate detection systems beyond military installations.

"Detection is obviously the biggest issue, and so how we are able to detect is one of our biggest concerns right now," Jarrard said. "That’s where we’ve got to get to with respect to the interoperability between not just military systems, but also those that are protecting our cities, critical infrastructure, etc., that are off our installations."

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Jarrard’s assessment offers a blunt measure of the gap between the Pentagon’s rapid counter-drone push and the protection available at installations today. Cheap, one-way attack drones have changed the battlefield calculus in Ukraine and the Middle East, where adversaries can threaten equipment, infrastructure and personnel without expending the missiles or aircraft traditionally associated with a strike on a military target.

"We are ill-equipped right now to handle something like that, and obviously we’ve seen it used," Jarrard told the audience. "We’re seeing it used on a daily basis around the world, and we’ve got to figure out how to mitigate that threat."

His warning echoed concerns raised in May by NORTHCOM commander Gen. Gregory Guillot, who said troops deployed along the southern border lacked adequate counter-drone tools. The Pentagon has since sought a record $21 billion for drones, counter-drone weapons, munitions and other related capabilities as it tries to close the gap.

The warning also comes as President Donald Trump moves ahead with the Golden Dome plan, his broad homeland missile-defense initiative intended to protect the United States and critical infrastructure from ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles, as well as other advanced aerial threats.

The issue has resurfaced as it relates to the administration’s broader discussion of unidentified objects around U.S. military sites.

Earlier this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the government should take seriously reports of objects flying over military installations — more recently called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) rather than unidentified foreign objects (UFOs).

"I don't know who it is. I don't know what it is, but there are things flying over our military installations, and they're not ours, and we should look into this, be serious about it," Rubio said while discussing UAPs in an interview with Katie Miller, wife of top White House aide Stephen Miller.

Rubio was not specifically referring to drone swarms, and Jarrard did not suggest that every unidentified object reported near a military site is a drone. Still, the two officials’ comments point to the same practical concern for U.S. forces: an aircraft does not need to be mysterious to present a danger.

Jarrard, in his remarks, was describing a more immediate and localized vulnerability: the ability to detect and defeat low-cost drones flying toward a base before they can strike.

The military is pursuing several answers, from radio-frequency systems that can jam drone communications or interfere with satellite navigation to high-powered microwave weapons designed to disrupt the electronics of multiple nearby drones at once.

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It is also moving closer to fielding high-energy lasers. Fox News Digital reported this month that the Army is nearing a contract award for the Enduring High Energy Laser (E-HEL) program, which could become the service’s first permanent operational capability for a family of high-energy laser systems.

Army acquisition chief Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano said in July that the technology had shown "a lot of recent promise and capability" during testing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

A laser could allow troops to engage drones that have entered a defended area without relying solely on expensive missile interceptors, but it is not a complete solution: lasers are line-of-sight weapons, which limits their reach, and they must be integrated with the sensors, command-and-control networks and other systems Jarrard said are lacking at some locations.

In an era when small drones can be cheap, expendable and deployed in numbers, the military must be able to identify the threat quickly and prevent it from reaching the installation it is meant to protect.

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