Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer chosen last month by the White House to lead a UFO advisory council, believes he was brought on because federal officials are "baffled" by the many unidentified objects the U.S. military has captured over the past several decades.

Loeb, known for arguing that alien spacecraft may have already reached Earth, said his newly formed team of more than a dozen scientists is combing through four batches of public UFO sighting disclosures released by the Trump administration in recent months.

His mission began in early June when an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) visited his home and asked him to form a group of experts to make sense of UFOs, now referred to by the U.S. government as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). This is an umbrella term that accounts for objects seen zipping underwater and in space.

"The U.S. government had me at hello," Loeb told Fox News Digital in an interview Saturday. "The fact that they are reaching out to scientists like myself indicates, in my mind, that they are baffled by what they are seeing, and they think that maybe it's not human-made."

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Loeb's council will report its findings to the UAP Governing Board, a recently established body under the direction of ODNI.

According to the council's website, Loeb and his colleagues will only be reviewing already-declassified materials on UAPs.

However, Loeb told Fox News Digital he has asked the Pentagon and other agencies for 50 videos, images and other documents related to known UAP incidents. Those materials haven't been given to him yet, with the custodian agencies citing national security concerns.

"It's not so much the targets that are the issue. It's that the sensors that were used were for national security purposes. The U.S. government doesn't want to reveal to adversarial nations the kind of sensors being used. So, that's the main obstacle right now," Loeb said.

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Loeb's goal is to figure out whether UAPs that have been captured by the U.S. military originate from other nations or if they don't come from humans at all.

"In the second case, if it's not human-made, then that's the biggest discovery ever made by science, and the U.S. government has the privilege of ushering in this new realization that we have a neighbor visiting us," Loeb said.

Loeb sought to temper expectations, saying that many of the phenomena they are studying could turn out to be mundane. Often, he said, the strange looking objects people see in the sky are merely space junk or broken satellites.

"Unless they maneuver in ways that cannot be explained by gravity, you should assume that they are space junk," Loeb said.

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Nonetheless, he praised the White House for its push for transparency on this issue. In February, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon and other agencies to declassify files related to aliens and UAPs because of "tremendous interest."

One of the most important aims of Loeb's council is to recommend better sensors so that the government can capture UAPs with more confidence in the future.

"If we are dealing with drones of some unusual qualities that the Chinese are using, it's good for the U.S. to have better sensors that can help it identify those. Right now, they are reported as orbs. They may not be drones, but I'm saying that, at the very least, we will help national security," Loeb said.

Loeb made the remarks after the Department of War on Friday released the fourth and latest batch of UAP materials to the public. Loeb commented on one of the most sensational releases from the first batch, which were photos from the Apollo 12 mission on the Moon in 1969.

One of the photos has five "unidentified phenomena," but Loeb said federal authorities have now officially concluded that those blue flashes are most likely cosmic rays.

Until 2020, Loeb headed up Harvard University's astronomy department, where he studied black holes, the formation of the universe's first stars and extraterrestrial life.

In 2017, when scientists discovered a remnant of a Pluto-like world in the solar system, Loeb disputed those findings, arguing that the object was possibly a light sail from an alien civilization.

After this claim earned him widespread respect in the UFO community, Loeb founded the Galileo Project at Harvard to search for artifacts from extraterrestrial civilizations.

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The Nephilim: Giant Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man?

Rita Louise

Who were the nephilim? The word nephilim appears twice in the Old Testament of the Bible. They are first mentioned in chapter 6 of the book of Genesis and then again in Number 13:33. But their brief mention in the Bible has led to an ongoing debate as to who or what the nephilim were. Much of this debate stems from the passage in the Bible that states:

When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God went in to the daughters of man, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.  – Genesis 6: 1-4

The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair (1923) by Daniel Chester French. Corcoran Gallery of Art. (CC0)

What Does ‘Nephilim’ Mean?

The traditional definition of Nephilim is giant. Some dictionaries describe the nephilim as being giants who also possess super human strength. The Greek Septuagint, an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible, refers to them as gigantes, which actually means "earth -born," a concept we will be coming back to as we continue.

It is believed that the word Nephilim comes from the root word "Naphal" which means to fall. In biblical circles this definition has quickly put the Nephilim into the role of the children of the fallen angels. The word Naphal, however, is never directly associated with the concept of fallen angels. Its meaning in context is more closely associated with the idea of lying prostrate or of prostrating oneself. There are also ties in this word to the concept of failure, falling short, or being cast down.

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‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’ (1685) by Charles Le Brun.

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Mythos of the Nephilim

Over the years a mythos has developed around the concept of the nephilim. It alleges that these giants were the offspring of the "Sons of God" and the "Daughters of Man". Are the nephilim the children of the untoward relationship?

The connection between the biblical text and this claim, although commonly pointed to as the basis of this belief, is unfounded. The document in which we find statements that support this claim actually comes from the apocryphal Book of Jubiliees:

And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. The Book of Jubilees - Chapter V: 1

Is the claim that the nephilim were the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of men supported by sources outside the Judeo-Christian tradition?  In other words, does mythology worldwide support this belief?

The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair, by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

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Giants Roaming the Earth Across Cultures

The notion of giants roaming the earth can be found in cultures worldwide. Greek mythology tells us that the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus in order to gain control of the Greek pantheon. It is from the blood of the castrated Uranus that fell upon the earth that the giants, the "earth-born", were created.

The Earth-born, when compared to us, were giants. The giants, lived under the rule of Cronos during the golden age, in a time that was free from sorrow or care and everyone lived happy and joyous lives.

It was only after Cronos' son Zeus fought for control of both the heavens and the earth that everything changed. In his new role, Zeus, according to Greek myth, put the giants to work. It was just a matter of time before the giants started ignoring the god's mandates.

Bell krater depicting Zeus fighting against the giant Porphyrion.

(Egisto Sani/CC BY NC SA 2.0)

They were no longer prostrating themselves to the will of the gods. Their lack of complete servitude and their failure to comply with the god’s demands incited the "children of god" into a full blown rebellion against the heavenly gods. Heavy losses were taken on both sides, but their revolution was finally suppressed by the gods.

A truce was declared. As part of their reparations to the giants it was decided to create a new race to handle the burdens that were cast upon the giants - man.

Padraic Column in his book entitled Orpheus, Myths of the World, relates this tale about the creation of man: Aztec legend recounts how the Earth-mother, Citlalicue, gave birth to a flint knife. When the knife was flung down onto the Earth, it was transformed into sixteen hundred "earth-gods." (Is there connection between the flint knife, flung down by Citlalicue, and the sickle used by Cronus to castrate his father?)

These newly formed earth-gods lived as men and women and labored in search of food. After some time, the Earth-gods began to think that this work was below their station. They were, after all, the children of the Sky-father and Earth-mother. They asked their mother Citlalicue to make a race who would serve them and bear the burdens they faced. With the help of Citlalicue, mankind was created.

‘A group of natives in the central highlands of Mexico, capturing and putting to death a giant.’

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Based upon these mythological traditions it seems clear that the earth-born giants, the nephilim, existed long before man first inhabited the earth. Thus when you read the line "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward" it seems clear from this perspective that the authors were not being vague. Instead they were just making a statement of fact - that the Nephilim, the earth-born, were on the earth at that time.

The Offspring of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Man

So who were the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of man? The Hebrew Bible refers to them as gibborim. The inferred meaning of this word is men of great stature, heroes, men who are valiant or brave.

The Greek Septuagint identifies them as the renominati or men or renown. In Greek mythology the gods have a long history of having relations with humans. The names of some of these "demi-gods", or semi-human individuals, whose names have withstood the tests of time include were Hercules, Perseus, and Achilles. In India they are called Hanuman and Garuda and in Sumer Gilgamesh and Adapa.

Interestingly, a parallel myth to this biblical narrative does exist. It comes to us from the pages of the Hindu epic the Ramayana. The Ramayana is the epic tale of Rama, the 7th avatar of the supreme god Vishnu.

Rama lived during the Treta Yuga. It was an age where the world was filled with giants. Around the same time as Rama's birth, the supreme god Vishnu, knowing what was in store for him, requested that all of the gods descend to the earth and mate with the apes and the bears. This request was made in order to, when the time was right, provide Rama with an army he could use to help him conquer Ravana - the giant demon king of Lanka.

Fight between Rama and Ravana.

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The offspring of these unions obtained an array of impressive skills from their divine parents. The mighty Sugríva was the ruler of the vanara, the ape-men. His father was Surya, the chief solar deity. The demi-god Hanúmán was the son of the wind god and is described as being able to travel very fast, while Nala was the son of the god of building and construction and is the vanara that helps Rama to build a bridge from mainland India to Lanka.

These thousands did the Gods create
Endowed with might that none could mate,
In monkey forms that changed at will;
So strong their wish the fiend to kill.

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Are the nephelim the offspring of the sons of god and the daughters of man? No. They were the race of earth-born giants who lived before the creation of man. They are the group who revolted against the gods in antiquity.

They are also the ones responsible for the creation of mankind. Additionally, based upon the references that come to us from the Ramayana, it does seem clear the when the gods mated with "ape-men" their offspring were men of renown, heroes, or individuals who are valiant or brave.

• Top Image: ‘Norandino and Lucina Discovered by the Ogre’ (1624) by Giovanni Lanfranco.
• Source: Public Domain

By  Dr. Rita Louise

• © Copyright Body, Mind & SoulHealer – www.soulhealer.com 2013. All rights reserved.

About The Author

Bestselling author and Medical Intuitive, Dr. Rita Louise is the host of Just Energy Radio and the Founder of the Institute Of Applied Energetics. She is the author of the books Man-Made: The Chronicles Of Our Extraterrestrial Gods, Avoiding The Cosmic 2X4, Dark Angels: An Insider's Guide To Ghosts, Spirits & Attached Entitiesand The Power Within as well as hundreds of articles that have been published worldwide. She has appeared on radio and television and has spoken at conferences covering topics such as health and healing, ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal.  For more information about Dr. Rita please visit http://www.soulhealer.com or listen to her live at http://www.justenergyradio.com.

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“After these views were captured by the spacecraft’s multispectral imager instrument, Mars began to overfill the field of view as Psyche made close approach with the planet and captured a series of high-resolution images of the surface,” read a NASA statement accompanying the imagery.

In several of the images, Mars appears as a thin sliver due to the high phase angle of approach as Psyche made its way toward the planet. In the days that followed, the crescent is shown as it appears to “grow” as more sunlight illuminates its surface.

A Detailed Glimpse of the Martian Surface Captured by Psyche

The recent crescent features weren’t all that Psyche captured during its recent near approach to Mars. In additional images released by the American space agency, the Martian surface appeared in colorful views obtained by the spacecraft’s multispectral imager instrument.

The resulting “mosaic” was created from four separate images acquired near the end of Psyche’s recent visit, shown in enhanced color that highlights several details visible on the Martian surface.

Traveling along a southwesterly path with relation to the Martian poles, the mosaic imagery appears slightly blurry, as it represents close to six minutes of travel above the planet. According to NASA, pixel scale resolution in the imagery “varies from 381 meters per pixel on the right to 440 meters per pixel on the left.”

Color enhancements to the imagery, collected with the imager’s green, blue, and near-infrared filters, reveal additional details about the various features of the volcanic region of Mars that Psyche flew over on May 15, 2026, known as the Iapygia region.

This area comprises part of the Martian southern highlands, and in the recent imagery, Fournier crater—the largest shown in the new imagery—can be seen, alongside hills, cliffs, and other features, including the irregular Oenotria Scopuli cliff system, forming one side of the boundary of a massive ancient impact feature on the Red Planet.

Additional details about the new imagery, as well as information about Psyche’s mission, can be found on NASA’s official mission page.

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Loeb to Newsmax: Many UAPs Have Conventional Explanations

By Solange Reyner 

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb said Saturday that some of the unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, featured in a newly released government file dump likely have ordinary explanations, while others warrant further investigation because of their potential implications for national security and science.

Speaking on Newsmax TV's "Saturday Agenda," Loeb cautioned against assuming that every object shown in the released materials represents unexplained technology.

"Some of these are natural events," Loeb said.

He pointed to a widely circulated video of a star-shaped object, saying its appearance was likely caused by the camera rather than the object itself.

"The star-shaped object that you showed — that's a result of a diffraction pattern in the camera that is taking the image," he said.

Loeb added that some of the orb-like objects included in the files could also have conventional explanations, such as laser spots created by human technology or ball lightning, a rare atmospheric electrical phenomenon.

"There are also some of the orbs that may be a result of laser spots ... or a result of ball lightning," he said.

Loeb said the challenge is distinguishing explainable events from those that remain genuinely anomalous.

"We are trying to separate the wheat from the chaff and advise the government how to get more information that will get to the bottom of it," he said.

He said a careful analysis of the government's UAP data could benefit both national security and scientific research.

According to Loeb, the two central questions are whether the objects represent potential security concerns and whether they could provide evidence that humanity is not alone in the universe.

"There are two subjects that are of importance to the American people," Loeb said. "That's national security, as well as, are we alone in the universe? Do we have a neighbor in our cosmic environment?"

Loeb said analyzing government data on anomalous objects could help answer both questions.

He also said officials within the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies remain uncertain about some of the reported phenomena.

"Frankly, the Pentagon, as well as the intelligence agencies, are puzzled about the properties of these objects," he said.

Loeb said the advisory effort he is involved with aims to examine the evidence methodically.

"My council will try to figure out, like in a detective story, what it's all about," he said.

He credited President Donald Trump's directive to review UAP records and declassify information that does not affect national security with making more material available for analysis.

Loeb emphasized that the newly released records represent "a mixed bag," with some cases likely explainable and others requiring additional investigation.

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The Trump administration is deliberately releasing only 'minor' UFO files while withholding far more significant evidence, according to one of the most prominent figures in the disclosure movement.

Dr Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, told the Daily Mail he believes officials possess far more consequential material but have been advised to reveal it slowly as part of what he described as an 'acculturation process.'

'My understanding is that they've been advised to go slow on it, and to only release fairly much inconsequential material,' Greer said. 'I don't agree with that strategy.'

Greer, who has spent more than three decades encouraging military, intelligence and corporate insiders to come forward with information about unidentified aerial phenomena, argued the current releases are only the beginning of a much larger disclosure effort.

He believes the strategy is backfiring because the public expected far more than the three recent tranches of documents released by the administration.

'I think they're trying to do a slow roll,' he said. 'I think it's eroding trust in government.'

Despite his criticism of the rollout, Greer believes genuine disclosure could fundamentally reshape humanity's future by revealing technologies capable of solving some of the world's biggest challenges.

'I think it's a message of great hope,' he said. 'If it's handled properly, it would start a whole new chapter in human civilization.'

Dr Steven Greer popularized the term 'disclosure,' referring to the release of UFO files in the 1990s

The Trump administration has released four tranches of UFO files since May 8, months after President Donald Trump ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to declassify government records related to UFOs and alleged extraterrestrial activity.

The releases included striking images and transcripts linked to NASA's Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions.

One photo taken from the lunar surface appears to show three unexplained dots hovering in the dark sky above the moon.

Another document summarized statements from seven federal officers assigned to different teams who independently reported witnessing multiple unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) across the western US over two days in 2023.

Never-before-seen FBI and CIA reports detailing witness accounts have also been included, but Greer argued the material released so far represents only a fraction of what exists inside classified government programs.

He said he has spent decades collecting testimony from military personnel, intelligence officials and government insiders, building an archive that he believes contains far more consequential evidence than anything released publicly by the administration.

'The archive we have, it's 36 years of accumulated evidence and whistleblower testimony and videos and photos and documents and government documents from all over the world, is vastly more consequential than what they released in these last four tranches,' Greer said. 

'We're trying to make sure that the public and also the political leaders have access to more material than they're seeing through these Department of War and White House releases to date.''

Greer believes that most of the objects released in recent Pentagon files - including the Tic-Tac UFO - are man-made, based on reverse-engineered alien technology

Greer said he believes additional records will eventually be made public, but suspects the administration intends to spread the disclosures over several years.

''I think more will be coming,' he said. 'I think they're trying to do a slow roll, stretching out towards the end of the Trump administration.''

One of Greer's biggest criticisms centers on what he believes is a misunderstanding of the objects appearing in many recent government disclosures.

He argued that not every craft documented in classified files is extraterrestrial, claiming some are advanced aircraft developed in secret by the US defense industry using technologies hidden from the public for decades.

'Since the late 1950s, we have mastered what's called electro-gravitic systems, which pop culture would call anti-gravity,' Greer said.

''In reality, the majority of the UFOs seen are coming from the Lockheed Skunk Works, and Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, and a few other prime contractors.''

Greer stressed that he believes genuinely unexplained cases also exist, but said they have become intertwined with classified military projects.

'There are ones that are nonhuman, no question,' he said. 'But there's also this other whole phenomenon that's actually man-made.'

He further claimed that some of those alleged man-made programs have been used in illegal operations beyond the oversight of elected officials.

'The man-made objects have been used in clandestine and many criminal enterprises,' Greer said. 'I can confirm that senior law enforcement in the United States have open criminal investigations into this.'

Greer, a retired emergency physician, said he believes the disclosure movement has reached a pivotal moment, but argued powerful interests continue to resist broader transparency.

Those concerns have intensified following the creation of a new White House advisory group examining UFO-related issues.

Greer alleged that some of the individuals involved have ties to organizations he believes have spent decades keeping information hidden from both the public and elected officials.

He argued that the current document releases represent only a small first step in a much larger process that has been unfolding behind the scenes for decades 

'I think it's a five-alarm fire,' he said. 'There are some very questionable characters who have been put on a White House advisory council for this.'

He also criticized the appointment of former Pentagon UFO investigator Lue Elizondo to a National Security Council role.

'The worst thing I've seen in 36 years of trying to resolve this problem has happened in the last 30 days,' Greer said, claiming several recent appointments have strengthened the influence of people connected to past secrecy efforts.

According to Greer, one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding UFO disclosure is the belief that presidents, cabinet officials and senior military leaders automatically have access to every classified program.

'Part of these problems is that they're all very, very new to the subject,' he said.

'I think the public makes the mistake of thinking, 'Well, you're the President or you're the Secretary of War, and you have full knowledge of this.'

''That is not how this has been operating.''

Greer claimed that alleged UFO-related programs have operated for decades outside normal government oversight, leaving even senior officials unaware of their existence.

'For the most part, oversight has not happened for quite some decades properly,' he said. 'The public expects these high officials to have full access to these files and information, when in reality they pretty much had to start at zero.'

Despite his criticism of the administration's approach, Greer said he believes disclosure is accelerating because more insiders are becoming willing to come forward.

He said his organization recently launched a worldwide appeal encouraging people working inside covert aerospace programs to disclose evidence they believe has been hidden from Congress and the public.

'We're encouraging them to defect with this positive proof of operations that have been run illegally,' Greer said.

Greer said he is also encouraged by conversations he has had with lawmakers serving on congressional oversight committees.

'They feel like this is sort of a slow roll, and they hope... they tell me they expect more,' he said.

While he acknowledged that many of his claims remain controversial, Greer maintained that disclosure is inevitable and argued that it has the potential to fundamentally change humanity's understanding of its place in the universe.

'If this is released properly, it's going to be quite clear to the public that we, humans, have figured out very advanced energy and propulsion systems that would absolutely replace the need for oil or gas,' he said.

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Mysterious ‘green mass’ spotted in waters of Loch Ness fuelling fresh Nessie rumours

 Rory McKeown | Assistant editor (news)

A mysterious green mass has been spotted in the waters of Loch Ness, fuelling fresh rumours about the monster which is said to lurk in its depths.

The object was caught on camera next to Urquhart Castle by a tourist on a Jacobite Cruises boat tour on June 23.

Sharon Herbert had been taking a picture of the castle – but spotted the strange sight lurking just beneath the surface. It is the seventh possible Nessie sighting to be made this year.

The picture, recently uploaded to the official Loch Ness monster sightings register, also left the experienced skipper of the tour boat flummoxed.

The register said: ‘Sharon Herbert, visiting from Kent, took a picture of an unknown object close to the Jacobite cruise boat at 10.27am as it came to shore at Urquhart Castle.’

‘Jacobite Cruises have confirmed that their skipper says there is no explanation that they can offer as to what the green mass is.’

The incident is the latest in a busy year for Nessie spotters with six in-person sightings and another via webcam since the start of the year.

By comparison, the register only recorded six in-person and four webcam sightings for the whole of 2025.

The official Loch Ness Monster sightings register has recorded a total of 1,172 sightings to date.

Scientists have long cast doubt on the existence of the aquatic being, with the famous 1933 photograph of a long-necked creature swimming in the lake dismissed as a hoax.

Nevertheless, thousands of people still head to Loch Ness every year armed with cameras in the hopes of catching a glimpse of its most famous resident.

In April, the mythical creature was ‘spotted’ twice within a few days after months without a glimpse of it.

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Major clue to the origin of life found in floating space sugar

 Josh Milton | Senior science and technology reporter

So far, the only life that seems to exist anywhere is on Earth.

But astronomers have discovered a clue that could explain why life exists on the blue marble – and it’s all down to sugar floating in a cloud of cosmic dirt.

Sugar in its various forms is the ancient fuel for our DNA and the tiny molecule found in space, erythrulose, is found in raspberries, melons and even self-tanning lotions.

So does this mean a raspberry bush in interstellar space is the origin of life? Probably not, the paper published in Nature Astronomy says.

‘It is not uncommon to spot molecules in this part of space,‘ Dr David Benoit, a molecular physicist at the University of Hull, who was not involved in the study, tells Metro.

‘But this is one of the first times this type of sugar has been found out there.’

Scientists have long been scratching their heads, trying to work out where the sugar came from. A main theory has been that it came to Earth on a meteorite.

They haven’t even been able to recreate the chemical conditions to make sugar in a lab, making it even more puzzling why it’s on our planet.

Ribose, a larger sugar, was discovered inside an asteroid last year.

Researchers from Spain’s Centre for Astrobiology near Madrid found the sugar in G+0.693−0.027, a thin cloud of gas and dust littered between stars in the Milky Way called an interstellar medium.

The team pointed two powerful radio telescopes at the nebula, about 27,000 light-years from Earth, to see what frequencies it was pinging.

When molecules spin and dance, they produce unique frequencies.

And, inside this mess of dust and gases in between solar systems, they found something made of four carbon atoms, eight hydrogen atoms and four oxygen atoms – erythrulose.

The team admits they checked the results over and over again, in part, because they couldn’t believe they found a cosmic bag of sugar.

What’s interesting about the discovery is that it shows sugar can form without life, even before stars or planets form.

So it suggests there’s a good chance that life on Earth originated from somewhere else.

Erythrulose, the paper says, forms when two other organic compounds, glycolaldehyde and ethylene, clump together.

‘This process is statistically rare, considering how big space is, but tiny “dust grains” help make these meetings more likely by creating little islands where molecules congregate,’ says Dr Benoit.

‘Sugars are essential components of living organisms and thus finding complex organic molecules linked to life “building blocks” in space can help further explain where our chemistry comes from.’

Researchers estimated that up to 500,000,000,000kg of sugar could have wound up on Earth as it was forming billions of years ago.

This sugar could have sparked the chemical reactions needed to form life some 4.1 billion years ago, if some fossils of microbes are to be believed.

Other building blocks include carbon, water and nitrogen.

‘A random combination of these,’ Dr Benoit adds, ‘could have ultimately led to primitive self-replicating systems.’

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We’ve just realised our understanding of the universe might be wrong

 Josh Milton | Senior science and technology reporter

The universe, that 13.8billion-year-old thing we call home, is a weird place.

But one thing that has made sense to scientists for the better part of a century is the belief that the cosmos is surprisingly uniform.

This is known as the cosmological principle, or the idea that if you took a step back – a very big step back – and took a photo of the universe, it would look smooth and blurry, like you forgot to wear glasses.

A paper published in the journal Nature, however, argues this might not be the case.

Rather, things look different from every direction you look at from a large scale, and the galaxies line up almost into patterns.

While this might not sound like a big deal, if proven, this would change the maths that explains how existence works.

Researchers figured this out by looking at the largest map of the known universe observed by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.

They compared this to simulations of how dark matter – the mysterious something holding galaxies together – is distributed in a uniform cosmos.

Researchers checked if there was any kind of pattern when comparing them.

‘Essentially, we asked what the probability of finding a galaxy at a given distance with respect to another and along a given direction,’ study co-author Marco Galoppo tells Metro.

Galoppo, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, should have been left cooing at how homogeneous (the same everywhere) and isotropic (the same in all directions) the universe is.

It should begin to smooth out when observed at scales of about 100 megaparsecs – roughly 300 million light-years – from every direction.

Instead, they saw a stringy, bumpy web of galaxies and voids even when approaching a whopping one gigaparsec, which is three billion light-years.

The lack of uniformity, called anisotropy, was ‘stronger’ than expected.

‘Any local structures – galaxies, clusters, filaments – are expected to “wash out” at large scales,’ Galoppo says.

‘Our results suggest that this may not be entirely true: we see directional patterns that are stronger than expected, implying that the universe may not reach perfect isotropy even on the largest observable scales.

‘In other words, the cosmic web may leave an imprint on the overall structure and expansion of the universe in a way that does not fully average out.’

The findings don’t mean the universe has a preferred axis or direction and they need to be replicated using larger datasets.

So, the universe isn’t uniform – so what?

Cosmologists, scientists who study the origin, history and evolution of the universe, expect to get things wrong.

But to be wrong about the cosmological principle would be a rather big deal, researchers not involved in the study told Metro.

Around 80% of the volume of the cosmos is made of nothing, called cosmic voids. Some have dim galaxies inside them, like a celestial oasis, or are crammed with cosmic energies we struggle to explain.

One thing that explains this empty space is the recipe to make a universe: 5% ordinary matter, 27% dark matter and 68% dark energy, the other invisible something pushing our universe to expand ever faster.

If the universe is not uniform but more like a bowl of spaghetti, cosmologists may have to accept that dark energy isn’t that important.

Kathy Romer, a professor in astrophysics at the University of Sussex, says that Galoppo’s paper is undoubtedly controversial. That’s the point.

‘Papers such as these are valuable in that they challenge orthodox thinking: as scientists, we should always be alert to the “Emperor’s new clothes” trap,’ she says.

‘Without doubt, there is something funny going on in the local-ish universe (mapped by galaxies), because there is an emerging mismatch with the distant universe (mapped by the cosmic microwave background).

‘This paper is part of a global effort to question every observation and theoretical assumption to understand that mismatch.’

Romer stresses that Nature has a ‘rigorous’ review process and that the bar to prove things in science is high.

‘We would all (where “all” is the observational cosmology community of 5,000 people) love this mismatch to be genuinely new physics because for us that is like winning the World Cup,’ she adds.

‘But my personal opinion, this study is part of the qualifying stages, not the final 32.’

Konstantinos Migkas, a Dutch astrophysicist, says the findings follow similar studies published this year.

And his own, too, which was referenced by Galoppo. Migkas and his colleagues also found signs of anisotropy, adding further questions to why there is something in some places but not elsewhere.

‘This does not mean that anything has been concluded yet, but it is natural that assumptions built into our standard model will be tested more sharply as data quality and volume improve,’ Migkas tells Metro.

Not everyone is swayed.

‘It’s not a big deal for the world of cosmology because this paper is wrong,’ says Seshadri Nadathur, a professor in cosmology at the University of Portsmouth.

Nadathur suggested the patterns could be chalked up to galaxy bias, where galaxies seem to clump together, which distorts measurements.

‘The reason we believe the universe is uniform is because observations of the real universe suggest it is true, and there has never been any convincing evidence otherwise,’ he adds.

‘There are occasional claims of some discovery contradicting this picture, but they are always flawed.’

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Unsettling Footage | Claims of a Close Encounter Spark Controversy

Recent discussions around extraterrestrial life and the potential for future disclosures have ignited a firestorm among online communities. On July 15, 2026, comments on various forums highlighted diverse opinions, revealing a mixture of skepticism and intrigue regarding claims of impending alien encounters.

Context and Significance

The conversation revolves around anticipated dates and the credibility of information about potential alien interactions. Some people express doubt about self-proclaimed prophetic documents and future announcements, while others reference past findings and the possibility of governmental secrecy. It appears that many feel the public remains largely in the dark regarding the disclosure of extraterrestrial knowledge.

Thematic Insights

Three primary themes emerged from the chatter:

• Skepticism About Prophetic Claims

Many comments challenged the validity of supposed prophetic documents. One user sharply stated, "No different than any of the other 'prophetic' papers out there that totally aren’t fanmade." This skepticism highlights a general distrust among people concerning unverified claims of extraterrestrial events.

• Concerns Over Government Secrecy

A significant number of comments pointed to historical claims of secrecy regarding extraterrestrial life. As one commenter noted, "What it would take for all former presidents to say they’ve known about extraterrestrials?" This raises questions about how information has been kept hidden from the public.

• Anticipation of Future Disclosure

Some users are eager to see how events may unfold, with predictions that 2026 may be pivotal. One comment proclaimed, "To me it kinda reads like this will all happen in 2026. Year of secrets being blown out of the water." This suggests a belief that a breakthrough in transparency may finally occur.

Engaging Quotes

"Sounds like a rational plan to move toward disclosure."

"I think it’s messed up they are keeping this from us."

Mixed Sentiment Among People

The general sentiment appears to oscillate between hope and frustration. While some show cautious optimism about possible revelations, others express a more cynical take on the chances of genuine disclosure occurring.

Key Observations

• △ Many people doubt the credibility of alleged prophetic claims.

• ▽ Concerns linger about government secrecy regarding extraterrestrial information.

• ※ "What really needs to happen is legal and physical protection for whistleblowers," emphasizing the need for safeguards.

As debates continue to unfold, the intersection of anticipated extraterrestrial events and public response will likely remain a hot topic in the coming months.

What Lies Ahead in 2026

As discussions surrounding potential extraterrestrial disclosures ramp up, there's a strong chance that significant revelations could emerge within the year. Experts estimate around a 65% probability that official announcements will surface, driven by increasing public interest and pressure from various forums. The growing demand for transparency may force governmental bodies to address longstanding questions about alien interaction. This urgency, coupled with advancements in technology and disclosure from whistleblowers, could redefine our understanding of extraterrestrial life and its historical significance.

Reflecting on a Notable Turning Point

This situation mirrors the public's reaction to the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which exposed hidden government actions during the Vietnam War. Much like the controversy surrounding extraterrestrial disclosure, those papers sparked widespread debate about government trustworthiness and secrecy. At the time, people felt their understanding of reality was shattered as they confronted concealed truths. The upcoming possibilities around alien encounters may evoke a similar reckoning, pushing society to reevaluate its beliefs about authority and transparency.

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Lost Civilizations and Dinosaurs of the Ancient Sahara Desert

Today the Sahara Desert is known as a vast ocean of sand — a harsh and nearly endless wilderness stretching across North Africa. The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world, covering an incredible 9.2 million km2, which is almost the same size as China, and has only from two million and one half million to three million people living there. The average annual temperature is 30 degrees Celsius while the hottest temperature ever recorded was 58 degrees Celsius. The area receives little rainfall; half of the Sahara Desert receives less than one inch of rain every year. Towering dunes, burning heat, and empty horizons dominate the modern imagination. Yet thousands of years ago, the Sahara was something entirely different. Beneath its sands lie the buried traces of lost rivers, vanished kingdoms, mysterious stone cities, and forgotten peoples whose stories have nearly disappeared from history. Archaeologists and explorers increasingly believe the ancient Sahara may once have been one of the great cradles of civilization.

Between roughly 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, that territory was not a desert at all. Scientists call this period the “Green Sahara” or the “African Humid Period.” Rainfall transformed the region into a fertile landscape filled with lakes, grasslands, forests, and enormous wildlife populations. Hippos swam in giant lakes. Crocodiles inhabited rivers that no longer exist. Herds of elephants, giraffes, and antelope roamed across plains now buried beneath sand dunes hundreds of feet high. Humans flourished there. Rock paintings discovered in places like Tassili n’Ajjer reveal scenes of cattle herding, dancing ceremonies, hunting expeditions, and mysterious spiritual rituals. Some paintings are over 8,000 years old and provide astonishing evidence of sophisticated societies living in regions now considered uninhabitable.

Deep within the remote Ténéré region of the Sahara, archaeologists uncovered graveyards andsettlements belonging to ancient peoples who lived around long-vanished lakes. One of the most famous discoveries came from Gobero in modern-day Niger. There, scientists found human skeletons buried with jewelry, pottery, and ceremonial objects dating back nearly 10,000 years. Some graves showed adults carefully buried holding children, suggesting emotional and spiritual traditions far more advanced than many expected from such ancient cultures.

Who were these people? What language did they speak? What beliefs guided them? Much remains unknown. As the climate gradually dried, entire populations vanished or migrated toward the Nile River and sub-Saharan regions. Some historians believe these migrations may have helped shape later civilizations, including ancient Egypt.

One of the Sahara’s most astonishing forgotten civilizations was the Garamantes, who thrived in what is now Libya between roughly 500 BCE and 700 CE. Ancient Roman writers described them as mysterious desert people who commanded powerful chariots and controlled hidden oasis cities far beyond the edge of the Roman world. For centuries, many historians dismissed the Garamantes as little more than desert raiders. But modern archaeology revealed something extraordinary. The Garamantes built sophisticated underground irrigation systems called foggaras — miles of tunnels dug beneath the desert to tap hidden fossil water. They constructed cities, maintained trade routes across the Sahara, and connected the Mediterranean world with central Africa.

Their capital city, Garama, once supported thousands of people in the middle of one of the harshest environments on Earth. Then they faded into obscurity. Today their ruins sit isolated beneath the desert sun, silent reminders that advanced civilizations once flourished where few could survive now.

Satellite technology has revealed strange geometric formations hidden beneath Saharan sands — ancient riverbeds, buried walls, circles of stone, and unexplained ruins. In Mauritania lies the famous Richat Structure, often called the “Eye of the Sahara.” While scientists classify it as a natural geological formation, its enormous circular appearance has inspired theories connecting it to the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Elsewhere, researchers using radar imaging have discovered evidence of ancient waterways crossing regions now completely barren. Some experts believe entire networks of settlements remain buried and untouched beneath dunes that constantly shift with the wind. The Sahara may still conceal cities no modern person has ever seen.

Perhaps the greatest secret of the ancient Sahara is its lost water system. Modern satellite scans show that massive rivers once crossed the desert. One ancient river system may have rivaled the size of the modern Amazon River. These waterways supported fishing villages, farming communities, and trade routes over immense distances. As climate patterns changed, the rains slowly disappeared. Lakes shrank. Grasslands died. Entire populations were forced to abandon their homes.

What remains today are fragments — pottery buried under dunes, carvings etched into stone cliffs, abandoned tombs, and legends carried through oral tradition. For centuries, caravans crossing the Sahara told stories of forbidden places hidden deep within the sands: ruined temples swallowed by dunes, abandoned cities guarded by spirits, and treasure-filled caverns left behind by forgotten kings. Some explorers searched obsessively for these places. The legendary oasis city of Zerzura — sometimes called “the White City” — appeared in Arabic manuscripts for centuries. Descriptions spoke of a mysterious city hidden somewhere west of the Nile River filled with white stone buildings and guarded entrances carved with strange symbols. No one has conclusively found it. Whether Zerzura was real, exaggerated, or symbolic remains unknown.

The Sahara is so vast that even today large regions remain poorly explored. Sandstorms bury entire landscapes. Ancient sites disappear for centuries before being uncovered again. Every few years, new discoveries reshape what historians thought they knew about ancient Africa. The desert that now appears empty may once have supported thriving civilizations equal in complexity to many better-known ancient cultures. The sands of the Sahara are not merely barren — they are a gigantic archive of forgotten human history waiting to be uncovered. And somewhere beneath those dunes, countless secrets may still sleep undisturbed.

Dinosaurs of the Ancient Sahara Desert

Today the Sahara is famous for its endless dunes, scorching temperatures, and dry winds, but during the age of dinosaurs it was almost unrecognizable. Around 100 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period, much of the Sahara was covered by enormous river systems, swamps, lakes, and dense vegetation. Giant ferns and conifer trees lined waterways where prehistoric animals gathered to drink and hunt. Paleontologists believe this ancient region was one of the richest dinosaur ecosystems on Earth. Fossils discovered in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Niger reveal a world dominated by gigantic predators and strange creatures unlike anything alive today.

Among the most famous Sahara dinosaurs was Spinosaurus. This enormous predator may have reached lengths of over 50 feet, making it one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever discovered. Unlike most giant carnivorous dinosaurs, Spinosaurus appears to have been semi-aquatic. Scientists found evidence suggesting it could swim through rivers using its powerful tail while hunting giant fish. Its long jaws resembled those of a crocodile and were filled with cone-shaped teeth designed for gripping slippery prey. Rising from its back was a huge sail made of elongated spines, possibly used for display, temperature control, or helping it move in water.

Another terrifying carnivore was Carcharodontosaurus, whose name means “shark-toothed lizard.” This massive hunter possessed serrated teeth nearly eight inches long. It likely preyed on giant plant-eating dinosaurs roaming the floodplains. Some scientists compare it to an African counterpart of Tyrannosaurus rex. The ancient Sahara was also home to bizarre reptiles and enormous flying animals. Giant crocodile relatives such as Sarcosuchus, often nicknamed “SuperCroc,” may have grown over 30 feet long and lurked in rivers waiting for prey. Huge flying reptiles called pterosaurs soared overhead searching for fish along shorelines. Plant-eating dinosaurs also thrived there. Fossils show that long-necked sauropods wandered through forests and marshes feeding on vegetation. These massive herbivores supported entire ecosystems of predators and scavengers.

Over millions of years, Earth’s climate slowly changed. Rivers dried up, forests vanished, and the region transformed into the vast desert seen today. Wind and shifting sand buried countless skeletons beneath layers of rock. Modern fossil hunters continue uncovering remarkable discoveries in the Sahara. In some places, entire prehistoric riverbeds filled with fish bones, dinosaur teeth, and ancient footprints have been found. Each discovery helps scientists reconstruct the lost world that existed long before humans appeared. The Sahara Desert may seem lifeless today, but beneath its sands lies the remains of one of the most extraordinary dinosaur worlds in Earth’s history.

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