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Just finished Zero Disclosure by @PelleyDm, and I couldn’t put it down. If you’re into UFO/UAPs, you’ll recognize so much of the community, the personalities, and the debates woven into the story. It feels like a thriller written by someone who actually gets this subject. Highly recommended. 👽📖 #UFO #UAP #ZeroDisclosure

We’re excited to welcome acclaimed independent filmmaker Dean Alioto to Sound, Light & Frequency this week. Join us Sunday night for the YouTube premiere as we dive into UFOs, filmmaking, and the stories that blur the line between fiction and reality.

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I finally got my own personal copy of the first book I have ever edited! Lies Above: How the Pentagon Misled Congress and Cost America its Skies, is the THE definitive primer on the 80+ year UAP disinformation campaign. amazon.com/dp/B0H5QDFS4Z

"Anyone who leaked a [UFO] report...could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act...life in prison, or death." "Maybe we can reverse engineer this so we will have this incredible edge over the rest of the world." 🔥 Dr. Phil Had Me at The Bolender Memo 🔥 (Dr. Phil continued to kill it yesterday and this was better than the last one! Link to full video (21:52) is in the replies.) "Our government has been lying to us for more than 80 years. Ask yourself why? Why do they not want you to know this is going on?" (He starts out by showing that Google searches for "UFO" have allegedly nearly tripled since last Friday night, along with searches for UAP being up 400%. And "Dr. Phil UFO" is one of the fastest rising searches in the country. If all of that is true, it's a very good thing. Especially since he's been putting out some really good videos. He mentions the latest release (#4) of UFO/UAP files from the Pentagon last Friday.) "My team and I were granted early access, exclusive access to those documents before they went public." "Our government has been lying to us, by omission AND by intentional misdirection, for 79 years." "Look at these documents. You go back as far as 1947 where they have had clear information that there are objects not of this Earth, both technologically, metallurgically, performance-wise. But yet, that has been hidden from us. They've denied that, they've actually threatened people from talking about this. Threatened with careers, imprisonment, and some, with death, because they would consider it treason." (He backs it up with documents. See below.) Dr. Phil: "For 80 years, every time there was a legitimate UAP sighting and the U.S. government had a chance to get in there, they essentially told us, 'Nothing to see here. Move along.' To be clear, a UAP sighting is not proof of little green men or alien life. It means something happened, something was observed, something occurred for which we have no explanation. That's it. "Now, let's talk about that for a second. Things happen, and we don't have any explanation for it. We don't have technology that explains that. There's something that is observed in the sky, going at a speed, stopping, making a sharp turn, reversing direction, accelerating, changing altitudes, and we don't have anything on this Earth that can do that. That's what's called unexplained. "Now, do we know where it's from? How it does that? Well, if we did, it would be explained. But we don't. We go look at all of our secret weapons. We go look at what we know through intelligence, other countries have. And let me tell you, a lot of these (laughs) - they're not close calls. They are not close calls. And some of the things that have been observed, we damn sure didn't have anything like that in the 40s or the 50s or the 60s, and we still don't, now in 2020s. "But at the very same time, our government was telling us, 'Nothing to see here: weather balloon, reflection off of an airplane, just a weather anomaly.' And, the government was simultaneously threatening its own people with criminal penalties if they ever disclosed UAP information. "If somebody that was credible, that had seen this, spoke about it, they were threatened with all kinds of penalties. We were gaslighted. 'No big deal here. Probably weather balloons, misidentified aircraft.' And a jumpy public that watched, 'Close Encounters' one too many times, thinking, 'Look, what's really going on here?' "Behind the curtain, the government was spending generations of time and resources protecting this information. Was it happening? Yes, it was happening! Do we have proof of it happening? Yes, we have proof of it happening. And what I mean by that is we have this on radar. We have credible, military pilots reporting it. "We have aircraft that have guns, and when you open a gun and go live on a fighter, there's a camera that activates, so you have video of what the gun is shooting at. You have gun cameras. If they see one of these things in front of them, they open their weapons, in case they need them, and so it shoots video of what they're seeing. "Now let's talk about some of the proof. JANAP 146 - Joint Army, Navy, Air Force publication 146 - made it a criminal offense for military personnel and commercial airline pilots to discuss UFO sightings outside official channels. The penalty, 'up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.' "So, you might see some guy down on a lake, drinking beer, that talks about something he saw over the lake. Yeah, they don't mind that guy talking. But credible people? Trained observers with instrumentation? No. They say something, they're going to prison. "Well, that took effect upon receipt. No hearings, no debate. The regulation says, 'All persons aware of the contents or existence...are governed by...espionage laws.' So not just the pilot who filed a report under JANAP 146, anyone who leaked a report. Radio operators, airline staff, anyone in the chain could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. "You can see this yourself. Declassified copies are online today, including on the NSA's website. Now what is the Espionage Act? That's the same law used to prosecute spies. Section 793: Up to 10 years in federal prison for every violation. Section 794: If the information reaches a foreign power, life in prison, or death. "Imagine you're a TWA captain in 1955. You see something over the Pacific you just simply can't explain. You file your report like the regulation requires. And from that moment, talk to a newspaper, tell your own wife, puts you in the same legal category as a spy. "Ask yourself why. Why are they so interested in muzzling all this conversation? Why do they not want you to know this is going on? Why are you not entitled to know what's happening in the air around you? "Now, let's fast forward 20 years, 1971. Oliver Harry Turner was an Australian nuclear scientist and intelligence officer, head of the nuclear branch of Australia's Joint Intelligence Organization. He was asked to assess the American response to the growing UAP issue. "If you're thinking, what does an Australian know about U.S. military secrets? Well, the possibility of life beyond this planet is bigger than any one country. Australia and the rest of the world has a legitimate interest in what the U.S. knows. And Australia is one of our closest intelligence allies. What we now call Five Eyes. "The Five Eyes countries are the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These countries have shared their most sensitive intelligence with each other since World War II. When a senior, Five Eyes nuclear intelligence officer writes a report about what the United States knows, well, that's serious. "He was outside the American classification system. He had no career to lose. He pieced this together from official CIA, Air Force, Congressional, and Project Blue Book records. Now this report was written May 27, 1971. Original classification: Secret. Title: Scientific and Intelligence Aspects of the UFO Problem. Report declassified by the National Archives of Australia in 2023. "On June 9th of 2026, whistleblower David Crusch (Yes, he said Crusch) stood on Capitol Hill and told the public to read pages seven through sixteen." ~ David Grusch: "There is a declassified 1971 Australian, formally-classified, Secret assessment that a couple years ago was put in the Australian National Archives. I encourage people to read page seven through sixteen, and that was the nuclear branch chief of the Australian government discussing the U.S. cover-up and the involvement of the CIA back in the 70s. And that's actually a little-known document that is publicly available." ~ Dr. Phil: "Now here's the kicker: foreign intelligence describing an American cover-up is now referenced in the files that our government is just now releasing. And here are six key findings in the Turner report. "Number one, what Turner called the facade of ridicule. Turner documents that early Air Force intelligence concluded, 'Some of these objects, 'had flight characteristics' that could best be explained as having 'extraterrestrial origin.' (The actual language says: "The early analysis of UFO reports by USAF intelligence indicated that real phenomena were being reported which had flight characteristics so far in advance of U.S. aircraft that only as extra-terrestrial origin could be envisaged." ) Dr. Phil: "Instead of telling the public, the CIA and Air Force adopted a deliberate debunking policy. "Now let that sit with you for a minute. Instead of telling the public, the CIA and Air Force adopted a deliberate debunking policy. We've got to get these people believing this isn't real. We've got to debunk this. "January 1953, Turner's own words: 'By erecting a facade of ridicule, the U.S. hoped to allay public alarm, reduce the possibility of the Soviet taking advantage of UFO mass sightings...and act as a cover-up so the U.S. can develop vehicles that emulate UFO performances.' "What's the point? Well, the point is, they were thinking, 'All right, let's keep this secret,' like we're the only ones seeing this, 'and maybe we can reverse engineer this so we will have this incredible edge over the rest of the world.' "That's a great goal, I guess, if you can go from flying-prop planes or early jets to this incredible speed. If these are extraterrestrial, and the nearest galaxy is Andromeda, which it takes two and a half million years to get to, flying at the speed of light, we're pretty far from being able to do that. "Today, in 2026, can we move at the speed of light? No. If we could, it would take two and a half million years to get to the next galaxy. We can't move at the speed of light, even now in 2026. But that was the goal. They'll find one of these and reverse engineer it." (I don't know whether or not any black program has tech that can move at the speed of light and I doubt Dr. Phil knows, either. Someone should show him what Lacatski said about being able to reverse engineer some of this acquired (alleged non-human) tech but "not to its full extent.") Dr. Phil: "Finding number two. He then talks about Project Sign. This was the U.S. Air Force's first official UFO investigation set up in late 1947. Its analysts reportedly concluded that extraterrestrial origin was the best explanation. Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt Vandenberg rejected that conclusion, and copies of the report were ordered destroyed. Destroyed! "And per Turner, in February 1949, members of Project Sign, 'either volunteered to leave or were compelled to leave,' and they were replaced by people, 'willing to ridicule the concept of UFOs.' "Think about this! We have sightings by legitimate observers with scientific instrumentation, and the people who are doing the observing are voluntarily leaving or compelled to leave, and replaced by people willing to ridicule the concept of UFOs. "Finding number three, what I spoke about earlier: JANAP 146. Up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for discussing sightings outside official channels. And per the regulation's own text, Chapter One, Section 102, it covered not just military personnel, but U.S. and Canadian civilian and commercial pilots. "That's legal force over airline pilots, arguably the most credible witnesses in the sky! What jurisdiction they had over Canadian pilots, I have no idea, but they listed 'em. "Turner documents a meeting between military intelligence and airline pilots at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. At that meeting, pilots were, 'coerced' to keep their sightings out of public view and inside official channels. Am I overstating it to say that there's been a cover-up, that we're being lied to? "Finding number four. But they missed the retirees. JANAP 146 only covered active service. Once you retired, you could talk. And three very senior men did so between 1953 and 1960. Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first director of the CIA, Captain Edward Ruppelt, the man the Air Force put in charge of investigating UFOs, Major Dewey Fournet, the Pentagon's project officer on UFOs. Per Turner, all three publicly stated the U.S. government knew UFOs were extraterrestrial and was withholding the fact from the public! So when those three retired, they told the truth! "Finding five. The government then silenced retirees. Per Turner, the revised regulation JANAP 146e made UAP disclosure by retirees an offense under the Espionage Act. Then finding number six. 1969, 17 years, the Air Force ran a public-facing UFO investigation called Project Blue Book. If you wrote your congressman about a sighting, it went into the Blue Book. And in 1969, the Air Force shut down the Blue Book and told the country, 'We looked at more than 12,000 sightings. No problems. No national security threat. No need for the Blue Book.' "But a memo from General Carroll Bolender, the Air Force general, said the reason Blue Book showed no national security threats was because any national security threats were gag ordered under JANAP 146 and were quote, 'not part of the Blue Book system.' The serious reports never stopped; they just moved out of public view. "Now, I know that was a lot of information. You may need to listen back to that, but those are facts. Those are in the government's documents that have now been declassified! "If the government has known for decades that unidentified objects are flying through our skies, and therefore, we may not be alone in the Universe, then the greatest revelation in American history has also been the target of a huge cover-up. "One of the challenges of social media and TV news is taking something this complex and reducing it to sound bites. And you're getting bits and pieces from the media. That's why I invest so much time and energy giving you the real story. I don't want to tell you what you believe or don't believe, but I want to give you the information so you can make up your own mind. "This information is in the files, we just haven't had access to the files. And then when we get the files, we're given the files without any context. You see a radar screen and you see a blip, and then it moves. Well, what do you have to compare it to? Is it moving fast? Too fast? Unexplainably fast? Without any context, how are we supposed to interpret that? "Well, I'm digging in, I'm talking to experts, I'm finding out what the scale is. And what we're learning, is we don't have anything that'll move that fast. We don't have anything that'll turn that sharp. We don't have anything that will withstand those kind of G-forces."

Tomorrow, @AlchemyAmerican and @UAPGERB join me for lunch at The Flying Saucer Diner. (Today at 12pm et for members)

Was once introduced to her, or her equivalent, by two of her minders, who permitted us to hold a time-limited conversation in a private setting. Not long from now, I'll tell you all about it.

So if @VP Vance truly wants to know for sure if the US has or hasn’t recovered NHI craft and bodies, he and @POTUS have the authority to demand definitive answers from @DefenseIntel @DeptofWar @ENERGY @CIA @ODNIgov. Why doesn’t the Vice-President ask before he takes a position? It makes no sense to not just seek the formal briefing to resolve the Q once and for all.

In early May 1940, near the base of Boulder Mountain in Broadwater County, Montana, gold prospector Udo Wartena was working his remote mining claim. He had been diverting water from a nearby stream by moving boulders when he heard a persistent humming sound. Climbing to higher ground for a better view, he saw something extraordinary: a large metallic disc hovering silently just above a meadow. Roughly 30 meters (about 100 feet) across and 10–11 meters high, it resembled two large plates or soup bowls stacked rim-to-rim, one inverted over the other. Its surface had the color of stainless steel, though not highly polished. The craft hovered level despite the sloping terrain, showing no visible means of support and leaving no exhaust or obvious disturbance. As Wartena watched, a circular stairway unfolded from the underside of the disc. A man descended calmly and walked toward him. He appeared to be in his thirties—about Wartena’s own age—wearing a light gray one-piece overall, a matching circular cap, and soft slippers or moccasins. He extended his hand in greeting, apologized for their presence (explaining it was not their custom to be seen or to interrupt), and asked if they could take some water from the stream. Wartena, seeing no harm, agreed. The man signaled, and a hose or pipe extended from the craft to draw water. The visitor spoke English fluently but slowly and deliberately, as though carefully choosing each word. He then invited Wartena aboard. Curious and unafraid, Wartena accepted and followed him up the stairs. Inside, he entered a modest room roughly 12 by 16 feet with indirect lighting near the ceiling. The humming sound was barely noticeable once inside. There he met a second man, older, with snow-white hair, clear pale skin, and a calm, serene demeanor. Both men had white hair. When Wartena asked their ages, they replied that one was approximately 600 years old and the other over 900, measured in Earth time. They said they came from a distant planet, knew more than five hundred languages, and were continually learning. They spoke openly about their technology. Counter-rotating flywheels or rings in the craft’s outer rim generated its own gravitational field, allowing it to overcome the pull of Earth and other celestial bodies while remaining level. This system also produced an electromagnetic force. They described traveling by “skipping upon the light waves,” focusing on distant stars for energy that could be stored in batteries for emergency use. They explained that hydrogen extracted from water served as a primary power source—hence their request to take on water from the pure, algae-free stream. The two men said they sometimes moved among humans to gather information and offer help or instructions where needed, but they avoided interference, particularly in matters of religion. They offered Wartena a body scan similar to an X-ray to check for impurities and invited him to travel with them. He declined, feeling it would inconvenience too many people on Earth. They accepted his decision calmly, advised him to tell no one for the time being, but noted that in years to come he would be able to speak of the experience without fear. After roughly two hours, Wartena left the craft. As he walked away, he experienced temporary weakness in his limbs that made movement difficult for a short time. The disc departed, rising and disappearing from view. Wartena kept the experience completely private for decades—even from his wife—fearing ridicule. Near the end of his life he confided in two close friends and wrote detailed accounts. In 1980 he also sent a letter describing the event to U.S. Senator John Glenn. He passed away in December 1989 at age 86. Years later, Australian UFO researcher Warren Aston located Wartena’s writings and interviewed his confidants. Aston published the first public account of the case in the March 1998 issue of UFO Magazine, bringing the story to wider attention

The Minot AFB incident (August 24–25, 1966) is one of the strongest military UFO cases from the Project Blue Book era because it involves multiple independent military systems—not just eyewitnesses. Late at night, security personnel at Minot Air Force Base reported a bright object maneuvering near the base and near the missile fields. Air Force police observed the object visually. Some described it as changing colors and making movements they couldn’t readily explain. A B-52 bomber crew flying nearby also reported seeing an unusual light and attempted to intercept it. Their onboard radar reportedly acquired a target during parts of the encounter. Ground radar also tracked an unidentified return at times, though the radar data has been debated. The object was reported moving between areas associated with the base’s Minuteman ICBM facilities, adding to the case’s significance. I put the AF case file in ChatGPT for this rundown.

🔴 LIVESTREAM AMA — streaming LIVE right here on X — Saturday, July 18 @ 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT An experiencer-centric conversation with @WhitleyStrieber, Elizabeth Krohn & Dr. Jeffrey Kripal, hosted by Leslie Kean (@lesliekean). Questions are collected on Reddit — details 🧵👇

David Grusch: “As a Catholic, I actually have more questions than answers and I would like the Church to lead on this” New UFO documentary “Not of this World: Catholic Faith in the Age of Disclosure” investigates the intersection between Catholicism and the Phenomenon.

Brazilian Flight Controller confirming of a sudden and unauthorized landing of a USAF plane in Brazil, the day the "Varginha Incident" happened. : r/UFOs reddit.com/r/UFOs/comment…

I first met John Schuessler back in the 1990s. I volunteered for MUFON and was their emcee for about a decade for their international conference every year through the 2000s after first speaking for them as a teenager (Stanton Friedman always told me I held the record for the youngest speaker ever invited to speak and he held the record for the number of lectures. He loved that fact about us.). John was always a very kind, super-knowledgeable, and dedicated man who was very dedicated to the MUFON name, events, their members, and their founding vision. The field of UFOlogy has been losing some amazing voices, and people who have a wealth of knowledge. We may not always agree in our thoughts and views, but many are in this field and conversation for the same reason. Sadly, there aren't many that are taking their place as we lose more and more, and that is really concerning. John will be missed. Godspeed, John. I'm sure Kathy is waiting for you with open arms.

Looking forward to this one. Marine F-18 pilot turned commercial pilot has his worldview changed.

"It looks like the size of a 737. Like, it's big." A Marine veteran and airline pilot recounts the Houston encounter that ended his skepticism, and why he tells fellow pilots not to stay silent. New episode of the Safe Aerospace Podcast, today at 1pm ET: youtu.be/uH_rX01-EoE

You are right, Garry: the great game never stops, and we must play the hand we are dealt. I agree that carefully applied amnesty may be essential both to regaining momentum and to extending mercy to fellow citizens who were deceived, coerced, or drawn into wrongdoing they did not fully understand. The real world is messy, and it is far easier to condemn than to understand. I think we also agree that the limits of amnesty cannot be determined in the dark. Because the crimes of the cover-up have affected all Americans, transparency about what conduct is being forgiven, on what terms, and in exchange for what is essential. As you rightly point out, doing this properly requires understanding the motives at play, and that requires candor. Many of the challenges confronting our national-security enterprise are existential, including those gathered beneath the broad umbrella of UAP and NHI. Once their first- and second-order effects are brought into view, the public may better understand why otherwise “unthinkable” acts were undertaken. Some are defensible when genuinely necessary for national or species survival, others unpardonable when driven by self-interest, profiteering, or collusion.

Since the government began their UFO file releases, I've uploaded a thread to X each time, with every video they've put out in that batch. Here is a thread, of those threads, linking you to every video they have released thus far in their 4 drops:

This is absolutely awful news. Arguably the most historic publication that has dealt with the UFO topic for nearly 80 years. My brother @MarkedByTheSky worked there for years. It pains me to see this. Love you, Toby. @RDRNews

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