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Netflix’ ‘Top Secret UFO Projects’ Series Offers Condescending Psychobabble

August 11, 2021
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Article by Hayley Anderson August 4, 2021 (express.co.uk)

• Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified is a six part series on Netflix that debuted on August 3rd. The show features “The most recent information and proof exposing the most top-secret government projects that handled contact with and cover-ups of, extraterrestrial presence on Earth”, says the show synopsis. “Though claims of extraterrestrial encounters have long been dismissed, many believe the existence of UFOs is not just likely, but a certainty.”

• Each episode focuses on a different theory, the first being Project Blue Book. Another episode examines whether the US Army has physical evidence of an alien spacecraft. The series will show how sightings of alien life have been talked about by the governments in the UK, US and the former Soviet Union since the end of WWII.

• In the past decade, with the rise in the interest in extraterrestrial life, more conspiracy theories have also developed around climate change, the flat Earth, and the coronavirus pandemic. Psychotherapist and life coach Andre Radmall says that those who have been “let down by life” are more likely to hold on to such ideas. “The world is unstable,” says Radmall, “and so perhaps it is not surprising that some people look for unseen forces that might be pulling the strings behind the scenes. A kind of Wizard of Oz.”

• “These people hope there is a conspiracy, because at least then someone has a plan,” Radmall continues. “For them, a conspiracy theory can be a convenient hook upon which to hang their anxiety. Psychologically we all tend to want an explanation, a cause for our sense of unease and stress.” “[T]his crystallization of fears and anxieties into a conspiracy story can be both addictive, compelling and hard to give up.” Conspiracy theories “offer meaning and purpose in a world that often seems chaotic”.

• Senior lecturer in psychology at Northumbria University Dr. Daniel Jolley chimed in: “These (conspiracy) theories are entertaining…novel and attention-grabbing, which is enticing. They can make the everyday appear more exciting. What hidden worlds exist that the government is hiding? It turns every day into a sci-fi film.” “[E]xposure to conspiracy theories can change the way we think and behave. One conspiracy belief feeds into another – UFO cover-ups to deny the existence of climate change. Conspiracy beliefs merge because both assume a secret group is covering up information for their self-interest. A distrust is developed, where an overriding suspicion is asserted.”

• Netflix states: “Though claims of extraterrestrial encounters have long been dismissed, many believe the existence of UFOs is not just likely, but a certainty.” According to Dr Jolley, such theories could be detrimental to individuals and society as once they have formed, they are difficult to “debunk”.

• [Editor’s Note] This article reveals how mainstream mental health professionals and academia is still clinging to the deep state notion that UFO’s, extraterrestrials and the government’s cover up of them are merely empty conspiracy theories propagated by people who need to believe in them to make up for something lacking in their own lives. But in reality, these pseudo-intellectuals carrying on the propaganda set forth by the deep state without even realizing it. So the true conspiracy theory here is how all of the so-called experts and academics could become so brain-washed as to refuse to acknowledge what they can see with their own eyes and prove with just a minimum of open-minded research?

Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified is a docu-series that has been dropped on Netflix today,

Tuesday, August 3. The six-part series delves into various claims of people who have seen and been in contact with aliens as well as those who believe governments are misleading the general public. But what is it that makes people get so invested in such theories?
Why do people obsess over conspiracy theories?

The Netflix synopsis for the show says it will feature: “The most recent information and proof exposing the most top-secret government projects that handled contact with and cover-ups of, extraterrestrial presence on Earth.

“Though claims of extraterrestrial encounters have long been dismissed, many believe the existence of UFOs is not just likely, but a certainty.”

Each episode is going to focus on a different theory, the first being Project Blue Book which is

meant to be a record and analysis of UFO observations.

As well as this, there will be an instalment dedicated to the theory that the USA Army has physical evidence of an alien spacecraft.

Top Secret UFO Projects is also going to “prove” that sightings of alien life have been talked about by the governments in the UK, United States and the former Soviet Union since the end of the Second World War.

In the past decade, there has been a rise in the interest in Extraterrestrial life and so more conspiracy theories have developed.

They don’t just revolve around alien life either with many believed concerning climate change, the Earth being flat and most recently the coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking to Express.co.uk, psychotherapist and life coach Andre Radmall explained his views on those who live by such theories.

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Filmmaker Reuben Langdon says that the US Government is Using UFO Disclosure to Spread ‘Fear Porn’

August 6, 2021
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Article by Tara Reade July 23, 2021 (rt.com)

• Since former Navy pilots and civilians have come forward about the UFOs they’ve witnessed in the skies, and the way the military chose to conceal sightings, there has been a movement to compel the American government to release, under the Freedom of Information Act, further documentation relating to government and military projects and data involving UFOs.

J.J. Abrams’ ‘UFO’ Showtime Series Starts in August

August 3, 2021
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Article by Bernice V. Smith July 22, 2021 (theubj.com)

• J.J. Abrams (director of Star Wars and Star Trek movies among many others) and Mark Monroe have produced a UFO documentary series that promises to dig into the reality behind the extraterrestrial phenomena while peeling back layers of government interference.

Elizondo Says Pentagon Has ‘Compelling’ 23 Minute Video of ‘Multiple’ UFO Craft

August 1, 2021
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Article by Henry Holloway July 21, 2021 (the-sun.com)

• Lue Elizondo (pictured above), former intelligence officer and head of the Pentagon UFO program until 2017, did the podcast talk show rounds on Witness Citizen UAP with Sean Raasch and Fade to Black with Jimmy Church, (see videos below)

Russell Brand Discusses Extraterrestrial Visitors with Jeremy Corbell

July 30, 2021
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Article by Halina Watts and Lottie O’Neill July 18. 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• The British comedian and sage, Russell Brand (pictured above) recently got together with UFO guru and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell to discuss the high-profile leaks of “encounters” between UFOs and the US military

‘The Alien Report’ Film Shows ‘Point of View’ of an Abductee

July 29, 2021
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Article by GetNews July 15, 2021 (digitaljournal.com)

• While NASA’s Rover collects dust particles on Mars in search of microbial life, Earth’s skies are abuzz with ‘tic-tac’ UFOs that are outmaneuvering the most advanced military super-jets, then disappearing at warp speeds without sonic booms.
Yet, the Pentagon refuses to walk down the ‘hallways of surmise’

Uri Geller Claims to Have Seen Aliens in the USA

July 19, 2021
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Article by Aaron Reich July 4, 2021 (jpost.com)

• Regular ExoNews readers will recall an article last month on the spoon-bending Israeli celebrity of psychokinesis Uri Geller (pictured above) claiming to use his powers to assist Scotland to beat England in the recent football (soccer) championships; being a distant cousin of Sigmund Freud; serving as a paratrooper in the Israeli army and being wounded in the 1967 ‘Six Day War’; and working as a male model. Declassified documents also revealed that Geller worked with the CIA in 1973 on the Stargate Program, and that he claims to have worked with both the FBI and CIA to destroy KGB computer files, track serial killers and influence Russia to sign a nuclear treaty. (see previous ExoArticle here)

• It turns out that Geller went on this summer to help England beat Germany with his supernatural powers and having predicted England’s victory against Ukraine in the quarterfinals. He helped Boris Johnson get elected, and even help dislodge the Ever Given container ship from the Suez Canal.

• It is worth repeating that when Geller was five years old, he saw a sphere of light floating in the sky, which he says an Israeli Air Force officer corroborated. After his tour of duty with the army, Geller was invited to parties to demonstrate his telekinetic powers and even read the Prime Minister Golda Meir’s mind.

• Less well-known are his claim of working with NASA. Geller met and befriended NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell who landed on the moon in 1971 as part of the Apollo 14 mission. Mitchell introduced him to Wernher von Braun, the ex-Nazi aerospace engineer. “I was hesitant to meet with him at first,” says Geller. “I mean, how could I? A Jewish Israeli who had family murdered in the Holocaust? But eventually, my curiosity overcame my emotions.”

• Geller and his best friend, Shipi Shtrang traveled to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland where they met with Mitchell, von Braun and others. At first, von Braun didn’t believe in Geller’s special powers. Von Braun challenged Geller to crush Von Braun’s wedding ring as von Braun held in in his fist. “And I did – completely,” says Geller. The von Braun gave Geller a piece of metal from his safe. “It was breathing, three-dimensional and a color I had never seen before, but it was metal,” Geller recounted. “I put my hand on it, and I realized right away that it wasn’t from this planet. Von Braun said I was right – and that it was from a crashed UFO.”

• Geller never learned where the UFO was from, though he suspected that it came from Area 51, a US Air Force facility in Nevada. Von Braun took him to an unmarked building at the Maryland site and led him down three flights of stairs. After putting on protective lab equipment they went inside a special refrigerated room. “I can’t tell you what I saw there,” says Geller, “but use your imagination. What could they have been refrigerating?”

• Geller maintains that a select group of powerful people, including former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump have far more knowledge of aliens than they are letting on. “I’ve known Bibi (Netanyahu) for 50 years, since he was [in Special Forces],” Geller says. Netanyahu once famously recounted an example of Geller’s power – how he bent the spoons on every table in a restaurant when they went out to eat.

• Another person who placed a lot of stock in Geller’s claims was Israel’s fourth president, Ephraim Katzir, a Harvard biophysicist and helped found the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Katzir compiled a public dossier on the Israeli mystic, complete with analyses and newspaper clippings. The CIA had a much larger file, which Geller later obtained and is on display in his Jaffa museum.

• Geller says his whole career has been people asking him to do things. These opportunities always came to him – and he capitalized on it. “I’m a natural-born showman and PR man. I have no managers or spokespeople. I know how to go with the flow and appeal to tabloids and government and scientists,” Geller explained. With a career spanning five decades and feats famous throughout the world, no one can deny that Uri Geller never fails to stay relevant. “Oscar Wilde said it best,” Geller said, quoting a line from The Picture of Dorian Grey: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

With a career spanning more than 50 years, Israeli mystic Uri Geller has seen almost everything,

from famous figures to historic events. And, according to him, that even includes aliens and Nazis.

Geller has been in the headlines recently for his role in helping England win at soccer in the Euro 2020 games, having given a detailed interview to The Jewish Telegraph newspaper about helping England beat Germany with his supernatural powers and having predicted England’s victory against Ukraine in the quarterfinals.

He claims to have done everything from move spoons to help Boris Johnson get elected – and even help dislodge the Ever Given container ship from the Suez Canal. But his powers also may have given him a close encounter of the third kind.

Geller’s experience with the supernatural dates back to his life as a young child in Tel Aviv.

“I was around five when I saw a sphere of light floating over Rothschild Boulevard,” he told The Jerusalem Post. “An [Israel] Air Force officer actually corroborated the story years later.”

This was not the last time Geller encountered something he claimed was from another world.

Years later, he would serve as a paratrooper in the IDF. After fighting in the Six Day War and getting wounded on French Hill during the battle for Jerusalem, Geller’s next career was as a male model. But after impressing the photographers by showing his abilities bending spoons, he soon got invited to parties.

“People wanted to show what I could do to their friends,” he explained. “Over time, the house

parties became more prestigious, even including generals. And then, I went to one when Golda Meir was there.”

Geller showed off his abilities to the then-prime minister, having her draw something in the bathroom. Despite Meir claiming nobody could read her mind, he made the exact same drawing.

“The next day, Meir was on the radio and she was asked what she thought of the future,” he recounted. “She said, ‘Don’t ask me, ask Uri Geller.’ And from there, everything started.”

From there, Geller’s popularity skyrocketed, including his famous period of being studied by US intelligence in the early 1970s, when they concluded that he had “demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner,” as was noted in declassified CIA documents and was the focus of scientific studies.

This and his professed career are widely known and have been the subject of many books and documentaries, both supportive and those claiming to have debunked his feats.

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Actor Will Smith’s UFO Encounter

July 18, 2021
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Article by Lauren Weiler July 4, 2021 (cheatsheet.com)

• In 1997, as the actor Will Smith was on his promotional tour for the movies ‘Men In Black’ and ‘Independence Day’, he appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Smith shared with Leno one particular experience he had with a UFO.

• “There was one night … it was on a dark, dark road, going to Vegas, or something like that. It’s me and a friend of mine, and I’m driving.” He recalled that a UFO came down from above quickly in front of his car and immediately sped off. About a minute later, he leaned over to his friend and asked, “Did you see that? His friend said, “nope”. “I said, good, me neither. And we just never talked about it.”

• “It was just quick enough, just fast enough, that you don’t really remember what it was,” said Smith. “I was scared. Actually, I’m really scared now, because if I keep doing all these alien movies, it’s like, they’re gonna think I know something.”

**Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in ‘Men In Black’**

Fans of Will Smith know one of the most infamous movies he ever starred in,

Independence Day. The 1996 classic features an all-star cast with Smith as Captain Steven Hiller. And after the film released, Smith shared his own alleged UFO encounter during a late-night TV show. Here’s what he said about seeing the indescribable.

Smith has had a ton of success in his acting career since the late ’80s, but he actually got his start thanks to his music. At 16 years old, Smith formed DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince with his friend Jeff Townes. This initially launched Smith to a high level of success in the music world, and he transitioned to acting in 1990 thanks to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Since the show first aired, it’s become a cult classic — and it certainly set up Smith for success in his future as a movie star.

So, was Independence Day the first movie Smith acted in? It wasn’t his first, as he starred in Six Degrees of Separation in 1993, but it was certainly notable. And it further helped him launch into superstardom. The 1996 alien film featured Smith defending the world against an alien attack. He had other stars, like Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, and Judd Hirsch acting alongside him. But it’s Smith comic relief that set him apart from the rest.

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Filmmakers Continue Hunt for the Truth in New Documentary ‘On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky’

July 16, 2021
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Article by Jeff Spry June 3, 2021 (space.com)

• Not since the 1970s when author Erich von Daniken’s “Chariots of the Gods” topped book sales charts and Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” mined box office gold has there been such interest in ufology and the scientific realities of UFOs.

• A new documentary by the award-winning filmmakers at Small Town Monsters is shining further light on the subject matter with “On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky”. This latest project is a sequel to “On the Trail of UFOs” from 2020, an acclaimed series that took an intimate look at the current state of UFOs and our country’s constantly-shifting relationship with the culture. It became one of the most-viewed independent UFO documentary titles in history, pulling in nearly 10 million views on Amazon Prime alone. The new film, from 1091 Pictures, will be available to purchase or rent starting August 3rd on streaming platforms including iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu, and FandangoNOW. (see 2:21 minute trailer for “On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky” below)

• In this sequel, cryptid documentarian Seth Breedlove (“On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Journey”) and paranormal researcher Shannon LeGro (“Into The Fray”) continue their hunt for the truth behind the UFO enigma. “Dark Sky” explores the UFO/UAP topic from the point-of-view of LeGro, a well-known podcast host and bestselling author. It leans heavily on actual eyewitness accounts and connections between UFOs and energy sources.

• “This project excited us because we were able to look into reports from real people in real places that still connect what they’re seeing to what is being talked about in the mainstream media today,” Breedlove said. “Particularly, this idea of why these objects or lights in the sky might actually be here on Earth and how they might be closer connected to us than we think.”

America is currently in the throes of UFO mania these days, especially with the

Pentagon’s recent inconclusive report to Congress on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) recently emerging after Navy footage showed strange objects buzzing over the ocean at hypersonic speeds.

Not since the 1970s when author Erich von Daniken’s “Chariots of the Gods” topped book sales charts and Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” mined box office gold has there been such interest in ufology and getting to the scientific realities of uncanny sightings.

Now a new documentary by the award-winning filmmakers at Small Town Monsters is shining further light on the subject matter with “On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky” and Space.com has an exclusive first look at the official full trailer.

This latest project is a sequel to “On the Trail of UFOs” from 2020, their acclaimed series that took an intimate look at the current state of unidentified flying objects and our country’s constantly-shifting relationship with the culture. It became one of the most-viewed independent UFO documentary titles in history, pulling in nearly 10 million views on Amazon Prime alone.

Here, cryptid documentarian Seth Breedlove (“On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Journey”) and paranormal researcher Shannon LeGro (“Into The Fray”) continue their hunt for the truth behind the enigma of unidentified flying objects in this newest Small Town Monsters release.

“Dark Sky” explores the UFO and UAP topic from the point-of-view of LeGro, a well-known podcast host and bestselling author, and leans more heavily on actual eyewitness accounts than typical alien fare by focusing on connections between Unidentified Objects and energy sources.

2:21 minute trailer for “On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky” documentary (‘Small Town Monsters’ YouTube)

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Netflix’ New Series About UFOs

July 15, 2021
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Article by David Hookstead July 03, 2021 (dailycaller.com)

• Netflix’s new series “Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified” is an “original factual television series featuring the most recent information and proof exposing the most top-secret government projects that handled contacts with and cover-ups of, extraterrestrial presence on Earth”. (see 1:43 minute trailer below)

• UFOs are all over the news these days. They’re incredibly popular and that’s not going to change in the near future. In fact, the government’s report on UFOs admitted that there have been several sightings with no known explanation. If that doesn’t make you interested, nothing will.

Netflix’s new series “Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified” looks like it’s going to be a fun time.

The plot of the series, according to the trailer’s description, is, “Original factual television series featuring the most recent information and proof exposing the most top-secret government projects that handled contacts with and cover-ups of, extraterrestrial presence on Earth.”

You can watch the trailer below. It looks pretty fascinating.

As everyone knows, UFOs are all over the news these days. They’re incredibly popular, and I don’t think that’s going to change at any point in the near future.

I mean, why wouldn’t people be talking about it? The government’s report on UFOs admitted that there have been several sightings with no known explanation.

If that doesn’t make you interested, I don’t know what ever will.

1:43 minute trailer for Netflix’s “Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified” (‘Netflix’ YouTube)

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Roswell Festival-Goers Don’t Buy the Government’s UFO Report

July 10, 2021
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Article by Ben Wolfgang July 2, 2021 (washingtontimes.com)

• A record crowd of UFO enthusiasts came to Roswell, New Mexico over the Fourth of July weekend for the annual Roswell UFO Festival, where thousands converge on the small town to partake of the alien-themed concerts, games, outdoor movie showings, yoga, and a host of other events.

• This year’s festival had a special intrigue as the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence just released an unclassified UAP Task Force report that investigated 144 military encounters with unidentified craft and could only explain one as a deflating balloon. The study claimed that while UFOs involve “breakthrough technologies” that could come from the Chinese, the Russians, or even extraterrestrials, they are almost certainly a national security threat to the U.S.

• For Roswell festival-goers and professional researchers alike, that explanation is absurd. What the people really want to know is how much information the government is withholding from the American people. The typical Roswell festival-goer can handle the truth. Carla Smith, 33, her best friend, Liz Keneski, 34, came from Austin, Texas. “People are open to it,” says Smith, “which is the first step to anything, learning more about it, being open to it,” Smith is even open to the idea that some extraterrestrials can travel via consciousness, not through the physical domain. Such theories are no longer laughed off. “Now it’s cool to believe in it.”

• Debra Tucker, 52, and her mother Joyce Rowell, 75, traveled to Roswell from Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Taking a break from an alien-themed coffeehouse scavenger hunt, Rowell asked: “Why don’t they (the government) tell us the truth?” Tucker said she is open-minded to all possibilities, including that at least some UFO sightings could be connected to extraterrestrial life. “I definitely think it could be true,” she said. “I haven’t ever seen one but I think it’s definitely possible. There’s so much out there we don’t know about.”

• A guest speaker at the International UFO Museum and Research Center, UFO expert Kathleen Marden took exception to the government’s assertion that UFOs could be Chinese or Russian technology. “These objects can hover at 80,000 feet for hours on end. We can’t do that. They can drop in a couple of seconds to 20,000 feet and hover there, and then they can descend to 50 feet above the churn of the ocean and bounce back and forth like a ping pong ball. We can’t do that. They have aerodynamic capabilities that, as far as we know, no one on this planet can replicate,” Marden told The Washington Times. “If people want to explain that away as Russia or China, then why haven’t they invaded? Why haven’t they decided to rule the world?”

ROSWELL, New Mexico — The federal government’s recent landmark UFO study failed to offer the clear answers many hoped for.

In fact, Joyce Rowell was left with the same question she’s always had.

“Why don’t they tell us the truth?” Ms. Rowell, 75, said Friday as she and her daughter, Debra Tucker, searched for the next clue on an alien-themed scavenger hunt inside a cozy coffeehouse in downtown Roswell.

Ms. Rowell and Ms. Tucker, 52, traveled here from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, for the city’s annual UFO Festival, which has drawn a record crowd this year amid skyrocketing public interest in the subject and the release last week of the government’s widely anticipated unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) report.

Inside Roswell’s Stellar Coffee Co. — which boasts the “Spock Special,” “Martian Sunrise” and “Alien Soda” among its menu offerings — Ms. Tucker said she remains open-minded to all possibilities, including that at least some UFO sightings could be connected to extraterrestrial life.

“I definitely think it could be true,” she said. “I haven’t ever seen one but I think it’s definitely possible. There’s so much out there we don’t know about.”

Ms. Tucker and Ms. Rowell are among the thousands who came to Roswell this weekend for the seemingly endless agenda of alien-themed concerts, games, outdoor movie showings, yoga, and a host of other events. But beneath the family-friendly atmosphere are serious questions about just how much information the government is withholding from the American people.

The recent UAP report, released by the Pentagon and Office of the Director of National Intelligence, examined 144 military encounters with unidentified craft and could only explain one, which was believed to be a deflating balloon.

UFOs, the study said, could represent a major national security threat to the U.S. and may involve so-called “breakthrough technologies” that cannot be explained using today’s scientific knowledge.

While the document didn’t rule out extraterrestrials, it also raised the possibility that the craft could be high-tech Chinese or Russian vehicles or weapons. For Roswell festival-goers and professional researchers alike, that explanation is absurd.

“These objects can hover at 80,000 feet for hours on end. We can’t do that. They can drop in a couple of seconds to 20,000 feet and hover there, and then they can descend to 50 feet above the churn of the ocean and bounce back and forth like a ping pong ball. We can’t do that,” said author, researcher and social scientist Kathleen Marden, one of the UFO experts speaking this weekend at the city’s International UFO Museum and Research Center.

1:40 minute video on the Roswell UFO Festival 2021 (‘KRQE’ YouTube)

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Tic Tac Navy Pilot Alex Dietrich Wants to ‘Normalize’ UFOs

July 3, 2021
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Article from Reuters June 25, 2021 (nypost.com)

• In November 2004, during a routine training mission with the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier off the Southern California coast, Navy pilots David Fravor and Alex Dietrich were asked by another warship to investigate radar contacts in the area moving in an inexplicable fashion. The two pilots first noticed a “churning” of the ocean surface before seeing a smooth, white oblong object resembling a large ‘Tic Tac’ breath mint flying at high speed over the water. When Fravor turned to “engage with” the object, “it appeared to respond in a way that we didn’t recognize” because it seemed to lack “any visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion,” Dietrich recalled.

• Now, with the release of the Senate UAP Task Force “Intelligence Assessment” Report and a CBS “60 minutes” interview, Dietrich has found herself at the center of a storm of UFO disclosure. “I don’t consider myself a whistle blower … I don’t identify as a UFO person,” the retired Navy Lieutenant Commander told Reuters. Since agreeing to enter the public spotlight, Dietrich has addressed dozens of video calls from journalists asking about what she saw in 2004. Her answer remains the same, as it has for the past 17 years. “We don’t know what it was, but it could have been a natural phenomenon in human activity. But the point was that it was weird and we couldn’t recognize it.”

• Dietrich said she wants to reduce the stigma attached to reporting UFO sightings and hopes more people can speak up without fear of ridicule. “Folks might be concerned about their careers or their church or something like that. They don’t want to be the kooky UFO person, so I guess I’m trying to normalize it by talking about it,” she said.

• While the UAP Task Force report covers more than 120 documented cases of enigmatic objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technologies, Dietrich said she has no opinion on the report and was not privy to its contents. She would like to hear more from pilots who have had similar UFO sightings, however. “There’s a common humanity, I guess, of being a little bit shocked, a little bit delighted, a little bit nervous, confused, all of that. And so, recognizing that in another human, that can be comforting in a way,” she said. “I hope I’m not the UFO, Tic Tac person for the rest of my life. This is not what I envisioned for myself.”

WASHINGTON, June 24 – Retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Dietrich

has found herself in the glare of media attention ahead of a highly anticipated government report on UFOs, a subject she says she has little interest in, despite actually encountering one on the job.

“I don’t consider myself a whistle blower … I don’t identify as a UFO person,” the former fighter pilot told Reuters in a Zoom interview, days before the report, expected to feature her own experience and dozens of others like it, was due for presentation to Congress.

During a routine training mission with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the Southern California coast in November 2004, Dietrich and her then-commanding officer, fellow pilot David Fravor,

were asked by another warship to investigate radar contacts in the area moving in an inexplicable fashion.

She recounted they first noticed an unusual “churning” of the ocean surface before seeing what she and Fravor have described as a smooth, white oblong object resembling a large Tic Tac breath mint flying at high speed over the water.

When Fravor in his jet turned to “engage with” the object, “it appeared to respond in a way that we didn’t recognize” because it seemed to lack “any visible flight control surfaces or means of propulsion,” Dietrich recalled.

Footage of what Dietrich and Fravor witnessed that day, now popularly known as the Tic Tac incident, will likely be included in the upcoming report to Congress, along with two other declassified videos taken by US Navy fighter jets in 2015 in similar encounters with what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena or UAP.

The US Navy has previously confirmed the videos as authentic.

Dietrich, now a mother of three, has discussed her experience in a recent joint appearance with Fravor on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” and has since addressed dozens of video calls from other journalists asking to know more about what she saw in 2004.

Her answer remains the same, as it has for the past 17 years.

“We don’t know what it was, but it could have been a natural phenomenon in human activity. But the point was that it was weird and we couldn’t recognize it,” Dietrich said, speaking from a Colorado hotel room she was sharing with her children and two dogs.

Juggling media queries amid a cross-country family move is exhausting, but Dietrich said she wants to reduce the stigma attached to reporting UFO sightings and hopes more people can speak up without fear of ridicule.

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UFO Appears Behind Band During Online Music Livestream

June 27, 2021
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Article by Jaimie Kay June 13, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)

• Mexican singer Alain Gomez and his band ‘Famasloop’ were livestreaming an online concert when a UFO appeared in the background of the Mexico City apartment where Gomez was video streaming his performance. In the footage, a bright light is seen in the background through the window behind the singer as the band performs from other locations. It floats in the air for a second, flashes around, and then darts vertically out of view.

• The band said on social media: “We already suspected that our music could be linked to other galaxies!” The concert footage went viral with many claiming the object was indeed an alien spacecraft. Gomez, however, thought that it could have been a ‘meteorological phenomenon’. There happened to be a lightning storm taking place in Mexico City during the sighting. But Gomez insists that the footage is original and hasn’t been modified.

A so-called “UFO” appeared behind a pop band as they livestreamed an online concert.

Alain Gomez, singer and founding member of the electro-music band Famasloop, said they were presenting their new song “Balcon” when a mysterious moving light appeared.

The singer told news agency Newsflash that he was performing an online concert from an apartment in Mexico City when the “UFO” was supposedly spotted in the background.

In the footage, a bright light is seen in the background through the window behind the singer as the band performs from other locations.

It floats in the air for a second, flashes around, and then darts vertically out of view in a split second.

The band said on social media: “We are musicians, not meteorologists or astronomers, and we do not want to lose focus… but we cannot stop saying ‘if we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space’,” quoting famous astronomer Carl Sagan.

The band added jokingly: “We already suspected that our music could be linked to other galaxies!”

The concert footage went viral on social media with many claiming the object was indeed an alien spacecraft, however, Gomez had his own suggestion.

21 sec video clip of UFO in Mexico during Famasloop’s live stream (‘Zenger’ YouTube)

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Bill Clinton Thinks Aliens Could Be Real

June 20, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Adam Barnhardt June 8, 2021 (comicbook.com)

• On June 8th, former President Bill Clinton appeared alongside James Patterson on Live with Kelly and Ryan in support of their new book, The President’s Daughter. When the topic of conversation inevitably turned to the Senate UFO report due out this month, Clinton said, “Keep in mind there are billions of galaxies in an ever-expanding universe. I mean, you can’t even get your mind around the sheer number of things that are out there. No one knows, but I think the probability is that there is something you would call life somewhere else.”

• So Clinton flat-out suggested that aliens could exist. “The truth is, we’ve never proved one [ie: extraterrestrial UFO], but there are things flying around up there that we haven’t fully identified yet.”

• In Barack Obama’s recent appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, the former President wouldn’t confirm the government has possession of alien “specimens”, but he did confirm the existence of UFO records. “What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they move, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern. I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is, but I have nothing to report to you today.”

• “Well, when it comes to aliens, there are some things I can just can’t tell you on air,” Obama said. “The truth is that when I came into office, I asked. I was like, ‘All right, is there the lab somewhere where we’re keeping the alien specimens and spaceships?’ They did a little bit of research and the answer was ‘no.'”

By the end of the month, Congress expects a report from the United

States intelligence community on the significance of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), the government’s official verbiage for UFOs — Unidentified Flying Objects. Days after former President Barack Obama was candid about the scenario in one interview, one of his predecessors is being even more open about the situation. Tuesday morning, President Bill Clinton appeared alongside James Patterson on Live with Kelly and Ryan in support of their new book, The President’s Daughter.

It’s here Clinton flat-out suggested he believes aliens could exist. “The truth is, we’ve never proved one, but there are things flying around up there that we haven’t fully identified yet,” the politician said on the morning show. That’s when he quickly pivoted and told Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest to think of the vastness of the cosmos.

“Keep in mind there are billions of galaxies in an ever-expanding universe,” Clinton added. “I mean, you can’t even get your mind around the sheer number of things that are out there. No one knows, but I think the probability is that there is something you would call life somewhere else.”

In Obama’s appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Obama wouldn’t confirm the government has possession of alien “specimens.” He did, however, confirm the existence of UFO records.

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Ron Watkins Sets Up WikiLeaks-Style Alien Website

June 10, 2021
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Article by Ellie Abraham May 28, 2021 (indy100.com)

• Ron Watkins is credited with actively facilitating the rise of QAnon. He was the administrator on the QAnon 8chan forum, and was even suspected of being Q himself. Now Watkins is channeling his expertise into creating a WikiLeaks-like website called ‘AlienLeaks’. The idea is that people will have a place to anonymously send documents and information about extraterrestrial activity where it can be made public.

• Speaking on the podcast, Alien Agenda, Watkins said: “The AlienLeaks project is going to be an anonymous dropbox for anybody to send documents to. It’s inspired by WikiLeaks and the work Julian Assange did with government accountability. But instead of focusing on government accountability, the goal of AlienLeaks is to focus on extraterrestrial disclosure including topics related to alien technology, alien biology, communications with aliens.” Watkins added: “I’m sure there’s people around the world sitting on troves of documents.”

• “With humanity on the brink of alien disclosure, do you really trust the government to tell you the whole truth?” Watkins posted. He has also set up a Telegram channel associated with AlienLeaks, claiming: “The government is currently gearing up for some kind of soft alien disclosure. [This] will only be the tip of the iceberg. A brave scientist, researcher, or specialist may just step forward to leak documents that show us the full iceberg.”

A QAnon promoter in the US is setting up a WikiLeaks website all about aliens, called AlienLeaks.

Ron Watkins was reportedly a major force in pushing the QAnon conspiracy and is credited with actively facilitating the rise of it in the US. He was also accused of being the elusive Q character in a documentary series that aired earlier this year. He also used to be the administrator of the controversial forum 8chan which has known right-wing links.

Now, his interest in aliens has led him to set up a website made for sharing information about aliens.

Watkins wants people to send him documents and information about extraterrestrial activity so he can publicly leak it on his forthcoming website, AlienLeaks.

Speaking on an episode of the alien-based podcast, Alien Agenda, Watkins said: “The AlienLeaks project is going to be an anonymous dropbox for anybody to send documents to.

“It’s inspired by WikiLeaks and the work Julian Assange did with government accountability. But instead of focusing on government accountability, the goal of AlienLeaks is to focus on extraterrestrial disclosure including topics related to alien technology, alien biology, communications with aliens.

“This is all interesting stuff and I’m sure there’s people around the world sitting on troves of documents.”

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Marilyn Monroe’s Death Linked to UFOs and Aliens in New Book

June 10, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Emily Mack May 27, 2021 (rare.us)

• UFO and paranormal investigator Nick Redfern’s new book Diary of Secrets: UFO Conspiracies and the Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe draws from declassified CIA and FBI documents and investigations of a UFO crash to make the case that Marilyn Monroe’s “suicide” was actually a government assassination after Monroe was told about the existence of extraterrestrials and UFOs by President John F. Kennedy.

• On August 5, 1962, Monroe was discovered dead in her bed after overdosing on barbiturates at age 36. Allegedly having long-struggled with mental health issues and drug abuse, her death was ruled a ‘probable suicide’. With the murder of JFK only one year later, attention usually focuses on Monroe’s high-profile affair with Kennedy and not on her own death. But friends of Monroe have said that the late President likely discussed government secrets with his famous girlfriend regarding alien sightings and Area 51 – a top-secret desert base full of otherworldly materials.

• Newly released documents from the CIA and the FBI point to a clear preoccupation with Monroe. There are about 200 pages of declassified FBI files on Monroe specifically. Interestingly, these reports – overseen by J. Edgar Hoover – also detail Monroe’s romantic relationship with Robert Kennedy, complete with hush-hush meetings and hotel parties. Of course, Bobby Kennedy was eventually murdered as well. The star journalist and acquaintance of Monroe, Dorothy Kilgallen, also died of a barbiturates overdose in 1965 after interviewing Jack Ruby and others involved with the JFK assassination and Warren Commission.

• One of the declassified CIA documents is called “A Study of Assassination”, written around the time of Monroe’s death. Redfern writes: “One of the most fascinating parts of this document is a reference finding, if you need to kill someone, get them in a vulnerable situation, maybe ply them with alcohol and drugs, and make it look like a very tragic, sad suicide. And it almost mirrors the final hours of Marilyn herself. It’s very, very similar. It’s like looking in a mirror. And you read that it really is difficult not to believe that the documents and Marilyn’s death were part and parcel of one.”

• Considering the CIA’s apparent interest in unconventional assassination tactics, it’s entirely possible that Monroe was ‘helped’ toward her suicidal state. Speaking to George Knapp in an interview for Mystery Wire, Redfern pointed out that, “The big question is, was it a suicide or was it almost like an allowed suicide? That’s one of the key theories – the idea that she wasn’t sort of forcibly killed, but she was placed into death deliberately in the days or weeks prior to her death, that she was being deliberately pushed into sort of a mode of depression and anxiety to the point where she just could not stand this sort of psychological warfare anymore, and decided to kill herself.”

• Cold-hearted murders made to look like suicides and accidents. Classified government documents fallen into the wrong hands. Explosive diaries. Powerful people with dangerous agendas. Government people prowling around. Hollywood conspiracies. Frightened people with disturbing secrets to hide. Wild sex. Drugs. Crazy parties and flowing booze. And an amazing story of UFOs, aliens, Roswell and Area 51 at the very heart of it all. This epitomizes the life and death of a beautiful, but scarred icon – and one of the most famous and loved actors of the 20th century – Marilyn Monroe.

Since last year, the news has been dominated by UFO disclosures coming straight from our government. The navy has released multiple videos of surreal floating objects, former intelligence officials are speaking out, and even Barack Obama has some intriguing tidbits to share! It’s fascinating enough, but what if the secrecy also has a touch of Hollywood glamour? Investigator Nick Redfern’s new book Diary of Secrets: UFO Conspiracies and the Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe posits that the blonde bombshell might have known about extraterrestrial life… and paid the ultimate price for it.

Prolific author and noted conspiracy theorist Nick Redfern has written 60 books on topics like UFOs, monsters, and other paranormal phenomena. But his latest work connects that netherworld of cover-ups back to beloved actress Marilyn Monroe. Check out the Amazon

description below which hints at the high-class world of UFO secrecy. If that doesn’t sound like the perfect paperback, I don’t know what does.

Cold-hearted murders made to look like suicides and accidents. Classified government documents fallen into the wrong hands. Explosive diaries. Powerful people with dangerous agendas. Government people prowling around. Hollywood conspiracies.Frightened people with disturbing secrets to hide. Wild sex. Drugs. Crazy parties and flowing booze. At the very heart of it all, an amazing story of UFOs, aliens, Roswell, Area 51, and the life and death of a beautiful, but scarred, icon: none other than one of the most famous

and loved actors of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe was discovered dead, in her bed, on August 5, 1962, after overdosing on barbiturates. She was 36 years old. Countless theories concerning the demise of the beloved icon followed: that her

death was intentional, that she was naked, that she was murdered. In the end, Monroe’s premature death was ruled a probable suicide. She’d long struggled with mental health issues and drug abuse. In the next month, suicide rates doubled in Los Angeles.

But what if that self-destruction was staged? Could the takedown of Monroe have been a full-on assassination? When discussing the death of Monroe, the murder of President John F. Kennedy just one year later often goes unacknowledged despite the couple’s high-profile affair. Now Nick Redfern has looked into those connections on an investigation that’s led him to eerie FBI documents, and possibly, the uncovering of a UFO crash.

Redfern suggests that Monroe was silenced after learning about the existence of aliens through her relationship with JFK. And it’s a captivating theory. But where’s the evidence?

Friends of Monroe have said that the late President likely discussed serious government secrets with his famous girlfriend — namely regarding alien sightings and a top-secret desert base full of otherworldly materials: Area 51. And while that might sound like mad speculation, newly released documents from the CIA and the FBI point to a clear preoccupation with the sparkly celeb MM. On vault.fbi.gov, an official website for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there are about 200 pages of declassified FBI files on Monroe specifically. (Thanks FOIA!) Most interestingly, these reports — overseen by J. Edgar Hoover, detail Monroe’s likely relationship with Robert Kennedy, complete with hush-hush meetings and various hotel parties. Of course, Bobby Kennedy was eventually murdered too… just like his brother: Monroe’s other beau.

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UFO and Paranormal Museum Opens in Pine Bush, NY

June 9, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Jess May 27, 2021 (wpdh.com)

• The doors to the brand new Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum in the Town of Crawford, New York held its Grand Opening on June 4th. The museum is described as an ‘interactive experience’ where each of the exhibits will depict “a mysterious and inexplicable event reported in New York’s Hudson Valley”. Visitors to the museum can share stories and conversations about their own paranormal experiences. You can even experience what it is like to get ‘abducted’ by aliens (well, not for real). (see the museum website here)

• The Hudson Valley has become known as a hotspot for the paranormal. This is the region where The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman stories by Washington Irving were derived when, according to the legend, a Hessian soldier was decapitated by a cannon in 1776 around the time of Halloween and continued to ride – headless.

• Native Americans told stories of how what is today Bannerman Island in Dutchess County is possessed by evil spirits. Sailors believed that goblins controlled the winds and brought dangerous storms to the area. With miles and miles of dense woods and water sources in the region, there have even been numerous Bigfoot sightings and encounters in Hyde Park, Highland, Pawling, Pine Plains, and other surrounding areas of the Hudson Valley.

• The Hudson Valley is also known as ‘the Area 51’ of the East Coast which experienced “The Hudson Valley Wave” of UFO sightings in the Lower Hudson Valley area in the 80s.

Looking for something new and unique to do with the family this summer in the Hudson Valley? Look no further than the Town of Crawford. Pack up the car and get ready for an out-of-this-world experience.

For what feels like months now, we’ve been patiently waiting for the Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum to invade the Hudson Valley. Well, the time is now.

The Town of Crawford announced on their Facebook page that the Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum will open its doors on June 4th, 2021 for a special preview night. There is a limited quantity of preview night tickets, but general admission tickets for the museum go on sale on June 5th.

The UFO and Paranormal Museum is described as an interactive experience. Now, you’re not going to get abducted by aliens (well, we can’t guarantee that won’t happen…) but the museum’s website explains you will get a lifelike run through of what might happen:

During the interactive tours, you’ll have the opportunity to see, hear, and feel what so many have described as being the most unusual and defining moments of their lives.

Guided tours are available Tuesday through Sunday, where you will walk through several displays and exhibits. Each exhibit will be “depicting a mysterious and inexplicable event reported in New York’s Hudson Valley.”

Visitors of the Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum are share stories and have conversations about their own paranormal experiences.

You can visit The Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum, tourism center, and gift shop at 86 Main Street in Pine Bush. Tickets can be purchased online at the Pine Bush UFO and Paranormal Museum website.

7 Creepy, Paranormal Hot Spots in the Hudson Valley

Have you ever gotten a chill when walking by these “haunted” Hudson Valley locations? It was probably a ghost.

Sleepy Hollow – When you’re talking about haunted Hudson Valley locations, it always has to include Sleepy Hollow. We all know The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and the headless horseman stories. According to the legend, the New York Historical Society and History.Com, the story of the headless horseman is based on real events that involved a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannon in 1776 around the time of Halloween.

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Shaquille O’Neal Tells Jimmy Kimmel He Saw a UFO Twenty Years Ago

June 2, 2021
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Article by Aristos Georgiou May 19, 2021 (newsweek.com)

• On May 17th, basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal (pictured above) appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Kimmel brought up the subject of the CBS 60 Minutes segment on UFOs and asked a O’Neal for his take on the issue. “I totally believe in UFOs,” said O’Neal. Aside from joking that his Inside the NBA co-star Charles Barkley looked like an extraterrestrial, O’Neal told Kimmel about an incident that occurred in 1997.

• “I never told anybody this story,” O’Neal began. In 1997, he had been on a double date with three other people and the group were on their way home in Madera, California. “Right when we passed the fairground, I could swear I saw a flying saucer come down with all the lights and it was spinning… and then it took off,” he said. “Everything happened in less than five seconds, and we all looked at each other and was like… [looks shocked.]” “I know that it was a UFO, I don’t care what anybody says,” O’Neal said.

• But O’Neal did give hardcore UFO skeptics a path of denial. O’Neal once said on a podcast that he believed the Earth was flat. Later, O’Neal remarked about his flat Earth theory: “I’m joking, you idiots.” So was O’Neal serious or joking when he claimed to have seen a UFO? “[W]hen I’m being serious, you’ll know.”

Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal has told Jimmy Kimmel that he saw a UFO above California over two decades ago.

O’Neal made the comments on Monday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! during which the host discussed a “60 Minutes” report looking into the issue of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAPs.

Kimmel asked a O’Neal for his take on the issue. In response, the former basketball player said, “I totally believe in UFOs,” joking that the reason for this belief was that his Inside the NBA co-star Charles Barkley looked like an extraterrestrial.
“Look at his body—he’s definitely an alien,” O’Neal joked.

O’Neal then went on to tell Kimmel about an incident that purportedly occurred in 1997.

“You know what’s crazy, I never told anybody this story,” O’Neal said.

13:16 minute clip of Shaq discussing seeing a UFO (‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ YouTube)

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Patton Oswalt Tells a Story About His Dad’s Encounter with UFOs as A Military Pilot

June 1, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Mike Redmond May 18, 2021 (uproxx.com)

• On May 17th, the actor/comedian Patton Oswalt was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! To promote the season premiere of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.— a show about a massive flying head who’s also a super genius that shoots laser beams out of his face. With the sci fi nature of the stop-motion animated show, and the recent 60 Minutes segment on UFOs, Kimmel had to ask Oswalt his position on UFOs.

• Without hesitation, Oswalt opened about the phenomenon. “I’ve never personally seen a UFO or a cryptid (ie: an paranormal animal such as a Sasquach or Chupacabra), or experienced a time shift or anything like that, but I’m very, very open to that existing,” said Oswalt. “And I’m surrounded by friends and family who have seen and encountered UFOs.”

• Oswalt said that his father was a test pilot in the US Marines during the 1960s and 70s. His dad would always say that you could talk to any pilot back then, and they’d tell you that they regularly see all kinds of weird stuff in the sky. But no one reported it back then because they didn’t want to go into a “crank file” or be grounded for seeing things.

• Oswalt recalled an encounter that his dad had with a UFO. His dad was on a test flight when he spotted a number of “glowing balls of energy in round metal cages. The UFOs were tracking the Marine jets, performing turns that would be impossible for a human pilot because of the intense G-forces. Then they would ‘disappear’. When he landed, he told his base commander, ‘Hey, my squad saw…,’ and [the military officers there] asked, ‘Were they metal cages with, like, energy balls in them?’ And his father goes, ‘Yeah…’ [And they said to him], ‘do you want to report them?’ And he says, ‘No, I don’t.’ And his commander says, ‘Good, fine,’ and walked away.

Patton Oswalt stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to promote the upcoming season premiere of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., and of course, he couldn’t resist a chance to talk about UFOs when Kimmel mentioned the recent 60 Minutes segment that has everyone buzzing (and Marco Rubio getting dragged).

“Here’s what is frustrating for me,” Oswalt opened with. “I’ve never personally seen a UFO or a cryptid or experienced a time shift or anything like that, but I’m very, very open to that existing. And I’m surrounded by friends and family who have seen and encountered UFOs.”

One of those family members is Oswalt’s father who was a test pilot in the Marines during the ’60s and ’70s. According to Oswalt, his dad would always say that one could talk to any pilot back then, and they’d tell you they see all kinds of weird stuff up there. However, back then, no one reported it because they didn’t want to go into a “crank file” or be grounded for seeing things. Oswalt then recalled an encounter that his dad had with flying objects, and how his superiors responded: “So he said he was on a test flight, and he saw a bunch of objects. He said they look like glowing balls of energy in like these like round metal cages, and they were keep tracking with the jets. And they were doing these turns that you couldn’t do under those G-forces and would disappear. And when he came down and talked to his base commander and said, ‘Hey, my squad saw…,’ they were in a basement, and [the people there] went, ‘Were they metal cages with like energy balls in them?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah…’ [And they said], ‘do you want to report them?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I don’t.’ And his commander went, ‘Good, fine,’ and then like walked away.”

After that story, Oswalt got very animated and wanted to know if the recent task force will go all the way back to “Project Blue Book,” but then it was time for Kimmel to steer the discussion back to Hulu’s M.O.D.O.K. — a show about a massive flying head who’s also a super genius that shoots laser beams out of his face.

7:48 minute clip of Patten Oswalt on Jimmy Kimmel –
UFO story starts around 5:40 (‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ YouTube)

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Is the Media Taking UFO Sightings Seriously?

May 31, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Dani Di Placido May 17, 2021 (forbes.com)

• It wasn’t long ago that the biggest media platform a ufologist could hope for was The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. But now, with UFO footage and eyewitness accounts being discussed in mainstream outlets like the New Yorker, the NYTimes, and 60 Minutes, there has been a dramatic tonal shift in how the subject is being treated. It’s an exciting time to be a UFO enthusiast.

• The timing isn’t coincidental. UFO enthusiasts are eagerly anticipating a declassified report on UFOs by the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon is due to be handed over to the Senate Intelligence Committee in June.

• On a recent 60 Minutes episode, CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker delved into US government efforts to uncover the truth behind the UFO phenomenon, motivated by national security concerns. Whitaker interviewed Luis Elizondo, who ran a Pentagon UFO program called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) back in 2010. When asked if he believes that UFOs are real, Elizondo said, “The government has already stated for the record that they’re real. I’m not telling you that. The United States government is telling you that.”

• Elizondo is not saying that intelligent extraterrestrials have visited Earth. While according to astrobiologists the likelihood of extraterrestrial life is almost a certainty, there is no evidence that extraterrestrial life has visited Earth. Skeptic UFO investigator Mick West sees the unidentified flying blobs in those grainy videos taken by Navy pilots – in an era where most people carry HD cameras in our pockets – as mundane (tricks of photography or common objects such as balloons). With the frequency of UFO sightings, crystal-clear footage of a gleaming alien spacecraft should have emerged somewhere on the internet by now.

• Many of us ‘want to believe’, and there’s no reason not to keep an open mind. But we should heed the wise words of Carl Sagan, that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” And unless the Pentagon is going to provide extraordinary evidence in June, those extraordinary claims have little merit.

• [Editor’s Note] Anyone who is not convinced that extraterrestrial beings and their craft have frequented the Earth for millennia is trying very hard to ignore the multitude of evidence. Skeptics like Mick West will never be convinced, even when extraterrestrial beings land, get out of their craft, walk up to West and said, “Hello, we are from the Alpha Centauri star system. Nice to meet you.” These media trolls would rather abide by sort of foreign invasion scenario than to accept that we have benevolent extraterrestrial cousins in our galaxy who would like to see the Earth join their space-faring ranks.

While the best UFO photos have been sequestered by governments (see ExoArticle: “British Military Has UFO Videos and Must Release Them”), there are still many great photos of UFOs out there. Of course, skeptics will always deny their authenticity. The US government is only providing the grainy photos at this time because they want a maddingly slow drip of UFO disclosure. They want to dominate the narrative with the ‘threat’ that UFOs may pose to our national security. Mainstream writers of articles such as this one are more than happy to go along with a limited threat narrative disclosure. And when the deep state government follows-up this threat narrative with a false flag ‘alien invasion’, these writers will dutifully go along with that as well – because the mainstream media has become a propaganda tool of the deep state, not a reporter of facts and truth.

And let’s not forget that the “wise” Carl Sagan, who demanded “extraordinary evidence”, was himself a member of the pseudo-governmental UFO overlord group known as Majestic-12 whose function is to suppress and ridicule all evidence of UFOs.

“We have tackled many strange stories on 60 Minutes, but perhaps none like this,”

**‘tic tac’ UFO off of San Diego in 2004**

CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker said on Sunday night’s special, which investigated sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UAPs, commonly known as UFOs.

The special focused on publicly released footage of UFOs recorded by Navy pilots, interviewed eyewitnesses, and delved into U.S. government efforts to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon.

**‘transmedium’ (air/underwater) UFO off of San Diego in 2019**

Whitaker interviewed Luis Elizondo, who began running a Pentagon program called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) back in 2010, tasked with studying “the national security implications of unidentified aerial phenomena documented by U.S. service members.”

**the cognatively dissonant skeptic, Mick West**

When asked if he believes that UFOs are real, Elizondo stated: “I think we’re beyond that already. The government has already stated for the record that they’re real. I’m not telling you that. The United States government is telling you that.”

Elizondo, of course, is not saying that extraterrestrial life has visited Earth, but simply confirming the fact that there are regular sightings of unidentified objects in the sky, and that the U.S. government seeks an explanation, motivated by national security concerns.

Regardless, there has been a dramatic tonal shift in how the media discusses UFO footage and eyewitness accounts – it’s certainly an exciting time to be a UFO enthusiast. It wasn’t long ago that the biggest media platform a ufologist could hope for was The Joe Rogan Experience; now, the New Yorker, the NYTimes, and 60 Minutes have made efforts to seriously examine the phenomenon.

The timing isn’t coincidental – a declassified report from the directorate of national intelligence and the Pentagon is due to be handed over to the Senate Intelligence Committee in June, which UFO enthusiasts (along with everyone else) hope will shed some light on the mystery.

But perhaps the public shouldn’t get their hopes up – the likelihood of extraterrestrial life is, according to astrobiologists, almost a certainty – but there is no evidence that extraterrestrial life has visited Earth, or even has the ability (or motivation) to do so.

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Demi Lovato to Host UFO Investigation Television Series

May 28, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Joe Otterson May 11, 2021 (variety.com)

• NBCUniversal has announced that the Peacock channel has ordered four episodes of a show entitled: “Unidentified with Demi Lovato”, focusing on the UFO phenomenon. The unscripted series will feature the pop music superstar and actress along with her sister Dallas, and Lovato’s best friend and ‘UFO skeptic’ Matthew. The trio will attempt to uncover the truth about UFOs while consulting leading experts, investigating eyewitness encounters, uncovering secret government reports, and conducting tests at known UFO hot spots.

• Lovato will also serve as executive producer for ‘Unidentified’, along with producers SB Projects and GoodStory Entertainment. This is in addition to another show ordered by NBCUniversal entitled “Hungry,” in which Lovato will also star and executive produce. In the show, friends who belong to a food issues group help each other as they look for love, success and the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better.

• Lovato got her start in acting in the Disney Channel original film “Camp Rock” and its sequels, has appeared in multiple episodes of the “Will & Grace” revival, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series”, and “Glee”. She also starred in the docuseries “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil,” released earlier this year where she delved into her near-fatal drug overdose.

Demi Lovato will find out if the truth is out there in a new limited unscripted series about UFOs that has been ordered at Peacock.

In “Unidentified with Demi Lovato,” the music superstar and actress, her skeptical best friend Matthew, and her sister Dallas attempt to help uncover the truth about the UFO phenomena. While consulting with leading experts, the trio will investigate recent eyewitness encounters, uncover secret government reports, and conduct tests at known UFO hot spots.

Peacock has given the show a four-episode order. Lovato will executive produce in addition to starring. Scooter Braun, Scott Manson and Allison Kaye will executive produce for SB Projects. JD Roth, Adam Greener and Sara Hansemann will executive produce for GoodStory Entertainment. Andrew Nock also executive produces. The series is produced by GoodStory Entertainment in association with SB Projects.

“Unidentified” is the latest television project that Lovato has set up at NBCUniversal. It was announced in April that NBC had given out a pilot order to the comedy “Hungry,” in which Lovato will star and executive produce. In the show, friends who belong to a food issues group help each other as they look for love, success and the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better.

Lovato has multiple gold and platinum singles to her name, including the title track of her hit album “Tell Me You Love Me.” She got her start in acting in the Disney Channel original film “Camp Rock” and its sequels. She also appeared in multiple episodes of the “Will & Grace” revival as well as on shows like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “From Dusk Til Dawn: The Series,” and “Glee.”

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Ufologist Rudnyk Says ETs Are Not Ready to Make Contact With Humans

May 27, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article from Mystery Wire May 10, 2021 (wgno.com)

• Adrian Rudnyk has earned advanced degrees in music and philosophy, plays the violin professionally, and has researched the UFO phenomenon since the 1980s. He and other members of his family have even reported ‘close encounter’ experiences. In March, George Knapp called Rudnyk’s new book, The Assessment, “original and brilliant”.

• In his new book, Rudnyk analyzed the question: ‘why haven’t extraterrestrial civilizations announce their presence to us here on Earth?’ from a philosophical perspective. Would make sense for aliens to make direct contact with humanity? Rudnyk’s conclusion is that humans have made it abundantly clear that our civilization is not yet advanced enough to join a galactic community, and that an advanced species would have good reasons to avoid making direct contact with Earth humans, at least for now.

If extraterrestrials are real and are present on earth, why haven’t they landed on

the white house lawn or in front of the United Nations? Why haven’t they made an unequivocal demonstration as a way to announce their presence?

Even for the most committed UFO researchers don’t have a good answer for these questions. They believe in an alien presence and believe these alleged visitors have appeared in our skies for centuries, but the sightings are often brief and alleged interactions are deemed not credible by the scientific community.

Philosopher Adrian Rudnyk has looked at the E.T. question from a different perspective. Using philosophical methodologies, he has analyzed what assumptions we can make about extraterrestrial intelligence and has asked whether it would make sense for an alien civilization to make direct contact with humanity.

His conclusion is that an advanced species would have good reasons to avoid making direct contact, at least for now.

Rudnyk believes humans have made it abundantly clear that our civilization is not advanced enough to join a galactic community. The conclusions from his years-in-the-making thought experiment are carefully explained in a new publication called “The Assessment.”

Rudnyk earned advanced degrees in music and philosophy, played violin professionally for many years, and has been researching UFOs since the 1980s. He and other members of his family have reported close encounter experiences dating back several years.

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15% of Brits Think Aliens Will Dominate the Earth by 2040

April 1, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Cameron Frew March 23, 2021 (unilad.co.uk)

• Kicking off ‘UFO Week’, BLAZE pay television did a survey of 2,000 UK adults on matters concerning extraterrestrials and UFOs. According to the results, 15% of the Brits think the Earth may be ruled by a species from another world by 2040.

• Former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator Nick Pope called it ‘the single-most astounding figure’ in the study. Said Pope, “This is not just the latest probe on Mars finding microbial life, this is full on alien invasion – that’s big.”

• Philip Mantle, director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, said that contrary to sci fi movies and pop culture, he couldn’t find any information which would supporting an impending alien invasion. Mantle mused philosophically as to why another species would travel all that way to dominate our lowly planet. Or perhaps life on Earth evolved from ancient bacteria brought here from Mars via a meteorite, and the we humans are in fact the aliens from Mars dominating this planet.

• As such, Mantle believes that we would be better served looking at potential meteorite impacts on earth, such as the Tunguska meteor of 1908 in Siberia more than studying NASA’s database of Mars images. “It’s not if we’ll get struck again, it’s when,” says Mantle. “[I]t may be a long time coming, but that’s the kind of thing we should be looking for.”

Earth will be invaded and dominated by aliens in the next 20 years, according to 15%

of Brits.

Ahead of UFO Week kicking off today on BLAZE, the channel carried surveyed 2,000 UK adults on matters concerning extraterrestrials and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

There’s no evidence to suggest the White House will be blown up by aliens anytime soon, nor will we be visited by the shells like those in Arrival. However, come 2040, a large portion of Brits believe we may be ruled by a species from another world.

According to the results, 15% think aliens will dominate the Earth over the next 20 years. Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator called it ‘the single-most astounding figure’ in the study.

He told UNILAD: ‘This is not just the latest probe on Mars finding microbial life, this is full on alien invasion – that’s big.’

While accepting the rising interest in UFOs and the surrounding theories could be indebted to pop culture, Pope urged: ‘Let’s get beyond the idea that this is just sci-fi, let’s realise and acknowledge [UAP] for the serious defence issue that it is.’

This was echoed by Philip Mantle, director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association, who said: ‘It does reflect the interest in this thing in popular culture,’ with countless action sci-fi movies, whether it’s Alien, Life, Predator, Cloverfield, Edge of Tomorrow or even the Marvel Cinematic Universe and beyond. ‘There’s not very many nice ones like E.T. and things like that,’ he said.

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European Defense Industry Cracking Down on UFO and ET Discussion

March 13, 2021
ExoNews Editor

Article by Joe Martino March 1, 2021 (collective-evolution.com)

• There is now a rapidly building culture within governments of taking control of public narratives that are ‘controversial’. The European Commission’s Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS), announced that it will begin to crack down on online discussion relating to the ‘flat earth’, UFOs, and aliens, as they feel this is harmful disinformation. They intend on working within the EU Digital Services Act to put a censorship plan in place in the coming months. But who decides what is disinformation and what isn’t? How will the public even know what is being censored and what is not?

• There has been a veil of secrecy around the UFO subject for years. Governments deny what their own intelligence communities know to be real. When the US Navy released UFO videos a couple of years ago, people began to realize that a subject long ridiculed was in fact heavily studied by governments, even as authorities pretended nothing was there. How long might the government lie about other pieces of UFO/ET information before they admit it was true all along?

• What about evidence of ET bodies? We have credible whistleblowers from institutions who have stated unequivocally that government knows about different ET species and even has ET bodies in custody. Does the public trust them? Or are we too busy protecting our existing worldview to take an honest and unbiased look?

• It’s no secret that in recent years, many people have been losing trust in government and mainstream media due to a lack of transparency, ulterior agendas, and consistent lies. People have begun to look elsewhere for different perspectives. Independent media has gained a lot more influence when it comes to informing public perception. Those with a monopoly on information might not be too happy about this.

• The ‘flat earthers’ claim that the fact that the earth is flat is the biggest secret kept from humanity. YouTube channels popped up on the subject, documentaries were made, and even major NBA and pop culture influencers were on board. But it couldn’t be taken seriously, right? Is it possible that subjects like this are intentionally seeded out into the collective consciousness by intelligence agencies just to muddy the waters? Was it given so much algorithmic power on social media so that those manipulators of the narrative could point at it and say: “see, look what happens when people talk online, they believe crazy things.”

• This manipulation of the public conversation is exemplified by the ‘QAnon’ phenomenon. Was there a secret group of patriots working to inform the public that Trump and his team were poised to take down an evil cabal that ran the world? Leading up to the 2020 US election, mainstream media covered it constantly to insinuate that anyone who believed in Q was an unhinged, crazy, conspiracy theorist with sociopathic tendencies. Would it matter if there were actual evidence to support the controversial conversations people were having? It would appear no, it didn’t matter. The media culture has rendered all of these subjects as synonymous with extreme and unfounded views, and labeled as “crazy” anyone who doubted COVID and vaccines or believed in QAnon, UFOs, and aliens. This was extended to outright disavowing the Q movement and the election fraud narrative in order to prevent these sociopathic QAnons from shooting up Capitol Hill.

• QAnon has become a useful tool for widespread media censorship. But the fact is that some “conspiracies” are indeed real and the government does indeed lie to us. Still, other conspiracies are flat out false. This intentional ambiguity takes away from the legitimate information that needs to see the light of day. We have to be more discerning and critical in our thinking. If we aren’t careful as a culture, big tech and governments will work to shut down any inquiry into ‘fringe’ topics.

• Social media sites that have been labeled as ‘crazy QAnon people’ or ‘flat earthers’ are being shut down or demonetized en masse. It doesn’t matter that the subject is approached in a credible, evidence-based manner. They are guilty by association. Is it possible that powerful mainstream social engineers purposefully focus on extreme topics in order to bring down all of the other ‘uncontrollable’ conversations, such as UFOs, in the process? The extreme subjects act as a magnet to suck all ‘sound-alike’ conversations into the abyss of censorship. Should we be thinking more critically about which conspiracies are real and worth supporting and which are not, so that this mass cancel culture doesn’t cancel ALL of our conversation?

In a recent tweet from the European Commission’s Defense Industry and Space (DEFIS), they claimed they will begin to crack down on online discussion relating to Flat Earth, UFOs, and Aliens as they feel there is disinformation permeating all sectors of our society when it comes to these subjects. They intend on working with the EU Digital Services Act to put a plan in place in the coming months.

Who knows what their plan will look like when it’s ready, but it falls in line with a rapidly building culture within government of taking mass control of narratives that are controversial and important to the general public. In the process, government and mainstream media seem to be the only ones allowed to have a voice anyone can hear.

At first glance, the move by DEFIS might seem a useful tactic, after all there is disinformation being spread about all of these topics. But who decides what is disinformation and what isn’t? What if information is in fact real and suddenly that content is ‘censored’ in the wide net that is cast to stop this apparent problem? How will the public even know what is being censored and what is not? Will this push control over who can talk about and disseminate ‘facts’ about these topics to mainstream media and government only?

Before we might jump into the idea that my questions above may come from a paranoid mind, let’s look at the facts.

There has been a long held veil of secrecy around the UFO subject for years. Governments deny realities that their own intelligence communities know are real. With the recent US Navy UFO videos that were released a couple of years ago, people began to realize that a subject long ridiculed was in fact heavily studied by governments, even as they pretended as if nothing was there. This caused a huge resurgence in a fascinating topic that deeply touches the very worldviews that inspire how we design and live our lives.

In 2017 when we all saw the US Navy footage released, did it not suggest that perhaps the US government had known about this phenomenon for decades? How long might government lie about other pieces of information related to the UFO topic before they come out saying it was true all along? Like they did in 2019, confirming the Navy footage was authentic.

Let’s take a quick look at the next obvious question people ask when thinking about a UFO sighting: “Who is manning that craft? A human? An ET? Is it remote controlled?”

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