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Trump UFO advisors accuse private corporations of operating alien craft-retrieval programs

Avi Loeb, the leader of Trump's UAP Science Advisory Council, shockingly revealed on Congressman Eric Burlison's podcast "Fresh Freedom" that an executive of the $137 billion military contractor Lockheed Martin claimed the company operated a crashed-UFO retrieval program. "I had a [former] high level executive from Lockheed Martin visit my home and I asked him, â€Is there any truth to these claims?' And he said â€It's not wrong,'" Loeb revealed. Loeb claims retrieved tech would be enough to prove humans are not the only intelligent beings on Earth – and believes private corporations are ready to participate in the Trump administration's disclosure effort. "If such materials exist, we would love to analyze them. With just a gram of material, we will be able to determine if it originated outside the solar system," Loeb [said]. Former Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program member Hal Puthoff suggested on the same podcast that Lockheed was ready to transfer materials to AATIP between 2008 and 2012 – but that plan was killed by the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. Luis Elizondo, who had a leadership role in AATIP, similarly claimed in congressional testimony that a craft of unknown origin was being held in Lockheed labs and was set to be transferred to the Navy's Pax River Facility in Maryland. Burlison, on his tour of government facilities rumored to be housing UFOs, visited Pax River earlier this year.

Note: Former Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a longtime UFO disclosure advocate, revealed in 2021 that he's been informed for decades that Lockheed Martin is in possession of fragments recovered from the US crash site of a UFO. Don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang. For more along these lines, explore the comprehensive resources provided in our UFO Information Center.

Docs Show Navy Got â€UFO' Patent Granted By Warning Of Similar Chinese Tech Advances

The bizarre saga of the U.S. Navy and its sudden willingness to admit that its personnel regularly encounter unidentified objects in the skies keeps getting stranger. Clearly, the narrative is being carefully controlled by the Department of Defense and the Navy. Maybe the most curious additions to the still-developing saga is a set strange aerospace patents filed by one Salvatore Cezar Pais, an aerospace engineer ... at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) headquarters in Patuxent River, Maryland. One of these patents describes a "hybrid aerospace-underwater craft" claimed to be capable of truly extraordinary feats of speed and maneuverability in air, water, and outer space alike [without leaving a heat signature] thanks to a revolutionary electromagnetic propulsion system. This is possible, Pais claims in the patent, because the craft is able to "engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level" by exploiting the laws of physics. All matter contains energy on the quantum level. By theoretically creating its own incredibly dense and polarized energy field, the hybrid craft is claimed to be able to create a quantum â€vacuum' around itself which allows it to repel any air or water molecules with which it interacts. Thus, the craft can essentially ignore aerodynamic or hydrodynamic forces, or so it is claimed in the patent. Not only are we now being told that Navy pilots have witnessed aircraft behaving exactly like the craft these patents describe, but some of the pilots' visual descriptions of those anomalous aircraft even seem to be uncannily similar to the drawings of the aircraft as depicted in Pais' patents. One of those patents depicts a curiously and distinctly shaped gravitational wave generator that resembles the Tic Tac-shaped object reported by retired U.S. Navy Commander David Fravor and other Nimitz Carrier Strike Group pilots in encounters that took place in 2004 off the Baja Coast.

Note: Don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang. For more along these lines, read our concise summaries of news articles on UFOs. Then explore the comprehensive resources provided in our UFO Information Center.

Emails Show Navy's â€UFO' Patents Went Through Significant Internal Review, Resulted In A Demo

The War Zone continues to dig into the bizarre U.S. Navy patents authored by enigmatic inventor Dr. Salvatore Pais and the seemingly unusual circumstances of their approval by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). These patents included bizarre technologies such as a "high temperature superconductor," a "high frequency gravitational wave generator," a force field-like "electromagnetic field generator," a "plasma compression fusion device," and a hybrid aerospace/underwater craft featuring an "inertial mass reduction device." They seem to describe the theoretical building blocks of a craft with UFO-like performance. Each of the Navy inventions are credited to one Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, who, at the time the patent applications were submitted, was an aerospace engineer at NAVAIR's Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) in Patuxent (Pax) River, Maryland. Every one of Pais' recent inventions depends on what the inventor calls "the Pais Effect," described in numerous publications by the inventor as the "controlled motion of electrically charged matter (from solid to plasma) via accelerated spin and/or accelerated vibration under rapid (yet smooth) acceleration-deceleration-acceleration transients." Emails reveal that numerous employees of NAWCAD and the Pax River Invention Evaluation Board took them seriously enough to clear Pais's patents for the USPTO application process. We also now know these inventions resulted in the Section 219 Basic Applied Research/Technology Transfer program that was successfully funded and resulted in a physical demonstration and further experimental testing.

â€Diamond-shaped' UFO spotted over US nuclear weapons plant: report

In the latest UFO files release from the Pentagon, it was revealed that security radar and armed patrols detected an unidentified object in the sky near a Texas nuclear weapons facility. According to a document titled "Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report," a "diamond-shaped" object was spotted over the Pantex nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility located in Amarillo, Texas, on Sept. 1, 2015. The object was described as hovering in a "non-threatening" manner in a "northerly trajectory at approximately 10-15 mph" for several minutes at close range. Plant personnel were made aware of the flying object and began to follow it in a vehicle for several miles until the object was no longer visible. Some personnel described the "diamond-shaped" flying object as "approximately 4-feet tall and 2-feet wide at the bottom," and "thinner at the top." Per the report, there was conflicting color of the UFO, with some eyewitnesses citing it as black while others described it as blue, red and silver. A video of the incident was obtained by the Ground Surveillance Radar Tower (GSR) and reviewed by Sandia National Labs, a U.S. Department of Energy research and engineering facility. It was noted the object did not come near any "sensitive assets" at the nuclear power plant nor was it maneuvering in a threatening manner and stayed over "unpopulated areas of the plant." The video and report was given to the FBI.

Former Canadian Defence Chief Claims Multiple Alien Species Visited Earth and Dealt With Governments

Paul Hellyer was no fringe figure. Born in 1923, he served decades in Canadian politics and became minister of defence in the 1960s during the Cold War. He was also the longest serving member of Canada's Privy Council, placing him deep inside the country's political establishment. Hellyer repeatedly said UFOs were not only real but represented advanced technologies far beyond human capability. He claimed multiple non-human species had visited Earth and that governments were aware of their presence. In interviews and public talks, Hellyer argued that global secrecy around UFOs existed to hide revolutionary technologies. He suggested that extraterrestrial craft possessed energy systems that could transform human life but were suppressed because they threatened existing power structures. He spoke of interactions between aliens and governments, although he avoided operational details. According to Hellyer, officials feared panic and disruption if the truth became public. He framed disclosure not as science fiction, but as a moral responsibility. Hellyer's reputation took hits, particularly when he referenced ideas such as a 'Galactic Federation'. Even some supporters dismissed parts of his claims as speculative or shaped by human concepts applied to unknown phenomena. Yet his long career complicates easy dismissal. He was not a single issue activist but a veteran politician with decades of service.

Pentagon releases more declassified UFO files, including intelligence officer's account of seeing 'orbs'

The Pentagon unveiled another batch of its so-called UFO files on Friday, part of a rolling release of once-classified material ordered released by President Donald Trump. Friday's release included more than 50 previously classified videos and other documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), the official term used by the federal government to describe UFO's. Among the newly released files are a video from an infrared sensor operated by the U.S. Coast Guard in April 2024 showing an object flying near a plane over the Southeastern U.S. Another video labeled "Syrian UAP instant acceleration" was taken from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2021 and uploaded to a classified network in 2024, according to the Pentagon. After multiple investigations, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has found no evidence that any of these incidents are of an extraterrestrial nature -- but military officials admit many remain "unresolved" and cannot be explained. So far, the Pentagon has released over 200 files related to UAPs ... following the directive from Trump. Another of the newly released records -- a video from 2020 taken in an undisclosed area under U.S. Central Command -- appears to show a sphere flying over a population center before it eventually flew higher, off into the sky. Two weeks ago, the Pentagon released the first batch of files from various federal agencies.

UFO files: Plasma orbs a focus in third tranche of documents

The latest Pentagon release of UFO files contains several eyewitness accounts and video images that document the sighting of spherical objects or orbs, which is no surprise to whistleblower Jeremy Corbell and others who study "unidentified anomalous phenomena." Floating orbs, sometimes exuding a glowing quality, have been regularly spotted "since the beginning of the UFO phenomenon," [said] Corbell. And yet characteristics have emerged about these types of UAP over the years, Corbell notes. For instance, he said, orbs are thought to be made of plasma and harmful to humans. The plasma idea "aligns with the main theory of Ufology," says Miguel Sancho, author of "Evidence of the Extraordinary." Although spherical UAP appear to be round, there could be much more than meets the eye, Corbell said. "There is some understanding of the physics involved that it could be â€cloaking' a much larger craft and all you're seeing is a pinpoint of light," he said. One of the files unveiled Friday is July 2025 cellphone video of two red-colored orbs passing over a wooded area in the Northeastern U.S., where similar accounts emanated in recent years. Witnesses told investigators that one of the spheres contained a "white plasma â€sun' about the size of a basketball." In a separate document from 2024, FBI agents operating in the same region recounted seeing UAP they described as pulsations of light. Agents took photographs, but the images reportedly were blurry.

UFO whistleblower claims billions in secret spending hidden from Congress

Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) whistleblower and former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch accused intelligence agencies Tuesday of hiding billions of dollars in secret government spending from Congress. His investigation uncovered what he described as "slush funds" – pools of money allegedly operating outside normal congressional oversight channels – worth billions of dollars annually that were allegedly used to support activities operating outside normal oversight channels, Grusch said speaking at a Capitol Hill event alongside members of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. "This is also a real fraud, waste and abuse issue," Grusch said. "During my investigation, I found slush funds to the tune of billions of dollars per annum for these activities." Asked what the government knows about nonhuman intelligence, Grusch claimed the government is aware of "several" different alien species. "It's a continuum from corporeal bipedal type life to, you know, what I would consider is like sentient plasma life," Grusch said. "But there are several that this government is aware of." Federal investigators recently alleged that former CIA official David Rush used a fraudulent "special access program" as part of a scheme involving more than $40 million in gold bars and millions in government funds, drawing renewed attention to how highly restricted government programs can operate with limited outside visibility.

Investor sniffs out UAP opportunities in financial markets

A market investor who studies unidentified anomalous phenomena says fossil fuel industries would become obsolete if governments disclose forms of "zero-point energy" they've been developing in secret. Matthew Tuttle of Tuttle Capital Management tells "Reality Check with Ross Coulthart" that he believes whistleblowers who say the U.S. government and contractors are reverse-engineering recovered alien tech. It's likely the U.S. and rival nations for decades have been developing ZPE to harness energy from the quantum field. "It will be a game-changer unlike anything we could ever imagine. There are going to be massive winners, and there are going to be massive losers," Tuttle says. Tuttle suggests the U.S. has kept the project under wraps to protect major corporations that rely on conventional technology and energy sources. He said it's inevitable that someone, even another nation, spills the secret on ZPE, but it won't necessarily be ruinous for companies that suddenly find themselves dinosaurs. "It's going to take years to retool everything. My car is not going to use zero-point energy tomorrow. I'm going to be filling up my car with gas for a very, very long time," Tuttle said. His firm, which manages several "exchange-traded funds," recently launched a new "UFO Disclosure" ETF that presumes new information about UAPs will come to light and, in turn, benefit certain industries. The obvious beneficiaries are defense contractors and their suppliers.

One of the 11 disappeared scientists claimed she was hit with Pentagon's top-secret weapon after revealing UFO theory

The Pentagon has announced that they employ specialized energy weapons for defense. The Department of War's Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael announced this development in an X post. The post ... included a pic of said weaponry firing a laser beam and a soldier holding his head in pain. Dubbed directed energy weapons or DEWs, these advanced instruments of war use focused rays to disable electronic weapons such as drones and incapacitate – or even kill – enemy soldiers. According to the X post, these beams are comprised of "concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles." With this announcement, the Department of War seemingly confirmed years of so-called rumors that claimed that the government was developing this science fiction-esque weapon. Perhaps one of the most notable figures sounding the alarm was deceased scientist Amy Eskridge, 34, who was involved in extensive research into anti-gravity technology, UFOs, and extraterrestrial life. The researcher, who allegedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2022, had claimed she was hit by a DEW attack in her own home in Huntsville, Alabama not too long before her death. Her theory was seconded by retired British intelligence officer Franc Milburn, whom she had enlisted to investigate harassment she received after she threatened to disclose information about the subjects of her research.

Note: Read more about the mysterious ailments said to be caused by directed energy weapons. Is there a connection to other missing or dead scientists? For more along these lines, read our concise summaries of news articles on non-lethal weapons and UFO disclosure.

4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs, ex-government researcher claims

The US has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life from crashed UFOs. Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher, made the claim alongside "Age of Disclosure" director Dan Farrah. "People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. Four separate types," the 89-year-old said. "Now I have not had direct access to that but I believe the people who I talked to – four separate types of life." The Stanford-trained quantum physicist did not detail the supposed alien species – but his longtime collaborator and former AAWSAP colleague Dr. Eric Davis claimed last year that Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians are the names of the biological lifeforms pulled from the wreckage of downed or crashed UFOs. Each alien species has two arms and legs and a humanoid appearance, Davis claimed, citing intelligence reports. Nordics are a race of highly-human-like creatures who, despite being from a far-flung planet, closely resemble people of northern Europe. Reptilians are scaley skinned lizard-like creatures with human limbs, long tails, who walk upright. Grays are small, massive-eyed, hairless creatures. Insectoids are bug-like humanoids. Former Air Force Intelligence officer and UAP Task Force member David Grusch testified under oath in Congress in 2023 that the US was in possession of "non-human biologics" recovered from dozens of crashed UFOs.

Top Scientist Jacques VallĂ©e Says UFO Databases Logged 260,000 Sightings and 'Non-Human Creatures'

Few names carry as much weight in the UFO world as Jacques VallĂ©e. A respected computer scientist, astronomer and long time investigator of unidentified aerial phenomena, VallĂ©e has advised governments and space agencies for decades. He says scientific databases linked to a defence intelligence programme logged around 260,000 screened UFO sightings and hundreds of reports involving non-human creatures. The claim is explosive not just for its scale but because VallĂ©e speaks as someone who helped build the system himself. VallĂ©e explains that several years ago he initiated a system of multiple databases used by a DIA sponsored programme at Bigelow Aerospace. He says he worked as a cleared member of a scientific team tasked with studying UFO and UAP phenomena. According to VallĂ©e, the data warehouse contained approximately 260,000 screened reports of anomalous objects in flight. Crucially, he adds that the same databases also logged hundreds of reports involving creatures described as live or dead and linked to crashed or landed vehicles of unknown origin. Researchers documented a total of seven creatures. VallĂ©e notes that all of the creatures he referenced appeared to breathe air normally. He links these descriptions to professional observations made shortly after the incidents, including anatomical and behavioural notes recorded before the death of at least one recovered entity.

Note: Dr. Jacques VallĂ©e's work involved working closely with Dr. Allen Hynek, the scientific advisor to the US Air Force's Project Blue Book; co-developing the first computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963; and playing a key role in the development of the early Internet. Reported UFO/UAP craft may represent far more than unexplained aerial phenomena. They could point toward breakthrough technologies capable of transforming life on Earth. A New Technological Paradigm? What UFO Disclosure Could Mean for Clean Energy, Human Consciousness, and Our Shared Future, we draw on the most reputable, verifiable, and credible sources to help you make sense of this emerging issue. For more, don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang.

Lawmaker requests UFO talk from private contractor

Whistleblower David Grusch, whose testimony regarding alleged secret UFO-retrieval programs kicked off a series of congressional hearings, has stated private contractors are being used to make it more difficult for lawmakers to obtain information on certain programs. "If you really want to hide something from Congress, you don't put it in a government file cabinet. You hand it to a private contractor. That's why my investigation is following the trail into RAND, MITRE, Aerospace Corp, MIT Lincoln Labs, and the Northrop Grummans of the world," [Rep. Eric] Burlison said on X. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory, along with others, including MITRE, RAND, IDA, the Aerospace Corporation, JPL and Sandia, was designed in the 1940s and 1950s to retain wartime scientific capability outside the civil service. That structure has led to a network of private nonprofits with classified access that ordinary contractors do not have and that also operate one legal step removed from the executive branch. Grusch alleged in his testimony before Congress that private contractors are carrying out UFO crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programs to shield them from congressional oversight. That has been echoed by lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., one of the leading voices around UFO disclosure, who has accused the Department of Defense of siloing information to avoid questions from Congress.

Note: Reported UFO/UAP craft may represent far more than unexplained aerial phenomena. They could point toward breakthrough technologies capable of transforming life on Earth. A New Technological Paradigm? What UFO Disclosure Could Mean for Clean Energy, Human Consciousness, and Our Shared Future, we draw on the most reputable, verifiable, and credible sources to help you make sense of this emerging issue. For more, don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang.

Top UFO experts reveal 'whistleblower activity' will finally bring disclosure in 2026: 'The evidence is aligning'

Whistleblowers, new congressional mandates and mounting political pressure are pushing the US toward what insiders say could be its first true UFO disclosure in 2026. A growing number of insiders from the military and intelligence community are now prepared to testify publicly. That pressure intensified after the November 2025 release of The Age of Disclosure, a documentary featuring 34 current and former US government, military, and intelligence officials discussing an alleged decades-long UFO cover-up. Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison's claims of having a lead on 'new' UFO whistleblowers could be further evidence that disclosure is approaching. Burlison previously drew attention after presenting video footage showing a U.S. military drone firing a Hellfire missile at an unidentified object, only for the weapon to appear to bounce off the craft with minimal damage. Congress has moved to force transparency through the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which mandates new briefings on UAP encounters dating back to 2004. The legislation also requires a review of whether key UFO-related data has been over-classified or improperly withheld from lawmakers. Whistleblowers such as David Grusch ... a former US Air Force intelligence officer and decorated veteran who became a prominent whistleblower, alleged the US government possesses secret programs for recovering and reverse-engineering crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft, including non-human 'biologics.' Alongside official action, speculation has intensified in popular culture. Some ... believe Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Disclosure Day could act as a carefully staged reveal rather than a conventional leak.

Avi Loeb reacts to JD Vance's belief aliens are â€demons'

Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist and the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, says he has "no issue" with Vice President JD Vance's perspective on who aliens are. Vance was asked about the possibility of releasing more government files on UFOs and aliens. The vice president, who is Catholic, said he does not believe they are beings from another planet; instead, he says, they are demons. Vance noted many world religions have long acknowledged the existence of what he described as "weird things out there" that are difficult to explain. Loeb [said] Vance's theory is not new based upon scientific findings and Judeo-Christian beliefs. "I don't see necessarily a conflict between religious beliefs and science as long as everyone agrees that we should attend to the evidence that should guide us," Loeb said. "If the U.S. government cannot figure out what these objects are, then of course, people have their own speculations or theories, or they connect them to some past traditional thoughts." Vance's comments came as the Trump administration has signaled interest in releasing more information on UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena. Loeb suggested that labeling aliens as evil entities may be too far for his taste. "All I'm saying is we should be open-minded to the possibility that we're not at the top of the food chain within the Milky Way galaxy," he said.

Declassified UFO files reveal giant glowing sphere over military base that's been hidden for 35 years

Records unsealed this year by Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs have confirmed an eyewitness account from 1991, when military personnel and civilian researchers in Antarctica detected and then saw a large flying saucer over their base. Miguel Amaya, a retired Argentine Air Force non-commissioned officer, told UFO investigators in the early 2000s that he was stationed at General San MartĂn Base, a small scientific and military station on a tiny island in Antarctica in April of that year. At the start of the polar night, when the sun stays down for months, an alarm went off on the station's riometer, a machine that measures changes in the upper atmosphere. All of the needles began drawing the same pattern, which is scientifically impossible. According to Amaya, outpost personnel claimed that the strange readings could only have been caused by something producing the same energy as a nuclear aircraft carrier or a large city floating over Antarctica. Over 120 feet of paper was reportedly used during the four-and-a-half hour incident at General San MartĂn Base, with Amaya revealing that the needles were moving so violently they went off the paper multiple times. Hours later, another base member was walking outside during a snowstorm when they allegedly saw 'a huge circle of light.' 'He noticed a huge circle of light, very dim due to the cloud cover, passing above the base, but still visible, and moving very slowly and silently towards the sea,' Amaya claimed in his testimony. The 1991 incident has finally come to light after Amaya claimed he and the other members at General San MartĂn Base were told never to talk about what they had seen by their superiors. An Argentine civilian UFO research group known as CEFORA pushed for the records to be released under the nation's public information law. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the original paper rolls, which recorded the strange readings over Antarctica, still exist and have been stored at the Argentine Antarctic Institute.

Congressman Tim Burchett Claims Navy Personnel Discovered Alien Bases Beneath the Ocean – 'We Have Sightings of These Underwater Crafts'

Aliens arrived on Earth thousands of years ago and may STILL be hiding in secret bases thousands of feet below the oceans' surface, according to a respected congressman. The amazing declaration by Rep. Tim Burchett was based on the extraordinary number of UFO sightings recorded by U.S. Navy personnel near "five or six" unspecified deep-water sites around the globe. Those sightings have prompted "a lot of questions" focusing on whether secret alien bases are hidden at sea, according to Burchett, who is a member of the House Oversight Committee investigating USO (unidentified submerged objects) reports. "We have naval personnel telling me that we have sightings," notes Burchett. The underwater crafts "they're chasing are doing hundreds of miles an hour, and the best we've got is something that does maybe just a little bit under 40 miles an hour," he said. His stunning comments are only the latest to raise the specter of aliens hiding on Earth. As far back as Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage to the New World, sailors – and pilots in more recent times – have reported seeing mysterious crafts dramatically emerge from the oceans and soar into space. U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins testified during a September 9 congressional hearing on UFOs that he was aboard the USS Jackson off the coast of Southern California in 2023 when a "self-luminous Tic Tac-shaped object emerged from the ocean before linking up with three other similar objects" right in front of him. "The orb then disappeared simultaneously with a high, synchronized, near-instantaneous acceleration," Wiggins testified.

Note: Did you know that 80% of our oceans remain unmapped and unexplored? Congressman Tim Burchett has stated that US Navy admirals have reported encounters with unidentified submerged objects (USOs) as large as a football field moving at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour underwater. If accurate, such performance would far exceed the capabilities of any known human-made submarine, which are limited by drag, pressure, and propulsion constraints in water. Don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang.

Who are the US scientists linked to NASA and military research vanished or died under unexplained circumstances

A series of deaths and disappearances among scientists in the United States has raised alarm, as some of the cases are both puzzling and high-profile. Among the missing is a retired Air Force general, with several other scientists having professional ties to him. The long list recently grew to nine with the death of Michael David Hicks, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who passed away on July 30, 2023, at the age of 59. The cause of death was never made public, and no record of an autopsy could be found. Hicks worked at JPL from 1998 to 2022 and was credited with publishing over 80 scientific papers. He contributed to multiple teams that helped NASA understand the physical properties of comets and asteroids. Whether there is a connection between these cases remains unclear. However, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department in New Mexico told Newsweek that it is investigating the disappearance of retired Air Force General William "Neil" McCasland. Two of the missing scientists, McCasland and Monica Reza, "had a close professional connection" and vanished within eight months of each other, according to The New York Post, which described Reza as a "rocket scientist." Some of the deaths appear unrelated. Four of the eight other scientists simply disappeared under mysterious circumstances. While these cases have been widely reported across multiple media outlets, authorities have not indicated any confirmed connection.

Note: Hacked emails released by Wikileaks show Tom DeLonge assuring former White House chief of staff John Podesta in 2016 that the missing astronautical engineer General McCasland was involved in a project related to extraterrestrial material, having previously led the Wright Patterson Air Force Base lab where the Roswell incident materials were reportedly taken. McCasland had been working with DeLonge and helped assemble his advisory team.

Disappearance of rocket scientist takes chilling turn after link to critical defense technology comes to light

The disappearance of a rocket scientist has taken a chilling new turn after it emerged she holds a one-of-a-kind patent tied to advanced US launch systems. Monica Jacinto Reza, 60, was last seen hiking in the rugged San Gabriel Wilderness area in the Angeles National Forest on June 22 last year. Reports ... indicated that a man walking about 30ft ahead of Reza on the trail to the Waterman Mountain summit turned around moments later and discovered she had vanished without a trace. Records show she is the only surviving co-creator of a 2010 patent filed with Dallis Ann Hardwick, who died of cancer in 2014, for a specialized metal designed to resist burning while remaining incredibly strong under extreme heat. She was also credited as a co-inventor of Mondaloy, a nickel-based superalloy later used in key components of advanced propulsion systems developed through US Air Force and NASA-backed research programs. Reza spent decades working at Rocketdyne, later part of Aerojet Rocketdyne, a major aerospace contractor involved in government propulsion programs, while retired US Major General William Neil McCasland, who oversaw related Air Force research portfolios, also went missing in June 2025. Reza and McCasland are among nine recent cases involving scientists with ties to aerospace, defense or nuclear research whose deaths or disappearances have drawn public attention.

Another mysterious NASA death as ninth scientist linked to secret programs dies

A NASA scientist mysteriously died without any cause of death listed or autopsy – sparking questions about whether he was part of a pattern of deaths tied to the US space and nuclear program. Michael Hicks, who worked on a myriad of NASA space science missions, died in July 2023 at the age of 59 and worked at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 1998 to 2022. He assisted on the DART Project, the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Project, the Dawn Mission, and the NASA Deep Space 1 Mission. He joins eight other scientists or top officials who have died or disappeared recently. Monica Reza, JPL's former director of the Materials Processing Group, disappeared in June 2025 while hiking and has still not been found. Retired Air Force Gen. William Neil McCasland also disappeared in February, walking out of his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, without his prescription glasses or phone. JPL astrophysicist Carl Grillmair was murdered on his front porch in February, and Frank Maiwald, another JPL scientist, died in July 2024 without explanation. Maiwald was a longtime co-worker of Hicks. Two nuclear workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory vanished from their homes in 2025 under mysterious circumstances. Boston fusion energy researcher Nuno Loureiro was killed at his home in December 2025. Lastly, pharmaceutical researcher Jason Thomas was found dead in a Massachusetts lake last month after also disappearing several months earlier.

The Rendlesham Forest mystery: â€It's the perfect storm of a UFO case'

[Nick] Pope worked at the UK Ministry of Defence for more than two decades, from 1985 to 2006. For three of those years – 1991 to 1994 – he worked on what was known colloquially in the department as "the UFO desk". One encounter jumped out at him. It had been reported in Rendlesham Forest by two American airmen on Christmas night in 1980. Rendlesham Forest is in Suffolk, England, outside RAF Bentwaters, an airbase operated by the US during the cold war. On that airbase in 1980 were several nuclear missiles. Unlike other UFO sightings, the eyewitness reports from Rendlesham were backed up by hard evidence. It's multiple witnesses, including military. It's sightings over three consecutive nights. It's physical evidence in terms of radar, radioactivity, ground trace indentations, scorch marks. It's a case where we have declassified and released documents, which you can see at ... the Ministry of Defence website. [Staff sergeant Jim] Penniston says he felt a weird sensation, like static electricity ... then a blinding bright light burst into the night. Expecting an explosion, they flung themselves to the ground, but none came. Penniston rose to his feet and saw the bright light beginning to fade, revealing a triangular craft resting in a small clearing on the forest floor, multicoloured neon lights darting over its black opaque surface until they too dimmed and the only light remaining was emanating from underneath the craft.

Note: Don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang. For more along these lines, explore our summary of the Rendlesham Forest incident in our UFO Information Center.

Would-be UFO whistleblower died of accidental drug overdose after agreeing to testify to Congress

An Air Force veteran who agreed to testify before Congress about secret government UFO programs died just months before the hearings of an accidental drug overdose. Matthew James Sullivan, 39, died at his home in Falls Church, Va., on May 12, 2024 from a lethal mix of alcohol, alprazolam, cyclobenzaprine and imipramine, according to the Northern District Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The mysterious death is of "grave concern" to Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), who referred the matter for investigation to the FBI due to "implications for national security," according to a letter obtained by The Post. "Mr. Sullivan's death was a local Virginia medical examiner case, and the manner and circumstances of his of death raise substantial questions, as he was preparing to provide testimony to Congress," the April 16 letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel read. "The sudden and suspicious circumstances surrounding his death raise significant concerns about potential foul play and the safety of other individuals involved in this matter." The FBI indicated in a statement that Sullivan's death could be under investigation along with the dozen other missing or dead US scientists. Sullivan earned a Bronze Star for valor in Operation Enduring Freedom and later worked for the Air Force Intelligence Agency, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and the National Security Agency.

The Admiral Who Says Atlantis Is Real and the Aliens Are Already Here

Retired rear admiral Timothy Gallaudet ... is a man with serious credentials. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he is the former head of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, has worked on anti-submarine warfare, ran the Naval Observatory, and eventually became the acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He's also one of the most outspoken proponents of the idea that not only are UFOs real, but the government is hiding the truth about them. "We're being visited by some kind of higher-order intelligence that we don't understand," Gallaudet told me. "And it's happening often, frequently, in our airspace and in our water and in space." Gallaudet recalls participating in a naval exercise off the East Coast in 2015 and finding that pilots flying off the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier, were not only seeing UFOs but getting so close that officers like him became worried about a midair collision. These sightings produced the famous GoFast video of a UFO, which the Pentagon later said was an object that appeared out of the ordinary due to an effect called motion parallax. Gallaudet, who says his correspondence about the object was mysteriously wiped from his computer, is far from convinced by that explanation. He's particularly curious as to why so many UFOs appear to be flying over water and in some videos, appear to be disappearing beneath the waves. "If they want to remain unseen," he told me, "that's the place they would be." He's testified before Congress about what he's seen. He says what the government has disclosed so far is "a fraction of the tip of the iceberg of what we're really seeing day to day."

Note: In this interview, Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet asserts that Atlantis was a real ancient civilization, citing Plato's accounts alongside archaeological and geological evidence suggesting it was destroyed in a catastrophic event around 12,900 years ago; he adds that he is part of a team studying it but "can't say much," implying the work may be tied to sensitive or restricted research. He further claims they may have identified its location on the seafloor and are seeking visual proof of human-made structures. For more, don't miss our new video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity w/ Daniel Sheehan and Amber Yang.

Disappearance of ex-general with UFO secrets a â€grave crisis'

The Feb. 27 disappearance of a retired Air Force major general with a vast institutional knowledge about UFOs is a "grave national security crisis," says investigative journalist Ross Coulthart. William Neil McCasland, 68, was reported missing after leaving his Albuquerque, N.M., home on foot, according to local authorities, who have teamed up with the FBI to find the former military official. To Coulthart, the way McCasland vanished – reportedly along a running trail without his watch and phone – suggests something nefarious. McCasland ... is also considered a trove of information about whatever secrets the government may be hiding about UFOs, "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAPs) and nonhuman intelligent life. During his tenure in the Air Force, McCasland oversaw classified space weapons programs and was head of research at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, Coulthart notes. That facility has long been rumored to house fragments of extraterrestrial debris from Roswell, N.M. Coulthart said he finds it interesting McCasland's disappearance comes shortly after President Donald Trump promised disclosure about whatever files the government holds on UFOs and alien life. "The timing is screechingly relevant," Coulthart said. "The fact that Gen. Neil McCasland has disappeared off the face of the earth is a grave national security crisis. This is a man with some of the most sensitive secrets of the United States in his head."

Note: Hacked emails released by Wikileaks reveal Tom DeLonge, the founder of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, telling former White House chief of staff John Podesta that General McCasland was involved in a project related to extraterrestrial material, having previously led the Wright Patterson Air Force Base lab where the Roswell incident materials were reportedly taken. McCasland allegedly worked with DeLonge and helped assemble his advisory team. In our new 23-minute video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity, civil rights advocate and leading attorney for the UFO disclosure movement Daniel Sheehan and WantToKnow.info Director Amber Yang explore how this topic will open the door to technologies and ideas that could transform how we address humanity's greatest challenges.

Scientist Says Congress Was Briefed on UFO Crash Retrieval and NHI Programs in Secret Room

A scientist who has consulted for the Pentagon on UFO programmes claims he has already shared some of the most explosive truths about recovered extraterrestrial technology with Congress. Dr. Eric Davis, an astrophysicist, has stated that he briefed multiple congressional committees ... revealing details about UFO crash retrievals, hardware reverse-engineering and Non-Human Intelligence programmes. The briefings were conducted under conditions so controlled that the public remains largely unaware of the scope of what was disclosed. He said he briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee staff in a Pentagon SCIF in October 2019, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ... the same month, and a defence company's secure access facility in June 2021. Most recently, Davis appeared before Representative Marcos Luna's committee in a House SCIF in May. In each case, the briefings involved detailed accounts of legacy UFO crash retrieval programmes, recovery of off-world vehicles, and reverse-engineering efforts aimed at understanding technology not made on this Earth. The briefings underscore that the US government has long considered UFO phenomena not just as a scientific curiosity, but as a matter of national security. The existence of crash retrieval programmes and Non-Human Intelligence research indicates a multi-decade effort to catalogue, study and potentially utilise technology far beyond known human capability.

Note: Dr. Eric Davis has collaborated extensively with physicist Hal Puthoff, who directed the CIA's psychic research program. In our new 23-minute video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity, civil rights advocate and leading attorney for the UFO disclosure movement Daniel Sheehan and WantToKnow.info Director Amber Yang explore how this topic will open the door to technologies and ideas that could transform how we address humanity's greatest challenges. For more, explore the comprehensive resources provided in our UFO Information Center.

Hidden UFO civilization could be on Earth: Harvard researchers

An unidentified, technologically advanced population could be living secretly on Earth. That startling claim was made in a new paper by researchers at Harvard and Montana Technological University. They speculate that "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP), another term for UFOs, could be living underground, on the moon or even walking among humans. The paper posits the possibility of "cryptoterrestrials" as an explanation for unidentified and unexplainable observations made worldwide each year. Here are the theories proposed in the paper: A "remnant form" of ancient civilization remains on Earth; An intelligent species evolved separately from humans and now stays hidden; Cryptoterrestrials traveled from another time period or planet; The unidentified creatures are of supernatural origin, likened to "earthbound angels." The paper also suggests the idea of cryptoterrestrials living in or under sighting hotspots such as lakes and volcanoes. The researchers propose the influx of sightings in similar areas is due to entry/exit points for hidden societies deep in the Earth. Other possibilities for cryptoterrestrial settlements lie nearby, like on the moon. The paper delves into the government's response to sightings, adding that many believers feel federal agencies are "deliberately downplaying the topic or at least obfuscating the extraordinary nature of many UAP-related events."

Note: After being briefed by high-level military personnel, Rep. Tim Burchett believes non-human beings have underwater bases on Earth. In our new 23-minute video UFO Disclosure Explained: New Solutions for Humanity, civil rights advocate and leading attorney for the UFO disclosure movement Daniel Sheehan and WantToKnow.info Director Amber Yang explore how this topic will open the door to technologies and ideas that could transform how we address humanity's greatest challenges. For more, explore the comprehensive resources provided in our UFO Information Center.

Ex-NASA Official Breaks Decades-Long Silence on â€Flying Saucer'

A former NASA flight surgeon has spoken out for the first time about a classified sighting he claims to have witnessed more than 30 years ago. Dr. Gregory Rogers, who served as NASA's Chief Flight Surgeon and a U.S. Air Force major, revealed to the Daily Mail that in 1992 he viewed security footage of what he described as a 20-foot "flying saucer" inside a Cape Canaveral hangar. Rogers said he kept quiet for over three decades but decided to come forward following his recent retirement from the Department of Defense. He said the craft he observed appeared seamless, with no visible rivets or seams. He was shown the footage by another Air Force major who approached him unprompted. The major locked a room and displayed a video feed showing the saucer-shaped object levitating. The craft was surrounded by personnel in lab coats and hazmat suits. The craft tilted in a way that indicated it did not rely on traditional propulsion methods, as there were no visible jets or propellers. "All of a sudden it just lifted up, as smooth as could be," Rogers said. "It rotated clockwise, then counterclockwise, and tilted 45 degrees while hovering." The vehicle bore "U.S. Air Force" markings, which Rogers found startling. "I'm thinking, this is ours? Someone had to design and manufacture the vehicle I saw on that video." Now retired, Rogers has joined the board of the International UFO Bureau (IUFOB), a nonprofit that investigates unidentified aerial phenomena.

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Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it

A former Israeli space security chief has sent eyebrows shooting heavenward by saying that earthlings have been in contact with extraterrestrials from a "galactic federation." "The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet," Haim Eshed, former head of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate, told Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper. A respected professor and retired general, Eshed said the aliens were equally curious about humanity and were seeking to understand "the fabric of the universe." Eshed said cooperation agreements had been signed between species, including an "underground base in the depths of Mars" where there are American astronauts and alien representatives. "There is an agreement between the U.S. government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here," he said. Eshed added that President Donald Trump was aware of the extraterrestrials' existence and had been "on the verge of revealing" information but was asked not to in order to prevent "mass hysteria." "They have been waiting until today for humanity to develop and reach a stage where we will understand, in general, what space and spaceships are," Eshed said, referring to the galactic federation. Eshed's ideas are spelled out in more detail in "The Universe Beyond the Horizon – conversations with Professor Haim Eshed" by Hagar Yanai published in November.

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Anna Paulina Luna â€very confident' interdimensional beings exist

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told Joe Rogan she has viewed evidence of interdimensional beings on Earth. Luna, who leads a task force for the declassification of federal secrets ... joined Rogan on his eponymous podcast. While not viewing portals or UAPs herself, Luna said she had seen photographic evidence, historical evidence and spoken to Air Force pilots who alleged the Air Force was covering up UAP sightings. "There's definitely something that ... we don't know how to explain currently," Luna told Rogan. Luna added she believes there are interdimensional beings that "can operate through the timespaces that we currently have." She also believes that the U.S. has reverse-engineered technology to replicate crafts made by those who are not mankind. "Without getting into classified conversations, there have been incidences where I believe very credible people have reported that there have been movements outside of time and space," Luna said. "Based on the photos that I've seen, I'm very confident that there's things out there that have not been created by mankind." The congresswoman critiqued the intelligence community for gatekeeping information relating to UAPs. "We know the U.S. government has not exactly been clean in a lot of what they've done with the American people, specifically to the topic of UFOs." Luna added there is a "protective complex" from authorities, who believe the American people may not be able to handle the realities of the truth.

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Bank of England Warned to Prepare for Aliens Due to Imminent US 'Disclosure'

Helen McCaw, who served as a senior analyst in financial security at The Bank of England, sent a message to the bank with a significant alien warning. The short of it? McCaw wrote to Andrew Bailey, the bank's governor, urging him to prepare for the possibility that the United States, specifically the White House, may confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life. McCaw's overarching concern includes her belief that if the White House were to declare this, it would significantly impact the markets and could ignite bank collapses. She cited the United States appearing to be "partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information" regarding alien life forms. "The United States government appears to be partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence responsible for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)," she claimed. The longtime Bank of England employee expanded on the topic, discussing the possibility of a "power or intelligence greater than any government," referencing the "unknown intentions" that would come with it. McCaw added to her belief that the government's leadership and central banks may not be "properly briefed" on the topic of aliens or other life forms. McCaw also mentioned the chance of a "collapse in confidence," assuming people feel uncertain about the market and how to it.