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North Korea to start drone production in collaboration with Russia, media reports
February 8, 2025 7:56 PM
North Korea is expected to begin drone production this year with Russian technical assistance, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Feb. 8, citing undisclosed sources.
The agreement will allow North Korea to develop and mass-produce several types of drones in coordination with Russia.
According to the sources, the drone production initiative is likely a reciprocated gesture to North Korea after the country has sent soldiers to support Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine.
This cooperation follows last year’s strategic partnership treaty between the two countries.
Artyom Lukin of Russia's Far Eastern Federal University, previously told Reuters that the agreement is "for all intents and purposes… a pact of military alliance," Moscow's "first defense alliance outside the post-Soviet space."
The agreement also covers trade, investment, political and security cooperation.
As of early February, about 8,000 North Korean soldiers were fighting against Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, according to Budanov.
Up to 12,000 North Korean troops were deployed in the Russian region last fall to support Russian forces in countering a Ukrainian incursion launched six months ago, on Aug. 6 on 2024.
https://kyivindependent.com/north-korea-to-start-drone-production-in-collaboration-with-russia-media-reports/
Overnight Drone Strikes Rock 4 Russian Regions
February 8, 2025, 5:16 pm
Russia said Ukrainian drones attacked four Russian regions in the early hours of Saturday, Feb. 8, including an oil refinery.
In a Telegram update, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it downed 36 Ukrainian drones overnight: 18 over the Rostov region, 11 over the Volgograd region, five over the Belgorod region and two more over Krasnodar Krai.
Rostov region
In Russia’s Rostov region, Governor Yuriy Slyusar said drone debris damaged residential and administrative buildings.
“In the Pervomaysky district of Rostov […] 68 residents were evacuated from one multi-story building.
Cars parked near the house were also damaged. Their number is being specified. Emergency services are working at the scene.
“In the Chertkovsky district, administrative and household buildings of the enterprise were damaged. Six workers were evacuated.
Emergency services arrived at the scene of the accident,” Slyusar said in a Saturday morning Telegram update.
He later said a gas pipe was damaged, which was temporarily covered with plastic films until it could be repaired in the daytime.
Volgograd region
In the Volgograd region, Governor Andrey Bocharov said air defenses downed drones targeting an oil refinery in the Kumylzhensky District.
“The regional fire service and the Ministry of Emergency Situations quickly arrived at the scene; no fire broke out as a result of the falling debris.
There was no damage to residential buildings or casualties,” he was quoted as saying by the Volgograd Region Administration.
Krasnodar Krai
In the Krasnodar Krai, Governor Veniamin Kondratiev said drone debris caused “roof damages and broken windows in five houses” but without casualties.
Belgorod region
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, said around two dozen drones were launched at his region overnight, of which a dozen or so were either downed or suppressed, presumably via electronic warfare (EW) systems.
Except for some localized power outages and a car and fence of a local house, Gladkov said the rest of the attacks caused no damage or casualties before adding later that a man was injured, and two cars were damaged when the drones struck the region’s Valuysky District.
“As a result of the attack on the village of Nechayevka, a power line was damaged – there is temporarily no power supply in the villages of Nechayevka, Bochkovka, Rovenek and Yasnye Zori […] In the village of Dvuluchnoye, as a result of an [first-person view] FPV drone attack, a car and a fence of a private home were damaged,” Gladkov’s Saturday morning Telegram update says.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46809
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says he’s spoken to Putin about ending war as North Korea backs ‘just cause’
Sunday 09 February 2025 17:01 GMT
US President Donald Trump said he has talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine.
In an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday Trump said that he had "better not say," when asked how many times the two leaders have spoken.
"He (Putin) wants to see people stop dying," Trump told the New York Post.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday he could "neither confirm nor deny" reports of a conversation between the two leaders.
Next week, Trump is likely to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss Ukraine's war to repel Russian invaders.
It comes as North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un made his first admission of its the country’s support of Putin’s invasion.
North Korean army will “invariably support and encourage the just cause of the Russian army and people to defend their sovereignty, security and territorial integrity in keeping with the spirit of the treaty on the comprehensive strategic partnership” with Russia, Kim said in latest comments.
updates cont.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-live-map-putin-trump-casualties-b2694840.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eT85Wb209TNxMYipniiMw
Drone Attack in North Shoa, Amhara Region of Ethiopia Claims at Least 4 Civilian Lives
February 8, 2025
At least four civilians were reportedly killed in Ephrata Gidim, North Shoa, Amhara region of Ethiopia. Sources with links to Ethiopia revealed that the Ethiopian Defense Force carried out the attack on the night of February 7, around 5 A.M.
According to a report from Ethiopian Media Services (EMS), which spoke to a Fano spokesperson from the region, the attack targeted a residential home in Zenbo Kebele.
Fano Adonay Abebe, head of Media communication for Shoa Fano, has confirmed the drone attack and the killing of civilians.
Four civilians died at the scene, including two members of the same family—a mother and her son.
A video footage aired by EMS on February 8, 2025, shows a mud house destroyed by the drone attack, with villagers gathering at the premises to grieve the deaths.
In addition to the human casualties, livestock on which families depend for their livelihood were also killed in the attack.
At the time of writing, the Ethiopian government has not commented on the latest drone attack in the Amhara region.
The government has consistently denied targeting civilians and has downplayed the use of drones in the ongoing conflict in the Amhara region.
A study released in November 2024 by the Amhara Association of America, a U.S.-based advocacy organization, detailed civilian deaths in the Amhara region resulting from drone attacks and extrajudicial killings.
The study revealed that well over 100 drone strikes have been carried out in the region since the federal government began military operations in August 2023, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,200 civilians.
However, some believe the actual number of drone attacks and civilian casualties could be higher, as incidents in the region are underreported due to a near year-long communication blackout, including internet shutdowns.
Reputable human rights organizations, both within Ethiopia and abroad, have documented recurring drone attacks in the Amhara region, raising concerns about the humanitarian impact of the conflict.
https://borkena.com/2025/02/08/ethiopia-drone-attack-in-north-shoa-amhara-region-kills-at-least-4-civilians/
Aliens In Sharqia? Mysterious Lights Spark UFO Theories in Egypt
February 9, 2025 at 4:17 pm
In recent hours, social media in Egypt has been buzzing with a video showing strange lights sparkling in the sky over the Sharqia Governorate.
After the controversial video went viral, social media users began questioning the cause of these lights or strange objects moving and shining in the sky, wondering if they might indicate the presence of extraterrestrial beings.
Many activists speculated that there are explanations suggesting the appearance of extraterrestrial creatures or flying saucers.
However, some pointed out that while this phenomenon is rare, it is actually natural and linked to sudden changes in the atmospheric magnetic field.
A Similar Phenomenon in Ethiopia
This isn’t the first time such an event has occurred. A similar phenomenon was reported in Ethiopia, where citizens observed mysterious fireballs moving at high speed.
Ethiopian officials are investigating these phenomena to determine whether they are caused by space debris or remnants of satellites, according to Egyptian media reports on Sunday.
Discovery in 2024
Last year, the National Institute for Astronomical Research in Egypt announced the discovery of four new space objects using the latest telescope in the Middle East, located in the Katameya region.
It was added that the total number of space discoveries reached nine last year.
The acting head of the institute, Taha Rabah, previously stated that one of the most notable observations made using the Katameya Observatory telescope and the satellite and space debris monitoring station was the asteroid MK 2024, which passed close to Earth on June 29, 2024. Its size ranged from 120 to 260 meters.
The research team successfully tracked the asteroid and calculated its rotation period, which lasted 47 minutes, matching the results from NASA’s space agency.
https://lovin.co/cairo/en/latest/aliens-in-sharqia-mysterious-lights-spark-ufo-theories-in-egypt/
Airline pilot films three UFOs outside plane but alien lovers say 'nothing to see here'
Updated 14:40, 09 Feb 2025
A pilot has filmed what appears to be three UFOs from thousands of feet up in the air.
The footage, which lasts around five minutes, shows the trio of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) slowly moving in the sky ahead of the aircraft.
Although the plane never appears to get any closer to the shining mobile objects, they remain active throughout the duration in the distance.
But due to the UAPs' lack of proximity, it is never quite clear what they might be made up of, and whether or not they are alien.
And the video, which was shared on Reddit, also lacks sound or idea of location throughout, jarring some users.
However, that did not stop Reddit users from being impressed by what they were witnessing.
One user wrote: "I love pilot uap videos because you know something is weird when even they start recording."
Another Reddit user said: "This was most likely filmed on 2-6-25 looking west close to the coast of California. I know because I saw the same thing and have the same footage from a different perspective."
Adding "Edit: The steady light on the left is planet Venus, and is present in my footage as well."
A third shared: "My dad and I are both career pilots (both working for the airline in this video). It's been quite the journey getting him to believe this stuff.
I love that my fellow pilots are finally able to talk about seeing these things that massively out perform their planes."
A fourth joked: "Just hobby drones at 40,000 feet. Nothing to see here." To which another user responded: "*FAA approved hobby drones doing research."
The latter's comment was in reference to the New Jersey drones, which the White House said were FAA approved.
However, an ex military UFO whistleblower claimed to have had first experience of the incident and said they were not sanctioned.
Not everyone was happy about the pilot's clip, pointing to a lack of audio giving any context to what viewers were being shown.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/airline-pilot-films-three-ufos-34644161
https://www.reddit.com/r/aliens/comments/1il2ked/airline_pilot_captures_3_uaps_outside_his_plane/?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14373711/Docs-CIA-secretly-debunked-mass-UFO-reports-1950s.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14255767/mkultra-cia-drugged-tortured-americans-mind-control-program.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14318861/declassified-cia-documents-agency-plot-kill-americans-cuba-war.html
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=30030606&S=2&R=0
Secret CIA documents reveal how US prepared to defend against an alien invasion
Updated: 18:05 EST, 8 February 2025
A resurfaced document suggests the CIA was preparing for a potential alien invasion amid mass sightings across the nation, many of which were in Washington DC.
A section in the report titled 'US Official Attitude to UFOs' says unexplained sightings were more than 20 times the normal rate in the summer of 1952.
Some Air Force members believed they were 'interplanetary spaceships about to make closer contact,' leading the CIA to persuade the military to use Project Blue Book to manage the situation.
Project Blue Book, which ended in 1969, was developed to investigate reports of aerial phenomena and determine if they posed a threat to national security.
'To prepare the public for [the possibility of contact], 41 previously classified reports were released for publication between August 1952 and February 1953,' the document states.
The CIA then moved to abandon the investigation in the eyes of the American people, using Project Blue Book 'as a means of public 'debunking' UFOs.'
The group attributed most sightings to misidentified natural phenomena like weather balloons, aircraft lights or atmospheric conditions, and used TV shows and newspapers to spread the word.
'By erecting a facade of ridicule, the US hoped to allay public alarm, reduce the possibility of the Soviet taking advantage of the UFO mass sightings for either psychological warfare or actual warfare purposes,' reads the document.
The report states that the cover-up also allowed Project Blue Book to develop aircraft 'that emulated UFO performances,' such as anti-gravity which creates a force to counteract gravity and lets objects float or move without being pulled.
The document, 'Scientific Intelligence - General - Unidentified Flying Objects,' discussed how the US and Australia collaborated to investigate strange sightings.
It was recently shared on X by user 'Disclosure Party' who wrote: 'Documents from the National Archives of Australia indicate the U.S. was intentionally withholding information about UFOs from the public in 1953.'
The first page explains that 'the early analyses of UFO reports by the US Air Force (USAF) intelligence indicated that real phenomena were being reported which had flight characteristics so far in advance of US aircraft that only extraterrestrial origin be envisaged.'
A scientific panel chaired by Howard P Robertson met in mid-January to formulate 'future action on the UFO problem,' following the release of the 41 reports.
The meeting included the showing of two then-classified films of UFOs and early results of the 3,200 reports that were shared with the public.
The panel suggested education programs to debunk UFO sightings and teach the public how to identify certain phenomena.
That included using articles, TV shows and movies to spread the word, the History Channel reported. The panel even contemplating asking the Walt Disney Corporation to pitch in.
'Such a program should tend to reduce the current gullibility of the public and…their susceptibility to clever hostile propaganda,' the panel concluded.
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On February 16, 1953, the CIA made it appear the investigation had been abandoned, allowing the agency to study of the cases in secret.
Seven months later, the agency gutted the Project Blue Book team to just 10 qualified personnel operating at a top-secret level and then down to just a single officer, sergeant, secretary and part-time consultant.
To control public awareness about the project, the CIA threatened would-be whistleblowers with up to 10 years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
But the document states when service personnel resigned or retired, 'it was possible to reveal USAF attitudes [toward UFOs] or opinions even if actual data was still restricted.
The report names Major D Fournet, who was a Project Blue Book officer at the Pentagon until 1952 and Former CIA director Admiral Hillenkoetter, along with 'many intelligences officers associated with the UFO problems, as 'publicly stating that the US government knew UFOs were extraterrestrial but was withholding the fact from the public.'
Those statements led to a revised penalty for would-be whistleblowers, making the offense federally illegal under the Espionage Act.
The move meant individuals who exposed the work faced up to 20 years in prison and $10,00 in fines. Project Blue Book continued its work, analyzing thousands of reports to weed out what were misidentified objects or extraterrestrial craft.
'Consultants statistically tested the unknown object population to determine the likelihood that it was similar to the population of identified objects and found that the probability was less than one in ten thousand trillion trillion to one against unknown being the same as knowns,' reads the document.
By 1957, the team claimed only 14 out of 1,006 sightings remained unidentified.
However, the CIA was also said to use government funding to continue UFO data collection to fund other projects like the Canadian Avros saucer.
The Avrocar was the result of a Canadian effort to develop a supersonic, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter-bomber, and the CIA opted to design it to appear like a 'flying saucer.'
In 1952, the Canadian government provided initial funding but dropped the project when it became too expensive. Avro offered the project to the US government, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force took it over in 1958.
The document continues to say that the US government then allocated more funding to investigate gravity and a means of controlling it.
'Despite the fact science had not attained a level of competence to deal with either gravity or anti-gravity problems,' according to the report.
'It is significant at this time the current theories on UFO propulsion were a mixture of gravity control and electro-magnetic propulsion.'
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14367547/Expert-know-Trump-open-floodgates-comes-UFOs.html
Expert: How I know Trump is about to open the floodgates when it comes to UFOs
Updated: 07:32 EST, 9 February 2025
Donald Trump could be poised to pull back the curtain on UFOs, according to an expert.
Dr Steven Greer, one of the driving forces behind the UFO disclosure movement, claims the new administration is considering executive orders that would publicize the government's involvement in secret UFO research.
He says a wave of new whistleblowers are set to come forward exposing how they worked on top-secret projects which involved retrieving and back-engineering otherworldly craft.
Dr Greer said: 'With the new president, I've been working with a number of people close to him, encouraging a number of executive orders to launch this sort of investigation, provide whistleblower blower protection, and action.'
He is a retired emergency physician who began working in the 1990s to persuade whistleblowers in the military, government and corporations to come forward.
Dr Greer said: 'The ones I'm working with are waiting to see what the new administration does, what the new Congress does, the way to see if there's lethal or legal push back from these covert operations.
The 'covert operations' Dr Greer refers to are secret groups within the Government which he believes work to prevent the release of information relating to alien technology.
Dr Greer published a video in December, pledging to provide UFO disclosure 'in early January,' which has long passed.
He spoke to NewsNation in December, claiming the mysterious drone sightings were a cover-up to hide the sightings were part of an alien invasion.
Dr Greer said: 'There will be a lot coming forward, but they're doing it in a measured way, and what they're really looking for is either negative pushback from covert interest and corporate or positive support from Congress and in this and from the Pentagon and the intelligence community.'
'We are at an inflection point in my 35 years doing this, there's going to be some significant disclosures, and we hope halfway for amnesty for the whistleblowers.
Greer said that whistleblowers have been involved in not only retrieving alien technology from crash sites, but also testing what he describes as 'man made UFOs', made using alien technology by defense contractors hired by the US government.
However, the Pentagon has, on the record, 'denied the existence' of any top secret UFO crash retrieval programs.
Dr Greer wants to persuade the Trump administration to launch an investigation and provide whistleblower protection, 'but also to do a proper law enforcement investigation'.
He said that he believes that technology, including new energy sources, has been developed from alien craft, and is being kept secret to maintain the military-industrial complex's control over energy supplies.
'With disclosure of UAPs, will come the disclosure of the fact that we have, in fact, mastered a number of advanced sciences and electromagnetic systems that completely replace nuclear power, lithium ion batteries for electric cars, the wind, solar, you name it,' he said.
Greer said that he has been in contact with a number of people from the Trump administration, but says that as yet they do not seem to have a plan for disclosure.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has publically called on Trump to release UFO documents, but the president has not responded to his request.
What's more, the NASA claimed it was able to debunk one of the most famous UFO videos that was captured by Navy fighter jets off the coast of Florida.
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Known as the so-called 'GOFAST,' infrared video filmed by US Navy fighter pilots off the coast of the Atlantic in January 2015 captured an object speeding through the sky.
NASA said it was 'most likely' nothing more than a conventional object 'drifting with the wind.'
But that leads to another of Dr Greer's points, he claims there are powerful forces determined to prevent disclosure
'To make matters worse, there are some people who are known counterintelligence and disinformation agents who have been providing well curated disinformation to people in the Trump administration,' he said.
Greer believes that disinformation agents are trying to distort the real picture, and hide the fact that alien technology is being used to create man-made craft by presenting the idea that aliens are 'invaders' and a 'threat'.'
He said, 'In reality, most of the risk to air safety and public safety have to do with man made objects that are doing all manner of things.
'And so that we can prove through direct testimony and evidence. Because I'm a scientist and a doctor, and I also want to point out that I'm not associated with the US or any other government.'
Greer said that he believes that the idea that aliens or UFOs pose a threat is wrong.
He said, 'Anybody with a scintilla of intelligence would figure out a civilization that advanced, if they wanted us gone, we'd have been gone.'
'I don't think they're hostile. I do think that they're very concerned with human checked aggression. We've had this breakout from, missiles and machine guns and tanks and whatnot, to mass destruction.
'I think any objective person looking at the condition right now and state of the world would conclude the same.
It's not just geopolitical, wars and weapons, also what we're doing to the biosphere at a rate of decay that is not sustainable
Greer believes that alien contact began due to humanity developing nuclear weapons and space travel.
Greer believes that it's possible that 'bad disclosure' happens, and the Government attempts to present aliens as a threat, and unite the world in military totalitarian fear.
He said that intelligence operatives have helped to plant stories of alien abduction and cattle mutilation 'to make people think that there's a threat out there.'
Dr Greer said, 'Does this subject come out in a way that's hopeful and positive, or does it come out in a global panic?'
'I think it will all come out. How does it come out? Does it come out in a way that advances human civilization, or does it come out in a way that's catastrophic?'
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https://www.ladbible.com/news/us-news/cia-documents-american-alien-research-project-blue-book-451614-20250209