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Colorado’s $22.8B Space Boom: America’s Aerospace Powerhouse
May 14, 2025
The American “space industry” has long been dominated by four states, including Texas, Florida, California, and Virginia.
Yet, the industry has continued to evolve, and Colorado is increasingly becoming a space-based state, as it is a hub for companies including Sierra Nevada Corporation and Special Aerospace, while it is also the current home to the U.S. Space Command, as well as three out of the six United States Space Force bases, and the Space Force Operations Command.
According to a recent Colorado Office of Economic Development report, the Centennial State is now home to more than 500 space-related companies, including nine of the country’s major space contractors.
Last year, Colorado saw $22.8 billion in federal aerospace funding to companies headquartered in the state, while $12.3 billion in funding was provided to five of the state’s military bases, with $3.4 billion awarded to its federal research labs.
From the American Frontier to the Final Frontier
Two centuries ago, Colorado was a sparsely populated part of the American frontier. Today, it is leading the efforts in exploration and control of the final frontier of outer space.
It was the result of its being chosen as a strategic location for the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles during the Cold War, and later government contractors including Ball Aerospace and Lockheed Martin setting up shop in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains.
By July 2017, Colorado ranked just behind California in terms of aerospace economy, and was employing more than 25,000 private aerospace workers.
Then, less than two years later, the sixth and newest branch of the U.S. military, the United States Space Force, was created.
Peterson Space Force Base (SFB) and Schriever SFB in Colorado Springs, and Buckley SFB near Aurora, each play a crucial role in space operations, defense, and support for various missions.
As of last year, more than 2,000 aerospace firms were employing more than 55,000 employees directly, and an additional 184,000 indirectly.
Contracts Awarded For Cloud-based Ground Station Marketplace
This week, the U.S. Space Force awarded Auria Space and Sphinx Defense, both based in Colorado Springs, contracts worth a combined $17.6 million.
The firms will each build a prototype cloud-based marketplace that can connect military satellite operations with commercial and government-owned antennas.
Auria’s contract was reported to be valued at $8.1 million, while Sphinx was awarded a $9.5 million contract.
The marketplaces are meant to address bottlenecks that exist in military satellite operations, where there are more satellites than ground stations capable of communicating with them.
The companies will work to increase the capacity of the aging Satellite Control Network (SCN), some of which are decades old and can only communicate with a single satellite at a time.
According to a report from Space News, “The joint antenna marketplace would function as a digital clearinghouse where satellite operations centers could dynamically schedule communication sessions — known as ‘contacts’ — with antennas, based on availability, bandwidth and mission needs.”
The Joint Antenna Marketplace (JAM) will allow commercial and government-owned ground infrastructure to operate as a single, cloud-based scheduling system, with the goal being to boost flexibility and reduce contact delays within the satellite network.
“JAM supports the U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Strategy by integrating commercial solutions into a hybrid space architecture at speed and scale,” said USSF Col. Patrick Little, senior material leader for SSC Tactical Command, Control, and Communications.
“We are exercising Other Transaction Authorities and leveraging the software acquisition pathway to fully exploit available and evolving commercial antenna capacity which will minimize development and long-term sustainment costs of purpose-built government systems.”
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2025/05/14/colorados-22-8b-space-boom-americas-aerospace-powerhouse/
Varda Space reentry capsule lands in Australia, completes hypersonic research mission
May 14, 2025
WASHINGTON —Varda Space Industries said it successfully landed its W-3 reentry capsule in South Australia on May 13, marking the completion of its third mission.
W-3 focused on gathering data for military hypersonic research.
The California-based space manufacturing startup said the capsule, carrying an inertial measurement unit (IMU) developed for the U.S. Air Force by Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated (ISSI), touched down at the Koonibba Test Range operated by Southern Launch.
According to company officials, the capsule reentered Earth’s atmosphere at speeds exceeding Mach 25 – more than 25 times the speed of sound.
“This extreme environment offers researchers valuable data to enhance hypersonic navigation, expand orbital economy applications, and support U.S. national security objectives in low Earth orbit,” said Dave McFarland, Varda’s vice president of hypersonic and reentry test.
Technology and applications
IMUs serve as electronic sensing devices that measure acceleration and rotation, providing critical navigational information for aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, and drones — particularly in environments where GPS signals are unavailable or compromised.
The data collected from these reentry missions provides insights that would be difficult to replicate in ground-based testing facilities.
The W-3 pacecraft was launched on March 14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The capsule was built with a Rocket Lab Pioneer satellite bus.
This marks the second Varda capsule to land at the Koonibba Test Range, following the company’s previous W-2 mission that landed on February 28.
That earlier mission carried a specialized sensor payload from the Air Force Research Laboratory designed to record spectral measurements of plasma environments during reentry.
Varda’s inaugural mission, W-1, marked the first commercial reentry on U.S. soil when it landed in Utah in 2024.
The company has indicated plans to increase mission frequency and promote what it describes as a “low-cost approach to iterative hypersonic science and technology experimentation.”
“The W-3 mission will provide unprecedented data to advance next-generation space and defense capabilities and continue to provide hypersonic environments to the reentry test community,” McFarland said.
https://spacenews.com/varda-space-reentry-capsule-lands-in-australia-completes-hypersonic-research-mission/
Senate confirms Troy Meink as Air Force secretary with bipartisan support
May 13, 2025
The Senate confirmed Troy Meink as the 27th secretary of the Air Force on May 13 in a 74-25 vote, completing President Donald Trump’s slate of civilian military branch leaders in his second term.
Meink, who most recently served as deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), steps into the role at a critical juncture as both the Air Force and Space Force navigate ambitious modernization programs amid shifting global threats.
“Space is critical,” Meink told senators during his March 27 confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“This is actually one of the areas that we’re most challenged, I believe, from the rapidly evolving threat from China and others, both the direct threat to our systems as well as the threat those systems pose to our operations across the department in general.”
At the NRO, Meink was responsible for the development and procurement of U.S. intelligence satellites.
As Air Force secretary, Meink will oversee an annual budget of approximately $218 billion and responsibilities spanning air dominance, nuclear deterrence and space operations.
Meink is expected to advocate for increased Space Force resources and to help shape its expanding mission set as the service approaches its sixth year of existence.
Bipartisan support despite controversies
While Meink’s confirmation enjoyed substantial bipartisan backing, his nomination was not without controversy.
Some lawmakers raised concerns about alleged favoritism toward SpaceX and his relationship with Elon Musk, the aerospace company’s founder with an influential role in the Trump administration.
Despite these objections, the strong vote margin indicates broad recognition of Meink’s qualifications and experience in military space operations.
Meink faces several pressing decisions, including the politically charged issue of where to permanently locate U.S. Space Command headquarters.
The command’s final basing has been subject to repeated delays and reviews across administrations.
Meink’s confirmation completes President Trump’s cabinet of service secretaries for his second term, giving the administration a full roster of civilian military leadership.
https://spacenews.com/senate-confirms-troy-meink-as-air-force-secretary-with-bipartisan-support/
=SpaceX Starlink Mission
May 14, 2025
On Wednesday, May 14 at 12:38 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This was the fourth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SES O3b mPOWER-E, Crew-10, Bandwagon-3, and now a Starlink mission.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-67
Acting SecAF Ashworth’s farewell letter to the force
May 13, 2025
It has been an honor serving you and your families as the Acting Secretary of the Department of the Air Force these past four months.
Thanks to your tireless efforts, our Air Force and Space Force remain well positioned to support our national security objectives and deliver results.
Before I move on, I want to thank each and every one of you for the incredible professionalism you have displayed.
During this transition, you have stayed calm, executed the mission, and moved the DAF forward.
I am extremely proud of you, and I look forward to seeing how you will continue to accomplish great things in the future.
https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4184460/acting-secaf-ashworths-farewell-letter-to-the-force/
https://spacenews.com/senate-forms-golden-dome-caucus-to-champion-missile-defense-shield/
https://www.dia.mil/Portals/110/Documents/News/golden_dome.pdf
Senate forms ‘Golden Dome Caucus’ to champion missile defense shield
May 13, 2025
The U.S. Senate has formed a new “Golden Dome Caucus” focused on developing what could become one of the nation’s most expensive defense initiatives in history — a comprehensive missile shield designed to protect the American homeland from an increasingly complex array of aerial threats.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R., Mont.) announced the caucus May 13 at an industry event hosted by The Washington Times, cautioning that despite strong support from the Trump administration and defense committees, there remains insufficient understanding of the project’s complexity and potential cost.
“That’s why I’m announcing today the formation of the Golden Dome Caucus in the U.S. Senate,” said Sheehy, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities.
“Because I think a project of this scope, like we saw in the Apollo program and in the Manhattan Project, is going to require a far more close relationship between the appropriators, the Defense Department, our legislators and industry.”
While GOP lawmakers have proposed adding $25 billion to the defense budget for the project in fiscal year 2025, Sheehy offered a stark assessment of the program’s true scale:
“It will not be a $25 billion or $35 billion project. It will likely cost in the trillions if and when Golden Dome is completed.”
The initiative draws inspiration from Israel’s Iron Dome system, which has demonstrated effectiveness in intercepting short-range rockets.
However, Sheehy emphasized that scaling such technology to protect the entire United States presents fundamentally different challenges.
“Simply cutting and pasting Iron Dome and expanding it to cover the U.S., as you all know, that’s a fundamentally different technological proposition, and the challenges don’t scale linearly with the size of Israel, which is the size of New Jersey,” Sheehy said.
Shifting balance of power
The push for Golden Dome comes amid concerns about America’s position in the global military technology race.
Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL who defeated three-term Democratic incumbent Jon Tester in 2024, challenged the Pentagon’s characterization of nations like China as “near-peer competitors.”
“We are in a peer-to-peer fight, and in many cases, peers are better than we are,” Sheehy warned, citing recent border skirmishes between India and Pakistan where Chinese-made drones reportedly outperformed Western defense systems used by India.
Sen. Deb Fischer (R., Neb.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces subcommittee, described Golden Dome as an “opportunity to make a generational leap forward in missile defense.”
She noted that current systems, primarily ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, cannot adequately address emerging threats like hypersonic missiles and space-launched delivery vehicles.
Space-based components
A significant portion of the initial $25 billion proposed for Golden Dome will fund space-based sensors and interceptors designed to target threat missiles during their boost phase.
Retired Gen. Glen VanHerck, former commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, estimated that developing and fielding this space architecture could take five to 10 years.
Fischer cited concerns raised by current NORAD commander Gen. Gregory Guillot about whether the deployment of space sensors for missile defense might be impacted by DoD’s access to electromagnetic spectrum.
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Guillot told lawmakers that plans to allow commercial users to share the 3.1-3.45 GHz spectrum band with DoD could cripple space-based missile defense. The Federal Communications Commission is still considering whether to auction the spectrum.
“President Trump’s proposed Golden Dome is simply impossible if the department loses access to certain spectrum bands,” Fischer said, specifically referencing the 3.1-3.45 GHz band currently used by NORAD.
Growing threat landscape
The Defense Intelligence Agency on May 13 released an unclassified infographic detailing evolving missile threats to the United States.
“Missile threats to the U.S. homeland will expand in scale and sophistication in the coming decade,” the DIA reported.
“China and Russia are developing an array of novel delivery systems to exploit gaps in current U.S. ballistic missile defenses.”
According to DIA, both Russia and China are developing new delivery systems — including hypersonic weapons and orbital strike platforms — that exploit blind spots in current U.S. defenses.
Traditional ICBMs remain the principal threat, but air-launched cruise missiles, submarine-launched hypersonics, and space-enabled platforms are quickly reshaping the threat landscape.
Procurement challenges
With regard to Golden Dome, Sheehy also highlighted institutional barriers to the project’s success, arguing that the current Pentagon procurement system is too rigid to support such an ambitious undertaking.
“I think it’s time for a wake-up call for America, for our defense industry, for those of us in uniform and those of us who serve on the Hill. We need to reimagine how we acquire things to support our warfighter,” Sheehy said.
He called for closer collaboration between government and private industry, noting that “government is not the home of innovation” and that maintaining traditional boundaries between the Pentagon and contractors creates “a siloing of innovation and a siloing of growth.”
As the Golden Dome moves into the planning phase, Sheehy urged industry leaders to prepare for a new era of partnership. “If you’re part of industry, I say, please be ready for a new era,” he said. “Industry is where the innovation is going to happen.”
With potential costs running into the trillions of dollars and technological hurdles that remain largely undefined, Golden Dome, said Sheehy, is potentially “the most expensive, adjusted for inflation, single innovation program since Apollo and since the Manhattan Project.”
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China launches space computing satellite constellation
15:24, May 14, 2025
China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Wednesday, placing a space computing satellite constellation into space.
The rocket blasted off at 12:12 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
It was the 576th flight mission of the Long March series carrier rockets.
https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0514/c90000-20314797.html
https://news.abplive.com/news/india/amid-military-confrontation-with-pakistan-india-countered-cyberattacks-targeting-websites-and-misinformation-operation-sindoor-1772338
Amid Drone Attack, India Thwarts Massive Cyber Misinformation During Conflict With Pakistan
Updated at : 14 May 2025 10:47 PM (IST)
New Delhi, May 14 (PTI): During the four-day intense military confrontation, the Indian armed forces intercepted and neutralised swarms of Pakistani drones to push back aerial incursions, while teams of cyber warriors on the ground countered digital intrusions and a wave of misinformation.
In fact, even before India decimated nine terror camps in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir and Pakistan under Operation Sindoor with precision strikes early on May 7, many Indian websites had become targets of cyberattacks.
Days after the dastardly Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir in April, Jalandhar-based Army Nursing College's website was hacked and defaced with an inflammatory message.
At least four Army Public Schools (APS), including APS Nagrota and APS Sunjuwan, were targeted by hackers recently, a source said on May 5.
Besides, attempts to hack and compromise websites, a "campaign of misinformation" was run against India and the Indian armed forces on the internet, including on popular social media platforms, starting late April which intensified after the launch of Operation Sindoor and following counter-offensives by India after Pakistan's military retaliation.
"At 8 pm local time on May 8, several Pakistan unmanned aerial systems, drones, combat vehicles attacked multiple IAF bases.
These included Jammu, Udhampur, Pathankot, Amritsar, Bathinda, Nal, Dalhousie, Thoise, Jaisalamer, Uttarlai, Phalodi, Naliya. These were almost simultaneous and they came in waves.
All our AD (air defence) guns, and other systems were waiting for them. All these waves were neutralised by our trained crew," Director General of Air Operations, IAF, Air Marshal A K Bharti told reporters on May 11.
There was no damage on ground from "these incursions, and mass raids if I could call them from the Pakistani side", he said.
India had deployed Barak-8 missiles, S-400 Triumph air defence systems, Akash surface-to-air missiles and indigenously developed anti-drone equipment in thwarting Pakistan's attempts to hit 15 Indian cities on the night of May 7, official sources earlier said.
However, as India's robust air defence system intercepted, engaged and neutralised hordes of drones breaching India airspace from Srinagar to Sir Creek, during the conflict, on ground cyber experts debunked a barrage of erroneous claims, and called out fake news floating in cyberspace.
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Besides cyber experts, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Col Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, in their successive joint briefings to share details about Operation Sindoor, also fact-checked several claims made by Pakistan.
Misri told reporters here on May 9 that Pakistan made the "preposterous and outrageous" claim that it was the Indian armed forces and the Indian Air Force that was targeting cities like Amritsar and trying to put the blame on Pakistan, and countered it by saying, "…that we would attack our own cities is the kind of deranged fantasy that only the Pakistani State can come up with".
"…this disinformation that is coming from Pakistan about India targeting the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara through a drone attack. This is again yet another blatant lie, and part of Pakistan's disinformation campaign," he said.
Strategic affairs experts and members of many defence think-tanks say spreading misinformation and fake news on cyberspace, especially in times of a conflict scenario, is "part of any new-age warfare".
"It's a mind game, even if the information is wrong, the adversary seeks to demoralise the other side," a member of the senior management of Delhi-based Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, said.
The government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), which has a dedicated Fact Check Unit, has debunked a series of false claims since the Pahalgam attack.
On April 30, it trashed claims made in posts by "several pro-Pakistan social media accounts" that the then commander of Indian Army's Northern Command, Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar, had been 'removed' from his post after the Pahalgam attack, and dubbed it as "fake".
Soon after the cyberattacks, a defence source on May 5 said that "appropriate and necessary measures" were being taken to "bolster" cybersecurity infrastructure, "enhance the overall resilience" of online platforms and "strengthen digital defence" mechanisms to safeguard against further "intrusion attempts".
Furthermore, "cybersecurity experts and agencies are actively monitoring cyberspace" to detect any additional cyberattacks, particularly those that may be sponsored by threat actors having alleged cross-border link, the sources had said.
The Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff, in a post on X on Tuesday, said the "successful conduct" of Operation Sindoor has set "new normals in India-Pakistan relations", highlighting the country's strength and national resolve through military superiority in the "new-age warfare".
"Synergised Force application through jointness and integration achieved in #OpSindoor with demonstrated battle effectiveness of indigenous kinetic force multipliers was showcased to the #FSAs, while highlighting Technological Superiority of the Indian armed forces in niche non-kinetic domains of space, cyber and electronic warfare," it posted.
While India and Pakistan have reached an understanding to stop all firings and military actions, Indian military and cyber warriors remain vigilant to thwart any misadventure from the adversary, in air or in digital domain.
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King Charles visiting Bradford: No drone zones announced ahead of King's visit to West Yorkshire tomorrow
14th May 2025, 12:21 BST
King Charles and Queen Camilla are visiting Bradford – this year’s UK Capital of Culture – tomorrow.
They will be taking a look at the city’s new live music venue Bradford Live before travelling to Cartwright Hall in Lister Park.
Ahead of the royal visit, West Yorkshire Police has announced a ban on drones flying over two areas of the city between 8am and 4pm tomorrow.
A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: “Temporary airspace restrictions have been put in place in support of a policing operation in Bradford tomorrow.
"This means drones cannot be flown within specified areas above Bradford between 8am and 4pm.
"Any person that flies a drone within the designated areas between those times without permission will be committing an offence under the Air Navigation Order 2016, and may be liable to arrest and prosecution.”
Bradford City Council is urging people to turn out to welcome the royal couple.
It has posted: “The visit comes not long after the King's solo visit in November 2022 and will be the Queen's first visit to the district.
"We are inviting residents to come along and give Their Majesties a royal welcome!”
https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/people/king-charles-visiting-bradford-no-drone-zones-announced-ahead-of-kings-visit-to-west-yorkshire-tomorrow-5128256
India successfully tests low-cost ‘Bhargavastra’ to neutralise drone swarms
14 May 2025, 04:39 PM IST
In a notable advancement for India’s defence capabilities, Solar Defence and Aerospace Limited (SDAL) has successfully developed and tested ‘Bhargavastra’ — a low-cost, hard-kill counter-drone system equipped with indigenously designed micro rockets and missiles.
The system marks a significant leap forward in neutralising the growing threat posed by drone swarms, especially in sensitive and high-altitude operational zones.
The ‘Bhargavastra’ underwent rigorous field trials at the Seaward Firing Range in Gopalpur on 13 May, in the presence of senior officials from the Army Air Defence (AAD).
Over the course of three separate tests, the system demonstrated its lethal precision and reliability.
Two trials involved single-rocket firings, while a third test showcased salvo mode capability, launching two rockets within a two-second window.
All four micro rockets achieved their intended performance parameters, underlining the technology's operational readiness.
How the Bhargavastra system works
Engineered to detect and eliminate small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at distances of up to 2.5 kilometres, the Bhargavastra system employs a two-tiered approach.
The first layer features unguided micro rockets with a 20-metre lethal radius, designed to tackle mass drone incursions.
Complementing this is a second layer of precision-guided micro missiles — previously validated through independent tests — offering surgical accuracy against high-value or elusive aerial targets.
Adapted for deployment across varied terrains, including high-altitude zones exceeding 5,000 metres, Bhargavastra is both modular and scalable.
The system can be customised to incorporate an additional soft-kill layer comprising jamming and spoofing techniques.
Such an integrated approach provides a comprehensive shield against UAV threats for all branches of India’s armed forces.
SDAL highlighted the system’s indigenous origins, emphasising that all components — from detection sensors to strike mechanisms — were developed domestically.
The architecture allows the integration of multiple sensor systems, including radar, electro-optical (EO), and radio frequency (RF) receivers, enabling layered air defence cover tailored to mission-specific requirements.
Central to the system’s effectiveness is its state-of-the-art Command-and-Control Centre, which integrates C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) technologies.
Capable of detecting low radar cross-section threats between 6 and 10 kilometres away, the integrated EO/IR suite ensures precision tracking and identification.
The system also supports seamless integration with existing network-centric warfare infrastructure, enhancing real-time operational coordination.
According to its developers, Bhargavastra stands out globally for its cost-effectiveness and versatility.
While several advanced nations are working on similar micro missile counter-drone technologies, an indigenous, modular system with proven swarm-neutralisation capability like Bhargavastra has yet to be fielded anywhere else.
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/watch-india-successfully-tests-low-cost-bhargavastra-to-neutralise-drone-swarms-11747219989057.html
DoorDash to start drone delivery in Charlotte
May 14, 2025
Food delivery in Charlotte is about to get a lot more high-tech.
In one of the largest deployments of drones in North Carolina, DoorDash and drone company Wing are expected to announce plans today that will result in avocado toast and apple chicken salads zipping through the skies over south Charlotte.
Building on a partnership underway in Dallas and Southwest Virginia, the companies say they will operate a drone hub, or “nest,” at the Arboretum shopping center in south Charlotte — and that several Arboretum restaurants including Panera Bread have signed on to allow hungry customers within four miles of the shopping center to order delivery by drone as soon as today.
Based on our reading of a map, that should enable tens of thousands of Charlotte residents in the Providence Road corridor between Fairview Road and Waverly/Rea Farms to receive food deliveries by drone — as well as parts of SouthPark to the north, Ballantyne to the west and Matthews to the east.
https://charlotteledger.substack.com/p/charlotte-food-deliveries-by-drones
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14704863/Shocking-UFO-files-hidden-presidential-library-claim-US-successful-contact-alien-race.html
Shocking UFO files hidden in presidential library claim US made successful contact with an alien race
Updated: 16:17 EDT, 13 May 2025
A trove of unearthed government documents has detailed a secret face-to-face encounter with aliens beings more than 60 years ago.
More than 50 pages of CIA files, which the FBI continues to say are fakes, claimed that a secret government program established communications with UFOs in 1959.
Project Sigma, started in 1954, used a binary computer language sent along radio signals into space to make contact with alien life.
Just five years after the interstellar connection, an official from the US Air Force met the extraterrestrials who received these messages.
The files claimed that on April 25, 1964, a single intelligence officer met with two aliens at a prearranged location in the New Mexico desert - the same state that the famous Roswell UFO crash allegedly took place.
The meeting lasted for about three hours, during which time the intelligence officer and the extraterrestrials shared 'basic information' about their respective races.
The documents also detailed how a secret government group called the Majestic 12 used their incredible power to keep top secret information on UFOs away from the military and the even White House.
Several classified projects focused on alien communication and UFO research allegedly fell under the Majestic 12's control - with the group revealing to the CIA that they succeeded in their goals of finding alien life.
According to documents that emerged in the 1980s, the Majestic 12 (MJ-12) was a committee of high-ranking military, scientific, and intelligence officials assembled after the now-famous UFO crash in Roswell.
The 12-person team was allegedly established through a secret executive order by President Harry Truman in 1947.
For over two decades, these experts were tasked with managing investigations into UFOs and extraterrestrial contact.
The CIA files stated that MJ-12 oversaw four specific projects charged with communicating with aliens, researching UFOs, recovering crashed alien ships, and testing out whatever advanced technology they could find.
MJ-12 stated that it took five years before they finally made successful contact with UFOs in 1959, noting that the group 'established primitive communications with the Aliens,' using binary code sent by radio.
Binary is the lowest-level language computers understand, directly corresponding to electrical states in hardware. It represents all data (text, numbers, instructions) as sequences of 0s and 1s.
And scientists searching for alien life still uses the method to this day.
This basic form of communication would led to the meeting between the Air Force and these aliens in 1964, with MJ-12 stating that 'the Air Force officer managed to exchange basic information with the two Aliens.'
Majestic 12 wrote at the time that this project was still continuing 'at an Air Force base in New Mexico.'
Following the historic meeting, MJ-12 established Project Snowbird in 1972 with a mission of test flying a recovered alien aircraft.
The classified report said that project was still taking place in a secret Nevada base - which many UFO researchers today believe is Area 51.
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Despite being secretly appointed by the president, the uncovered documents also detailed how MJ-12 actively withheld information from top officials and even insulted those who they felt didn't need to know about UFOs.
'Apparently, White House requested info,' the members of MJ-12 wrote in a CIA memo. 'Can't seem to make those fools realize [this] info is not available for any dissemination.'
Later in the same letter, the group told the CIA not to allow a group labeled as 'AF' (which may have stood for the Air Force) to have access their data.
The top secret encounter was not found in the declassified CIA archives, but were instead uncovered after being quietly made available to the public at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that opened in 1991.
MJ-12's existence became public knowledge after an alleged government whistleblower mailed a report on the group's activities to UFO researchers in 1984.
However, the FBI labeled the mysterious UFO document as 'bogus' and claimed that the group, the involvement of the experts named in the report, and MJ-12's mission were all a work of fiction.
In 1988, the intelligence community added that there were serious inconsistencies and formatting errors in the decades-old briefing for President Eisenhower that suggests it's a forgery.
Despite the US intelligence community's attempt to discredit the whistleblower, the details in it matched several of the key facts found in the Reagan Library papers - including the names of the 12 men in Majestic 12.
According to the unearthed documents, MJ-12 included Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first CIA director, Dr Vannevar Bush, head of US scientific research during World War II, James Forrestal, the first US Secretary of Defense, and General Nathan Twining, the Air Force commander in charge of research and development of new aircraft.
Coincidentally, this research and development program was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio - the same military facility the debris from the Roswell UFO crash was allegedly taken to in 1947.
Dr Hal Puthoff, a physicist and UFO researcher, recently noted on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that one of his colleagues spoke to the commander of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and confirmed that the crash really happened.
'They say it was the real deal, that this was a real unidentifiable crash and these materials were really, really from out someplace,' Puthoff said.
In reference to Projects Snowbird and Pounce, Puthoff also claimed that the US government currently has 'at least 10' crashed UFOs in their possession that they're still studying.
As for why this shocking meeting in 1964 and all the communications between UFOs has been hidden for 60 years, another declassified CIA document appears to answer that mystery.
Found in the CIA's archives of declassified files, DailyMail.com uncovered a memo from 1953 which essentially shut down any public discussion of UFOs over fear that the US government would lose control over the general public.
According to the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects in January 1953: 'The continued emphasis on the reporting of these phenomena does, in these perilous times, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organa of the body politic.'
The five-person panel, made up of academic experts from universities throughout the US, concluded that UFOs did not pose a direct threat to national security during the Cold War.
Moreover, the panel's memo recommended that the government 'strip' UFOs of the 'special status' these sightings had already attained after Roswell.
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Buga Sphere Inscriptions
May 9, 2025
Hi all,
I went through some videos of the spheres and thought I might add a second opinion on some of the sphere inscriptions. I am not sure about a few of the symbols.
I've added some pictures of the process I've used. The original poster did a great job with the circuit-diagram looking part.
I don't have any higher quality images of the sphere itself (the whole thing is such a clown show, just put up some damned extremely high quality images!)
Interestingly, these kind of align with that person (Sheehan?) who was able to draw some of these letters after coming out of some briefing - someone knows what I'm referring to?
Also, I've included a reference to some of the Nazca writing that was identified with the mummies.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1kine9o/buga_sphere_inscriptions/
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office “Mt. Etna Object”
28 April 2025
AARO Assessment and Case Status
AARO assesses with moderate confidence that the object was a balloon.
AARO assesses with high confidence that the object did not exhibit anomalous behavior.
Case Overview
In December 2018, a shortwave infrared (SWIR) camera onboard a U.S. military uncrewed aerial system (UAS) operating near U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella over the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily, Italy, captured 12 minutes of infrared video of an eruption of Mt. Etna.
For approximately four and a half minutes, a round object appears on the video and seems to exhibit anomalous performance characteristics by moving at high speeds and transiting a superheated gas and ash plume produced by the eruption.
The UAS operator reported that the object’s flight behavior was seemingly unaffected by transiting the plume, with no discernable impact on its performance, altitude, or bearing.
The operator reported the object’s speed as approximately 555 kph (345 mph).
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https://www.aaro.mil/
https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/case_resolution_reports/Mt-Etna-Object.pdf
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/944201/mt-etna-object
THE EASTBOURNE FLYOVER
May 10 2025
At the occasion of the first European Galactic and Spiritual Informers Connection
organized by the very popular Dani Henderson, on May 10, 2025, US Army Insider JP arranged with his contacts, at a precise location and time above Eastbourne UK, in front of 2000 eye witnesses
(750 were GSIC attendees and the rest saw the posters, heard the radio ads and else)
The flyover of extraterrestrial spacecrafts above the English Channel as well as a triangular Tr3B and a 'cigar-shaped' long craft.
And it was quite a show! GSIC did it again!
JP's unique connection with beings from other worlds and Inner Earth, his ongoing missions to space for the US Space military, his developed consciousness and psychic abilities, make of him someone very special.
And I feel honored to say that he has been my friend from ancient lifetimes.
After a smashing, successful, world first UFO flyover above 1000 witnesses in Westminster Colorado on September 27 2024 (link here), announced beforehand on social media and organized by myself, I decided to pass on the baton to JP who was very excited to be in charge for our second scheduled ET crafts flyover… this time with a new challenge: England.
As 2000 people gathered on the green in front of the sea, we could all feel the incredible egregore of Love filling the air and the feeling of Hope stronger than anything.
It was a global audience with a huge heart. JP started drumming, pacing up and down, calling upon the crafts.
After half an hour I got a message from Thor Han saying that two unmanned scoutships had left the battle station XLR6 SOL ("Excelsior") and were heading towards location.
Twenty more minutes later, another message from Thor Han said that the two ships were stuck above the English channel, waiting clearance from the UK military to enter UK air space.
There was a slight problem… Apparently, clearance had been granted but now the UK authorities were sort of changing their mind.
I grabbed the microphone to update the crowd and at that moment Thor Han asked me to tell the people to look over the sea.
The ships, stationary at high altitude, were blinking for a while then stopped. Now the excitement was growing…
Suddenly, the most beautiful thing happened. A first, bright ship approached and hovered elegantly and silently over the sea, right in front of us.
The shimmering glow of the torsion field was superb. JP was drumming and chanting Akuria Matte, followed by many of us.
The ship hovered for a while, sliding times to times right and left, then after about half an hour, in a spotless, cloudless, completely clear summer sky, it cloaked.
It literally switched off in front of hundreds of eye witnesses.
After a while, the second ship made it through the territorial air space and flew over the ravishing English coastal town.
I believe there was quite of a tension between the off-worlders and the military authorities, as what JP identified as a fighter jet intercepted the second ship, who changed direction at formidable speed. Instantly, the fighter jet turned back.
Thor Han whispered to me that they would go around it and do otherwise.
As soon as I had informed JP, I was in awe with all the crowd witnessing a ballet of dozens of ships flying in all directions at a much higher altitude, until six of them gathered to traverse the sky in formation.
We could also see a triangular craft and a cylinder one, brought by JP's special contacts. It was truly awesome… GSIC did it again!
https://www.elenadanaan.org/articles/eastbourne-flyover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0rHoeu8T0
Immaculate Constellation - A Whistleblower Honors His Oath : WEAPONIZED : Episode #76 : PART 3
May 13, 2025
UFO Whistleblower Matthew Brown has words of advice - and caution - for the public, for Congress, and for other potential whistleblowers.
In the conclusion of his massive interview with WEAPONIZED, Brown reveals how public perceptions about UAP issues are carefully managed, how "fear, greed, and willful ignorance" are employed as weapons by those who keep the secrets, and why now is the time for other insiders to step forward and tell what they know.
Brown authored the Immaculate Constellation report, that was submitted to Congress months ago, based on evidence uncovered during his tenure working within the United States national security enterprise.
He shares details on the types of visual evidence collected by intelligence operatives and technologies, the UAP shapes observed on classified servers, how excessive secrecy is used to stifle honest inquiry by the public and Congress, and how disclosure might unfold in the future.
https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/episodes-3/episode-76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAxI-LDrDqA (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n_bRtnIP14 (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBVAxoHeaY (part 3)
https://www.thetravel.com/hoax-lolladoff-plate-conspiracy/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIELOXLnIMn/
Ancient Alien Proof Or Hoax? This Mysterious Artifact Has Conspiracy Theorists In A Civil War
May 14, 2025
When surfing the web, coming upon a conspiracy theory is almost inevitable.
Every corner of the internet is populated to some extent with misinformation, from the familiar low-quality blog posts about secret time travel that inevitably get brought up by a distant family member at Thanksgiving to high-budget streaming services promoting fringe theories, like the idea of a lost ancient civilization that existed during the last major ice age.
Most of the time, conspiracy theories result in an all-out war between scientists and conspirators. Yet there is one conspiracy that is so strange, potent, and bizarre, it even has conspiracy theorists arguing among themselves.
This is the story of the Lolladoff Plate, an alleged alien artifact found in the remote Indian town of Mussourie. A surface-level analysis of this artifact and its story will say that it was a hoax, but true believers still remain to this day.
The Alleged History Of The Lolladoff Plate
In 1978, a book was published that would one day inspire a fringe conspiracy theory that would make the rounds on the future Internet.
This book was Sungods In Exile: Secrets of the Dzopa of Tibet by David Agamon, and, in 2025, it has remained as controversial as it is strange.
Supposedly based on the notes of Karyl Robin-Evans, an alleged professor at Oxford University, and posthumously published by his secretary, David Agamon, the book lays out a fantastical story of discovery and strangeness.
It highlights the tale of a Polish professor called Sergei Lolladoff, who purchased a strange disk while in the town of Mussourie in 1945, Uttarakhand, India.
This metallic object, called the Lolladoff Plate, shows a figure with an almond-shaped object and a chameleon rotating in a spiral around the sun. Within the spiral is an inscription.
At first glance, it almost looks like an Ancient Aliens version of the Phaistos Disk (a Minoan artifact that has undeciphered inscriptions on it).
According to the book, the object is 12,000 years old, which would make it drastically distinct from other Neolithic finds in the area. It is claimed to be in a Museum in East Berlin.
After this discovery, the alleged Oxford professor, Robin-Evans, then went on an expedition to Tibet to investigate this strange discovery.
There, he supposedly found a tribe of Tibetans called the Dropa or the Dzopa that lived in the Bayan Har Mountains.
After living among them and learning their language, Robin-Evans claimed to have been told their story (and the story of the disk): that the people crash-landed on Earth, and were secretly extraterrestrials.
This story was soon paired with another tale from a 1962 German magazine called Das vegetarische Universum.
This similar, but distinct, story features two professors called Chi Pu Tei and Tsum Um Nui from Beijing who discovered 716 granite discs similar to the Lolladoff Plate.
The Story Of The Lolladoff Plate Does Not Add Up
Sadly for proponents of this theory and believers in this mysterious artifact, the story is full of holes, and the artifact probably does not actually exist.
Firstly, there are no known Tibetan ethnic groups called the "Dropa Tribe" or the "Dzopa" that have been identified before or since the "discovery" of the stones and the plate.
While there is a type of nomadic people in Tibet called the Drokpa Nomads, they are a far cry from the group described in Sungods in Exile.
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Not only are they very much human (no known aliens among the Drokpa have ever been identified), they're not even an ethnic group.
Instead, "Dropka" is more of an occupation. It's a type of shepherd. Thus, the only source of the supposed "Dzopa/Dropa tribe" is Agamon's work.
Next, the supposed museum in East Berlin that holds the Lolladoff Plate has never been identified.
In a similar vein, none of the 716 granite Dropa stones seem to actually exist, either, at least not anymore (if they ever did at all).
While artifacts do occasionally go missing due to forces like war or vandalism (an Ancient Roman prosthetic leg, one of the most revolutionary inventions of the Ancient World, was lost in WWII, for instance), there are typically scientific records and good quality photographs of said artifacts (the only photographs of the Lolladoff Plate and the Dropa stones are very poor quality, and that's not the result of age).
This is not the case for the Lolladoff Plate or the 716 Dropa stones, which have seemingly vanished into thin air.
Finally, not only was Karyl Robin-Evans not a professor at Oxford University at any time, but there was never any such person as Karyl Robin-Evans at all. He flat-out didn't exist. Likewise, Tsum Um Nui and Chi Pu Tei don't exist, either.
Both of these names are gibberish, too, and aren't actual Chinese names. They don't fit into Chinese phonetics or structural patterns; it's obvious that these names were created by a Westerner who does not have a grasp of Chinese.
These fake professors are as much a part of the mythology as the Dropa aliens described in the legend are.
Believe it or not, this is only a small sampling of the many, many flaws and holes in this story. Plus, even if the stones and the plate do actually exist, which they likely don't, the dating of 12,000 years does not have a clear rationale.
A Hoax Confessed: The Final Sin Of The Lolladoff Plate And The Dropa Stones
The true nail in the coffin of this story is that the person who made the whole thing up actually confessed to it being a hoax.
David Gamon, an author from Britain, admitted in 1995 that he was David Agamon, and that the whole thing was a hoax designed to profit from the Chariots of the Gods franchise (which included information about a mysterious bovine skull that turned out not to be proof of aliens or time travel).
Turns out, he plagiarized the plot of a 1973 French science fiction novel called Les disques de Biem-Kara by Daniel Piret.
The saddest part about this hoax is that it would have made for an interesting science fiction concept. The only real mystery here is how such a fiction novel would have been received.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1qrOMDsWo