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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 29, 2025
Dark Sand Cascades on Mars
Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks – streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
NASA satellites record fires at the Kulbakino airfield after the Russian strike
June 29, 2025 11:02
NASA satellites recorded strong hotbeds of ignition on the territory of the Kulbakino airfield in the Mykolaiv region after arrivals on the night of June 29.
"Satellite data from NASA FIRM (Fire Information for Resource Management System) recorded numerous fires on the territory of the Kulbakino airfield in Mykolaiv region of Ukraine after a night combined raid of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The attack, which took place on Sunday night, affected various facilities on the territory of Ukraine, including military infrastructure, and caused significant destruction, which is confirmed by independent sources," the newspaper writes. avia.pro .
Satellite images show at least 12 fires on the territory of the airfield, where the 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade is based.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian forces used a combination of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, including more than 60 cruise missiles X-101 and dozens of drones.
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/06/29/nasa-satellites-record-fires-at-the-kulbakino-airfield-after-the-russian-strike
https://www.newsweek.com/ex-nasa-chief-sounds-alarm-over-space-agency-future-2092143
Ex-NASA Chief Sounds Alarm Over Space Agency's Future
Updated Jun 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM EDT
The former head of NASA has said that the space agency is "being savaged," in response to proposed cuts by the Trump administration.
Bill Nelson, NASA administrator from 2021 to 2025, said: "If they continue on the path that they're on, it will be a crippled agency."
NASA has been working on plans to bring astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972 with the Artemis program, and to build the Lunar Gateway space station on the moon for long-term lunar scientific exploration.
These plans are now on hold amid a proposed Republican budget that would cut as much as half of NASA's science funding.
President Donald Trump's budget request to NASA, which must be debated by Congress before October 1, called for the agency to "terminate unaffordable missions," cut "woke" education programs and implement a "more sustainable, cost-effective approach to lunar exploration."
Overall, the budget proposes reducing the agency's annual budget from $24.9 billion to $18.8 billion.
Newsweek has contacted NASA for comment via email outside of working hours.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration says that the proposed reductions are necessary to rein in excessive spending, eliminate underperforming projects, and reorient NASA toward more cost-efficient private partnerships.
The White House has highlighted examples such as the $4 billion-per-launch cost of the Space Launch System, NASA's expendable heavy-lift rocket.
Critics say the proposed budget cuts threaten American progress in space and in scientific endeavor more broadly. In parallel, the administration has proposed eliminating climate satellite projects.
Previous scientific cuts by the Trump administration include Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. firing vaccine advisers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and a decrease in grants for scientific research.
What To Know
Cuts to NASA are creating "chaos" and will likely have "significant impacts to our leadership in space," a Democratic House staffer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Sunday Times, a U.K. newspaper.
NASA's Artemis project was launched during the first Trump administration and has already cost more than $26 billion for the new Space Launch System.
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Cutting NASA's budget would also heavily impact space science across Europe, as NASA has partnerships with the European Space Agency (ESA), which was collaborating with NASA and Airbus to build part of the new rockets to the moon and a Gateway space station.
This collaboration, which has already cost ESA €840 million in Airbus payments and another €650 million in future Airbus contracts, was supposed to result in three European astronauts going on the new lunar mission. The future of this plan is uncertain.
Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX still works with NASA, including on lunar exploration. However, he left the federal government and has criticized budget cuts amid a rift with Trump. The future of SpaceX's partnership with NASA is now also uncertain.
"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," Trump wrote on Truth Social in June.
What People Are Saying
Bill Nelson told reporters at a POLITICO summit: "That's like eating our seed corn.
We're not going to have anything to plant next year in the quest of trying to understand what is part of the statutes for NASA, which is to search for life, and therefore to understand who we are, what we are, and where we are."
Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro in a statement in May: "This proposal includes investments to simultaneously pursue exploration of the Moon and Mars while still prioritizing critical science and technology research.
I appreciate the President's continued support for NASA's mission and look forward to working closely with the administration and Congress to ensure we continue making progress toward achieving the impossible."
The White House in a statement in May: "The Budget phases out the grossly expensive and delayed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights.
SLS alone costs $4 billion per launch and is 140 percent over budget. The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with more cost-effective commercial systems that would support more ambitious subsequent lunar missions."
Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA director of human and robotic exploration, quoted in The Sunday Times: "We want to work on reducing the risks of the projects where we are dependent on US decisions.
We want to increase the projects which are done in autonomy, where we are the masters of the decisions we take."
What Happens Next
ESA leaders are looking to work on projects that do not rely on American money or American political decision-makers, turning to work with India and Japan, and possibly even China, instead.
Senator Ted Cruz, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee which oversees NASA's budget, has supported Artemis in the past, so it is not certain that NASA's budget will be cut by as much as the Trump administration's proposal by the October 1 deadline.
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Farthest 'mini-halo' ever detected could improve our understanding of the early universe
June 28, 2025
While analyzing a 10 billion-year-old radio signal, astronomers discovered a "mini-halo" — a cloud of energetic particles — around a far-off cluster of galaxies. The unexpected findings could further our understanding of the early universe.
This mini-halo is the most distant one ever detected, located twice as far from Earth as the next-farthest mini-halo. It is also massive, spanning more than 15 times the width of the Milky Way, and contains strong magnetic fields.
The findings have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and are available on the preprint server arXiv.
"It's astonishing to find such a strong radio signal at this distance," Roland Timmerman, a radio astronomer at Durham University who co-led the study, said in a statement.
How did the mini-halo form?
Mini-halos are faint groups of charged particles that emit radio and X-ray waves in the vacuum of space between galaxies.
They have been detected around galaxy clusters in the local universe, but never as far back in space and time as the one reported in the new study.
There are two theories that could explain the collection of particles, according to the researchers.
One possible cause is the supermassive black holes at the centers of large galaxies within the distant cluster.
These black holes can shoot high-energy particles into space, but it's not clear how the particles would travel away from a powerful black hole and into a mini-halo without losing significant energy.
Another possible means of creation is the collision of charged particles within the plasma in a galaxy cluster.
When these high-energy particles smash into each other, often at close to the speed of light, they can break apart into the kinds of particles that can be seen from Earth.
Implications for astronomy
Observations of the mini-halo come from light so old that it changes the picture of galaxy formation, proving that these charged particles have surrounded galaxies for billions of years longer than was known.
"Our discovery implies that clusters of galaxies have been immersed in such particles since their formation," Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, an astrophysicist at the University of Montréal who also co-led the research, told Live Science in an email.
It's "something which we were not expecting at first."
Scientists can now study the origin of these mini-halos to determine whether black holes or particle collisions are responsible for them.
These particles also have a hand in other astrophysical processes, like star formation. They can affect the energy and pressure of the gas within a galaxy or couple with magnetic fields in unique ways.
These processes can keep clouds of gas from collapsing, in turn altering how stars form in the gas.
"We are still learning a lot about these structures, so unfortunately the more quantitative picture is still very much in development," Timmerman told Live Science in an email.
New radio telescopes, like the SKA Observatory, are in development to help astronomers detect even fainter signals and learn about mini-halos.
"We are just scratching the surface of how energetic the early Universe really was," Hlavacek-Larrondo said.
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/farthest-mini-halo-ever-detected-could-improve-our-understanding-of-the-early-universe
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-discovery-mini-halo-early-universe.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19901
‘Secret tunnels’ under Greenland may be the safest place if war breaks out
Updated June 26, 2025 10:32am
Deep below the thick ice of Greenland lies a labyrinth of tunnels that were once thought to be the safest place on Earth in case of a war.
First created during the Cold War, Project Iceworm saw the US plan to store hundreds of ballistic missiles in a system of tunnels dubbed ‘Camp Century’.
Could the sprawling underground complex still be a safe place in case of war? At the time, US military chiefs had hoped to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union during the height of Cold War tensions if things escalated.
But less than a decade after it was built, the base was abandoned in 1967 after researchers realised the glacier was moving.
The sprawling sub-zero tunnels have been brought back to attention after recent tensions between Iran, Israel and the United States have brought up the possibility of another World War.
Talk of World War 3 is nothing new. For years, tense geopolitical moments have stoked fears that we are on the brink of a catastrophic conflict.
But these fears were all too common years ago, during the Cold War, when Camp Century – the city under Greenland’s ice sheet – was made.
The underground three-kilometre network of tunnels was dubbed Century City and once played host to labs, shops, a cinema, a hospital, and accommodation for hundreds of soldiers.
Alex Gardner, a cryospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: ‘We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century.
We didn’t know what it was at first. In the new data, individual structures in the secret city are visible in a way that they’ve never been before.’
But the icy Greenland site is not without its dangers – it continues to store nuclear waste.
Assuming the site would remain frozen in perpetuity, the US Army removed the nuclear reactor installed on site but allowed waste, equivalent to the mass of 30 Airbus A320 aeroplanes, to be entombed under the snow.
But other sites around the world, without nuclear waste, could also serve as a safe haven in case of World War 3.
Wood Norton is a tunnel network running deep into the Worcestershire forest, originally bought by the BBC during World War 2 in case of a crisis in London.
Peters Mountain in Virginia, USA, serves as one of several secret centres also known as AT&T project offices, which are essential for the US government’s continuity planning.
Further north in the United States, Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania is a base that could hold up to 1,400 people.
And Cheyenne Mountain Complex in El Paso County, Colorado, is an underground complex boasting five chambers of reservoirs for fuel and water, and in one section, there’s even reportedly an underground lake.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/26/secret-tunnels-greenland-may-safest-place-war-breaks-23511148/
NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore honored in TN hometown
Jun. 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM PDT
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WSMV) - Mt. Juliet honored NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore on Saturday afternoon.
The city officially named a portion of North Mt. Juliet Road after him.
The Mt. Juliet Fire Department said Williams took a photo with every person that asked at the celebration.
“Welcome back to MJ, Captain Wilmore — thank you for making Mt. Juliet proud!" said the Mt. Juliet Police Department.
https://www.wsmv.com/2025/06/28/nasa-astronaut-barry-wilmore-honored-tn-hometown/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DzSO29wVCI
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/06/28/morrison-students-help-university-of-michigan-researchers-with-nasa-solar-disturbance-study/
https://sunrise.umich.edu/about-us/
Morrison students help University of Michigan researchers with NASA solar disturbance study
June 28, 2025 at 6:08 pm CDT
MORRISON – High school students across the U.S., including 10 from Morrison High School, have been part of a project that has detected radio waves associated with solar disturbances using $500 antenna kits, contributing real scientific data to NASA.
The data helps scientists understand these disturbances and could help create early warnings to protect satellites and power grids on Earth, as well as astronauts and their equipment from dangerous solar storms.
Morrison High School got involved in the program in October 2023, when 10 MHS students from now-retired teacher Gregg Dolan’s physics class helped University of Michigan research professor and MHS graduate Ward “Chip” Manchester assemble and install an antenna on the school’s roof.
Those students were Zayden Boonstra, Blake Adams, Caden Bielema, Lisa Hardesty, Cameron McDonnell, Madison Banks, Alyvia Behrens, Cooper Bush, Chase Newman and Gigi Connelly.
“The students thoroughly enjoyed helping set up the antenna and learning what’s going on and figuring stuff out in space, because they just don’t get a lot of it in school,” said Dolan, who for the last 18 years of his career would devote the third quarter of the physics class to astronomy.
“I also gave a presentation about the mission, coronal mass ejections, solar eruptions and how they propagate through space, and how the radio emission occurs,” Manchester said.
“One student who had gone to Morrison was a freshman in the College of Engineering at Michigan, and was also there helping out.”
The antenna they put up is part of the SunRISE Ground Radio Lab, a science program inviting people to use a multifrequency radio telescope to listen to radio signals from space.
The SunRISE GRL is a collaborative effort between UM and NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment mission.
UM associate research scientist and SunRISE GRL lead researcher Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti said SunRISE is a group of six small satellites that will work together to study the sun’s low-frequency radio emissions.
It will help scientists better understand how solar storms form.
Akhavan-Tafti said the SunRISE mission began in 2018, when NASA selected a collaborative proposal from UM and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to move forward with development.
By 2020, the college had launched a multidisciplinary design program, bringing together undergraduate and graduate students to design, build and test ground-based antenna arrays in support of the SunRISE satellite mission.
“After that program successfully launched, NASA came back to us and said, ‘Hey, given the success of the program, do you think you could get high school students involved in the project?’” Akhavan-Tafti said. “We accepted the challenge.”
The SunRISE GRL now works with 18 high schools nationwide, building antennas that detect radio waves from solar phenomena.
The dual dipole antennas are designed to detect a specific range of low radio frequencies – between 8 and 24 megahertz – that are linked to solar events such as coronal mass ejections, which emit radio waves as they form and travel through space.
“Instead of making the antennas that were costing us around $25,000 a unit, we took it to our team, and we redesigned the antenna to be only $500,” Akhavan-Tafti said.
“It’s a different type of antenna, different type of frequency; however, it observes the same phenomena in space.”
That data helps in understanding space weather and its effects on technology and human life, providing early warnings of CMEs that can affect Earth.
“We can look at these solar radio bursts to tell us many days in advance that there is a storm potentially coming so that you can prepare for those types of big solar events, and so that your assets and astronauts are operating in safe environments,” Akhavan-Tafti said.
Although scientists still are figuring out exactly when during a CME’s journey these radio signals are produced, Akhavan-Tafti said the waves themselves travel at the speed of light – reaching Earth in just minutes or hours, far faster than the CMEs, which can take days to arrive.
According to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center, a CME is a massive burst of solar plasma and magnetic field released from the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona.
These eruptions can trigger geomagnetic storms that may disrupt satellites, power grids and communications on Earth.
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Akhavan-Tafti said the latest results from the SunRISE GLR program focus on validating the new instruments by confirming they can detect patterns seen in past studies.
“When you come up with a new instrument, you want to first make sure that it replicates previous data,” Akhavan-Tafti said. “Not every surprise is a good surprise.”
A study, which Akhavan-Tafti said was released Wednesday, June 25, links solar radio bursts – specifically Type II radio bursts – to CMEs, as previous high-resolution space- and ground-based observations have done.
What sets SunRISE apart is its use of interferometry, a method where signals from multiple antennas with unknown exact positions are combined to pinpoint the source of radio emissions.
Akhavan-Tafti said this is the first time such a technique has been applied to this kind of solar observation.
“One of the open science questions, after all this time, is: Exactly where are these signals coming from?” Akhavan-Tafti said.
Together, the students and researchers are seeking to answer that and other research questions, such as: What are the mechanisms behind solar flares and CMEs?
How do they manifest in radio emissions? What are the mechanisms behind various types of radio bursts observed on the sun, and how do they relate to space weather phenomena?
Akhavan-Tafti said the SunRISE GRL aims to inspire the next generation of science, technology, engineering, arts and math students through hands-on citizen-science activities.
“It would be great if they’re exposed to STEAM and those types of activities to get a sense of what it’s like to be a scientist or an engineer or an entrepreneur in the sciences,” Akhavan-Tafti said.
“That requires students to be trained to understand that these careers exist and to take courses that are going to prepare them for those types of future careers, and that’s what NASA wanted us to do.”
One of the key scientific advantages of the SunRISE mission is its ability to detect very low-frequency radio waves – right down to what is called the plasma cutoff frequencies, which Manchester said are the “lowest frequencies available to the antenna.”
On Earth, the ionosphere acts as a filter, blocking radio waves below a certain frequency.
“The ionosphere can only allow radio waves of certain frequencies to pass through. High frequencies go through OK, but if a frequency gets too low, the ionosphere absorbs it,” Manchester said.
“It almost becomes what’s called the plasma frequency … and it will just absorb it, almost like a DC current.” Manchester said this makes the space-based SunRISE array especially powerful.
“We have this cutoff frequency that we have to deal with, where we can’t see radio waves below that frequency on Earth’s surface because the ionosphere absorbs it,” Manchester said.
“The space mission doesn’t have that issue … so it can go to much, much lower frequencies.”
He said that access to lower frequencies in space is what makes the mission so compelling.
“That allows us to track features much further out into the solar wind. The further out they go, the lower the natural frequency,” Manchester said.
”On Earth, those get cut off pretty quickly. But in space, we’re gonna be able to track them much, much further out.”
For Akhavan-Tafti, the impact of the program goes beyond research. “These types of programs are allowing us to use federal funding to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs, policymakers, scientists and engineers of our nation,” Akhavan-Tafti said.
He hopes more schools will take advantage of the opportunity. “This is an open call – if any other high schools in the area think that they could benefit from this, everything is free of charge to the schools,” Akhavan-Tafti said.
“If they’re interested in getting involved, they’re welcome to contact us.”
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New Shepard Mission NS-33 Launch and Updates
Jun 29, 2025
Our new launch window opens at 9:38 AM CDT / 14:38 UTC. We’re continuing to evaluate the cloud cover and winds.
The NS-33 webcast will begin 30 minutes before liftoff on BlueOrigin.com/live.
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-33-mission
https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ns-33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Ad19qxuv4
https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/early-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet
https://theconversation.com/early-visions-of-mars-meet-the-19th-century-astronomer-who-used-science-fiction-to-imagine-the-red-planet-254005
Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet
June 29, 2025
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is hard to imagine a time when Mars was a mysterious and unreachable world.
And yet, before the invention of the rocket, astronomers who wanted to explore Mars beyond what they could see through their telescopes had to use their imaginations.
As a space historian and author of the book “For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet,” I’ve worked to understand how people in different times and places imagined Mars.
The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery.
Astronomers were learning more about Mars, but they still didn’t have enough information to know whether it hosted life, and if so, what kind.
With more powerful telescopes and new printing technologies, astronomers began applying the cartographic tools of geographers to create the first detailed maps of the planet’s surface, filling it in with continents and seas, and in some cases features that could have been produced by life.
Because it was still difficult to see the actual surface features of Mars, these maps varied considerably.
During this period, one prominent scientist and popularizer brought together science and imagination to explore the possibilities that life on another world could hold.
Camille Flammarion
One imaginative thinker whose attention was drawn to Mars during this period was the Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion.
In 1892, Flammarion published “The Planet Mars,” which remains to this day a definitive history of Mars observation up through the 19th century.
It summarized all the published literature about Mars since the time of Galileo in the 17th century. This work, he reported, required him to review 572 drawings of Mars.
Like many of his contemporaries, Flammarion concluded that Mars, an older world that had gone through the same evolutionary stages as Earth, must be a living world.
Unlike his contemporaries, he insisted that Mars, while it might be the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, was distinctly its own world.
It was the differences that made Mars interesting to Flammarion, not the similarities.
Any life found there would be evolutionarily adapted to its particular conditions – an idea that appealed to the author H.G. Wells when he imagined invading Martians in “The War of the Worlds.”
But Flammarion also admitted that it was difficult to pin down these differences, as “the distance is too great, our atmosphere is too dense, and our instruments are not perfect enough.”
None of the maps he reviewed could be taken literally, he lamented, because everyone had seen and drawn Mars differently.
Given this uncertainty about what had actually been seen on Mars’ surface, Flammarion took an agnostic stance in “The Planet Mars” as to the specific nature of life on Mars.
He did, however, consider that if intelligent life did exist on Mars, it would be more ancient than human life on Earth.
Logically, that life would be more perfect — akin to the peaceful, unified and technologically advanced civilization he predicted would come into being on Earth in the coming century.
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“We can however hope,” he wrote, “that since the world of Mars is older than our own, its inhabitants may be wiser and more advanced than we are. Undoubtedly it is the spirit of peace which has animated this neighboring world.”
But as Flammarion informed his readers, “the Known is a tiny island in the midst of the ocean of the Unknown,” a point he often underscored in the more than 70 books he published in his lifetime. It was the “Unknown” that he found particularly tantalizing.
Historians often describe Flammarion more as a popularizer than a serious scientist, but this should not diminish his accomplishments.
For Flammarion, science wasn’t a method or a body of established knowledge. It was the nascent core of a new philosophy waiting to be born.
He took his popular writing very seriously and hoped it could turn people’s minds toward the heavens.
Imaginative novels
Without resolving the planet’s surface or somehow communicating with its inhabitants, it was premature to speculate about what forms of life might exist on Mars.
And yet, Flammarion did speculate — not so much in his scientific work, but in a series of novels he wrote over the course of his career.
In these imaginative works, he was able to visit Mars and see its surface for himself. Unlike his contemporary, the science fiction author Jules Verne, who imagined a technologically facilitated journey to the Moon, Flammarion preferred a type of spiritual journey.
Based on his belief that human souls after death can travel through space in a way that the living body cannot, Flammarion’s novels include dream journeys as well as the accounts of deceased friends or fictional characters.
In his novel “Urania” (1889), Flammarion’s soul visits Mars in a dream. Upon arrival, he encounters a deceased friend, George Spero, who has been reincarnated as a winged, luminous, six-limbed being.
“Organisms can no more be earthly on Mars than they could be aerial at the bottom of the sea,” Flammarion writes.
Later in the same novel, Spero’s soul visits Flammarion on Earth. He reveals that Martian civilization and science have progressed well beyond Earth, not only because Mars is an older world, but because the atmosphere is thinner and more suitable for astronomy.
Flammarion imagined that practicing and popularizing astronomy, along with the other sciences, had helped advance Martian society.
Flammarion’s imagined Martians lived intellectual lives untroubled by war, hunger and other earthly concerns.
This was the life Flammarion wanted for his fellow Parisians, who had lived through the devastation of the Franco-Prussian war and suffered starvation and deprivation during the Siege of Paris and its aftermath.
Today, Flammarion’s Mars is a reminder that imagining a future on Mars is as much about understanding ourselves and our societal aspirations as it is about developing the technologies to take us there.
Flammarion’s popularization of science was his means of helping his fellow Earth-bound humans understand their place in the universe.
They could one day join his imagined Martians, which weren’t meant to be taken any more literally than the maps of Mars he analyzed for “The Planet Mars.” His world was an example of what life could become under the right conditions.
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Does she have a butterfly tattoo somewhere?
Iran bars UN atomic energy chief from its nuclear sites
28 Jun, 2025 21:09
Iran has barred the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from visiting its nuclear facilities.
Tehran has accused the agency of distorting facts in a recent report, thereby providing justification for the recent Israeli and US strikes against the Islamic Republic.
The vice speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Hamid Reza Haji Babaei, announced on Saturday that Tehran would no longer allow IAEA personnel, including chief Rafael Grossi personally, to inspect its nuclear sites, as quoted by the local media outlet Mehr.
The agency’s surveillance cameras will cease operating at the facilities, he added.
Earlier this week, Iran's constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, approved a legislation to suspend cooperation with the IAEA until Iran is given security guarantees for its nuclear facilities. The bill is currently awaiting ratification.
Israel, which has for years has claimed that Tehran is secretly developing a nuclear weapon program, launched massive airstrikes against Iran on June 13, targeting several nuclear sites and a number of senior military commanders and scientists believed to be involved in the nuclear program.
Last Sunday, the US joined the Israeli military campaign, striking the Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow nuclear facilities. Shortly thereafter, a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Iran.
Iran has maintained that its nuclear program is strictly peaceful in nature.
In a post on X last week, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei accused the IAEA of issuing a “biased report” that “obscured this truth” and was “instrumentalized… to craft a resolution” that was later used by Israel to justify “an unlawful attack” on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
He also suggested that the agency had handed over “sensitive facility data” to Israel.
The document released earlier this month stated that “Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon state in the world that is producing and accumulating uranium enriched to 60%.”
The UN nuclear watchdog’s board then declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation duties for the first time in 20 years, with 19 out of 35 IAEA member states backing the motion, including the US, UK, France, and Germany.
Appearing on CNN last Thursday, Grossi insisted that the watchdog’s report “could hardly be a basis for military action.”
He added that the agency did not “have any indication that there is a systematic program in Iran to manufacture, to produce a nuclear weapon.”
On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the “Europeans… were actively preparing Grossi so that he would put the most ambiguously negative formulations into his report.”
Weeks before the Israeli and US airstrikes against Iran, Reuters cited anonymous diplomats as making allegations to the same effect.
https://www.rt.com/news/620728-iran-bars-iaea-from-nuclear-sites/
US reacts to ‘calls for execution’ of IAEA chief
29 Jun, 2025 04:54
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has condemned reported calls in Iran to execute Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Rubio’s comments came after Iranian newspaper Kayhan reportedly accused Grossi of spying for Israel and suggested that, if he enters the country, he should be tried and executed.
“Calls in Iran for the arrest and execution of IAEA Director General Grossi are unacceptable and should be condemned,” Rubio wrote on X on Saturday.
“We support the IAEA’s critical verification and monitoring efforts in Iran and commend the Director General and the IAEA for their dedication and professionalism.
We call on Iran to ensure the safety and security of IAEA personnel,” he added.
Earlier this week, Iran’s parliament voted to suspend cooperation with the UN watchdog. Following the vote, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that Grossi would be barred from entering the country.
Speaking to RT on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the Iranian public is angry at the IAEA for failing to strongly condemn recent Israeli and US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Israel has claimed the strikes were necessary to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Baghaei reiterated that Iran’s nuclear program remains peaceful, adding that there has been no weapons-grade enrichment of uranium.
https://www.rt.com/news/620734-rubio-condemns-calls-to-execute-grossi/
477 Drones, 60 Missiles: Russia Launches "Biggest" Aerial Attack On Ukraine
Jun 29, 2025 15:12 pm IST
kyiv: Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, wounding at least six people, including a child, according to Ukrainian officials.
Moscow fired a total of 537 aerial weapons at Ukraine, including 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles. Of these, 249 were shot down and 226 were lost, likely having been electronically jammed, according to Ukraine's air force.
The Russians were targeting everything that sustains life, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X as the escalated bombing campaign further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war.
Zelensky noted that bombing damaged homes and infrastructure, and Ukraine lost its third F-16 fighter jet since the start of the war while repelling the attack.
"Almost all night long, air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine - 477 drones were in our skies, most of them Russian-Iranian Shaheds, along with 60 missiles of various types.
The Russians were targeting everything that sustains life. A residential building in Smila was also hit, and a child was injured. Emergency services are responding wherever they're needed," the Ukrainian President said.
"Tragically, while repelling the attack, our F-16 pilot, Maksym Ustymenko, died. Today, he destroyed 7 aerial targets. My condolences to his family and brothers-in-arms.
I have instructed that all the circumstances of his death be investigated. Ukrainian aviation is heroically protecting our skies. I am grateful to everyone who is defending Ukraine," he added.
Zelensky said Moscow will not stop as long as it has the capability to launch massive strikes, as he noted that just over the past week alone, there have been more than 114 missiles, over 1,270 drones, and nearly 1,100 glide bombs.
"Putin long ago decided he would keep waging war, despite the world's calls for peace. This war must be brought to an end - pressure on the aggressor is needed, and so is protection.
Protection from ballistic and other missiles, from drones, and from terror. Ukraine needs to strengthen its air defence - the thing that best protects lives.
These are American systems, which we are ready to buy. We count on leadership, political will, and the support of the United States, Europe, and all our partners. I thank everyone who is helping," he added.
"Biggest Strike"
Yuriy Ihnat, head of communications for Ukraine's air force, told the Associated Press that the overnight onslaught was "the most massive air strike" on the country, taking into account both drones and various types of missiles.
The attack targeted regions across Ukraine, including western Ukraine, far from the frontline. Poland and allied countries scrambled aircraft to ensure the safety of Polish airspace, the Polish air force said on Sunday.
"Six Wounded"
Six people, including one child, were injured in the central Cherkasy region, the governor, Ihor Taburets, said on the Telegram messenger. Kherson regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said one person died in a drone strike.
In the Lviv region in the far west of Ukraine, a large-scale fire broke out at an industrial facility in the city of Drohobych following a drone attack that also forced parts of the city to lose power.
Three multi-storey buildings and a college were damaged in the attack, he said. Industrial facilities were hit in the southern Ukrainian Mykolaiv and the central Dnipropetrovsk region, officials say.
Local authorities published photos of multi-storey houses with charred walls and broken windows, and rescuers evacuating residents.
The governor of the Lviv region in the west of the country said the attack targeted critical infrastructure. However, he did not report on the aftermath.
500 Types Of Weapons Used
The Ukrainian military said some 500 different types of aerial weapons were used during the attack, including drones, ballistic and cruise missiles.
"To repel the massive attack, all available means of the defence forces that can operate on enemy air assets were deployed," the military said.
The pilot of the Ukrainian F-16 jet did everything he could and flew the jet away from a settlement but did not have time to eject, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
"The pilot used all of his onboard weapons and shot down seven air targets. While shooting down the last one, his aircraft was damaged and began to lose altitude," the Air Force said on the Telegram messenger.
It said air strikes were recorded in six locations.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-launches-biggest-aerial-attack-on-ukraine-since-war-began-477-drones-60-missiles-8790659
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1939221481403093476
Russia launched 114 missiles, over 1,270 drones, nearly 1,100 glide bombs across Ukraine in one week – Zelensky
29.06.2025 11:46
President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a post on social media, as reported by Ukrinform.
“Almost all night long, air raid alerts sounded across Ukraine — 477 drones were in our skies, most of them Russian-Iranian Shaheds, along with 60 missiles of various types.
The Russians were targeting everything that sustains life. A residential building in Smila was also hit, and a child was injured. Emergency services are responding wherever they’re needed,” Zelensky noted.
He said that tragically, while repelling the attack, Ukrainian F-16 pilot, Maksym Ustymenko, died.
“Today, he destroyed 7 aerial targets. My condolences to his family and brothers-in-arms. I have instructed that all the circumstances of his death be investigated.
Ukrainian aviation is heroically protecting our skies. I am grateful to everyone who is defending Ukraine,” Zelensky stressed.
According to the President, Moscow will not stop as long as it has the capability to launch massive strikes.
“Just this week alone, there have been more than 114 missiles, over 1,270 drones, and nearly 1,100 glide bombs. Putin long ago decided he would keep waging war, despite the world's calls for peace.
This war must be brought to an end — pressure on the aggressor is needed, and so is protection. Protection from ballistic and other missiles, from drones, and from terror. Ukraine needs to strengthen its air defense — the thing that best protects lives.
These are American systems, which we are ready to buy. We count on leadership, political will, and the support of the United States, Europe, and all our partners.
I thank everyone who is helping,” Zelensky wrote.
As reported by Ukrinform, Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 475 out of 537 drones and missiles launched by Russian forces during a large-scale overnight and early morning attack on June 29.
A Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet was damaged while repelling the Russian attack, 1st class pilot Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustymenko was killed.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4009522-russia-launched-114-missiles-over-1270-drones-nearly-1100-glide-bombs-across-ukraine-in-one-week-zelensky.html
https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa
Iran Hunts Down 'MOSSAD SPIES'; 'Drone Maker' Israeli Agent Arrested, 3 Others 'Executed'
Jun 29, 2025, 07:47:23 PM
Iranian intelligence and security agencies deepen crackdown on alleged Mossad agents inside the country. Iranian police arrested a Mossad agent while manufacturing drones west of Tehran.
The alleged agent was reportedly providing Iran's sensitive information to Israel. Iran also executed Three more Iranian men this week on alleged charges of collaborating with Israel. Watch this video to know more.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/iran-hunts-down-mossad-spies-drone-maker-israeli-agent-arrested-3-others-executed/videoshow/122144123.cms
Israeli Drone Strike Kills Four in Khan Younis
Sun 29 Jun 2025 | 09:03 AM
Israeli forces carried out a new airstrike targeting central Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian sources.
Medical officials at Nasser Medical Complex confirmed that four people — including a child and two women — were killed after an Israeli drone strike hit a displaced persons’ tent in the western part of the city.
The incident was reported by several Palestinian media outlets.
The latest attack comes amid ongoing hostilities in Gaza, where densely populated civilian areas, including shelters for displaced families, continue to be impacted by aerial bombardments.
Human rights groups have repeatedly warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the southern Gaza Strip, particularly in Khan Younis, which has witnessed several waves of displacement and heavy bombardment in recent months.
https://see.news/israeli-drone-strike-kills-four-in-khan-younis
Anti-drone lasers will be fitted to military vehicles to protect the UK from swarm attacks by terror groups or hostile nations
Updated: 20:54 EDT, 28 June 2025
Laser weapons capable of shooting down drones will be fitted to military vehicles to help protect the UK from swarm attacks by terror groups or hostile nations, The Mail On Sunday can reveal.
Defence experts have said the laser-armed vehicles could guard airfields, sensitive locations such as GCHQ and other areas of critical national infrastructure.
Tanks, armoured personnel carriers and reconnaissance vehicles will be equipped with the lasers, which are designed to blast drones out of the sky from more than half a mile.
Details of the laser plans emerged as Britain begins ramping up its defence spending to counter threats from Russia and China.
After criticism from US President Donald Trump, the UK aims to spend 4.1 per cent of its GDP on defence by 2027, and 5 per cent by 2035.
At a Nato summit last week, Sir Keir Starmer said increased defence spending was vital to counter threats at home and abroad.
The lasers, known as direct energy weapons, fire an intense beam of infrared light, causing a target to heat up and explode.
They will be equipped with sensors capable of tracking drones to ensure the weapon remains locked-on to its target.
Unlike conventional weapons, they strike at the speed of light and are virtually limitless in terms of ammunition.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Defence announced that it would invest £1 billion in lasers.
Details of the laser plan have been revealed by the MoD in a 'preliminary market engagement notice' to defence companies.
The document, seen by The Mail on Sunday, said the MoD was seeking a 'laser direct energy weapon to destroy small unmanned air systems (drones) at ranges of 1km-plus'. It adds that 'availability to deliver within 12 months ideally' will be required.
Defence firms will have to demonstrate the capability of their systems as they bid for the £20 million contract. Earlier this month, the MoD also revealed plans to develop a fleet of drones capable of being launched from Transit vans.
Col Philip Ingram, a former Army intelligence officer, said the lasers were vital for national security and 'can't come quickly enough'.
The MoD said the laser weapons will be 'created this decade', adding: 'Following the successful trial of a high-energy laser mounted to a Wolfhound armoured vehicle, we are engaging the market to help inform decisions on procurement.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14857373/Anti-drone-lasers-military-vehicles-UK-terror-groups-hostile-nations.html
New York police could deploy mesh net-firing counter-drone system for safer skies
Updated: Jun 29, 2025 08:19 AM EST
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is planning to deploy a rather interesting measure to curtail the menace caused by unidentified drone operators.
NYPD’s plan is to use drones of its own to counter the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that dot the Big Apple’s skyline and cause problems to residents. T
These will not be ordinary drones, they will be able to detect, track, and then neutralize hostile UAVs with the help of a mesh net.
The police department in the city, according to a report by the New York Post, is in talks with a drone tech supplier for the counter-drone tech.
Maryland-based American Robotics has developed the Iron Drone Raider system which holds smaller interceptor drones that can be deployed to take down the hostile UAVs.
The Iron Drone Raider counter-drone system
American Robotics, owned by Ondas Holdings, has developed the Iron Drone Raider system that can detect, track, and take down unwanted UAVs.
The company says that the Iron Drone’s unique integrated AI-based interception drone system allows for the elimination of small hostile drones.
It claims that it is effective against any type of small drone controlled or pre-programmed for flight, including hostile drones which do not rely on a pilot’s command and control radio-link.
The system, upon detecting a small hostile drone, autonomously launches a small, hyper-fast interceptor drone that detects and tracks approaching hostile drones and “locks on” to them using proprietary advanced AI vision.
The Raider drone will autonomously follow the target drone using its day and night cameras, which can also provide live video feed to the personnel sitting miles away.
The intercepting Raider drone follows the target, incapacitates the hostile drone using a mesh net and a parachute to safely lower it to the ground.
The whole process, including detection, deployment, tracking and capturing the hostile drone is fully automated removing the need for a human pilot.
Moreover, the system can function round-the-clock without seeking human intervention.
Drone incursions have increased in the US
In the last year, multiple drone incursions were reported at several important military, nuclear power stations, and more in the United States.
In the last few weeks of December 2024 alone, over 5,000 drone sighting reports had been received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Drones are being adopted around the globe for military and civilian purposes. However, some nefarious elements have also been using the technology to cause mayhem, by making them a tool in illegal activities.
The city of New York too faces a similar problem and that is why NYPD is mulling the counter-drone technology it needs to have in its arsenal for curbing the issue.
Other options for countering hostile UAVs include shooting them down with laser weapons, bullets, or through hacking, electronic warfare, and radio jamming. While equally effective, these systems can be a bit costly to deploy and maintain.
The New York Post report quotes American Robotics CEO Eric Brock saying that the Iron Drone Raider system with eight drones costs less than $200,000.
It needs to be mentioned that Ukraine too has employed similar interceptor drones to tackle the threat posed by Russian drones. However, the Iron Drone Raider system’s differentiator is the use of mesh nets and parachutes to tackle hostile UAVs.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-york-police-counter-drone-solution
Neo Humanoid Robot At-Home Training Update
Jun 29, 2025
Robotics company 1X shared new insights into their Redwood AI and 1X World Model which are helping the company's Neo humanoid robots learn how to do a variety of tasks in a home setting.
https://www.cnet.com/videos/neo-humanoid-robot-at-home-training-update/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2O8GkBoQFU
https://www.1x.tech/discover/redwood-ai
Amateur Astronomer Captures UFO and Strange Red Light on the Moon
Jun 29, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hYjqsLTEu8
Giza's Underground City Just Got Much Bigger | Khafre Project Interview | Megalithomania
Jun 28, 2025
An exclusive new Megalithomania interview with Armando Mei and Filippo Biondi of the Khafre Research Project analysing the brand new scientific SAR scan data that has just revealed that all three pyramids on the Giza Plateau have massive underground features, including the Sphinx.
We also talk to Trevor Grassi who has been researching the Giza underground for several years.
This is the full up-to-date story of what is going on beneath the pyramids at Giza with discoveries that may change history as we know it.
Filmed at the 2025 @cosmicsummit
https://www.megalithomania.co.uk/egypt.html
https://www.facebook.com/KhafreResearchProjectSARTechnology
https://www.youtube.com/@trevorgrassi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_DIGdpxXCo
Speaker Johnson & Oversight Chair Comer don't "remember" blocking UAP Caucus from SAPs
Jun 28, 2025
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets
Ask a Pol asks:
What do you make of claims from former AARO Director Tim Phillips that the UAP Caucus has been locked out of classified Special Access Programs — SAPs — by Oversight Chair James Comer and Speaker Mike Johnson?
Key Burlison:
“I've reached out to Comer and to Johnson, neither one of them remember this at all,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol.
Will new White House policy on classified info hurt UAP?
After the Iran bombing campaign, Axios is reporting the White House wants to cut Congress off from classified info because of all the leaks.
Do you think that could hurt your ongoing UAP investigation?
“I get it, you can't trust every member of Congress,” Burlison says. “
The point is, like, if you're gonna put me in a position where I have a responsibility to to be a part of this investigation, this task force, give me the tools and the information I need.
“Or else don't. Or just eliminate the whole thing and then you can save my time altogether.”
Caught our ear, per Mexico trip:
What was your takeaway from seeing the Buga Sphere in Mexico last week?
“I'm not convinced that any of those artifacts are real. They're very intriguing to look at. They're very interesting,” Burlison tells us.
“When I asked [David] Grusch about it, he didn't really know much about the sphere, but he told me that there's some tridactyl type of — I think that's what they call them, tridactyls
— those ‘mummies’ that are down there, particularly in Peru, that he thinks that they are consistent with the things that he's been briefed on.”
https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/i-dont-recall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShYSvTrmkJI
https://www.youtube.com/@jaimemaussanoficial
https://www.ufonews.co/post/ufo-secrecy-creating-constitutional-crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LmldcBUHqg
UFO Secrecy Creating Constitutional Crisis
June 27, 2025
In a series of interesting revelations that have sent shockwaves through the UFO disclosure community, retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet has made unprecedented claims about government UFO secrecy, alien technology, and what he describes as an ongoing constitutional crisis. Speaking to The Baltimore Sun and testifying before Congress, Gallaudet — a former head of NOAA and the Navy’s top oceanographer — has become one of the most credible voices calling for transparency on what may be the most significant cover-up in modern history.
Gallaudet’s credentials make his statements impossible to dismiss. With a PhD in oceanography and decades of military service, he served as the Oceanographer of the Navy and later as acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
When someone with his level of security clearance and scientific background speaks about government UFO programs, it demands attention.
“The government has a trove of UFO videos and materials that they’ve been hiding from the public and Congress for decades,” Gallaudet stated bluntly in his recent interview, adding that while there may be national security reasons for some secrecy, “the American people have a right to know the nature of reality.”
The turning point in Gallaudet’s understanding of the UFO phenomenon came in January 2015, during what should have been a routine naval exercise.
While serving as commander of Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Gallaudet received an email that would fundamentally alter his worldview.
The message, sent through the Navy’s secure network from the operations officer of Fleet Forces Command, carried an urgent subject line in all capital letters: “URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE.”
The content was even more alarming, with words to the effect of “If any of you know what these are, tell me ASAP. We are having multiple near midair collisions, and if we do not resolve this soon, we are going to have to shut down the exercise.”
The email involved the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group during pre-deployment exercises off the U.S. East Coast, overseen by a four-star admiral who was also Gallaudet’s superior officer.
Attached to the message was what is now known as the “Go Fast” video — declassified footage captured by a Navy F/A-18’s forward-looking infrared sensor showing an unidentified object exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in the military’s arsenal.
The implication was clear: someone was asking if any recipients knew of classified technology demonstrations that could explain these mysterious objects, though Defense Department policy requires rigorous deconfliction of such demonstrations with live exercises.
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What happened next has become a recurring theme in UFO disclosure accounts. The very next day, the email disappeared from Gallaudet’s account and those of other recipients without any explanation.
More concerning still, the incident was never discussed again, even during weekly meetings specifically designed to address exercise issues.
As Gallaudet testified before Congress, this lack of follow-up was deeply troubling, especially considering his role as the Navy’s Chief Meteorologist, where his primary duty was reducing safety-of-flight risks.
“It was evident that no one at the Flag Officer level was addressing the safety risks posed by UAPs. Instead, pilots were left to mitigate these threats on their own, without guidance or support.”
The admiral’s claims extend beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into the largely unexplored depths of our oceans.
Gallaudet reveals that he knows people who have seen classified video of underwater UFOs, often referred to as unidentified submerged objects (USOs).
Given that humanity has explored less than five percent of Earth’s oceans, the implications are staggering.
If these craft operate beneath the waves, they could have maintained hidden bases in the deep ocean for decades or longer, using the planet’s most inaccessible regions as perfect cover for their operations.
Perhaps most disturbing are Gallaudet’s accusations against AARO, the Pentagon’s official UAP investigation office.
During a meeting with AARO’s acting director in 2024, Gallaudet claims he was subjected to what he describes as “an hours-long influence operation” designed to convince him that AARO’s flawed historical report was accurate, question well-known UAP cases like the USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” encounter, and disparage former government officials who have spoken publicly about UAP programs.
This led Gallaudet to conclude that AARO represents “Project Blue Book 2.0” — a reference to the Air Force’s 1950s-60s program that was later revealed to be more focused on debunking UFO reports than investigating them seriously.
The admiral’s most explosive recent statements involve direct contact with non-human intelligence.
Speaking to News Nation, Gallaudet declared that the government needs to “disclose that we are in contact with non-human intelligence,” explaining that “we’re being visited by non-human intelligence with technology we really don’t understand and with intentions we don’t understand either.”
While acknowledging that some technological aspects might legitimately remain classified for national security reasons, he draws a clear line at hiding the existence of contact itself.
Gallaudet frames the entire disclosure issue as a moral imperative, arguing that “unelected officials in the U.S. government do not have an exclusive right to this knowledge about the nature of reality.
The American people have a right to that knowledge.” His congressional testimony concluded with a powerful statement about moral leadership and the courage of whistleblowers who risk their careers to expose the truth.
As more credible voices like Gallaudet continue speaking out, the question shifts from whether UFOs exist to what happens when enough people in positions of authority start demanding answers.
The admiral’s revelations suggest we may be approaching a tipping point where congressional action on UFO disclosure becomes not just possible, but inevitable.
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