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Five people injured in Nikopol district due to FPV drone attacks
11.08.2025 16:10
Russian FPV drones attacked Nikopol and the Marhanets community. Five people were injured.
Serhii Lysak, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, informed about the incident on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
“Since morning, five people have been injured in the Nikopol district due to FPV drone strikes,” the report said.
Two men were wounded in the Marganets community, both of whom were hospitalized. One of them is in severe condition.
Three people were injured in Nikopol.
The victims are women aged 60 and 64, and a 66-year-old man. All three are receiving outpatient treatment.
Read also: SSU drones strike Russian factory producing components for Kh-32 and Kh-101 missiles - source
According to Ukrinform, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region on August 10, injuring a civilian.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4024440-five-people-injured-in-nikopol-district-due-to-fpv-drone-attacks.html
SSU drones strike Russian factory producing components for Kh-32 and Kh-101 missiles
11.08.2025 14:57
This morning, long-range drones from the SSU's Special Operations Center “A” struck the production facilities of the Plandin Arzamas Instrument-Making Plant, located in the Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation.
This enterprise is part of the Russian Federation's military-industrial complex and manufactures gyroscopic devices, control systems, on-board computers, and system components, in particular for the Kh-32 and Kh-101 missiles.
On the morning of August 11, long-range drones from the SSU's Special Operations Center “A” struck the production facilities of the Arzamas Instrument-Making Plant named after Plandin, located in the Nizhny Novgorod region of the Russian Federation.
The plant is part of the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation. According to preliminary data, at least four drones from the SSU's Special Operations Center “A” hit the plant.
“Russian military-industrial complex enterprises working for the war against Ukraine are absolutely legitimate military targets.
The SSU continues to work on the demilitarization of facilities that produce weapons for terrorizing peaceful Ukrainian cities,” said an informed source in the SSU.
This enterprise is part of Russia's military-industrial complex and manufactures gyroscopic devices, control systems, on-board computers, and system components, in particular for the Kh-32 and Kh-101 missiles.
"Russian military-industrial complex enterprises working for the war against Ukraine are absolutely legitimate military targets.
The SSU continues to work on the demilitarization of facilities that produce weapons for terrorizing peaceful Ukrainian cities," said a source in the SSU.
As reported by Ukrinform, on the morning of August 9, SSU drones struck a Shahed drone storage terminal in the village of Kzyl-Yul, Republic of Tatarstan.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4024376-ssu-drones-strike-russian-factory-producing-components-for-kh32-and-kh101-missiles-source.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34aJnnupMLA
Two men arrested after attempted drone drop at HMP Long Lartin
August 11, 2025
TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to get contraband into HMP Long Lartin via drone.
On Sunday, August 10 officers responded to a report of a drone over the prison around 9.30pm and quickly identified a suspect vehicle.
Following a short pursuit, a car was successfully stung and stopped on the A46 near the Simon De Montfort Bridge. A drone battery and cannabis were found in the vehicle.
A drone and other items were then discovered after a further search with a dog unit in the nearby area.
Two men, aged 25 and 28, were subsequently arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to convey prohibited items into a prison.
Detective Chief Inspector James Bamber said:
“We currently have two people in police custody after officers successfully intercepted a suspect vehicle linked to a drone sighting over HMP Long Lartin.
“Contraband believed to be intended for behind the prison walls was seized from the car along with a drone.
“We are continuing in our efforts to detect and disrupt drone activity over the prison, and build a greater intelligence picture to ultimately dismantle the organised crime groups behind the operations.”
If a member of the public spots a drone near to the prison or has information about suspicious activity near to HMP Long Lartin, they are asked to report it via 999 immediately.
Alternatively, for non emergencies, contact Crimestoppers anonymously via 0800 555 111.
https://www.eveshamobserver.co.uk/news/two-men-arrested-after-attempted-drone-drop-at-hmp-long-lartin/
Drone Strike Halts Rosneft Oil Refinery Operations
Aug 11, 2025, 10:30 AM CDT
A Sunday drone attack on the Saratov refinery, owned by Russia’s oil giant Rosneft, prompted the facility to halt the intake of crude oil, a source with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg on Monday.
The Saratov Refinery in the Volga region has the capacity to process 140,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, but it has now been forced offline due to Ukrainian drone strikes.
The Saratov refinery, which has been part of Rosneft since 2013, typically processes Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil and Saratovskoye field crude oil from the pipeline, as well as crude oil from the Orenburg fields shipped by rail.
The refinery has become the third Russian crude processing facility to have been damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes so far in August.
he halt to three major refineries would mean that Russia will see lower domestic gasoline and diesel supply while it will have more crude available for export as it doesn’t have too much storage for the unprocessed crude.
Last week, reports emerged that Russia is preparing to sharply increase crude oil exports this month after Ukrainian drone strikes disabled two major refineries, prompting a shift toward western port shipments.
Crude shipments from Russia’s western ports could increase to 2 million bpd in August, about 200,000 bpd more than previously planned, sources told Reuters last week.
Spot traders have reportedly started locking in Aframax tankers to handle the sudden increase, as onshore refining options collapse and terminal inventories build.
Ukraine and Russia continue to exchange strikes and fire ahead of the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin planned for Friday in Alaska.
Russia’s demands include the Ukrainian government ceding eastern provinces, which it has indicated it would not agree to, and this casts doubts over the success of the Trump-Putin talks, ING’s commodity analysts Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey wrote in a Monday note.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Drone-Strike-Halts-Rosneft-Oil-Refinery-Operations.html
Canada greenlights drone-based avalanche blasting tech
Aug 11 2025 - 8:20 am PT
For nearly 80 years, avalanche safety crews in Canada have battled unstable snow with World War II artillery, helicopter drops, and risky ground missions.
Now, a Canadian drone company says it has a safer, faster, and more precise way to get the job done — and the government just gave it the green light.
AVSS, best known for its parachute recovery systems for drones, has received a nationwide Special Flight Operations Certificate from Transport Canada to use its SnowDart system for avalanche control.
The approval means AVSS can send drones into avalanche-prone areas to drop low-cost, eco-friendly explosives — all without putting crews in harm’s way.
The solution, part of AVSS’s Precision Avalanche Management System (PAMS), combines flight-planning software, autonomous navigation, and consumable SnowDarts.
Once dropped, the devices trigger controlled blasts to release dangerous snow loads. The drones also collect detailed performance data, giving operators valuable insights for future missions.
AVSS started developing the technology in 2020, with support from Transport Canada and FEDDEV.
Over several years, the company tested drop mechanisms, refined pyrotechnic delivery systems, and navigated regulatory hurdles for storing and manufacturing explosives.
The new approval now opens the door to commercial use by ski resorts, mining companies, and government agencies, and to international sales through AVSS’s global dealer network.
Traditional avalanche control is both costly and dangerous. Helicopter drops require highly skilled pilots flying close to unstable slopes.
Howitzer crews fire heavy artillery shells into avalanche paths, a method that hasn’t changed much since WWII.
Remote Avalanche Control Systems (RACS) can work well but are expensive to build and maintain, and only cover fixed locations.
Drones offer a new option.
They’re cheaper to operate, require smaller teams, and can fly when helicopters are grounded or RACS are down for maintenance.
Most importantly, they keep people far from danger zones.
This isn’t about replacing every tool, AVSS says. It’s about giving avalanche teams another option, one that improves safety and efficiency.
With the SFOC in place, AVSS is now preparing for full-scale deployment, aiming to prove that drones can do in minutes, and at a fraction of the cost, what once required heavy artillery and helicopter crews.
https://dronedj.com/2025/08/11/drone-avalanche-control-canada-avss/
Drone footage of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh on fire
Sun 10 August 2025 at 3:24 pm GMT-7
Drone footage shows Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat ablaze, with smoke visible across the city.
The fire broke out around 4pm on Sunday (10/08) in Holyrood Park, prompting multiple calls to emergency services.
Scottish Fire and Rescue urged the public to avoid the area and said no further alerts were needed as crews tackled the blaze.
Arthur’s Seat, an extinct volcano and popular beauty spot, rises 250 metres above sea level and offers panoramic city views.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/drone-footage-arthurs-seat-edinburgh-222421258.html
Drone ‘narco subs’ laden with drugs ‘could be operating in the UK’
Updated August 11, 2025 3:18pm
Drone ‘narco subs’ could be operating in UK waters as a new way to transport drugs, according to an expert.
South American cartels regularly try and smuggle drugs to Britain via cargo ships, with packages moved to a floatation device closer to shore, before being picked up by smaller boats.
These boats, often fishing vessels or rigid-hull inflatables (RHIBs), are often intercepted by UK authorities – but there are now fears criminals could be using drone ‘narco subs’.
Manned semi-submersible vessels – dubbed ‘narco subs’ – have long been used to smuggle drugs – especially in South America.
But in recent years there have been a small number of incidents where authorities have uncovered unmanned underwater vessels built to smuggle narcotics.
In 2020 Spain’s Policia National seized three underwater drones ‘narco subs’ due to be sailed from Morocco and over the Strait of Gibraltar.
The unmanned semisubmersibles were said to be capable of carrying up to 200kg (441lbs) of cargo.
Then on July 2 this year the Columbian Navy said it had seized an unmanned semisubmersible vessel in Caribbean waters that was able to transport up to 1.5 tonnes of cocaine, according to Naval News.
One UK expert said there’s a chance drone ‘narco subs’ are already operating in the UK.
‘I’ve not seen evidence of it yet, but it’s plausible,’ Peter Walsh, author of Drug War: The Secret History, told the Daily Mail.
‘When gangs use boats to pick up drugs there’s always the risk of those onboard being caught. Then you don’t only lose your drugs – they could flip on you too.
‘That means there would be a double advantage of using unmanned drones for this type of trafficking.’
In an interview with Naval News, open source intelligence analyst, H. I. Sutton, said a typical unmanned narco sub ‘runs low in the water with just the air inlets and communications antenna above water’.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/11/drone-narco-subs-laden-drugs-could-operating-uk-23883461/
China claims first drone hunt of ‘hostile warship’
Updated: Aug 11, 2025 08:27 AM EST
The People’s Liberation Army has released rare footage showing its reconnaissance drones tracking a ‘hostile warship,’ highlighting China’s increasing integration of unmanned systems with intelligence operations.
The video, aired in Forging Ahead, the PLA’s latest military documentary, depicts a coordinated mission involving the WZ-7 and WZ-10 unmanned aerial vehicles.
Both are high-altitude, long-endurance platforms built by the Aviation Industry Corp (AVIC) of China for surveillance missions.
Drone hunting foreign warship
The segment begins with the two drones taking off from an air base operated by a PLA Air Force drone brigade.
Soon after departure, the unit receives an urgent order from higher command: a “hostile warship” in a designated area must be located after a Chinese reconnaissance satellite encountered tracking difficulties.
The WZ-10, primarily used for electronic reconnaissance, begins transmitting imagery and data to the brigade’s intelligence center.
An automatic identification system quickly flags one object in the photographs as a possible target. Ground controllers then deploy the WZ-7, a larger and more capable reconnaissance aircraft, to verify the find.
The WZ-7 drone searches systematically and finds two suspicious objects. It sends the exact locations to ground control. Soon after, it gets instructions to inspect the objects more closely.
The drone takes detailed images and collects sensor data, which helps analysts confirm that one object is a foreign vessel. The identification is then reported to a joint-service intelligence platform.
The sequence ends with a CJ-10A cruise missile launcher shown preparing for a simulated strike. “Target coordinates have been uploaded; missile is ready for launch,” a Rocket Force operator said.
According to the documentary, the brigade frequently flies reconnaissance missions over the western Pacific to sharpen its surveillance and intelligence-analysis skills.
PLA’s improved drones
Publicizing such operations, especially those involving the WZ-7, is unusual for the PLA.
Known before its military induction as Xianglong, or “Soaring Dragon,” the WZ-7 is widely regarded as China’s most capable reconnaissance drone and is often compared to the US Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk.
The aircraft has a unique design with two wings joined together. It has a main wing swept back and a smaller wing swept forward, resembling a traditional Chinese kite.
The drone is equipped with advanced radar, infrared, and optical sensors. These tools help it provide detailed images for both strategic and tactical missions.
AVIC has said the WZ-7 is only the second unmanned aircraft in the world capable of flying freely across civilian airspace routes.
Fu Qianshao, a retired PLA Air Force equipment researcher, described the WZ-7 as one of the world’s largest reconnaissance drones, claiming it can fly higher and faster than its US counterpart.
Defense analyst Wu Peixin said the WZ-7’s capabilities complement those of the WZ-10, allowing wide-area scans followed by close-up identification of targets.
“Publishing these scenes shows such missions are now routine,” Wu said.
“We have a powerful, reliable reconnaissance network of satellites, drones, and long-range radars. Our adversaries must think twice before attempting to evade detection.”
The footage comes when the US is consistently deploying advanced naval assets near China with the help of its allies such as Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-drone-hunt-hostile-warship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10UDkQt_Dss
complete with Golden Age appropriate paint jobs.
Middle East’s largest drone show heralds new Disney park
August 11, 2025
The Middle East’s largest-ever drone show marked the news that Disney is to open its first theme park in the region.
The event saw Walt Disney Company team up with Dubai-based Lumasky to stage a 9,000-drone show over Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island.
The drone light show specialist was tasked with creating a display to synchronise with a 107-piece live orchestra and a choir floating on a pontoon, pyrotechnics and a waterscreen.
The highlight of the show was Disney’s signature 'fairy dust' swoosh swirling through the sky before turning into a 650m-tall replica of Cinderella’s Castle – 10 times the size of the one in Florida's Disney World.
More futuristic look
The castle then morphed into the prototype for the new theme park, which will have a more futuristic look than Disney's European and American castles.
A spokesperson for Lumasky said: "To perfect the animation, we optimised every detail – figure sizing, viewing angles, drone trajectories relative to pyrotechnics – an fine-tuned them for maximum visibility and safety.
"Our pre-dawn lights-off rehearsals maintained secrecy and ensured flawless flights."
The event took the record for the Middle East's largest-ever drone show from the closing ceremony for the Dubai World Cup, which saw 5,983 drones perform over Meydan Racecourse on 7 April.
Disneyland Abu Dhabi will be located on Yas Island and is expected to open between 2030 and 2034.
https://www.avinteractive.com/territories-news/mea/middle-easts-largest-drone-show-heralds-new-disney-park-11-08-2025/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSjKKnXt00
DJI’s Surprising Robot Vacuum Is Built on Drone Technology
Aug 11, 2025
DJI has entered yet another new product category by launching Romo, a robot vacuum cleaner.
And like DJI’s other recent new products, including its first 360° camera, the Osmo 360 action camera, its advanced Power-series battery system, and even its e-bikes, everything always comes back to DJI’s most famous product segment: drones.
As The Verge reports, the DJI Romo comes in three different variations, two of which sport a stylish transparent design.
What’s especially interesting about all three robot vacuum models, the DJI Romo P, Romo A, and Romo S, may differ in precise appearance and features, but all three employ the same general system.
There is the robot vacuum itself, which, like competing robot vacuums, is a disc-shaped appliance that moves around to clean up the floor, and a larger housing unit that charges the vacuum.
The DJI Romo series promises “up to 25,000Pa of suction power,” per The Verge, which makes it an especially powerful product in its class. It has anti-tangle roller brushes, sweeping brushes, and robotic arms that can extend the vacuum’s reach.
The highest-end model, Romo P, can also work as a mop.
What is most interesting about the DJI Romo series of robot vacuums is the underlying technology, including obstacle detection and a “binocular fisheye vision sensor.”
While a robot vacuum may at first seem like a DJI product totally out of right field, the most essential technology involved — the ability for the robot vacuum to navigate and clean an area — is lifted directly from DJI’s well-established drone technology.
This is not unique to the DJI Romo, either, as DJI told PetaPixel earlier this year that everything it does comes back to its drones, whether that’s utilizing the advanced battery technology, image sensors, or machine learning featured in its drones.
In the case of DJI Romo, it’s ultimately all three of these areas.
“While some new product categories we’ve entered may be unexpected initially, there’s a method to the madness,” DJI Senior Product Specialist Donovan Davis told PetaPixel in April.
“Every new branch is an extension of our expertise in drones and robotics, from our stabilization and obstacle avoidance technology to the cameras, batteries, and motors.
This expansion started when we adapted our drone gimbals for professional filmmaking cameras and continued last year when we applied our long history of battery R&D to create our first portable power stations and e-bikes,” Davis continued.
“Every new product line is an extension of our expertise in drones and builds on our experience in developing sensors, stabilization technology, batteries, and motors. This is why our products stand out, even in new categories.”
However, Davis also touched on increasing geopolitical instability and tariffs in the United States.
These are significant roadblocks for the Chinese technology company, as has been seen with its recent products, including the DJI Mavic 4 Pro and DJI Osmo 360 not initially launching in the United States.
The DJI Romo series will follow suit, and is currently not available to American customers. Nonetheless, the DJI Romo S starts at around $650, while the Romo A and Romo P come in at $750 and $950.
DJI is launching the Romo robot vacuums in China first, but says global availability is on track for later this year. Whether that will include the U.S. or not remains an open question.
DJI has been working hard to figure out how to reenter the U.S. market in full, in some cases pulling some sly moves.
https://petapixel.com/2025/08/11/djis-surprising-robot-vacuum-is-built-on-drone-technology/
https://www.dji.com/
GoTo Foods launches drone delivery in Texas
Aug. 11, 2025
Dive Brief:
GoTo Foods has partnered with DoorDash to offer drone delivery in Frisco, Fort Worth and Plano, Texas, according to a Monday press release.
Wing will provide drone delivery from participating brands, including Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, McAlister’s Deli and Schlotzsky’s.
GoTo Foods claims to be one of the first national restaurant companies to offer drone delivery from multiple brands. Currently, drone delivery is typically limited to specific markets or tied to a shopping center.
Dive Insight:
GoTo Foods’ launch of drone delivery is part of its plan to accelerate its “digital-first, off-premise future,” the company said in the press release.
The company also is building on its brand evolution strategy, which includes new store formats, new brand experiences and tech-forward stores designed to better meet the needs of Gen Z consumers.
GoTo Foods has leaned heavily on its co-branding strategy as well, creating Cinnabon Swirl as a co-branded Cinnabon and Carvel outlet.
“Today’s consumer expects brands to meet them where they are, on their terms and that’s exactly why we’re modernizing through convenience and personalized experiences,” Kieran Donahue, chief commercial officer at GoTo Foods, said in a statement.
GoTo Foods originally piloted the service in June and saw strong early results and improved delivery speed, the company said. It is also testing further to improve the experience.
Drone delivery could help the company extend its reach in high-growth suburban markets and extend beyond its mall locations.
The service is available to customers living within four miles of participating restaurants for select orders.
Customers use the DoorDash app to order, and drone deliveries typically arrive within 20 minutes, Kent Ferguson, head of partnerships at Wing, said in a statement.
DoorDash also has been expanding the reach of its drone delivery operations, adding the service from a mall in Charlotte, South Carolina, earlier this year with Wing.
It also offers drone delivery through a partnership with Flytrex in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/goto-foods-doordash-wing-drone-delivery-plano-frisco-fort-worth-texas/757281/
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/world-changing-underwater-ufo-caught-130000571.html
https://thesolfoundation.org/publication/beneath-the-surface-we-may-learn-more-about-uap-by-looking-in-the-ocean/
A ‘World-Changing’ Underwater UFO—Caught on Video—Is a Legit Threat, Says Ex-Navy Officer
recently added but from April April 23, 2024?
Timothy Gallaudet—former Chief Oceanographer of the U.S. Navy—believes the U.S. government should study “unidentified submersible objects.”
USOs are similar to UFOs, but sighted in the world’s oceans. The retired rear admiral claims that these USOs could be a threat to maritime security.
A retired U.S. Navy admiral believes that the government should look to the oceans to help solve a mystery in the skies.
Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, former Oceanographer of the U.S. Navy, cited a 2019 sighting by a Navy warship as evidence that the phenomena of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified submersible objects (USOs) are linked.
The sighting, recorded off the coast of San Diego, involved a hovering spherical object that appeared to abruptly enter the water.
“Transmedium” UFOs Jeopardize U.S. Security
Gallaudet made the case for studying underwater UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), in a recent paper titled, “Beneath the Surface: We May Learn More about UAP by Looking in the Ocean.”
Gallaudet writes that “transmedium” USOs and UAPs, defined as unidentified objects that appear to travel both in the atmosphere and the water, “jeopardize U.S. maritime security.”
The retired rear admiral makes the case that the under-surveyed underwater realm is a threat to maritime security—the oceans form the bedrock of international trade and the American economy, and are where the U.S. Navy operates.
Gallaudet argues that the lack of knowledge about the undersea world poses hazards for submarines such as collisions with other submarines—such as the independent crashes of the submarines USS San Francisco and USS Connecticut, both of which were incidents that resulted in severe damage to the ships and one crew fatality—and undetected underwater seamounts.
Further study of this realm, he believes, could shed additional light on these UFO/UAP sightings.
The Omaha Incident
One incident to which Gallaudet points in particular is a July 19, 2019 encounter between the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Omaha and a so-called transmedium UAP. In the incident, the crew of the Omaha (sailing off the coast of San Diego) used their AN/KAX-2 electro-optical sensor to record a spherical UAP hovering just over the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
The AN/KAX-2 is a stabilized sensor turret built for maritime environments that includes a digital video camera, night vision camera, and laser rangefinder.
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The video, seen here, is a recording of a screen showing the output of the AN/KAX-2. The video appears to have been taken with the night vision camera, which uses imaging infrared to record objects in darkness.
The object seemingly moves, tracked by the sensor operator, and then stops to hover. The object stops and hovers a short distance above the surface of the ocean.
At the end, the object disappears, with sailors remarking that it made a splash as it entered the water.
Meanwhile, one sailor off camera radios the other ships in the area—the guided missile destroyers Pinckney, Kidd, and Rafael Peralta—asking for a MH-60 helicopter to be launched as soon as possible.
The video was leaked to UFO investigator Jeremy Corbell Lockyer, and was later verified as genuine by the Navy.
A search of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (the Pentagon’s web site for releasing official photos and video) shows three of the warships in the encounter—Pinckney, Kidd, and Omaha—in formation in the Eastern Pacific six days later, on July 25.
Sightings in Puerto Rico and Elsewhere
Gallaudet also references another sighting from 2013, spotted by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol personnel.
The sighting—which took place near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico—was filmed using a similar imaging infrared camera.
The video, shown here, depicts another spherical object appearing to enter the water and then re-emerge without losing any speed.
The retired admiral writes, “Over three minutes, the object appears to fly at speeds between 40 and 120 miles per hour, enter and exit the Atlantic Ocean without any significant deceleration, reach a maximum underwater velocity of 95 miles per hour, and at one point split into two parts before entering the water again.”
Other possible evidence cited by the admiral includes an incident in 2022, in which the NOAA underwater exploration ship Okeanos Explorer discovered an unusual series of holes on the North Atlantic seafloor at a depth of 1.6 miles.
The centimeter-sized holes were in an unusually straight line and scientists are apparently at a loss to explain their origin.
No Ordinary UAP Advocate
Gallaudet entered the U.S. Navy in 1989 after attending the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Gallaudet, according to his official biography, received “masters and doctoral degrees in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1991 and 2001 respectively.”
He served with a number of naval oceanography and meteorology commands, and was superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
He assumed command of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command in 2014, and served as Oceanographer of the Navy from 2016 until retirement in 2017.
After his Navy career, Gallaudet served for two years as acting administrator in charge of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Today, he sits on the advisory board for Americans for Safe Aerospace, which describes itself as a “nonprofit organization dedicated to aerospace safety and national security with a focus on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).”
ASA is led by Ryan Graves, a former U.S. naval aviator who reports having his own UAP sighting on active duty in 2014. In a 2023 op-ed published in The Hill, Gallaudet called UAPs the “story of the century,” and clearly did not rule out an extraterrestrial cause for them.
It’s rare for a high-ranking U.S. military officer to directly address UAP issues, even in retirement, and the incidents Gallaudet calls attention to are unusual, to say the least. Barring flat-out hoaxing by military and civilian government personnel, the videos and photographic evidence are not easily explained. Whether this will result in greater research to the same extent as the UFO/UAP issue remains to be seen.
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Dog walker captures UFO moving faster than the eye can see and becomes internet sensation
15:11, 11 Aug 2025
A man accidentally captured a mysterious flying object speeding past while walking his dog at a famous beauty spot - and watched the photograph go viral.
Andrew Clifton, 40, was out with his five-year-old Labrador, Dash, in the Malvern Hills on Saturday, August 2 when he filmed the unusual sighting.
He had been recording himself throwing a frisbee for Dash when an unknown object shot through the air at high speed.
Andrew neither saw nor heard anything at the time.
It wasn't until he reviewed the footage later that he noticed the strange object.
After showing the clip to friends, they encouraged him to post it in a UFO sightings Facebook group, where it quickly amassed millions of views.
Andrew, a change manager from Minety, Wiltshire, said: "It was such a strange experience.
"At the time, I didn't notice that anything had happened.
"It was moving so fast there was no way I could pick it up with a naked eye.
"But when I got home from dinner with friends later that day, I was reviewing the videos from the day and noticed something small.
"That's when I edited the video into slow-motion and saw the object in full force for the first time."
Andrew later posted the video on Facebook, where members of the UFO community flooded the comments with questions.
The discussion grew even larger when the clip was shared on X (formerly Twitter), racking up more than seven million views.
Some viewers, convinced by the object's speed, believe it must be extraterrestrial while others remain sceptical.
Andrew said: "I'm not someone who is a super big believer but I do think we shouldn't assume that there is nothing out there.
"So when my friend suggested I posted the video to a sighting Facebook group, I thought it would start a fun discussion, but I had no idea how big it would get.
"I've seen some people suggesting it's AI, but I can promise you the only editing I did was to slow the footage down.
"Personally, I think it's more likely to be some sort of military equipment that we don't know about.
"But it's true that whenever I watch it, I can't come up with a full answer as to what it is."
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/dog-walker-captures-ufo-moving-10416283
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/moment-dog-walker-captures-speeding-101959618.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_0giB-xKO0
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/granddaddy-ufo-stories-70-years-165108980.html
https://www.goblinconky.com/
'The granddaddy of UFO stories': 70 years later, Kentucky 'green men' encounter endures
Sun, August 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM PDT
On an August night 70 years ago, two carloads of people showed up at the Hopkinsville Police Department and gave a breathless account of an extraordinary incident they had just survived at a nearby farm.
“Spokesmen for the crowd told of how something resembling a space ship or flying saucer had landed at the back of the house,” reported Hopkinsville’s Kentucky New Era newspaper the next day.
“Men, who appeared to be about 4 feet tall, got out of the ship and came to the house and done battle with the occupants.”
One was in a tree. Another was on top of the house. One pushed its face against the window.
They had big heads and long arms, with eyes out of proportion to their bodies.
Men at the farmhouse responded by blasting away with guns, expending boxes of ammunition to no effect.
When law enforcement went to the farm, they could not find evidence proving or disproving the event, which quickly made headlines across Kentucky and the country.
It even inspired Steven Spielberg’s 1982 film E.T.
Seventy years later, the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter — as it came to be known — is still a big deal in Western Kentucky and beyond.
What happened in Kelly, Kentucky, in 1955?
The event in the tiny community of Kelly reverberated across the nation. “SPACEMEN TAKE KENTUCKY” blared a headline in the New York Daily News.
The Los Angeles Times carried the news on its front page alongside stories about French troops battling insurgents in Morocco and a California wildfire.
In even more distant Hawaii, it made page 2 of the Honolulu Advertiser.
There were also skeptics. An Associated Press story at the time cited “an unidentified male resident of Hopkinsville” who "suggested" a bunch of monkeys escaped from a passing circus truck around the time of the incident.
A year after the extraterrestrial run-in, Hopkinsville’s police chief told The Courier Journal he had received letters from “all 48 states, as well as France, Mexico and several South American nations” inquiring about the aliens.
A decade after the encounter, a columnist for the Kentucky New Era newspaper wrote “scarcely a month passes” where the paper doesn’t receive a phone call or a letter asking about the little men.
“Few happenings in Christian County have given the community so much publicity, good and bad,” columnist Joe Dorris wrote in December 1965. “And few things have been remembered half as long.”
To some, the creatures that purportedly visited Kelly — about eight miles north of Hopkinsville — became known as goblins.
The area’s tourism arm hosted a 50th anniversary celebration in 2005 and then, starting in 2011, there was an annual festival held in Kelly.
However, that festival —the Kelly Little Green Men Days Festival — stopped a few years back.
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This year, Hopkinsville is hosting its first ever GoblinCon on Oct. 17-18, which will mark the 70th anniversary of the alien encounter while also looking at other paranormal phenomena.
“We don’t want to just be UFOs, as you kind of cut your audience down,” said Eric Freeman Sims, GoblinCon’s event coordinator, who also runs a paranormal podcast.
“So, we have speakers that will be talking about UFOs, alien encounters, but also cryptids like Big Foot and Dogman in Land Between the Lakes, as well as ghosts and ghost hunting.”
Revitalizing 'Little Green Men' festivals
Amy Rogers is the executive director of Visit Hopkinsville, the area's tourism arm, which is sponsoring GoblinCon.
“I have to be honest: I am a believer. I do not think we’re alone in this world,” said Rogers, who added she has the “X-Files” theme song set as her ringtone.
“And I, just like other people, am very drawn to UFOs, the paranormal. And I was like: ‘I so want this to happen.’”
After the once-annual Kelly Little Green Men Days Festival stopped a few years ago, Rogers wanted to take the opportunity to “revitalize” it.
Ahead of GoblinCon, Visit Hopkinsville will host a kick-off event featuring "food trucks, games, and plenty of photo ops with some very special visitors" at Hopkinsville's visitor center on Aug. 23, just days after the anniversary of the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter.
But even outside of the anniversary season, aliens feature heavily at the visitor center, which sells alien-themed souvenirs and features an alien-themed photo stand-in.
While Hopkinsville brands itself as the “Batter Capital of the World” — claiming all flour used in McDonald’s biscuits east of the Mississippi comes from Hopkinsville — it’s finding a foothold in the paranormal as well.
“If people don’t have that look on their face like ‘why is there a batter bowl here?’ they gravitate towards the alien stories,” Rogers said, referencing the giant batter bowl at the visitor center that tourists can pose with.
'My dad was very adamant'
One of the featured speakers at GoblinCon will be Geraldine Sutton Stith, the daughter of one of the men present at the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter and the author of several books about the incident.
She was born after the incident, but grew up with family stories of what happened.
Part of the reason she wrote books, she said, was to address the inconsistencies that she saw printed in newspaper accounts.
First of all, there wasn’t a dozen or so aliens like papers reported.
“My dad was very adamant it was only three or four,” she said. “It was the same three or four that were coming out all the time — they just weren’t dying.”
And second, they weren’t little green men. “They said they were like a gunmetal gray,” she said.
“The term ‘little green men’ came from a reporter because he just stuck together “Kelly green” — and there is a color Kelly green — and they became the Kelly Green Men.”
Stith said her family did, however, coin the term “goblin” to describe the aliens.
“The goblin thing came from my grandmother,” she said. “She was a really religious person, and her first thought when she started seeing these things was they were something the devil brought forth.”
To Stith, that night in Kelly, Kentucky, in 1955 has firmly cemented its place in UFO history.
“It’s a great story. I mean, it’s a fantastic story. It’s a legacy. In the UFO world, it’s a major, major story — it’s the granddaddy of UFO stories,” she said.
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Aliens Come In 4 Species? Congressman Says US Government Might Be Hiding This Secret
Aug. 11, 2025
A recent discussion on Capitol Hill has brought new attention to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) and the idea of life from other worlds.
In a May briefing about UAPs, physicist Dr. Eric Davis surprised people by talking about possible alien types.
Davis, who has worked on secret Pentagon projects, mentioned "Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, and Reptilians" as beings that might be piloting unidentified flying objects or UFOs.
He said these figures are human-like in shape and size, and could be part of hidden programs to study captured tech.
Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison, part of the House Oversight Committee and a UAP group, started the talk. On the podcast "The Endless Void with Kristin Fisher" last week, he shared that he had heard these same four types in closed-door meetings."
I've heard those four classifications discussed in meetings in this office by others," Burlison said. "But what I wasn't expecting was for him to say it. I wasn't expecting Eric Davis, you know, respected scientists, to say that."
Burlison calls himself a doubter and is not sure where Davis got his info — maybe from direct experience or just stories from others.
"If true, this would be a paradigm-shifting moment," Burlison said. "But if it is true, the government has no right to keep such a secret from the public it serves."
The idea of Grays became well-known in the 1960s after the Betty and Barney Hill case, where the couple claimed small gray-skinned beings with big black eyes took them, per Daily Mail.
Nordics are seen as tall, slim people like Scandinavians, with light hair and skin, often tied to old UFO stories from the 1950s.
Insectoids, with bug-like features such as extra arms and hard shells, date back to early 1900s tales and even a 1902 movie.
Reptilians gained fame through conspiracy ideas in the late 1900s, claiming lizard-like shape-shifters rule Earth, with links to ancient Asian myths.
Even though Davis listed these in the briefing, Burlison thinks UAPs are more likely advanced tech made by humans, perhaps from private companies.
He pointed to progress in science like finding the Higgs Boson and quantum studies, wondering why no one has built better engines yet. Some people criticise the hearings as silly, with talk of reptilians and insectoids sounding like fantasy.
But Burlinson stands by the work, since public money pays for UAP studies by the Pentagon and other agencies. "I owe it to the American people to get to the bottom of this," he said.
Burlison thinks people could deal with proof of aliens. "Most would just read the headline and move on," he predicted. Still, he says the truth must come out.
"The government belongs to the people, not the other way around," Burlison stressed adding that "Keeping such monumental secrets would betray the trust of the public."
https://in.mashable.com/science/98334/aliens-come-in-4-species-whistleblower-says-us-government-might-be-hiding-this-secret
https://www.uniladtech.com/science/space/congressman-shock-admission-ufos-alien-types-160123-20250811
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jldm6g0EU0
>Yeah. 4 is a good number to start with.
Jaime Maussan
The MOST IMPORTANT UFO NEWS INVESTIGATION from August 3-10, 2025 🛸
Aug 10, 2025
🛸 In this edition, Jaime Maussan presents the most important investigations into the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon.
What's new about object 31/ATLAS? The US vice president says he's obsessed with the UFO/UAP phenomenon, and a law could allow unknown objects to be shot if they enter US military zones.
News that will surprise you, impressive sightings, and much more on TERCER MILENIO CON JAIME MAUSSAN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKdwzcc34XY
UFO Declassification: Argentina's Key Role
Aug 10, 2025
Argentina has played a fundamental role in the declassification of files related to the UFO phenomenon.
In this episode of Pilots with Julio Darwish, Andrea Simondini reveals how initiatives have been launched to make official documents public, verify their authenticity, and collect hard data on sightings.
A must-see episode for those seeking to understand Latin America's role in uncovering information about extraterrestrial life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOD0Z8tKnNw
Machine Gun Kelly Claims He Might Be Part Alien
August 11, 2025
Machine Gun Kelly has once again ventured into the territory of the strange, this time suggesting that he might not be entirely human.
Speaking on Watch What Happens Live, the rapper-turned-rock artist, real name Colson Baker, told Andy Cohen that he is not even sure his age “exists” and that certain things about his life make him question where – or what – he came from.
When asked his age, MGK said he could not give a straight answer and admitted he does not know many facts about his own life.
He explained that his skin heals unusually quickly and joked that he sometimes wonders who his father is. He even asked his mother if there had ever been a time she “went missing, off the earth” or encountered a tall, slender creature.
According to MGK, she told him she once felt she had been abducted.
This is far from his first flirtation with alien talk. In 2020, he released the single Concert For Aliens alongside a video that saw him abducted by an extraterrestrial version of himself.
That same year, he told The Late Late Show With James Corden about two UFO sightings. One involving a red orb over a lake in Thousand Oaks, California, and another over a mountain in Bora Bora that matched reports from Hawaii.
In the same interview with Cohen, MGK swerved questions about rumoured romance with Sydney Sweeney, following his split from Megan Fox, with whom he recently had a child. He named Frank Sinatra as the artist he most wishes he could have collaborated with.
Beyond alien theories, MGK has been gearing up for the release of his album Lost Americana, which features a cameo from Bob Dylan, a collaboration he says came from “pure desperation” and persistent knocking.
He and Fox recently revealed their daughter’s name after weeks of fan speculation. It would certainly seem that MGK’s mind is as much in the stars as it is in the studio.
https://bluntmag.com.au/news/machine-gun-kelly-claims-he-might-be-part-alien/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzvLwU5JtOs