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Russian region honors hunters helping to stop Ukrainian drones
31 Oct, 2025 10:41
Authorities in Russia’s southern Republic of Dagestan have honored 34 local hunters who helped repel Ukrainian drone attacks.
Dagestan’s interior minister, General Abdurashid Magomedov, met with the hunters on Thursday to personally thank them for their efforts, according to footage shared by his spokesman online.
The Russian Defense Ministry last reported a Ukrainian drone raid on Dagestan on October 22, when it said 13 aircraft were intercepted. At the time, a viral video showed a group of hunters shooting down a low-flying unmanned aircraft.
Magomedov said the Dagestani government’s volunteer defense initiative found public support all across the region and said the hunters were acting with honor by participating.
Dagestan’s mountainous terrain and its culture of gun ownership have long made it a stronghold of local self-defense. The region’s militias famously played a key role in repelling a jihadist incursion from neighboring Chechnya in August 1999.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly praised the people of Dagestan for their courage and patriotism. He served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) during the terrorist raid and was personally involved in responding to it.
“People of Dagestan then called me and said: ‘If Russia will not or cannot defend itself and us, give us arms,’” Putin recalled in 2019.
“Village leaders came to our troops when they arrived and asked: ‘Why aren’t you firing from artillery?’ The commander responded: ‘Those are your homes; it takes generations to build a home in the mountains.’ The response shocked me: ‘We don’t care, fire!’”
https://www.rt.com/russia/627190-dagestan-hungers-ukrainian-drones/
https://t.me/shot_shot/88161
Merz claims about Russian drones are ‘lies’ – opposition politician
31 Oct, 2025 16:56
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is misleading the public about a drone threat allegedly posed by Russia, Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of the left-wing BSW party, has said.
The chancellor did not hesitate to link recent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sightings across Germany to Moscow even though he had no evidence, she told the broadcaster ZDF on Thursday.
According to Wagenknecht, Merz was blowing the issue out of proportion, with the German media unquestioningly adopting his point of view, even though evidence pointed in the other direction.
“Mr. Merz goes on TV… and lies,” she said, adding that the chancellor made his statements after some of the incidents had either been proven to have no connection to Russia or turned out to have never happened at all.
“It’s simply a vague suspicion, which has been largely refuted, and then discussed by the chancellor on public television.”
She was referring to the chancellor’s interview with the German broadcaster ARD earlier this month, when he said that “our suspicion is that Russia is behind most of these drone launches” and called the UAVs a “serious threat to our security.”
The interview came just days after the German police said that a drone incident at Frankfurt airport was caused by a local UAV enthusiast.
Claims of drone sightings near a military base in northern Germany in early October were also refuted by the Bundeswehr, which stated that “there were no registered drone overflights” in the area, “contrary to the media reports.”
Several drone sightings were reported over critical German infrastructure earlier this month. One such incident led to dozens of canceled flights at Munich airport.
The developments prompted some officials, including Merz, to claim the drone flights had been orchestrated by Moscow.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any connection to the incidents. Berlin has “no reasons” to blame Moscow for the recent drone sightings, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in early October, commenting on Merz’s interview with ARD.
“Europe is full of politicians who tend to blame Russia for everything,” he said at the time, calling the accusations “baseless.”
https://www.rt.com/news/627207-merz-russian-drones-lies/
Kiev trying to hide ‘catastrophe’ of encircled troops – Moscow
31 Oct, 2025 08:29
Ukraine has effectively acknowledged the “catastrophic situation” faced by its troops in a Russian encirclement by banning journalists from reaching them, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tikhy warned media workers against accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer of safe passage to the front line in Donbass to report on thousands of Kiev’s troops surrounded by Russian forces.
Traveling to the area without permission from Kiev would be “a violation of our legislation” that would have “long-term reputational and legal consequences,” Tikhy said.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on Friday that Ukraine had banned local and foreign journalists from accessing the “cauldrons” in order to “conceal the real state of affairs on the front line and deceive the international community and the Ukrainian people.”
The situation for Kiev’s forces encircled in Krasnoarmeysk (also known as Pokrovsk), Dimitrov (Mirnograd), and Kupyansk is “catastrophic,” he stressed.
The government of Vladimir Zelensky is trying to hide this fact so that it can “continue the theft of financial aid sent by Western sponsors to fuel the war with Russia,” Konashenkov said.
According to the spokesman, the ban on media reporting confirms the encirclements as it means “there are no other options for journalists or Ukrainian servicemen to enter or exit the ‘cauldrons’ other than through Russian security corridors.”
Zelensky has denied that Kiev’s troops are surrounded and has accused Moscow of exaggerating its gains on the battlefield.
The chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, reported to the president last week that more than 10,000 Ukrainian servicemen had been encircled, including some 5,500 in Krasnoarmeysk.
On Wednesday, Putin said Moscow was ready to halt its offensive operations and allow Ukrainian and other foreign journalists to travel to the front line and “see with their own eyes” that Ukrainian troops are trapped in Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, and Kupyansk.
https://www.rt.com/russia/627178-kiev-trying-to-hide-catastrophe/
Trump’s nuclear boast hints at possible treaty breach – Russian lawmaker
31 Oct, 2025 09:09
US President Donald Trump may have inadvertently revealed that Washington is violating a strategic arms reduction treaty with Moscow by boasting about America’s supposed nuclear supremacy, a senior Russian lawmaker has said.
Writing on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump declared that “the United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country,” adding that “Russia is second, and China is a distant third.”
The statement appeared to contradict the parity limits established under the New START treaty, said Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma’s Defense Committee.
“Does Trump mean that they have been deceiving us all this time?” Kartapolov asked. “If so, we were absolutely right to continue developing our advanced weapons.”
The 2010 New START treaty, a successor to earlier Cold War-era arms control agreements, caps the US and Russia at 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and heavy bombers.
It also limits total deployed and non-deployed nuclear-capable platforms, ensuring strategic balance between the two powers.
Trump’s remarks came as part of a statement announcing new American nuclear weapons testing, though it remained unclear whether he referred to routine missile carrier trials or a resumption of underground explosive tests.
Moscow has warned that if Washington abandons the informal moratorium on nuclear detonations that has remained in place since the 1990s, Russia will respond accordingly.
This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced landmark successful tests of two advanced nuclear-capable weapons systems, the unlimited-range Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater drone.
Both use a highly-miniaturized nuclear reactor for propulsion.
https://www.rt.com/russia/627184-trump-boast-nuclear-breach/
Several Russian regions report drone attacks: Power plants, oil refinery, and electrical substation hit
31.10.2025 11:20
Authorities in several regions of Russia on Friday reported drone attacks, including strikes on a combined heat and power plant in the city of Oryol and an electrical substation in the Vladimir region.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Russian service of the BBC.
The Governor of the Oryol region, Andrei Klychkov, said that “drone debris fell” on the territory of the heat and power plant. As a result, electricity supply in Oryol was disrupted, though backup lines were activated.
The Temporary Acting Governor of the Vladimir region, Alexander Avdeev, also reported an attack on infrastructure near the city of Vladimir but did not provide further details.
According to the Astra Telegram channel, during the night of October 30–31, the Vladimir electrical substation in the Energetik settlement near the city of Vladimir was attacked.
The report notes that the Vladimir substation is a major regional energy facility with an installed capacity of about 4,010 MVA.
The substation, which services the region’s power grid, is a key hub, with numerous power lines branching from it at voltages between 110 and 750 kV.
Following the drone strike, a fire broke out at the Vladimir substation. Videos posted by the Astra Telegram channel show tall flames at the site.
It was reported that after the drone attack, public transport routes in Vladimir were suspended, and educational institutions in the Energetik settlement were closed.
The Telegram channel also posted surveillance footage showing the moment a drone struck the combined heat and power plant in Oryol.
The Oryol combined heat and power plant is part of RSU Energy JSC and has an installed electric capacity of 330 MW and a thermal capacity of 725 Gcal/h.
Open-source analysis by Astra suggests that one of the strikes hit the open switchgear area of the Oryol combined heat and power plant, after which residents lost electricity.
Before the attack, the regional governor had reported a missile threat alert. Residents also claimed that “these were not drones” on social media.
Later, the governor of the Oryol region announced that, following the attack, heating and water supply would be restricted in three districts of the city.
Meanwhile, explosions were heard in the Russian city of Yaroslavl near the Slavneft-YANOS PJSC oil refinery. According to residents, the blasts occurred several kilometers from the refinery.
Additionally, the airport in Yaroslavl was closed, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that 130 fixed-wing drones had allegedly been shot down over 14 regions of the aggressor state.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, during the night of Wednesday, October 29, a group of drones attacked oil refining and petrochemical plants in Russia.
https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-ato/4053564-several-russian-regions-report-drone-attacks-power-plants-oil-refinery-and-electrical-substation-hit.html
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/63358
other Russia / Ukraine
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/63345
https://www.irishstar.com/news/world-news/ukraine-drone-lab-attack-russia-36165864
https://censor.net/en/videonews/3582652/vampire-drone-destroys-four-russian-infantrymen-in-night-attack
https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-ato/4053709-russian-drone-targets-team-of-experts-surveying-damage-after-airstrike-in-zaporizhzhia-region.html
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4053496-defense-forces-destroy-one-ballistic-missile-and-107-enemy-drones.html
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/31/every-second-russian-will-fall-to-drones-ukraine-opens-15000-new-drone-force-jobs/
IDF, Mossad readying for Oct. 7-style attack from Iran-backed militias in Iraq
Updated: OCTOBER 31, 2025 14:04
The IDF and Mossad are preparing for a developing threat against Israel from Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, sources in the Northern Command told Walla on Friday.
The Iranians have been investing significant resources in pro-Iranian militias and terrorist infrastructure in Iraq, so that, on the day of command, they can attack Israel from the air and by land.
It was further reported that recently, Esmail Qaani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), visited Iraq and met with senior militia leaders.
The main method of attack would likely involve launching missiles and drones from Iraqi territory, following a pattern similar to the one used during the Israel-Hamas war against Israel’s home front.
A secondary option could be a ground maneuver beginning in Iraq, moving through Syria, and potentially reaching the Israel-Jordan border.
IRGC-QF supports the powerful and influential militia Kataib Hezbollah, one of several groups operating under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
Kataib Hezbollah is considered the most prominent of these militias due to its political influence and extensive arsenal, which includes long-range drones. In the past, it has targeted US forces in the region.
The group also controls key smuggling routes from Iraq to Syria, and, according to assessments, its operatives are responsible for smuggling weapons.
Israel Air Force previously struck militia-affiliated sites on Iraq's border
During Operation Rising Lion, the Israel Air Force struck logistical centers in Iran on the Iraq border that serve the militias in Iraq with Iranian funding.
The newly established 96th "Gilad" Division, under the command of Brig.-Gen. Oren Simcha, later rehearsed this scenario along the Jordan Valley border.
The Iranians have also succeeded in carrying out attacks against Israel, similar to the Houthis in Yemen, using several Iraqi militias that operated under a generic name to conceal their identities.
According to foreign reports, the IAF, with assistance from Mossad, conducted strikes in the area to deter both the militias and the Iraqi government.
Israeli sources add that clear and threatening messages were conveyed from Israel to the Iraqi government through the United States and other channels.
According to open sources, one of the militias that has become an additional source of concern is Harakat al-Nujaba.
This militia maintains close ties with Hezbollah in Lebanon and has previously claimed responsibility for several missile launches.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-872299
other IDF news
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/top-us-general-landed-in-israel-last-night-meets-zamir-flies-over-gaza/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-31/ty-article/.premium/the-gaza-detainee-abuse-leak-scandal-fallout-will-not-end-with-the-idfs-legal-chief/0000019a-3a44-ddf1-a1db-fefd5a880000
https://lapresse.us/world/2025/10/31/gaza-hamas-resumes-search-for-hostages-in-area-controlled-by-idf/
https://worldisraelnews.com/idf-reveals-unsuccessful-mission-to-rescue-hostage-sahar-baruch/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/hit-back-if-attacked-lebanese-presidents-big-order-to-soldiers-after-idf-kills-lebanon-official/videoshow/124990967.cms
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-31/ty-article-live/several-peophttps://www.jns.org/idf-hezbollah-terrorist-killed-in-drone-strike/
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>https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-31/ty-article-live/several-peophttps://www.jns.org/idf-hezbollah-terrorist-killed-in-drone-strike/
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-10-31/ty-article-live/several-people-reportedly-wounded-in-israeli-strikes-on-four-locations-in-lebanon/0000019a-383a-d856-a9ff-7ebb6e850000
https://www.jns.org/idf-hezbollah-terrorist-killed-in-drone-strike/
US officials: IDF may have committed hundreds of rights violations
Oct 31, 2025, 4:18 AM
A classified report by the US State Department’s Office of Inspector General has identified “many hundreds” of potential violations of American human rights law by Israeli military units operating in Gaza, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
According to two US officials who spoke with the newspaper, the scale of the findings would take the State Department “multiple years” to review.
This marks the first time a US government watchdog has acknowledged the extent of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the Leahy Laws, named after former Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, which prohibit US security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses.
The report outlines a unique vetting protocol for Israel, known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum, which involves senior US officials and a consensus-based process.
Unlike standard vetting - where a single objection can halt aid - Israel’s review requires agreement among a working group that includes the US Embassy in Jerusalem and the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
The Israeli government is consulted before any recommendation to withhold aid is made.
While the Leahy Laws have not been used to deny Israel US funds in the past, in 2016, Senator Leahy and 10 other Democratic lawmakers urged the State Department to probe the IDF for possible “gross violations of human rights”.
The latest report was finalized just days before the October 10 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which included the release of Israeli hostages, a partial IDF withdrawal, and limited humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The inspector general’s office confirmed the report’s existence but declined to comment, citing its classified status. Neither the State Department nor the IDF responded to inquiries.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417093
CTS in Kurdistan Region Denies Drone Attack in Pirmam District
October 31, 2025, 17:19
The Counter-Terrorism Service in the Kurdistan Region denied on Friday the veracity of reports circulating in some media outlets and on social media regarding a drone attack in Pirmam district, Erbil Governorate.
In a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), the Service stated that "some media outlets and social media platforms published false news, claiming that a drone attack was carried out on Pirmam district and that an explosion was heard there."
The statement added that "this news is baseless, and no such incident occurred," emphasizing that "the sounds heard were the result of military exercises and maneuvers."
It continued, "The security situation in the area is completely stable, and there is no danger or security threat."
https://ina.iq/en/security/43311-cts-in-kurdistan-region-denies-drone-attack-in-pirmam-district.html
Florida Firm Conducts ‘World’s First’ Non-Lethal Human Takedown With Drone
31 October 2025
Florida-based Wrap Technologies has achieved a world first: conducting a non-lethal human takedown using a drone platform in a series of trials.
At the center of the demonstration was the Merlin-Interdictor drone, which deployed a “BolaWrap” device that entangled a human target from the air.
The engagement was repeated several times, confirming the drone’s ability to subdue hostile individuals safely and consistently.
Wrap Technologies conducted the trials in partnership with Mithril Defense, which hosted the demonstration in Texas.
“This testing validates our vision for what responsible, non-lethal aerial response and interdiction should look like,” Wrap Technologies Chief Commercial Officer Branden Frame said.
“We believe [drone-first-responder interdiction] is more than innovation – it’s a new capability for agencies, officers, and stakeholders to deliver faster, safer, and smarter intervention when lives are on the line.”
Defending School Hallways
The Merlin-Interdictor is envisioned for use in school safety and public security scenarios, designed to intercept armed suspects while minimizing collateral damage.
Wrap Technologies President Jared Novick said the platform “reflects our commitment to responsible innovation, opening new revenue channels and reinforcing Wrap’s leadership in public safety and emerging defense markets.”
Meanwhile, Mithril Defense Co-Founders Justin Marston and Bill King said the successful trial was “a meaningful development” in their broader mission to deploy cutting-edge technologies to support first responders and save lives in active shooter situations.
Pre-orders for the Merlin-Interdictor are expected to open next month, alongside training packages for government agencies and technology partners.
https://nextgendefense.com/non-lethal-human-drone-takedown/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faklyzdu3rs
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/crime/prison-drugs-crisis-justice-committee-drones-b2855449.html
Prison drugs crisis hits ‘endemic’ levels as drone sightings soar 1,140 per cent
Friday 31 October 2025 07:35 EDT
Safety in prisons is being “critically undermined” by a drugs crisis which has reached “endemic levels”, MPs have warned, as drone sightings soar by 1,140 per cent.
The cross-party justice committee has called for urgent action after finding almost four in 10 inmates admit it’s easy to get drugs, with many prisons having a “menu” of illicit substances on offer.
A major report published by the committee on Friday warned of the “unacceptable” human cost of the crisis, with 136 drug-related deaths in jails in England and Wales between December 2022 and 2024.
MPs heard that inmates in debt were being forced to test new drugs, sometimes for the entertainment of other prisoners, while staff becoming desensitised to daily suffering was a sign of a “failed system”.
The report found 11 per cent of men and 19 per cent of women said they had developed a problem with drugs, alcohol or non-prescription medication since arriving in prison.
The committee called for the Ministry of Justice to ramp up drug testing, including speeding up plans to introduce waste-water surveillance systems, and invest in electronic drone countermeasures known as “Sky Fence” systems.
It comes as Ministry of Justice figures show drone sightings in prisons have soared more than ten-fold in the past five years.
A total of 1,712 drones were spotted in the year to March 2025 – almost five sightings per day – up from just 138 in the same period to March 2021.
MPs fear drones pose an “extremely serious threat” to prison safety amid fears they could be used to deliver weapons, and potentially guns and explosives, as well as drugs and mobile phones.
They also heard evidence about drones that could lift a “moderate-sized person”. Despite the rising threat of drones, the committee found other traditional ways of getting drugs into prison via visits or throwovers were more common.
The committee called for the prison service to toughen up its vetting procedures for staff to bring them in line with other law enforcement agencies like the police.
Chair of the committee Andy Slaughter said: “The committee’s findings during this inquiry were sobering: put simply the drugs crisis across the prison system has reached ‘endemic’ levels, fostering a ‘dangerous culture of acceptance that must be broken’.
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“Fuelled by inflated profits, the supply of drugs by organised criminal gangs into prisons is a constant pressure.
“This is compounded by failure to address and reduce the underlying demand for drugs and combat the alarming rise in the use of sophisticated drone technology.”
The government announced a £900,000 cash boost in July to tackle drones bringing drugs and weapons into prisons, on top of £40m already used to boost security such as by reinforcing windows and putting up netting.
Meanwhile, MPs heard that once a prisoner is exposed to the “menu of drugs” available in jails, the pressure of the established culture made it “exceptionally difficult to resist drug use”.
They also found drugs selling for up to 100 times their street value in the prison market, which is dominated by organised crime groups.
Strong synthetic opioids such as Nitazenes were highlighted as a “volatile threat”.
The dangerous drugs, which can be hundreds of times more potent than morphine, have already been linked to 750 fatalities in the UK between 1 June 2023 and 28 August 2025 – including four at HMP Parc, in Wales, in 2024.
Mr Slaughter said: “Highly potent New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are driving increases in violence, debt, and fatal overdoses, with the current testing regime failing to keep pace.”
It is also feared the new substances pose a wider danger to prison staff at risk of unwittingly inhaling drugs after four officers at one prison became ill.
MPs said that keeping prisoners locked up in their cells for 22 hours a day is driving them to use drugs to escape from boredom and they called on ministers to expand access to education, work programmes and other activities to curb the demand.
Mr Slaughter added: “Without urgent reform and investment that tackles the profitable supply networks, the discrepancies in treatment provision and purposeful activity, plus the poor physical condition of the estate, prisons will remain unstable, unsafe and incapable of gaining control over the drugs crisis.”
Former government drugs tsar Mike Trace, now CEO of the Forward Trust, urged ministers to “recognise the scale of the challenge and accept the justice committee’s recommendation to take decisive action to turn things around”.
Lord James Timpson, prisons minister, said the “sobering” report lays bare the crisis they inherited from the last government, with prisons also facing an “unprecedented threat from drones”.
"You cannot deliver meaningful rehabilitation when jails are flooded with drugs,” he said.
“That is why we’re already investing £40 million this year to bolster security and stop contraband entering prisons, including counter-drone measures such as exterior netting and reinforced windows. This is alongside 85 specialist wings to help prisoners live drug-free.
“We’re also building 14,000 additional prison places and reforming sentencing to ensure our jails create better citizens, not better criminals.”
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Exclusive: Royal Marines unveil drone swarm capability to storm coastal defences
31st October 2025 at 4:05pm
Royal Marine Commandos are training every commando to control their own drone fleets, with every individual given an uncrewed aerial vehicle from phase one, BFBS Forces News can exclusively reveal.
UK Commandos have to broaden their horizons, and now they want to fill that horizon with drones.
This latest change would act as a force multiplier, given that from the enemy's point of view, every small landing craft would become an aircraft carrier.
It is hoped that personnel will be able to deploy an overwhelming number of uncrewed platforms to open up coastal defence and increase the possibilities for manned forces.
The Ukraine war has prompted many units to focus on drones, but the future commando programme actually pre-dates the three-and-a-half-year-long conflict.
As combat evolves, the race to stay one step ahead is one the UK's commandos can't afford to lose.
In the video above, BFBS Forces News takes an in-depth look at the Royal Marine Commandos' use of drone swarm technology.
https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/exclusive-royal-marine-commandos-unveil-drone-swarm-capability-storm-coastal-defences
https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/unknown-object-crash-near-area-51-fuels-cover-up-claims/
https://x.com/g_knapp/status/1983682275482202541
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09uMbh2eoho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MuSo5E3OI (George Knapp & Ross Coulthart's MAJOR updates on Dr. James Lacatski & the FBI - Psicoactivo #669)
https://thedebrief.org/officials-say-aircraft-material-of-unknown-origin-was-found-at-recent-site-of-mysterious-crash-near-area-51/
Unknown object crash near Area 51 fuels cover-up claims
Updated: Oct 30, 2025 / 06:20 PM PDT
A mysterious object of unknown origin fell from the sky and crashed just outside of Nevada’s secretive Area 51 military base, and five weeks later, the public is still in the dark.
The crash was quickly covered up, both literally and figuratively. 8 News Now Chief Investigator George Knapp thinks the official story as told by the military is demonstrably false.
How quickly might the government respond to the crash of an unknown object?
What happened back on Sept. 23 on public land outside the boundary of Area 51 is a textbook example of how crash retrievals work, and to no one’s surprise, pretty much everything told to the public since then is pure fiction.
Scanners and computers at Dreamland Resort listen to and record radio traffic inside Area 51 around the clock. On the morning of Sept. 23, Joerg Arnu heard some astonishing news.
“I had my cup of coffee, and I am listening to Area 51 security, and all of the sudden they got very serious, and locked down the base,” Arnu told 8 News Now.
He learned there had been a large, but totally secret air operation in the middle of the night and that something had gone wrong.
“‘We just had an asset go down. We had an asset go down,'” Arnu recalled. “This is not Creech security. This is Area 51 security, and they had an asset go down. Then the next thing you hear, UAV, unmanned aircraft, unmanned aircraft with ordnance.”
He picked up details that strict security measures were implemented almost immediately. Not only was Area 51 itself locked down, but within a very short time, so too was a large swath of the Tiikaboo Valley.
It became clear that some kind of craft had crashed, miles outside Area 51’s boundaries, on public land, adjacent to highway 375, also known as the E.T. Highway.
Arnu jumped in his truck and headed south from his home in Rachel. But while driving on what’s known as mailbox road, he ran into an armed patrol.
“They had guns in front of them, not pointed at me, but very visibly in front of them, and it was clear they meant business,” Arnu said.
He backtracked and headed south on the E.T. Highway to Groom Lake Road, the main entrance to the base. It too was blocked off by sheriff’s deputies and military security.
A military helicopter with an attached basket was sitting there, presumably ready to haul out the wreckage of something. A pair of porta-potties suggested the team planned to be there for a while.
“Almost the entire valley was shut down,” Arnu explained.
At The Little A’le’inn in Rachel, employees were in the dark about a crash, but saw the beefed-up security at closed-off roads and knew something big was unfolding.
Crashes are not an everyday occurrence, but locals have seen plenty of them over the decades. “If this thing would have crashed anywhere in restricted airspace, we wouldn’t have known about it,” Arnu said.
After being turned away from the presumed crash site, Arnu and the aerospace sleuths on his website, DreamlandResort.com, began gathering and sharing bits and pieces of information.
The FAA had ordered the closure of airspace over a particular spot in the valley. That was a big clue.
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Then, four days after the crash, the security teams vanished. Arnu went back out for a look. The air force had used heavy equipment to plow a dirt road across a section of desert.
Arnu followed it and found what he thought was the crash site, then shared it online. That’s when things got strange, even by Area 51 standards.
A second wave of cleanup crews descended on the site, presumably to pick up any remaining debris, but they also used graders to cover the entire area with a thick layer of dirt, making this literally a cover-up.
Creech Air Force Base, which is home to a fleet of Reaper drones and other UAVs, issued a statement explaining that the quote “unmanned aircraft” was one of theirs.
The same statement claimed someone had been tampering with the crash site and had scattered assorted pieces from other craft, along with an inert training bomb.
The Air Force said the FBI was investigating this alleged tampering at the site.
Arnu was amused but not convinced.
“The only thing that could get that person is for littering on public land.”
“That’s the story. It came from Creech and now the FBI is investigating,” Knapp said during an interview with Arnu. “You think that’s bogus?”
“That’s absolutely bogus,” Arnu responded. “I think that was designed to make people not go there, discourage people from going there.”
Arnu drove back out and realized the site he had first videotaped was a staging area, not the crash site. Two hundred yards away, the telltale burn marks on Joshua trees indicated this was where the object slammed into the earth.
Both he and another aerospace explorer found pieces of who knows what, debris that came from something other than a drone, seemingly planted to confuse anyone who came looking, but they also found pieces under the dirt that are likely the real thing.
Arnu, who was at the site of a genuine Reaper crash years earlier, said there is no way the Air Force could ever recover every piece of a crashed aircraft, so they added some dirt and sprinkled in some misdirection instead.
“If I was them, I would probably do just that.”
Is there a good guess about what crashed? On the Dreamland Resort website, members, including former military and retired defense contractors, chimed in.
The leading theory is that the drone was one of the latest generation of AI-controlled craft that accompany advanced fighter planes and can act independently to get the job done.
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Feds ask private sector to watch for UAPs, other ‘unmanned systems’
Updated: Oct 30, 2025 / 09:28 PM CDT
(NewsNation) — A division within the FBI is asking defense contractors to report incursions by “unmanned systems” — including unidentified anomalous phenomena — that could pose a threat to U.S. national security.
NewsNation special investigative correspondent Ross Coulthart has obtained a flyer produced by the FBI’s Office of the Private Sector announcing a new initiative to report unmanned systems such as drones and underwater vehicles that could pose a threat to defense facilities and “critical infrastructure” sites.
The document notes an increase in “incursions over recent months” and says the unmanned systems “may be intended to disrupt operations or gauge U.S. response capabilities and policies.”
Respondents are directed to use eGuardian, the FBI platform that documents suspicious activity and criminal incidents.
The FBI says unmanned systems — the bureau calls them “UxS” — can include the following:
•Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
• Small-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (s-UAS)
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)
• Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPV)
• Unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)
• “Drones”
Some have used the term UAP interchangeably with UFO to denote unexplained objects that could be of extraterrestrial origin.
UAP, however, is a broader term favored by government agencies; it can describe unexplainable sights in the sky, not just unidentified flying objects, and objects in water.
https://x.com/rosscoulthart/status/1984045092311855587
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/fbi-uaps-unmanned-systems-report/
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f2sgkf7d9jo0r739o3vih/FINAL_Slicksheet-UxS-Incursions-on-DoD-Facilities-and-DCI-10282024.pdf?rlkey=scswdqs3sjo8ju6jourz63lg5&st=g669hesg&dl=0
Joe Rogan Experience #2404 - Elon Musk
Oct 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wBUysNe2k
https://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/1984323410315657318
Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell
@JeremyCorbell
UFO ATOM BOMB was dropped on WEAPONIZED.
Dr. James Lacatski admitted on-record and confirmed :
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The U.S. Government has a UFO in its possession!
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That we have an exploitation program to attempt to reverse engineer it.
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That we were able to get inside it - penetrating the hull 🛸
This is direct and firsthand eyewitness testimony, on-record. This is exactly what AARO is supposed to be doing instead of obfuscating to the American public.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
@G_Knapp
🧨👊🏼👀🥋🪖🪐🦅🛸🏴☠️
WATCH : https://youtu.be/ow7FqiegixQ
LISTEN : http://Link.chtbl.com/Weaponized
LEARN : http://WeaponizedPodcast.com
https://x.com/JeremyCorbell/status/1715425021718655026
https://x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/1984321207412670863
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb50jWOFUq8 (Dr. James Lacatski's Human Potential statements that may be Ufology's lynchpin - Psicoactivo #660)