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Explosions rock Russia’s Kstovo as drone strikes target the oil industry hub overnight (MAP)
24/11/2025
A series of explosions shook the Russian city of Kstovo overnight as drones possibly targeted its key oil and petrochemical infrastructure.
Nizhny Novgorod airport temporarily halted flights during the drone attack, though no confirmed damage has been reported so far. Kstovo is located about 790 km from Ukraine's northern border.
As Russia’s invasion grinds on, Ukraine has intensified long-range drone strikes across Russia in 2025.
The targets include refineries, defense factories, and military sites — aiming to disrupt logistics and undermine oil export income.
Kyiv sees this pressure, supported by growing drone output, as a path to weakening Russia’s war machine.
Drones breach Russian airspace over Kstovo
In the early hours of 24 November, residents of Kstovo in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast reported hearing at least 10 loud explosions, accoridng to Liga.
The noise was reportedly so intense that it was heard even through closed windows, local Telegram groups said. The blasts were linked to an incoming drone attack on the area.
Videos, shared by Ukrainian and Russian sources, feature sounds of explosions in Kstovo.
Russian news Telegram channel Astra reported that the explosions occurred in the city’s industrial zone, where two major energy facilities are located — the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery and the Sibur-Kstovo petrochemical plant.
Both plants had previously been targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes.
The Lukoil refinery is one of Russia’s largest, with a reported annual processing capacity of around 17 million tons of crude oil.
The Sibur facility produces ethylene, propylene, benzene, and other hydrocarbon fractions.
Airport locked down under Plan Kovyor
The drone activity triggered the implementation of Plan Kovyor ("Carpet") at Nizhny Novgorod airport, a Russian emergency protocol used to ground and divert aircraft during airspace threats.
Authorities suspended arrivals and departures for several hours before Rosaviatsiya confirmed that operations had resumed by 04:55.
Despite the widespread reports of explosions and the airspace closure, the governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast has not issued any public comment on the incident.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/24/explosions-rock-russias-kstovo-as-drone-strikes-target-the-oil-industry-hub-overnight-map/
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4062185-russia-reports-attack-by-nearly-100-drones-including-on-moscow.html
other Russia and Ukraine
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/11/24/Ukraine-deadly-Russian-strikes-hit-Kharkiv/4201763986983/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-strike-russian-chemical-factory-in-crimea-with-drone-fleet/
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ukrainian-drone-unit-chimera-destroys-russian-vehicles-near-chernihiv-border/
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4062118-invaders-strike-village-of-bilenke-in-zaporizhzhia-with-drone-two-men-injured.html
https://voennoedelo.com/en/posts/id5439-ukraine-shifts-drone-frequencies-as-ew-battle-intensifies
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-874901
other Israel
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/artc-idf-destroys-underground-terror-tunnels-and-neutralizes-militants-in-rafah
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-rafah-tunnel-operations-1
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-november-24-2025/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hezbollah-to-hold-mass-funeral-in-beirut-today-for-military-chief-killed-in-idf-strike/
https://www.jns.org/idf-eliminates-terrorist-near-ofra-who-hurled-rocks-at-troops/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/idf-arrests-terror-suspects-east-054352060.html
https://worldisraelnews.com/idf-leadership-faces-major-reassignments-after-zamir-issues-post-october-7-disciplinary-decisions/
IAF kills Hezbollah military chief in most aggressive strike since 2024 ceasefire
Updated: NOVEMBER 24, 2025 12:10
In the most aggressive strike by Israel against Hezbollah since the November 2024 ceasefire, an IDF airstrike on Sunday killed Hezbollah military commander Ali Tabatabai in the heart of Beirut.
Hezbollah confirmed Tabatabai's death in a statement on Sunday, saying that "they [the Mujahideen] will advance with strength and courage to overthrow all the projects of the Zionist enemy and its patron, America."
Four other Hezbollah terrorists were also killed in the strike, the terror group announced on Sunday evening.
Throughout the last year, the air force has targeted multiple rank-and-file Hezbollah operatives each week who tried to sneak into southern Lebanon or otherwise were acting to rebuild its rocket threat against Israel.
However, those attacks were almost always against lower-ranked terrorists who were “in the act,” not the top military commander who was nowhere near the front but was more indirectly responsible as Hezbollah’s military mastermind.
Also, the IDF has rarely attacked in Beirut since the ceasefire and not in months.
At press time, there was no sign that Hezbollah would launch an immediate major counterattack on Israel.
However, Israel is concerned that Hezbollah may counterattack in the near or medium term, and the Lebanese terror group retains tens of thousands of rockets and mortars from its pre-war 150,000-rocket arsenal.
This means that Hezbollah could still likely shoot anywhere from dozens to several hundred rockets per day on Israel, especially the northern third of the country, including Haifa, if it chooses to.
IDF sources, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Israel Katz explained that they targeted Tabatabai because less aggressive measures over the last year had failed to prevent Hezbollah from continuing its process of rearming to threaten Israel.
In addition, though IDF officials gave the Lebanese army significant credit for rolling back Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in early 2025, as the year drew out, they found that the army failed to achieve any significant disarmament of the terror organization beyond Lebanon’s south.
Top IDF officials are concerned that if they do not draw a line in the sand now against Hezbollah rearmament, the Lebanese terror group will achieve the same massive rocket arsenal it had pre-war – which was exactly what happened after the 2006 Second Lebanon War when Hezbollah violated rules by rearming, and Israel did not intervene.
Israeli officials indicated they were not planning to escalate further against Hezbollah any more than they already have, provided that Hezbollah does not respond.
Yet, given Tabatabai’s high rank, it is hard to see Hezbollah not responding at all, as opposed to them waiting for a more opportune moment.
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Though Tabatabai was Hezbollah’s military chief, he had only held that rank since late 2024. Until July 2024, for many years, the Hezbollah military chief had been Fuad Shukr.
The Israel Air Force killed him in July 2024 in response to Hezbollah rockets killing around a dozen Israeli Druze in Majdal Shams.
In September 2024, the IAF also killed Ibrahim Aqil, who was the next highest-ranked Hezbollah military official.
After his removal and after Hezbollah’s leader for decades, Hassan Nasrallah, was also killed by the air force in the same time period, Tabatabai emerged as the next military chief.
Naim Qassem remains Hezbollah’s leader, having replaced Nasrallah (after Hashem Saffiedine was also killed within days of Nasrallah), but is considered to have less military experience than his predecessor.
IDF strikes Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, kills two
The IDF had earlier confirmed that it had struck “a key Hezbollah terrorist” in the Lebanese capital.
“Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu ordered the strike on the recommendation of the defense minister and the IDF chief of staff,” the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed in a post to X/Twitter on Sunday afternoon.
The strike targeted a hidden apartment belonging to Tabatabai in Beirut.
At least 25 have been reportedly wounded and three reportedly killed in the strike, according to Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese outlet Al-Mayadeen.
The IDF also allegedly struck in the Bekaa Valley in southern Lebanon, Qatari state-funded broadcaster Al Jazeera reported on Sunday.
US sources claim they were not notified of the strikes until they were happening, despite earlier Israeli officials saying that the US had been told in advance.
“All the talk that ‘we must receive approvals for this’ from one source or another is simply an absolute lie,” Netanyahu said in a statement to the security cabinet on Sunday morning.
“We operate independently of anyone. Immediate actions to thwart attacks are taken by the IDF automatically,” he said.
“As for the responses, that goes through the defense minister and eventually reaches me, and we decide independently of any factor, and that is how it should be.”
“Israel is responsible for its own security,” he added.
Despite Netanyahu’s statement of independence, throughout the war, he refrained from various military moves against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran under pressure from either the Biden administration or the Trump administration.
Further, each of the three ceasefires with Hamas, including the one in October, which appears to have ended the war, was at least partially imposed by Washington.
The IDF’s strike on Tabatabai followed a number of Saturday strikes on Hezbollah launchers and military sites in southern Lebanon.
“The IDF struck several Hezbollah launchers that were recently identified and placed in military sites in southern Lebanon,” the military said on Saturday.
“In an additional strike in the Bekaa area, the IDF struck two Hezbollah military sites in which activity of terrorists was identified, including weapons storage facilities and additional military structures.”
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Romania again scrambled fighter jets after drone strikes near Ukrainian border
Nov 24, 2025 11:42
German fighter jets participating in the air policing mission in Romania, along with Romanian F-16s, took off tonight after renewed drone strikes by Russia on civilian targets and port infrastructure in Ukraine, Agerpres reported, citing the Romanian Ministry of National Defense, BTA reports.
Radar surveillance systems detected air targets aimed at the Ukrainian port of Izmail, which necessitated the dispatch of two German “Eurofighter“ fighters to control the airspace.
The drones later disappeared from radar, and explosions were then reported in Izmail. Romanian airspace was not violated and the German aircraft returned to their base around one hour after midnight.
At 1:45 a.m., new air targets were detected, this time 30 km north of Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Two Romanian F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to respond, and at 2:20 a.m., local authorities issued a warning to the population in the northern part of Tulcea County via the RO-ALERT system.
In this case, several air targets and explosions were also observed from the Ukrainian side, but Romanian airspace was not violated. The two fighter jets returned to their base at 3:51 a.m.
https://fakti.bg/en/world/1016654-romania-again-scrambled-fighter-jets-after-drone-strikes-near-ukrainian-border
Chinese Drone Swarms to Disrupt Starlink Satellite Network
November 24, 2025
A new Chinese study outlines a potential method to disrupt SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. The research highlights growing concerns about the military utility of satellite internet in modern conflicts.
Scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) conducted the study, which appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Systems Engineering and Electronics.
The research introduces a distributed jamming strategy. This strategy uses a coordinated swarm of 1,000 to 2,000 signal-jamming drones.
The researchers developed this method to counter Starlink’s built-in resilience. The satellite network quickly reroutes signals when a link is blocked, making disruptions difficult.
They determined that ground-based jammers are ineffective. However, a synchronised airborne swarm could successfully overcome the network’s adaptive defences.
The team conducted simulations to test their theory. In one scenario targeting signals over Taiwan, a coordinated effort of 935 drones proved effective.
The study acknowledges the challenge posed by Starlink’s constant movement. The constellation of over 10,000 satellites is a dynamic and difficult target.
Elon Musk recently confirmed Starlink’s resilience against jamming in Ukraine. SpaceX continues to allocate significant resources to strengthen its defences.
The Chinese team describes its research as preliminary. They are keeping the actual jamming technology and capabilities confidential for strategic military reasons.
This study signals increasing global focus on counter-space technologies. It highlights the strategic importance of satellite networks in future geopolitical conflicts
https://photonews.com.pk/china-drone-swarms-jam-starlink/
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3333523/chinese-researchers-simulate-large-scale-electronic-warfare-against-elon-musks-starlink
https://x.com/spotlightoncn/status/1992785880034300362
U.S. Air Force drone crashes in waters off S. Korea's western coast
22:44 November 24, 2025
A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed into waters off South Korea's western coast Monday, while conducting a routine mission, military officials said.
The drone went down near Maldo-ri Island off the western city of Gunsan, about 180 kilometers south of Seoul, according to the officials.
The U.S. 8th Fighter Wing based at Kunsan Air Base in Gunsan said the drone was involved in an "incident" during a routine mission at around 4:35 a.m.
"No injuries or damage to public property are reported in relation to this incident and it is currently under investigation," it said in a release.
Search efforts are reportedly under way to salvage the drone.
The incident took place after the U.S. military established a reconnaissance unit operating the drones at Kunsan Air Base in September. The U.S. military had previously deployed Reapers to the country on a rotational basis.
The Reaper is capable of conducting intelligence collection, coordination, and reconnaissance missions and has a range of 1,150 miles, according to the U.S. Air Force.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20251124011600315
U.S. Army hosts Project FlyTrap 4.5 in Germany to assess new counter drone technologies for NATO
November 24, 2025
U.S. Army air defenders, procurement teams and commercial specialists gathered at Truppenübungsplatz Putlos from 10 to 21 November 2025 to test emerging counter unmanned aerial system technologies.
Project FlyTrap 4.5 provided a two week window for vendors to demonstrate how their systems could detect, discriminate or defeat simulated drone threats operating in NATO airspace.
Products on site used passive or active radars for detection and discrimination, each carrying different operational advantages and risks. Kinetic and non kinetic defeat mechanisms were also showcased, highlighting a range of options for neutralising small and inexpensive drones.
“We have to start thinking about the group ones, the group twos [and] the group threes [drones], the smaller and cheaper systems,” said Col. Haileyesus (Hailey) Bairu, commander of the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade.
Bairu added that the aim was to solve how to “knock those [drones] down, so there’s not even a problem for our [maneuver forces].”
Early in the event, all participating systems were tested for their ability to link into the brigade’s forward area air defense command and control network.
This integration was achieved with support from Soldiers of the 52nd ADA Brigade, V Corps and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, increasing the systems’ potential value for NATO procurement tied to the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line.
Planning began nearly a year earlier at the request of Gen. Christopher Donahue, who tasked the 52nd ADA Brigade with identifying c UAS capabilities to counter evolving threats.
A three month process led to agreements with five companies for testing during autumn 2025, with senior oversight provided by Brig. Gen. Curtis King of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.
As the plan expanded, U.S. Army acquisition organisations partnered to launch the global xTechCounterStrike competition, which added more participants to Project FlyTrap 4.5.
“We were tasked specifically to accelerate the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line. With that, we went through some deliberate planning of what we currently had in terms of tools and resources at our disposal,” said Maj. Joshua McMillion, G TEAD capability lead.
“We quickly realized one of the easiest ways to accelerate that capability is to partner with existing companies and existing organizations,” McMillion continued.
Fifteen finalists from more than two hundred companies earned a fifty thousand dollar prize and the chance to demonstrate their systems at Putlos, with eleven able to attend the second phase.
Four winners were later selected, each receiving a three hundred fifty thousand dollar award following a review by an evaluation panel drawn from Army test bodies, G TEAD and the 52nd ADA Brigade.
“We are all here at Project FlyTrap 4.5 helping to [bring] forward the air defense artillery branch by utilizing and testing out new systems to reinforce the Eastern Flank Deterrence Line and … expanding the tools we use,” said Sgt. Lukas Hollcraft, a panel judge from the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment.
Hollcraft said he valued the opportunity to contribute, noting, “I never expected that as a sergeant … I’d be able to sit down with majors, captains, lieutenants and colonels and evaluate these systems.”
He added that “It’s great that as an operator, I get a say in what the future of my job looks like, especially to the future of my soldiers, who I’ll be raising to take over my shoes.”
https://defence-industry.eu/u-s-army-hosts-project-flytrap-4-5-in-germany-to-assess-new-counter-drone-technologies-for-nato/
https://securityjournaluk.com/drones-critical-infrastructure/
Securing the UK: The role of drones in critical infrastructure
November 24, 2025
How are drones transforming the way the UK’s critical infrastructure is protected?
The UK should look at the drone incursions that have taken place across Europe in recent weeks as more of a reason to invest in robust technology and policy implementation plans to enable Police or Defence authorities to tackle threats head on.
All sensitive CNI and defence locations should be fitted with long range Counter UAS (CUAS) systems coupled with CUAS defeat capabilities placed in strategic locations to intercept all un-registered aircraft including UAS.
Sending jets against such aircraft is a massive waste of strategic assets, so intercept systems are much more cost effective and can deal with large numbers of aircraft.
It should be the aim to intercept on our terms and not wait until they reach sensitive areas.
Dealing with drone threats on our terms, protecting the public, our national security assets and our Critical National Infrastructure must now be a high priority.
Which sectors are adopting drone technology the most and what are they mainly being used for?
Drone technology can now be transposed across two key types of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI).
Firstly, linear transport CNI such as rail, road and energy infrastructure such as pipelines and powerlines and planar installations such as nuclear power stations and military establishments.
Drones can be used for a huge range of applications spanning infrastructure and infrastructure maintenance, security, inspection of assets and delivery of critical tools and spares to staff working on the line.
This could include aircraft carrying advanced sensors to map and predict the need for foliage management or the use of deep penetrating radar to analyse the need for predictive maintenance to sidings or other infrastructure.
Beyond this, drones are well suited to operations over defence infrastructure and energy installations such as power stations and wind/solar farms.
What are the biggest obstacles that are holding back drone integration across critical infrastructure?
The main reasons for our decline on the global drone stage are a lack of experienced personnel in the CAA to handle requests for BVLOS operations quickly and efficiently, the lack of incentives for investment into technology and the extremely high costs incurred in running a business in the UK.
This is made significantly worse by the appalling state of our Research and Development funding system.
Huge sums of money are wasted every year achieving nothing which drives commercialisation of drone technology.
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How can emerging technologies like AI and autonomy boost the role of drones in building a smarter, safer infrastructure network?
AI is already playing a key role in the advancement of drone safety due to its ability to process imagery on the edge (on the drone), enabling artificial perception systems to provide alternative navigation solutions to GPS, which is unreliable and easily spoofed or jammed.
How can the industry ensure drones are viewed as part of a positive societal and environmental shift, rather than as a disruptive threat?
Without the trust of the Public, the drone sector will flounder and fail.
This is why the application of relevant safety and quality standards is so important and why I spent nine years of my life and huge resources representing the UK at the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) developing the very first safety and quality standards for drone manufacture and operations.
There are now a raft of relevant standards available to ensure that drones are manufactured and flown to the highest standards and I would urge buyers to insist on compliance with these standards whenever procuring drone hardware or services.
How will the use of drones across the UK change over the next ten years?
There have been many myths about the growth of the drone industry in the UK from the belief that small drones would be delivering mail, pizzas and parcels to every household in the kingdom to the drive for autonomous passenger carrying eVTOL systems.
These ideas are fraught with issues ranging from an inability to make them safe to fly the numbers required through a lack of commercial viability to a lack of social acceptability.
In essence, these are fantasy applications which do not solve a problem.
The drone industry is undoubtedly growing, mainly in the defence sector for obvious reasons but also in the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), security and medical sectors where their use not only makes commercial sense but could save lives and improve society.
What excites you most about the potential of drones to strengthen the UK’s resilience and sustainability?
Drones have undoubtedly proven themselves to be a game changer in defence but what excites me more is the possibilities to reinforce our resilience as a nation.
Advanced systems utilising Digital tethering (TM) are now able to provide rapid reaction to intruders in Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) such as rail, something which costs the taxpayer £M’s every year and every time we sit down with a client, a new possibility for their application in this sector seems to spring up.
What excites me most is the moment that the penny drops that drones could make a real difference to a business, the safety and prosperity of our society.
It’s always a beautiful moment.
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Drone Carrying Suspected Prison Contraband Found on Private Property, Authorities Say
November 24, 2025
HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI — A drone carrying a large black bag filled with suspected contraband was recovered Friday afternoon on private property along Jail House Road, according to the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded around 2:45 p.m. after a homeowner reported that a drone had landed on his property without permission. When deputies arrived, they found the drone and the attached bag, which they examined at the scene.
Inside the bag, deputies found several illegal items consistent with past packages linked to contraband “drops” intended for Hancock State Prison, the sheriff’s office said. Investigators believe the drone was likely headed to the prison but failed to reach its destination.
Deputies collected the items and searched the surrounding area for suspicious people or vehicles, but no one has been located or arrested.
The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 706-444-6471.
https://darkhorsepressnow.com/news/2025-11-24/67690/
Florida to use hundreds of confiscated Chinese drones as target practice for US military
November 24, 2025 10:15am EST
STARKE, Fla. - More than 500 Chinese drones confiscated by Florida officials will be used for military target practice for evaluation and training.
Instead of torching the machines, the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) will shoot them down with shotguns, according to Bloomberg News.
The quadcopter drones will be used over the course of three days next month to train elite U.S. troops on how to take out enemy drones.
The Military Drone Crucible training event is scheduled for Dec. 4-6 at Camp Blanding, according to the U.S. National Drone Association’s (USNDA) website.
The event will feature training sessions focused on clearing a room with opposing troops present and striking an enemy convoy.
"It will be the largest counter-drone destruction event ever held in the United States," USNDA President Nate Ecelbarger told Bloomberg News.
To date, the largest drone destruction event was held in September, when an electromagnetic weapon was used to take down 49 drones at Camp Atterbury in Indiana, according to Axios.
Navy SEALs, Marines and Army Rangers participated in the Indiana event for training purposes.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration cut red tape to allow mass drone production to compete with Russian and Chinese drone programs.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-florida-use-hundreds-confiscated-chinese-drones-target-practice-us-military
Airports in Japan and Europe closed due to UFO sightings | New sightings at volcanoes 🛸🌋
Nov 23, 2025
In this new episode of Third Millennium with Jaime Maussan, we present surprising evidence:
airports in Japan and Europe had to suspend operations due to the presence of unidentified flying objects in their airspace.
We also analyze new sightings recorded over active volcanoes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsaZcxxSL4
https://en.vijesti.me/bbc/784585/Mysterious-drones-above-airports-across-Europe-what-is-it-all-about
Director of New UFO Film Featuring Secretary Rubio Says Trump Is Considering Announcing "We Are Not Alone"
November 23, 2025
Joe Rogan speaks to Dan Farah, the director and producer of "The Age of Disclosure," a new UFO documentary that is notable for featuring interviews with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former DNI James Clapper, and multiple senators and congressmen.
The film posits that the U.S. government and top defense contractors have been secretly reverse-engineering recovered extraterrestrial spacecraft since the 1940s.
"This film features 34 credible people putting their reputations and names on the line — which I think is stronger evidence than any video or photo," Farah says.
"These days, you could put a 4K video of a giant craft over Vandenberg and half the human population will say it’s AI."
Farah and Rogan discuss the idea of an "amnesty" for people accused of lying to Congress and hiding billions in black-budget programs:
"While it’s hard for anyone to accept letting people off the hook for wrongdoings, it does seem like it’s in the best interest of the bigger picture. These people just have no incentive to come forward with what they’ve learned."
Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio reportedly says, on camera in the film: "I’m not trying to punish anyone.
I need to know what they learned, because taxpayers paid for this and it’s in our interest to know what’s going on."
Farah argues that stronger whistleblower protections and an official announcement from the president are needed to take "disclosure" to the next level.
"I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens soon after the film comes out — the sitting president has to step to the microphone and say: humanity is not alone in the universe.
We have recovered technology of non-human origin. So have other nations. There is a high-stakes, secret cold war race to reverse engineer this technology. We need to win this race."
Rogan jokes: "I think Trump might be the only guy that’s willing to do something that crazy."
"I know he is aware of what people in his administration say in the film," Farah said about Trump. "And I know that they are discussing internally how they’re going to react to the film publicly."
"Rubio says on camera, on the record in the film, that this has been kept from sitting presidents," Farah continued.
"He goes into detail on how that’s been done, and how it’s the career bureaucrats in certain elements of the government who control this information and just wait presidents out, and don’t feel they have a need to know."
"Trump actually found out about the base facts in his last presidency, and was contemplating stepping to the microphone then," Farah said.
"So we know Trump contemplated doing this already. Now, I think the release of this film and Rubio’s involvement puts enough on the table that it makes it easier for him to do."
"They would have to have some sort of plan in place if they were going to say that, right?" Joe Rogan asked.
"Or at least grab control of the situation and say, this is real and the U.S. intends to lead the way," Farah said.
"Because the other factor that the White House has to keep in mind is: you don’t want Xi or Putin being the guy to do that, right? You don’t want them to have that moment."
"Something I always think about with regards to that moment of a president stepping to the mic: when we entered the space race, Kennedy gave that big famous speech, right?
He was like, We’re going to lead in space. Space technology, like nuclear technology, has no conscience of its own. And it’s up to man to use it for good or bad, and we’re going to make sure it’s used for the betterment of all mankind," Farah said.
"I think that’s needed in this race. We need all the support of the scientific community, of academia. The kids coming out of MIT — we need them putting their brainpower towards this. And I think the White House knows that."
"And it’s also the greatest TV moment a leader could have in the history of humanity — stepping to the microphone," Farah said.
"If he could be the guy that blows the lid off it, that would definitely help his legacy," Rogan suggests. "And also, people would be excited about it."
"I've come to understand that Trump is borderline enraged about how much has been hidden from the White House," Farah said about Trump.
"That alone might motivate him to step up and say the truth. It's also the most bipartisan issue of our time."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/11/23/director_of_new_ufo_film_featuring_secretary_rubio_says_trump_is_considering_announcing_we_are_not_alone.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-H2zQQMqw
Jay Anderson
@TheProjectUnity
One question I have for those in the intelligence community, those in government, that say they have risked life and limb to bring us their claims around UFOs and internal government knowledge on the issue is this:
The UFO issue is supposed to be one of the most classified subjects in government and yet instead of seeing the same treatment that befell individuals like Edward Snowdon or Julian Assange, for whistleblowing on conventional coverups, where they were excommunicated from their homeland, imprisoned, threatened and punished to the ultimate extent permissible by law (even going beyond it into grey areas), we see these UFO whistleblowers on book tours, appearing on major documentaries and speaking on stage, not hiding for their lives.
This is a genuine discrepancy that needs to be examined because what it suggests is that this entire discussion from government/mil/intel representatives has been greenlit by those in control of the real UFO file, and that should concern anyone who has a desire for this conversation to arrive towards a truthful conclusion.
https://x.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1992250945355370971
Michael Salla
@MichaelSalla
Jay Anderson makes a fair point.
Some of the mil-intel whistleblowers that are being given the red carpet treatment in coming out have been green-lit to do so and are part of a well-crafted UFO threat narrative that is being foisted on an unsuspecting public, e.g., Lue Elizondo, Chris Mellon, etc..
However, there are other whistleblowers who push the UFO disclosure envelope further by discussing crash retrievals, reverse engineering, and NHI, and these have been genuinely threatened and harassed, e.g., David Grush, etc.
Yet there are other whistleblowers who have discussed DUMBs, SSPs, ET agreements, biological experiments, super soldiers,, etc., and these have experienced the kind of treatment that Snowden and Assange went through, e.g, Philip Schneider, Bill Cooper, Max Spiers, etc.
3:40 AM · Nov 23, 2025
https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/1992558757935530203
https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/1992780851831083024
US Air Force Silent on Alleged Covert UFO-Tracking Program Revealed by James Clapper
22 November 2025
The United States Air Force has declined to say whether it operated a covert program dedicated to tracking Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
In the new documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made a striking claim: a secretive Air Force program has been actively monitoring UAP, particularly over the highly classified Area 51 facility in Nevada - an epicentre of cutting-edge military development and testing.
Clapper, who also served as Chief of Air Force Intelligence, stated:
“When I served in the Air Force, there was an active program to track anomalous activities that we couldn’t otherwise explain - many of them connected with ranges out west, notably Area 51.”
Liberation Times asked the Air Force whether it could confirm or deny whether Clapper’s allegations were true. But the Air Force was unable to do so.
Instead, an Air Force official told Liberation Times:
“The Nevada Test and Training Range provides flexible, realistic and multidimensional battlespace to test and develop tactics as well as conduct advanced training in support of U.S. national interests.
“Several agencies have jurisdiction over various parts of the Nevada Test and Training Range. The U.S. Air Force controls the airspace over the range and roughly 2.9 million acres of land withdrawn for military use.
Various organizations including the Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and private towns such as Rachel also manage portions of the land.”
Liberation Times also reached out to Susan Gough, spokesperson for the Department of War’s (DoW) UAP office, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), regarding Clapper’s allegations.
However, Gough stated that she had no information to provide at this time.
The documentary, which features Clapper’s allegations, was released this week on Amazon.
After watching the premiere in March 2025 at the SXSW Film Festival, Marik Von Rennenkampff, a former analyst at the U.S. Department of State and Obama administration appointee at the Department of Defense (now Department of War), wrote:
‘In Age of Disclosure, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper states that a secretive, previously unknown U.S. Air Force program tracked UAP/UFOs, particularly over Area 51.
‘Congress must investigate.’
Between 1963 and 1995, Clapper served in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General.
His career in intelligence continued at the highest levels, with leadership roles at the Defence Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, before he served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.
Within a period of retirement, Clapper moved into the private sector.
Public records show that from 1998 to 2001 he served as director of intelligence programs at SRA International, a major Beltway contractor that worked extensively for the US intelligence community.
Liberation Times understands that SRA International supported the CIA office responsible for weapons and proliferation analysis, an organisation whose lineage runs from the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) to the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research (OSWR), and by the early 2000s to the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center (WINPAC).
Liberation Times understands from sources that SRA was the incumbent contractor on OSWR’s intelligence support and information-systems work and continued in a similar role after the office was reorganised as WINPAC.
OSWR would eventually evolve into WINPAC. In between, its functions passed through the Office of Weapons Technology and Proliferation (OWTP) and the Office of Transnational Issues (OTI).
The weapons-technology component of OTI became the ‘WI’ (weapons intelligence) element within WINPAC, which was later reorganised as the Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center (WCPMC).
OTI itself was subsequently restructured as the Transnational and Technology Mission Center.
According to sources, the WCPMC produces coordinated assessments for senior policymakers on foreign advanced weapons systems and technologies across the space, air, land, sea and undersea domains, including UAP.
With decades of experience at the heart of the U.S. intelligence and defense apparatus, Clapper is uniquely positioned to have insight into the U.S. government’s most closely guarded secrets.
https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/us-air-force-silent-on-alleged-covert-ufo-tracking-program-revealed-by-james-clapper
https://x.com/JeremyCorbell/status/1992517576505839886
https://x.com/ChrisUKSharp
David Grusch Gets Clearance Back And Confirms Everything
November 24, 2025
Former intelligence officer David Grusch appeared on Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier last week, making his most significant public statements to date.
When asked directly whether the United States government has encountered alien beings, Grusch confirmed that non-human sentient beings exist and that the US has recovered their vehicles.
He stated he was partially cleared into some of these activities and that it was beyond oral testimony provided to him. According to Grusch, he had partial access to the data and actually read the intelligence reports resulting from those programs.
When Baier asked if he saw this with his own eyes, Grusch confirmed yes.
This represents a major shift from his July 2023 congressional testimony. Grusch had not personally seen any vehicles or alien bodies at that time. His opinions were based on the accounts of over 40 witnesses he had interviewed across four years.
There was also a significant obstacle preventing further disclosure. When lawmakers attempted to bring Grusch into a SCIF to discuss classified details, they were informed his security clearance had lapsed when he left government service.
Representative Eric Burlison from Missouri took action to resolve this. On November 8, 2023, Burlison introduced the David Grusch Clearance Amendment, which was added to the Financial Services Appropriation Bill H.R. 4664 and passed by voice vote in the House.
The amendment encouraged the Office of Personnel Management to renew Grusch’s security clearance. According to Burlison’s statements on the House floor, Grusch had gone through proper channels by turning over classified information to the Intelligence Community Inspector General and filed a complaint alleging information was being illegally withheld from Congress.
By November 2023, the reinstatement process was completed. In April 2025, Burlison confirmed to Ask A Pol that Grusch had gotten his top secret clearance restored, and by March 2025, Grusch joined Burlison’s staff as a Special Advisor to the House Task Force for the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
In the recent Fox News interview, Grusch confirmed he has now seen intelligence regarding recovered non-human biological remains with his own eyes. He described it as very uncomfortable even for someone who has seen and experienced it, stating it is outside a normal person’s worldview to understand that biological sentient beings have piloted these craft that do not look like humans. When Baier asked if photographs exist, Grusch confirmed there were.
Regarding the origin of these beings, Grusch took a measured position compared to other officials.
While Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna stated on the Joe Rogan podcast that she is confident these are interdimensional beings, Grusch said the origin remains a subject of hot debate among program insiders he calls gray beards.
He mentioned the extraterrestrial hypothesis but noted he did not see that specific data and is not conversant in the high confidence theories the US government holds.
This cautious approach aligns with statements made by whistleblower Dylan Borland on the Weaponized podcast in October, who suggested these entities may be what ancient humans documented as gods, demons, angels, or jinn in religious texts. Grusch also confirmed that Russia and China have their own programs, stating he viewed intelligence discussing adversarial efforts.
Grusch addressed the personal cost of coming forward, confirming he was physically threatened before filing his Intelligence Community Inspector General report and had to seek legal protection.
Following his 2023 testimony, journalist Ken Klippenstein of The Intercept published details about Grusch’s mental health struggles after returning from Afghanistan just 96 hours after he testified.
Grusch filed a $2.5 million privacy lawsuit against the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office alleging unlawful release of confidential records.
The case was dismissed in August 2025 with no appeal filed. Despite these challenges, Grusch expressed optimism about the current administration, stating members of the Trump administration are well aware of this reality and that Vice President JD Vance and Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard have both expressed interest in investigating the phenomenon further.
https://www.ufonews.co/post/david-grusch-gets-clearance-back-and-confirms-everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-0eziI9oi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIOoS7XFN4 (Bret Baier Special Report: SHOCKING UFO findings revealed: ‘WE HAVE PROOF’)
Secrets Task Force approved for classified UFO CODEL to Roswell
Nov 22, 2025
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) — Chair, House Oversight Committee
Comer asks:
“Did they ever make their trip to Roswell?” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer casually asked.
“I don’t think so,” Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo replies.
Key Comer:
“I approved a trip for [Chair Anna Paulina Luna and Secrets Task Force members] to go to Roswell. I don’t know if they made it or not. They may have got interrupted with the shutdown,” Comer exclusively told Ask a Pol UAP.*
*Confirmed: Trip planned for coming months.
While Chair Comer approved the CODEL — or official Congressional Delegation trip — Rep. Eric Burlison tells Ask a Pol they’re still working out their western state itinerary
(stay tuned: That full exclusive with Burlison — including his reaction to recent attacks on his staffer David Grusch — is dropping next week when Congress is out, again).
While they still don’t have their trip details ironed out, Burlison explains, that’s in part because they fear military contractors will move sensitive materials if alerted a
Caught our ear:
“Yeah, it’s classified,” Comer recalled of the CODEL — Congressional Delegation — he approved. “You’re right.”
Kentucky Tangent: Fort Knox
“I got Fort Knox, but I can’t get down there. They won’t let me. Hell, you know, Trump never did get down there either,” Comer said. “[Kentucky Congressman] Brett Guthrie’s been in Fort Knox. Brett says there’s gold down there.”
He verified it?
“Yeah,” Comer lauged, “he verified it.”
https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/uap-caucus-visiting-roswell-soon
https://x.com/AskaPol_UAPs
https://x.com/MattLaslo
Lue Elizondo: Uncovering The 80-Year UFO Coverup & Pentagon's Lies
November 24, 2025
🚨 Lue Elizondo exposes the Pentagon's 80-year UFO coverup and UAP disinformation campaign. From Age of Disclosure documentary insights to AARO failures—the truth about government secrecy revealed.
🔴 LIVE with former Pentagon UFO program director Lue Elizondo as he breaks down the explosive revelations from "The Age of Disclosure" documentary and exposes how the Pentagon has systematically deceived the public about UAP phenomena for eight decades.
🎯 WHAT WE'RE COVERING:
• The Pentagon's active disinformation playbook against UFO disclosure
• How AARO is failing its transparency mandate
• Inside the 80-year government UFO coverup operation
• Key revelations from "Age of Disclosure" documentary
• Why whistleblowers face retaliation for telling the truth
• The national security implications of UAP secrecy
• What Congress needs to do next for real accountability
💡 WHY THIS MATTERS:
Lue Elizondo isn't just another UFO researcher—he ran the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). His firsthand experience inside the government's UFO program gives him unique insight into how disinformation campaigns operate and why transparency has been systematically blocked.
"The Age of Disclosure" documentary features Lue's most detailed account yet of the institutional resistance to UAP truth. This livestream goes deeper into the tactics, the players, and the path forward.
NOTE: Lue's mic sound's a bit out of phase. That was a problem at our end, not Lues. These mistakes unfortunately happen when we are live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_d2XWXexCo
https://x.com/GoodTroubleShow
https://x.com/LueElizondo
https://x.com/ageofdisclosure