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Ukraine strikes Russian warship at Baltic Fleet base, releases drone footage
June 3, 2026 1:42 pm
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) hit a Russian warship armed with missiles at the Kronstadt naval base in Russia's Leningrad Oblast on June 3, USF Commander Robert "Magyar" Brovdi said.
Brovdi wrote on Telegram that USF drones "tracked down and set fire" to the corvette Boikyi, which is armed with guided missiles.
"(The ship) has a fascinating history of journeys and adventures along NATO's borders. It accompanied the shadow oil fleet – a real workhorse," Brovdi said.
The Boikyi reportedly escorted oil tankers from Russia's shadow fleet through the English Channel in 2025.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine's General Staff also confirmed earlier on June 3 that military targets at the Kronstadt base had hit alongside other targets inside Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Leningrad Oblast Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko reported that 50 drones were shot down over the region on June 3.
The Kronstadt base is located west of St. Petersburg, where overnight on June 3, Ukraine struck St. Petersburg Oil Terminal ahead of the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an annual conference of business leaders and government officials hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A member of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is set to appear at the forum, the first known attendance at the event by an American official in several years.
Putin has used the forum as a platform to project economic resilience and signal that Russia remains open for business despite Western sanctions and diplomatic isolation in the wake of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
During last year's forum speech, Putin proclaimed that "all of Ukraine" belonged to Russia.
https://kyivindependent.com/military-releases-video-of-ukrainian-drones-striking-russias-vessel-carrier-of-guided-missile-weapons/
other Russia and Ukraine
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/moscow-region-declares-emergency-alert-over-drone-threat-activating-mobile-warnings-for-first-time-19441
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4130108-greece-issues-demarche-to-ukraine-over-sea-drone.html
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-06-03/ukraine-drone-manufacturers-corruption-production-21862431.html
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-06-03/live-updates-898171
other Israel
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428078
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428069
https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/watch-israel-uncovers-hezbollahs-nazi-made-weapons-and-iranian-arms
https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/hamas-terrorist-who-kidnapped-four-on-oct-7-eliminated-in-gaza-strike
Live Updates: Netanyahu says he will let Trump decide on more strikes against Iran as Lebanon talks resume
June 3, 8:44 PM
Kuwait diverts flights following Iranian attacks on airport • Trump-Netanyahu call, restraint on Beirut strike signals 'Iranian victory,’ INSS researcher warns
June 3, 6:44 PM
US, Israel will 'fully return' to military action if needed, Netanyahu tells CNBC
Netanyahu told CNBC that he believed that there are "enormous cracks right now in Iran" but that no one could predict when regime change would happen, if at all.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the US and Israel will resume military action against Iran if needed during an interview with CNBC on Wednesday.
"I think there’s a tactical game that is being played," he told CNBC's Sara Eisen, adding that he would leave the ball in US President Donald Trump's court if escalation was necessary.
June 3, 6:37 PM
Kuwait declares two Iran diplomats persona non grata after Islamic Republic strikes airport
This comes after Iran attacked Kuwait's airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning and damaged "vital facilities, including diplomatic missions."
Kuwait's Foreign Affairs Ministry summoned Iran's Chargé d'Affaires to Kuwait City on Wednesday after the Islamic Republic targeted the country's airport in missile strikes early that morning.
In a statement on X, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said it had declared two members of Iran's diplomatic mission to the country persona non grata and demanded their departure within 24 hours.sabling it.
June 3, 6:00 PM
Trump: 'I started Iran war, would be no Israel without me'
US President Donald Trump confirmed that he called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "f****ing crazy" and told him that Trump kept him out of jail during a call on Monday, in an interview on the New York Post's "Pod Force One" with Miranda Devine, released on Wednesday.
Reports of Trump's language were first released on Monday, with an Israeli source later disputing the account.
In his interview, Trump clarified that he wasn't angry but that he "was a little perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLnB5l1PxCY
June 3, 5:58 PM
Trump-Netanyahu call, restraint on Beirut strike signals 'Iranian victory,’ INSS researcher warns
"Hezbollah has suddenly recovered, and they have also created a split between Israel and the United States. This is a kind of enormous Iranian achievement,” INSS researcher Beni Sabti said.
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intense phone call regarding the IDF planning to strike Beirut “sends a message of Iranian victory, both on the battlefield and in terms of perception,” Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) researcher Beni Sabti told 103FM on Wednesday.
“The president of the United States is becoming an advocate for the Iranian regime,” he said.
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June 3, 5:58 PM
'I lost trust in my army,' former official says in debate over transparency after Oct. 7 failures
Eyal Eshel, father of an IDF observer killed at the Nahal Oz base, said the families had faced deep frustration over what he described as missing information from the defense establishment.
Bereaved families, former military officials, and defense experts debated the IDF’s handling of its October 7 investigations on Tuesday, during a panel at the Israel Bar Association’s annual conference in Eilat that focused on transparency, accountability, and public trust in the military.
The panel touched on the growing tension surrounding the army’s internal probes into the failures of October 7: the families’ demand to know what happened to their loved ones, the military’s need to preserve candid operational debriefings, and the broader public interest in understanding how the Hamas attack unfolded.
June 3, 5:58 PM
Iran-backed militias in Iraq signal move to place weapons under state control amid US pressure
Iraq is at a turning point as militias begin procedures to disengage from the PMF and potentially hand weapons to the government amid US pressure.
Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have signaled that they may break away from the government-backed Popular Mobilization Forces and turn over some of their weapons to the state.
There are many questions about whether this will actually happen or whether the militias are merely going to do some kind of formal change in “definitions” about their status and weapons, while keeping the guns and not changing their behavior.
June 3, 5:39 PM
Col. Ayub Kayuf takes over as commander of the Golani Brigade
The IDF announced that Col. Ayub Kayuf will serve as the new commander of the Golani Brigade on Wednesday.
The appointment ceremony was held earlier today on the Beaufort Ridge in southern Lebanon, led by the commander of the 36th Division, Brigadier General Yiftach Norkin, and attended by additional commanders and soldiers.
Col. Kayuf will replace Col. Adi Ganon, who served in this position for the past two years.
June 3, 12:31 PM
IDF intercepts drone crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel
The IDF intercepted a drone crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel in the areas of Manara and Kiryat Shimona, the military confirmed on Wednesday.
June 3, 11:57 AM
Iran executes man accused of killing police officer during early 2026 protests, report says
Iran executed Fathollah Avari, a man convicted of fatally stabbing a police officer during unrest in the western city of Hamadan in January, the judiciary's news outlet Mizan reported on Wednesday.
The report said the sentence was carried out after being upheld by the Supreme Court.
June 3, 11:38 AM
Iran says Kuwait, Bahrain bear responsibility for US attacks, vows self-defense
Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned on Wednesday what it described as US attacks on an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and a telecommunications tower on Qeshm Island, saying they violated a ceasefire understanding and international law.
The ministry said Kuwait and Bahrain bore "direct and clear responsibility" for the attacks, alleging their territory and facilities had been used to support US military operations against Iran.
Tehran said it reserved the right to self-defense and would use all available means to respond, including by targeting the source of any future attacks.
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https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/scores-dead-in-new-drone-attacks-across-darfur-kordofan
Scores dead in new drone attacks across Darfur, Kordofan
02/06/2026 18:29
New drone attacks have left a swathe of death and material destruction across Darfur and Kordofan over the past days, as warring parties exchange accusations, and tribal tensions flare.
The Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) government, based in the South Darfur capital Nyala and aligned to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has condemned the drone attack on the market in Kabum city in South Darfur State, which resulted in the death of 12 people and the injury of dozens, while tribal conflicts between the Salamat and Beni Halba continued despite calls to stop the fighting and to let reason prevail.
The coalition explained that the bombing targeted a restaurant and a passenger vehicle with three missiles, considering this a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and all human values and norms.
He asserted that the bombing constituted a deliberate targeting of civilians, part of a systematic policy to exterminate specific population groups, terrorize the population, and inflict maximum civilian casualties.
He also accused the armed forces of engaging in a new phase of a scheme to fuel tribal conflicts and expand the scope of violence and chaos in areas experiencing social tensions, with the aim of prolonging the war and turning civilians into its fuel.
Meanwhile, tribal clashes between the Salamat and Bani Halba continued for a fifth day, with sources reporting deaths and injuries. Several political, civil, and military leaders appealed to both sides to exercise restraint, cease fighting, and withdraw their forces.
Major General Abdelrahman Juma Baraka Allah, the division commander in Zalingei, directed the Salamat and Bani Halba tribes to stop fighting, end the dispute, and deny the opportunity to those lying in wait.
He thanked the military personnel in the two tribes for their efforts to resolve the conflicts and called on the local leaders to extinguish the flames of fighting.
The National Umma Party appealed to the two honourable tribes to heed the voice of reason and wisdom, to prioritize the values of tolerance and coexistence, to immediately cease hostilities, and to resort to dialogue and peaceful means to address the causes of the conflict, in order to prevent bloodshed, preserve lives, and safeguard the social fabric.
He also appealed to local administrations, community leaders, religious figures, and all local actors to work to contain the crisis and intervene urgently between the parties to the conflict, and to strengthen reconciliation efforts and mend the social fabric.
He warned of the danger of the growth of tribal conflicts in light of the widespread availability of weapons and the repercussions of the war that the country is witnessing.
Accusations
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said that these conflicts come in the context of the security breakdown created by the Rapid Support Forces through the dismantling of state institutions, the weakening of the rule of law, and the spreading of chaos in the areas where they are deployed, and held them responsible for the environment that allowed these conflicts and other conflicts witnessed in the region to erupt.
The movement added that the escalation of tribal and regional conflicts is linked to the so-called “founding” project, which calls for reshaping the reality of Darfur on ethnic, tribal and regional grounds, considering this a threat to the unity of the social fabric and fuelling polarization among Sudanese components, and stressing that the future of Darfur is not built on tribal sorting or regional hegemony, but rather on equal citizenship, the unity of the state and the rule of law.
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In the same context, Minni Arko Minawi, the governor of Darfur, accused the Rapid Support Forces of starting the war, and appealed to the wise and prudent people of the two tribes to stand together to stop the bloodshed immediately, and not to be drawn into the schemes that he said seek to tear apart the social fabric and serve the agenda of the Rapid Support Forces.
At least 50 killed in drone attacks on Kordofan and Darfur
Since Thursday, drone attacks on six locations in Kordofan and Darfur have killed at least 52 people.
Local sources in Dilling, South Kordofan State, reported that the city was subjected to a series of drone attacks this morning, targeting several locations within and around the city.
The sources stated that more than eight drones were launched at different times, causing widespread concern among residents.
There has been no official information yet regarding the extent of the damage or any casualties resulting from the attacks.
These developments come amidst ongoing security and military tensions in several parts of the state, while residents have called for urgent measures to protect civilians and maintain the city’s security and stability.
At least 8 people killed in Umm Rawaba
In Umm Rawaba, at least eight people were killed, and others were injured as a result of a drone strike that targeted the city of Umm Rawaba in North Kordofan State during the past two days, yesterday and today, Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses from the city of Umm Rawaba told Radio Dabanga that a drone targeted the western neighbourhood of the city today, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries, the exact number of which has not been determined at the time of preparing the report.
One witness explained that yesterday’s bombing killed 8 people, including engineer Jaafar Hassan and Barir, the driver of the city’s electricity department vehicle, and police assistant Hassan Musa.
Witnesses indicated that the attacks caused panic and fear among citizens, with concerns about repeated targeting and worsening security conditions in the city.
18 people killed in Umm Badr
For its part, the Emergency Lawyers Group revealed that 18 people, mostly young people, including two children, were killed on Thursday as a result of drone strikes targeting two civilian vehicles that were transporting traders in the Umm Badr area to the Armal area in North Kordofan State.
It explained that the bombing led to the complete destruction of the two vehicles and the death of all those on board.
She said that the intense drone activity in the area led to the closure of the Abu Zaima market, causing a partial paralysis of commercial activity and a rise in the cost of basic commodities.
26 people killed in Darfur
The Sudanese Founding Alliance condemned the drone attack on the market in Kabum town in South Darfur state, which killed 12 people and injured dozens.
The Tasees coalition explained that the bombing targeted a restaurant and a passenger vehicle with three missiles, considering this a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and all human values and norms.
In Ardamata, West Darfur, at least four people were killed in a drone attack.
The United Nations expressed concern over the killing of dozens of civilians in Sudan during the Eid al-Adha holiday, as violence continues to escalate in parts of the Kordofan and Darfur regions.
United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said 10 people, including three children, were killed in Umm Dukhun in Central Darfur state on Saturday.
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Lockheed fires JAGM from containerized launcher in first drone intercept
June 3, 2026
Lockheed Martin says it has intercepted a Group 3 one-way attack drone for the first time using a Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) fired from its GRIZZLY containerized launcher, in a test it assembled and live-fired in under 45 days.
In the demonstration conducted at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, Fortem R-40 radars detected and tracked the target, the company’s Sanctum counter-UAS (C-UAS) battle manager processed the engagement, and the GRIZZLY launcher fired a JAGM that neutralized the drone.
A containerized kill chain
Lockheed Martin said the system, built on existing prototype architecture, can be mounted on ground sites or maritime platforms and fielded within days, operating standalone or linked into higher-echelon command and control through a mesh network.
It builds on a run of recent GRIZZLY work: a first Hellfire vertical-launch test, and a JAGM Quad Launcher shot against a UAS target at China Lake.
It is pitching the architecture as a low-cost, modular point-defense solution against Group 1 to 4 UAV threats, citing an eight-round magazine, toolless reload, low-cost commercial sensors and minimal infrastructure.
“This test demonstrates a rapid, low-cost and modular point-defense solution that can be deployed on land or maritime platforms within days,” said Paul Lemmo, Vice President and General Manager of Lockheed Martin Sensors, Effectors and Mission Systems.
The US military’s classification runs from Group 1 micro-drones up to Group 5; the Group 1 to 4 band covered here spans small hand-launched quadcopters through to larger systems up to and beyond 1,300 pounds, including the Group 3 class of one-way attack drones now common on the battlefield.
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/lockheed-jagm-grizzly-sanctum-drone-intercept
U.S. Government's Top UFO Hunter Will Break His Silence on Alleged 'Coverup' of Alien Life
June 3, 2026 09:22AM EDT
NEED TO KNOW
Jay Stratton, a former Pentagon official, is releasing his memoir Out of the Shadows on Oct. 13
Stratton claims to have witnessed non-human craft and beings
His book comes amid growing public interest in UAPs and UFOs following military declassifications and high-profile congressional hearings
A hotly-anticipated memoir among UFO enthusiasts from one of the U.S. government’s most seasoned and senior former alien hunters now has a release date.
Jay Stratton — a former intelligence official who spent 16 years as the driving force behind the government’s investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena and potential alien life — will publish Out of the Shadows: Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life on Oct. 13.
To the many viewers of last year’s documentary Age Of Disclosure, about what officials really know about what's out there in the deep dark depths of space, Stratton is best known for a jaw-dropping claim he made in the film.
“I have seen with my own eyes,” he said, “non-human craft and non-human beings.”
A highly-decorated career defense official who held the civilian rank of two-star general, Stratton was the first director of the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and co-founded a pioneering government program to investigate UAPs (referred to for many years as UFOs) after learning that objects of unknown origin had been spotted over American nuclear weapon sites.
Now his memoir teases further insights.
“Operating in the shadows of the intelligence community, Stratton discovered an 80-year coverup of the existence of non-human intelligent life and fought back against powerful gatekeepers who have hid the truth from the public, Congress, and even Presidents,” his publisher, HarperCollins, said in a statement.
Stratton, who retired from government in 2022, will be breaking his silence about what he claims are unnerving encounters he witnessed during his investigations.
Those experiences, according to his publisher, “profoundly altered his understanding of humanity’s place in the universe and took a disturbing toll on him and his family.”
The release of Out of the Shadows comes at a time when the conversation about UAPs has moved from the fringes to the mainstream due to military declassifications of once-secret files, high-profile congressional hearings and comments from government officials as well as the ongoing release of Pentagon documents.
A presidential directive on Feb. 26 ordered federal agencies to declassify evidence on UAPs and non-human intelligent life.
Stratton has been working closely with the White House, the director of national intelligence and the Department of Defense in the effort to gain access to relevant evidence with the intention of releasing it over the coming months.
In a statement, Age Of Disclosure director and producer Dan Farah, who has secured the television and film rights to the memoir, lauded Stratton for pursuing his quest.
“After discovering the related national security concerns and a potential existential threat, Jay defied powerful institutional gatekeepers and risked everything in order to reveal that humanity is not alone in the universe and to ensure the government takes action,” Farah said.
https://people.com/bombshell-memoir-by-us-government-top-ufo-hunter-gets-release-date-title-cover-11989747
https://deadline.com/2026/06/jay-stratton-memoir-release-date-title-unveiled-1236938677/
https://x.com/jaystratton/status/2062157735425130814
Government disclosure on aliens a ‘dead end,’ says film director
Updated: Jun 2, 2026 / 10:48 PM CDT
UFO researcher Ron James says the government’s slow disclosure of details on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, is a dead end.
“We are not going to get the entire truth and the knowledge of this from a political process of disclosure,” James tells NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas on Tuesday. “They’re never going to tell us the entire truth.”
James is the director and producer of a new documentary called “Accidental Truth: Next — Beyond UFO Disclosure.”
The film is a sequel to his 2023 documentary, “Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations.” It features dozens of interviews with well-known UFO researchers, government officials, whistleblowers and witnesses.
James says the film is actually two-in-one. The first part tackles disclosure with never-before-heard stories from inside Washington, D.C. The second digs into the big question — what happens when we have the knowledge?
“We got to start looking at AI. We’ve got to start looking at the nature of reality. We’ve got to start reexamining esoteric beliefs and spiritual teachings,” James says. “This is the beginning, not the end, of a huge revolution for humanity.”
So, are we any closer to the government revealing knowledge of nonhuman intelligence? James doesn’t think so.
“There are multiple layers of secrecy,” says James, adding that even people in front-facing government will never know the truth. And those who do “are people we will never see on television, and will never come forward and tell us who they are.”
“Accidental Truth: Next — Beyond UFO Disclosure” is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and YouTube.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/government-disclosure-aliens-dead-end/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8O0i9lQ4Hc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Tp_Q_jyNI (Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations)
https://x.com/RonJamesFilms
https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/sktrtv6xfx
He was the world’s first male supermodel, but for 20 years he was trapped in an alien cult
June 3, 2026 23:36
Hoyt Richards was one of the world’s top male models, but while earning millions he was secretly bankrolling a cult led by a man who claimed to be an alien savior, a story explored in HBO’s Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult
Hoyt Richards’ photograph could have sat next to the entry for the “American dream” in a dictionary during the 1980s and 1990s.
Tall, athletic, blond and tanned, he earned a football scholarship to the prestigious Princeton University before becoming the world’s first male supermodel. He traveled the globe and made millions of dollars.
Men wanted to be him. Women and men wanted to be with him.
What none of them knew was that every dollar Richards earned was going into the bank account of a cult whose leader claimed to be E.T., a savior from another planet.
Nor did they know they never had a chance of being with Richards because the cult forbade its members from falling in love.
And that is only the beginning of one of the strangest cult stories to emerge from the United States in the past 50 years.
The story is now the subject of the three-part HBO documentary series Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult, which leaves viewers with one unsettling conclusion: If Hoyt Richards, raised in a loving family, educated at an elite university and seemingly blessed with every advantage, could be drawn into a cult that believed the world would end because a self-proclaimed alien said so, then it truly could happen to anyone.
Diets, tanning treatments and no sex
For Richards, the story began in 1978. He was 16 when he arrived with his family for their annual summer vacation on the upscale resort island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
There, on the beach, he met a 31-year-old man named Frederick Von Mierers, who looked like a creepier, overly tanned version of a Ken doll.
Von Mierers began talking to the teenager about Eastern philosophy, astrology and the hidden architecture of the universe.
He told Richards he hosted parties on the island almost every night and invited him to attend. Richards was happy to drink free beer. He was a bored teenager whose life was good but not especially exciting, and he was searching for something bigger.
“At that point, I didn’t really have a passion,” says Richards, now 64. “I was doing well in school, I had friends, I was successful in sports, but there wasn’t anything that really lit me up.
So when I met this guy on the beach who was so excited about his life, I thought, ‘That sounds a lot better than having no plan.’” With every party, Richards became more entangled in Von Mierers’ web.
After those Nantucket summers, Richards enrolled at Princeton in New Jersey, just a short distance from New York City, where Von Mierers lived. By the time he graduated in 1985 and his modeling career began taking off, he was fully under his influence.
Born in Brooklyn on Christmas Eve 1946 as Fred Meyers, the Jewish Von Mierers claimed that, in the year he met Richards, he had undergone a near-death experience that revealed he was actually an alien prophet.
An unusual calling, to say the least.
He founded a group called Eternal Values, made up of young people to whom he promised both spiritual fulfillment and access to Manhattan’s highest social circles.
“Bring me the beauties,” Von Mierers would tell cult members when sending them out to recruit new followers.
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They spent their nights in the legendary clubs of the Studio 54 era, while the earliest cult members, including Richards, slept on small futons in Von Mierers’ apartment and lived under a strict set of rules: restrictive diets, regular tanning treatments, cleaning duties and abstinence from sex. Most importantly, they were forbidden from falling in love.
Obedience to those rules, Von Mierers promised, would earn them entry into what he described as “the most exclusive cocktail party on Earth.”
In the documentary, Paul Hinton, one of Von Mierers’ assistants, says Eternal Values members paid male escorts to have sex with Von Mierers several times a week. Although he was gay, Von Mierers claimed to be asexual and completely devoted to the cause.
In one instance, Hinton recalls, Von Mierers instructed him to drive to Times Square so they could find “the biggest piece of trash in the universe” to satisfy him.
Von Mierers possessed the kind of charisma often seen in movies and dismissed as unrealistic.
He used astrological charts to manipulate his lost followers, breaking down their confidence piece by piece. He then sold them expensive gemstones that supposedly possessed healing powers.
He also invented an increasingly outrageous biography, apparently to test how far he could push his followers’ credulity. The young recruits believed him.
Among other things, he claimed his parents had died in a car accident, that he had been raised by grandparents who also died, that he had then gone to live with a wealthy godmother, worked as a model and climbed New York’s social ladder. So far, improbable but possible.
Then, according to his story, an alien from Arcturus entered his body.
Arcturus, one of the brightest stars in the constellation Boötes, is about 37 light-years from the sun and has become a popular fixture in New Age culture, UFO mythology and conspiracy theories.
According to Von Mierers, the alien told him he had 10 years to identify and train a new generation of leaders who would be the only survivors when Earth was destroyed in 1999.
They would then be rescued by aliens and kept in regeneration chambers until it was safe to return.
When Ruth Montgomery, a former Washington journalist turned New Age guru, wrote in a bestselling book that Von Mierers really was an alien, it served as the ultimate validation for cult members.
Von Mierers transformed Eternal Values into a sprawling business empire that included courses, dietary supplements, fitness equipment, gemstone prescriptions and expensive astrology readings.
Members donated personal funds, including the millions Richards earned as a supermodel, to purchase a large compound in North Carolina, which was considered an ideal landing site for an alien spacecraft. At least it was a more original choice than New Mexico.
'I financed and built my own prison'
Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult was created by Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Chris Smith (100 Foot Wave, American Movie). He came across the story by accident.
While interviewing Richards for an unrelated project, Smith realized there was a remarkable story behind the former model’s life. The documentary’s central question is how something like this could happen to someone who appears, on the surface, unlikely to join a cult.
“Hoyt doesn’t look or sound like the way we imagine a cult member,” Smith told Variety. “Suddenly you realize something like this can happen to anyone.”
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Richards now describes a gradual process of surrender. Whenever Von Mierers decided someone had crossed a line, that person would endure hours of public humiliation from fellow cult members.
“I can look back and say it was a mental prison,” Richards says. “But while I was living through it, I didn’t see it as a prison. I saw it as the foundation of my life. I joined a spiritual movement that I thought was going to be amazing. Instead, I financed and built my own prison.”
At the height of his modeling career, while flying around the world and staying in five-star hotels, Richards would return to North Carolina and sleep on the floor of the cult compound.
He credited the group for every success in his professional life and believed his spiritual work with Eternal Values was driving those achievements.
“I became my own worst enemy because I fell so deeply in love with the narrative,” he says
As often happens with cults, the organization began to unravel when its leader’s narcissism finally went too far.
In 1990, Von Mierers and several followers, including Richards, appeared on The Richard Bey Show, a highly successful daytime tabloid talk show.
The appearance was deeply embarrassing. Soon afterward, Vanity Fair published an investigative article about the cult.
Von Mierers even posed for the story after undergoing his fifth facelift, but he died of AIDS five days before the article appeared.
Left without a leader, Eternal Values members barricaded themselves inside the North Carolina lake house and began stockpiling weapons and survival supplies.
They purchased large quantities of gold and silver, believing they would be the only forms of currency after the approaching apocalypse.
Violent power struggles soon erupted over who would become the next leader. Richards was briefly considered, until the group turned against him as well.
Then came 1999. The apocalypse never arrived. Richards traveled to Paris and London for modeling assignments and was stunned to discover that Europe was still standing. He began to understand what had really happened to him over the previous two decades.
During one modeling trip to Los Angeles, Richards fell in love with a woman named Donna. He concealed the relationship for years until fellow cult members discovered it and punished him for violating one of the group’s most serious prohibitions.
After all, Von Mierers had taught that “romantic love is the cause of humanity’s downfall.”
Richards was forced to break up with Donna, shave his head and quit modeling. That was the moment he decided to escape. He crawled past the German shepherds guarding the compound and, once out of earshot, ran for freedom and returned to his real family.
In 2002, Richards’ attorneys reached a settlement with the remaining members, liquidated Eternal Values’ assets and brought the organization to an end.
For the past 25 years, Richards has tried to come to terms with what happened by viewing it as an extreme version of something far more common.
“A cult relationship is any relationship where you’ve given your power to someone else, usually unconsciously,” he told The New York Times.
“They give you attention, something you perceive as love, and you become addicted to that feeling and the pursuit of it.”
This September, Richards is set to marry Donna, the woman whose existence he hid from the group for four years.
“There was a time when I thought my story was getting too old and becoming irrelevant,” he told the Times. “Now I think my story is even more relevant today than when I lived through it.
If I’d had more information, I would have been less vulnerable. I feel an obligation to share this information with young people. It doesn’t guarantee protection, but it gives you a much better chance.”
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Eyewitness claims dead scientist leads antigravity research at secret Spaceport under Green Mountain
Jun 3, 2026
Amy Eskridge has been listed among the 11+ missing/dead scientists working on breakthrough technologies that could be linked with the UFO issue.
What we know officially is that she was a pioneering anti-gravity technology expert & head of the Institute for Exotic Science in Huntsville, Alabama,.
After revealing threats she was receiving for her efforts to promote antigravity research, and saying she would never take her life, she was allegedly found dead in June 2022 from a self-inflicted gunshot.
On May 29, I received a text message from a source I have known for several years, who said he had twice met someone who claimed to be Amy Eskridge, who looked very much like her.
The woman went on to share startling information about an underground base with a large spaceport at Green Mountain, Alabama, where Nordic ETs are training international military pilots.
The facility is allegedly run by Eskridge, who wants to reveal to the world the existence of the facility along with information about four additional fundamental forces of nature that are essential to the understanding of antigravity, the operation of interstellar spacecraft, the existence of stargates, consciousness transfer, and orbs.
In this Exopolitics Commentary, I analyze the various elements of my source's text message, along with discussion of three scenarios ranging from the information being genuine, part of an elaborate psychological operation, or wholly contrived by the source.
https://exopolitics.org/eyewitness-alleges-dead-scientist-leads-antigravity-research-at-a-secret-spaceport/
https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2060684402179391649
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEud1ME4TVI
The Tower of the Americas beams a message for 'The Alien'
June 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM CDT
A green beam shot from the top of the Tower of the Americas as San Antonio celebrated the Spurs' return to the NBA Finals.
The display coincided with a Nike-produced drone show inspired by Spurs star Victor Wembanyama, whose nickname, "The Alien," is a nod to his seemingly otherworldly combination of size, skill and athleticism.
The celebration followed the Spurs' Game 7 victory over Oklahoma City, a win that returned San Antonio to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2014. The Spurs will open the series against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night in San Antonio.
The display was created with the help of San Antonio-based City Smart Lights, whose AI-powered lighting displays have become an increasingly visible part of the downtown skyline in recent months.
The company specializes in architectural lighting systems for public spaces, landmarks and entertainment venues.
"We are honored to contribute to moments that bring our community together," City Smart Lights President Eduardo Orozco said in a statement.
"The Spurs' return to the NBA Finals is a source of tremendous pride for San Antonio, and we were excited to help illuminate one of the city's most recognizable landmarks as part of this celebration."
The lighting display and drone show drew attention across social media as fans celebrated the Spurs' return to basketball's biggest stage. The Nike-produced presentation ended with a message that captured the mood around San Antonio's young superstar:
"HE HAS ARRIVED."
https://www.tpr.org/sports/2026-06-02/the-tower-of-the-americas-beams-a-message-for-the-alien
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY_KA-SO4bz/
extra and ICYMI
https://collider.com/aliens-james-cameron-futuristic-cameras-ricco-ross-jeannette-goldstein-comments/
https://www.dagens.com/news/secret-mountain-bases-and-ufo-workshops-former-cia-makes-extraordinary-claims
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/pentagon-alien-hunter-who-saw-37244411
https://www.ufonews.co/post/congresswoman-calls-classified-uap-material-supernatural
https://usaherald.com/the-pentagons-flying-humanoid-a-masterclass-in-diversion-or-something-far-stranger/
https://www.vladtv.com/article/315160/dr-steven-greer-on-seeing-studying-aliens-man-made-v-alien-ufos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCgT1HlHjxI (Fox News: UFO FILES: Shocking NEW details of alleged sightings released)
GREAT RESET COMING..Trump Wants to Abolish the IRS, End the Fed, and Bring Back Gold
June 3, 2026
Larry Ballard joins the podcast with a stellar powerpoint presentation that promises to help my audience understand the coming Great Reset and the return to constitutional money..You decide!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5qQ316AM3I
https://x.com/ninoboxer
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4OXP4FGxSE (Matt Ford: They Deleted Our UFO Story, Surveilled Me, and Are Spying on Congress - Splinter the CIA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgHw6HMnt20 (Journey To Truth: TIME IS UP! | REPTILIANS HAVE TO BEGIN EVACUATING | Children Are Being Prepared for New Frequencies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sexbWzrET-Q (Conscious Life Expo: MERKABA: Your Personal Spaceship)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQXUTnmxTtA ('Transformation 2026,' Whitley Strieber on drone wave and NHI interest in souls | Reality Check)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VYdhbd6zg (David Grusch leads public effort to demand Trump for GROUNDBREAKING UFO Files - Psicoactivo #1033)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ADC7PwAZ8 (He Found England's Most Impossible Ancient Site | Hugh Newman Vs Praveen Mohan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbOT_4K1vuA (Brian Scott: MKUltra And The Consciousness Experiments They Buried)
PS new UFO Files on Friday
Laura Eisenhower
@eisenhowe8
The deeper issue is not one race, religion, or nation. It is the weaponization of identity and the deliberate fragmentation of the human family.
There is nothing inherently wrong with people feeling a strong connection to their own tribe, ancestry, ethnicity, culture, or lineage.
People may want to preserve their traditions, remain close to those with shared history, and build community around a common heritage. Affinity is not hatred. Belonging is not domination.
The problem begins when identity is turned into hierarchy ~ when one group is taught that it is superior, more chosen, more valuable, or entitled to rule over another.
From a spiritual perspective, the idea of root races is not about ranking humanity. It is about understanding that different ancestral streams carry different gifts, experiences, memories, and expressions of human potential.
Their purpose is not competition. Their purpose is complementarity. The whole point is that diversity in harmony helps humanity advance.
Each stream carries something that another may not carry in the same way. Through relationship, exchange, healing, and integration, people help awaken dormant capacities in one another.
In that sense, the different root races were never meant to dominate each other. They were meant to participate in a larger process of activation and restoration.
This is why racial superiority narratives make no sense. If one group were meant to stand above all others, there would be no purpose in humanity expressing itself through so many different cultures, lineages, perspectives, and ancestral memories.
The diversity is not a flaw in the human story. It is part of the intelligence of the human story.
Divide-and-conquer tactics interfere with this process. When people are kept trapped in fear, inherited resentment, racial hostility, religious conflict, and collective blame, they remain fragmented.
They become unable to recognize what they can learn from one another and what becomes possible when different human streams come back into right relationship.
Jewish people should never be blamed collectively for the actions of wealthy individuals, political leaders, financial institutions, or the Israeli government. German people should not be treated as though they personally carry the guilt of the Nazi regime.
Palestinians should not be dehumanized because of the actions of militants. No ordinary population should be turned into a scapegoat for the actions of governments, elites, institutions, or ideological movements.
When I speak about dormant DNA, I am not speaking about racial purity or biological superiority. I am speaking about the restoration of fuller human potential through healing, integration, and unity consciousness.
Some may understand that spiritually, energetically, symbolically, or biologically, but the central principle remains the same: fragmentation limits us, while conscious integration expands what humanity can become.
Unity consciousness does not mean erasing differences. It means learning how to hold difference without turning it into hierarchy. It means honoring distinct cultures and ancestral identities while refusing hatred, domination, and collective blame.
We are not meant to become identical. We are meant to become whole.
Humanity advances when diversity is brought into harmony ~ when the different pieces of the human family stop being weaponized against each other and begin to recognize that each carries a necessary part of the larger human potential.
10:57 AM · Jun 1, 2026
https://x.com/eisenhowe8/status/2061507518103490932