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other Israel
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-899814
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-899852
https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/civilian-tech-adopted-by-idf-displayed-in-annual-event
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-hezbollah-litani-river-attack
Live Updates: Trump says he expects 'complete ceasefire' as Netanyahu vows IDF will remain in Lebanon
June 18, 2026
JD Vance: Israel should not attack its only powerful ally left • IDF soldier killed, seven others wounded by IED explosion in southern Lebanon • Khamenei warns Iran will not submit to Trump's demands
June 18, 9:11 PM
Trump says US expects 'complete ceasefire on all fronts' following Iran deal
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States expects "a complete ceasefire on all fronts," including Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel.
"We encourage everyone in the Middle East Region to maintain their commitment to allowing our negotiations to beautifully unfold," Trump wrote on Truth Social, one day after he signed a memorandum of understanding to end a nearly four-month conflict with Iran.
June 18, 8:17 PM
US blockade on Iranian ports in Strait of Hormuz lifted, CENTCOM announces
United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Thursday that the US blockade on Iranian ports has been lifted and all measures for enforcing the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz have ended.
“American forces are not impeding the transit of vessels to or from Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman,” CENTCOM stated in a post on X/Twitter.
June 18, 7:23 PM
Israeli Air Force intercepts rockets aimed at troops in Lebanon
The Israeli Air Force intercepted several rockets which had been launched at IDF troops in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Thursday.
Several other rockets fell adjacent to the soldiers.
No injuries were reported.
June 18, 7:13 PM
Netanyahu to convene cabinet meeting on Thursday evening
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the small cabinet for discussion on Thursday evening
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June 18, 4:50 PM
‘We will restore security in the North,’ Netanyahu vows at re-inauguration of Route 60
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to restore the security of Israel’s north during a ceremony for the re-inauguration og Route 60 on Thursday.
"We will restore security to the north,” Netanyahu stated. “This requires maintaining the security strip in southern Lebanon; this requires that we not withdraw as long as Israel's security needs require it."
June 18, 3:11 PM
FMs of Iran, Kuwait share call discussing peaceful relations, diplomacy, 'good neighbor' policy
Foreign Minister of Iran Seyyed Abbas Araghchi consulted with Foreign Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on the Memorandum of Understanding, regional developments, and bilateral relations during a phone call on Thursday, according to a statement released on Araghchi's official telegram.
Araghchi affirmed Iran's commitment to the good-neighbor policy and expressed hope that the agreement would lead to the restoration of peace and stability, emphasizing the need for dialogue between Gulf nations.
June 18, 3:10 PM
Three Gazans killed in Israeli drone strike, Gazan media reports
Three people have been killed and several injured following an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle near the municipal park in western Gaza City, Gazan media reported on Thursday
June 18, 1:12 PM
Hegseth, US will restart military action, reimpose blockade if Iran does not fulfill commitments
The United States will restart military action and reimpose a blockade if Iran does not fulfill its commitments under its agreement with the US, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Thursday.
"The president has pointed out that we will be prepared to recommence if underneath the timeline of these talks, Iran does not do what it says it's going to do," Hegseth said in Brussels after meeting NATO defense ministers.
"If Iran doesn't comply, then we're more than able to reimpose an ironclad blockade."
June 18, 1:10 PM
IDF publishes infographic highlighting operational areas within 10km. of Lebanon border
The IDF published an infographic map of the security zone in southern Lebanon, within 10km. of the Lebanese border, shared on X/Twitter by IDF Arabic Spokesperson Col. (res.) Avichay Adraee on Thursday.
The IDF is deployed in the Security Zone, ~10 km inside Lebanese territory, due to operational requirements.
IDF soldiers will continue to remove threats and strengthen the defense of Israel’s northern residents. pic.twitter.com/jQQPCSAeIe
The IDF is acting to remove threats and improve the defense for citizens of northern Israel, Adraee stated.
June 18, 1:03 PM
‘The greater jihad begins from today’: Khomeini’s grandson hails agreement as major Iran ‘victory’
Khomeini advised that to maintain victory, Iranians “must stay away from pointless disputes, disputes that are the product of ego and self-centeredness.”
Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic regime, Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini, hailed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as a major “victory” for Tehran, promising that the “greater jihad” would now begin, according to a speech aired by state media earlier this week.
Khomeini advised that to maintain victory, Iranians “must stay away from pointless disputes, disputes that are the product of ego and self-centeredness.”
While it is unclear which disputes he was referring to, the regime has struggled to suppress growing domestic dissent, most visibly during the January demonstrations that erupted over the country's worsening economic conditions.
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DHS says dozens of drones thwarted in first few days of World Cup
06/17/2026 06:51 PM EDT
The venue with the most incidents was in Atlanta, according to DHS.
The federal government has seized dozens of drones since the start of the FIFA World Cup earlier this month, according to statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday.
Across multiple stadium locations, federal officials working with local law enforcement have brought down drones with mitigation measures approved for their arena. In some cases authorities seized the drones entirely.
A DHS spokesperson said those counter drone teams “have been hard at work” supporting the games across eight of eleven venues.
It was not immediately clear if any of the drones were carrying disruptive devices or potential explosives. DHS did not immediately respond to follow-up questions.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Tuesday that the agency had thwarted an attack on President Donald Trump’s UFC event at the White House in which individuals attempted to use explosive-laden drones to attack it.
On Wednesday, Patel also said on X that the FBI had arrested an unauthorized immigrant operating a drone outside a fan fest in Atlanta.
In all, since the World Cup started on June 11 through June 16, DHS said authorities reported 145 “incursions” in restricted space across eight U.S. venues, including Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Seattle, Boston, San Francisco and Philadelphia (the data did not include the Los Angeles, Miami or New Jersey venues, though the FBI has reported drone activity in those locations as well).
Authorities successfully thwarted or “mitigated” 55 drones and seized 39 across those eight venues, according to DHS.
The venue with the most incidents was in Atlanta. According to DHS, authorities there observed 36 incursions into no-fly zones near the sporting events, with 20 mitigations and 11 seizures.
These mitigations and seizures involved Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protective Service and the Coast Guard, DHS said.
At a recent congressional hearing, DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin disclosed that officials were still scrambling to get ahead of potential drone threats, and said DHS has been preparing to handle such incursions as best it could.
“We have spent a tremendous amount of ability and money to be able to be very offensive with drones, but on the counter-drone measures, everybody’s a little behind,” Mullin said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/17/drones-world-cup-dhs-00965996
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-18/inside-fbis-battle-to-keep-drones-out-of-world-cup-sites-amid-height-terrorism-fears
https://x.com/fbidirectorkash/status/2067243645401522280
https://x.com/FBIMiamiFL/status/2067266111574315434
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mexican-military-brings-down-drone-132556511.html
Drone Dominance Program Receives First Order, Gauntlet II Gets Underway
June 17, 2026
Drone Dominance Program Gauntlet Phase II qualifiers conclude this week at Camp Grayling, Michigan.
This high-stakes test pits 49 companies and 79 unique unmanned aerial systems against rigorous mission scenarios, including long-range strikes and close-quarters tactical assaults. Each company brought 20 drones to take on the challenge.
The qualifier event is a critical test for a battlefield that is evolving at an unprecedented pace and showcased how the War Department is answering the call with radical innovation.
The Drone Dominance Program is a $1.1 billion, two-year effort to execute President Donald J. Trump's Executive Order 14307, which articulated the urgent need for the department to procure, integrate and train with low-cost, high-performing drones manufactured in the U.S.
The goal of the program is to rapidly arm combat units with a massive, scalable fleet of low-cost, expendable one-way attack drones. The effort is also expected to increase the flow of private capital into the U.S. industrial base, while simultaneously driving down costs.
Sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of War and jointly administered by the Defense Innovation Unit and Test Resource Management Center, the Drone Dominance Program is at the forefront of the department's pivot to a challenge-based acquisition approach.
It also means shifting from slow, multiyear cycles to agile, six-month sprints.
The program is putting technology to the test in a series of four gauntlet phases — demanding, realistic challenges designed to identify the most resilient and effective drone platforms.
At the conclusion of each phase, selected drone technologies are fast-tracked for large-scale production, ensuring warfighters are equipped with a decisive advantage on the modern battlefield.
"This is an urgent matter," said Owen West, DIU director. "Our adversaries are scaling their UAS technology, tactics and industries at an alarming rate.
Following Secretary of War [Pete] Hegseth's orders, we are acting decisively to develop new defensive and offensive capabilities to match these threats."
West noted that the department is already seeing results.
The first batch of drones was accepted, with nearly 2,000 additional units shipped to the services and thousands more ramping up for fulfillment.
Following a highly successful Phase I, which saw the purchase of 30,000 drones, the department is gearing up for the next major milestone.
"As directed by President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, we have begun to equip our warfighters with the best drones in the world," said Travis Metz, DIU deputy director.
"We have ordered 30,000, which are being delivered now and will be ordering 60,000 more in September, all based on competitive events and moving supply chains to the United States as we progress."
By fostering fierce commercial competition via a public leaderboard, the department aims to scale production from 30,000 to 150,000 units per phase, ultimately dropping the target unit cost from $5,000 to approximately $3,000.
By 2027, the Drone Dominance Program intends to field more than 200,000 lethal, artificial intelligence-enabled drones, ensuring the U.S. military executes a technological leapfrog to secure an enduring edge over our adversaries.
Gauntlet II will kick off later this summer, during which entrants must bring 120 drones as the competition expands into night operations and more complex urban and confined environments.
https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4520698/drone-dominance-program-receives-first-order-gauntlet-ii-gets-underway/
'Aliens Will Kidnap FIFA Stars in Miami': Brazilian Psychic's Wild World Cup Prediction Goes Massively Viral
18 June 2026, 9:58 AM BST
A Brazilian psychic with more than 23 million Instagram followers has gone viral after claiming that aliens will descend on a FIFA World Cup match in Miami and abduct hundreds of people, including some of football's biggest stars.
Vó Bahiana, a spiritual influencer with more than 23 million Instagram followers, has gone wildly viral after claiming she foresaw a giant UFO mothership hovering above Miami's Hard Rock Stadium during Brazil's World Cup clash with Scotland on 24 June.
According to her vision, extraterrestrials could whisk away hundreds of fans—and even a few football stars— before the final whistle.
Naturally, the internet has had a field day.
A World Cup Prediction Nobody Saw Coming
While most football fans are busy debating group-stage permutations, final predictions and injury updates, social media has become obsessed with a very different pre-match storyline.
In a series of videos posted online, Vó Bahiana described recurring visions of a gigantic UFO appearing above Hard Rock Stadium before smaller spacecraft descend into the crowd. 'Do not go to the stadium in Miami on June 24, 2026. Stay away, ' she says in the video.
The psychic claimed around 700 people could be abducted, including players, fans and stadium staff. Even by World Cup standards, it's a bold prediction.
The videos quickly spread across social media, where users alternated between laughing, making memes and jokingly wondering whether FIFA has an anti-alien protocol.
Neymar's Name Ends Up In The Alien Conversation
No viral football story is complete without a superstar cameo.
Vó Bahiana linked her prediction to Brazil's 24 June match against Scotland and suggested famous players could find themselves caught up in the extraterrestrial chaos.
Reports circulating online mention Brazilian stars Neymar and Vinícius Júnior among those supposedly at risk, alongside members of Scotland's squad.
Fortunately for football fans, there is currently no evidence that aliens have targeted Group C or any other group. Meanwhile, the internet reacts exactly as expected.
The prediction has sparked thousands of jokes online.
Some fans said they would be 'gutted' if aliens failed to appear after all the hype. Others joked that being abducted might be preferable to watching their team crash out of the tournament.
However, Vó Bahiana's prediction was supported by some users who tend to engage with conspiracy-related content. as a 'warning.'
The Psychic Behind The Viral Moment
Vó Bahiana is no stranger to making headlines.
The Brazilian spiritualist with a massive following regularly shares predictions about politics, celebrities, disasters and sporting events with her millions of followers.
Supporters believe some of her previous forecasts have come true, like floods in Rio Grande do Sul and certain celebrity deaths, while critics point to several predictions that never materialised.
Either way, her latest prediction has created quite a buzz.
With Brazil and Scotland set to meet in Miami next week, the prediction has become an unlikely part of the tournament's early online conversation.
For now, Vó Bahiana's vision remains exactly that—a viral prediction with no evidence behind it, but plenty of attention as the countdown to kickoff continues.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world-cup-predictions-psychic-warns-ufo-invasion-miami-1803475
https://www.ladbible.com/news/sport/vo-bahiana-world-cup-predictions-aliens-547215-20260618
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZE0f3DNjb6/
https://x.com/HustleBitch_/status/2067318536666517991
https://x.com/theurigeller/status/2065129613328535699
Russia and China Racing to Clone Captured UFOs to Launch 'Extraterrestrial Arms Race,' Declassified Files Reveal
18 June 2026, 5:06 PM BST
US government files spark fresh speculation on Russia and China's involvement with UFO technology.
Russia and China have been drawn into a fresh wave of UFO speculation after newly released US government files were said to suggest that both countries may be trying to reverse-engineer captured UAPs, according to an interview with Jordan Flowers, executive director of the UAP Disclosure Foundation, on 18 June 2026.
The latest release has revived old questions about what the files actually show, what is alleged, and how much of the fevered language around 'alien tech' is journalistic embroidery rather than evidence.
The news came after the Department of War published its third tranche of declassified and historical UAP records on 12 June 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE.
The department said the collection would remain on WAR.GOV/UFO and that additional files would be released on a rolling basis. That is the factual spine of the story.
Everything else sits somewhere between claim, interpretation and the sort of wild speculation that tends to attach itself to anything with the word UFO in it.
Russia And China UAP Claims
There was reason to believe 'the Chinese and the Russians may have retrieved their own objects related to this and may have tried to reverse engineer them.'
Flowers also argued that the disclosures point to a broader national security issue, saying the race to understand and reproduce the technology, if that is indeed what it is, carries 'extreme national security implications.'
Those are his words, not a verified conclusion in the public record.
Nothing in the public release, proves that either Russia or China has captured any unknown craft. What the files do show is a continuing official willingness in Washington to release older UAP material, while interest in the subject remains stubbornly high.
The UAP Disclosure Foundation is set to hold a summit in Washington on 25 June, where Flowers and others are expected to discuss the military, scientific and political fallout from the latest release.
That schedule matters because the debate has moved beyond grainy footage and into the more awkward question of what governments think they know, what they are still hiding, and what they merely suspect.
Harare File Raises Eyebrows
One of the most talked-about records in the tranche is a CIA cable concerning a reported sighting over Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe on 2 July 2008. The object hovered above the airport, displayed rotating lights and was said to emit 'beams' during observation.
The cable, which circulated through US government and military channels during the final months of George W. Bush's presidency, reportedly described the craft as disc-like with a hollow centre and said it rapidly ascended out of visual range after the lights beneath it shifted colour.
The officials debated whether the object was a foreign reconnaissance device or something of extraterrestrial origin. The fact that both possibilities were even written down tells plenty about the mood of the file. It does not, however, settle the matter.
According to the account, the incident led to Zimbabwe being placed on high alert. Again, that is a description of the document's contents, not a confirmation that the event was extraterrestrial, or even that the object was what witnesses believed it was.
Governments file strange reports all the time. Some turn out to be mundane, some never fully resolve, and some linger in the grey zone that keeps the UFO industry alive.
What The Files Actually Mean
For readers trying to separate signal from noise, the important thing is not the breathless phrase 'extraterrestrial arms race.'
It is the more prosaic reality that the US government continues to declassify old UAP material while advocates push for broader transparency and lawmakers keep the issue in circulation.
Flowers has framed the disclosures as part of a larger international competition, but the documents cited so far appear to raise more questions than answers.
They do not show cloned UFOs, and they do not establish that Russia and China have succeeded in copying any non-human technology.
They do, however, show how quickly a single release can stir old fears, sharpen geopolitical suspicion and send everyone back to the same unresolved question.
What exactly is in these files, and what is simply being read into them, may turn out to matter more than the headline-grabbing language suggests.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russia-china-reverse-engineering-ufos-us-files-1803595
https://x.com/nypost/status/2067484817017512300
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q3TfQtd4ws (UFO disclosure a priority for this administration, says expert | NewsNation Prime)
https://usaherald.com/avi-loebs-new-uap-council-raises-transparency-questions-as-ufo-data-flows-through-aaros-expanding-bureaucracy/2/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-uap-science-advisory-council-to-the-u-s-f7262e57b0df
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/more-details-on-the-uap-science-advisory-council-825bd250d23c
https://www.ufonews.co/post/white-house-puts-a-scientist-in-charge-of-ufos
Avi Loeb’s New UAP Council Raises Transparency Questions as UFO Data Flows Through AARO’s Expanding Bureaucracy
June 18, 2026
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Avi Loeb has been selected to lead a newly formed UAP Science Advisory Council that will advise AARO, the intelligence community, and the federal government on unidentified anomalous phenomena.
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The council's creation introduces another layer of review between raw UAP data and the public, raising concerns among disclosure advocates who fear transparency could be replaced by institutional gatekeeping.
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The future credibility of the council may depend less on its scientific credentials and more on whether it pushes for the release of unfiltered evidence rather than government-approved conclusions.
For years, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has occupied a unique position in the UFO debate.
Unlike many academics who have avoided the topic entirely, Loeb openly challenged scientific orthodoxy, argued that humanity should seriously investigate the possibility of extraterrestrial technology, launched Harvard's Galileo Project, and recently became one of the most visible voices analyzing the mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS.
Now, Loeb finds himself at the center of a new government-backed effort that could shape the future of UFO disclosure in America.
In a recent Medium post titled "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Loeb revealed that he has been tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and members of the Intelligence Community to assemble and lead a newly created UAP Science Advisory Council.
The announcement immediately generated excitement among some researchers who view Loeb as a credible scientific voice willing to examine anomalous evidence without ridicule.
Yet for many within the UFO disclosure community, the development raises a very different question: Will this new council accelerate transparency—or create another layer of bureaucracy standing between the public and the truth?
That question becomes even more significant because the council will ultimately report to a higher-level UAP Governance Board designed to coordinate activities among military, intelligence, law-enforcement, and civilian agencies.
According to Loeb, the mission of the Science Advisory Council is straightforward: evaluate data, recommend collection methods, and help determine the nature of unidentified anomalous phenomena through the scientific method.
“The goal of the council is to advise the U.S. government on how to resolve the nature of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).”
-Prof. Avi Loeb, Medium
On paper, the council's membership appears impressive. Loeb assembled a roster of respected scientists and specialists spanning physics, artificial intelligence, oceanography, psychology, biology, anthropology, instrumentation, and data analysis.
The group includes well-known names such as Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Kevin Knuth, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, and economist Robin Hanson.
Few would argue that the council lacks intellectual firepower.
The concern lies elsewhere.
The council's recommendations will be based on data provided to it by government agencies. Loeb specifically noted that the information shared with council members will be unclassified. While that may sound reassuring, it also highlights a fundamental limitation.
If the council only sees what government agencies choose to release, then the public is effectively receiving an interpretation of a filtered dataset rather than direct access to the evidence itself.
That distinction matters.
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The UFO disclosure movement has spent decades demanding access to underlying records, sensor data, imagery, radar returns, videos, witness statements, and intelligence assessments.
Many advocates are not merely seeking expert opinions. They want access to the raw information from which those opinions are derived.
Under the newly announced structure, information appears destined to travel through multiple layers of review before reaching the public. First, agencies collect the data.
Then AARO evaluates it. The Science Advisory Council analyzes it. The UAP Governance Board reviews it. Finally, decisions regarding declassification and release are made.
For critics of government secrecy, that process resembles a filtration system rather than a transparency initiative.
Those concerns are amplified by AARO's own history.
Since its creation, AARO has faced criticism from whistleblowers, lawmakers, researchers, and portions of the disclosure community who argue that the office has been overly dismissive of extraordinary claims while failing to provide meaningful public access to underlying evidence. The agency's conclusions have frequently generated controversy, particularly when they appeared to contradict testimony from military witnesses and intelligence officials.
The question now facing disclosure advocates is whether Loeb's involvement changes that dynamic—or merely lends scientific credibility to an existing process.
Ironically, Loeb himself became one of the most outspoken voices in recent months regarding 3I/ATLAS, an unusual interstellar object that captured global attention. During the object's flyby, Loeb publicly identified numerous anomalies and advocated for serious scientific examination.
Yet despite highlighting those unusual characteristics, Loeb never elevated 3I/ATLAS beyond a Level 4 on what has become known as the "Loeb Scale," his framework for assessing the likelihood that an object may represent extraterrestrial technology.
For some observers, that demonstrated scientific restraint.
For others, it highlighted a recurring tension: the difference between discussing anomalies and drawing bold conclusions from them.
That same tension may ultimately define the future of the UAP Science Advisory Council.
Loeb emphasizes that scientists have a civic duty to assist government investigations and follow evidence wherever it leads. His supporters argue that serious science requires caution, discipline, and rigorous analysis rather than speculation.
Critics counter that the public has already spent decades waiting for studies, committees, task forces, investigations, and reports while fundamental questions remain unanswered.
The creation of another council inevitably raises concerns about whether genuine disclosure is moving forward—or merely being processed through another administrative layer.
The stakes are significant.
If the council becomes an independent scientific body willing to challenge assumptions and push for maximum public access to evidence, it could become one of the most important developments in the history of UFO research.
If it instead functions as another intermediary that interprets government-approved data while withholding underlying evidence, many disclosure advocates will likely view it as one more checkpoint in a system that has long frustrated public efforts to understand the UAP phenomenon.
Loeb ended his announcement with an optimistic promise.
"The best is yet to come."
For a public that has spent generations waiting for answers about UFOs, the question is no longer whether more experts will study the mystery.
The question is whether the public will finally be allowed to see the evidence for itself.
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https://www.comicbasics.com/every-real-ufo-conspiracy-theory-disclosure-day-digs-up-ranked-from-roswell-to-jackie-gleason/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIEqGkDCOhA (Jun 17, 2026 - Linda Moulton howe: & Drs. Hurtak give a Higher Conscious Review of Spielberg's Disclosure Day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcZmmLH_5pI (Taylor Alesia: Christians are missing the LAST WORD in Disclosure day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1itHSbJIN-g (Alien Contact with Sev: Disclosure Day Review by ET Contactee)
Every Real UFO Conspiracy Theory ‘Disclosure Day’ Digs Up, Ranked From Roswell to Jackie Gleason
June 18, 2026
Steven Spielberg has always had one eye on the sky, but with his latest film he finally went all the way in. ‘Disclosure Day’ is not just another alien thriller.
It is a feature-length excavation of the most persistent, most debated, and most culturally loaded UFO conspiracy theories America has ever produced, stitched together into a single ticking-clock narrative that feels more urgent than ever.
What makes the film land differently from your average sci-fi blockbuster is that its mythology is borrowed directly from real cases, real witnesses, and real congressional hearings that have been unfolding for decades.
Screenwriter David Koepp has said the team was reaching for a unified theory of the UAP phenomenon, stitching scattered incidents including Roswell, Kecksburg, and the Jackie Gleason story into a single coherent cover-up narrative.
That ambition is exactly what makes the movie worth taking apart, piece by piece.
The Roswell Incident and the Government Cover-Up at Its Core
No conspiracy theory casts a longer shadow over American UFO lore than Roswell, and ‘Disclosure Day’ builds its entire foundation on it.
In July 1947, rancher W.W. Brazel found a field of strange metallic debris scattered across his property near Roswell, and the local Army air field initially put out a now-legendary press release announcing it had recovered a flying disc, before the military quickly walked it back, saying the wreckage was just a weather balloon.
Decades of conspiracy lore insisted otherwise, expanding the incident to include governments concealing evidence of extraterrestrial beings, grey aliens, multiple crashed flying saucers, alien corpses and autopsies, and the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology.
The film mirrors this almost beat for beat. The movie’s repeated references to aliens being hidden for 79 years point directly back to 1947, and Roswell is the foundation the whole film is built on.
In 1947, the Army publicly claimed that unusual debris recovered by Roswell personnel had come from a weather balloon, but in 1994 Air Force historians concluded that the weather balloon explanation had likely been a cover for Project Mogul, a classified program designed to detect Soviet atomic tests.
That distinction between one cover story hiding another cover story is precisely the kind of layered institutional deception ‘Disclosure Day’ dramatizes.
Kecksburg and the Conspiracy Theories That Grew Around Small Towns
Beyond Roswell, the film pulls from a lesser-known but equally beloved case in the UFO community. On December 9, 1965, residents of Kecksburg, a small town in Westmoreland County, reported seeing a fiery object streak across the sky and crash into the woods.
Witnesses described an acorn-shaped object the size of a small car, the military reportedly sealed off the area, and according to locals, hauled something away. The official explanation was a meteor.
Kecksburg has embraced its nickname, Pennsylvania’s Roswell, and there is an annual UFO festival there with a model of the object that the town fire department still displays.
The grassroots, small-town energy of that story feeds directly into the film’s tone of ordinary people sitting on extraordinary secrets.
What is clever about how ‘Disclosure Day’ uses this material is that it does not treat any single case as the story.
It treats all of them as chapters of one hidden history, which is exactly how the real-world UFO disclosure community frames things, where lawmakers and whistleblowers argue that decades of separate sightings add up to one concealed truth.
That framing is not invented for the movie. It is live in Congress right now.
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The Real-World Alien Disclosure Movement Behind the Plot
The fictional shadow organization Wardex in ‘Disclosure Day’ is clearly inspired by real-world claims about the institutional suppression of UAP evidence.
The disclosure movement is a social movement that argues governments generally, and the United States government specifically, have secret information regarding UFOs and non-human intelligence, and it advocates for that supposed information to be declassified for purposes of human social and scientific advancement.
In September 2025, a hearing hosted by Representative Anna Paulina Luna included statements by former Air Force and Navy personnel, adding momentum to a push that has included figures like Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, and Ross Coulthart.
These are not fringe voices. Several have testified directly before Congress.
In June 2025, the Wall Street Journal published a story on Yankee Blue, a supposed hazing ritual that occurred over decades in which hundreds of Air Force personnel were misled into believing extraterrestrials exist and a reverse-engineering program was underway.
The line between genuine cover-up and manufactured mythology, which ‘Disclosure Day’ probes so relentlessly, turns out to be genuinely blurry in the historical record.
The Jackie Gleason Story and the Nixon Alien Legend
One of the film’s more eyebrow-raising sequences draws from a story that has circulated in UFO circles for decades.
Legends held that Jackie Gleason had been told aliens were real by Richard Nixon, and director Steven Spielberg himself claimed that Ronald Reagan had suggested aliens were real during a White House screening of E.T. in the 1980s.
The film explicitly includes the supposed incident in which President Richard Nixon showed actor Jackie Gleason the recovered bodies of dead aliens.
Whether or not there is any truth behind that story, its inclusion alongside documented cases like Roswell and Kecksburg says something pointed about how mythology and history feed each other in American culture.
Meanwhile, in the real world, former President Obama made waves in an interview this year when he said he believed aliens were real, though he had seen no evidence of them during his time in office.
President Trump accused Obama of revealing classified information, but then said he would direct government agencies to release images showing alien and extraterrestrial activity.
The Pentagon rolled out those photos, but they were largely deemed fuzzy and inconclusive.
Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, and Why This Film Hits Differently Right Now
None of the real-world intrigue would matter if the film itself did not hold up, and by most accounts it does.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 81 percent of critics’ reviews are positive, with the website’s consensus reading that ‘Disclosure Day’ is a humanistic variation on one of Spielberg’s most revisited themes, getting its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt.
Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a TV meteorologist who freezes up on air and begins making guttural clicking sounds speaking what appears to be an alien language, while O’Connor plays Daniel Kellner, a cybersecurity expert who has stolen video footage of alien creatures and feels duty-bound to disclose it to the public. The pairing works because both characters are reluctant believers dragged into the light by evidence they cannot walk back from.
The heart of the film, as with all the best Spielberg work, is the human drama, channeled in deeply felt performances from Blunt and O’Connor, with Colin Firth playing against type as the villain, albeit one who chooses to believe he is acting in the country’s best interests.
In a cultural moment where government transparency and institutional trust are genuinely contested ideas, that villain is harder to dismiss than he might have been twenty years ago.
Whether you believe any of the real conspiracy theories the film is rooted in or think they were always a useful distraction from more earthly secrets, it is worth asking yourself how differently you would feel about each of those Roswell and Kecksburg cases if Margaret Fairchild started speaking alien on your morning news tomorrow.
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https://vocal.media/fyi/massive-ancient-alien-cover-up
Massive Ancient Alien Cover-Up
June 18, 2026
Hidden Ancient Secrets
Long ago, people started staring up at the night sky, asking whether life exists beyond Earth. Yet could it be that answers hide not in distant galaxies but right here, quietly overlooked?
This paper uncovers forgotten tales of old-world contact with beings from elsewhere. Hidden records point to knowledge deliberately erased. Governments across time appear linked by silence on what was found. Secrets stretch back further than most realize.
Out of nowhere come tales about sky travelers reaching Earth long ago. Starting with Sumerians telling of the Anunnaki, moving through Egyptians carving gods who came down on beams of light - signs pop up everywhere across old cultures.
Objects, stone etchings, stories whispered through time all point toward visitors far beyond human reach.
Beings with immense power show up now and then, riding what some call sky vessels or glowing carts drifting through air.
Strange tools found where old stories say people couldn’t build so well - yet stone towers rise near Cairo, carved rings stand in Turkey, lines stretch across desert floors in Peru.
Out of nowhere, farming took a sharp leap forward - some say it was handed down. Around that time, tracking stars became far more precise, almost as if guided by outside knowledge.
Tools and structures began showing up that were way ahead of their era. Each breakthrough arrived without clear steps leading to it. One moment nothing, next moment revolution.
Maybe these tales are just twisted legends. Or perhaps someone really saw beings from beyond our world.
Maybe ancient aliens met humans long ago - so why's the proof so thin? That clip probably suggests hidden hands at work, pulling strings across ages.
Think old empires, secret keepers, groups clinging to control. Power likes silence when truth shakes foundations.
Secret projects - say, Project Blue Book or what happened at Roswell back in 1947 - and newer Pentagon leaks hint something's been kept under wraps for decades.
People who spoke up, including Bob Lazar and David Grusch, say gear from other worlds plus living things not of Earth have stayed out of sight. Authorities seem to know more than they’ve ever told.
It could be that churches have recast old stories of visitors from the stars as holy signs. Power stays firm when people believe only in godly acts, not outside forces.
What once looked like contact might’ve been reshaped into scripture over time. Control often shifts how tales are told through centuries. Belief systems sometimes absorb strange events by calling them sacred instead.
Hidden somewhere beneath layers of official silence, stories pop up about artifacts tied to visitors from distant stars. Cases surface now and then - whispers of documents burned, objects vanished without record.
One moment they exist, the next they are gone, erased like footprints in rain. Officials shrug, scientists hesitate, while rumors grow louder than proof. Places once thought secure yield nothing but empty files and blank stares.
Even photos fade under strange circumstances, their negatives lost or mislabeled. What remains often gets mocked until people stop believing. Truth stretches thin when nobody is allowed to look too closely.
A mysterious object from ancient times - this clay container dates back two millennia. Found in Baghdad, it hints at forgotten knowledge.
Some think electricity once flowed through its simple form, others doubt such a thing possible. Not much is known for sure. Yet the vessel remains, quietly suggesting what might have been.
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A bird-shaped object from long ago sits quietly in Egypt's sands. This piece, carved centuries back, looks oddly like today’s flying machines.
Some say it mirrors a glider you might see now. Crafted without modern tools, its form raises questions. Not meant as a toy, perhaps it served another purpose. Shape alone makes people wonder what it truly was.
The Antikythera Mechanism: A complex, 2,000-year-old "computer" used to predict astronomical positions.
Hidden pieces of the past might sit unseen inside locked rooms beneath the Vatican. Some say objects vanish when they do not fit accepted stories. Locked cabinets at the Smithsonian could hold what we are not meant to see.
When findings shake long-told timelines, silence sometimes follows. Quiet removal replaces public display. What gets buried is often never discussed again. Old truths shift if proof resurfaces. Stored away, far from light, certain items stay unmentioned.
Lately, talk about UFOs plus alien life has changed a lot.
A secret Pentagon project looking into UFOs came to light in 2017 through a New York Times report. This effort, known as AATIP, aimed at studying advanced aerospace threats. Though quietly run, its existence sparked wide attention once disclosed.
Out of nowhere, the 2023 U.S. Congressional Hearings brought together ex-intelligence officers alongside veterans speaking on UAPs - those odd sky occurrences - and strange biological entities not tied to known life forms.
While some dismissed it early on, others leaned in when details surfaced about encounters beyond normal explanation. Though skepticism lingered, the session marked a shift in how such topics entered official dialogue.
Because these accounts came from trained observers, they carried weight despite their unusual nature. From start to finish, the event unfolded without drama, yet still managed to unsettle long-held assumptions.
From out of nowhere, some people have come forward claiming secrets about UFOs. One name that pops up is David Grusch - he walked away from his job saying strange things were happening behind closed doors.
Instead of staying silent, he spoke up, even when it cost him something real. Hidden projects, he says, where what flew in the sky got taken apart on Earth. Truth? Lies? Hard to tell - but someone staked everything on being heard.
If what's been revealed holds up, it looks like secrets are starting to slip - yet the timing raises questions.
The implications of an ancient alien cover-up are profound.
Out there somewhere, could today's breakthroughs - like tiny chips or power from atoms - actually come from old alien designs we figured out how to copy? Maybe what feels like progress is really just us catching up to something already built.
Should life beyond Earth turn out real - really confirmed - one thing shifts fast: us. Not just labs or telescopes feel it, whole views on faith tilt too. Society stumbles at first, then adjusts slow.
Old books get reread differently now. Questions once called wild sit normal at dinner tables. Science stops acting like the only voice in the room. Beliefs stretch, some crack.
Moments like this do not arrive often, yet here we are. What counted as truth yesterday wobbles today.
Truth might be hiding just beyond what we’re told. When stories don’t add up, some look closer - digging through old writings, forgotten objects, things quietly released today.
The final frames probably leave viewers wondering if everything they knew was accurate. History repeats this idea: understanding yesterday shapes what comes next.
Hidden clues, when pieced together, could reveal something huge about where humanity really came from.
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Devon Larratt ignites Kandahar Giant legend: 'I saw an 8-foot warlord'
June 6, 2026
Key takeaways
Legendary Sighting: Canadian arm-wrestler and military veteran Devon Larratt claimed to have seen a man over 8 feet tall during operations in southern Afghanistan, sparking renewed interest in the decades-old “Kandahar Giant” stories.
Giant of Kandahar Myth: The legend describes a 12-foot humanoid with red hair, six fingers and toes, allegedly killed in a military encounter—though no official evidence or confirmation exists.
Tall Encounters Elsewhere: Larratt also recounted meeting exceptionally tall individuals in northern Canada, including a Cree man whose father reportedly stood 8 feet 11 inches, highlighting his fascination with unusually tall humans.
Canadian arm-wrestling champion and military veteran Devon Larratt has reignited interest in the decades-old “Kandahar Giant” in a recent podcast appearance with Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience.
Larratt, a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces and one of the most successful arm wrestlers in history, said he personally observed a man whom he estimated to be more than eight feet tall while conducting military operations in southern Afghanistan.
While he stopped short of claiming he had encountered the mythical "Kandahar Giant" itself, his remarks drew attention because of similarities to stories that have circulated online for years about alleged giant humanoids in remote Afghan regions.
However, the story has as never been substantiated by military records, official investigations or credible evidence. The US Department of Defense has never confirmed the existence of such a creature.
What is the Giant of Kandahar legend?
The Kandahar Giant story has circulated in military folklore and conspiracy circles for more than two decades.
The most commonly repeated version claims that US military personnel operating in Afghanistan encountered a giant humanoid measuring approximately 12 feet tall in the mountains near Kandahar.
According to the legend, the figure reportedly had red hair, six fingers and six toes and was killed during a military confrontation before the incident was allegedly covered up by authorities.
However, the story has as never been substantiated by military records, official investigations or credible evidence. The US Department of Defense has never confirmed the existence of such a creature.
What Devon Larratt said about Kandahar giants?
In the podcast appearance, Larratt suggested that he had personally heard stories connected to giant sightings during military service. He also described seeing unusually tall Indigenous men in northern Canada during his time in the military.
"I think he was eight feet," Larratt said during the interview, explaining that he was observing a meeting between coalition personnel and a local warlord from roughly 200 meters away.
According to Larratt, the man appeared significantly taller and broader than everyone around him. "Our officer was probably somewhere at the bottom of his chest," he recalled.
During the same interview with Joe Rogan, Larratt expanded on his comments by describing encounters with exceptionally tall individuals in northern Canada. He recounted visiting a Cree community during an arm-wrestling event.
Larratt apparently met a man whom he said towered over him despite Larratt's own height of approximately 6 feet 5 inches. "I was about at his nipple," Larratt said, adding that the man claimed his father stood 8 feet 11 inches tall.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/devon-larratt-ignites-kandahar-giant-legend-i-saw-an-8-foot-warlord/
https://x.com/tupacabra/status/2063307157551145456
https://x.com/InterstellarUAP/status/2063462199360672120
https://x.com/TheRealSantino/status/2018944694986948877
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWhjpfPlg0I (Giant of Kandahar; Afghanistan, with L.A. Marzulli)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmejzHXudq0 (Joe Rogan Experience #2510 - Devon Larratt)
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🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Danny Sheehan revealed that US Army General McCasland disappeared just days after he was informed that the House Oversight Task Force had his name on a subpoena list to testify on UFOs.
8:54 AM · Jun 18, 2026
https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/2067637147029344712
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The Pentagon’s Disturbing Demonic-UFO Theory – The Collins Elite Part 1 - 3
June 18, 2026
“The Collins Elite has a fear, a suspicion, and ultimately a solid acceptance that we, the Human Race, are being subtly, yet brilliantly, steered away from the teachings of religion.
The group believes we are being encouraged to accept and embrace Satan himself—albeit in the deceptive guise of an advanced alien entity—as our savior, shortly before the countdown to Armageddon begins and time finally runs out.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZJ5-BPAB_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xXNnITnU6Y (The Religious Cults advising the President on UFOs – The Collins Elite Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRWOLKdmwWk (The Secret Plan to Simulate a UFO Apocalypse - The Collins Elite Part 3)
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