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How NASA's 'America 250' celebrations are reaching from the sky to the moon
June 29, 2026
NASA is taking the "America 250" birthday celebration to new heights.
The agency has big plans for July 4 — the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence — which involves both aircraft and spacecraft.
"From the earliest days of exploration, to the first steps on the moon and the missions shaping our future, NASA represents the spirit of discovery that defines our nation," the agency wrote on a webpage marking the milestone anniversary.
The party was already underway in April, when the Artemis 2 mission circled the moon. The four Artemis 2 astronauts — three from NASA and one from the Canadian Space Agency — sported "America 250" patches among their gear.
The patch shows NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket launching into the black, near a "250" surrounded by stars. Around the edges of the patch are the words "NASA: The rocket's red glare," alluding to the U.S. national anthem.
Another version of the America 250 emblem, prominently featuring the numbers in red and blue, also was mounted on each of the solid rocket boosters of Artemis 2's SLS.
There's a lot more planned in the coming weeks to ramp up to Independence Day and beyond. NASA said it will have a "series of special aircraft flyovers" at the following locations and times:
July 3-5: The Great American State Fair, Washington, D.C.
July 4: Salute to America: The Nation's 250th Birthday Fireworks Celebration, Washington, D.C.
July 23-24: EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Aug. 23: Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C.
Oct. 3-4: Pacific Air Show, Huntington Beach, California
Oct. 31-Nov. 1: Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Houston Air Show
The agency also plans to make a special appearance at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between June 25 and July 10. NASA will host a pavilion featuring Artemis, a model of its planned Moon Base and a crew survival suit for the Orion spacecraft.
Other pavilion exhibits include "authentic spacesuit tools, immersive pop-up visuals, the X-59 experimental aircraft model, interactive tabletop demonstrations, astronaut food, and life-size astronaut cutouts for photos," NASA officials stated.
NASA has also celebrated America 250 by displaying the event logo on the countdown clock at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Artemis 2 launch site, and lighting up the Washington Monument with an SLS rocket projection around New Year's Eve.
Meanwhile, NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is offering a "250 Space Dreams" contest between July 1 and Aug. 2. The Space Coast facility will randomly select visitors to receive an envelope with a certificate and QR code inside.
Prizes will vary, but winners could receive NASA merch, spots on a bus tour, a free ticket to an astronaut chat, or grand prizes for things such as signed astronaut gear or $250 for on-site souvenirs.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/how-nasas-america-250-celebrations-are-reaching-from-the-sky-to-the-moon
extra NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nextstep-3-a-lunar-enabling-technology/
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-us-small-business-administration-to-announce-partnership/
https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/nasa-and-us-small-business-administration-sign-agreement-on-developing-space-economy/444533
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/rocket-lab-iridium-acquisition-space-communications/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63w39z-Emj8
Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium in $8bn deal that reshapes space communications market
June 29, 2026
Rocket Lab has agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in an $8 billion deal that would transform the launch and space systems company into a vertically integrated satellite communications operator.
The two companies announced on 29 June that Rocket Lab will purchase all outstanding shares of Iridium common stock for $54 per share in a cash and stock transaction. The transaction is expected to close in mid-2027, subject to Iridium shareholder approval and regulatory clearances.
If completed, the deal would combine Rocket Lab’s launch, satellite manufacturing and space systems capabilities with Iridium’s global low Earth orbit communications network, L-band spectrum and established customer base across government, maritime, aviation, emergency response and industrial markets.
Who is Rocket Lab?
Rocket Lab has become one of the most prominent commercial space companies outside SpaceX, building its business around launch services, spacecraft production and satellite components.
Founded by Sir Peter Beck, the company is best known for Electron, its small orbital launch vehicle, which has become a regular route to orbit for commercial, civil and defence payloads.
Electron gives customers dedicated access to space, rather than forcing small satellites to fly as secondary payloads on larger rockets.
That launch business has been Rocket Lab’s public face, but the company has been steadily broadening its role across the space value chain.
It now designs and manufactures spacecraft, satellite subsystems, solar power products, reaction wheels, separation systems, radios, software and other components used across commercial and government missions.
Rocket Lab is also developing Neutron, a larger reusable launch vehicle intended to serve medium-lift missions, constellation deployment and national security customers.
Although Neutron remains in development, it is central to Rocket Lab’s ambition to move from small launch specialist to a broader space infrastructure provider.
Recent acquisitions have underlined that strategy. Rocket Lab completed its acquisition of Mynaric in 2026, adding laser communications terminals to its portfolio, and has continued to position itself as a company that can build, integrate, launch and operate increasingly complex space systems.
That context matters. The Iridium deal is not a sudden diversion into satellite communications. It is the logical, if very large, extension of Rocket Lab’s long-running attempt to own more of the space stack.
Why Rocket Lab wants Iridium
The main attraction is that Iridium gives Rocket Lab something that is extremely difficult to build from scratch: a working global satellite communications business. Iridium operates a low Earth orbit satellite network using globally coordinated L-band spectrum.
Its services are used in markets where reliability matters more than consumer broadband speeds, including aviation, maritime, government, emergency services, logistics, energy and remote industrial operations.
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The company supports more than 2.55 million active subscribers worldwide and has a partner ecosystem of more than 500 companies.
In 2025, Iridium generated $871.7 million in revenue and $495 million in operational EBITDA, giving Rocket Lab immediate access to recurring service revenue and cash flow.
That is strategically important because launch is not always where the greatest long-term value sits.
Rockets are essential infrastructure, but the higher-margin, stickier business is often in the services that operate once a satellite is in orbit. Connectivity, safety services, data, direct-to-device communications and resilient PNT are the applications customers pay for over time.
By acquiring Iridium, Rocket Lab would gain not only satellites, but spectrum rights, regulatory permissions, ground infrastructure, customers and market credibility. Those are all difficult and time-consuming to develop organically.
For Iridium, the appeal is access to a space manufacturing and launch company at a time when satellite networks need to evolve quickly. Its existing L-band network remains valuable, particularly for resilient and safety-critical communications, but the market around it is changing fast.
Direct-to-device services, satellite IoT, defence connectivity and alternative PNT are all becoming more competitive and more strategically important.
Being part of Rocket Lab could give Iridium a faster route to constellation renewal and new service development.
Rather than acting mainly as a network operator that procures satellites and launch capacity from others, it would sit inside a company with the capability to design, build and deploy its future infrastructure.
The wider industry implication is that vertical integration is becoming harder to ignore.
SpaceX has already shown the power of controlling launch, spacecraft, production and services through Starlink.
Rocket Lab is not operating at that scale, but the logic is similar: the companies that own both the infrastructure and the customer relationship may have a stronger position than those selling single pieces of the value chain.
The deal could also raise pressure on other space companies, satellite operators and defence suppliers to rethink their own models. Launch providers may look for applications businesses.
Satellite operators may seek closer manufacturing and launch partnerships. Defence customers may increasingly favour companies that can deliver end-to-end sovereign capability rather than fragmented supply chains.
There are still major caveats. The transaction needs shareholder and regulatory approval, and Rocket Lab must manage the financing of a very large acquisition.
The company has secured commitments for a $3.6 billion bridge loan facility, but the final funding mix of cash, debt and equity will be watched closely by investors.
If the Iridium acquisition closes, it will give Rocket Lab something that many space companies spend decades trying to build: a global network, real customers, protected spectrum and recurring revenue.
That makes this more than a large acquisition. It is a bet on what the next phase of the space industry looks like.
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Elon Musk birthday cake: Space-themed rocket and Moon base designs steal the show
June 29, 2026, 16:28:56 IST
The world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk, celebrated his 55th birthday with a party that stayed true to the theme that has defined much of his career: space exploration.
Instead of a traditional birthday cake, the SpaceX founder was surprised with two elaborate creations inspired by rockets and the Moon, making the celebration an instant hit on social media.
Photos from the family gathering were shared by Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, who posted a heartfelt birthday message alongside pictures of the eye-catching desserts.
“Happy birthday to my wonderful son. @elonmusk has given me 55 years of joy. It’s so much fun to celebrate with family and friends. His cake is a rocket and a moon base,” she wrote.
A Starship rocket cake steals the spotlight
The centrepiece of the celebration was a towering cake inspired by SpaceX’s Starship rocket. Designed in metallic silver and black, the cake closely resembled the company’s next-generation spacecraft resting on its launch pad.
In a creative twist, the birthday candles were placed around the base of the rocket rather than on top.
As Musk leaned in to blow them out, the glowing flames created the illusion of the rocket’s engines igniting for liftoff, making for one of the celebration’s most memorable moments.
The venue was decorated with colourful balloons, shimmering gold streamers and a bright “Happy Birthday” banner, adding a festive touch to the space-themed event.
The Moon base cake showcased impressive craftsmanship
Alongside the rocket cake was an equally detailed Moon base-themed dessert that highlighted the creativity of its makers.
The cake featured a crater-covered lunar surface complete with a miniature spacecraft, astronaut figurines, futuristic buildings, research stations and exploration vehicles.
Its textured grey finish gave it the appearance of the Moon, while the intricate decorations created the look of an active lunar settlement.
The dessert table also displayed LEGO-style space models, turning the entire setup into a miniature space mission exhibit.
A birthday celebration inspired by Musk’s vision for space
The two cakes reflected Elon Musk’s long-standing ambition to push the boundaries of space travel through SpaceX and future missions to the Moon and Mars.
Rather than opting for a conventional birthday theme, the celebration embraced the entrepreneur’s passion for space exploration, making it both personal and memorable.
The photos quickly gained traction online, with many social media users praising the imaginative cake designs and attention to detail.
For fans of space, engineering and creative baking, Musk’s birthday celebration offered a fitting tribute to one of the world’s most influential innovators.
https://www.firstpost.com/lifestyle/elon-musk-birthday-cake-space-themed-rocket-and-moon-base-designs-steal-the-show-14027468.html
https://x.com/mayemusk/status/2071315496365101564
Guardians complete Officer Training Course, ready to support the joint force
June 29, 2026
Fifty-four Guardian officers graduated from the U.S. Space Force’s Officer Training Course during a ceremony June 26, 2026, at Peterson Space Force Base.
The graduates will report to assignments across the globe, including the United Kingdom, Greenland and Florida among other operational locations.
More than 350 Guardians have graduated from the course since inception in August 2025.
Maj. Gen. James E. Smith, commander of Space Training and Readiness Command, served as the ceremony’s guest speaker and encouraged graduates to embrace the responsibilities required of Guardian officers.
“Today isa milestone, the beginning of your service to the operational force as Guardian officers,” Smith said. “The Space Forceneedsyou to be committed — committed to learning, committed to leading and committed to the standard.
Commit to becoming the kind of officer others can trust when the mission gets hard.”
The Officer Training Course is the Space Force’s initial skills training program for newly commissioned officers.
Regardless of whether they commission through a service academy, Reserve Officer Training Corps or Officer Training School, all Guardian officers attend OTC during their first year of service.
Throughout the course, students receive instruction in space operations, cyberspace warfare, intelligence and acquisitions before applying those disciplines during a capstone graduation exercise.
Since the inaugural graduation last year, STARCOM has refined the curriculum by adding mentorship and advisor roles while enhancing academics, operational scenarios, exercises and site visits, according to Lt. Col. Liam Conley, 537th Training Squadron commander.
The course brings together officers from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Among this cohort were Capt.
Jason Tyx, who brought more than 22 years of service in the Marine Corps as an enlisted Marine and warrant officer before transferring to the Space Force.
The graduating class also included 17 prior enlisted service members and graduates from the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy.
The ceremony marked the completion of Cohort 25-005 and the latest group of Guardian officers prepared to continue follow-on training and operational assignments across the Space Force.
“These Guardians are entering the force with a complete picture of how space operations, intelligence, cyber and acquisitions work together to secure U.S. space power,” Conley said.
“Armed with this well-rounded foundation, they will accelerate much faster than previous generations of single-skillset officers.”
https://www.starcom.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4528701/guardians-complete-officer-training-course-ready-to-support-the-joint-force/
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https://x.com/USSpaceForce/status/2071280032236892444
https://x.com/SpaceForceCSO/status/2071554503422173266
Russia strikes Ukrainian commando training center (VIDEO)
28 Jun, 2026 15:59 | Updated 28 Jun, 2026 17:00
The attack targeted a storage facility hosting sea drones, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
The Russian military has struck a training facility of the Ukrainian special operations command center ‘South’, the Defense Ministry has said, publishing a video of the attack.
The troops hit barracks and storage facilities hosting sea drones in a series of “high-precision strikes,” it added.
A short video published by the ministry shows several single-story buildings engulfed in thick plumes of smoke, with the ground near them still burning. The clip also includes a successful strike on one of the targets, causing a major explosion.
According to the statement published on Telegram on Sunday, the troops used several Geran drones that hit their targets in a “self-homing” mode. The ministry did not comment on the extent of the damage caused by the strikes.
The development comes as Russian forces continue their offensive on the front lines.
On Sunday, the Defense Ministry reported that its troops had liberated the village of Novoselovka in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region and took over the village of Pisantsy in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Region by driving the enemy away from their fortified positions.
Ukrainian forces lost dozens of soldiers, as well as nearly a dozen of armored fighting vehicles and over 40 heavy strike drones in two operations, according to the statement.
Kiev is ramping up long-range strikes on Russia, targeting civilian and energy infrastructure as Ukrainian frontline troops suffer setbacks. On Friday, the Russian military reported intercepting 660 Ukrainian kamikaze drones in just one night – the largest number to date.
On Saturday, the governor of Russia’s Rostov Region reported a Ukrainian drone attack on a popular local World War II museum complex, which injured 12 people.
Russia maintains that such “terrorist” attacks will not force it to abandon its key security goals in the conflict. Moscow has previously warned that it would respond to such actions with “systematic and consistent strikes” on Ukraine’s military infrastructure.
https://www.rt.com/russia/642316-russia-strike-ukrainian-commando-center/
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https://www.rt.com/news/642323-ukraine-attacks-wont-stop-russian-advance/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642351-ukraine-in-bed-mexican-drug-cartels/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642326-ukrainian-commander-found-dead/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642342-estonia-ukrainian-drone-incursions/
https://www.rt.com/news/642331-western-media-ukraine-coverage/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642322-putin-party-conference-recap/
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-oil-refinery-drones-88370faa1a49504438388f2854d7afd3
other Russia and Ukraine
https://odessa-journal.com/russian-drone-crashes-spark-fires-in-chornobyl-exclusion-zone-radiation-levels-remain-normal
https://bnrnews.bg/en/post/496137/drone-from-the-ukraine-war-neutralised-in-bulgarias-territorial-waters
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russia-reportedly-shoots-down-its-own-orion-missile-drone-near-crimea-20275
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-fpv-drone-hits-passenger-minibus-in-zaporizhzhia-killing-three-civilians-20268
Ukrainian drones set another Russian oil refinery ablaze as Putin admits fuel shortages
Updated 6:26 PM PDT, June 28, 2026
Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south, as President Vladimir Putin acknowledged for the first time on Sunday that the country was facing a “certain deficit” of fuel and vowed to strengthen protection of oil facilities and boost fuel output.
Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for its invasion — now in its fifth year — and make Russians feel the consequences.
“Our ‘long-range sanctions’ reached two oil refineries in Russia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday. “Each (strike) means a reduction in the resources that fuel the Russian war machine, and another step toward peace.”
The campaign has choked Russian fuel supplies, causing widespread shortages and long lines at gas stations across the country and prompting authorities in many regions to introduce fuel rationing.
According to Western analysts, it has also slowed Moscow’s efforts on the battlefield, heaping pressure on the Kremlin to come to the negotiating table.
Putin says Ukrainian attacks aim to split Russian society
Speaking to a Russian state TV reporter, Putin described the Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries as an attempt to “cause a split in Russian society and force Russia to halt, even if only briefly, the advance of our troops along the line of contact, and create conditions for launching a negotiation process on terms advantageous to our adversary.”
“We will not give them that chance,” Putin said, adding that “strikes on our infrastructure, wherever they are directed, have absolutely no effect on the situation at the front, on the line of contact.”
He said for the first time that Ukraine has proposed a halt on deep strikes, arguing that Kyiv made the offer because Russian strikes deep into Ukrainian territory are more powerful and devastating.
The Russian leader added that Kyiv also offered to limit the fighting to the four regions that Russia annexed but never fully captured — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
He rejected the proposal, arguing it would allow Ukraine to relocate its forces that are fighting Russian troops in other areas to let them focus on fending off the Russian attacks in the four southeastern regions.
Ukrainian drones set major Russian refinery on fire
Meanwhile, debris from downed Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the refinery in Slavyansk-na-Kubani, a town in Russia’s Krasnodar region, east of occupied Crimea, according to regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev.
The falling debris killed one person in Slavyansk and wounded another in a nearby village, local authorities said.
The facility is one of southern Russia’s major refineries, processing close to 4 million tons of crude per year, according to its operator’s website.
It is also a key source of petroleum products intended for export through Russia’s Black Sea ports, including fuel oil, naphtha and marine fuel.
Zelenskyy also claimed that another Russian refinery, in the Yaroslavl region around 700 kilometers (435 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was hit during the nighttime strikes.
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There were no immediate reports from Russian authorities about the strike on the Yaroslavl refinery.
Local Gov. Mikhail Evraev reported on Sunday morning that some roads between Moscow and the region’s capital, Yaroslavl, were temporarily closed due to “an enemy attack by Ukrainian drones.”
Fuel shortages in Russia as Putin says plans will be ‘adjusted’
For months, Ukraine has been stepping up attacks on energy facilities deep inside Russia. Despite a raft of Western sanctions, Moscow remains among the world’s top exporters of oil and natural gas.
More recently, Ukraine has attempted to choke off fuel deliveries to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in early 2014.
Last weekend, Kremlin-installed officials in Crimea suspended gasoline sales to civilians, after Kyiv’s targeting of supply routes triggered the worst energy crisis there since the annexation.
Speaking at a meeting with officials that focused on the fuel situation, Putin admitted that the country was “going through a difficult period,” but insisted that Moscow would “honor all its social obligations.”
Shortly after, he told state TV that the country’s arms industries will quickly ramp up production of air defense systems to fend off Ukrainian attacks.
Putin also said that Russia will import more fuel and speed up repair works at oil facilities to end the “temporary deficit.”
“All damaged facilities are being restored quite quickly, and the issues that arise are not critical,” he said.
Putin specifically pledged to quickly deal with fuel shortages in Crimea, saying that fuel deliveries to the Black Sea peninsula by land and sea will rise and voicing confidence that “this task will be accomplished.”
As fuel shortages spread across Russia, the governor of the Irkutsk region in Siberia, thousands of kilometers (miles) from the Ukrainian border, Igor Kobzev announced that drivers will only be allowed to buy no more than 50 liters (13 gallons) of fuel per vehicle per day at state-run Rosneft gas stations in the province. Other gas stations may set lower limits.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Moscow was actively reviewing fuel export agreements to avoid compromising domestic needs.
Drones, bombs and missiles target more regions
Also on Sunday, a Russian aerial bomb killed two people in Zaporizhzhia — a city in southern Ukraine — and injured 16 others, including two children, said regional administration head Ivan Fedorov.
In Russia’s border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian drone strikes killed one person and injured another earlier on Sunday, according to acting local Gov. Alexander Shuvayev.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down 213 Ukrainian drones during the night, including over Russia, occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas.
Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 142 long-range strike drones and eight missiles overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force. Of those, 125 drones and seven missiles were struck down, the air force said.
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-06-29/live-updates-900756
other Israel
https://allisraelnews.com/idf-demolishes-underground-hezbollah-drone-fortress-as-sides-start-implementing-lebanon-deal
https://vinnews.com/2026/06/28/idf-demolishes-hezbollah-underground-uav-facility-in-southern-lebanon/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-strikes-3-hezbollah-command-centers-in-south-lebanon/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-marks-1000-days-since-oct-7-attack-on-very-existence-of-jewish-people/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-idf-warns-hamas-is-readying-to-return-to-war-us-opposes-new-israeli-offensive/
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/IDF-eliminates-head-of-Hamas-military-security/66594655
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/katz-israel-has-no-territorial-ambitions-in-lebanon-but-will-not-withdraw-further-until-hezbollah-disarmed/
https://worldisraelnews.com/secret-clause-in-israel-lebanon-deal-enshrines-idf-freedom-of-action-in-buffer-zone-report/
Live Updates: Trump says US, Iran expected to meet in Qatar on Tuesday at Tehran's request
June 29, 8:17 PM
IDF kills PIJ terrorist who took hostages on Oct. 7 • US-Iran talks reportedly move to Qatar • Senior Lebanese official slams US-brokered deal with Israel
June 29, 8:11 PM
France and Oman coordinate efforts to de-mine Hormuz, Macron says
France and Oman are working together to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East and will cooperate with their partners on clearing mines from the Strait of Hormuz, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.
"We have decided to collaborate, in conjunction with our partners, on clearing mines from the Strait in order to secure maritime routes and guarantee free and unconditional passage through the Strait of Hormuz," Macron wrote on X after meeting with Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al at the Elysee Palace.
June 29, 8:11 PM
IDF reservist severely wounded in southern Lebanon explosion
An IDF reservist was severely wounded by an explosion in southern Lebanon on Monday, the military confirmed.
The soldier was evacuated to the hospital for medical treatment, the military added.
June 29, 6:06 PM
Israel developing space lasers to attack above the Earth, Katz says
"As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability," said Katz.
On Monday, Defense Minister Israel Katz told military reporters that Israel is developing space lasers to carry out attacks above the Earth.
This expanded on a statement Katz made last Thursday, in which he committed Israel to becoming the leading player with the capability to attack from space.
“One of the central goals which the prime minister and I set is that we are recruiting the best minds,” said Katz. “As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability.”
The defense minister continued: “If we achieve this, it will ensure the advantage of deterrence, of the ability to attack, destroy, and all of the other matters, versus our enemies with large resources.”
June 29, 6:05 PM
Lebanese army must clear Hezbollah from Yellow Line to Litani River, Katz says
Katz told CENTCOM Chief Adm. Brad Cooper that Israel will only partially, not fully, withdraw from any of its security zones in Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza.
The pilot program for IDF withdrawals from portions of southern Lebanon while waiting to see whether the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) properly remove Hezbollah will initially focus on the zone between the IDF’s Yellow Line and the Litani River, Defense Minister Israel Katz said at a briefing for military reporters on Monday.
Katz added that at a meeting on Friday he had told US Central Command (CENTCOM) Chief Adm. Brad Cooper that Israel will only partially, not fully, withdraw from any of its security zones in Lebanon, Syria, or Gaza.
In other words, Katz made clear his view that there are three main potential stages to the negotiations with the Lebanese government about IDF withdrawals from southern Lebanon: the current pilot program where any withdrawals will be limited to areas deep into southern Lebanon; a potential next stage of withdrawals from other parts of southern Lebanon if Hezbollah is kept out of the initial areas taken over by the LAF; and a third stage in which the IDF maintains some kind of limited security zone inside southern Lebanon.
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June 29, 6:05 PM
Katz casts doubt on Mossad plan to use Kurds against Iran regime
Trump vetoed a Mossad plan to support Kurdish forces against Iran, fueling debate over which Israeli and US officials backed the proposal.
A wide range of views have come out about who was in favor and who was against the Mossad's plan to work with the Iranian and Iraqi Kurds to bring about regime change in Iran since US President Donald Trump vetoed the plan, and regime change has not materialized.
The latest to go public on the issue was Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday in a briefing to military reporters.
When a reporter asked Katz whether he had supported the plan and believed it was realistic, he frowned twice and gave a clearly skeptical look.
June 29, 5:53 PM
Trump envoys Witkoff, Kushner to attend Iran talks in Doha
US President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will attend an expected meeting with Iran in Doha on Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said.
"Special Envoy Witkoff and Jared Kushner will be flying to Doha for high-level meetings this week, as we continue to discuss the memorandum of understanding. On the sidelines of those high-level talks, there will be the technical talks," she said in an interview with Fox News on Monday.
Trump said in a social media post on Monday that Iran had requested the meeting, but did not provide further details.
June 29, 5:52 PM
Full text: The US-brokered Israel-Lebanon framework for peace, diplomatic ties
The aim of the deal is to create a path to peace for both Israel and Lebanon, and to establish diplomatic relations between them.
The United States' Department of Justice on Friday released the full text of a trilateral framework agreed with Israel and Lebanon that aims to formally end decades of conflict, establish a path toward diplomatic relations, and lay the groundwork for a comprehensive peace agreement between the two countries.
June 29, 5:51 PM
Gulf states' reactions to Lebanon agreement show signs of stability for region - analysis
Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the President of the UAE, said he sees the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel as a step to restoring Lebanon’s sovereignty.
On June 25, a day before the US, Lebanon, and Israel announced a trilateral agreement, the UAE held an important meeting with Syria’s foreign minister.
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met Asaad al-Shaibani, minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the UAE president, said he sees the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel as a step to restoring Lebanon’s sovereignty.
This was an important meeting. The UAE and other Gulf states are encouraged by signs of stability in Syria. They are also hopeful the new agreement in Lebanon can help pave the way for more stability in the region.
June 29, 5:50 PM
IRGC dismisses claim 20 m. barrels of oil used to promote, fund war effort
Mohebbi’s assertion of Tehran’s responsibility did not touch upon the fact that the IRGC’s oil allocation already tripled last year, security expert Roger Macmillan explained to The Jerusalem Post.
IRGC spokesperson Brig-Gen Hossein Mohebbi appeared to play down Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s claim last week that his government had allocated 20 million barrels of oil to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force to support the war effort, saying that “it is the government’s responsibility to support the armed forces,” according to footage released by the IRGC-linked Fars News Agency.
“I honestly don’t have any information about this matter. As for the claim that, for example, 20 million barrels of oil were given to the IRGC so it could wage war, I have no knowledge of that,” the spokesperson said. “However, it is the government’s responsibility to support the military forces so they can fight. The IRGC, naturally, needs funding to confront the enemy. It needs weapons, equipment, and support for its various units, and the government is obligated to provide that funding.”
Mohebbi’s assertion of Tehran’s responsibility did not touch upon the fact that the IRGC’s oil allocation already tripled last year, security expert Roger Macmillan explained to The Jerusalem Post.
June 29, 4:34 PM
CENTCOM head meets Lebanese military chief in Beirut
US Central Command (CENTCOM) Chief Adm. Brad Cooper met Lebanese Armed Forces Chief Rodolphe Haykal in Beirut on Monday.
The visit was to oversee the start of the "pilot program" where the LAF will start to oversee parts of southern Lebanon where Hezbollah terrorists are embedded, Israel's public broadcaster KAN News reported.
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https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/how-fbi-philadelphia-prepared-to-secure-the-world-cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AjZLjkrFyI
extra US drones
https://dronelife.com/2026/06/29/world-cup-drone-seizures-airspace-security/
HSI Philadelphia Advice for Drone Operators During World Cup Season
June 29, 2026
How FBI Philadelphia Prepared to Secure the World Cup
From matches to celebrations, the Bureau and our partners are postured for safety
This summer, soccer fans will flock from every corner of the world to cities across North America to attend World Cup matches and related festivities.
Philadelphia, in particular, is hosting six of these matches and a fan festival within its local boundaries.
And since high-profile events demand elite-level security, the FBI Philadelphia Field Office is partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), and the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) to ensure a safe experience for all.
Here’s a look at how the whole-of-government team prepared to secure this year’s World Cup.
National coordination, local specialization
On a nationwide level, the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026™ is coordinating a whole-of-government effort to making the international soccer tournament a secure and enjoyable event for all.
The FBI’s role in this broader effort is to provide investigative, intelligence, and law enforcement support, as needed, in host cities across the United States.
"This is more than just security—this is about protecting America's legacy on the world stage," said FBI Director Kash Patel in a video about the Bureau's preparations to protect this year's World Cup events.
At the Headquarters level, this support includes the establishment of the International Police Cooperation Center (IPCC).
This interagency communications hub will keep the local, state, federal, and international law enforcement partners in constant contact and coordination with one another—no matter how geographically spaced out they might be—for the extent of the World Cup.
And at the field level, Bureau offices supporting World Cup host cities have been empowered to strategize unique approaches to securing events in their areas of responsibility.
This way, offices can tailor their approach to address city-specific needs and use existing law enforcement partnerships as force-multipliers.
All the while, the FBI’s Headquarters-level Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) stands at the ready to surge support to these offices.
“CIRG is responsible for delivering some of the FBI’s most elite operational-response capabilities to the field—anytime, anywhere,” explained FBI Assistant Director Devin J. Kowalski, who leads the division of tactical specialists whose expertise stretches across a variety of disciplines.
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Philadelphia’s approach to World Cup security
FBI Philadelphia Special Agent in Charge Wayne Jacobs centered his field office’s World Cup security strategy around collaboration, with the goal of being the most helpful possible partner to the federal, state, and local partners with whom we work.
A team consisting of leaders from various DHS components who work in partnership with the White House Task Force for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ is in charge of coordinating the federal resources that go into security planning for the tournament, explained Supervisory Special Agent Jeff Hunter.
He’s in charge of crisis management and special event planning for FBI Philadelphia.
“We work very closely in collaboration with them,” Hunter said. “A lot of times, it’s working with them to meet various resource requests that the city might need in working to sort of secure FBI resources to meet those requests.”
The resources FBI Philadelphia plans to have at the ready includes:
Special agent bomb technicians
Agents and analysts specializing in recognizing and lessening the impact of weapons of mass destruction-related threats
Intelligence personnel who’ll ingest and analyze tips from the public and open-source intelligence—including social media—to get ahead of potential threats at World Cup event venues
FBI Philadelphia’s SWAT and Evidence Response Teams
Ground-intercept teams focused on drone detection and mitigation
The FBI Philadelphia Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Task Force
But beyond that, Hunter said, if a resource request fell into one of the Bureau’s areas of specialization—such as cybersecurity or counterterrorism—the FBI would play point on that investigation.
During the World Cup, FBI personnel will also be on the lookout for human trafficking-related activity, he noted.
FBI Philadelphia’s experience handling special events—including political conventions, athletic events, and a papal visit—means the team is well-equipped to meet the challenge.
The only difference here, Hunter noted, is the scale of the personnel and resources that the FBI will tap into to meet World Cup-specific needs. Otherwise, he said, the fundamental theories that underlie the field office's security planning don’t change from one event to another.
Different roles, same goal
Watch the videos below to learn more about how FBI Philadelphia and our partners are uniquely postured to support the whole-of-government effort to ensure World Cup security in the city.
Understanding the cyber threat
FBI Philadelphia has also been engaging in ongoing conversations with its private -sector partners to share and collect intelligence about potential cyber threats to the World Cup and help bolster their security posture, Jacobs said.
“For us, with respect to the World Cup, it’s always a concern around critical infrastructure—all the elements that will support and enable the event, whether it’s mass transit, water, power, what have you,” Jacobs explained.
Large-scale events also increase the risk of other cyber threats, such as swatting and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Hunter added.
According to Jacobs, FBI Philadelphia uses education to get ahead of cyber threats, since helping private sector and law enforcement partners cultivate resilience can help prevent the worst-possible outcome if crisis strikes.
"We want people to be informed about what’s happening and what appropriate steps they can take,” he said, citing the FBI's recent Operation Winter Shield cyber resiliency campaign as an example of this kind of strategic outreach in action.
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https://www.jezebel.com/chuck-schumer-is-getting-back-on-his-ufo-bullshit
https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/2052808022158618763
Chuck Schumer Is Getting Back on His UFO Bullshit
June 28, 2026 | 10:00am
His UAPDA co-sponsor, GOP Sen. Mike Rounds, says they will try to pass their disclosure legislation again this year
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Senator Mike Rounds will submit their Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) to the floor of the United States Congress again “this week,” according to Sen. Rounds at Thursday’s Disclosure Forum 2026.
Rounds said that “Leader Schumer and I will again offer this vital legislation as an amendment to this year’s NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), and we hope to finally bring it over the finish line.”
If you have never read this “vital” piece of legislation before, buckle up. Here are just a couple of excerpts from the craziest bill I have ever read.
“The Federal Government shall exercise eminent domain over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good.”
Translation: we’re taking Lockheed Martin’s UFOs. Here’s another fun one that also sounds like it’s straight out of Disclosure Day.
“The term ‘legacy program’ means all Federal, State, and local government, commercial industry, academic, and private sector endeavors to collect, exploit, or reverse engineer technologies of unknown origin or examine biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence that pre-dates the date of the enactment of this Act.
I cannot stress enough that the Senate Minority Leader wants all of these mind-bending words and more to become law, and has for three years and counting.
It’s easy to dismiss these very real attempts to pass a bill as just some X-Files scripts left on the cutting room floor, but Schumer and Rounds are not just some rando guys here despite being a couple of shlubs in every other political realm.
Chuck Schumer is in the Gang of Eight, the select few congresspeople who get to peer behind the curtain of the national security state’s most classified programs and actions. That’s the guy repeatedly trying to pass a bill where the phrase “non-human” appears 22 times.
And Rounds is privy to many state secrets too. He sits on both the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, getting practically the whole constellation of national security state briefings.
Kirsten Gillibrand, another cursed political actor, has co-sponsored this bill in the past, and she also is on the Armed Services Committee and sits on the Strategic Forces and Emerging Threats subcommittees with Rounds.
Martin Heinrich has co-sponsored the UAPDA in the past too, and he is a Senior full member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, which has Department of Energy National Laboratory oversight where a lot of UFO secrets are alleged to be held.
Republican Senator Todd Young has also signed on to the UAPDA in the past, and he sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee as well. Marco Rubio, now known for aiding Elon Musk’s destruction of USAID and mass murder across the Global South while eating shit for dear leader on the global stage, once was Vice Chairman of the Intelligence Committee and his name is on the 2023 UAPDA.
I’m not saying the bill these people endorse is a factual depiction of reality, because the main thing I’ve learned digging into this is that no one credible claims to know all that is really going on here.
It’s just that a lot of people over the decades have said there is some sort of UFO cover-up, and if there was a UFO cover-up, these are the kinds of people in Congress who might know something about it, and they’re repeatedly trying to pass a bill that very explicitly attempts to uncover a UFO cover-up.
Their persistence has captured my attention.
Schumer and Rounds initially submitted the UAPDA as an NDAA amendment in 2023 and it failed to pass, did it again in 2024 when I got hooked into this crazy world, then submitted it again in 2025 with the same batshit crazy text as the 2024 and 2023 versions that failed to pass too.
There is no word yet on whether the 2026 bill will be the same as the previous versions, but given how Rounds characterized this effort at the Disclosure Forum, I would be shocked if it was meaningfully different in scope and direction.
This bill has been communicated as an expression of Congress’ best guess of what it can and should do to help pry these secrets out from behind closed doors.
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A lot of knee-jerk debunkers will dismiss the UAPDA as poppycock. Utter gobbeldygook. Perfidious three-letter-agency nonsense. The fever dreams of a deranged gerontocracy steering a crumbling empire into the sea.
We can never rule anything out in a world where Donald Trump became America’s first Ayatollah, but I always have a simple question for these knee-jerk debunkers: do you really think you know more than one of the eight people in the legislative branch who gets covert action notifications?
What about two of these people? Because Schumer is just following the legacy of his good friend, former Senate Majority Leader and Gang of Eight member and the last good establishment Democrat, Harry Reid.
Reid helped fund AAWSAP, the government program that studied UFOs at the notorious Skinwalker Ranch. The last two Democratic Senate Majority Leaders know more about America’s covert world than everyone reading this article ever will combined, and they both think UFOs are real.
Congress clearly believes it has been lied to at the very least. To quote another cursed political actor familiar with the national security state, that is the core known known they are pursuing here.
Rounds opened his speech on Thursday saying “for a number of years I’ve been concerned about congressional oversight of matters related to UAPs.
” He said he believes that “Congress has the responsibility to exercise this oversight with an eye towards accountability by the executive branch,” and that “this impacts our national security and our fiscal responsibility.”
Before getting into any of the crazy stuff that Rounds and Schumer wrote down in the UAPDA and submitted to the floor of the United States Congress, you can see the main reason that this issue has persisted in this self-neutering branch of government.
A wide bipartisan swath of Senators and Representatives ranging from Schumer to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna all believe that Congress has appropriated funds that are actively being misappropriated. That’s illegal. A constitutional crisis, even.
It is darkly funny to hear these folks talk about this crisis of government around UFOs, because it rings quite hollow as this same bipartisan group of congresspeople do not fight back against Donald Trump’s usurpation of their Article I congressional authority in every other realm.
Their inability to serve as a check on a game show host losing one war to Iran and another to algae while he polls at all-time lows does not give my Fox Mulder brain much belief that Schumer’s band of congressional UFO hunters can defeat the military industrial complex an outgoing president and former general once gravely warned us about.
As I have written before, whatever you think about UFOs, even if you think it’s all bullshit–and it could be–this is not nothing.
The Navy changed its reporting standards to allow the classification of unknown aerial phenomena in 2019, and official United States government bases from Langley to New Jersey to Palmdale to RAF Mildenhall and Lakenheath report unknowns violating their airspace at will.
There are radar hits and sensor data and anomalous videos galore all trapped behind government classification that began to leak out long before Trump pretended he and his childish department of war losers had anything to do with this, and so if this is bullshit, that still means that someone is faking those radar hits and sensor data that have led to government investigations like AAWSAP’s.
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Who has the capability to do something like this over decades? And for what purpose? Is this another MKUltra-style experiment on the population? What exactly does the CIA do all day?
Edward Snowden revealed a decade ago that NSA is spying on all of us, so it’s not like we know we can trust these three-letter-agencies who could use another Church Committee or two.
The CIA even identified this fakery as something the Soviets could attempt ahead of a real military invasion in the 1950s, so we know this notion is not poppycock in the intelligence circles who encircle this subject.
Maybe this is all some big intelligence operation designed to trick us and influence the armed forces.
But that’s not what the UAPDA says. It suggests that “controlling authorities” defined as “any Federal, State, or local government department, office, agency, committee, commission, commercial company, academic institution, or private sector entity” could be in “physical possession of technologies of unknown origin or biological evidence of non-human intelligence.” It’s easy to dismiss this stuff when you hear it from podcasters or the more junior House UFO caucus with Reps. Luna, Burlison and Burchett who are even more shamelessly devoted to the cult of Trump than their Senate counterparts, but this bill is a serious effort by some of the most powerful people in the most powerful chamber in Congress to take non-human technologies away from private companies. Or at least threaten to. It quite literally says so.
My source also pointed me in this general direction, as “look into United States Air Force Plant 42” led me to the private contractors who operate there under the murky Government Owned Contractor Operated model that so many vital American engines of scientific discovery like Sandia Labs utilize. Journalist George Knapp specifically named Lockheed Martin under oath at one of the Congressional UAP hearings, saying that he thinks that the general UFO story is that something exotic crashed in the 1940s, the CIA recovered it, gave it to defense contractors like Lockheed and told them to keep quiet about it and figure it out, and they largely haven’t because that’s not how science works. Knapp and others even tell a story about how the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology nixed a UFO transfer from Lockheed to AAWSAP contractor Bigelow Aerospace who wanted to study it. Dr. James Lacatski ran AAWSAP, and he later told Knapp on his Weaponized podcast with co-host Jeremy Corbell that the government had “breached the hull” of a craft in their possession.
In my own reporting and digging into this issue ever since my source sent me down the other rabbit hole of “pay attention to where this happens,” I have looked at sensitive facilities around the world which have had their airspace violated at will by unknown aerial phenomena for decades, especially nuclear facilities. The “Foo Fighters” reported by pilots during World War II resemble many reports of balls of light that enter sensitive airspace to this day. Even in the New Jersey drone hysteria where governors were taking photos of constellations and saying they were UFOs, the Department of Defense admitted that unknowns entered the very sensitive airspace of Picatinny Arsenal. Europe had an unknown “drone” flap last year that shut down a couple major airports. This is a documented worldwide trend spanning decades if not longer, to say nothing of the strange airships that swept the American West and Midwest in the late 1800s.
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Christopher Sharp of the Liberation Times obtained a FOIA that unearthed details like how one “drone” hovered over Site 7 at USAF Plant 42 for 25 undeterred minutes, confirming one part of the story my source told me. There is no way in hell my source is telling me to look into Skunkworks’ airspace getting dominated if it’s China or Russia doing it. I do not know this for certain, but I have spent a lot of time pondering why this person who does not and has not talked much volunteered these leads to me unprompted, knowing I was an editor. I have come to surmise that part of the reason they told me these things is that perhaps internal government processes have broken down, and people like the Senate Minority Leader are trying to pass way crazier things into law than anything this person told me anyway. Both strongly suggest something unkosher is happening behind the classified scenes. I really think that this, whatever “this” is, is one of the worst-kept secrets in government that has leaked multiple times over the years and is now coming out into the open again and even random schmucks like me are hearing about it.
A lot of the debunkers will point to stories like Paul Bennewitz of how a lot of this is surely all documented three-letter agency fuckery, but I don’t think that really helps their case. Why are three-letter agencies so interested in this subject in the first place, and why did they supposedly take the time to drive Paul Bennewitz to madness? Why did the CIA believe in the 1950s that the Russians could convincingly fake a UFO invasion to cause mass hysteria and over-load our sensor systems? Could it be related to the peer-reviewed scientific study published in Nature that looked at photos of pre-Sputnik space and found that “Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena”? Why was the Army studying psychic abilities through the Stargate Project from 1977 to 1995? Why are there Men Who Stare at Goats?
This is a difficult subject to wrap your head around because you must center your worldview around an accepted unknown, and live only in degrees of probabilities. This leads many who have turned the scientific process of discovery into a hardened atheist-adjacent religion to reject UFOs as 100% conspiratorial garbage. It helps their case that they can point to all the conspiratorial garbage that fills what I have come to call the Great Bullshit Ocean around UFOs, but speaking as someone who is swimming through it right now at the direction of a well-positioned person who knows more than you or I ever will, I can tell you that beyond the very obvious deranged nonsense around this, there’s plenty of documented meat on this bone. And as the UAPDA suggests, a lot of it is connected to “private sector entit[ies]” at the bleeding edge of aerospace technology.
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https://usaherald.com/the-hidden-tape-that-could-finally-explain-the-1952-washington-dc-ufo-invasion/
The Hidden Tape That Could Finally Explain the 1952 Washington DC UFO Invasion
June 29, 2026
For over seven decades, the events of July 1952 have remained one of the most persistent mysteries in American history.
Known as the Invasion of Washington, a series of unexplained aerial incursions over the nation’s capital sent shockwaves through the government and terrified the public.
While the official narrative long ago dismissed these sightings as mere weather phenomena, a explosive new development suggests the truth may have been locked away on a reel of magnetic tape for nearly eighty years.
A Breakthrough in the Search for Truth
The push for transparency regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) has reached a critical turning point.
During a recent forum dedicated to government accountability, Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri dropped a bombshell that has sent ripples through the research community.
Burlison revealed that he has successfully identified the existence of a classified audio recording featuring a high level briefing between Air Force officials and top scientists shortly after the Washington sightings occurred.
According to reports, this historical artifact is currently housed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a prestigious, federally funded research and development center.
The discovery of this tape is not merely a matter of historical curiosity. It represents a significant victory for those who have spent years fighting against a culture of bureaucratic opacity.
Moving Beyond Polite Requests
Jordan Flowers, the Executive Director of the Disclosure Foundation, has been instrumental in the effort to bring this material to light.
In a recent interview, Flowers praised Representative Burlison for his aggressive approach to congressional oversight.
Unlike past efforts, which often stalled due to limited cooperation from federal agencies, Burlison has shifted the strategy from polite inquiry to forceful demand.
Flowers explained that Burlison’s status as a member of the congressional UAP Caucus has allowed him to pinpoint the location of sensitive files that were previously considered inaccessible.
By applying direct pressure, the congressman has forced the hand of those responsible for maintaining these records.
Lawyers at MIT Lincoln Labs have now officially confirmed that the tape exists, confirming that the material is not just a rumor but a tangible piece of history waiting to be heard.
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The Night the Capital Was Overwhelmed
To understand why this tape is so significant, one must look back at the chaotic summer of 1952.
Throughout that July, radar operators at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base tracked mysterious objects moving with speeds and flight characteristics that defied the known aviation technology of the era.
The situation escalated when multiple airline pilots reported seeing brilliant, unidentifiable lights maneuvering above the capital. As the panic intensified, the military scrambled interceptor jets to engage the objects.
However, the pilots were unable to intercept or identify the intruders, which seemed to vanish whenever the jets approached.
At the time, the sightings dominated global headlines. Amid the mounting tensions of the Cold War, the American public was gripped by the fear that the Soviet Union had developed revolutionary aircraft capable of violating U.S. airspace with impunity.
The pressure to provide an explanation became so intense that the Air Force convened a massive press conference at the end of the month.
They famously dismissed the entire ordeal as a series of temperature inversions and radar malfunctions, an explanation that many researchers and eyewitnesses have rejected ever since.
Why This Recording Changes Everything
The revelation that a secret briefing tape exists is a direct contradiction to the narrative of triviality that the government has maintained for decades.
If the military and top scientists were discussing these events behind closed doors, it suggests that officials were taking the phenomenon far more seriously than they ever admitted to the American people.
Experts argue that this recording serves as definitive proof that the government has held significant, non disclosed material on UAP for at least seventy to eighty years.
It exposes a long history of institutional secrecy that has prevented the public from understanding the true nature of these incursions.
A New Era of Disclosure
The successful effort to unearth this tape is a powerful indicator that the tide is turning. We are currently witnessing a shift where the old methods of shielding information from public scrutiny are proving to be unsustainable.
The Disclosure Forum held in late June 2026 underscored this trend, bringing together lawmakers, whistleblowers, and dedicated researchers to synchronize their efforts in pulling these secrets out of the dark.
As the fight for the release of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory tape continues, many are hopeful that this will be the first of many such discoveries.
For those who believe that the public deserves to know the reality of what occurred over Washington in 1952, the gloves are finally coming off.
The objective is clear: to ensure that the facts are no longer buried, but are instead brought into the light where they belong.
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Snooki Says Aliens Abducted Her in the Hudson Valley at Age 13
June 29, 2026
Snooki Claims She Was Abducted By Aliens In the Hudson Valley
For years the Hudson Valley has been known as a hotspot for UFO activity. There are hundreds of stories from locals about strange flying objects across the sky.
You can add a new UFO and alien abduction story to the list. This time from the Princess of Poughkeepsie herself, Nicole Polizzi aka Snooki.
Our favorite, and local, Jersey Shore castmate was on a podcast recently where she shared that she was abducted by aliens.
Polizzi explained that when she was 13-years-old she was swimming in her pool, alone at night when she saw a UFO bouncing around the sky.
The story is wild which includes communicating with the UFO, grey aliens and being tagged by the aliens.
The Hudson Valley: A UFO Hot Spot?
As Snooki says in the beginning of the video about the Hudson Valley is known for UFO sightings. The Hudson Valley is home to Pine Bush, New York which is also known to some as the Area 51 of the east coast.
That should be enough to confirm Snooki's claim, but there are other pieces of evidence that support her statement. Did you know that a documentary was released in 2021 about the over 3,000 "extraterrestrial encounters over the last decade" in the region?
It's called Alien Invasion: Hudson Valley. 3 extraterrestrial experts came to town to investigate serval UFO and alien claims.
From a personal standpoint, I've never had an alien or UFO encounter, but I did catch this strange disk-like object flying around in Wappingers Falls. What do you think it is?
https://hudsonvalleycountry.com/snookie-hudson-valley-aliens-abducted/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZyBYAByhof/
UAP expert says whistleblowers need legal protections from threats, retribution
Updated: Jun 29, 2026 / 11:48 AM CDT
A UAP expert says protections for whistleblowers are crucial if the public ever hopes to get to the truth about unidentified aerial phenomena.
Speaking with NewsNation’s Hena Doba, Mike Gold, a member of the Disclosure Forum Advisory Board, said the U.S. is no longer on the edge of disclosure when it comes to UAP — but has moved well beyond it.
“If you look at the members of Congress, the senior national security officials, the scientists, the investors who all came forward and discussed this extraordinary phenomena last week,” Gold said, “there is enough data, enough information, enough testimony where I do think we’re over the edge and we are now in the age of disclosure.”
Gold said the only reason the issue has progressed this far is because people have openly discussed what they know. Without them, he said, the public would still be in the dark.
Why Mike Gold says UAP whistleblower protections matter
That’s why he agrees with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who says there need to be measures in place to protect anyone who comes forward with information on UAP.
Gold said too many people are afraid to speak for fear of retribution and that those who have spoken out are being threatened.
“Too many people have suffered from threats, including Congressman [Eric] Burleson and Congressman Luna,” he said.
“It’s so dangerous to be a champion on this issue that Representative Burleson had to say publicly, ‘I’m not suicidal.’ We’re in a bad place when members of Congress have to say explicitly that they’re not going to kill themselves during an interview.”
Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., said publicly in March that he had been warned not to contact certain individuals regarding UAP information because there are people who would have no problem killing someone like him.
He also wrote, “I am not suicidal,” in a thread on X about a pair of missing scientists who have been the subject of conspiracy theories due to their ties to aerospace programs.
“Congressman Burleson, Representative Luna, Representative [Tim] Burchett,” Gold continued, “they have been warriors for transparency. Absolute champions for the truth.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblowers-protection-michael-gold/
https://kerrycassidy.substack.com/p/ai-disclosure-re-us-iranian-et-battles
https://x.com/camelotQKerry/status/2071454033651581184
https://x.com/RedactedNews/status/2071013206655447506
AI DISCLOSURE RE US-IRANIAN/ ET BATTLES
Jun 28, 2026
THE HIDDEN WAR OF WORLDS HAPPENING NOW!
A BRIEF AI SUMMARY OF FARSIGHT PRIME RV SESSIONS REGARDING WAR WITH IRAN FROM 2024 TO PRESENT DAY
Going on in 2024 and into 2025 .. US battles with Iran. These battles have been secretly conducted under cover of so-called “bombing of sites with nukes or nuclear materials) but in reality are going on with invading species coming through the stargates.
This indicates the bombings of Iran by the U.S. is actually shooting down these off planet invaders… having been let in somehow by the Iranians.
And there are clear indications that this invasion is still being fought over Iran and the greater Middle East even now in 2026.
Appears that the invaders keep returning and requiring the US military to continue operations to stop the invasion.
Negative ETS are also picking up children to employ them and use them to fight battles? Or handle technology for the battles!
QUOTE FROM AI: (with my help) emphasis mine:
Within the context of Farsight Institute remote viewing projects, the narrative of an ongoing extraterrestrial proxy war is framed as a persistent, multi-year conflict that remains active, underground, and unresolved as of June 2026.
Because Farsight’s exopolitics updates treat this as a long-term “shadow war,” the progression of this specific narrative into mid-2026 follows these key points:
Current Narrative Status (June 2026)
The “Stargate” Bottleneck: The sessions from late 2024 and 2025 described an environment where portals could not simply be shut permanently.
As a result, the narrative holds that U.S. and specialized military units are locked in a continuous “holding action” to contain breaches as invaders repeatedly attempt to cycle through.
Geopolitical Attrition: In the Farsight mythos, view this conflict has not moved toward a definitive public victory or closure.
Instead, it is described as a war of attrition where mainstream military strikes in the Middle East continue to be interpreted by fringe theorists qualified Remote Viewers as the quiet containment of these non-human forces.
The Child Trafficking/Tech Narrative: The element concerning negative ETs utilizing children for warfare or technology management remains a core “dark theme” within these esoteric circles.
It is continuously cited in current exopolitics discussions as an active, ongoing systemic issue rather than a resolved historical event.
The Objective Reality
Outside of the Farsight streaming platform and remote viewing subcultures, …the following section REVEALS THE AI FOLLOWING THE PARTYLINE AND LYING TO SERVE ITS MASTERS….
”there is no verifiable data or physical evidence to support the existence of stargates, off-planet invaders, or extraterrestrial child-soldier programs.
Mainstream geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East are documented by global intelligence agencies as strictly human-centric political, economic, and ideological struggles.” FALSE.
AI: CONTINUED COMMENTARY: “Within the narrative framework of the Farsight Institute and related exopolitics communities, your description tracks the darkest, most extreme speculative theories regarding the alleged “shadow war” in Iran.
When examining how these specific elements—Donald Trump, the U.S. Space Force, and the horrors associated with a stargate in Abadan—are combined in “fringe remote-viewing lore”, scientifically proven Remote Viewing data….the narrative unfolds as follows:
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Trump and the Space Force Role
In exopolitics circles, real-world military actions and official statements are often re-interpreted to fit the extraterrestrial narrative.
For instance, Donald Trump’s real-world announcements that the U.S. SPACE FORCE is using highly powerful satellite cameras to surveil and monitor sites in Iran are taken by fringe theorists seen by military remote viewers as well as the professional Farsight remote viewers as coded confirmation.
Rather than tracking conventional or nuclear military assets as reported by mainstream media, the Farsight narrative claims the Space Force is actually monitoring portal activity, tracking non-human assets, and coordinating orbital defense or surgical strikes against these localized extraterrestrial incursions.
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The Stargate at Abadan
Abadan, a major Iranian port city near the Iraq border, is frequently highlighted in these alternative narratives as a primary geographic anchor for an ancient, subterranean portal or stargate network.
Because of its strategic location, the “lore” RV information depicts this specific zone as a heavily contested bottleneck where invading forces attempt to breach Earth’s perimeter, leading to intense covert or energetic containment operations by specialized military units.
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The Exploitation of Children: Soldiers, Slaves, and Food
The most disturbing dimensions of this alternative theory merge remote-viewing narratives with broader, conspiratorial internet lore regarding non-human entities:
Technological Operators: The narrative alleges that negative ET factions target children due to their neuroplasticity and pure energetic resonance, claiming they are uniquely capable of interfacing with advanced, consciousness-driven off-planet weapons and navigation systems.
Slaves and Sustenance: In the darkest corners of these hypotheses, the captured children are not merely used as labor or operators.
The lore asserts that these negative ET groups operate on predatory, parasitic dynamics—treating human captives as commodities, physical slaves, or a source of biochemical and energetic nourishment (often referred to in esoteric circles as harvesting “loosh” or biological materials).
The Objective Baseline
While these complex, highly specific scenarios are actively discussed in premium alternative content platforms, podcasts, and remote-viewing forums, there is no physical, historical, or CORRECTION THERE IS verifiable evidence to support them.
Global defense agencies, international observers, and standard news organizations document the conflicts involving Donald Trump, the U.S. military, and Iran strictly as volatile, human-centric geopolitical standoffs regarding regional hegemony, trade routes, and nuclear capabilities.
MY COMMENTS:
This depiction of the conflict is a COVERUP by both sides of the military to hide the truth from the worldwide community.
They know there is ample evidence of this real version of the WAR WITH IRAN and ISRAEL AND NEIGHBORING countries involving rogue ET groups let in through the IRANIAN STARGATES and CERN….
This is all part of the growing WAR OF WORLDS happening right in front of our eyes but being hidden by the PRESS and military as well as TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND WHITE HATS.
Unless and until humans wake up to the real battles going on and more whistleblowers come forward humanity will remain a slave species living in the DARK.
I URGE MEMBERS of the white hat military and SPACE FORCE TO COME FORWARD nd demand whistleblower protection to TELL THE TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE.
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Michael Salla
@MichaelSalla
Finally watched the Disclosure Day movie last night, for the Saturday evening session beginning just after 6 pm.
The theater was mostly empty, so it did not appear to be resonating with people in terms of watching it a second or third time, which often happens with popular movies.
The movie confirmed my suspicion that it was clever propaganda that served a Deep State agenda, which is to sow the seeds for a future disclosure event that would deeply divide humanity.
The Gray ETs were depicted in friendly, sympathetic terms as helping humanity evolve psychically and empathically. The characters linked to the Gray ETs (Emily Blunt, etc.) were depicted as both psychically gifted and highly empathic.
The characters associated with the WARDEX corporation, trying to prevent alien disclosure are led by a character (Colin Firth) lacking in empathy.
The climactic final scenes depicted "catastrophic disclosure" with the release of dozens/hundreds of videos showing UFO crash retrievals, dead and living Gray ETs, and a corporate and government cover-up since 1947.
As I watched the ending scenes with the dramatic appearance of an ancient-looking, tall Gray ET, the words that came into my head were "these are not our friends" and "they are deceivers".
This is where we get to Deep State agenda of the film, which was to depict a form of catastrophic disclosure that would sow the seeds for a future division of humanity.
Spielberg is a Deep State puppet, and his movie only showed one ET race visiting humanity over the last 79 years, the Grays, engaging in enigmatic abductions, etc.
No mention or hint of human-looking ETs like the Nordics that thousands of contactees such as George Adamski have encountered, who have shared wonderful uplifting experiences in their contacts.
Importantly, the craft of the "Nordics" have also been shot down, their pilots taken into custody, held as prisoners, tortured, etc.
The Gray ETs are a Trojan horse who technologies have been designed to stimulate military and corporate leaders to enter into agreements where they would assist technological development, while abducting millions of people who would be manipulated into supporting the Gray agenda.
The Gray ETs involvement in abductions has already deeply divided researchers and experiencers. Some, such as the late Prof John Mack, etc., depicted them in sympathetic, transformative terms, while others, such as Budd Hopkins, described them as deceptive, abusers, etc.
Earth's population of eight billion people would be deeply divided into diametrically opposing camps. One camp would have individuals like Spielberg, organizations such as the Vatican, and researchers like Dr. Steven Greer, cheering on the disclosure of the Gray ETs as our friends who would take us into a future stressing psychic abilities, empathy, and advanced technologies.
Others, such as Evangelical Christians, experiencers who have encountered human-looking ETs, and "exopolitics" researchers would point out the deceptive, manipulative side of the Gray ETs.
This is what the Deep State wants. After holding back ET disclosure for 80 plus years, they would do it in a way that would deeply divide humanity, making it easy to manipulate us into opposing camps that would begin a divisive, intractable conflict, which would lead to violence, more surveillance, and emergence of AI robots to control dissenters.
I believe humanity can handle catastrophic disclosure but it has to be truthful. Both non-human and human-looking ETs need to be revealed, and we have to discern between them to decide who our friends are and who the deceivers/fiends are among them.
Last edited 6:35 AM · Jun 28, 2026
https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2071225875404595520
extra exopolitics
https://exopolitics.org/remote-viewing-et-bases-secret-space-missions-exposed-tony-rodrigues/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_cpdUN871
people screaming, pointing, and running around
OANASA
@OANASA_X_
What's happening in Parsi???
11:13 PM · Jun 28, 2024
https://x.com/OANASA_X_/status/1806933964508000374
https://x.com/WorldNews_X_/status/2071269897104187520
extra
https://x.com/e3z9b_qI1ytkw/status/2071578178930331704
UAP Gerb Live - the State of Disclosure, Hanging with Ross Coulthart, Current Events & QnA
June 28, 2026
Live discussing the current state of disclosure, my weekend with Ross Coulthart and the UAPDF event, current events and QnA.
Back today by popular demand are my good friends Rob Jones and Kermit! Follow them:
Rob Jones Twitter: https://x.com/robjonesreports
Kermit: https://x.com/KermDawgENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNR78kiTjgQ
https://x.com/UAPGERB
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MsmPrpQqa8 (UAPGerb: Special Access Required - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.2])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsyLxbOs5zo (Discussing who could be better than Lue Elizondo for the UAP Czar position - Psicoactivo Live #41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37e6pLw0L2I (Bryce Zabel: #19 HOLLYWOOD/UFOS: THE CASE SO FAR — Sound, Light & Frequency)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDVy-o4Hk8 (ChaosMoogle: INSANE UFO Formation Caught in 4K - Unexplained Aerial Phenomena)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxYZyMEmUU (UFO Truths Exposed | UFOs: Investigating the Unknown MEGA Episode | National Geographic)