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Astronomers discover radio signals coming from rare 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after decades of silence
July 6, 2026
The hushed pulsar, nicknamed Blue Eye, was a previously radio-silent neutron star.
Silent neutron stars at the center of supernova blast sites may actually be whispering softly, following the detection of faint radio emissions coming from one such object for the first time.
The discovery raises the prospect that there could be many more pulsars in our galaxy than we thought.
When a massive star explodes as a supernova, the devastation leads to the star's core collapsing under its own gravity to form either a neutron star or a black hole.
When a neutron star is formed, it is born spinning and its magnetic field is usually powerful enough to whip up charged particles and beam them away in a jet moving at close to the speed of light.
This jet emits radio waves, and as the neutron star spins we see this radio jet flashing in our direction. This makes it seem like the neutron star is pulsing, hence we call it a pulsar.
Puzzlingly, not all neutron stars at the center of supernova remnants are pulsars. About a dozen discovered so far have been dead quiet in radio waves, and astronomers call these quiet neutron stars 'central compact objects', or CCOs.
One possible explanation for CCOs is that their magnetic fields are too weak to produce detectable radio jets. For decades, astronomers have tuned into them, finding only radio silence — until now.
A team led by Zhang Lei of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tuned into one particular CCO, named 1E 1207.4-5209 with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa.
They discovered that the CCO is pulsing with radio waves after all, but very faintly, once every 424 milliseconds. This matches the known spin period of the pulsar – it's a veritable whirling dervish.
Found at the center of a supernova found 10,000 light years away within our Milky Way galaxy, 1E 1207.4-5209 has been nicknamed the "Blue Eye Pulsar" by Li Di, a professor of astronomy at Tsinghua University in China.
Its name is a virtue of the fact that when the faint radio emission is combined with X-ray images that show the neutron star shining brightly, it looks like a blue eye.
The Blue Eye Pulsar has an intriguing history. The supernova that formed it exploded over 4,100 years ago.
In 2015, X-ray observations noted that the pulsar had experienced a 'spin glitch', which is a small increase in rotation of a neutron star probably caused by some kind of disruption or shifting of material within the neutron star's dense interior.
Lei's team propose that this glitch either strengthened or reoriented, or both, the magnetic field of the Blue Eye Pulsar sufficiently to trigger radio emissions, or at least make feeble radio waves that were already there detectable.
Following a glitch, a neutron star's rotation rate gradually slows back down to its original rate, at which point we might expect the Blue Eye Pulsar's radio emission to switch back off.
Lei's team suggests that continued monitoring of the Blue Eye Pulsar could answer this question.
If that answer is what Lei's team think it to be, then it could mean that there is a large population of very feeble pulsars that remain undetected in the galaxy.
Old pulsars, which persist long after the supernova remnant they were born in has dissipated, are also fairly quiet radio emitters because they are slowing their spin rate over time.
However, it is possible that we have misidentified some of these pulsars as being old when they could in fact be relatively young but softly radio emitting.
The findings may also explain why some supernova remnants seem to be missing pulsars. Key among them is the expanding cloud of debris formed from the explosion of supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Although astronomers are pretty sure there is a neutron star in the heart of the remnant based on indirect evidence, no pulsar radio emissions have yet been detected.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/astronomers-discover-radio-signals-coming-from-rare-blue-eye-pulsar-after-decades-of-silence
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02899-2.epdf
moar general / international space
https://tvbrics.com/en/news/brics-countries-create-network-of-telescopes-to-study-short-duration-space-phenomena/
https://asgardia.space/en/news/Combating-Space-Pollution%E2%80%93and-Protecting-Against-It
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_discovers_the_most_ancient_quasar_in_the_Universe
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/07/Quasars_discovered_by_Euclid
extra ESA
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/07/Centaurus_A_MIRI_and_NIRCam_image
https://spacewatch.global/2026/07/the-africa-europe-space-partnership-program-has-unveiled-a-new-africa-europe-new-space-eo-initiative/
https://x.com/Soph_astro/status/2074166751672008838
Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe
06/07/2026
In brief
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found.
Two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history.
They shone with the light of a trillion Suns back when the Universe was 670 million years old – just 5% of its current age.
In-depth
Quasars represent a brief phase in a galaxy’s life during which large amounts of material spiral into the central supermassive black hole, releasing enormous amounts of energy.
In this phase, the galaxy’s nucleus shines more brightly than anything else in the Universe, often outshining the rest of its host galaxy by hundreds to thousands of times.
We’ve been hunting for the Universe’s very first quasars for decades. These objects reveal what was happening during the earliest days of the cosmos, including how the first supermassive black holes and galaxies took shape.
However, quasars from this time are difficult to find. They’re rare, as few galaxies had yet had time to grow big enough, and their primordial light is both faint and easy to confuse with that from stars lying closer to us.
Euclid, launched in 2023, is digging deeper into this mystifying part of ancient cosmic history – with exciting results.
The telescope has now discovered an unprecedented number of 31 new quasars in the early Universe, pushing back to a time when the cosmos was just 5% of its current age.
“These early quasars date back to the Universe's infancy,” says Daming Yang of Leiden University in the Netherlands, lead author of the Euclid discovery paper.
"By finding and studying them, we can better understand how these enormous systems formed and grew so quickly – one of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics.”
Beneath the tip of the iceberg
The earliest quasars we knew of until now were just the tip of the iceberg: the rare and bright outliers that have been easiest to spot.
We simply hadn’t found enough quasars from the Universe’s early days to study them properly as a group. Euclid’s new finding changes all that, capturing not just the bright outliers but most of the ancient quasar population.
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“Euclid is a true game-changer,” adds Daming. “Before, we could only find a handful of the very brightest ancient quasars, but Euclid lets us search far more efficiently across huge areas of sky to capture much fainter light. It’s a unique tool for quasar hunting.”
The discovery adds 12 new quasars at a ‘redshift’ – a measure of distance and motion related to how light moves through our expanding cosmos – of 7 or above, corresponding to the first 770 million years of the Universe.
The two most ancient of the batch, EUCL J172902.75+641018.1 and EUCL J125308.55+705432.3, have redshifts of 7.77 and 7.69, respectively, setting a new record for the most ancient quasars ever found.
Both lie just over 13 billion light-years away, and emerged during the Universe’s first 670 million years.
“This finding more than doubles the number of quasars we know of that are so ancient,” says Antonio La Marca, an ESA Research Fellow in the Euclid team.
Discovering the first 10 or so quasars at a redshift of 7 or above took astronomers more than a decade – but Euclid has already discovered more than that in a single year.
“The Euclid team has taken a true ‘census’ of quasars at the dawn of the Universe for the first time,” adds Antonio. “It’s a big step towards understanding these fascinating objects on a more fundamental level.”
A milestone in cosmic history
The second most ancient quasar found by Daming and colleagues was recently studied in more detail by Silvia Belladitta and collaborators.
These observations showed that the quasar is embedded in a dusty, gas-filled galaxy that is furiously forming new stars, hinting at what the host galaxy of an early supermassive black hole may be like.
The quasars hark back to a fascinating period in cosmic history known as the ‘epoch of reionisation’: when everything shifted from being cold and dark (the ‘dark ages’) to hot and ‘ionised’ (split apart by energetic light).
This transitional epoch was a crucial era that set the stage for everything we see today.
“Ancient quasars are rare discoveries. They're interesting in themselves, but also time machines that enable us to explore the early Universe and understand how the first generation of galaxies came to be,” says ESA Euclid Project Scientist Valeria Pettorino.
“Euclid’s capabilities are unrivalled. The telescope combines a large area, depth, sharp imaging, and unique space-based infrared vision in a way that lets us pick out rare, extremely distant objects far more efficiently than before.
And it’s not just the telescope: the data processing is only possible thanks to thousands of Euclid Consortium scientists and engineers working together to deliver scientific discoveries, sifting through enormous datasets to identify rare, distant quasars that we can study further using telescopes on the ground.”
The 31 quasars reported here were discovered in data from the Euclid Wide Survey, which will cover more than one-third of the total sky once complete.
Euclid will reveal the secrets of the dark Universe; the telescope is exploring its composition, history, evolution, and mapping out its large-scale structure, observing billions of galaxies – and revealing many quasars – as it does so.
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Multiple blasts rock Kiev
6 Jul, 2026 02:45 | Updated 6 Jul, 2026 06:03
The Russian Defense Ministry said it hit military-industrial enterprises and fuel and energy facilities in and around the Ukrainian capital
The Ukrainian capital and its suburbs were hit by a combined missile and drone strike early Monday morning, in what the Russian Defense Ministry called a response to terrorist attacks by Vladimir Zelensky’s government.
The first wave of blasts in Kiev was heard at around 1:30 AM local time, followed by more explosions in multiple waves until 5 AM.
Videos shared on social media showed numerous powerful blasts around the Ukrainian capital, some followed by secondary detonations, suggesting that a weapons depot, production facility, or air-defense system had been hit.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it used long-range precision weapons and attack drones to hit Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, fuel and energy facilities in Kiev and Kiev Region, and military airfield infrastructure across several regions in retaliation for “terrorist attacks” on civilian infrastructure inside Russia.
Officials in Kiev reported damage at multiple locations, claiming that most of them were “civilian infrastructure,” and circulated photos and videos of several damaged buildings, including one partially collapsed residential building.
The head of the local military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said at least nine people were killed and dozens injured.
The exact locations and types of facilities hit are difficult to verify, as Ukrainian authorities tightly restrict information about strike sites and penalize those who share footage of impacts, except when civilian infrastructure is affected.
Moscow previously pledged to conduct “systematic and consistent strikes” on Kiev’s military installations in retaliation for deadly “terrorist attacks.” Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said on Friday that the recent campaign against Ukraine’s defense industry has already significantly degraded Kiev’s ability to produce long-range weapons.
Over the weekend, Russian forces repelled a major Ukrainian long-range combined drone and missile attack, downing more than 500 targets, mainly long-range kamikaze drones, as well as ten FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles and at least nine munitions fired by US-made HIMARS systems.
Moscow described the attack as a foiled attempt by Kiev to divert the attention of its Western sponsors and ordinary Ukrainians from the loss of Konstantinovka, a major stronghold in northwestern Donbass.
Moscow announced the liberation of the city on Friday following weeks of intensive combat in the area, with Russian President Vladimir Putin calling it the “key” to liberating the rest of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
Putin also warned Kiev and its “instigators” that any further “terrorist” PR stunts would only lead to the loss of more territory, forcing the Russian military to push Ukrainian forces farther from Russia’s borders in Sumy, Kharkov, and Dnepropetrovsk regions to establish a wider “security zone” and protect civilians.
https://www.rt.com/russia/642615-kiev-explosions-secondary-blasts/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642635-russian-massive-strike-kiev/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642623-russian-mod-ukraine-strikes/
https://www.rt.com/russia/642617-ukraine-drone-crimea-moscow/
extra RT
https://www.rt.com/russia/642645-uk-ukrainian-attack-iconic-museum/
Gazprom to Form Military Reserve Units to Guard Energy Infrastructure From Drone Attacks
July 6, 2026
Russian gas giant Gazprom has reached an agreement with the Defense Ministry to create mobile firing groups tasked with protecting the company's infrastructure, including from Ukrainian drone attacks, independent outlet Ekho reported, citing internal company documents.
The move highlights Moscow's growing efforts to harden critical energy infrastructure against increasingly frequent long-range drone strikes, which have disrupted oil and gas facilities across Russia since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.
Rather than relying solely on regular military forces, authorities have increasingly turned to regional volunteer units and reserve formations to bolster air defense around strategic sites.
According to the documents, volunteers would undergo medical examinations, a rigorous selection process and two months of training before signing three-year contracts to join Russia's mobilization reserve.
The arrangement would allow participants to continue their civilian jobs while periodically attending military training.
The primary mission of the mobile firing groups would be to patrol and protect Gazprom's gas infrastructure, the documents said.
During training exercises, reservists could also be assigned to guard other critical infrastructure, but only within the region where their contract was signed.
Participants would retain their average salary and receive a monthly payment of 200,000 rubles (about $2,560) from Gazprom while attending training, in addition to payments from the Defense Ministry, according to the documents.
The company also plans to provide three meals a day, uniforms, medical treatment, life insurance and free transportation to and from training sites.
Although members would serve under contracts with the mobilization reserve, they would not be considered active-duty military personnel.
The initial contracts would last three years and could later be extended by another three years, five years or for shorter periods, depending on the participant's age.
The upper age limit is 52 for enlisted personnel and warrant officers, 57 for junior officers and 62 for senior officers, the documents said.
Gazprom has repeatedly reported Ukrainian drone strikes on its facilities since the start of 2026, including compressor stations that support gas exports through the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines.
In May, drones struck the company's Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant, one of Russia's largest gas processing facilities. Drones also targeted Gazprom's gas processing and helium plants in the Orenburg region in late June.
The reported initiative follows similar measures adopted elsewhere in Russia. Earlier this year, authorities in the Leningrad region announced recruitment for volunteer mobile firing groups to defend against drone attacks.
Volunteers signing contracts through the regional military enlistment office were promised a one-time payment of 250,000 rubles (about $3,200), a monthly salary starting at 200,000 rubles (about $2,560) and a bonus of 100,000 rubles (about $1,280) for each drone they shoot down.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/06/gazprom-to-form-military-reserve-units-to-guard-energy-infrastructure-from-drone-attacks-a93172
other Russia and Ukraine
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/06/mfa-summons-swedish-ambassador-over-drone-attack-on-russian-embassy-a93173
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/world/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-pre-nato-summit-drone-assault-3223351
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79667
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/europe/russia-fuel-crisis-ukraine-drone-attacks-intl-vis
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4141331-ukraine-reports-overnight-drone-strikes-on-russian-air-defenses-fuel-infrastructure.html
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russias-newest-su-57-fighters-failed-to-stop-ukrainian-drones-from-reaching-its-largest-oil-refinery-20486
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79703
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79701
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79696
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-07-06/live-updates-901532
other Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/weekend-strike-in-gaza-targeted-hamas-operatives-trying-to-restore-tunnel-system-idf-says/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-killed-hamas-commander-who-trained-nukhba-force-leading-up-to-oct-7/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/artc-the-idf-is-preparing-for-a-possible-resumption-of-fighting-against-hezbollah
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-20-hezbollah-operatives-killed-over-150-weapons-found-in-haddatha-southern-lebanon-in-past-month/
https://www.firstpost.com/world/idf-detains-about-100-settlers-after-crossing-into-syrian-side-of-mount-hermon-14029132.html
Live Updates: Live Updates: Sa'ar says Hamas to 'remain the dominant military' in Gaza even after dissolution
July 6, 2026
Defense Minister threatens Iranian regime during Khamenei's funeral • Hamas begins dissolving its Gaza government • Iran targeted civilians as tactic of war, new report pushes IRGC accountability
July 6, 7:30 PM
WATCH: IDF kills Hamas terrorist training commander in Gaza Strip
The IDF announced on Monday that it killed Hamas terrorist training commander Fadi Falah Ashour Daghmash in an overnight strike in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to the IDF, Daghmash led various Hamas training programs with an emphasis in training Hamas’s Nukhba forces in the years leading up to the October 7 massacre. He also directed Hamas operations against Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip.
Daghmash also recently advanced attacks against the IDF and worked to restore Hamas’s terrorist capabilities in the Gaza Strip
July 6, 7:16 PM
Sa'ar says Hamas 'will remain the dominant military' in Gaza, even after dissolution announcement
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Monday that “Hamas will remain the dominant military force” in response to the move to dissolve Hamas’s governing body in Gaza.
“When the weapons are in Hamas's hands - the civilian government will, of course, operate according to its dictates,” he said on his X/Twitter account. “This way, Hamas will be able to continue suppressing Palestinians in Gaza and waging its jihad war against Israel.”
Sa’ar also pointed out that Hamas’s willingness to allow for a technocratic government is in an effort to delegate municipal service tasks while preventing its own disarmament.
July 6, 7:09 PM
Iran targeted civilians as tactic of war, new report pushes IRGC accountability - interview
Adv. Uri Morad said that Iran’s missile campaign targeted civilians as a tactic of war, and argued that senior Iranian leaders should face legal action.
The Islamic Republic of Iran targeted civilian populations as a matter of military strategy during the round of conflict stretching from late February through early April of this year, Adv. Uri Morad, an international law attorney and director of international law and public diplomacy at the Jerusalem Institute of Justice (JIJ), told The Jerusalem Post last week.
“What the Jerusalem Institute of Justice legal team found is that Iran’s breach of international humanitarian law, and mainly customary international law, throughout the latest round was systematic,” Morad said. “It came from the senior commanders of the IRGC targeting civilians in densely populated areas. And that was a tactic of war, not accidental.”
Morad spoke to the Post weeks after JIJ published a report titled “Indiscriminate fire: The legal case against Iran’s 2026 missile campaign,” of which he was a lead author.
July 6, 6:10 PM
If Hamas dissolves its Gaza government, who will enforce its disarmament? - analysis
Hamas has its messaging, and it wants to stir the pot and confuse everyone by obfuscating whether it will give up power that it was never supposed to have.
Reports on July 5 and 6 indicated that Hamas might be open to dissolving its government in Gaza. This is widely reported now under claims that Hamas might “hand over” governance or that it was going to “announce dissolution” of its government.
The US-backed Board of Peace has said, “We have taken note of the announcement today regarding the dissolution of the ‘Emergency Committee’ in Gaza.”
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July 6, 6:10 PM
IDF kills terrorist approaching southern Lebanon's security zone
The IDF said on Monday that it carried out two strikes in southern Lebanon after identifying suspects who were threatening the soldiers in the area.
According to the military, four terrorists were killed in the first strike after approaching the security zone in southern Lebanon.
In the second strike, the Israeli Air Force targeted a vehicle carrying terrorists traveling toward the security zone in the al-Aqida area.
July 6, 3:44 PM
IDF kills five Hamas terrorists rebuilding terror tunnels in northern Gaza Strip
The IDF on Saturday struck and killed five Hamas terrorists who were seen attempting to rebuild underground terrorist infrastructure west of the Yellow Line in the northern Gaza Strip.
One of the terrorists killed was Hudhayfah Hussein Abdullah al-Hawajri, a Nukhba terrorist in Hamas' East Jabalia Battalion, according to the IDF.
July 6, 12:06 PM
Negotiations offer Gaza hope, but residents say collapse is already here - feature
People inside Gaza say the current framework is not addressing the deeper crisis on the ground.
In Gaza, uncertainty over negotiations and postwar arrangements is deepening the strain of daily life. As shortages spread across water, fuel, health care, and basic services, people inside Gaza and beyond say the current framework is not addressing the deeper crisis on the ground.
Political analyst Iyad Jouda describes a growing sense that the political process is preserving the status quo rather than changing it. “I believe the actual agreements were not what they should have been. There were headlines that the Peace Council wanted to promote and convince us were real, but in reality, the coordination being carried out with the Israeli prime minister reflects an agreement on procedures that maintain the current situation in Gaza.”
For him, the gap between promises and reality is central. “Israel is not abiding by its commitments, and the Peace Council is not acting according to a real plan that would lead to the end of the occupation in Gaza,” he tells The Media Line. “If we return to the basis on which the Peace Council was formed, it was supposed to lead to the end of the occupation in Gaza, Israeli withdrawal, and then the unification of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”
July 6, 9:55 AM
Israel, Greece conduct joint military exercise over Aegean Sea
The IDF and Greece’s Hellenic Armed Forces conducted a joint military exercise, N12 News reported on Monday morning.
As part of the exercise, an IAF tanker plane was photographed refueling Greek F-16s over the Aegean Sea.
"The cooperation is part of a broad strategic plan, at a time when Turkey is trying to strengthen its power,” military officials shared with N12.
July 6, 9:16 AM
Fleet of 10 Japan-related ships exit Hormuz, data shows
A fleet of 10 Japan-related vessels are exiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, shipping data on LSEG showed.
These included six very large crude carriers loaded with 12 million barrels of Middle Eastern crude, two chemical tankers, a vehicle carrier and a container ship, the data showed.
July 6, 9:08 AM
Defense Minister threatens Iranian regime during Khamenei's funeral
Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened Iran's regime on Monday, as the country continued its funeral for former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, saying that "Any Iranian leader who tries to promote plans to destroy Israel again will also be thwarted."
He also condemned Iranians calling for US President Donald Trump's death during the funeral, saying that they "indicate the true nature of the ayatollah regime, beyond the attack of the caliphates and the smiles."
"The powerful attack on Iran, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, removed the immediate threat of destruction from Israel and severely damaged Iran's strategic capabilities. Israel is prepared to once again defend itself on its own at any time and against any threat," he concluded.
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https://www.techradar.com/cameras/drones/the-fbi-has-seized-over-600-drones-around-world-cup-matches-across-all-11-us-host-cities-and-thats-bad-news-for-all-drone-fans
https://x.com/FBI/status/2073524590840545584
other US drones
https://dronelife.com/2026/07/06/faa-drone-sightings-near-airports-second-quarter-2026/
The FBI has seized over 600 drones around World Cup matches across all 11 US host cities — and that's bad news for all drone fans
July 6, 2026
A flagrant disregard for clear rules could affect the whole US drone community
Back in mid-June the FBI made a big show of announcing that it had seized around 15 drones near World Cup venues, in what felt like a pointed and clear warning to would-be aerial photographers that the agency meant business.
Apparently, a lot of people weren't listening. Three weeks on, the FBI now claims it has seized over 600 drones across all 11 US host cities since the tournament began, with operators facing fines of up to $100,000 and potential federal criminal charges for violating temporary flight restrictions.
The enforcement operation dwarfs what we reported on just weeks ago. According to the FBI, seizures have been recorded in every one of the tournament's US host cities.
Miami leads the count at 99 confiscated drones, followed by Los Angeles at 91, Dallas at 78, and Atlanta at 77. Kansas City recorded 61 seizures, with Seattle (52), San Francisco (48), Boston (44), New York/New Jersey (38), Philadelphia (29), and Houston (24) rounding out the full picture.
The flight violations have reached epic proportions.
The FBI's enforcement has relied on a combination of RF detection systems, radar monitoring and dedicated Counter Drone Enforcement Teams stationed around stadiums and fan festival sites on match days.
Under authority granted by the Department of Justice, agents have been empowered not just to detect and track unauthorized drones, but to actively seize them and pursue charges against their operators.
The FAA's no-fly zones extend three nautical miles and up to 3,000 feet around host stadiums on match days — a restriction that has been widely publicized since before the tournament kicked off — with tighter one-nautical-mile, 1,000-foot zones around fan festival venues.
"The FBI and our partners will continue to identify drone operators who violate Temporary Flight Restrictions. Our collective goal remains that FIFA World Cup 2026 events are safe for all participants and attendees," one FBI agent stated, making clear that the seizures are set to continue all the way through to the final on Sunday June 19.
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Analysis: What comes next could be worse than a $100,000 fine
600 seizures across 11 cities is a remarkable number — and not in a good way.
These rules were well publicized by the FAA before the tournament, apps like B4UFLY (on iOS and Android) make checking airspace status a 30-second task, and multiple law enforcement agencies held press conferences specifically to warn operators about the consequences of non-compliance.
And yet, in city after city, pilots still took to the skies.
The concern now isn't just for the individuals facing fines and confiscations, but for what this level of disregard signals to the regulators and lawmakers who will be deciding the future of civilian drone use in the US.
The FAA's existing framework for hobbyist and recreational drone operation is already more permissive than many countries — but that framework depends in part on the implicit argument that most operators are responsible and self-regulating.
600 violations in a single tournament, at one of the most high-profile enforcement operations in the FAA's history, makes that argument difficult to sustain.
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are less than two years away.
If the World Cup enforcement figures are used as a benchmark, the case for tightening permanent restrictions around major events, expanding no-fly zones, or pushing for mandatory remote ID enforcement at a broader scale becomes significantly stronger.
Remote ID, which requires drones to broadcast identification and location data in real time, is already a legal requirement for most operators under FAA rules introduced in 2023, but enforcement has been patchy.
The World Cup violations and seizures give regulators plenty of ammunition to push for something far more robust.
There's a wider reputational cost too. Drone manufacturers, industry advocates and responsible hobbyist pilots have spent years making the case that civilian drone use is a legitimate, low-risk activity that warrants a light-touch regulatory environment.
Every drone user who has ignored a well-publicized no-fly zone during this tournament has handed opponents of that argument exactly the evidence they needed, and if the regulatory response over the next few years turns out to be harsher than most drone enthusiasts would like, it will be difficult to claim that it wasn't, at least in part, earned.
As the World Cup moves into the quarter final stage, we'll be keeping an eye out to see if the flight restriction violations continue.
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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-ufo-advisory-team-pressures-defence-contractors-1806843
extra Avi Loeb and IBTimes
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/are-uap-orbs-meteoritic-dust-clouds-7dd5394f8a5f
https://usaherald.com/avi-loebs-uap-council-promises-proof-but-could-science-alone-keep-the-truth-out-of-reach/
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-insider-ufo-allegations-resurface-1806887
Trump UFO Advisory Team Pushes Defence Firms to Disclose Secret Alien Tech
05 July 2026, 1:00 PM BST
Behind the UFO headlines lies a raw fight over secrecy, science and who gets to own the future if the rumours are even half true.
Donald Trump's UFO advisory team is publicly pressuring major US defence contractors, including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, to come clean about any secret alien tech they may be hiding, as the president's administration moves to broaden its UAP disclosure drive in Washington this week.
The disclosure push has accelerated since Trump established a UAP Science Advisory Council and ordered agencies to release unidentified anomalous phenomena data that does not compromise national security.
That shift has drawn out a small group of insiders, former intelligence officials and sympathetic lawmakers who argue that the real breakthroughs, if they exist, are not buried in dusty Pentagon basements but inside the vaults of private contractors working off classified government deals.
Trump UFO Advisory Team Targets Lockheed Martin
The most eye-catching allegation came from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who chairs Trump's UAP Science Advisory Council.
Speaking on Congressman Eric Burlison's 'Fresh Freedom' podcast, Loeb said a former senior Lockheed Martin executive personally told him the company had been involved in a crashed UFO retrieval programme.
'I had a [former] high level executive from Lockheed Martin visit my home and I asked him, 'Is there any truth to these claims?' And he said, "It's not wrong,"' Loeb told the show.
Loeb later expanded on the claim in comments to the New York Post, saying that if such material really exists, even a tiny sample could be enough to demonstrate that humans are not the only intelligent beings to have reached Earth.
'If such materials exist, we would love to analyse them. With just a gram of material, we will be able to determine if it originated outside the solar system,' he said.
Loeb argued that Trump's directive on UAP transparency has altered the calculation for companies that once saw only risk in engaging with mainstream scientists.
'Historically, the US government and its contractors were not willing to engage with leading scientists. President Trump's directive to disclose UAP data that does not compromise National Security changes the narrative, leading to a mindset of cooperation,' he said.
So far, that mindset remains more aspiration than reality. Neither Lockheed Martin, a $137 billion military giant, nor rival contractor Northrop Grumman responded to requests for comment about the allegations.
Claims of Blocked UFO Tech Transfers
Loeb is not the only figure in Trump's orbit pointing the finger at defence firms.
On the same 'Fresh Freedom' episode, physicist Hal Puthoff, who worked on the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, said Lockheed had previously been prepared to hand over unusual materials to the secretive unit between 2008 and 2012.
According to Puthoff, that supposed transfer was blocked by the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology.
His account fits a broader narrative pushed by disclosure advocates, in which intelligence agencies and contractors quietly shuttle exotic wreckage around highly restricted programmes, always just out of reach of open scientific scrutiny.
Luis Elizondo, who has said he held a leadership role at AATIP, has made similar claims in public testimony. He told Congress that a craft of unknown origin was being held in Lockheed laboratories and was meant to be moved to the US Navy's Patuxent River facility in Maryland, widely known as Pax River.
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'Specifically, the PAX River hangar was designed to facilitate the transfer of future materials via air and river.
The hangar was purpose-built to meet the requirements of a Special Access Program Facility and was capable of accommodating materials at any classification level,' Elizondo said, adding that the hangar had $10 million in funding.
IBTimes UK could not independently verify these claims, so take everything lightly. Much of this material rests on personal testimony rather than documents that can be checked against the public record.
What can be confirmed is that Congressman Burlison has been on a personal tour of US military sites long rumoured in UFO circles. He visited Pax River earlier this year, then gave a deliberately cryptic account of what he saw.
I was able to see facilities that … explain some of the stories that I've heard,' he said on the Weaponized podcast in March.
Trump UFO Advisors Push MIT, Northrop and Others
If the Trump UFO advisory camp hopes to break the secrecy, Burlison is its blunt instrument. The Missouri Republican has started naming names in public and firing off document demands to universities and contractors.
He has written to MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the MITRE Corporation seeking specific records, including a video of a 1952 meeting at which a US general allegedly briefed scientists on a mass UFO sighting in Washington DC that year.
Burlison says both MIT-linked organisations appear to be cooperating so far, a rare note of progress in a field defined by locked doors.
The congressman has also leaned into online culture to keep up the pressure.
In one viral post, he slapped a meme of Indiana Fever basketball player Sophie Cunningham, captioned 'Me with Northrop Grumman,' signalling the contractor as his potential next target on alleged UFO crash retrievals.
A bit cheeky, but it travelled fast in UFO Twitter land and clearly put the company on notice.
In public remarks, Burlison has framed the battle as much about corporate incentives as about national security.
'It's gonna take making it clear to our major companies that do business with the United States that it's okay to come forward,' he said.
He added that if they are 'reverse engineering stuff that they got because it was from non-human intelligence,' Washington will have to confront awkward questions about who owns the resulting intellectual property.
That is where the Trump UFO advisory effort edges from fringe territory into hard law and money.
If a contractor really is sitting on world-changing technology that can be traced to a government relationship, does it belong in a proprietary lab or the public domain, or somewhere messier in between. No one in authority wants to answer that out loud yet.
Classified 'Wall' Still Intact
Despite the noise, some veterans of the US national security world insist that the most compelling evidence, whatever it shows, is still buried deep in classified holdings.
Chris Mellon, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defence for intelligence under former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, told an event organised by the Disclosure Foundation that decisive data is being kept back both by government and by its private partners.
'We believe decisive UAP data remains hidden behind a wall of classification at the Air Force, CIA, DOE and elsewhere,' Mellon said.
For now, that 'wall' looks intact. Defence contractors are keeping their counsel, agencies are not rushing to open their safes, and Trump's UFO advisory team is left to push from the outside, trying to turn whispered anecdotes into something that looks like verifiable proof.
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https://www.blind-magazine.com/stories/we-are-not-alone-a-fascinating-photographic-history-of-ufos/
>Blind Magazine
>A photographic history of UFOs
unintentionally funny?
We Are Not Alone: A Fascinating Photographic History of UFOs
July 6, 2026
In Arles, historian Philippe Baudouin presents “We Are Not Alone. Extraterrestrial Images”, one of the festival’s most striking exhibitions, one that dares to do what the subject rarely allows: to look at UFO imagery as art, not as evidence of life beyond our borders.
Somewhere out there are billions of galaxies, billions of stars, and probably as many planets as there are grains of sand on a beach.
Faced with such staggering numbers, historian Philippe Baudouin does not hesitate: “what would be unreasonable is to think we are alone in the universe.” What form that life might take, microbial or intelligent, is another matter entirely.
On that point, he admits, “I’m simply incapable of telling you.” Perhaps that is why he chose to curate UFOs rather than extraterrestrials themselves, leaving photography to tell the story that science cannot yet prove.
Winner of the Rencontres d’Arles’ 2025 curatorial research grant, he presents “Nous ne sommes pas seuls. Images extraterrestres” (“We Are Not Alone. Extraterrestrial Images”) at Espace Croisière, on view through October 4, 2026.
And then, there is this image in the exhibited ones that needs no galaxy to fascinate: a man, his flying saucer, sitting there as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
Taken by photographer Yves Bosson, Jean-Claude Ladrat, constructeur de soucoupes volantes (Jean-Claude Ladrat, Builder of Flying Saucers) dates from 1993, the year an entire generation discovered this man from the Charente region in a cult episode of the French television show Strip-Tease, La Soucoupe et le perroquet (The Saucer and the Parrot).
Many still remember it: Ladrat, building in his mother’s garden in Germignac a craft bound for the Bermuda Triangle, his mother Suzanne keeping watch over a stuffed parrot she intended “to be buried with,” and that now-famous line, a kind of poetics of amateur ufology: “It will be much easier to come back from the fourth dimension than to get there.”
Baudouin savors the coincidence: this photograph had “never been published or shown.” It had been sitting in Bosson’s archives, a photographer who, as is often the case in this story, was himself a ufologist, the author of a documentary that never saw the light of day, “for reasons unknown.”
Blind, it must be said, could not resist putting it on the cover of an article about the festival program. Some images have that power, somewhere between memory, tenderness, and fascination for a passion not everyone can always take seriously.
Inside the exhibition, everything begins with a poster. The world-famous one, from The X-Files, that I Want to Believe pinned to the walls of teenage bedrooms in the 1990s, Philippe Baudouin’s included.
“What I’m telling is that when this poster was created for the very first season, Chris Carter’s team used a photo from 1975, taken by an obscure Swiss farmer,” he says.
The man’s name is Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier, born in 1937, still alive today, credited with photographing more than 1,400 UFOs over the Swiss countryside between 1975 and 1980.
One of his images was used, “without authorization, by the way,” to create the television icon. Right from the entrance, the exhibition lays out its whole program: beneath the most popular fiction lies a document.
And beneath that document, a mystery that will never quite be resolved.
Baudouin is not a ufologist, he insists, “not at all.” Trained as a philosopher and art historian, he spent about a decade writing on occultism and spiritism, where the question of the invisible is central, before he turned to this other literature of the invisible that UFOs represent. He has a name for his own method: “the only tenable position is that of the open skeptic.” In other words: staying “conscientious, careful,” without ever “radicalizing” one’s doubt.
“It’s the school of why not,” he sums up, meaning one remains open to the physical possibility of these phenomena while maintaining “that epistemological caution.”
He carried that same balance into the exhibition design. Half the show is devoted to archives, the other half to purely creative works, placed “opposite each other, face to face.”
Because the UFO phenomenon, he says, “exists at once on the margins of science” and is “essentially perceptual,” a fact one sees in the sky before it becomes a fact one proves.
It keeps the visitor within “a border zone” where nothing can be fully affirmed, and nothing fully dismissed either.
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Ten years ago, Baudouin was already tracking 19th-century ghosts on the photographic plates of spiritists, in a striking exhibition at the École de Médecine in Paris.
Today he finds the exact same symptoms among UFO hunters: “the same problems, the same difficulties,” the blurriness, the grain, the authenticity that gets questioned, the fraud that gets suspected.
“UFOs are, in a way, the photographic heirs of 19th-century ghosts.” The one real thing spiritism and ufology have in common: “the photographic instrument,” and the investigation that must always follow it.
In the wall texts, Baudouin does not cheat: there are “photographs that are clearly scams” as well as photographs “whose story we still don’t have the final word on.”
What today’s moment rarely does, amid declassifications and hearings in Washington, is look at a UFO the way one looks at a photograph, for its form.
“It’s very rare to approach the question of UFOs from an artistic and aesthetic point of view,” Philippe Baudouin notes, before revealing the curator’s true creed: “the first thing I put forward is the plastic beauty of these objects.”
To consider UFOs as “plastic, photographic objects” before they are threats, evidence, or hoaxes.
The exhibition follows that thread: first pure form, isolated in the sky, almost “ideal figures”; then the encounter, always human, “with witnesses”; then, finally, the beliefs and cults these encounters give rise to.
“Keeping the throughline that is the human experience,” he says. A progression that moves, in short, from the visible to the raw.
Two images, among the hundred on view, stop him in particular. The first, aerial, captured by chance over Costa Rica in the early 1970s by a plane fitted for cartography, with cameras “that weigh dozens of kilos” and are of “formidable precision.”
Above a lake, a metallic disc several dozen meters across, invisible to the pilots’ eyes, discovered only “when the film was developed.” A hovering object, or one that surged from the depths?
In that case it would no longer be a UFO but a “USO,” an unidentified submarine object, a term that does in fact exist, “I’m not joking.”
The anecdote is not incidental: 80% of the oceans remain uncharted, 95% unexplored, even as people today are building ways to get to Mars. The mystery, in truth, does not need the sky.
The curator’s other favorite photograph dates from 1974, in the Alpilles region. Jean Baudet, an amateur ufologist, comes home empty-handed from yet another night of observation.
His wife, who had stayed home alone, greets him with a different story: she saw a UFO, “not by herself,” she went and “woke the neighbors up so no one would think I was crazy.”
A few days later, on his car’s windshield, an anonymous envelope, a slide inside: a green and orange UFO, beams shooting out from under the saucer, a “magnificent” photograph, signed by a local doctor who “wishes to remain anonymous.”
Back home, Baudet shows the picture to his wife. She recognizes, instantly, the object from that night. End of story, almost too perfect to be fiction.
Tracking down these images required, Baudouin says, “a whole network, an address book,” French associations, and collectors too, “because these are photographs that sell for a fortune”: a parallel market, in auction houses, where certain prints go for “tens of thousands of dollars.”
His own collection, meanwhile, fits on a single shelf: a few old magazines, a handful of prints given to him by an elderly ufologist who, upon retiring, “wanted to turn the page.”
Out of this material will come, in October, O.V.N.I., une histoire photographique (UFO, A Photographic History, Hoëbeke), continuing an earlier atlas in which Baudouin traced, this time on Earth, how our projections into the sky had inspired museums, steles, and monuments.
The imprint of the sky, brought back down. One last question, an obligatory one, returns at last, the one left hanging since the beginning: what form might this life take, the one Baudouin considers, statistically, too improbable to rule out?
He has no answer, only a hypothesis “to be taken very seriously,” like everything else in the exhibition. The school of why not, to the very end.
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https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/megadeth-hangar-18-the-story-behind-the-song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUGIocJK9Tc
"He said something I found really juvenile and offensive. He told me that Jesus was an alien and he could levitate." How Megadeth tapped into UFO conspiracy theories for 1990 thrash classic Hangar 18
July 6, 2026
Hangar 18 was written by Dave Mustaine before he joined Metallica
Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace is one of the best thrash albums ever made, but it was recorded in absolutely chaotic circumstances.
Dave Mustaine had fired most of his band in 1988: guitarist Jeff Young and drummer Chuck Behler were out. After auditioning many musicians, former Cacophony guitarist Marty Friedman joined the band while Behler's tech Nick Menza took over on drums.
"By just about every conceivable standard, Rust in Peace was a watershed event for Megadeth," Mustaine recalled in his 2010 autobiography Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir.
"Funny thing was, it didn’t start out that well. We recorded at a place called Rumbo Recorders, which was owned by the Captain and Tennille, of all people.
I was skeptical about Rumbo offering the right atmosphere, a feeling that was exacerbated one day when I walked in and saw our producer, Dave Jerden, eating a chili dog and smoking a cigarette at the controls. The place just reeked."
According to engineer Micajah Ryan, the Megadeth frontman was swift in relieving Jerden of his post after a few days: "The quote was, 'I think there's too many guys named Dave around here, we're gonna get rid of one of them.' And Dave Jerden got fired.”
Producer Mike Clink also "got off on the wrong foot" with Mustaine when he revealed that he may have to leave the studio at a moment's notice to work with Guns N' Roses on their follow-up to Appetite for Destruction.
It was another dog – this time an actual puppy – that ended this particular producer's tenure.
"The damn dog ate a hole in the wall and then knocked over my guitar, and we just had to let him go," remembered Mustaine.
"But I want to be fair here. Mike Clink has always gotten credit for producing Rust in Peace, and I certainly wouldn’t deny his contributions. It’s a terrific record, start to finish."
He's not wrong. Rust in Peace is packed with highlights and spawned two Top 30 hit singles. The first was Holy Wars… The Punishment Due, inspired by the frontman's unwise comments about the IRA during their show at the Antrim Forum in Northern Ireland.
The second single was political, too, but this time tapped into a popular UFO conspiracy theory that the US government allegedly hid alien lifeforms in an Ohio building belonging to the USAF.
"It was an idea that Nick came up with," said Mustaine. "The idea’s based on a place in the Four Corners state region of the United States; it’s a place where the military intelligence is housing alien aircraft and alien life-forms.
Not that I subscribe to this point of view or any of that kind of BS, but Nick is way into it. I mean, the guy thinks that Jesus was a Martian.
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"But, I guess those of you who know Nick probably know that the possibility, the way he explains it, it could be real," he conceded.
"So we tried to bring it to you guys in a song form, and it’s up to your imaginations to see whether or not you believe it."
Mustaine – a Christian – later told Rock Radio that Menza's religious comments marked his card for a future dismissal.
"Menza is the guy who believes in UFOs," he explained. "If you look at his website or if you listen to his solo music, it shows you where he's at in his life.
Nick said something that I found really juvenile and offensive. He told me that Jesus was an alien and he could levitate. That was the end of me taking Nick seriously – I believed in God ever since I was a kid.”
Mustaine had the song's riff lying around unused for around a decade or so, back when he was lead guitarist for his first band, Panic. "It was called N2RHQ and it was about an environment that was up on another planet," he told Rolling Stone.
"As it morphed through going into Metallica and us deciding whether we were gonna do that song, I just waited to revisit it in Megadeth, just like in Panic, I had the song Rust in Peace … Polaris completely done; it was called Child Saint back at that time.
And I'm sure that if I would've shown it to the guys, Metallica probably would've recorded that one also."
Hangar 18 is one of the album's most ambitious songs. Tempo-wise, it's all over the shop and changes four times before Mustaine opens his mouth and the climax of the song quickens the pace further.
"In the middle of the break when we go to the first extended solo section, it's a very Spanish 'jazzy' kind of part," Mustaine told Total Guitar. "Then the end solo, when the guitar duel takes over, it's no holds barred get the fuck out of the way."
Indeed, Friedman and Mustaine trade a staggering 11 solos during the song. In a post on his website, Friedman recalls that it was producer Clink that offered words of inspiration before committing his part to tape.
"He said: 'Check out the lyrics of this song. It's about aliens and Martians, so play something that sounds like you are coming from outer space.’
“That was good advice and from then on, I really paid a lot more attention to the lyrics in a song than I had before," he added.
Hangar 18 was released as a single in February 1991 and was nominated in the 'Best Metal Performance' category at the Grammys held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City the following year.
During the ceremony, singer Johnny Mathis gave the band a shout-out during a pre-written bit with Dionne Warwick: "I just love the GRAMMYs. On what other list would I find my name between Madonna and Megadeth?"
Another band, whose name begins with M, were named as winners of their category for their self-titled album: Metallica.
As the band accepted their gong, residents in Brooklyn could have probably heard Mustaine loudly complaining about this snub on his efforts despite writing a thrash classic for the ages.
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Roswell's biggest mystery might not be the UFO
July 5, 2026 - 5:09 p.m. Modified July 6, 2026 - 9:51 a.m.
UNM pre-law students explore government secrecy, free speech, property rights surrounding the 1947 Roswell crash, which some believe was a visit from extraterrestrial life
Four University of New Mexico students are revisiting one of New Mexico’s most enduring mysteries, the notorious 1947 Roswell UFO Incident.
Not to determine whether aliens landed near Roswell, but to examine what the incident reveals about the law, government transparency and public trust.
UNM constitutional law/pre-law students Nicole Osborne, Caden Salazar, Tatiana James and Miguel Serna recently participated in an online panel discussing the Roswell incident through a legal lens, setting aside the long-running debate over whether the debris found approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell was extraterrestrial.
That debate began in 1947, when something crashed onto William Ware "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona.
Brazel reported the incident, and personnel from Roswell Army Air Field traveled to the ranch to retrieve the debris.
Soon afterward, the U.S. Army Air Force announced that it had "come into the possession of a flying saucer."
Less than a day later, the military retracted the statement, saying the recovered object was a weather balloon.
The abrupt reversal fueled decades of speculation about a government cover-up.
“While there is this alien background to everything and a conspiracy background to everything, we're also able to look at this incident from a legal lens and view the relationship between the people and their government and understand why it's so applicable to our day-to-day life,” Osborne said.
The four UNM constitutional law/pre-law students are looking at it from a legal angle.
The panel stemmed from an assignment from their professor, Lawrence R. Jones, intended to help students apply constitutional knowledge to real-world scenarios.
“It's not just about whether there were aliens or not, but there are a whole lot of other issues here on Earth that matter and should matter,” Jones said.
The panel was sponsored by the New Mexico State Library, the New Mexico Museum of Space History and the University of New Mexico Political Science Department.
Moderators asked the students several questions about the crash. They were asked background and summary questions and whether the government or military has the right to enforce a citizen's silence on what they consider classified material.
Students discussed government secrecy, free speech, property rights, military authority and constitutional protections.
The panelists had been preparing since May and researching the Roswell crash before that.
“I actually invite the whole community to learn about the whole Roswell incident, because it just opens up opportunities for them to learn about their constitutional rights,” Serna said.
“I think that one of the most important things that you have is your rights.”
Katherine Miles, bureau chief of the public services bureau at the New Mexico State Library, served as a mediator for the program.
“The Roswell incident has become a pop culture staple, fueling endless speculation about aliens and their intentions,” she said. “But in all the noise, we often lose sight of the human story at its core.
These students, with their deep curiosity and insight, have brought that humanity back into focus. Their work reminds us to look at the everyday world around us with a wider, more thoughtful lens.”
You can watch the panel on the New Mexico State Library's website. https://libguides.nmstatelibrary.org/UFOs
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/roswells-biggest-mystery-might-not-be-the-ufo/3073398
Tony Seruga
@TonySeruga
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White House report accuses Smithsonian museum of ‘extreme political activism’ and erasing nation’s heritage
The 162-page report on the National Museum of American History marks an escalation of President Donald Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian museums.
🔥 They Stole 33,000 Bodies, Built America’s “Attic” on Stolen Brains, and Now the Chief Justice Runs the Whole Thing
Yes! Your Tax Dollars Fund the World’s Largest Collection of Stolen Human Remains — Here’s Who’s in Charge, From Skull-Measuring Racists to Woke Curators: The Smithsonian Never Stopped Pushing Ideology
🏛️ The Smithsonian Institution: A Brutal Reckoning with the Nation’s Attic
The Smithsonian isn’t just a collection of museums. It’s a federal trust instrumentality — a hybrid public-private beast chartered by Congress in 1846, governed by a Board of Regents packed with the highest levels of American political power, and funded by a cocktail of federal appropriations and private donor cash.
Let’s pull back the curtain on who’s really running the show, where the skeletons are buried (literally), and which ideologies have shaped this institution from its bastard-founder’s vision to its present-day posture.
moar in da thread
8:36 AM · Jul 6, 2026
https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/2074155613974929721
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/07/06/white-house-report-accuses-smithsonian-museum-extreme-political-activism/
extra
https://x.com/AshtonForbes/status/2074199198317113786
https://x.com/UAPWixy/status/2073998896100147606
https://x.com/TheFlatEartherr/status/2073929100448628834
https://x.com/ChrisKMellon/status/2074173609195733259
Vanguard Enterprise
@VanguardEnterpr
Today, on the 250th anniversary of our nation, we launch the Vanguard Enterprise.
For decades, Americans inside the national security enterprise have carried knowledge of extraordinary public consequence. Some have come forward lawfully. Many have paid a terrible price.
Washington has many systems for protecting secrets.
Vanguard is building one for protecting the people who tell the truth.
Founded by UAP whistleblowers Dylan Borland and Matthew Brown, Vanguard is a civilian-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on UAP whistleblower support, public education, and lawful disclosure.
Our mission is simple: protect the whistleblowers, disclose the truth, and ensure that no warrior for the truth is left behind.
Learn more: http://vanguardenterprise.org
12:33 PM · Jul 4, 2026
Matthew
@SunOfAbramelin
A very happy 250th Independence Day celebration to everyone. Excited to share that the Vanguard Enterprise has launched. Expect to hear more in the coming weeks and months. Good things are coming!
It has been a tremendous struggle for @TheDylanBorland and I to get to this point, and we must thank our silent team of volunteers who have helped make this dream a reality.
Thank you! We could not have done this without you.
12:37 PM · Jul 4, 2026
https://x.com/VanguardEnterpr/status/2073490277025640452
https://x.com/VanguardEnterpr/status/2073853393609638165
https://x.com/SunOfAbramelin/status/2073491304135209036
https://x.com/TheDylanBorland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyS6QO2Xw18 (Matthew Brown & Dylan Borland launch Vanguard, the Whistleblower Protection Fund - Psicoactivo #1079)
Extraterrestrials and Our Multidimensional Nonlocal Reality Drs. JJ & Desiree Hurtak | CITD 2026
July 5, 2026
Extraterrestrials and Our Multidimensional Nonlocal Reality with Alan Steinfeld and Drs. JJ & Desiree Hurtak
“Beam me up Scotty!” Star Trek’s Captain Kirk’s teleportation depiction is not that far off from how those who have had extraterrestrial contact describe their experience of being taken onboard an alien spacecraft.
This talk will serve as a gateway that opens to many levels of intelligence, past, present and future, now on our doorstep.
We will examine the ancient aliens who were connected with our own planetary history and our now emerging status as we move from planetary beings to cosmic citizenship.
With the growing public realization that non-human intelligent (NHI) life forms are in our midst, we will further explore our consciousness connection with them.
We are also starting to understand that we ourselves are shifting our reality to be more in tune with the greater cosmos and the many levels of intelligence reaching out to us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MP_woZaydE
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ym6NweSZ7Q (Dark Journalist & Gigi Young Atlantis UFO Tech And Mystery Cosmic Entities)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzi2pyzb-fM (Mark Attwood: Laura Eisenhower: THEY DID NOT SUCCEED IN THE TIMELINE OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1baG3pZLEXE (Michael Salla: Eyewitness claims meeting Amy Eskridge who leads antigravity research at underground spaceport)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEcQ3SdEF4 (JP: How Med-Bed works !!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhC70rBNyWs (Gaia: Disclosure with Josh | What They Hid From Us)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TlUnnJduQ (Good Trouble with Matt Ford: Skinwalker Ranch, UFO Crash Retrievals & Off-World Vehicles | Dr. Eric Davis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be395hY5zyg (David Nino Rodriguez: Tucker’s Chilling Claim: “This Secret Could End Humanity”- Our Hidden World of Hybrids & Rituals)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZG9F3H3pU
Robert Bigelow reportedly held a meeting with Robert Kennedy Jr. about UFOs - Psicoactivo #1080
Jul 5, 2026
On a surprising Psicoactivo, we have a piece written by Rolling Stone this week about an alleged meeting Robert Bigelow had with Robert Kennedy Jr. about UFOs.
And the alleged contents of this conversation get into multiple fringe topics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZSz_ekS2E
https://x.com/pavelibarrameda