TYB
https://www.newsweek.com/new-ufo-files-details-fbi-records-of-2026-sightings-12296595
https://x.com/SeanParnellASW/status/2085699853821038889
https://x.com/wow36932525/status/2085694102553731381
https://x.com/UAPRAD/status/2085728359208661268
https://x.com/Cortex_Zero/status/2085718730948903158
https://x.com/Thekingofufos/status/2085708961341198383
https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+05&release=05
https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?q=uap&view=grid&sort=publishdate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_D1-JGxz8Y (That UFO Podcast: JUST RELEASED: 16 NEW U.S. Government UFO Videos | DROP 5)
https://www.youtube.com/live/kUMrCsGTS-I (Vetted: Live Tranche 5)
moar UFO Files
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/pentagon-ufo-files-fifth-release/
https://www.newsmax.com/us/pentagon-ufo-uap/2026/08/07/id/1265406/
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/fresh-ufo-files-released-trump-173956000.html
https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/us-news/ex-pentagon-employee-described-seeing-translucent-triangle-fly-overhead-in-2023-ufo-sighting/
https://www.gadgetreview.com/mysterious-footage-emerges-as-fresh-ufo-files-are-released
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-releases-new-ufo-files-8zr7qvvv0
New UFO Files Detail FBI Records of 2026 Sightings
Aug 07, 2026 at 09:35 AM EDT updated Aug 07, 2026 at 12:40 PM EDT
The U.S. Department of War has released a fresh tranche of documents relating to UFOs, which includes files regarding sightings in 2026.
Among the newly detailed encounters are accounts from two U.S. government special agents, including an afternoon incident documented with thermal video footage showing two slow-moving "black-hot" infrared anomalies
"Today, the Department of War is publishing the fifth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)," said Sean Parnell, Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman.
The tranche also includes civilian encounters.
One witness reported three separate sightings within a five-hour window somewhere in the western United States. Additionally, a phone interview from a civilian logged similar incidents which were backed up by a second witness.
Together, the files demonstrate that federal investigators actively documented and analyzed real-time UAP reports this year. In many cases, the exact dates and locations have been redacted to "protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP."
Images Reconstruct Reported 2026 UAP Sighting
Friday's release included several digital renderings of a reported 2026 incident in the Western U.S.
One of them depicts a nighttime desert landscape with rocky terrain and mountains in the background. A silhouetted figure stands beside a parked vehicle while a trio of bright red lights appears suspended in the sky above the mountains.
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Witnesses spotted a red light above a nearby mountain range, according to an accompanying FBI record. They initially believed the light was located on the mountainside, but said it began moving eastward and appeared to be thousands of feet above the ground.
After about 15 minutes of observation, they reported that six to 10 additional red lights appeared directly above their location. The witnesses said the lights then appeared to "sync up" and travel together toward the east-southeast.
During the sighting, one of the lights was said to descend rapidly before disappearing, while the remaining lights continued moving across the sky until they eventually vanished from view.
They were based on firsthand descriptions provided by "two U.S. persons," and the renderings were prepared by the FBI, the Defense Department said.
Another rendering depicted a bright, elongated object streaking downward above a mountainous desert landscape. Presented through what resembles a binocular view, the image depicts a luminous trail descending from the sky toward the horizon.
‘Black-Hot’ Objects Spotted on Thermal Camera
Another FBI report details a 2026 incident in which a witness using a thermal optical device observed two unidentified objects moving slowly above a mountain range.
The witness spotted a dark object in the sky, followed by a second object appearing nearby. The two objects appeared to travel together at the same speed for roughly five to 10 minutes before disappearing from view, said the report.
The witness recorded photographs and video of the objects but said they were unable to estimate their direction because of the distance involved. Both the exact date and location appear to have been redacted.
Footage released alongside the report features two, slow-moving areas of contrast registering as "black-hot" in infrared imaging.
Thermally Elevated Aerial Object
Another document in the release details a 2026 observation by U.S. Government Special Agent who reported spotting what was described as a "thermally elevated aerial object" while conducting surveillance in the western U.S.
According to the agent's written statement, the object appeared in roughly the same area and along a similar flight path as an object observed the previous night. The agent said the object appeared "hot" on thermal sensors and was traveling southbound.
To provide a point of comparison, the agent also recorded a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter operating in the area and estimated the unidentified object appeared to be roughly half the helicopter's size.
The report states that the object's distance prevented the agent from identifying its physical characteristics, configuration or means of propulsion, and it eventually disappeared from view behind terrain. Again, the exact date and location, appear to be excluded.
Three Sightings Over Five Hours
Another report describes a prolonged 2026 encounter in which two witnesses reported seeing multiple unexplained red lights over the course of roughly five hours.
The first sighting occurred between about 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., after the witnesses pulled over during rainy conditions with heavy cloud cover and observed dull red, "dash"-shaped lights moving along a mountain ridgeline.
Those lights disappeared after about 20 minutes, according to the report.
Another light was visible "directly above" their location for around 10 minutes before it, too, disappeared, it said.
Later, sometime between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., the witnesses reported another episode, saying similar lights appeared much closer to their position, including one estimated to be about 500 feet above their vehicle and another that appeared to stop roughly 6 feet off the ground.
Another unusual event followed, when one witness reported seeing a glow descend into a dry wash about 100 meters behind them and move through it.
Additional files would be released "on a rolling basis," the Defense Department said, adding that it was working with agency partners on the next release.
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https://x.com/BigelowPodcast/status/2085387581194457343
https://x.com/BigelowPodcast/status/2085785483452551276
https://x.com/jamescfox/status/2085496095430320474
https://x.com/eisenhowe8/status/2085397770530427259
Illinois Driver Claims They Saw a Baby Sun at Night
August 7, 2026
I'm certainly no expert on pretty much anything, but safe to say the one thing most drivers don't expect to see at night is the sun in the sky. That's what one driver in Illinois claims they encountered recently and they have pictures to prove it.
This brand new report shared with the National UFO Reporting Center site happened near Streamwood, Illinois just after midnight on July 25, 2026
This eyewitness report said "It was moving slowly then stops, then moved again and stopped. Then moved again and then shot straight up and was gone…This was very weird it looked like a baby sun floating around.
The orange was glowing like it was on fire but it was not on fire. The color was like none I ever seen."
While this sounds highly unusual, this Illinois person shared 3 pictures which you can see here. If you're not familiar with Streamwood, Illinois, it's a part of the greater Chicagoland region.
Whenever there's a strange sky event near Chicago, you have to consider that O'Hare International Airport is a factor as it's a major hub of travel in the United States.
However, the pictures this Illinois person shared don't look like any type of conventional aircraft and the movement described doesn't seem to be a craft we're familiar with either.
Any time a flying object looks odd, you have to consider that atmospheric conditions played a role in affecting how it appears on the ground.
I am befuddled about what the object is in their pictures, though. By definition, that makes it an unidentified flying object.
https://101theeagle.com/streamwood-illinois-ufo/
https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=199737
Moon base with UFOs? Avi Loeb weighs in on report
Aug 7, 2026 / 02:13 AM CDT
Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb is casting doubt on a report from Ukrainian researchers who suggest the moon has a secret base for UFOs.
The group from the Main Astronomical Observatory near Kyiv say they reached their conclusion after analyzing high-speed photographs taken last summer.
The Ukrainian team says they observed two types of anomalies: “atmospheric” objects that were stationary and “continental” objects that appeared to move over the moon’s surface.
“UFOs are observed on Earth and in near-Earth space. We believe that the moon serves as a base for UFOs,” researchers said in their study.
Their work has not been peer-reviewed, but Loeb has some thoughts about their methodology. He said the team used a six-inch telescope to obtain their data, whereas a research project of this sort ideally would use multiple telescopes for comparison purposes.
“The problem with data from a small telescope on Earth is that lots of objects and atmospheric disturbances could pass in front of the moon during the observation period,” Loeb told “Jesse Weber Live” on Thursday.
Loeb also noted that NASA obtained new images of the moon during the recent Artemis II mission, with astronauts taking photographs of the lunar far side.
“Needless to say, they did not observe any evidence for lunar-based UFOs,” he said.
Loeb is head of the Galileo Project, which searches for signs of extraterrestrial life and technology, and leads an advisory panel of scientists advising the federal government on unexplained anomalous phenomena.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/jesse-weber-live/avi-loeb-ufo-moon-base/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-there-a-ufo-base-on-the-moon-af6ebde72045
https://www.mao.kiev.ua/media/kunena/attachments/0/MoonUFOs2.pdf
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/MB.mp4
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https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-declassified-dow-uap-pr043-in-the-pursue-disclosure-is-likely-a-missile-4d4116776c85
https://cybernews.com/tech/ufo-secret-borland-michels-discloure/
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/whistleblower-reveals-government-secrecy-criminal-conduct-ufo-data-1813093
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4gYHs84BIc
"The deepest UFO secret isn't the craft, it's the cover-up," Dylan Borland tells Jesse Michels
August 6, 2026
The cover-up runs deeper.
Key takeaways:
Dylan Borland claims alleged UFO secrecy centers on cover-ups, criminal conduct, and money, not just recovered craft.
Borland and Matthew Brown argue officials have hidden information about non-human intelligence from Congress and the public.
Borland says intelligence agencies may be misusing classification rules to conceal embarrassment, wrongdoing, and financial interests.
The claims add pressure for UFO disclosure, but key allegations remain unresolved and publicly unverified.
Another UFO whistleblower says the biggest secret isn't alien craft but the lengths authorities allegedly went to keep them hidden. Dylan Borland has hinted that humans may not be “fully running the show."
Borland is a former US Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist and federal whistleblower who gained national attention for testifying before Congress in September 2025 about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).
Since then, Borland has appeared on several prominent UFO-focused podcasts, including Weaponized with Jeremy Corbell and, more recently, with Jesse Michels, where he has expanded on his claims about alleged legacy programs, such as reverse-engineering alien technology and whistleblower retaliation.
Speaking on The American Alchemist podcast, Borland argued that the real secret is not recovered craft but the alleged crimes committed to keeping them hidden.
"The reason they're keeping this a secret is because it's so criminal, so messed up, so much money."
He claims shame, alleged criminal conduct, and financial interests, not national security, are driving the secrecy and that "it is embarrassing."
Backing up another whistleblower
Matthew Brown, a fellow whistleblower and author of an 11-page dossier on the Pentagon's alleged UFO retrieval program, made similar claims last week.
"I think the biggest shocks will come, if disclosure comes, from realizing what we have done to maintain the secrecy," Brown said.
He also claimed that humanity is not alone and says information about non-human intelligent life should belong to everyone, not remain classified for national security reasons.
"We're not even alone on our own planet in terms of sharing it with other sentient intelligent life,” Brown contended.
And even if Borland is noticeably more guarded when it comes to discussing cover-ups, he still remains open to raising questions about whether government insiders know more than they’re willing to admit.
With these crucial avowals resurfacing from Brown, the narrative grows stronger when others echo similar sentiments, and Borland fits that bill nicely.
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Whistleblowers start to edge forward
The crux of Borland's interview highlights how intelligence agencies are allegedly violating the very rules governing classified information.
"You cannot classify information for embarrassment, criminal activity, and financials. They're doing it."
He references longstanding claims surrounding alleged recovered craft and says public testimony has raised questions that remain unanswered.
Borland, too, expressed frustration that whistleblowers have stepped forward but believes little has changed.
"We came out. We stuck our necks out."
Host Jesse Michels said the strangest part is not the alleged crash retrieval story itself but why convincing evidence rarely surfaces despite smartphones and social media.
Michels also floated the idea that the phenomenon itself could somehow influence secrecy.
"Is the non-human intelligence in control of the cover-up, too?" he asked Borland.
Borland answered with a very emphatic but illustrative couple of words – "absolutely yes," less guardedly this time.
"Humans aren't in charge"
When it comes to the notion of private institutions and/or governments keeping alien vessels for reverse-engineering or “national safety” concerns, Borland cautions that it's not safe to assume everything is squarely on our terms.
Borland says an official from the Intelligence Community Inspector General's office "extremely hinted" that humans might not be fully in control, excuse the oxymoron.
Understandably, Borland says he is careful about what he says publicly while suggesting certain questions reveal what officials may know.
Rather than revealing what he was told, Borland says people who already know classified information often betray themselves through the questions they ask.
"You can tell somebody knows something based on the questions they ask you," he explained cryptically.
He illustrated this with a hypothetical exchange: instead of asking what an alleged witness saw, an informed official would ask, "Who do you think is running this show?"
Host Michels pointed to David Grusch as an example, noting his whistleblower complaint was officially deemed "urgent and credible," yet many of his claims remain unresolved publicly.
Last year, Grusch alleged the US government has operated a secret, decades-long program to recover and study crashed UFOs, hidden from Congress and the public.
He claimed the government possesses craft of "non-human origin" and that multiple defense contractors have been involved in attempting to reverse-engineer the technology.
Borland emphasizes that he, Grusch, and other whistleblowers are trying to establish a factual baseline without making sensational claims.
"We're all trying to get this out and have a baseline and be respectful and not go crazy."
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https://www.404media.co/scientists-designed-a-virtual-alien-lifeform-to-hunt-for-extraterrestrials/
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/550/3/stag1300/8732237
Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials
Aug 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Scientists have designed a virtual model of an alien cell and dropped it onto a hypothetical exoplanet to see how it behaves, an approach that could help astronomers recognize signs of extraterrestrial life on distant worlds, according to a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The results revealed new insights about how microbes that produce methane gas, known as methanogens, might evolve on different exoplanets, such as Earth-sized ocean worlds or a class of hypothetical giant “Hycean planets” that host global oceans and hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
Predicting the impacts that methanogens might have on their environments could help scientists recognize potential signs of life, known as biosignatures, in the skies of worlds outside of our solar system.
Whereas many past studies have speculated about what forms of life might evolve on a particular type of exoplanet, this approach flips the idea on its head by starting with a general cell model and then considering how it might evolve in different biospheres.
“This is a kind of plausible life that's very unconstrained by Earth-based conditions,” said Arwen Nicholson, an astrophysicist at Exeter University who led the study, in a call with 404 Media.
“We can put it into different environments, and then see: What other effects does it have?”
The idea, she explained, is to simplify one aspect of the hugely complex search for alien life .
“This is a generalized idea of what biology would roughly do that we can then put in different places to try and start getting biosignature predictions ideally for different planets, or to understand what we're seeing from the telescopes,” said Nicholson.
It’s possible that the first lifeforms to emerge on Earth were methanogens that thrived some four billion years ago when our planet was far more depleted in oxygen.
These microbes still exist in a wide variety of ecological niches today. Unlike photosynthetic life, which requires sunlight for energy, methanogens can run on chemical energy in a process known as chemosynthesis.
As a result, methanogens are adaptable and provide a useful model for considering the emergence of life in a diverse array of habitats, including dark regions that receive no direct starlight.
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“We do know that the Earth's early biosphere did have this big component of it that was producing methane and consuming methane,” Nicholson said.
“That gives us a starting point to look at other planets. It's a reaction we know works. It works on Earth, and it's something that is thought to work in environments that are very different to Earth.”
To that end, the team developed a baseline model of a spherical methanogen microbial cell and tinkered with different cell sizes, life cycles, and environmental effects that might evolve in various alien biospheres.
The results revealed a host of insights, including that a planet’s levels of hydrogen and methane are sensitive to the microbe’s particular features.
In this way, “life will act to ‘erase’ abiotic aspects of their environment” by transforming the composition of gasses in the atmosphere in ways that could be detectable to astronomers, according to the study.
The team also speculated that resource competition on alien worlds would likely favor methanogens that are smaller and longer-lived, which could outcompete similar species that are shorter-lived, larger, or require more energy.
But while these clues may help scientists spot likely biosignatures in the future, it will be a challenge to actually predict what sort of lifeform is producing those signals.
“You could have different life forms in your ocean and they would look the same in terms of a biosignature,” Nicholson said. “You could have a single film of some algae covering the whole ocean, or a little amoeba, or maybe something else.
I thought that was quite interesting. It almost frees us up from making too many assumptions of what alien life would look like, because how are we going to know?”
“We can use spherical microbes as a representation, but even if we found a biosignature, even if it all made sense, and we found life, we still wouldn't actually know what they look like,” she added.
Nicholson and her colleagues plan to continue this line of research by modeling simplified cells of photosynthetic life and predicting their impact on different exoplanet environments.
Ultimately, these studies will help scientists distinguish between genuine biosignatures and complex atmospheric chemistry that arises from geological activity.
It’s also worth preparing for the rather excruciating possibility that we find clear biosignatures on some farflung exoplanet and are never able to learn much more about them.
In science fiction, we are used to aliens showing up on Earth or sending us obviously artificial messages. But it’s more likely that we would discover gassy signs of life in a distant world’s skies and then have to accept that we might never learn its specific nature.
“We don't live in sci-fi,” said Nicholson. “Sci-fi is super cool. I love it too. But the reality is, we're looking at a habitable planet like our own. If we find anything, they will be life forms embedded in their world, just like we're embedded in our world.”
“It's a super exciting time to be in astrobiology again with all of this data, and it's super neat that people are so interested in it as well,” she concluded.
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Borland & Bigelow on UAP: Humans aren't in Charge: Night Shift Doomer Friday
August 7, 2026
Dylan Borland told Jesse Michels that non-human intelligence is running the cover-up — and that the secrecy was never really about national security. It's about crime, and money.
Robert Bigelow says we have never been in control of anything, ever. Tonight we take both of them seriously and talk it all the way through.
🔴 LIVE tonight, Friday August 7th — come early, the chat is half the show.
Half a million people watched Dylan Borland sit down with Jesse Michels this week.
He's a former Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist who says a 150-foot black triangle stopped a hundred feet above him at Langley in 2012, and who testified under oath in front of the House Oversight Committee last September.
By the back third of that interview he isn't talking about craft anymore. He's arguing that humans were never the ones running this.
Two days earlier, Robert Bigelow — the man who funded the largest government-funded UFO program in history — told George Knapp something that lands in the same place from the opposite direction: we have never been in control of anything, ever.
Nobody on this show can prove or disprove any of it, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we can do is talk about it properly.
Fourteen minutes into his own interview, Bigelow stops and explains the difference between firsthand, secondhand, thirdhand and fourthhand information — the way he says he thinks about what he's told.
Then he admits he left his own program out of the President's briefing, because he didn't think it was solid enough. That's the most honest moment on any tape this week, and it's a genuinely useful way to think about everything else we're covering.
On the table tonight
• Which parts of Borland's account he saw himself, which parts he was told, and why that distinction is more interesting than believing him or not
• The CIA's old "weird desk," and why that name turns up right after the medical segment
• The moment Bigelow rules his own life's work inadmissible
• A third whistleblower who says something is being withheld from you — and gives a completely different answer about who's doing it
• Why the most disturbing thirty-seven seconds of the week are not about UFOs at all
• "We're potentially the Klingons" — we said we'd take this apart properly on Friday. We're taking it apart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmhFbtAiac
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSH74IKoskI (Dr Phil: Silence From the Cockpit: An Airline Pilot's UAP Confession)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JG1itmE3k (That UFO Podcast: Danny Sheehan Reveals Grusch’s Hidden Role, Slams AARO & Questions Lue Elizondo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP0VoAk5Gg0 (Event Horizon: New Evidence for Unknown Objects Around Earth with Beatriz Villarroel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxid7FofhMw (Joe Rogan Experience #2537 - David Sinclair (The Latest Developments in Age Reversal Research))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S97cT6uP4I (The Video EVERYONE Must See! | David Icke)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_U23RMohg (John Lenard Walson: #UFO #UFOSightings #UAP #UFOs #UFOsightingUK #UFODisclosure #UFOFiles #Alien #AliensReal)
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