TYB
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-08-21/live-updates-906178
other Israel
https://vinnews.com/2026/08/21/idf-eliminates-hamas-platoon-commander-who-participated-in-oct-7-massacre-and-held-hostages/
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/IDF-kills-attacker-after-stabbing-attempt/66961056
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-troops-shot-gaza-man-who-crossed-yellow-line-into-israeli-held-area/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-struck-south-lebanon-building-after-suspects-posing-threat-entered-it/
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/uk-appalled-as-idf-rules-out-criminal-charges-over-gaza-aid-convoy-attack-that-killed-three-brits/
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryybsyrvme
Live Updates: Pezeshkian claims Tehran in 'position of power' to end war despite blows to Iranian economy
August 21, 2026
Bessent: US will US will 'squash' Iranian economy, collapse 'murderous regime' • US planning to block Abbas from addressing UNGA in September
August 21, 7:40 PM
IDF arrests knife-wielding Hamas terrorist in central Gaza Strip
The IDF arrested a knife-wielding Hamas terrorist in the central Gaza Strip on Friday after he crossed the Yellow Line, the military announced.
According to the IDF, soldiers continuously monitored the terrorist as he approached the Yellow Line and took him into Israeli territory for questioning.
August 21, 5:14 PM
IDF kills terrorist who crossed Yellow Line in southern Gaza
The IDF killed a terrorist in the southern Gaza Strip after they were identified as crossing the Yellow Line earlier on Friday.
The military stated that the terrorist attempted to approach IDF troops in a threatening manner.
August 21, 5:12 PM
IDF strikes structure in southern Lebanon after suspects crossed into Security Zone
The IDF carried out a strike on a structure within the Security Zone in southern Lebanon’s Baraashit area after several suspects entered a structure in the zone earlier on Friday.
The military determined that the suspects posed a threat to IDF soldiers operating in the area before carrying out the strike.
August 21, 4:05 PM
Iran’s military chief warns of ‘devastating’ response to threats - report
The Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Maj.-Gen. Abdolrahim Abdollahi, on Friday warned that Tehran’s military is prepared to inflict a "devastating" response to any emerging threats from adversaries, according to a CBS News report.
Abdollahi claimed that any “miscalculation” would be met with "revolutionary, crushing, regret-inducing, and devastating" retaliation from Iran’s land, sea, air, and cyber forces.
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August 21, 12:41 PM
Clash erupts between Palestinians, Jewish West Bank settler group during unapproved hike - report
A Jewish settler group clashed with West Bank Palestinians after entering a village during an unapproved hike, Army Radio reported on Friday.
The group had not received approval from IDF forces prior to entering the West Bank, a security source told Army Radio.
The Palestinians attacked the group with rocks. Footage circulated online showing a fire in one of the village homes which was allegedly started by the settler group.
August 21, 12:41 PM
Iran's Ghalibaf calls for strategy to counter 'toughest' US sanctions threat
Following Washington's announcement of what it called the toughest sanctions on Iran, Tehran said it would pursue measures to withstand economic pressure.
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said on Friday that Iran must plan to overcome "unjust sanctions," a day after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced what he described as the toughest sanctions ever imposed on Iran.
Bessent said on Thursday the measures would be detailed on Monday, suggesting they could lessen the need for further major military operations.
Ghalibaf, one of Iran's most influential political figures and Tehran's top negotiator in talks with the United States, said economic development and security were closely linked.
August 21, 12:41 PM
Iranian oil supplies to China tighten as US blockade cuts Tehran's crude exports
Trade sources say Iranian crude offers to China have declined and prices have risen as Washington's blockade disrupts Tehran's oil shipments.
Offers of Iranian crude to Chinese buyers have declined and prices have jumped this week as the US blockade has cut Tehran's shipments, according to trade sources, with the threat of more sanctions from Washington looming.
The US re-imposed its blockade of Iran's shipping and ports on July 13 as a deal to halt the war between them broke down in an attempt to cut off oil sales - Tehran's primary source of hard currency - compounding earlier losses from wartime strikes on its energy infrastructure.
The number of offers for Iranian oil cargoes to China for September and October delivery has declined from July and August cargoes, four trade sources familiar with the matter said. The offers have declined as barrels already in ships on the water have been sold, they said.
August 21, 11:18 AM
Jewish teenager lightly wounded by rocks thrown in West Bank
An 18-year-old Jewish shepherd was lightly wounded by Palestinians throwing rocks in the West Bank on Friday, Israeli media reported.
Army Radio reported that the IDF had arrived at the scene and caught several suspects.
According to N12, the wounded teenager was taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
August 21, 11:08 AM
Poland protests Israel decision to end probe into killing of Polish Gaza aid worker
Poland demanded answers from Israel after the investigation into the Gaza strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen workers, including Polish citizen Damian Sobol, was closed.
Poland's foreign ministry said it was "very disappointed" and had summoned Israel's ambassador in Warsaw after Israel decided not to pursue criminal proceedings over an attack on a volunteer convoy in Gaza in 2024 in which a Polish citizen was killed.
Damian Sobol, a volunteer from Przemysl in southeastern Poland, was among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres' World Central Kitchen who were killed in the airstrike in central Gaza in April 2024, which caused an international outcry.
August 21, 11:08 AM
Chance of Iran war expansion dropped after Trump declared economic warfare, officials say
Security sources said on Friday that the chances of expanding the military confrontation with Iran in the near term have decreased, following a series of meetings and discussions with senior US officials.
According to the officials, US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose another harsh package of economic sanctions is intended to “buy time” until after the US midterm elections.
Accordingly, the IDF will increase its level of preparedness for the worst-case scenario of renewed strikes against Iran across all areas: intelligence, weapons procurement, interceptor production, target bank development, and Air Force readiness for both defensive and offensive operations.
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Iran calls for binding treaty to prevent an arms race in outer space
August 21, 2026 - 19:28
Addressing the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Thursday, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organizations, Ali Bahreini, said the increasing dependence of societies on space-based technologies had made the security and sustainability of outer space a shared international concern.
Bahreini said Iran remained committed to preserving outer space exclusively for peaceful purposes and argued that the deployment of weapons and offensive military capabilities in space could undermine international peace and security and threaten the equal right of all countries to explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes.
Iran expressed particular concern over the development of military space programs and capabilities, including the establishment of dedicated military space forces, the designation of outer space as a war-fighting domain and initiatives such as the so-called “Golden Dome.”
Bahreini warned that efforts by individual states to establish military superiority in space could prompt other countries to develop counter-capabilities, creating cycles of escalation and increasing the risk of an arms race.
Tehran also raised concerns over 'the increasingly hostile use of large satellite constellations, commercial satellites and other space-based systems.'
Bahreini said international humanitarian law should not be applied in ways that could provide undue protection to commercial satellite networks when they are used for hostile purposes or in ways that infringe on the sovereignty of states.
Iran further argued that international protections should extend beyond objects in orbit to ground-based infrastructure that supports peaceful space activities.
Bahreini said research and production facilities, launch sites, operational and monitoring centers, as well as civilian and scientific infrastructure supporting essential space services, should not be subject to military attack.
He accused the United States and Israel of targeting civilian and scientific infrastructure associated with Iran’s peaceful space activities during 'the recent full-scale war against Iran.'
According to Bahreini, the facilities supported disaster management, environmental monitoring, satellite communications, scientific research, public warning systems and emergency services.
Iran condemned the attacks and warned that a failure by the international community to respond could leave other states vulnerable to similar actions.
“Space security must not be defined solely from the perspective of technologically advanced countries,” Bahreini said, arguing that developing countries have the same right to security in their peaceful use of outer space.
Iran therefore called for the immediate commencement of negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament on a comprehensive, non-discriminatory and legally binding international instrument to prevent an arms race in outer space, commonly known as PAROS.
Tehran said such an agreement should prohibit the placement of weapons in outer space, prevent the threat or use of force from space against states or space objects, ban the use of space-based capabilities for hostile and offensive military purposes, and provide effective protection for peaceful civilian space infrastructure.
Bahreini said Iran regarded a draft treaty submitted by Russia and China in 2008 and updated in 2014 as a useful basis for future negotiations. The proposed framework seeks to prevent the placement of weapons in outer space and prohibit the threat or use of force against space objects.
Iran also rejected the idea that voluntary measures alone could adequately address the growing security risks in space. Bahreini said measures such as responsible-behavior norms, risk-reduction mechanisms and operational or technological restraint could complement a legally binding agreement but could not replace one.
“PAROS is an urgent security imperative,” Bahreini said, calling on states to move beyond fragmented and non-binding approaches and demonstrate the political will to begin negotiations without further delay.
Iran said any future agreement should also promote equitable and non-discriminatory access to outer space, space technologies and related capabilities, particularly for developing countries, while safeguarding their right to benefit from the peaceful uses of space.
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/529284/Iran-calls-for-binding-treaty-to-prevent-an-arms-race-in-outer
Production in Space: Siberian Federal University Scientists Assess Prospects for Extraterrestrial Economy
21 August 2026, 08:11
By 2040, the new industry's volume could reach $2.7 trillion
Scientists from Siberian Federal University (SFU), together with specialists from NTC "Geotechnology", have studied the prospects of space resource extraction.
According to researchers, industrial development of asteroids and the Moon could become the foundation for producing goods beyond Earth.
The global space economy already exceeds $500 billion, and by 2040, according to various estimates, it could reach $1-2.7 trillion.
As explained by Alexander Kirsanov, co-author of the study and Candidate of Technical Sciences at SFU, a significant portion of this growth will be associated with the use of extraterrestrial resources to support lunar bases, orbital logistics, and power generation in space.
According to scientists, in the future, space could host its own production of goods for Earth and products for the needs of the space sector itself – fuel and infrastructure elements.
The key condition for this will be the extraction of natural resources from asteroids, the Moon, and other celestial bodies.
Industrial extraction remains a prospect for the future, but the necessary technologies are already being developed. Among them is the "optical mining" method, which uses concentrated sunlight to heat and evaporate volatile substances from asteroids and lunar soil.
Metallic asteroids (rich in iron, nickel, and platinum group metals), carbonaceous asteroids (containing organic matter and water), and lunar regolith, suitable for producing building materials, are considered as resource sources.
As part of the study, scientists analyzed data from over a thousand companies involved in various areas of the space economy. More than 60% of such projects are in the development and conceptual design stages.
https://www1.ru/en/news/2026/08/21/429413-proizvodstvo-v-kosmose-ucenye-sfu-ocenili-perspektivy-vnezemnoi-ekonomiki.html
https://www1.ru/en/news/2026/03/24/rossiia-dolzna-nacat-dobycu-resursov-na-lune.html
https://www1.ru/en/news/2026/06/09/roboty-mogut-zamenit-celoveka-v-kosmose-rossiiskie-ucenye-ocenili-effekt-dlia-stroitelstva-vne-zemli.html
https://www1.ru/en/news/2025/06/19/gde-ty-russkii-ilon-maks-utverzden-nacproekt-kosmos-s-akcentom-na-castnyi-sektor.html
NASA Mars photo sparks claims of aliens on the Red Planet
15:47 EDT, 19 August 2026 | Updated: 16:54 EDT, 19 August 2026
NASA has long maintained that it has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life, but a newly resurfaced image from Mars has reignited wild speculation.
The photograph, captured by the Curiosity rover in 2024, shows a rocky hillside, distant peaks and a mysterious black object apparently suspended above the Martian horizon.
Curiosity has spent 14 years investigating whether Mars could once have supported microbial life.
However, it was the unexplained shape in the sky that captured attention after X user Kari Sivertzen reposted the image Wednesday.
The post quickly sparked theories that the object could be evidence of alien activity on the Red Planet.
However, the single frame offers no proof that the shape was a flying craft or even a physical object.
It also could not have been NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which was grounded approximately 2,300 miles away in Jezero Crater.
More mundane explanations include airborne dust, a camera artifact or a cosmic ray striking the rover's image sensor.
The image was taken by Curiosity in Gale Crater, on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp.
The rover was crossing rocky terrain near Gediz Vallis ridge, an ancient channel-like formation that scientists believe was shaped by water, landslides or both.
Curiosity was driving southwest toward the ridge when the image was captured on April 10, 2024
One user suggested it could be an image artifact, 'aliens or us.'
Another mysterious discovery was made in a separate Curiosity image this month, showing a strange object in the distance, which some suggested was a jellyfish-like being or mechanical device.
NASA's Curiosity rover snapped the image on August 20, 2023 at around 6.27pm ET.
It shows the dusty Martian landscape with rocky hills and large mountains.
However, the panorama also revealed a small figure in the left corner that appeared to have a large black body perched atop two spindly legs.
Fueling speculation that NASA’s rover had captured something moving across Mars, images taken of the same area less than a minute earlier showed no sign of the mysterious figure.
Moreover, the photo with the object was the last image posted on NASA's website for that day. The next picture from Curiosity was taken nearly two hours later with the camera pointed in a different direction.
In September 2025, NASA declared it had found the clearest signs of ancient microbial life on Mars in a sample collected by the Perseverance rover.
However, the space agency and White House have maintained that no signs of intelligent life have ever been found.
There were no other photos from August 20, 2023 posted by NASA that revealed if the object kept moving, approached the rover or if it was simply a glitch of the camera - which space officials refer to as an 'artifact.'
The 2023 image was reposted by Sivertzen on X, who said: 'Sometimes I spot things that catch my eye, and I share them here.
'I believe there is life on other planets, and since NASA has found potential traces of life on Mars, it’s the perfect place to look.'
'One of the best Mars UFO photographs I've seen!' one person replied.
Independent Mars researcher Jean Ward said on X: 'Jellyfish-shaped UFO/UAP Spotted on Mars. This one seems to be interacting with the surface.
'It also reminds me of a tripod-like object.'
Some have compared the distant object to the giant alien walkers seen in the science fiction movie 'War of the Worlds.'
However, many skeptics argued that the small black figure standing in the distance was nothing more than corrupted pixels in Curiosity's photo.
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16065037/nasa-mars-photo-flying-object.html
posted it again because I hadn't seen the image of the flying thing.
the tripod looks like someone's camera setup.
Gen Z Is Becoming More Convinced Aliens Are Real, According to a New Survey
August 21, 2026, 12:00pm
More than half of Gen Z says recent UFO coverage increased their belief in aliens, compared with just 23% of baby boomers.
The government has been releasing UAP footage, holding congressional hearings, and tiptoeing around the subject of extraterrestrial life for a few years now. People are paying attention—and it’s mostly younger people.
A Talker Research survey of 2,000 Americans found that 37% now believe in aliens more than they used to, with recent UFO and UAP news coverage cited as the reason.
The generational split is what stands out most in the data. Among Gen Z, 54% said coverage pushed them toward greater belief.
That number drops with every age bracket—45% of millennials, 36% of Gen X, and 23% of baby boomers reported the same.
That’s a 31-point gap between the youngest and oldest respondents.
The survey also found that 60% of Americans think governments already know more about UFOs than they’ve made public.
That means the majority of Americans have already made up their minds that something is being withheld, which means any future disclosure wouldn’t be a revelation so much as a confirmation.
A public already convinced it’s been kept in the dark is not going to be shocked by disclosure—it’s going to feel vindicated.
The Generation Gap on Believing in Aliens Is Getting Pretty Huge
Not everyone has changed their mind. A slim majority, 54%, said their opinion on extraterrestrials hasn’t shifted at all, and 10% said the coverage has actually made them believe less.
The news cycle is doing different things to different people, which is probably what you’d expect from a subject that’s been officially ambiguous for decades. Men were more likely than women to say coverage increased their belief—43% versus 33%.
Entertainment is doing some of the work too. More than half of respondents, 54%, said movies and TV shows about aliens have made Americans more likely to believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Hollywood has been in the alien business for a century, so that’s not new. What’s new is official UAP hearings, declassified military footage, and congressional testimony running alongside it—and 54% of Americans apparently can’t fully separate the two influences.
If confirmation came tomorrow, Americans say they’d greet it with curiosity over fear—38% versus 17%.
Only 45% think society is actually ready for that, though, which is a different question from how individuals would personally react.
Knowing something exists and knowing what to do about it are not the same thing, and most Americans are aware of that.
Boomers have seen this all before—UFO news gets big, then it dies down, and life goes on unchanged.
Gen Z started from a completely different place, where official UAP hearings and military footage were already part of the cultural wallpaper. Of course they believe more. They’ve never known it any other way.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-becoming-more-convinced-aliens-are-real-according-to-a-new-survey/
https://talkerresearch.com/ufo-news-effect-more-say-they-believe-in-aliens/
https://x.com/Cortex_Zero/status/2090826938851918247
https://thewalrus.ca/the-truth-behind-ufo-sightings-over-canadas-nuclear-facilities/
The Truth Behind UFO Sightings over Canada’s Nuclear Facilities
Updated 8:18, Aug. 21, 2026 | Published 6:30, Aug. 21, 2026
I’ve spent five decades investigating. Here are the facts
Often, UFO fans ask, “What does the government really know about UFOs?” or “Is there a cover-up?” My work over five decades has given me insight into how these and other questions can be answered.
Since I began investigating sightings of unidentified flying objects in the mid-1970s, I have found myself immersed in the UFO subculture. Skeptics and debunkers have criticized me for being too much of a believer, and hard-core believers have accused me of being a debunker.
The reality is that I am trying to be truly objective, listening to witnesses and assessing evidence rather than rejecting it outright but also calling a spade a spade when an observed UFO is clearly explainable as a star, planet, or airplane.
I’ve always liked a good story, but in ufology, stories are often accepted as fact without critical analysis.
Many claims are made on UFO podcasts and tabloid TV by “insiders” who seem to know many secrets that can’t be shared because—well, they’re secret.
(“I wish I could tell you where the intact alien craft is hidden, but . . .”) Even so-called whistleblowers can’t offer any proof of their claims—although their stories are certainly entertaining.
My academic background is in astronomy education, so I could certainly talk about the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation with some authority, but I won’t.
There’s no incontrovertible proof that aliens are visiting Earth, but there’s a lot of proof that the Canadian government has been taking the subject of UFOs very seriously for many years.
Furthermore, the Canadian government has long been doing all the things that private organizations and governments in other countries are getting kudos for doing today, like scientific studies and monitoring the sky for anomalous objects.
I know this because I have been asked by official agencies, police, politicians, and scientists to help understand what UFOs really are, and what to do about them. Few have known my true involvement until now.
December 16, 2017, was the day ufology was thrust, kicking and screaming, into the public spotlight.
That day, a feature in the New York Times by journalists Ralph Blumenthal, Helene Cooper, and Leslie Kean revealed that the United States government had funded and operated a program that looked seriously into reports of UFOs observed by military personnel.
The story came out because someone described as a whistleblower, Luis Elizondo, said that he was in charge of an office called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program from 2007 to 2012.
What the Times story neglected to mention was that the program was originally called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program.
Given a budget of $22 million (US), it was created by US Senate majority leader Harry Reid to study UFOs over five years.
Following that revelation, mainstream media interviewed UFO proponents and politicians, who all had “inside information” on what the American government really knew about UFOs.
The next few years were essentially a media-feeding frenzy, fuelled and encouraged by UFO experts who all claimed to have insight into what was going on but couldn’t offer definitive proof of their claims because of non-disclosure agreements and—well, it was all very secret.
In 2020, during a US Senate hearing, it was discovered that there was a follow-up program along the same lines, called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).
Its activities had included classified briefings to committees in Congress about UFOs and associated issues, including the claim that the government had in its possession intact extraterrestrial craft or fragments thereof.
While previously viewed as a taboo subject for politicians to discuss publicly, the favourable response from the media and the public about the American situation seemed to grant permission for Canadian politicians to weigh in on the matter.
On March 2, 2022, Larry Maguire, who was, at the time, the Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for Brandon–Souris in Manitoba and vice chair of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, raised concerns about UFOs flying over Canadian nuclear sites.
He asked the minister of natural resources, John Hannaford, if he had received reports of UFOs over nuclear research or storage sites. (He had not.)
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A few months later, after kicking the hornet’s nest with his questions to Hannaford, on May 12, 2022, Maguire published a statement about his view that Canadian citizens should know more about what their government was doing about UFOs.
He wrote, “With the news that Canada’s Minister of Defence was briefed about the issue of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), it’s time for parliamentarians and the government of Canada to take this issue seriously.”
Maguire was referring to a May 6, 2022, CTV story by Daniel Otis, who had discovered that the minister of national defence, Harjit Sajjan, had been briefed about UFOs a year earlier, on May 27, 2021.
The CTV story went on to say, “A lieutenant-colonel co-ordinated the effort.
An accompanying five-page slide presentation included an overview of cases and procedures, which currently link the Canadian Armed Forces with air traffic controllers, federal aviation authorities and a civilian researcher in Manitoba.”
The “civilian researcher” was me. In fact, I was specifically named in the slide presentation, which included my photograph.
Otis found that while the revelations about UFO studies in the US showed that the subject was being taken seriously by officials, little was being done in Canada.
This was of concern to at least one Canadian politician. Opposition defence critic Kerry-Lynne Findlay believed Ottawa should be paying more attention to American developments, which included a bipartisan US Senate initiative to establish a new UFO research office.
I had been contacted by Otis before the release of the CTV story, and I explained my involvement with officials regarding UFO reports over the past several decades.
He quoted me in his story: “‘I have been called both a sceptic and a believer, which probably demonstrates that my position is appropriate,’ Rutkowski said in an email.
‘We are long past the era of UFOs being a subject of ridicule. Well-trained observers have reported sightings of UFOs and UAP and there seems to be a renewed interest by both scientists and the military establishment in taking a closer look at this persistent phenomenon.’”
In another CTV news story, on November 15, 2022, Otis reported that Pentagon officials had met with their Canadian counterparts to discuss UFOs on February 22, 2022.
After making his original statement, Maguire urged his colleagues to consider action on the matter. He revealed that he had a long-standing interest in UFOs and that his information on the subject came largely from discussions and meetings with UFO experts.
In addition, Maguire had another meeting with American UFO experts.
Otis’s report said, “Earlier this year, Maguire’s office arranged another briefing with members of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), an international think tank dedicated to applying scientific methods to UAP research.
Engineer and founding SCU board member Robert Powell was part of that Jan. 28 meeting and says he also participated in an Oct. 20, 2021 briefing for a Liberal member of Parliament.
According to Powell, the Oct. 2021 UAP briefing with the Liberal MP included former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon.”
This was most interesting, as with this one exception, no member of the Liberal majority government had previously been identified as being involved in UFO discussions. (To date, the name of this politician has not been made public.)
It’s not well known that on June 1, 2021, I also briefed Maguire on my research into UFOs and how the Canadian government had been involved.
Upon his request, I provided Maguire with details of UFO reports near Canadian nuclear facilities, as he was particularly concerned with that aspect of UFOs and security.
While it was a simple matter to search the Canadian UFO Survey database for a geographical location—from Pickering and Port Elgin, Ontario, to Saint John, New Brunswick, there are plenty of open-source reports of individuals witnessing and documenting UAP near these facilities—the interpretation of results was far from straightforward.
I chose the Pickering nuclear facility in Ontario as my first search term. This was one that Maguire had mentioned specifically in his public statement.
I quickly discovered there had been fifty-nine UFO reports filed between 1989 and 2024 with the location label “Pickering.” That might seem to prove that UFOs were definitely targeting that one nuclear facility for inspection.
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The problem is that citing a particular location does not mean that a UFO was seen over that spot specifically. Witnesses often give a location when stating that a UFO was in the sky.
Given that most UFOs are simply lights in the sky, a witness who was facing the direction of Pickering from some distance away would be under the impression the light was over the facility.
Add to this the fact that Pickering is directly underneath the major airline flight path between Toronto and Montreal, and it is not surprising that UFOs are reported in the sky, as many UFOs turn out to be aircraft after investigation.
None of this is definitive evidence that Pickering was visited or monitored by a UFO. Looking at actual UFO reports makes me doubt that there is any reason to be concerned about this issue.
UFO reports associated with other nuclear sites are not particularly interesting either.
On March 11, 2022, John Hannaford replied to Maguire, noting, “The CNSC [Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission] can report that there have been no reported drone intrusions or attempted intrusions at Canadian high-security nuclear facilities.”
This was reiterated in a letter on June 6, 2022, to Maguire from Kathleen Heppell-Masys, a director general of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Despite the denial that UFOs had been flying around nuclear facilities in Canada, the belief that UFOs have been taking an interest in nuclear sites around the world has persisted for decades, even until today.
It is very significant that there have been scientific studies of UFO sightings reported near nuclear facilities around the world.
One such study released in 2023 concluded that “overall, the pattern analysis indicated an elevated and anomalous level of UAP activity at the atomic study sites.”
Based on 590 cases selected from sources of UFO reports, many from the US Air Force Project Blue Book itself, UFOs seemed to favour nuclear facilities.
Despite that, “all sites showed the same overall diminishment and virtual cessation of activity following a national surge of UAP reports in 1952.”
In other words, during the rapid development and construction of military nuclear facilities following the Second World War, UFOs were observed and detected relatively often.
But after 1952, this was less pronounced, and reports of activity over nuclear sites “almost completely ceased.”
Why would this be? One reasonable suggestion is that during the development of nuclear facilities, security would have been extremely high at the sites, and any kind of incursions would have been noticed and reported.
No actual threats had been detected during construction, and once the sites were operational, the number of UFO sightings decreased to levels expected in the general population and across the country.
And yet, there have been instances of UFOs infringing on protected airspace near nuclear sites, and we even have reports of such cases.
On February 14, 2002, Transport Canada listed CADORS—Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System—report 2002A0096, about an incident in New Brunswick:
This serious breach of security was immediately investigated. The conclusion: “The flight of interest was operated for the purposes of a bird survey.
The aircraft had advised FSS [flight service station] they were doing survey work and would be flying the coast line and Saint John river area.”
Similarly, on June 6, 2011: “NAV Canada staff at Toronto ACC [Area Control Centre] were advised by the Shift Manager of a low-flying, Twin engine aircraft operating in the vicinity of the Darlington Nuclear Hydro Generating Station.
There were reports that the aircraft had been in the area for approximately two (2) hours. NAV Canada staff at Oshawa control tower were advised.” This one turned out to be a privately operated aircraft on a local flight from Toronto Municipal Airport.
We can see, then, that UFOs have been detected near nuclear facilities in Canada, the incidents have been investigated, and action has been taken. Further, the reports are made public.
Why would UFOs be interested in nuclear facilities? If, as most people believe, UFOs are devices or vehicles operated by non-human intelligences (let’s call a spade a spade here: aliens), then why do they need to hover near the reactors or fuel dumps?
To monitor human development? Surely that can easily be determined without flying near the buildings. The levels of radioactivity can be detected from space, so such close examination is hardly needed.
And if the UFOs are operated by foreign governments, using drones to examine infrastructure is not particularly efficient. Wouldn’t it have been easier to get a spy on the inside?
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Lue Elizondo drops a bombshell statement
5:01 AM · Aug 21, 2026
https://x.com/AUSSIEUFONEWS/status/2090771314365858132
extra
https://x.com/TheZignal/status/2090877510989037915
https://x.com/disclosureorg/status/2090408915481608389
https://x.com/DanCleary79/status/2090597860169712091
https://x.com/maniaUFO/status/2090701983191638498
UFO Whistleblowers Sound Off: "Now or never."
August 21, 2026
Robert Bigelow says there's a point where a whistleblower stops being a whistleblower and "turns into a traitor." This week four men decided to talk anyway.
And in San Francisco, a 69-year-old engineering professor is in a jail cell for chaining a door shut.
Matt Brown. Dylan Borland. Eric Davis. David Grusch. Statements landing within days of each other, all pointed at the same place: the President's desk.
Eric Davis is asking Trump directly to waive his NDA and let him say what he knows. Matt Brown authored the public version of the Immaculate Constellation report. Dylan Borland says he provided evidence of current operations to ODNI.
And running underneath all of it, Robert Bigelow's answer on the Bigelow Podcast this week, which is that the gatekeepers deserve a preemptive pardon and more funding, that they have to maintain their secrecy "at all costs because we are in competition with China and Russia" — and that a person who crosses into disclosing a military capability becomes something other than a whistleblower.
Then the other half of the show, which is the same argument about a different technology. Wynd Kaufmyn taught engineering for forty years at City College of San Francisco.
In February of last year she and other members of the group Stop AI chained the front doors of OpenAI's headquarters shut and sat down. Police offered them the sidewalk.
They refused to move. She is now believed to be the first person in the world jailed for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, and she spoke to Democracy Now from San Francisco County Jail this week.
The people she was protesting signed a public statement in 2023 saying that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war. They signed it, and they kept building.
On the table tonight
• Where Bigelow draws the line, and the question he leaves open: who decides which side of it you're on
• Four statements in one week, and what it means that they're all addressed to one man
• The first person jailed over AI, in her own words, from a jail phone
• An argument that building superintelligence should be illegal the way building a nuclear bomb is illegal
• Whatever the chat drags us into, which is usually the best part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLNH15sBdj8
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGa5dGnZm0 (Ross Coulthart on aliens.gov, UAP amnesty & secret technology | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arkw4z8rCyw (Secret Soviet UFOs: The full Beatriz Villarroel and Dennis Åsberg interview | Reality Check)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3CmY_ztwo (Area52: Counterintelligence Agent Shares WILD Alien Encounters - Richard Doty | ep. 100)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0q9FuLTD7c (Cristina Gomez: AARO Closed It in 1 Email. The FBI Took It to the White House)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJA8j79wH94 (Podcast UFO: Jacques Vallée: The UFO Phenomenon Is Stranger Than We Think | Ep 776)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJwUb-NwTUQ L.A. Marzulli: Visions of A Mothership UFO?!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sXyYDopvY (My Lunch Break: This Shouldn’t Exist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHodPVcdsc (King of UFOs: UFOs, The Astral Plane & The Return of Atlantis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3OjY-9ozNc (Alien Exchange Program: The Evidence Behind the Project Serpo Mystery | Bill Ryan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvxm5-gMdQ (Eyes On Cinema: Alien Implant Removal Surgery: Dr. Roger Leir’s Shocking Evidence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlYCbFKBJc (XPOSED: The SECRET Society Grooming US Leaders | Redacted)