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Huge Meteor Explodes Over Illinois in Stunning Video
August 28, 2026
Many people were watching the night sky this week due to the lunar eclipse and the potential of seeing the Northern Lights.
An unexpected visitor to that sky party was a huge meteor that flashed over Illinois and a video captured the moment it happened.
According to the American Meteor Society, this meteor entered the atmosphere over Illinois just north of Peoria the night of Wednesday, August 26, 2026
James Hannon shared his video of this huge space rock. According to the map, James was in Central City, Iowa when he recorded this fireball.
The American Meteor Society lists this meteor as being visible over 6 states including Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Are there any currently any known active meteor showers?
The meteor shower that has been ongoing over the last half of August are the Perseids. Next up will be the Orionids starting in October.
Scientists estimate there are at least 17 meteorites hit the Earth every day, but most land in remote places where they are never found.
Millions of tiny space rocks impact the Earth's atmosphere every day, but most are the size of a grain of sand. The one that burnt up over Illinois this week was much more substantial than that.
https://101theeagle.com/huge-meteor-over-illinois/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmKozH-VMfo
other space objects
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2026/08/meteor-activity-outlook-for-august-29-september-4-2026/
https://www.seti.org/news/new-meteor-shower-identifies-asteroid-as-a-cloaked-comet/
https://easternherald.com/2026/08/29/norad-intercepts-five-aircraft-houston-trump-nasa-artemis/
https://www.norad.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4585582/norad-intercepts-multiple-aircraft-violating-temporary-flight-restrictions-over/
moar POTUS NASA visit
https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/08/28/jeremy-hansen-becomes-first-non-nasa-astronaut-to-receive-us-space-medal-of-honor/
https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-ripped-by-critics-for-nasa-ceremony-speech-what-the-fck-is-he-talking-about/
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2093699869407879675
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2093467636235460954
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/president-honors-nasas-artemis-ii-crew-with-highest-us-space-award/
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-receives-congressional-space-medal-of-honor/
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/08/28/u-s-president-speaks-to-expedition-75-crew-after-awarding-artemis-ii-crew/
https://starlust.org/president-trump-awards-nas-as-artemis-ii-crew-the-congressional-space-medal-of-honor/
NORAD Intercepts Five Aircraft Over Houston as Trump Honors Artemis II Crew at NASA
August 29, 2026
F-16s escorted five general aviation aircraft out of Houston airspace on Friday as Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew at Johnson Space Center.
HOUSTON — Five general aviation aircraft were intercepted by NORAD F-16 fighters over Houston on Friday morning after they entered the temporary flight restriction surrounding President Donald Trump’s visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where Trump honored the Artemis II crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order establishing a U.S. Space Academy.
The interceptions, a standard military procedure in which fighter jets approach errant aircraft and escort them out of protected airspace, took place during a four-hour flight restriction active from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time.
The restriction covered three airports: Ellington Field, William P. Hobby Airport, and La Porte Airport, effectively halting general aviation across a zone of roughly 30 nautical miles centered on the Johnson Space Center campus.
North American Aerospace Defense Command said all five aircraft were safely escorted from the restricted zone. The command did not identify the pilots or disclose whether they faced FAA enforcement action.
The enforcement came on a day weighted with ceremony.
Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Jeremy Hansen, the four astronauts named to Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed mission to circle the Moon since the Apollo era.
At the same event, Trump signed an executive order creating the U.S. Space Academy, described as an institution to train the next generation of space professionals.
Trump had arrived in Houston the previous evening, landing at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, where he attended a Republican National Committee fundraiser for Senate candidate Ken Paxton. Friday marked his third Texas visit since taking office.
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The FAA issues temporary flight restrictions automatically whenever the president travels outside Washington, and general aviation pilots are legally required to check active Notices to Airmen before each flight.
That obligation did not prevent five separate aircraft from entering the zone Friday.
Royal Canadian Air Force Major-General David Moar, NORAD’s operations director, issued a statement that departed from the command’s usual incident-by-incident framing.
“Safeguarding our shared airspace is a mission where every single aviator has a vital role to play,” Moar said. “Multiple recent TFR violations in Texas is a clear signal that we must address this together and drive that number down immediately.”
The phrase “multiple recent” signaled that Friday’s five intercepts were part of a pattern NORAD had been tracking, not an isolated event.
That pattern has been visible across Trump’s travel schedule throughout his second term. On August 9, NORAD intercepted two aircraft near Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey golf club during a LIV Golf tournament.
The Houston incident brings the publicly announced intercept count to multiple clusters in a matter of weeks. The Continental U.S. NORAD Region, based at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, has led both operations.
Pilots who find themselves intercepted by military aircraft are instructed to contact emergency radio frequency 121.5 or 243.0 immediately and reverse course until further instructions are received.
The command does not disclose the identities of pilots involved in TFR violations. Whether the Houston violations reflect confusion about the NOTAM system, equipment failures, or something more deliberate is a determination the FAA, not NORAD, would make through its enforcement process.
The Artemis II crew honored Friday completed a 10-day mission that looped around the Moon on April 10, becoming the first astronauts to travel beyond the Moon in more than 50 years and the first to fly aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
They had been in full mission training since their selection; the congressional medal conferred Friday recognized the mission they had already completed.
Trump signed the Space Academy executive order in the same ceremony, but no timeline or location was announced for the institution.
NASA’s path toward the next crewed lunar landing, Artemis III, operates under significant budgetary uncertainty: the administration’s 2026 budget proposal cuts the agency’s overall funding by roughly 25 percent, a reduction that has created particular anxiety at Johnson Space Center, where the Orion spacecraft program is managed. None of that tension surfaced in Friday’s ceremony.
The broader context of NASA’s Artemis infrastructure, including the nearly $1 billion in Moon Base contracts awarded to Blue Origin, Astrolab, and Lunar Outpost in May, forms the foundation on which crewed lunar landings would ultimately depend.
NORAD’s full statement on the Houston interceptions, including guidance for general aviation pilots on proper pre-flight planning, is available through the command’s official website.
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Roman: Go For Launch
Friday, August 28, 2026
NASA and SpaceX are targeting Roman’s liftoff for no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch coverage begins at 6:20 a.m.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is prepped for launch, and one phase of Roman is ending.
It began with the 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, where the community called for a wide-field infrared survey telescope: WFIRST. This was Roman’s start.
Institutes and businesses across the country began developing new hardware to support this mission.
At the observatory’s heart was a mirror the same size as Hubble’s and a set of 18 state-of-the-art detectors that allowed for both a massive field of view and extremely high angular resolution.
This combination would allow Roman to create vast and detailed surveys of the universe unlike anything seen before. Roman also holds a Coronagraph Instrument to test hardware never before flown in space.
It will be able to see distant planets orbiting other stars and is a major step toward finding life outside the solar system.
Much of Roman’s hardware was developed and built in-house at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Other key systems came from places like NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), BAE Systems, and L3Harris.
Beginning in 2023, all the parts converged on Goddard. Inside Goddard’s enormous clean room, a team of dedicated engineers and technicians spent over three years assembling the pieces.
Throughout the process, they also used Goddard’s testing facilities to evaluate the hardware’s ability to survive launch and space.
Pieces, assembled sections, and finally the entire observatory were subjected to tests like vibration and acoustic shaking, thermal vacuum freezing, and centrifuge g-force loading.
The early completion and future success of the Roman Space Telescope is a testament to the unwavering commitment and effort of thousands of people working together toward a common goal.
Thanks to all their efforts, Roman will broaden our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15080
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-roman-space-telescope-launch-from-florida/
https://www.spacex.com/launches/roman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1uW0mfHjHo
Russia strikes ‘missile warehouse’ near Kiev
28 Aug, 2026 22:45 | Updated 29 Aug, 2026 11:06
The attacks targeted several military-linked logistics facilities, including one storing Flamingo projectiles, the Defense Ministry has said
The Russian military has carried out a wave of strikes on military-related targets in Kiev and its suburbs, including a facility storing components for Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo cruise missiles, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
The statement came after a series of powerful secondary explosions tore through a warehouse complex near Kiev on Friday night, with videos circulating on social media showing fireballs flying off for hundreds of meters.
The next morning, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the strikes, saying the attack, which involved missiles and drones, hit the Fim Service transport and logistics center in the Kiev suburb of Chaiky. The facility was used for storing Flamingo missiles, it added.
Another logistics center in Kalinovka, Kiev Region, was also hit, the ministry said, noting that the facility hosted a customs terminal responsible for distributing Western-supplied military cargo.
The Russian military also reported striking an ammunition warehouse in the settlement of Milaya operated by Fire Point which contained components and launch boosters for long-range FP-1 and FP-2 drones.
The attacks also targeted a parking area for fuel tankers in Izmail in southern Ukraine, which was used to supply the Ukrainian military.
In Nikolayev, the barrage targeted a maritime cargo terminal and logistics centers used to unload and store military supplies, with a total of 18 facilities containing military equipment and three fuel depots hit, according to the statement.
The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly vowed to carry out “systematic and consistent strikes” on Ukraine’s military-industrial facilities in retaliation for Kiev’s “terrorist attacks” on Russian civilian targets. Moscow has maintained that it never targets civilians.
The head of the Kiev Region’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, confirmed that the warehouse blaze was accompanied by explosions.
Authorities temporarily closed a 17 km stretch of the M-06 Kiev-Chop highway in both directions and urged residents to stay away and not record the aftermath.
Several open-source monitoring accounts claimed the strike took place at around 8:35 PM and involved Russian jet-powered Geran-4 loitering munitions targeting a warehouse complex near the village of Milaya.
Later in the day, Vladimir Zelensky claimed 27 people were killed and dozens more injured after a warehouse in Milaya was hit.
Furthermore, he admitted that the ammunition was apparently stored illegally near residential areas, saying that the Ukrainian authorities had opened a criminal investigation into possible negligence.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Sergey Koretsky said he had received reports from the interior minister and the head of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service about the strike, which he said caused a fire followed by a “detonation.”
But the prime minister then drew a pointed comparison with the deadly July explosion at an ammunition depot in Vishnevoye, another Kiev suburb.
“Unfortunately, we can already state that the terrible tragedy in Vishnevoye did not become a lesson,” Koretsky said.
He lamented making “the same mistakes” in the fifth year of the conflict, calling it “criminal negligence,” and demanded that everyone responsible face “strict punishment.”
While the prime minister did not spell out what those repeated mistakes were, his reference appeared to point to the storage of explosive military materiel in or near populated areas.
On July 6, a Russian strike on Vishnevoye triggered massive secondary explosions at an ammunition warehouse belonging to an enterprise within Ukraine’s state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom.
Vladimir Zelensky subsequently acknowledged that the facility was an ammunition depot.
Ukraine’s Security Service later said investigators found that ammunition had been kept in warehouses unsuitable for such storage and without the required permits, including facilities in the “immediate proximity” of residential areas.
Two defense-industry executives were detained on negligence charges. Ukroboronprom separately dismissed the heads of two enterprises over ammunition storage violations, while the conglomerate’s director general, Herman Smetanin, stepped down days later without publicly giving a reason.
https://www.rt.com/russia/644793-kiev-missile-warehouse-blasts/
https://x.com/OSINTWarfare/status/2093431227508469892
other RT
https://www.rt.com/russia/644804-zelensky-passes-buck-civilian-deaths-drone-depot-blast/
https://www.rt.com/russia/644766-ukraine-money-laundering-scandal/
Drones Hit DNS and Ozon Warehouses in Russia’s Rostov Region, Video
Aug 29, 2026 12:18
Attack drones targeted major warehouse complexes belonging to Russian retailers DNS and Ozon in the Rostov region on August 29.
Video published by the Exilenova+ outlet showed a large fire at the DNS facility in Aksai, which functions as a primary regional distribution hub for southern Russia, as reported by Militarnyi.
A separate strike on an Ozon warehouse complex caused a minor fire that was localized, though operations at the site were temporarily suspended.
The company ranks fourth in Russian online sales, behind major platforms Wildberries, Ozon, and Yandex Market.
Following the withdrawal of international technology corporations like Apple, Samsung, Intel, and Asus during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, DNS became a primary channel for supplying gray-market and parallel-import goods from China into the Russian market.
On August 24, 2026, Ukrainian strike drones targeted three major Ozon logistics centers across southern Russia, igniting large fires at facilities with a combined warehouse area of over 314,000 square meters.
The strikes formed part of a broader overnight operation in which Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces engaged 66 Russian military targets deep behind enemy lines, including a MiG-29 fighter jet in the Rostov region, four radar systems, and two shadow fleet vessels in the Black Sea.
Among the targeted marketplace hubs were large distribution centers in Dagestan, Stavropol, and Adygea, which serve as critical nodes in Russia's e-commerce supply network.
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/drones-hit-dns-and-ozon-warehouses-in-russias-rostov-region-video-22042
other Russia and Ukraine
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83343
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/zelenskyy-s-office-reveals-where-ukraine-1788008440.html
https://www.ukrinform.net/amp/rubric-ato/4158842-massive-drone-attack-causes-local-blackout-in-mykolaiv-region-leaving-300000-customers-without-power.html
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/rostov-comes-under-drone-attack-as-electronics-1787976171.html
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/germany-preparing-extensive-sanctions-on-russia-over-leipzig-drone-plot-report/4041087
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-08-29/live-updates-906937
other Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-said-to-rebuff-lebanese-overtures-to-withdraw-from-strategic-ridge-in-south/
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Israel:-3-'terror-operatives'-killed-in-West-Bank's-Jenin/67006311
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432400
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432398
Live Updates: No arrests made after West Bank riot, IDF targets Hamas commander in Gaza hospital
August 29, 8:49 PM
Iran's imports and exports are down by 35% because of the US blockade president says • Iran is ready to cooperate with neighbors, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia • Trump abandons June MoU terms
August 29, 8:46 PM
IDF kills Nukba commander, Hamas sniper in Gaza Strip
The IDF killed Nukba company commander Hani Abd al-Hai Fakhri Mazloum, and Hamas sniper Hassan Zidan Hassan Deiri while operating in Gaza on Friday, the military announced.
Both Hassan and Mazloum were also involved in trafficking and supplying weapons to Hamas.
The terrorists continued to advance attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, and worked to rehabilitate Hamas's military capabilities, the IDF said.
August 29, 5:29 PM
Settlers riot near West Bank village of Kusra, leaving eight Palestinians injured
Dozens of settler rioters gathered near Kusra on Saturday, with Palestinians reporting eight people injured in stone-throwing clashes.
Dozens of Israeli settler rioters gathered on the outskirts of the village of Kusra in the West Bank on Saturday, igniting violent clashes with the local residents, according to a KAN news report.
The IDF stated that, following reports of the riots, it dispatched troops along with border police officers to the area.
According to the IDF, the settler rioters had barricaded themselves inside a Palestinian house, where residents were present. IDF troops and Israeli police then forcibly removed the rioters from the house.
August 29, 4:38 PM
IDF targets, strikes Hamas commander hiding in Gaza hospital
The IDF on Saturday struck a Hamas military wing commander in the Deir al-Balah area in Gaza on Saturday, according to an IDF statement.
“Recently, the terrorist advanced terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, operating to rehabilitate the capabilities of the terrorist organization, in systematic violation of the ceasefire. The strike was conducted in order to remove the threat posed.” the IDF stated.
The terrorist was targeted while reportedly hiding within the Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital compound, which the IDF referred to as “another example of Hamas’ cynical use of humanitarian infrastructure and its systematic embedding within medical facilities to advance and carry out terrorist activity.”
August 29, 12:57 PM
Banque Misr says it is reviewing US Iran sanctions notice
Egypt's Banque Misr said it is reviewing a US Treasury notice related to restricting US dollar correspondent banking services provided by US financial institutions to Banque Misr's branch in the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement on Saturday.
It said Banque Misr's branch in the UAE continues to provide banking services to its customers in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures.
The US Treasury said on Friday it had moved to cut off Banque Misr's branches in the United Arab Emirates from dollar transactions for its dealings with Iran.
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August 29, 8:04 AM
Iran government says diplomacy and defense inseparable, vows to resist US sanctions
The Iranian government pledged on Saturday to stand firm against US sanctions and what it called US-Israeli "conspiracies," saying diplomacy and defense were "complementary, coordinated and inseparable" tools for protecting the country’s national interests, security and territorial integrity.
In a statement carried by state media, the government said it would pursue both tracks simultaneously and focus on curbing inflation, creating jobs, supporting domestic production and gradually reducing dependence on the dollar.
August 29, 5:42 AM
Iran's navy says it has 'full control' over Strait of Hormuz
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy rejected US claims that the Strait of Hormuz was open, calling them an attempt to control oil prices and conceal what it described as US failures. It said the restrictions would continue until US military actions against Iran end and relevant commitments are implemented, according to a statement.
August 29, 5:42 AM
Pezeshkian says Iran ready for cooperation with regional countries
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Iran is ready for cooperation and understanding with regional countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
He also claimed that due to ongoing US sanctions and the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s exports and imports have decreased by up to 35%.
August 29, 5:42 AM
US Treasury revokes 'critical node' of Iranian access to US dollars in latest Tehran sanctions
The new sanctions come two days after the Treasury cracked down on what it called “far-left terrorist networks.”
The US Treasury Department proposed on Friday to revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking access to US financial institutions, calling it a “critical node” in the Iranian regime’s access to US dollars.
The proposal is part of Operation Economic Outcast, a broader effort by the US government to sever remaining “financial lifelines” sustaining the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
August 29, 5:42 AM
WATCH: IDF kills Hamas-linked former senior Jenin terror cell member in West Bank vehicle strike
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated the IDF for the "successful thwarting of the terrorists in Jenin" in an X/Twitter Post earlier on Friday.
The senior terrorist, Qais Bitwani, was a Hamas operative in the now-dismantled Jenin terrorist network, according to the joint statement.
August 29, 5:42 AM
Trump abandons June MoU terms, complicating diplomatic efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz - WSJ
Sources familiar with the matter told the WSJ that Trump is no longer interested in the MoU, which has been heavily criticized as a deal that is too soft on Iran.
US President Donald Trump told its mediators and regional partners that it is uninterested in returning to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding outlined in June, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The report noted that the administration’s stubborn refusal to go back to the terms it reached with Iran earlier this summer has significantly complicated the diplomatic process of restarting negotiations.
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Trump UFO advisor drops truth bomb on presidential egos
August 29, 2026
Trump’s UFO advisor says alien discovery could define president’s legacy forever
U.S. President Donald Trump’s UFO advisor has downplayed the potential significance of potential extraterrestrial contact, saying alien visitors would have little interest in Earth’s leadership or territorial divisions.
Avi Loeb, head of the Trump administration’s Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Science Advisory Council, said this week that interstellar visitors would view human politics as irrelevant.
Loeb said: “If someone arrives from the vast expanses of interstellar space, recognising how humans divided up territory on Earth is a very low priority for them. They wouldn’t care about the United States, and they wouldn’t care who its president is.”
But Loeb stated that exploring extraterrestrial life during Trump’s presidency could define his legacy for millennia.
Loeb said: That kind of discovery would be remembered millions of years into the future. It’s not like a dispute with another nation, which in a century will likely be forgotten. This would be a major discovery that shapes the future of humanity.”
The advisory council, announced in June, is part of the administration’s broader push for UFO transparency.
Five waves of documents have been released by the Pentagon so far, although none of them has conclusively shown the existence of any life forms from outer space. The government is also developing legislation for whistleblowers of UAPs.
Loeb’s appointment has drawn criticism from some scientists who argue he has made premature claims about possible alien life.
“I don’t know what’s going to come of this, but we’re not going to get any closer to answering questions with him in charge,” Arizona State University astrophysicist Steve Desch told The Associated Press in June.
Loeb maintains his team assumes UAPs are man-made unless proven otherwise while continuing to push the Pentagon to declassify more material.
https://www.geo.tv/latest/679789-trump-ufo-advisor-drops-truth-bomb-on-presidential-egos
moar Avi Loeb
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-self-sustained-black-hole-engine-powered-by-tidal-disruption-of-stars-35a081758451
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/skeptics-are-capable-of-promoting-conspiracy-theories-8672fd765f2c
Starlink 'trains' spotted over Estonia, mistaken for UFOs
August 29, 2026 04.46
"UFOs" or "shooting stars" recently reported spotted in Estonia's night sky are in fact Starlink satellite trains, Tartu Postimees said.
The satellites are new additions to SpaceX's Starlink network, which aims to provide high‑speed internet access globally, and brings nearly 10,000 satellites in low orbit and new launches taking place at least twice a week the paper reporetd.
After launch, the satellites remain closely grouped in a line, as the name suggests, but once they reach their operational altitude, they disperse and become ordinary faint points of light.
Enthusiasts can track when the next "string of pearls" will be visible over their location using apps like Satellite Tracker.
There are nearly 10,000 satellites in relatively low orbit (300–500 kilometers altitude), the paper said, plus GPS and other satellites which orbit much further from the earth.
The Elon Musk-founded SpaceX's Starlink is a satellite‑based internet service designed to bring connectivity to remote areas, crisis zones and places where cable internet does not reach, using a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit.
https://news.err.ee/1610122414/starlink-trains-spotted-over-estonia-mistaken-for-ufos
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-explains-spooky-negative-space-jellyfish-hovering-over-mars-new-curiosity-rover-image-1816975
NASA Explains the Spooky 'Negative-Space Jellyfish' Hovering Over Mars in New Curiosity Rover Image
29 August 2026, 12:32 PM BST
A smudge on a lunar photo and a stray line in an old NASA meeting are all it takes to send humanity's imagination spinning back into the dark
NASA has moved to explain a decades old lunar photograph that some UFO enthusiasts claim shows a 3.4-mile-long alien spacecraft hovering above the moon, after the 1967 image resurfaced online and reignited speculation about extraterrestrial life.
The black and white picture was captured by NASA's Lunar Orbiter 3 in February 1967 as the agency mapped potential landing sites ahead of the first crewed missions.
The frame shows a stark stretch of the moon's surface dominated by Theophilus crater, a vast impact site that NASA lists as about 68 miles across and 2.7 miles deep.
Tucked into that landscape is an elongated smudge that has become the latest canvas for people determined to see more than geology.
UFO Blogger Claims NASA is Hiding the 'Smoking Gun'
One of the loudest voices is Scott Waring, a long-time UFO blogger, who argues that NASA's own archive hides the smoking gun.
On his site, UFO Sightings Daily, he claims the strange streak is 'a long spacecraft hovering over the moon's surface' and insists the object is no trick of light or dust on the lens.
According to Waring, the scale alone should make people sit up. He writes that he compared the length of the disputed feature with Theophilus crater, taking NASA's 110 kilometre diameter figure, then judging the object to be about one twentieth as long.
From that, he concludes the craft measures roughly 5.5 kilometres, or 3.4 miles, end to end.
'That's huge to us humans, but to aliens, it's considered a small shuttle craft,' he tells his readers, doubling down on the idea that we are glimpsing only a minor piece of someone else's space hardware.
He goes further, arguing that the photograph carries a chilling implication. 'This is 100 percent proof that aliens were watching humans before we ever stepped on the moon,' Waring writes, treating the picture as evidence of quiet surveillance of the Apollo programme before it even began.
NASA, for its part, has said nothing of the sort. The agency has repeatedly stated that it has no evidence of extraterrestrial life and that it has yet to find any sign of past or present life on the moon or on Mars.
The elongated mark has not been classified by NASA as a craft, and neither Waring's size estimate nor his interpretation has been validated by independent imaging experts.
NASA Image Spurs Fresh Extraterrestrial Life Debate
The renewed focus on the 1967 NASA image lands in a wider political and cultural moment where official UFO files are being shuffled out of locked cabinets and into public view.
The Trump administration has overseen the release of several batches of classified documents on unexplained aerial and space phenomena, giving UFO believers fresh material and, unsurprisingly, new fuel.
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On 8 May, the US Department of War released hundreds of pages of documents, images and audio recordings that officials said documented reports of possible extraterrestrial sightings going back to the 1940s.
Among them were transcripts from the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions, the second and final crewed landings on the moon.
Those Apollo records, along with photographs taken by astronauts on the surface, detail multiple encounters with bright, fast-moving objects that appeared to dance around lunar landers or drift past capsule windows.
The tone is more puzzled than panicked, but you can feel the astronauts straining to make sense of what they are seeing.
During Apollo 17 in 1972, commander Gene Cernan, lunar geologist Jack Schmitt and command module pilot Ron Evans reported a bright, flashing object some distance from their spacecraft.
In one exchange, recorded in mission transcripts, Cernan says: 'It is a bright object, and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, as I say, because there are particles that are close by and it's obviously not one of those.'
He adds that the flashes appear in a 'very rhythmic fashion,' estimating that the object sits several Earth diameters away in their field of view as they look back at the home planet. Cernan is careful, stressing that the comparison might not 'do you any good,' but the bafflement is clear.
Later, as Apollo 17's crew fired their thrusters to change direction, Evans reported 'very bright particles or fragments or something' drifting past the windows. Schmitt chimes in that it looks like 'the Fourth of July' outside Evans' window, with 'big bright pieces tumbling slowly around the capsule.'
Evans describes the fragments as jagged, angular and solid, not fluid, and says they are mostly moving with the spacecraft but with some faster pieces zipping by. According to the mission records, he also reported taking photographs of them for analysis back on Earth.
Three years earlier, Apollo 12 astronauts also noted odd lights and objects on approach to the lunar surface, material that appears again in the newly released Trump era files. None of these reports are categorised by NASA as proof of alien craft.
Mission engineers have long pointed to mundane explanations, from ice crystals and insulation fragments to weird lighting in the vacuum. Yet the raw transcripts still make strange reading today.
NASA Briefings Mention 'Alien Starbase' in Moon Anomaly Talk
The Trump administration's third batch of UFO related files, published on 12 June, has added another wild detail to the pile.
Within recorded NASA briefings held after Apollo 16 in 1972, officials can be heard referring, apparently half in jest, to an 'alien starbase' on the far side of the moon.
These briefings, which run for about 55 minutes, discuss unusual gravity readings, laser measurements and anomalies detected on the moon's far side, particularly near the Van de Graaff crater region.
One speaker notes 'a great big hole' around what the transcript calls 'Fendi graph', believed to be a garbled reference to Van de Graaff, a crater already known for its strange magnetic and geochemical quirks.
'On the backside of the moon around Fendi graph, that's where we get our big hole,' the participant says, before the discussion suddenly veers. Another voice remarks: 'It could be an alien star base or something. Anyway, the next slide shows the front side of the moon.'
The line, buried in a technical briefing, does not appear in the formal Apollo 16 mission transcript from 1972. NASA has not formally clarified whether the 'alien starbase' reference was a joke, a casual shorthand or something else entirely.
That ambiguity, paired with the Lunar Orbiter 3 photograph and Trump era document dumps, has given UFO believers a field day. For scientists trying to keep public expectations tethered to evidence, it is proving to be an exhausting game of cosmic whack a mole.
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Ridley Scott Rewriting Alien Sequel to Explore the “Chaos” of AI, Calls Alien: Romulus “OK” and Says Franchise “Needs Some Help”
29 August 2026
The Dog Stars director has revealed new details about his sequel to Alien: Covenant with Michael Fassbender
Shortly after telling the LA Times that a sequel to Alien: Covenant is in the works, Ridley Scott has shared new details about his return to the franchise he started with his 1979 classic Alien.
“I’m rewriting the next Alien film,” Ridley Scott told AlloCiné about the next instalment of the sci-fi horror franchise. “I suddenly went back and got involved. The one that just came out [2024’s Alien: Romulus] was OK. I think it needs some help, so I’ve gone back in.”
The news appears to clarify that Scott’s sequel to Covenant will replace the sequel to Fede Álvarez’s Romulus as the upcoming eighth instalment. Álvarez revealed last year that he would not return to direct a follow-up to Romulus, but that he had written the story with Scott.
The upcoming film will now continue the story of the rogue AI David (Michael Fassbender) from Scott’s prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. “I like the fact that AI has gone off the rails,” the director said of Fassbender’s character.
“If we go AI, the moment we discover it’s off the rails is too late. It could switch every digital thing off in the world like that. You’d have fucking chaos. It’s that kind of stuff that’s scary.”
While the follow-up to Covenant now appears to be the franchise’s next instalment, it remains to be seen whether a direct sequel continuing the story of Alien: Romulus’ Rain (Cailee Spaeny) and Andy (David Jonsson) will be made after Scott concludes his prequel trilogy.
The 2024 film, framed as a back-to-basics action-horror following Scott’s more meditative prequels, was a surprise box office hit, grossing over $350 million worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing horror film of all time in the IMAX format with $40 million in IMAX ticket sales.
https://www.phantasmag.com/articles-5/ridley-scott-rewriting-alien-romulus-sequel-michael-fassbender-fede-alvarez-ai
Latest: The Tactic Used to Silence Air Force UFO Witnesses
August 27, 2026
Two military and intelligence whistleblowers sat down for a live question and answer session hosted by the Anomalous Coalition, a group built around six UFO focused Reddit communities, with the interview led by investigative journalist Leslie Kean.
According to that session Matthew Brown and Jeffrey Nuccetelli, both founders of the nonprofit Vanguard Enterprise, laid out claims about how UFO reporting was handled from the inside.
Nuccetelli served 16 years in the Air Force as a security forces member and was a supervisor at Vandenberg during a wave of incursions from 2003 to 2005.
According to his account, the tone at the base changed after a landing event in October 2003, when a respected airman named Grant Best reported a large object over the flight line. Days later, Best was called in by OSI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Nuccetelli said the meeting felt less like a debrief and more like a warning, and that afterward patrols simply stopped calling in what they saw over the ocean and the missile fields, out of fear that one more report would cost them a clearance or a career.
In reference to that experience, Nuccetelli said informants would target an isolated young airman, gain his trust, then draw him into a situation involving alcohol or drugs, creating leverage that turned the person into a tool.
It is worth noting he was careful to separate the people from the system, saying some of his best friends were OSI agents and that he was describing a structure, not attacking individuals.
He also described his own close encounter in 2005, witnessed alongside two friends, which he says convinced him the phenomenon is real and that other witnesses deserve to be believed. That belief fed his second warning, about what he called celebrity disclosure.
According to Nuccetelli, the government may be handing selected information to trusted public figures who then spread it, meaning inaccurate messaging could reach a global audience through names people already trust.
Matthew Brown extended those thoughts, expanding on three statements he first raised in another interview about a month prior.
He said that people are not free, that reality is larger than the public is allowed to know, and that God is real. This latest interview was the first time he unpacked any of them in detail.
On the first two, he pointed to eroded privacy protections, arguing that measures like the Patriot Act have left entire generations without any real experience of privacy, and that legal protections against unlawful search weaken near the borders.
He tied that to what he sees as suppressed areas of science, whole fields slowed down or pulled into classified projects, and a narrowing range of acceptable public opinion, where fewer positions can be voiced openly without being shouted down.
On the third, that God is real, Brown was careful, calling it a personal statement of faith rather than anything found in a classified file, and something each person has to arrive at on their own.
https://www.ufonews.co/post/latest-the-tactic-used-to-silence-air-force-ufo-witnesses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-y1kHUcg48
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BOB DEAN : WE ARE NOT ALONE: ORIGINAL INTERVIEW IN ALL 3 PARTS
August 26, 2026
REPOST FOR EASY ACCESS. Originally published in 2007.
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WHISTLEBLOWERS on the subject of UFOS, Aliens and the alien invasion by COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR ROBERT O. DEAN.
Bob Dean : An Officer and a Gentleman
Phoenix, Arizona, May 2007
We have met many remarkable people in the course of our work for Project Camelot, but meeting Bob Dean was one of our greatest privileges.
As an elder statesman he is charming, eloquent and dashing, and we are proud to present this as what may be one of our most memorable interviews.
In Part One, Bob shares with us his knowledge of the UFO phenomenon and what he encountered while working at SHAPE in Europe in the 1960s: an inch and a half thick detailed official report on the extraterrestrial ‘problem’ called at that time simply “The Assessment”.
Having the clearance to have free access to the document, he read it and re-read it many times, and he tells us how that changed his life. Later, after retiring from the military, he made the courageous decision to defy his Oath of Secrecy and began to speak publicly about what he had learned.
In Part Two of the interview, Bob tells us that this is probably his last interview… and having done so, he pauses, takes a deep breath, and reveals on record for the first time that he has been contacted, and has been on board the craft.
Do not miss this… and we invite you to join us in applauding the courage, integrity, dignity and commitment to truth of this very special man. We would like to think that this interview is an appropriate and fitting tribute to everything that he has stood for and wishes for the world.
https://projectcamelotportal.com/2026/08/26/bob-dean-original-interview-in-all-3-parts-2-2/
https://rumble.com/v7elxv2-bob-dean-command-sgt-robert-o-dean-we-are-not-alone.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMGb_YcFnew
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGtVzBbUvx4 (Jesse Michels: The Man Who Saw PROOF Of a Pentagon UFO Program (ft. Matthew Brown))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSbPXclUFA (Billy Carson: Jay Johnson's Frequency Technology is Insane)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPDiXRvOXrE (Michael Salla: Secret Space Programs & Timeline Jumping: Memories from Another Reality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Q4wavMYMs (Journey to Truth: #447 | Marine Special Forces Discovers Children & Non-Human Beings in Alaskan Underground Tunnels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUE-HycD6E (Sarah Westall: The Secret Tech You Fund But Don’t Own | Ashton Forbes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXf01A9VYDs ((Why Files: Three Deaths Filed as Alien Encounters)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9wJLHmCDq8 (Sergio and Rhoda in Israel: Inside the Bible Vault No One Is Allowed to See)