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Samba's reentry recorded
01/09/2026
On 31 August 2026, Samba reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 21:39:38 UTC / 23:39:38 CEST as the third of the four Cluster satellites.
Samba had been specially lined up for a targeted reentry safely over the South Pacific Ocean, with the precision so high that a plane could fly out from Tonga and successfully record its demise for reentry science.
Following its targeted reentry on 31 August, Samba (Cluster II FM-7), the third of ESA's four Cluster satellites, was successfully observed by the ROSIE airborne mission 2026.
The ROSIE reentry observation team acquired the image at Station 3 with a Nikon Z8 camera operated by University of Stuttgart (HEFDiG).
This reentry image was made with a so-called tracking camera, used to confirm that Samba is where it is supposed to be. It shows the surroundings, providing context such as the state of fragmentation and relative positioning of the fragments.
It is complemented by other instruments that look for the presence of specific materials in the same field of view. This then helps the scientists identify which part of the spacecraft we are looking on their quest to understand how the demise takes place exactly.
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/09/Samba_s_reentry_recorded
https://x.com/esaoperations/status/2094562600998645889
https://x.com/esaoperations/status/2094744322839134597
moar ESA
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/09/Meet_FLEX
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/08/Nepal_glacier_collapse_and_flood_before_and_after
United States Space Force
@USSpaceForce
Watch live Sept. 3 at 11 a.m. ET as Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess assumes responsibility as the next Chief of Space Operations from Gen. Chance Saltzman
7:15 AM · Sep 1, 2026
https://x.com/USSpaceForce/status/2094791201551458688
https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/38374
https://www.spaceforce.mil/live/
moar Space Force
https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4585857/afas-offers-road-ready-grant-for-spouses-of-deployed-airmen-guardians/
https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4585049/daf-announces-additional-guidance-implementing-changes-in-response-to-secwar-me/
https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/Article-Display/Article/4587263/kronos-information-series-episode-1
Japan, U.S. agree to intensify cooperation in space transport business
Sep 01, 2026 - 18:01
TOKYO - Japan and the United States have agreed to further enhance cooperation in the space transportation business by standardizing part of the review procedures when Japanese firms launch rockets from U.S. sites and vice versa, Japan's Cabinet Office said Tuesday.
Japan's National Space Policy Secretariat and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration signed a memorandum of cooperation on Monday, also aimed at streamlining regulations and intensifying information sharing.
"We would like to build a system adaptable to space business, which is widely expanding in a variety of forms," said Takatsugu Ryuzaki, director general of the secretariat in charge of the country's space development and utilization, after the signing.
With several spaceport projects underway in Japan, including in Kochi and Oita prefectures, the two sides will discuss guidelines for space business operators setting out specific requirements for spaceports.
In addition to rocket launches, the two security allies are considering connecting Japanese and U.S. cities via suborbital flights at an altitude of around 100 kilometers.
Last year, a Japanese travel agency said it aims to launch a point-to-point transport service in the 2030s connecting Tokyo and U.S. cities like New York in one hour.
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/83684
moar Japan space
https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026090100778/
Trump welcomes Russia at G20 despite EU tantrum
1 Sep, 2026 03:41 | Updated 1 Sep, 2026 06:00
European officials threatened to boycott the traditional “family photo,” forcing Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov out of the shot
US President Donald Trump welcomed the presence of a senior Russian delegation at the G20, ignoring protests from EU officials who refused to appear alongside Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in the gathering’s traditional “family photo.”
Siluanov arrived in Asheville, North Carolina for the two-day meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on Monday at the invitation of the Trump administration.
His first in-person appearance at the forum since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022 immediately drew protests from European delegates.
German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil called the decision to treat Siluanov as a regular participant a “troubling” signal.
Other EU officials reportedly threatened to boycott the photo unless the Russian official was excluded, according to the Washington Post.
Trump brushed aside the criticism when asked about Siluanov’s visit.
“We’re going to see what happens, but we like getting along with everybody,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “One of the reasons that I’m so successful, I get along with everybody.”
Unlike the Europeans, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a bilateral meeting with Siluanov. Moscow said the two discussed Russian-US cooperation on financial issues and coordination within the G20.
US officials said Bessent also raised Trump’s plan for settling the Ukraine conflict and prospects for bilateral economic cooperation and growth.
Other reports suggested that the US side made it clear that it would not offer Moscow economic relief or agreements in other areas before the hostilities end.
Siluanov took part in G20 discussions on the global economy, economic growth, and sovereign debt.
He warned that “geopolitical fragmentation” is increasingly obstructing the free movement of goods, capital, and technology, while pointing to automation, AI, and import substitution as emerging drivers of Russian growth.
Trump has repeatedly broken with America’s European allies over efforts to keep Russia diplomatically isolated. He argued that kicking Russia out of the G8 in 2014 was a mistake.
In 2025, he said Russia “should be sitting at the table” and suggested that the Ukraine conflict could have been avoided if Russia had been in the group. He repeated the argument this year, saying the G8 should have been preserved.
The US president has taken the same approach toward the G20. In April, he said it would probably be “very helpful” if Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the leaders’ summit in Miami in December.
“I’m of the opinion that you talk to everybody,” Trump said at the time. “I’m somebody that believes in talking.” The US subsequently invited Russia to the summit. Moscow accepted the invitation, while leaving open who will represent the country.
https://www.rt.com/news/644948-trump-russia-g20-siluanov/
moar RT
https://www.rt.com/russia/644944-beslan-russia-terrorism-threat-ukraine/
https://www.rt.com/russia/644939-ukrainians-kiev-explosives-near-homes/
https://www.rt.com/news/644907-russian-fertilizers-us-imports/
https://www.rt.com/news/639655-eu-drone-sightings-denmark/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83451
https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/83498
other Russia and Ukraine
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Ukrainian-Drone-Barrage-Sets-Key-Russian-Oil-Port-Ablaze.html
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/c8257f5e_russian_forces_damage_odesa/
https://report.az/en/region/peskov-says-germany-pursuing-further-escalation-by-blaming-russia-for-drone-incident
https://kyivindependent.com/estonia-romania-report-drone-incidents-amid-russian-and-ukrainian-aerial-attacks/
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/national/26513471.uk-expresses-full-solidarity-germany-attempted-russian-drone-attack/
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-human-safari-terror-in-kherson-russian-drone-hits-taxi-injuring-2-young-girls-22139
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83488
Massive Russian Missile, Drone Attack on Kyiv and Region Kills 12, Injures Over 20
Sept. 1, 2026, 2:55 am
In brief: Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region, killing 12 people and injuring over 20 others, including children.
[UPDATED: Sept. 1, 1:57 pm , Kyiv time. Updated with the latest casualty figures and new details on the missile and drone barrage.
Updated with a report on the rising death toll and number of injuries in Kyiv and the region. Updated with a report on the consequences of a new morning attack.]
Twelve people were killed and over 20 others injured, including children, as Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region early Tuesday, marking the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the area.
Eight people were killed and ten injured in the Ukrainian capital, including three children, according to city authorities.
“Kyiv region came under a massive attack by Russian missiles and strike drones tonight,” Kyiv regional military administration chief Tymur Tkachenko said on Telegram.
Kyiv Post reporters heard around a dozen loud explosions and saw flashes in the sky late Monday, moments after Ukraine’s Air Force warned of incoming ballistic missiles, and early Tuesday morning.
The Air Force reported a “high-speed target toward Kyiv,” followed by warnings of several targets heading toward the capital, missiles approaching from the south and jet-powered drones moving in from the east.
The Air Force later warned that the threat of “ballistic weapons and other means of attack against Kyiv and the region remains in effect” and urged residents to remain in shelters.
According to updated Kyiv city military administration (KMVA) data, civilian infrastructure was damaged in five districts of Kyiv: Holosiivskyi, Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi.
In the Darnytskyi district, fires broke out at two locations following the strikes. Seven people were killed there, while another person remains in serious condition in hospital. The fires have since been extinguished.
Oleksandr Pertsovsky, the head of Ukraine’s railway system, Ukrzaliznytsia, wrote on Facebook that Russia had launched a targeted ballistic strike on a railway depot and other railway facilities in Kyiv.
The attack killed seven people, six of whom were Ukrzaliznytsia employees. Another employee was injured and remains in hospital, where they are receiving the necessary medical care.
Dozens of employees managed to reach shelters and are now receiving psychological support after the attack.
Pertsovsky said the strike caused extensive damage. A workshop near the depot was completely destroyed, while rescuers were still extinguishing several fires at the site.
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Rail traffic was temporarily suspended on two routes following the strike but has since resumed.
“All this is nothing compared to the terrible loss of our colleagues,” Pertsovsky wrote, adding that the company is in contact with the relatives of those killed and is supporting them through this difficult time.
At another location in the same district, a blast wave injured two people, including a child.
In the Holosiivskyi district, debris struck a non-residential building, causing a fire covering 40 square meters (430 square feet). The fire was extinguished, but one person was killed.
In the Solomianskyi district, a drone struck a residential building, partially destroying it. Rescuers pulled a man from the building and freed a woman from the rubble. Both were handed over to ambulance crews.
After 10 a.m., another drone attack struck Kyiv, causing a fire on the 14th and 15th floors of a 16-story residential building in the Podilskyi district.
“Three people were injured in a multi-story building in the Podilskyi district, where a fire broke out as a result of an enemy UAV attack on the capital,” Klitschko wrote.
Rescuers evacuated seven people from the smoke-filled building.
In the Kyiv region, the massive missile and drone attack damaged residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and vehicles, according to the State Emergency Service (DSNS). Fires also broke out at several locations.
In Boryspil, east of Kyiv, a five-story apartment building, a shop and two private houses were damaged. Rescuers evacuated 48 people and rescued two people from the rubble.
Eight people were injured, including two children born in 2021 and 2010.
Elsewhere in Boryspil, a truck caught fire at an infrastructure facility, while the enterprise’s building was also damaged. Two people were killed and three others injured. The fire has been extinguished.
A service station was also damaged in Boryspil, leaving one person dead.
Later, the Kyiv Regional Military Administration reported that the death toll in Boryspil had risen to four, while 13 people were injured.
In the village of Hryhorivka, debris damaged an infrastructure facility and two apartment buildings. In the village of Husachivka, debris damaged 11 private houses, a garage and a car.
Rescuers continue to work at the sites of the Russian attacks and clear the aftermath.
The attack came as Ukrainian children were preparing to return to school after the summer holidays.
The Kyiv regional military administration had warned against holding large events in areas considered at high risk amid fears of further Russian strikes.
Kyiv and its surrounding region have come under sustained Russian attacks in recent weeks, with faster jet-powered drones adding to the threat and triggering repeated air raid alerts.
The latest barrage marked the sixth consecutive day of Russian strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region.
It follows a devastating Russian strike on an ammunition depot in the Kyiv-region village of Myla last week that killed 38 people.
Russia’s intensified aerial campaign has repeatedly struck residential buildings, businesses and other civilian infrastructure, killing and injuring civilians across Ukraine.
Deliberate attacks on civilians or civilian objects, as well as indiscriminate attacks that fail to distinguish between military and civilian targets, constitute war crimes under international humanitarian law.
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-01/live-updates-907197
other Israel
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/432557
https://www.timesofisrael.com/let-them-burn-pms-aides-said-to-slam-idf-on-oct-7-for-being-slow-to-release-photos/
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/levant-turkey/artc-lebanese-army-wants-idf-to-remain-in-southern-lebanon-for-fear-of-hezbollah-return-report
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/gaza-reports-three-killed-in-idf-strikes-militia-reportedly-targeted-senior-hamas-official/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/navys-sixth-dolphin-2-class-submarine-drakon-on-its-way-to-israel/
https://vinnews.com/2026/08/31/idf-appoints-first-female-commander-of-282nd-artillery-regiment/
Live Updates: US strikes Iranian targets in Bandar Abbas after US Embassy warns of ‘potential for escalation’
September 1, 2026
IDF dismantles terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon • Trump says Iran striking Gulf neighbors was 'very good thing,' • UK to unveil 'comprehensive' response to West Bank settlement plans
September 1, 9:34 PM
Iran’s worsening economic crisis raises questions over Tehran’s willingness to compromise
As Iran’s economic strain deepens, an expert told the Post that the regime is not close to collapse despite rising inflation.
Images emerging from Iran in recent days showing vehicles waiting in long lines to refuel are another indication of the severe economic crisis facing the country – one of the most serious Iran has experienced in decades.
The rial has continued to collapse against the US dollar, recently falling below the threshold of 2 million rials to the dollar on the open market. Soaring inflation, growing difficulties in importing and exporting goods, and a dramatic decline in oil exports are increasingly being felt on the streets of Iran.
September 1, 9:16 PM
Trump says US gave Iran many chances, dismisses value of any deal, reports Fox News
US President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview on Tuesday that he had given Iran a lot of chances and dismissed the value of any deal with Tehran.
"I think an agreement with them isn't worth the paper it's written on. We gave them a lot of chances," Fox News quoted him as saying.
September 1, 9:08 PM
Netanyahu meets with US ambassadors to Lebanon, Israel in Jerusalem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Michelle Issa, and the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, in his Jerusalem office on Tuesday night.
The two ambassadors are leading the talks between Israel and Lebanon.
September 1, 8:58 PM
Final German 'Dragon' submarine on its way to Israel as Navy continues modernization efforts
Multiple foreign publications have reported that Israeli submarines are part of a triad of nuclear deterrence that Israel possesses.
The final of six submarines that Germany manufactured as part of a long-ago signed deal is on its way to Israel, the IDF and the Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday night.
Israeli Navy Chief V.-Adm. Eyal Harel and German Naval Chief Jan Christian Kaack, as well as other top Israeli and German officials, attended a send-off ceremony for the submarine earlier this week.
In February of this year, Elbit Systems released a strikingly vague statement about the beginning of joint work in Israel with the German maritime vessel manufacturing giant TKMS (the successor company to an expanded ThyssenKrupp and the producer of this submarine) to produce “structural components” for future submarines.
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September 1, 8:58 PM
Israel fears Syria's Sharaa is rearming while courting global legitimacy, defense official warns
A senior defense official told Walla that Sharaa’s troops were not currently at a high level of operational readiness, but that he had already held several brigade-level exercises.
Israel’s defense establishment is increasingly concerned about developments in Syria and the processes Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is leading as he seeks to rebuild the country, a senior defense official told Walla on Tuesday.
The official said Sharaa remains deeply rooted in the ideology of his past as an extremist jihadist leader while simultaneously operating in a “super sophisticated” manner to advance his regime’s interests with the US, moderate Sunni Arab states, Europe, and other countries.
“He knows how to speak to every audience and every person separately and adapt himself to the situation,” the senior official said.
Addressing Sharaa’s broader objective, he added that the Syrian president “Is working to expand the international legitimacy of his regime in order to distance himself from his past image and prepare the ground for countries and major corporations to invest in Syria, similar to Bashar Assad at the beginning of his rule. Therefore, stability in the country is critical for him.”
September 1, 8:55 PM
US Embassy issues security alert for citizens in Middle East due to ‘potential for escalation’
The embassy warned Americans to stay vigilant and watch for potential airspace closures, which may disrupt travel or cause flight cancellations.
The US Embassy in Jerusalem issued a security warning for American citizens in the Middle East due to tensions in the region and the “potential for unforeseen escalation” on Tuesday.
The embassy warned Americans to stay vigilant and watch for potential airspace closures, which may disrupt travel or cause flight cancellations. Those planning to travel to or from the Middle East were cautioned to monitor information regarding airline operations.
This is a developing story.
September 1, 8:55 PM
IAEA reports progress in Syria investigation, none in Iran
The UN nuclear watchdog has resolved its outstanding questions in its investigation into past, secret nuclear activities in Syria under the Assad family's rule, a confidential report by the agency seen by Reuters said on Tuesday.
A separate, quarterly International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran, also sent to member states and seen by Reuters, showed there had again been no progress in Iran, where its lack of access to verify uranium stocks since US and Israeli attacks in June 2025 remained a "proliferation concern."
September 1, 8:50 PM
Trump says latest strikes on Iran are 'justified,' warns Tehran against retaliation
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the latest US attack on Iran was "justified," and threatened bigger strikes if Tehran retaliated.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said the US military was striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday in retaliation for Iran's "failed attempt at adding sea mines" to the Strait and for shooting eight missiles at a US military base in Jordan.
September 1, 8:07 PM
IRGC commander thought dead in Israeli strike reportedly plans Asian sabotage- report
Informed sources have told Iran International that Moghaddam survived an Israeli attack and commands Unit 4000, heading a unit responsible for sabotage operations against Iranian adversaries.
Brig.-Gen. Rahman Moghaddam, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)'s special operations unit, Unit 4000, began planning operations in the Strait of Malacca and the Bangka Strait, two waterways essential to global trade, and ports in Indonesia and China, Iran International reported on Tuesday, citing several informed sources.
Moghaddam was previously believed to have been killed during Israeli strikes on March 4. The day after reports of his death were published by Israeli media, two drones were launched by Iran towards Azerbaijan.
The strikes were reported by CNN to be in retaliation for Moghaddam's killing in an attack believed to have been carried out from Azerbaijani territory.
September 1, 7:48 PM
US CENTCOM begins wave of strikes on Iran in retaliation for targeting of US troops in region
Iranian state media reported that several explosions were heard in the eastern area of Iran's Bandar Abbas.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it began a wave of strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran on Tuesday.
According to CENTCOM, the strikes are being carried out in retaliation for Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and the recent attack on US troops stationed in the region.
Iranian state media reported that several explosions were heard in the eastern area of the city of Bandar Abbas.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/08/31/cloud-seeding-rainmaker-drones-alaska/91457183007/
Drones modified weather, dropping millions of gallons of precipitation
Aug. 31, 2026Updated Sept. 1, 2026, 10:56 a.m. ET
Cloud seeding has been around for decades, but a new announcement says a drone project saw a measurable success in modifying the weather.
A decades-long controversy has a new twist: Drones have caused 19 million gallons of precipitation to fall in Alaska.
The drones were used for cloud seeding, part of a long-running scientific project aiming to extract precipitation from certain clouds in areas that need more.
The latest development is notable because a private company says it was able to rapidly measure how much precipitation was caused by its efforts to modify the weather using drones.
Measuring the effectiveness of cloud seeding has been a tricky challenge over the years, and the news out of Alaska comes as interest grows in using cloud seeding to combat drought in the West.
Cloud seeding is controversial and complex. Over the years, it's generated pushback from skeptics and conspiracy theorists alike.
Ten states have banned or considered banning it, according to a 2024 Government Accountability Office report. Meanwhile, several states in the Western United States are embracing cloud seeding.
What happened in Alaska?
The news out of Alaska shows how cloud seeding plays out ‒ usually as a drizzle or a flurry, not a downpour.
The approximately 19 million gallons that fell sounds like a lot, but it was spread out over nearly 100 square miles and over three hours, according to Rainmaker founder and CEO Augustus Doricko.
Someone on the ground would have experienced at most a drizzle.
Rainmaker, a California-based private company, said in a report that it successfully measured the precipitation, which fell mostly as snow, and can directly attribute it to its cloud seeding efforts on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, over a three-hour period on Aug. 23.
It's the first time a private company has validated its efforts with methods that prove cloud seeding caused a specific amount of precipitation to fall in Alaska, said Rainmaker founder and CEO Augustus Doricko.
As extreme drought threatens water supplies, agriculture and the generation of hydroelectric power, states including Idaho, Utah and Colorado have been turning to cloud seeding in the hopes it can provide an extra nudge to generate rain and snowfall in the areas that need it most.
What is cloud seeding? Is this science fiction?
Cloud seeding is a concept that has been around for decades. It was first conceived with experiments in the 1940s and has been done in several countries around the world.
The most common type of cloud seeding used in the United States is done almost entirely in Western states, according to University of Illinois emeritus professor of climate, meteorology, and atmospheric sciences Robert Rauber.
That's because cloud seeding is mostly done with clouds that rise over mountains in the wintertime, called orographic clouds, Rauber said.
Scientists look for and identify certain types of clouds that have tiny droplets of supercooled water, which is water below 32 degrees Fahrenheit that does not turn to ice.
That's because pure water won't turn to ice until it's much colder, dozens of degrees below 0; tiny particles of other substances, such as minerals, cause water to turn to ice.
The clouds ideal for seeding have lots of supercooled water that doesn't turn into ice on its own and fall as precipitation. Without intervention, those water droplets wouldn't fall and would eventually evaporate, Rauber said.
The typical process for cloud seeding involves introducing particles such as silver iodide into the clouds, causing the water to turn to ice and fall over the mountain.
Seeding the clouds with those particles can be done from the ground or by air using airplanes, or in the case of the Rainmaker project, drones.
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"What we're trying to do is get more of the cloud water to land on the mountain as snow," Rauber said.
"Why is that important? In the Western United States, snowpack is a reservoir. It's a place where water can be stored and then distributed in the spring and summer when the ice melts."
The problem with cloud seeding for a long time was that while scientists knew it worked, they were unable to prove it and measure how much precipitation was a direct result of cloud seeding, and how much would have fallen anyway.
That changed in 2017 with the Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment, or the SNOWIE project.
The SNOWIE project marked the first time researchers could validate their efforts.
Using radar and a formula, researchers proved that their seeding was producing a specific amount of precipitation, said Rauber, who is not involved with Rainmaker but who helped develop the SNOWIE project.
Cloud seeders respond to naysayers
Rainmaker is the first private company to prove how much rain they produced, Doricko said. The Rainmaker drones seeded in a particular pattern in the clouds, and the resulting snowfall was easy to spot on radar as theirs.
"We'll fly either in a specific pattern… or we'll pulse the drones, meaning we'll periodically release silver iodide and then stop," he said.
"If you see precipitation happening exclusively in your flight track or exclusively in those pulses, then you know that it's definitively manmade, if it is a replicable enough feature if you do it enough times."
Rainmaker has not been without its skeptics. The idea of weather manipulation often makes people uneasy. It's even been banned in states including Florida and Tennessee.
Rauber says much of the opposition to cloud seeding comes from ignorance of the process. There are also unfounded theories about its consequences, which Doricko has spent time on social media trying to debunk.
"I can guarantee no floods or deadly outcomes, this technology has well-characterized physical limits," he said in response to criticism from former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on X.
Deadly flooding in Texas Hill Country in July 2025 brought a wave of accusations against the company, which two days before had seeded clouds over 100 miles away to produce less than half a centimeter of rain on farmland going through drought, reported the Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Scientists say it's impossible that the cloud seeding could have contributed to the flooding because cloud seeding can't impact weather that far away, and at most it would be a modest amount of additional precipitation even if it could.
Cloud seeders are very aware of the potential that their operations could be misinterpreted by the public, so they tend to avoid going anywhere near the types of clouds that could risk flooding, Rauber said.
Could cloud seeding be the answer to worsening drought?
The reason cloud seeding is more embraced in the Western United States is because of the hope it can provide aid to areas impacted by severe drought.
Ongoing drought has seen the United States' two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, reach record low levels this summer as climate change-fueled drought is lessening the amount of snow falling on the Rocky Mountains before melting into the Colorado River, which feeds the lakes holding water for drinking supply and power.
Doricko said Rainmaker plans to bring its cloud seeding to a larger scale: The Alaska demonstration, he said, "shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months."
Cloud seeding alone isn't the solution to the drought crisis in the West, experts say.
"Conservation is really important; we shouldn't waste water," Doricko said.
"But if you want to maintain the ecosystems that we have, the farms and cities that we have, you have to work on the supply side. You have to innovate your way into abundance."
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White House allegedly signed off on secret UFO retrieval program in 1954
Updated: Aug 31, 2026 / 06:45 PM CDT
(NewsNation) — The White House allegedly authorized a secret UFO retrieval program during President Dwight Eisenhower’s administration.
NewsNation special correspondent Ross Coulthart noted in his “Reality Check” podcast that there were claims of special meetings with Eisenhower at Holloman Air Force Base in 1954.
The meetings allegedly involved U.S. government officials, senior military officials and nonhuman intelligences.
“The Majestic-12 Documents, their provenance is unconfirmed,” Coulthart said, noting he does suspect that a large quantity of them are real.
First appearing in 1984, the documents claim to prove the existence of a secret committee formed in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman regarding alien spacecraft recoveries.
The documents also refer to the alleged discussions with nonhumans and an agreement for the program, according to Coulthart.
“They claim there was a secret meeting and a deal involving technology exchange in return for abduction rights or similar,” he said. “Hell of an allegation, and not one I suspect the U.S. government would ever want to admit.”
Alleged agreements could explain government secrecy: Coulthart
Coulthart argues that if such agreements existed, they could help explain government secrecy from the U.S., Russia and China surrounding retrieved technology.
He explained that the deal could be the impetus behind David Grusch’s claims of a secret Cold War, a battle that’s been ongoing to develop said technology.
“Let’s admit it … the country that can develop the technology that can move objects across the world instantaneously, it makes the whole mutually assured destruction doctrine that has protected the West for the last 80 years almost redundant,” Coulthart stated.
“There are a hell of a lot of decisions that would have to be made by governments before they admitted what they had in terms of secret technology or agreements with nonhuman intelligences.”
Person confirmed to me that they’ve come across NHIs: Coulthart
Expanding on the alleged program, Coulthart revealed a watcher of his show told him they’ve seen nonhuman intelligences.
Coulthart says the particular location of the observance was not disclosed to him.
“I just wish I could get the corroboration to substantiate what they say,” he acknowledged.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/white-house-alleged-secret-ufo-retrieval-program/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOrqnmADfMw
Was it the lost city of Atlantis or a crashed UFO? The strange Ferris wheel-sized circle found at the bottom of the sea
September 1, 2026 at 3:26 am
The Baltic Sea Anomaly has been the subject of mystery and debate for many years
When searching for treasure, there’s no knowing what you might find. This was the case for Swedish divers who stumbled across something very strange in the Baltic Sea in 2011.
While using sonar to scan the seabed, they saw a strange shape.
The scans were blurry (some experts have said the sonar was misaligned, messing with the image) so it was hard to make out what this unidentified object might be: but it was circular and around 60 metres in diameter (around the size of a Ferris wheel).
What was it? No-one knew. Perhaps because of this, media speculation went wild. People suggested that it might be a meteorite or a UFO that had crashed in the ocean and was now sitting 90 metres deep on the seabed.
Some even threw around the idea that the mythical lost city of Atlantis had finally been found.
“We need to know what we’ve found,” said Peter Lindberg, one of the treasure hunters on the Ocean X team who found the anomaly, in a press release at the time.
“Media has been speculating about everything from UFO’s to Russian spaceships. What we know at this point is its size and shape and we also know, based upon the sonar image, that there is a ridged tail going from or to the cylinder-shaped anomaly of about 3,800 feet throughout the bottom of the sea.”
The Ocean X team had been looking for hidden treasures but this probably isn’t what they’d had in mind!
Things got weirder when the divers suggested that something in the region of the object – dubbed the Baltic Sea Anomaly – was causing technology to malfunction. When they were above the anomaly, they said their electrical equipment didn’t work.
But, before you start to get excited that we’ve finally discovered proof of interstellar lifeforms, hold your horses. There’s probably a more logical explanation.
According to Live Science, Volker Brüchert, an associate professor of geology at Stockholm University (and not on the Ocean X team), “most of the samples they have brought up from the sea bottom are granites and gneisses and sandstones."
The sunken treasure brought up from the region is also said to have included a piece of basalt, which is created when lava cools and solidifies.
The basin of the Baltic Sea was carved out by glaciers during the last ice age and these rocks may be souvenirs.
“Because the whole northern Baltic region is so heavily influenced by glacial thawing processes, both the feature and the rock samples are likely to have formed in connection with glacial and postglacial processes,” Brüchert told Live Science. “Possibly these rocks were transported there by glaciers.”
Although the crashed spaceship theory has been debunked by experts, many people have remained intrigued by the Baltic Sea Anomaly over the years – after all, a spaceship is more exciting than a glacial deposit.
This isn’t the only time strange geological formations have appeared to be something else: marine researchers found what looks like a replica of the Wizard of Oz’s yellow brick road 1,000 metres deep in the Pacific Ocean.
Although it looks like something from the film set, the odd geological formation was actually created by ancient volcanic activity.
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/baltic-sea-anomaly
https://x.com/dennis_asberg/status/1915079584124449048
https://x.com/dennis_asberg/status/2009707100901917181
https://x.com/dennis_asberg/status/2039057637942186383
https://x.com/dennis_asberg/status/2082745903446725076
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImV8f0pOoXQ (Timeline - World History Documentaries: The Case Of The Baltic Sea Anomaly | The Mystery Beneath)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGqFOxuYRT0 (Jesse Michels: “There's A UFO On The Seafloor!” -Treasure Hunter Dennis Asberg)
Hope Chewy's alright
Admiral Tim Gallaudet Confirms UFOs Coming From The Ocean | Planet Tyrus
September 1, 2026
Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet joins Tyrus to expose what hides in 73% of unexplored ocean, from secret naval sonar tracking underwater UAPs to leading NOAA through Trump's "Sharpiegate."
A deep dive into secret naval intelligence and leadership.
Former NOAA Administrator and Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet joins Tyrus to reveal what really exists in the 73% of unexplored ocean.
From classified naval sonar tracking fast-moving UAPs underwater to leading NOAA through Trump's infamous "Sharpiegate" hurricane controversy, Admiral Gallaudet breaks down leadership, deep-sea discovery, and secret naval intelligence.
In this episode, Admiral Gallaudet discusses his memoir Holding Fast in Heavy Seas, detailed military encounters with anomalous underwater objects (USOs), hunting Orca species, and how the ocean serves as our most vital national security front.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6404428268112
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcqKCUCFsts
https://x.com/PlanetTyrus
https://x.com/GallaudetTim
Clash Report
@clashreport
JD Vance on UFOs: I don't have the file that says, "Oh, this wasn't a UFO. It was actually a demon."
And my attitude is, if they are real, isn't it as likely they're angels or demons as they are extraterrestrials?
But I don't have a top secret file that sort of proves that one way or the other.
Source: Bryce Crawford Podcast
9:37 AM · Sep 1, 2026
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2094826928616460791
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41RTb_dWORg (Bryce Crawford: JD Vance Felt "Darkness" From These World Leaders)
extra
https://x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/2094548767404126323
https://x.com/AshtonForbes/status/2094650597186113755
https://x.com/Eyes_OnTheSkies/status/2094712639062462487
https://x.com/InterstellarUAP/status/2094800768708534403
THE DOLLY PARTON COUNTDOWN BEGINS: Was The Nepal Flood a "BIRTH" of What's Coming?
September 1, 2026
Was Dolly Parton's death fulfilling a prophecy? Was the flood in Napal symbolic of a woman's water breaking before a birth? Bo Polny breaks it down for my audience…YOU DECIDE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XfzwTh1LcA
https://x.com/ninoboxer
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3cGiOQrBk (Zohar ANCIENT HISTORY: The Sumerian Kings Who Lived Outside Our Timeline for 30,000 Years | David Wilcock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzU7WScFKIM (The Cosmic Summit: Ron James: AARO Was Built to Find Whistleblowers, Not Protect Them)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519kBFYT1TQ (John Michael Chambers: From Personal Power to National Strength with Riccardo Bosi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_N27zdUOmY (Paola Harris: THOUGHTS ON DISCLOSURE: The Alien Autopsy footage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ito-J64uhsQ (Praveen Mohan: BARABAR 1 - THEY HID THIS 2,200-YEAR-OLD CAVE FROM US)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AFvtCny8aw (Praveen Mohan: BARABAR 2 - Non-Human Technology Found In BARABAR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTYhrHSQKXE (Startalk: All About The New Telescope NASA Just Launched, with Jason Rhodes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9OYF1ygFyg (Jack Gordon: I Found Where they "Faked" the Moon Landing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deAu0qG_pyc (Angela Rose: No Mars Colony = HUMAN EXTINCTION)