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1st Special Forces Command Launches Inaugural Drone Competition to Sharpen Formation Readiness
September 11, 2026
ANNISTON, Ala.— 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) brought together 15 Teams from across the Special Forces Groups, the 75th Ranger Regiment and the 101st Division at Fort McClellan and Clarke Range Complex, Aug. 24-28, for its inaugural Best Drone Team Competition, a five-day event designed to assess and strengthen unmanned systems proficiency across the formation.
The competition tested how teams employed small, unmanned aircraft systems in support of tactical tasks in both rural and urban environments.
The event focused on more than flight operations, requiring competitors to analyze problems, adjust to changing conditions and apply available technology to mission requirements.
1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)may have earned first-place honors at the conclusion of the event, but the broader purpose was to improve readiness across 1st Special Forces Command by identifying effective practices, exposing capability gaps and informing future training.
“This event was built to measure how teams apply unmanned systems in a tactical context, not simply how well they operate the equipment,” said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Phil Schleicher, G3-Aviation/UAS & Robotics Ops Warrant for the Special Operations Robotics Detachment (SORD), 1 SFC.
“We wanted to evaluate judgment, adaptability and how these systems support mission accomplishment.”
The event brought together Special Forces teams, robotics-focused personnel and key staff representatives from across the command, creating an opportunity to compare approaches and exchange tactics, techniques and procedures.
The competition reflects a broader command emphasis on adapting to rapidly changing technology and ensuring units can incorporate emerging capabilities into training and operations.
As unmanned systems continue to evolve, commanders must balance experimentation, resourcing and skill development to ensure formations remain effective in complex environments.
“The operational value of these systems depends on how well soldiers understand their capabilities and integrate them into a larger tactical problem,” said 20th Special Forces Group’s SORD Competition Coordinator. “The system itself is only one part of the equation.”
Observations from the competition will help shape future training across the force, including efforts to capture best practices, develop instructional materials and examine ways to raise baseline proficiency in tactical unmanned systems employment.
The competition provided leaders an opportunity to observe how teams are solving similar operational challenges with different methods and equipment. Those insights, can help inform follow-on training and guide future capability development discussions across the command.
“Our objective is to take what was learned this week and make it accessible across the 1 SFC formation,” said Brig. Gen. Joseph Wortham, Commanding General of 1 SFC. “Success is not just about recognizing the top team. It is about improving the overall force.”
As the command continues to refine how it prepares Soldiers to operate in a changing technological environment, the inaugural Best Drone Team Competition marked an early step in building a more capable, adaptive and informed force.
https://www.army.mil/article/295259/1st_special_forces_command_launches_inaugural_drone_competition_to_sharpen_formation_readiness
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NEW: The Kammler Connection: The Nazi SS General at the Center of an Alleged U.S. UFO Legacy Program
1:21 AM · Sep 12, 2026
https://x.com/LiberationTimes/status/2098688435636576747
https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/the-kammler-connection-the-nazi-ss-general-at-the-center-of-an-alleged-us-ufo-legacy-program
Did SS General Hans Kammler die in 1945, or enter American custody?
Intelligence Community sources allege that he became a key link between Nazi efforts to exploit recovered technology and a postwar American UFO legacy program. The claim is extraordinary.
The documented reasons the United States might have wanted him are not.
1:30 AM · Sep 12, 2026
https://x.com/ChrisUKSharp/status/2098690657648816184
What the sources allege:
-Italy recovered a craft near Magenta in 1933, gave Germany access in 1934 and identified its occupants as advanced terrestrial “Nordics”
-Himmler’s 1935 Ahnenerbe became the program used to find the “Nordics” and exploit their technology
-The United States learned of the work in 1944-45. The sources say it later absorbed an overt von Braun stream and a covert Kammler stream through the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, Overcast and Paperclip
-They trace the work through the CIG, CIA and Air Force, then to a claimed 1962 transfer into the Air Force and defense industry
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The Magenta account recasts the Die Glocke legend. Any Bell-like device, they say, may have been an attempt to copy recovered technology
-The central historical question is whether Kammler survived and entered American custody.
1:31 AM · Sep 12, 2026
https://x.com/ChrisUKSharp/status/2098691032275689577
https://x.com/ChrisUKSharp/status/2098690764599386350
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Could these flashing triangles in the sky be real-life UFOs?
September 12, 2026 6:00am
Way up in the sky, a triangle glowed the same three colours over and over again: yellow, red and green.
Craning their neck to see it, mobile phone in hand, was a former RAF personnel member on holiday on the west coast of Bali in Indonesia.
The triangle wasn’t alone.
‘We saw three triangular-shaped objects in the sky,’ the personnel member, who asked to speak anonymously, tells Metro of the July 6 UFO encounter.
‘One was flashing red, pink and blue green lights and the other was showing three steady green lights.
‘The third was quite faint. They were not making any noise and were stationary.’
The sky was clear and the wind still as the objects hovered about 600ft above them and their partner’s heads for 20 minutes from 6.40pm, they add.
‘We moved briefly inside the apartment to get ready to go out. When we moved outside again, we noticed they had gone. That’s about it. Quite weird really.’
‘There are several things to suggest it’s a UFO’
Gary Heseltine, the editor of UFO TRUTH MAGAZINE, was sent the footage by a former colleague.
He says that at first glance, the objects in the clip appear to be drones.
‘But there are several things that suggest to me that they might be anomalous, or a UAP,’ Heseltine says, using the modern term for UFOs, unidentified anomalous phenomena.
‘They hovered above the hotel for 20 minutes in total silence and they have an unusual appearance, three objects with two distinct shapes.’
The objects don’t appear to be in a typical drone formation, though, and he location of the encounter, a hotel in Seminyak, is ‘unusual’.
Heseltine says the footage is similar to UAP sightings in 2024, when drones zipped over New Jersey and other East Coast states for weeks.
‘All in all,’ the retired British Transport Police Detective Constable adds, ‘curious and for me unidentified.’
So… is it aliens?
Depends on who you ask. Metro shared the alleged close encounter with other experts in all things extraterrestrial.
Mark Christopher Lee, a UFOlogist and filmmaker, says that while the video is ‘impressive’, he’s not convinced it shows aliens coming to say hello.
Instead, he said the triangles could be Balinese kites fitted with ‘terrestrial’-looking LED lights.
The objects were seen at the height of the island’s kite-flying season, a centuries-old tradition where locals ask the Hindu gods for a good harvest.
Some kites, known locally as layang-layang, are fitted with green, blue and red lights, a Bali tourist website says.
‘For a brief few seconds my ancient alien head on was thinking ancient Vimāna [flying ships described in Hindu text] coming back!’ adds Lee.
‘But logic kicks in, especially with those lights – I guess at night you also can’t see the strings.’
Mick West, a science writer and UFO sceptical investigator, was blunter with his verdict.
‘They look like LED kites,’ he says.
Videos of UFOs over the decades are all too infamous for being low-quality. And we might be entering the modern-day version of that.
Kate Burns, VP EMEA of identifAI – a tool that detects if an image or video is AI-generated – says parts of the video appear to be edited.
She added: ‘The challenge with such videos, however, is that the lower the resolution they are, the harder it is to provide an entirely confident score.’
About one in two people in the UK believe aliens exist and nearly one in 10 claim to have seen a UFO, a 2021 YouGov poll found.
But exact figures on UFO sightings can be tricky, as police forces do not record them, leaving alien hunters to compile their own databases.
Nearly 100 sightings of orbs, colourful triangles and fleets of metal discs in UK skies have been reported to UFO Identified this year.
Almost all sightings can be explained away as hoaxes, Chinese paper lanterns or aircraft lights, according to Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence in the 1990s.
Speaking before his death in April, Pope told Metro nearly all callers to the ministry’s ‘UFO desk’ were ‘sincerely believed’ they saw a UFO.
‘In the end, we found about 80% or so of these sightings were misidentifications, 15% had insufficient data and 5% were unknown,’ he said.
‘That 5% doesn’t mean extraterrestrial, but as I always remind people, neither did we rule that out.;
https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/12/flashing-triangles-sky-real-life-ufos-29465300/
https://usaherald.com/congress-has-seen-the-evidence-on-ufos-why-hasnt-america/
Congress Has Seen the Evidence on UFOs — Why Hasn’t America?
September 11, 2026
Key Takeaways
Lawmakers with security clearances, including Rep. Nancy Mace, say they've viewed classified UAP footage and material far beyond what's been publicly released.
Legal experts argue the public has a right to data on the life-form question itself, separate from classified military hardware or defense programs.
Recent congressional hearings have only deepened the gap between what officials admit exists and what they're willing to show taxpayers.
Something doesn't add up, and it isn't hiding in a grainy government video — it's sitting in the gap between what members of Congress say they've seen and what the rest of us are allowed to see.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has chaired or questioned witnesses in two of the most consequential UAP hearings Congress has held in decades.
She's heard testimony under oath from a former Air Force intelligence officer that the government has recovered "non-human" biologics from crash sites.
She's said publicly that "non-human intelligence exists" and has been "interacting with humanity," and that this has been known to unelected officials for some time.
In her own words, some of what's been discussed behind closed doors "do not reflect well on influential individuals and agencies within the U.S. federal government."
That's a member of Congress, not a fringe blogger, describing a gap between insider knowledge and public disclosure. And it's worth asking, plainly: what legal obligation does the government actually have to close that gap?
The Legal Argument for Disclosure
Objections to releasing more UAP material usually center on national security — the fear that unclassified footage or data could expose sensor capabilities, flight paths of classified aircraft, or ongoing intelligence programs.
That's a legitimate concern, and no serious disclosure advocate is asking the Pentagon to hand over its black-budget files.
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But that argument, however valid, addresses the wrong question. When scientists discover a new species — a fish nobody has catalogued, an insect never described — the how we found it stays separate from the what we found.
The expedition equipment, the funding source, the surveillance methods: those can stay proprietary. The species itself gets published, peer-reviewed, and entered into the public record.
That's not a courtesy. It's how science works, and arguably how a government answerable to its citizens should work too.
Applied here: classified programs, defense contractors, and any military technology derived from recovered materials can remain compartmentalized under existing national security law.
But if the government possesses physical or biological evidence bearing on the existence of non-human life, that is a fundamentally different category of information — one with implications for biology, physics, public safety, and arguably the entire framework of how humanity understands its place in the universe. Treating it as just another line item in a classified program, indefinitely withheld under the same rules that protect radar specifications, is where the legal and ethical argument for transparency gets its teeth.
Congress has moved, unevenly, in this direction.
The UAP Disclosure Act and related transparency provisions attached to recent defense authorization bills were built specifically to force a more structured accounting of what the government holds on this subject, and to create a review process modeled loosely on the JFK Records Act.
The intent behind those provisions was to stop UAP material from disappearing into permanent classification simply because no formal declassification deadline ever arrived.
Low-Resolution Answers to High-Resolution Questions
In the meantime, the public-facing output remains thin.
Official releases — through the Pentagon's UAP resolution office — have largely consisted of the same handful of blurry infrared clips first surfaced years ago, alongside written assessments that stop short of addressing the specific claims raised in sworn testimony.
Members like Mace have described watching material in classified settings that goes well beyond what's been cleared for release, without ever detailing what, specifically, would be lost to national security by describing the underlying phenomenon rather than the sensor that filmed it.
That distinction — hardware versus phenomenon — is where this debate should be focused.
Whatever one makes of the underlying claims, the argument that some categories of UAP-related evidence belong in the public record, separate from classified defense programs, isn't a fringe position anymore.
It's a live legislative question, and it's the one Congress should be pressed to answer clearly, on the record, rather than leaving it to be inferred from what individual members say on social media.
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Mark Christopher Lee
@The_King_Of_UFO
Statement re UFO Disclosure & Trump's Speech thanks to @WIRED
https://wired.com/story/the-trump-alien-disclosure-speech-rumors-are-reaching-a-fever-pitch/
4:23 AM · Sep 11, 2026
https://x.com/The_King_Of_UFO/status/2098371874853933219
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The Government Ignores Most UFO Sightings - It’s Unacceptable.
Sep 11, 2026
Another Epic UAP Failure. Dr. Phil breaks down why 93% of Americans have no official way to report a UFO/UAP sighting.
Thousands of civilian UAP reports sit untouched while the government turns a blind eye.
In today's Real Story, Dr. Phil exposes the broken UAP reporting system: no public reporting channel through AARO or PURSUE, 1,855 "Tier One" credible UFO sightings sitting in NUFORC's database, and two former U.S. presidents (Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan) who saw UFOs with nowhere to report them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts-Q7E3Ew6g
https://x.com/DrPhil
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