>>25050321

TYB

>>25050435

The Department of War just released the sixth tranche of records under PURSUE.

The first tranche was released on May 8, 2026. Scroll down to view the sixth tranche, released on Sept. 18, 2026.

Peter Doocy got an exlusive first look for this release

https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06

https://probed.space/ufo-files?release=release-06

https://www.dvidshub.net/search/?q=uap&view=grid&sort=publishdate

https://x.com/wow36932525/status/2100907729955041788

https://x.com/foxandfriends/status/2100923132491989466

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MHFjqanQMg (The Hill: JUST IN: Pentagon releases 6th batch of UFO files, audio recording) (all videos)

>>25050492

Eric Burlison

@EricBurlison

✅ We found it.

✅ We pushed for it.

✅ Now NARA confirms the 1952 "flying saucer talk" recording is digitized, declassified, and set for release.

Transparency works when you fight for it.

1:38 PM · Sep 17, 2026

https://x.com/EricBurlison/status/2100685942298218664

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

September 18, 2026

Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy

The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other's grand spiral star systems. As for the view from the Milky Way, this sharp telescopic image shows off M33's blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along the galaxy's loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 5 o'clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33's population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW0Xk0PXzx4

Earth Center of Mass, Galactic Rule-Break, Space Weather | S0 News and frens

Sep.18.2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDGst2Vz-IU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52NvB-uuso (MrMBB333: UNEXPECTED SATELLITE EXPLOSION!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoWZYzZrsu4 (TODAY: Millions Across US Under Alerts for Intense Heat, Flash Flooding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1m8McmFyKY (Severe Weather USA: 🚨 DEADLY Floods in New Mexico: 3 Dead, Flash Floods & It's NOT Over!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unz9JJu1co4 (Stefan Burns: A Giant Subduction Slab Just Ripped Under Alaska…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFCSyvGZFhg (EarthMaster: 207 Cascadia Tremors today. Latest update on Kilauea Volcano. Thursday Night Earthquake activity)

• solar

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/magnetic-reconnection-offers-new-insights-into-space-weather/74098/

https://insiderpaper.com/a-chunk-of-the-sun-erupted-into-space-and-could-spark-geomagnetic-storms-on-earth/

https://watchers.news/epicenter/rare-geomagnetic-storms-expose-regional-weaknesses-in-the-u-s-power-grid/

• wildfires

https://www.curtis.senate.gov/press-releases/curtis-wildfire-emissions-prevention-bill-unanimously-passes-committee/

https://dailydispatch.com/fire-news/wildland/utahs-share-of-human-caused-wildfires-falls-as-lightning-fires-surge/

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2026-09-18/goats-used-wildfire-prevention-marine-corps-miramar-22887510.html

https://komonews.com/news/local/deadly-chelan-hills-wildfire-case-as-more-warrants-are-issued-douglas-county-sheriff-wildfire-arson-investigation-court-suspects

https://www.koco.com/article/caddo-county-wildfire-burns-2600-acres-sparked-by-lawn-mower/73779740

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2026/09/18/yosemite-np-wildfire-1000-acres/

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/wildfires/2026/09/18/floriston-fire-forces-closure-of-wb-i-80-on-friday-8-containment/91822672007/

https://www.gbnews.com/royal/royal-news-tech-prince-william-british-wildfires-nasa

• storms and floods

https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/flash-flood-threat-targets-midwest-151226245.html

https://weather.com/2026/09/18/forecast/regional/flood-threat-kansas-city-chicago-midwest-minneapolis

https://www.abc4.com/utah-weather/thunderstorms-hail-northern-utah-flood-southeast/

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/weather-news/2026/09/18/pittsburgh-severe-weather-flooding/stories/202609170086

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-09-18/at-least-4-killed-as-floods-inundate-more-than-16-000-homes-in-vietnam

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>>25050992

• tornadoes

https://www.cochraneeagle.ca/local-news/cochrane-storm-chaser-spent-summer-chasing-17-tornadoes-across-the-prairies-12766485

https://newsable.asianetnews.com/world/dramatic-waterspout-stuns-the-coast-of-rovinj-croatia-videoshow-chqf41u

• hurricanes and frens

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/weather/2026/09/18/miami-hurricane-1926-anniversary-photo/91425435007/

https://weather.com/2026/09/17/storms/hurricane/atlantic-tropical-development-invest-98l-bermuda

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/el-nino-atlantic-hurricane-season-invest-99l

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/oc-board-chair-declares-emergency-for-hurricane-maria-storm-damage/3944212/

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2026/09/17/breaking-news/hawaii-remains-under-flood-watch-as-rain-from-former-tropical-storm-norbert-approaches/

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4604037/interagency-effort-enables-airlift-support-to-kauai-following-hurricane/

• earthquakes

https://interestingengineering.com/science/underground-nuclear-tests-cause-earthquakes

https://www.sciencealert.com/north-korea-stopped-nuclear-testing-in-2017-but-triggered-nearly-1400-earthquakes-since

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/hundreds-of-earthquakes-recorded-utah/

https://abc7.com/post/31-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-south-los-angeles-area-epicenter-compton-usgs-says/19844790/

https://www.krtv.com/breaking-news-alerts/another-earthquake-near-great-falls

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2026/09/18/weak-37-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-sandakan-no-tsunami-threat-to-malaysia/235588

https://bigislandnow.com/2026/09/18/magnitude-4-1-shaker-near-pahala-rocks-big-island/

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/greece-earthquake-prompts-warning-over-strain-along-fault-reaching-marmara-3228423

• volcanoes

https://pmn.co.nz/read/environment/tongan-volcano-sent-seafloor-crashing-700m-in-minutes-new-study

• dailys

https://schumannresonance.today/

https://www.weather.gov/

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn

https://www.americanforests.org/wildfire-map/

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

https://www.tornadohq.com/

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/home.html

https://www.spaceweather.gov/

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=09&year=2026

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https://usaherald.com/pentagon-admits-space-weapons-are-already-in-orbit-and-last-years-3i-atlas-warnings-look-different-now/

other space objects

https://www.astronomy.com/picture-of-the-day/photo/mcnaught-lights-up-taurus/

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article317294371.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhyhjoMUCw (Dobsonian Power: Something is off with Comet A2 BOK!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsu1trkAcEU (Chuck's Astro: Let's Capture a Dark Nebula LBN 573)

Pentagon Admits Space Weapons Are Already In Orbit – And Last Year’s 3I/ATLAS Warnings Look Different Now

September 16, 2026

Key Takeaways

The U.S. has confirmed for the first time that armed systems are already operating in Earth orbit.

The announcement lands ten months after a wave of planetary-defense drills tied to the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

No official has linked the two developments, but the timing invites a hard look at how fast orbital posture has changed.

Ten months ago, this publication reported on an unusual global pattern:

nations from Japan to Brazil were running planetary-defense drills at a pace and scale no one had seen before, all in the shadow of 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system.

At the time, I wrote that the visitor "may be reshaping more than science—its presence is quietly reorganizing planetary defense on a global scale." - Samuel López | USA Herald (Dated 12/2/2025).

That sentence reads differently this week.

On September 14, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, that the United States now has, in his words, "on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action."

It was the first time a U.S. official has publicly confirmed that armed systems are already circling the planet, ending decades of official silence on a capability long assumed but never acknowledged.

Meink did not say what the weapons are, how long they have been up there, or whether they strike kinetically or through other means. He did call the phrasing "very well thought out," a detail that suggests the disclosure was deliberate rather than a slip up.

Space-policy watchers reacted with something close to alarm.

Victoria Samson of the Secure World Foundation called the admission "huge," noting that no prior U.S. official had ever said anything like it, and warned that Washington has effectively invited Beijing and Moscow to stop being coy about their own orbital arsenals.

Other analysts framed it as a deterrence signal timed to a moment when China and Russia continue to test counterspace capabilities of their own, and as part of a broader push to establish the Space Force as a warfighting branch rather than a support arm.

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>>25051100

None of that reporting mentions 3I/ATLAS. But the calendar is hard to ignore. Last fall's drills were the largest planetary-defense exercises on record: the European Space Agency ran a three-day activation of its full detection-and-response triad, Japan staged an accelerated asteroid-coordination exercise across civilian, military, and commercial operators, and the U.S. Space Force moved up a high-altitude orbital-tracking rehearsal originally slated for late 2026.

Countries that almost never disclose this kind of activity, including Australia, South Korea, and Brazil, took part in joint drills built around tracking "non-gravitationally accelerated objects," language that had one obvious referent at the time.

The object driving that language has not gotten less strange. 3I/ATLAS did display an anti-tail pointed sunward, brightness swings inconsistent with a simple icy nucleus, and a small non-gravitational acceleration that standard cometary outgassing does not fully account for.

At the time, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb floated a more provocative reading: hypothesizing that the anti-tail could be a loose cloud of compact objects traveling alongside the main body which he referred to as a “swarm of objects” rather than an ordinary gas plume.

It's worth being clear about what that is and isn't. It is a hypothesis from one prominent but frequently contrarian astronomer, not a conclusion that was ever adopted by the wider community that has studied the object.

The strongest link between this week’s announcement of active on-orbit space control weapons and the 2025 space drills during the peak of interest in 3I/Atlas is the push to detect, track, and understand orbital objects.

More specifically, it highlights the drive to gain a tactical edge in tracking "non-gravitational accelerated objects"—a capability at the bleeding edge of space defense.

The International Asteroid Warning Network organized a 3I/ATLAS observing campaign from November 27, 2025, through January 27, 2026.

Its purpose was to improve measurements of comet positions, which are complicated by diffuse clouds and tails that can distort calculations. The object supplied a useful target for an existing training objective.

Europe also demonstrated measurable gains. On November 14, 2025, ESA reported improving 3I/ATLAS’s predicted location tenfold by combining Earth observations with measurements from its ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

Watching from near Mars provided a different angle, allowing scientists to narrow the object’s position more accurately.

Military exercises held during the same period provide a more direct connection to U.S. and allied readiness.

Resolute Space 2025, which began July 8, tested command arrangements and cooperation with allies under demanding military scenarios.

An Australian officer served as deputy commander for the exercise’s friendly forces. Officials reported identifying lessons for improving coordination across commands and partner forces.

On April 17, 2025, the Space Force released its Space Warfighting framework, outlining orbital, electromagnetic and cyberspace warfare.

Planetary defense and military space control therefore remain distinct and active missions. The former addresses natural impact hazards; the latter concerns operating in space against adversaries.

Whether that shared foundation reflects real technology transfer, parallel investment, or coincidence is a fair question.

We will continue monitoring both stories as new information becomes public.

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NASA’s Hubble Spots an Out-of-Sync Galaxy

Sep 18, 2026

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret.

This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It’s one of over a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity.

As a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy, NGC 4698 has spiral arms that curl around within a thin disk of stars, gas, and dust.

These arms are marked by opaque clumps of brown dust and dotted with small collections of bright blue stars. Unlike many other spiral galaxies, like this one recently photographed by Hubble, NGC 4698’s delicate spiral arms are only prominent in the outer reaches of the disk; spiral arms often wind down to the very center of a galaxy, but NGC 4698’s spiral arms appear to shy away from its glowing center. The arms instead hover in a ring-like structure around the perimeter of the galaxy.

NGC 4698’s center is dominated by an elongated galactic bulge . The diffuse off-white glow of the galaxy’s bulge comes from stars smaller, older, and cooler than the massive blue stars that dot the galaxy’s outer disk.

These tightly packed stars orbit a supermassive black hole containing millions of times the Sun’s mass. Scientists have found signs that this black hole is actively growing, drawing gas inward with its gravitational pull.

With a flat, starry disk and diffusely glowing center, NGC 4698 looks a lot like a typical spiral galaxy — but this galaxy is far from normal. NGC 4698 is one of only a few known spiral galaxies with a bulge that extends out from the disk at a right angle.

The elongation is faintly visible in this Hubble image, which shows the ghostly glow of the starry bulge peeking above and below the dusty disk. What’s more, the stars and gas nearest the galaxy’s center rotate perpendicular to the rest of the disk!

What could cause a galaxy to be so out of sync? Astronomers have found that the culprit likely lies outside the galaxy.

If NGC 4698 funneled in gas from an outside source, the newly collected gas could have formed a disk of gas and stars in the galaxy’s center, at an angle relative to the rest of the disk.

Some observations suggest that this galaxy once experienced a minor galactic merger, as evidenced by a short ‘tail’ of hydrogen streaming from one side of the galaxy.

The data used to create this image come from an observing program focusing on galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. This program zooms in on the details of these relatively nearby galaxies, such as individual star clusters and nebulae.

At the same time, researchers will use these data to take stock of the larger picture, learning how a galaxy’s journey through a cluster affects the galaxy’s evolution and ability to form new stars.

https://science.nasa.gov/uncategorized/nasas-hubble-spots-an-out-of-sync-galaxy/

moar

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/cosi-telescope-comes-together/

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/lake-powell-drops-to-record-low-levels/

https://x.com/NASA_Marshall/status/2100979561999610235

https://x.com/NASAJohnson/status/2100967362019127524