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"Zircons" from the sea brought tsunamis and tornadoes to the enemy — Russian Defense Ministry
September 22, 2026 10:14
Russian troops used sea-based "Zircon" hypersonic missiles during a massive night strike, follows from a message in the telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
""Zircons" brought tsunamis and tornadoes to the enemy from the sea," the military department noted, attaching a photo of the launch, which compared the massive blow with the Ninth Wave, which, according to ancient belief, is the strongest and most dangerous wave during a sea storm.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation informed that tonight the Russian army launched a massive strike with high-precision ground-, sea- and air-based weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles at enterprises of the metallurgical and chemical industries, fuel and energy and military-industrial complex, port infrastructure facilities of Ukraine in Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia and Odessa regions, as well as naval vessels involved in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In particular, it is reported about the defeat in the Kiev region of the BDU Logistic logistics center in Happy and the gas distribution station in Boyarka, which provided the defense industry enterprises.
In the port of Odessa, a cargo ship was hit, which, according to the Russian military department, delivered military cargo, in Izmail, the port infrastructure facilities used for unloading and storing such cargo were hit.
Another cargo ship was struck at the sea crossing in the direction of Odessa. The enemy reported attacks on Lozova, Kharkiv region, including on the railway infrastructure and the station.
Подробнее: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2026/09/22/zircons-from-the-sea-brought-tsunamis-and-tornadoes-to-the-enemy-russian-defense-ministry
other Russia and Ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-strikes-russian-drone-storage-and-launch-site-in-oryol-oblast-damages-5-launchers/
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/22/300-russian-shadow-fleet-ships-disabled-in-11-weeks-the-azov-sea-is-at-a-standstill-ukrainian-drone-force-commander-says/
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-and-syria-sign-deal-on-demining-and-drone-based-mine-detection-22769
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/85085
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-jet-powered-drones-strike-kyiv-injuring-8/
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-torpedo-undersea-drone-putin-4780574
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-21/live-updates-909207
other Israel
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tls2x3
https://www.timesofisrael.com/katz-claims-hamas-plotting-to-kidnap-soldier-threatens-to-depopulate-raze-gaza-city/
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hked11njqgg
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-909223
Live Updates: IDF reportedly raids several areas in West Bank after one killed in Neveh Tzuf terror attack
September 22, 10:23 PM
Trump calls off planned US strikes on Houthis at last minute after Saudi plea • Iran says it has new targets, weapons ready if US launches new attack, Fars news says
September 22, 2:28 AM
IDF arrests two terrorists planning imminent attack in West Bank operation
IDF troops carried out counterterrorism operations across several West Bank locations during Yom Kippur, arresting wanted suspects and seizing weapons and explosives-related materials.
IDF troops carried out counterterrorism operations at several locations across the West Bank during Yom Kippur, including in Kabatiya, where troops from the Duvdevan Unit arrested two terrorists who were planning to carry out an attack in the near future.
In the village of Biddu, in the Binyamin Brigade sector, IDF troops mapped the home of a terrorist. During a separate brigade operation in the village, troops searched approximately 100 locations, questioned 90 suspects, and found a hunting rifle.
In another Duvdevan Unit operation in Beit Ur al-Tahta, troops discovered a weapons-manufacturing lathe, two Carlo-type firearms, and additional weapons.
The Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit also operated in the Menashe Brigade sector, where troops questioned suspects, arrested wanted individuals, and found materials intended for the production of explosives.
September 21, 10:08 PM
Syria grows increasingly concerned about suspicious explosions near Aleppo
If the explosions continue, suspicion will continue to grow. Levant24 has highlighted that the Aleppo explosion is the fourth this month.
Syrian authorities are investigating an explosion near Aleppo that occurred on Sunday evening.
It is the latest mysterious explosion in Syria that has appeared to occur at an arms depot. There have been several in the last two weeks.
Most commentators agree that while one or two accidental explosions are possible, the recent ones appear to fit a pattern.
September 21, 10:07 PM
Iranian airlines to be cut off from global system as US Treasury announces secondary sanctions
The move is part of the Trump administration’s Operation Economic Outcast, designed to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran alongside the conflict with Iran.
Foreign companies continuing to provide services to Iranian airlines will risk facing US secondary sanctions starting on Wednesday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Monday.
“On September 23, all Iranian airlines will be grounded globally,” Bessent told CNBC.
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September 21, 10:01 PM
IDF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza following attack on Israeli military vehicle
The IDF struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday following an attack by the terror group against an IDF vehicle, the military confirmed.
According to the IDF, the vehicle drove over an explosive device placed by Gaza terrorists in the Yellow Line area.
September 21, 9:18 PM
Hamas attacks IDF vehicle in Gaza with explosive device, causing no casualties - report
Hamas terrorists attacked an IDF engineering vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, Army Radio reported.
No injuries were reported in the attack, according to Army Radio, which noted that the attack marks the third ceasefire violation by Hamas in September.
September 21, 8:55 PM
Iran says it has new targets, weapons ready if US launches new attack, Fars news says - report
IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi tells Fars News Agency that Iran is ready to change the 'weaponry and geography of the war.'
Iran would use new weapons and target locations not previously attacked if the United States launched a new offensive against it, Revolutionary Guards spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi said on Monday, according to the Fars News Agency.
"If a new aggression occurs, we will certainly change the weaponry and the geography of the war," Mohebbi said, adding that Tehran was prepared for a prolonged conflict.
September 21, 8:55 PM
Trump calls off planned US strikes on Houthis at last minute after Saudi plea - report
The New York Times reported that target lists had already been approved and bombs were being loaded onto US warplanes after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged Trump to intervene
US President Donald Trump came close to ordering a new American military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen this weekend, after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally urged him to intervene, but called off the planned strikes as they were nearing execution, The New York Times reported.
According to the report, Trump had spent roughly two weeks weighing repeated Saudi appeals for US military assistance against the Iran-backed Houthis, whose renewed offensive has expanded the conflict in Yemen and increased pressure on Saudi Arabia.
September 21, 8:55 PM
IDF raids several areas in West Bank following Neveh Tzuf terrorist attack - report
The terrorist is believed to have acted alone in both the attack and his escape attempt, Army Radio cited security officials as saying.
The IDF raided several areas in the West Bank over the course of Yom Kippur, following the terrorist attack in Neveh Tzuf on Sunday, Army Radio reported.
The report added that the funeral for the victim of Sunday's shooting attack, Netanel Chkroun, will take place on Monday at 11:00 p.m.
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https://www.unocha.org/news/take-fighting-and-armed-drones-out-populated-areas-appeal-global-leaders
Take fighting and armed drones out of populated areas: appeal to global leaders
22 September 2026
“Once a drone fell near our home,” recalled a resident* of El Obeid in Sudan’s North Kordofan.
“It hit several of our neighbours, although we were not affected, but the situation was horrible. We could not sleep for days, we were afraid that another drone would fall, we kept looking at the sky to check.”
As the annual meeting of global leaders at the United Nations gets underway, the El Obeid resident appealed, “Conflict must stop inside cities. Arms must be banned inside cities. Attacks against civilians and civilian areas must stop.”
Drone warfare has become a leading cause of civilian death in some armed conflicts. In the first four months of this year, drone strikes accounted for 80 per cent of recorded civilian deaths (at least 880 lives) in Sudan.
Last year, armed drones were a leading cause of recorded civilian death (577 deaths) and injury in 2025 in Ukraine. July was the deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine in more than four years, with at least, 437 people killed and more than 2,600 injured.
The use of armed drones – and the human toll they exact – has expanded in countries such as Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
Drone-related attacks globally increased by at least 4,000 per cent between 2020 and 2024.
Living in constant fear
Struggling from the devastation of ongoing fighting, people living in these countries now live in constant fear of drone strikes.
OCHA’s acting head of office in DRC, Alain Ouattara, said, "Families in eastern DRC have fled two and three times already.
Now they tell us they lie awake listening for drones, because explosive weapons are landing near the sites, clinics and markets where they sheltered; there is nowhere left that counts as having escaped.”
According to an OCHA staff account, for people in Kherson, a front-line city in southern Ukraine, basements and underground shelters have become places to sleep, gather and find safety.
The El Obeid resident in Sudan underlined the impact of drone warfare on their lives every day.
“A while ago gas stations were struck, there was no public transport, people started to walk everywhere. It struck a water station and it impacted water supply. They also struck power stations, it impacted power supply, we only get power for not more than three hours.”
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The situation is as precarious in parts of Myanmar.
According to Gwyn Lewis, Humanitarian Coordinator for Myanmar, “… civilians and aid workers continue to face an evolving conflict with severe humanitarian consequences.
“The growing use of drones, paramotors, and emerging technologies is adding to the loss of life. This is affecting communities and the routes people use to access safety and to access assistance.”
According to UN experts, the constant presence of drones overhead, the distinctive sound, and proximity create a pervasive sense of fear and uncertainty, causing significant psychological distress.
Drones pose a growing threat to aid and medical workers
Drones are increasingly exposing aid workers to harm and hampering their ability to safely access people in need and carry out humanitarian operations.
In 2025, at least 35 aid workers were killed by drones more than double from the previous year. “Aid workers should be able to reach people in need safely, rapidly, and effectively,” underlined Lewis.
Drone-delivered explosives have also damaged buildings essential to humanitarian operations and medical care, including hospitals, internally displaced and refugee camps, food distribution points, and aid offices or warehouses.
The El Obeid resident, who works both as a medical and social worker, recounted, “You will be in the hospital and afraid to be struck.”
Armed drones may look like the ones being used for humanitarian purposes – for instance to capture data or gain situational awareness.
There is a risk these devices may be confused, resulting in possibly compromising the safety of humanitarian personnel and the people they serve.
Actions needed
To ensure the protection of civilians, including aid workers, the UN and partners have been highlighting the humanitarian consequences of armed drones and the action required.
All parties must respect international law, including international humanitarian and human rights, in the use of armed drones.
States must withhold arms transfers where there is a clear risk that the arms will be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law or human rights.
OCHA’s DRC head Ouattara explained, “The technology is new. The obligations are not, and they do not change depending on which weapon is used or which conflict is in the headlines.
Governments with influence over the parties must now use it. And we need assurances of safe access that hold, or our teams cannot reach the people who need us most.”
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https://www.gadgetreview.com/u-s-warns-cartels-are-building-battlefield-drone-capabilities
U.S. Warns Cartels Are Building Battlefield Drone Capabilities
Sep 22, 2026
Cartels recruiting Ukraine combat veterans and buying Chinese aircraft as U.S. laser defenses lag behind rapidly evolving threats
Key Takeaways
Cartels adopt Ukraine battlefield drone tactics, including radio-frequency hopping, faster than governments respond.
Mexican cartels recruit Colombia veterans with combat drone experience to strengthen trafficking operations.
Weaponized-drone events in Latin America surged, with 72% of tracked incidents occurring after January 2025.
An internal U.S. government assessment warns that Latin American drug cartels are rapidly upgrading their drone capabilities and that American and Mexican counternarcotics authorities may be unprepared for the shift.
Five U.S. officials and one Mexican official described the assessment anonymously to The Washington Post.
The core concern is speed. Battlefield tactics refined in the Russia-Ukraine war, including improvised explosive payloads and radio-frequency hopping (a technique that makes it harder for jamming systems to disrupt the link between a drone and its operator), are reportedly diffusing into criminal networks faster than governments can update their defenses.
From Surveillance to Weapons Delivery
Officials say criminal groups have moved well beyond basic reconnaissance, and the capability gap is growing.
Mexican cartels already use drones to monitor law-enforcement activity and map smuggling routes on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to an intelligence document reviewed by The Washington Post, Mexican authorities believe at least one cartel possesses a multirotor aircraft with six to eight propellers, capable of flying for hours and carrying more than 150 pounds.
That claim has not been independently verified.
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A Mexican intelligence official told The Washington Post that one cartel sent personnel to China to purchase drones that could be equipped with rifles.
Officials added that criminal groups are studying radio-frequency hopping and other methods to defeat counter-drone jamming systems.
Skills Imported From a War Zone
Anonymous official accounts describe a recruitment network connecting the Ukraine battlefield to trafficking organizations.
U.S. officials told The Washington Post that Mexican cartels are recruiting Colombians with recent Ukraine combat experience and sending affiliates to the war zone on training contracts.
Some officials alleged that families of recruits have been threatened to ensure their return; those claims rest on anonymous accounts and have not been publicly corroborated.
A senior State Department official said the U.S. government is aware of Colombian fighters who served on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war and returned with drone knowledge that has directly or indirectly benefited trafficking organizations.
A Colombian fighter interviewed by The Washington Post described a two-month Ukrainian drone-piloting course covering the operation and arming of aircraft, though his account does not establish that he worked for any cartel.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry pushed back on the broader implication. Taras Palianytsia, an official with the ministry’s foreign-recruitment office, said international volunteers have varied motivations and undergo background checks intended to identify malicious intent.
A Regional Surge in the Data
Independent tracking shows a sharp acceleration that predates any confirmed cartel recruitment pipeline.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data project recorded 38 weaponized-drone events in Colombia in 2024, 149 in 2025, and more than 200 by early September 2026.
Across Latin America, roughly 72% of approximately 670 total weaponized-drone events tracked since 2018 occurred after January 1, 2025. The data confirms a regional surge but does not, by itself, establish that Ukraine veteran recruitment caused it.
“What’s the next major problem we’re going to have? Drones are it,” one anonymous U.S. counternarcotics official told The Washington Post.
Lasers and Coordination
High-energy lasers are now in the field, yet procurement timelines still favor the cartels.
The State Department said it is coordinating with U.S. law enforcement and Ukrainian counterparts to limit the transfer of battlefield drone skills.
The U.S. military has deployed high-energy laser systems and credited them with downing 11 cartel-linked drones between August 24 and September 4, according to military officials; the locations, engagement circumstances, and independent verification procedures for each interception were not specified in available reporting.
VanHerck placed the greatest near-term danger not at the U.S. border but deeper inside Mexican territory, where explosive-laden drones could target Mexican security forces and rival criminal groups.
Cartels can change routes, payloads, and frequencies quickly, while counter-drone jamming authorization, and agency coordination require far more time.
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UFO déjà vu? Mystery lights over Tehran revive Iran’s famous 1976 sky saga
September 22, 2026
Synopsis
A mysterious brightly lit object spotted over Tehran has sparked speculation online, with videos appearing to show it hovering or moving slowly across the night sky.
The sighting has also revived memories of a famous 1976 Tehran UFO incident involving Iranian fighter jets, radar detections and reported equipment failures.
A brightly lit object spotted over Tehran has sent social media into speculation mode, with videos appearing to show an unidentified object hovering or moving slowly across the night sky.
Whether it was a drone, aircraft or something else remains unclear, as Iranian authorities have not publicly identified the object.
The latest videos have prompted a range of theories online, from military drones and aircraft to unidentified aerial phenomena.
None of the explanations circulating on social media has been independently established.
A mystery Tehran has seen before
The latest sighting echoes an incident recorded on September 19, 1976, when residents in Tehran's Shemiran area reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky.
A subsequently declassified US government report documented the Iranian Imperial Air Force's response. Two F-4 Phantom fighter jets were dispatched to investigate the object.
According to the report, the first fighter experienced failures involving its instruments and communications while approaching the object. The systems reportedly began working again after the pilot broke away.
A second F-4 was then sent after the object and reportedly detected it on radar. Its crew also described seeing a smaller object emerge from the larger one.
The second pilot attempted to engage the smaller object, but the report said the aircraft's weapons-control system and communications failed at that point.
The encounter later became one of the more frequently cited historical UFO cases involving military aircraft.
From UFO theories to RGB-light jokes
The new footage has revived that history, while online reactions have ranged from speculative to outright playful.
Some users have suggested that the lights could belong to a military drone or several drones flying together.
Others have proposed an aircraft or an unidentified aerial phenomenon, but there is no independent confirmation of any of these explanations.
The internet's more imaginative theories have included everything from a flying carpet to decorative LED lights.
One commenter jokingly imagined an alien spacecraft covered in colourful lights, while another quipped that aliens had arrived to broker peace between Donald Trump and Iran.
Someone else cut straight to the alleged technology behind the mystery: “Why are aliens using cheap RGB lights?”
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/ufo-dj-vu-mystery-lights-over-tehran-revive-irans-famous-1976-sky-saga/articleshow/134405165.cms
https://www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Mysterious-bright-object-filmed-over-Tehran–footage-sparks-UFO-speculation/
https://x.com/darkjournalist/status/2102158495940293058
https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/2102378286487871529
https://x.com/ufouapam/status/2102307455556329693
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvRb4bJXsI (Goldie Ghamari: 🚨 UFOs in IRAN?! Mysterious Object Appears EXACTLY 50 YEARS After Iran’s Famous 1976 Encounter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBrvrmcaXOk (WeAreChange: We Just FAKED an Alien Invasion…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P9MMoMRNZc (Benny Johnson: Congressman Reveals UFO Seen Above Iran Was AMERICAN Tech: ‘They Have No Idea What We’ve Created…’🛸)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwHKa79l7zA (Next News Network: Alert: Tehran lights locked down Iran, then OSINTdefender posted one exact line to watch)
1963 ‘Alien Crash’ in Brazil? Declassified Files Reveal the Truth Behind Metallic Sphere Report
Last updated: September 22, 2026 11:33 AM ET
The latest declassified files under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) reveal an investigation into reports of a dead astronaut.
In November 1963, an intelligence investigation was carried into a mysterious metallic sphere carrying a dead astronaut that had crashed in Brazil.
For weeks, the US State Department, NASA, and the Department of Defense researched the possible causes of this crash. Most explanations focused on an alien spacecraft or a secret military device.
What is the “metallic sphere” incident?
On 8 November 1963, a Portuguese radio broadcast from Rio de Janeiro’s Radio Tupi claimed that a massive metallic sphere from the sky had crashed.
The sphere apparently had glass-covered windows, through which a human-like body dressed in a specialized uniform was visible. The pilot’s uniform was also marked with strange symbols and inscriptions that the locals could not recognize.
The reported crash site was in the centre of Conde, a small municipality in Brazil’s Bahia state. The radio broadcast claimed that the crash had left a crater measuring up to nearly 4 meters.
The broacast immediately attracted attention, and six days, the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro alerted the State Department. The occupant of the metallic sphere was described as a “dead crewman”.
The unsealed files explain that the US State Department did not immediately attribute the object to extraterrestrial activity.
Officials expected the object to be an unidentified foreign surveillance asset such as a rogue top-secret deep-atmosphere weather balloon. Case files were immediately routed to the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA for verification.
The reality
The investigation ceased just six days later. On November 20, 1963, American Consul Harold Midkiff confirmed in official correspondence that the incident was completely fabricated.
When investigators, journalists and local military attachments landed in Conde, they found no evidence of the sphere or the 13-foot crater.
The files also contain records of a formal denial issued by Brazil’s Ministry of Aeronautics. Moreover, the Brazilian military also ran an internal radar and airspace sweep and confirmed that there had been no airspace violation.
The declassified files provide an interesting insight into how misinformation was historically handled. Without satellite imagery or the internet, the global intelligence community relied on fragmented chains of communicated.
This incident took place at the height of the Cold War and the Space Race, when paranoia ran high. The US and the Soviet Union were constantly developing and deploying secret technologies against one another such as secret satellites, spy balloons, and experimental capsules.
https://insiderpaper.com/1963-alien-crash-in-brazil-declassified-files-reveal-the-truth-behind-metallic-sphere-report/
https://usaherald.com/in-may-pastor-perry-stone-revealed-secret-government-meetings-with-leading-pastors-ahead-of-ufo-disclosure-what-have-we-learned-since/
https://usaherald.com/multiple-pastors-claim-u-s-military-intelligence-officers-secretly-briefed-them-to-prepare-their-congregations-for-uap-disclosure/
In May, Pastor Perry Stone Revealed Secret Government Meetings With Leading Pastors Ahead of UFO Disclosure — What Have We Learned Since?
September 21, 2026
The Pentagon’s sixth UAP disclosure tranche released September 18 includes 71 files, including studies involving warp drives, wormholes, unexplained injuries, advanced aerospace concepts, and new videos of ‘orbs.’
Months after Perry Stone warned Christians to prepare for UAP disclosure, pastor Stone continues public discussion of UFOs, extraterrestrial life and what the phenomenon could mean for biblical faith.
There is still no public government confirmation of extraterrestrial life — and a prominent congressional UAP investigator has disputed claims that pastors received an official government briefing.
When USA Herald reported in May that several Christian ministers were saying they had been warned to prepare their congregations for UAP disclosure, the central question was whether something extraordinary was approaching.
Four months later, something unquestionably has changed.
The United States government has now released six tranches of UAP material through its Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE.
On Friday, September 18, the Pentagon released its sixth and arguably one of its most provocative batches yet.
But there is an important distinction.
The new files establish that the government investigated extraordinary aerospace concepts and continues releasing unresolved UAP material.
They do not establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, that extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth, that recovered spacecraft are extraterrestrial, or that the more dramatic claims originally attributed to private pastor briefings are true.
That distinction may now be the most important part of the story.
The sixth tranche of government UAP materials contains 71 files — 55 PDFs, 15 videos and one audio recording — covering records dating from 1952 through 2025.
Sixty-seven came from the Defense Department and four from Colorado law enforcement. Most contain some level of redactions.
Among the most striking records are 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents produced through the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP.
Their subjects sound less like conventional military research and more like science fiction: warp drives, traversable wormholes, antigravity, negative mass propulsion, invisibility and other advanced concepts.
One particularly unusual study examined alleged injuries associated with anomalous aerospace encounters.
Another newly released incident report describes six small spherical objects over the Middle East that appeared lively and repeatedly changed direction. The incident remains unexplained.
The historical material is equally interesting. A 1952 recording of Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt — who would lead Project Blue Book — describes roughly 20 percent of hundreds of UFO reports then investigated as sufficiently credible that investigators could reach no conclusion.
Pastor Perry Stone Warned Christians Before the Releases Accelerated
That brings USA Herald back to evangelist-pastor, Perry Stone.
Our May report examined Stone's account that pastors had been told to prepare Christians for coming UAP disclosures.
Stone described concerns that extraordinary claims about unknown craft, non-human entities and materials could shake people's understanding of Scripture.
Stone has not abandoned the subject.
In July, his official YouTube channel published a video titled “Beware of Government Reports About to Be Released,” specifically tagged with UFO, aliens, prophecy and disclosure. Days later, Stone published “Is There Life in Other Galaxies?”
More recently, his ministry has also featured a discussion with preacher Shane Warren concerning life in other galaxies and the alleged UFO meetings.
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Stone's public framing asks Christians not merely whether unusual phenomena exist, but how claims about their origin should be interpreted within a biblical worldview.
Has Disclosure Hurt Religion Yet?
So far, there is little evidence of the widespread religious collapse sometimes imagined in discussions about extraterrestrial disclosure.
In fact, previous research suggests the opposite.
Research examining Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy found little support for the prediction that extraterrestrial disclosure would trigger a major religious crisis.
Other research surveying believers across Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and other traditions similarly found that most religious respondents believed their faith could accommodate extraterrestrial intelligence.
NASA itself has publicly hosted serious discussion about astrobiology and theology, acknowledging that discoveries concerning life elsewhere in the universe naturally raise questions about faith, humanity and humanity's place within creation.
But those are theological questions, not necessarily theological catastrophes. The Pentagon has not released a document saying aliens exist.
It has released records showing that the government has spent considerable time examining phenomena, reports and theoretical technologies that once existed largely outside respectable public conversation.
Four Months Later, Where Are We?
When USA Herald published its May report, the pastor claims were extraordinary and the promised government disclosures were largely still ahead.
Today, the balance has shifted.
The claim of an officially sanctioned pastor briefing remains contested and unverified. Yet the government disclosure machinery itself is unquestionably operating, at least to a small degree.
Six tranches have been released.
New UAP videos are public.
Historical investigations are being exposed.
Previously classified or restricted records concerning extraordinary aerospace concepts are being placed before the American public.
And on September 14, the Pentagon announced a legal waiver intended to permit current and former personnel previously constrained by nondisclosure agreements to provide UAP-related information to the government — potentially opening another channel for information to emerge.
For Christians watching these developments, Perry Stone's fundamental question therefore remains relevant even if some of the claims surrounding the alleged pastor briefing remain unverified:
What happens to faith if humanity someday learns that it is not alone?
The evidence released thus far does not require anyone to answer that question.
But Washington is releasing enough information that churches, theologians, scientists and ordinary Americans are increasingly willing to ask it.
And perhaps that is the biggest change since May.
UAP disclosure has not yet delivered proof of extraterrestrial intelligence.
It has, however, moved the conversation from whether the government has investigated extraordinary phenomena to what decades of government investigation actually found — and what humanity will do if one day the unexplained becomes explained.
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'The aliens are coming': Mystery lights in skies over Doncaster
22nd Sep 2026, 09:12 BST
Mystery lights have been spotted in the skies over Doncaster - jokingly sparking suggestions of an alien invasion.
Numerous residents have reported seeing the skies over the city lit up in recent days, with many speculating on the cause.
One shared to social media: “This is gonna sound really weird, but for past couple of weeks, me and my missus have been sat here watching clouds from around 9pm.
“They start flashing. Has anyone else noticed? It’s quite fun to watch, but very strange.
“We keep saying the aliens are coming to earth!”
Another said: “We were travelling home down the M18 a few nights ago and noticed this flashing. It was a building near Amazon.
All of these lights were flashing at the same time making it look for miles as if the sky itself was flashing.”
Another wrote: “I have just seen this from my back windows.”
And another added: “I could swear that the clouds were flashing as well but I assumed it was my eyes. Well weird.”
Another responded: “It’s coming from Rossington. I noticed it a little while ago and kept bugging me - somewhere down the Bankwood Industrial Estate.”
“It’s the lights from Bankwood Industrial Estate,” another posted.
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/the-aliens-are-coming-mystery-lights-in-skies-over-doncaster-9140145
D. Dean Johnson
@ddeanjohnson
UPDATE ON DAVID GRUSCH FOIA LAWSUIT
The Department of Justice (DOJ), representing the Department of Defense (AKA Department of War) today (September 21, 2026) filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court, which if granted by the judge would end David Grusch's federal FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Defense.
In his March 2026 lawsuit (Grusch v. Department of Defense, No. 1:26-cv-607), Grusch has claimed that the Department of Defense conducted an inadequate search in response to his October 2024 FOIA request for certain documents related to a purported "unauthorized disclosure complaint" about Grusch, or related to any "unauthorized disclosure complaint" involving UAP/UFO, both of these being limited to the time period April 1 through December 31, 2023.
In a legal memo filed today in support of its motion for summary judgment, the DOD claimed its search followed the terms of Grusch's request, was very thorough, and found 22 POTENTIALLY responsive documents totaling 6,632 pages.
After review, 40 pages were released to Grusch on May 18, 2026. The cover letter that accompanied the 40-page release (shown below) said that "some information has been withheld" under FOIA exemptions involving the decision-making process, attorney-client and attorney-work-product privileges, and personal privacy; the letter contained no reference to withholding based on classification or any other justification. The public filings do not make it clear (or at least, not clear to me) what happened to the remaining 6,592 pages identified by the searches as "potentially responsive"–that is, how many were ultimately deemed nonresponsive to Grusch’s request, and whether any records deemed responsive were nevertheless withheld in full under FOIA exemptions, and if that occurred, under which exemptions.
To my knowledge, Grusch has made public none of the 40 pages that were released to him in May in response to his FOIA request and lawsuit.
Through my own FOIA request I obtained the 40 pages, but in heavily redacted form; I published the redacted documents via X on June 25, 2026.
Today's DOJ/DOD memo asserts that the adequacy of the DOD search is the only issue that remains to be resolved in this lawsuit. Today's memo contains no discussion of the justifications for any withholdings or redactions.
The 40-page release that I obtained in June included a copy of a letter dated November 1, 2023, to Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN), from Mark D. Dupont, Principal Deputy and Senior Intelligence Oversight Official, Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Transparency, shown below. In that letter (sent in response to an inquiry from Burchett's office, also shown below), Dupont related that an unnamed Air Force Intelligence Oversight (IO) officer had "raised concerns" about Grusch, but also that the same officer "subsequently contacted IOD [Intelligence Oversight Directorate] and informed IOD that the information in question had been properly coordinated so there was no unauthorized disclosure, and no follow-on action was necessary. At no point did anyone from the Air Force file a complaint with IOD and IOD took no actions with respect to these conversations."
Grusch described the Air Force review incident very differently in an interview on May 5, 2026, in which he claimed, "And the Air Force, I think, was very afraid when I went public….I have a FOIA lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, because it's come to my attention that when I went public in June 2023, the Department of the Air Force filed an unauthorized disclosure Espionage Act complaint against me."
To my knowledge neither Burchett nor Grusch had ever made the November 1, 2023 Dupont letter public, despite Grusch having made public claims about Air Force retaliation in various places over the last several years.
The Dupont letter became public only after I obtained it via FOIA and published it in June.
Grusch's lawyers have until October 12, 2026 to file an opposition brief to today's DOJ/DOD motion and memo.
Most of the key documents in the Grusch FOIA lawsuit can be downloaded for free from Court Listener at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72351349/grusch-v-united-states-department-of-defense/?order_by=desc
https://x.com/ddeanjohnson/status/2102168989334147481
moar
https://x.com/disclosurefound/status/2102137364562981046
https://x.com/anonymoushadoww/status/2102389711025443256
https://x.com/UAPDr/status/2102404082128306559
https://x.com/SchreckReports/status/2102016363858460680
https://www.paradigm.news/p/exclusive-gruschs-advanced-materials
Russia & China Ready to DISCLOSE We're Not Alone? METI Contact, Crimea Telescope Bombed
Sep 21, 2026
Prof Simon Holland joins me with a startling claim from a Far East contact:
China and Russia have joined forces and are preparing a full disclosure that we are not alone — and that they have already made contact via active messaging (METI), not just listening (SETI).
In this conversation we cover:
• Why the contact says the announcement will come from China and Russia, not the United States
• Russia’s long-running METI programme and the “novel” listening/transmitting technique that American SETI reportedly disliked
• The Evpatoria RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea — historically used to send Cosmic Call, Teen Age Message and A Message from Earth — and its drone strike by Ukraine because the same site supported GLONASS
• The subsequent deal with China and use of FAST, the 500-metre “Sky Eye” telescope that dwarfs Arecibo
• Claims of modulated signals already received
• The emerging “ET arms race”: who tells the world first, and at what political moment
• What happens the morning after disclosure — religion, markets, psychology, technology, and whether it unites humanity or is used for control
• Why Breakthrough Listen and official SETI have gone unusually quiet
• Comparisons to the Moon race, Contact, and Arrival
This is not confirmed official science. It is an off-the-record briefing Simon received, discussed openly so you can weigh it yourselves. We have been led down garden paths before.
Decide for yourself. If you want the previous conversation about the alleged Trump disclosure speech: search “Trump Alien Disclosure Chat with Mark Prof Simon”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi-zNOwttik
https://x.com/The_King_Of_UFO/status/2102095557246267803
https://x.com/skwirrellmate
The New Space Race, AI Threats & National Survival | Bigelow Podcast Ep. 8
September 22, 2026
George Knapp sits down with aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow and Dr. Colm Kelleher to break down recent UFO document releases, in particular the reports which were written during AAWSAP, a secretive investigation authorized by the Defense Intelligence agency and carried out by BAASS, a contracting company created by Bigelow and managed by Kelleher.
Also in this episode, Bigelow revealed more about his February meeting with President Trump and the other proposals he pitched, including the strategic urgency of a military-backed Space Force presence on the Moon, and the escalating existential risks posed by AI-engineered biological threats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JJaWUwtTow
https://x.com/BigelowPodcast
extra disclosure dejour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Q9X7VUDPw (John Michael Chambers with Lieutenant Colonel Matt Meck, retired Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer, and U.S. Army Captain Guy Van Tresca: The Midterm Countdown, Portals & The Moon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfVJ5D_tIU (Michael Jaco: Governor Newsom about to be arrested so he issues an emergency Equinox alert for Monster Hurricane)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cR0FVKTIbQ (UAMN TV: A 27-Mile Secret Tunnel Connected Two Aerospace Bases—What Was It Moving? | Michael Schratt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j-j94g1BkQ (Richard Dolan: Inside UAP Release #6: The Evidence and the Science)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0Rnxbgvss (Michael Salla: Dark Fleet Returns: Green Mountain Incursion, Temporal Warfare & Secret Space Force Intel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz6BdGzzCUA (Paul Stonehill: STRANGE DISC FROM ANCIENT TEMPLE OF AI KHANUM… AT THE EDGE OF EUCEMENE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlW1GUQY38 (Erich von Daniken: Archaeologists Found the Maya Gateway to the Underworld!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TG7R_ikhWc (Alex Collier Reveals ET Contact, Rogue Anunnaki & Whether AI Can Actually Help Humanity!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CILu1J_-SQQ (L.A. Marzulli: Johnathan Cahn Returns (Part 1): More Prophecy, Altar of Pergamon and More!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXndI0i36tc (L.A. Marzulli: Johnathan Cahn Returns (Part 2): Demonic Attack On Plane!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voCOLxnI8Rc (My Lunch Break: The Nephilim)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re4mqUOt4iQ (Polarity Josh: Logan Paul At The Pentagon, UFOs In Tehran & Secrets Of The Universe | WEIRD WEEK)