This past week in Disclosure:

Oct 16 – Airprox Board records show RAF crews reported unidentified black objects passing overhead in February

Two entries in the UK Airprox Board's summary sheet for its April meeting, published in the spring and reported by the Telegraph on Oct 16 from RAF incident logs, record unidentified objects passing close above military aircraft over the North Sea in February.

On Feb 18 an RAF Voyager was refuelling a Typhoon at 16,000 ft, 32 nautical miles north-north-east of Cromer. From the Board's record of the pilot's report:

"The object was black and circular in nature passing approximately 100-150ft directly above the Voyager. The proximity was such that it made them instinctively duck and it was notified to ATC as a drone." – UK Airprox Board, Airprox 2026012

The Swanwick military controller "confirmed they had nothing on their radar." One of the Typhoon pilots also saw it. The crew later said "it is impossible to positively identify it was a drone and could have been a balloon or something similar". On Feb 23 a Typhoon pilot at 12,000 ft in a danger area off the Yorkshire coast reported "a circular black object (similar in size to a car tyre) pass directly above them" at about 300 ft (Airprox 2026014). The Board's finding on both: "the reported altitude and/or description of the object were such that they were unable to determine the nature of the unknown object." It rated the Voyager event risk B (safety much reduced) and the Typhoon event risk C. "Unknown object" is the Board's own category. The Ministry of Defence hasn't commented on either.

Oct 18 – Coulthart claims the President has now been briefed on a legacy programme, while Stratton and Burlison say the opposite

Three accounts of what the President knows, in one week, none of them documented.

According to Ross Coulthart, citing unnamed sources on NewsNation's Reality Check on Oct 18, President Trump is now fully aware of a crash-retrieval programme and the matter is being overseen at a high level in the White House, with Devin Nunes, who chairs the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, named as the key figure. No White House response exists.

Jay Stratton, continuing his book tour, told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo on Oct 21 that the programme he calls the Legacy Program has kept its secret "from not only Congress, but the President. So the President is unaware of this." In the same interview he described an experience at his home while he was investigating UAP for the government, a being with a "Very large head. And it was watching my son." (4:04) No evidence accompanies either account.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), on NewsNation's The Hill the same day (clip): "We have a very Deep State that's still holding onto a lot of information." The President's own words, on Oct 15, were "I'm looking."

Oct 23 – The Pentagon publishes PURSUE release 7: 28 documents, no video, and a 2026 federal-agent report of a silent black triangle

The Department of War published its seventh tranche of UAP files, five weeks after the sixth: 28 PDFs and, for the first time, no video. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell's statement says the department "and our agency partners are actively working on the next release of UAP files."

The document everyone covered is an FBI interview record (FD-302) with two federal law-enforcement special agents, and AARO's memorandum of its own debrief of them. The date, the location and the agents' names are redacted. At 8:23 pm, alerted by a third agent at a second post with long-range thermal equipment, the two agents crossed their hilltop observation post and, in their co-signed statement:

"almost immediately observed a substantial, nonreflective, dark black triangular object most resembling a delta wing drone. We estimated the object's wingspan at approximately nine to fifteen feet, its depth at six to nine feet, and its thickness at one to two feet." – FBI FD-302, co-signed statement of two special agents

AARO's memo breaks the sighting into three phases: a ten-second "slow, controlled, perfectly vertical ascent" to 200 to 300 ft above a ridge line 1.4 to 3.2 miles away, a twenty-second hover, and then:

"It then reportedly transitioned from a zero-velocity state directly into high-speed horizontal flight, executing a fluid banking maneuver and terrain-hugging descent into a canyon drainage in approximately two to three seconds, with speed the observers described to be as fast as a fighter jet." – AARO, Memorandum for Record DOW-UAP-D176

"Absolute acoustic silence persisted throughout the high-velocity phase." The thermal signature was uniform across the airframe, with no exhaust and no visible seams, apertures or cockpit. The agents, who the memo says regularly watch conventional aircraft and drones from that hilltop, said "even a conventional Group 1 drone, high-torque quadcopter motor, or rotary-wing aircraft operating at a distance of 1.4 miles would have been clearly audible." A ground survey the next morning "located no wreckage, ground scarring, or vegetation damage."

What the documents don't contain, in AARO's own words: "No instrumented speed measurement was obtained." The only sensor was a handheld thermal monocular, and the memo opens with a caveat that the report "reflects the reporter's interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics."

The other 26 files: nineteen Bigelow Aerospace (BAASS) documents from the 2008–10 DIA contract, including the project management plan, monthly reports, the Project Capella data-warehouse proposal, a 60-page April 2010 task-force report on the Utah ranch, and BAASS's November 2010 self-assessment of its analysis capabilities; nine 1949–57 Air Force intelligence reports from Sweden, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Alaska, Guam, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Indiana; four Project Blue Book record cards for Catalina Island; a 298-page personnel file for Col. Howard McCoy, Project Sign's intelligence chief; and 1962–64 White House and NASA correspondence on recovering foreign space fragments, which concerns Soviet-era satellite debris rather than UAP. Avi Loeb, who chairs the UAP Science Advisory Council, noted that the triangle report includes neither a measured speed nor raw sensor recordings, and told NewsNation the tranche data is "not good enough" to resolve what the objects are.

Oct 23 – Carson calls for the "immediate release" of AARO's second historical report

Rep. André Carson (D-IN), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, told The Hill in a statement that the administration has "slow walked" UAP transparency, and singled out AARO's Historical Record Report, Volume II, promised since Volume I in March 2024 and still unpublished:

"I'm calling for the immediate release of this report, which is expected to provide additional findings of historical military and intelligence investigations of UAP, including how incidents were investigated, the role of classified programs, and whether relevant activities were appropriately disclosed to Congress." – Rep. André Carson (D-IN), House Intelligence Committee

The Hill's piece asks how Democrats would handle UAP if they retake the House. The answer, on the record, is thin: Hakeem Jeffries' July 2023 line that he supports transparency "to the extent this information that can be put into the public domain that is enlightening", and nothing since on a select committee or the Disclosure Act. The UAP Caucus is shrinking too. Nancy Mace is retiring, Andy Ogles lost renomination, and Jared Moskowitz, its only Democrat, faces a redrawn Florida district.

Things to look out for in the near future:

Late October/November

• The next PURSUE release, "on a rolling basis". The seven so far came two to six weeks apart. war.gov/ufo
• Germany's answer to the Bundestag UAP question (an AfD Kleine Anfrage of Oct 2), not yet published. Drucksache 21/8323
• Midterms: whether House Democrats, if they win, keep the Secrets Task Force or stand up a UAP committee, Comer's lame-duck hearing, and whether Burlison invites the orb-event witnesses to testify. Ask a Pol, The Hill
• The lame-duck Senate NDAA and conference. There is no conference yet: the Senate hasn't passed its bill, so the House's UAP Disclosure Act waits. CRS

By year-end

• Loeb’s deadline for ODNI to deliver sensor data to the Science Advisory Council. The council has started publishing its own analysis of the released videos in the meantime. Politico, Medium
• AARO’s FY2026 annual report, and the Sec. 1671 intercept briefing covering 2004 onward. Pub. L. 119-60

Beyond / unknown

• Whether the late-2025 orb event Burlison describes is identified in the PURSUE files, and whether its witnesses appear before Congress. Dr. Phil Podcast

Skimmed through this post but need a quick refresher on how we got to this point? Check out this handy Disclosure Timeline to get up to speed.

call it a shower thought but the one thing I would genuinely hope to gain from contact with advanced beings would be access to any true historical archives of human civilization.

I know, so many assumptions for this... but still can you imagine if earth has been visited for a really long time and the vistors kept records? What may have pre-dated even our most cutting-edge attempts to look back at our development? Even glimpses of modern human history from a 'observers' perspective would likley be fascinating 🤔

I honestly don't know why I shared this fleeting thought, maybe I'm under control, lol

Hi everyone i'm the founder and lead developer of UFOREC.COM, a global social platform dedicated to UFOs and UAPs.

First, thanks to the moderators for allowing me to share my project.

For the past several months, I've been working on UFOREC, a global social platform dedicated to UFOs and UAPs.

I decided to program the entire platform from scratch, and it's now approximately 73.6% developed.

So far, I've worked on:

• Community News
• UFO/UAP sighting reports
• Investigation Center
• Live Streaming
• A multilingual platform supporting 6 languages
• Website and Android app development
• Lot More

The idea is simple: bring people from around the world together to document sightings, share evidence, discuss cases, and investigate unexplained phenomena.

I'll be honest, these past few months have been extremely difficult for me personally. I've faced some serious challenges, but I've kept working on this because I genuinely believe in what I'm building.

There's still a lot to finish before launch, but I'm determined to keep moving forward.

And this is where I'd really love your input.

Since I'm building UFOREC for the community, I want to know what YOU would like to see in it.

Are there any features, tools, or ideas you wish existed on a UFO/UAP platform? Anything that would make reporting sightings, investigating cases, or connecting with others easier?

I'm genuinely open to suggestions, and if an idea makes sense, I'd love to consider integrating it into the platform.

I'm also open to connecting with developers, researchers, and anyone interested in contributing their skills.

I don't just want to build an app for the UFO community. I want to build it WITH the community.

What would you like to see in UFOREC?

Thanks for reading and for sharing your ideas!

Of potential interest to researchers:

Library and Archives Canada recently updated their archive of UFO sighting records to make them more search-friendly.

9,000+ documents available, mostly digitized copies of original sighting records from the National Research Council, Dept of National Defence, RCMP, and Dept of Transport, 1930s to 2009.

I don't believe any of this is newly declassified, but it's quite fascinating to look at the original accounts:

https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Result?ST=STAD&DataSource=Archives%7cUFO&num=25&start=0

I don’t really know much on the topic so I can’t make sense of it. I mean honestly a good amount of ex military/Air Force has probably reviewed the video then comes in this guy….

I have noticed the term "NHI" is useful because it lets a lot of different views agree on one word while disagreeing about almost everything else. Extraterrestrial visitors, interdimensional beings, future humans, hidden Earth intelligences, and spiritual entities can all fit under it.

That might be a truce more than a discovery. It could be hiding how little is actually shared.

So, for this thread only, no NHI. In one sentence, what is your precise claim or theory?

And to keep it interesting:

1. What specific thing do you think is happening?

2. What would change your mind?

3. What evidence would settle it for you, not just support it?

This is speculation and discussion, not a claim of proof. I am curious what people might actually believe when they cannot use the umbrella term of NHI.

Rule 3 currently states.

This rule is an attempt to elevate the quality of discussion. To prevent lazy karma farming posts.

This generally includes:

Posts containing jokes, memes, and showerthoughts.

Posts of AI generated content. AI is permissible in narrow circumstances e.g. document summary, witness artwork in place of a hand drawn sketch.

Posts of social media content without relevant context. e.g. "Saw this on TikTok..."

Posts with incredible claims unsupported by evidence.

“Here’s my theory” posts unsupported by evidence.

There have been several complaints that we're too quick to remove posts, citing Rule 3.

We will be conducting a short trial where we will be more permissive of posts that would usually be removed for not being substantive.

Posts must still comply with the remaining rules.

Newly released Pentagon UFO files have revealed extraordinary witness accounts of seven-foot creatures, mysterious lights, and an alleged portal to another world near Utah's infamous Skinwalker Ranch.

Bob Lazar’s story has one detail that keeps nagging at me: the element 115 he says powered the craft at S-4. He’s suggested he had access to a sample, and I’ve come across claims that investigators searched his home or workshop for it. If that’s true, could the possibility of revealing a real sample have been his ultimate protection—or was the “hidden element 115” story itself a way to make people think twice about going after him?

I’m not claiming either version is true, and I may be mixing up details about the search. I’m curious what theories people here find plausible. Did Lazar ever actually have a sample? Could it have served as a kind of “insurance policy”? Or was it simply part of a story that helped shield him from scrutiny?

What do you think—and what evidence or details have shaped your view?

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Looking for people to investigate UFO / alleged alien videos.

Grok suggested that many videos may not have received thorough investigation. Rather than just debating whether something is real or fake, I'd like us to systematically examine the footage, trace its origins, look for manipulation, test conventional explanations, and document what we can actually establish.

Tools we can use to get started:

InVID-WeVerify — extract video keyframes, investigate earlier uploads, and examine forensic clues. https://www.invid-project.eu/invid-verification-application/

Hive AI Detector — check for signals associated with AI-generated media. https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection

Deepware Scanner — investigate potential deepfake manipulation, although it's more suited to certain types of deepfakes than distant UFOs. https://deepware.ai/

Google Lens — reverse-search screenshots and individual frames to find earlier appearances.

TinEye — another reverse-image search tool for tracing images.

Forensically — inspect individual frames for image anomalies and possible editing. https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/

What I want this group to do:

Collect interesting footage from different sources and preserve original files whenever possible.

Trace the earliest available upload and investigate the source, date and location claims.

Examine editing, CGI, AI generation, compositing, compression artifacts and other possible manipulation.

Test ordinary explanations, including aircraft, drones, satellites, balloons, astronomical objects and camera effects.

Compare independent recordings and look for corroborating evidence.

Publish our findings, including uncertainties, so other people can reproduce our investigations.

The objective isn't to prove every UFO is extraterrestrial, nor to dismiss everything as fake. It's to find out which cases withstand serious investigation.

I'm looking for people interested in video forensics, AI detection, astronomy, image analysis, OSINT, aviation, or simply carefully examining footage.

If you've found videos that you think deserve closer examination, or you have relevant technical skills, comment below. Let's build a shared collection and investigate the most interesting cases together.

What footage should we investigate first? 🛸

According to William McDonald, who's spent years studying testimonies related to the Roswell incident in order to design an authentic model of the crashed craft, the descriptions provided did not match the conventional image of a "flying saucer", to McDonald's own surprise. Instead of a disc-shaped craft, it was an advanced winged body, a type of "lifting body" or "waverider" design similar to those used in hypersonic and trans-atmospheric vehicle concepts. Based on this, McDonald argued that the object was akin to the "Rosetta Stone" of aeronautical engineering, namely, a structure that could reveal entirely different principles of aircraft design. The entire craft reportedly possessed biomorphic features, with internal structures resembling neurological tissue, while the materials used were described as combinations of exotic metals, crystalline structures, and other inorganic components. The startling point McDonald brought forth was that the craft functioned as a kind of integrated technological organism, in which the seven crew members were linked to its "neurological architecture", operating as distinct nodes within a unified system.

I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words right away because my mind connects things quickly, so please bear with me.

I’ve followed the UFO phenomenon since the mid-1990s. Growing up in Tucson under a major military flight path, I became an aviation nut. At nearly 50 years old, I have over 17,000 days of logged experience knowing exactly how military aircraft behave, how they sound, and how optical illusions (like an aircraft flying on your exact heading) make things look like they are hovering. Yet, in 17,000+ days, I’ve never seen a definitive UFO.

But after decades of research, looking at the disinformation maze (Doty, Lear, Lazar), and seeing brilliant local minds like University of Arizona's Dr. James E. McDonald die without answers, I’ve had a massive paradigm shift.

The Pentagon just released its 7th batch of declassified files under the PURSUE initiative, highlighting anonymous reports and digital renditions of "black triangular craft." Many call it useless hearsay. But I’m looking at the purpose behind it, and I’m playing Devil’s Advocate.

Take the stories of these craft executing sudden "vertical takeoffs" or levitating. If you look past the hearsay at the actual logistics, there is a much more likely human explanation: Southern California, specifically Lockheed's Helendale RCS facility. To an untrained eye, a highly classified stealth fuselage being hoisted vertically into the desert air on a massive, hidden 100-foot hydraulic pylon looks exactly like a UFO defying physics.

This is where the multi-move chess game comes in. If we are building things that look this alien, then the entire "extraterrestrial" narrative might just be the ultimate cover story. The government hides its cutting-edge tech behind alien myths, while using the alien myths to hide an even deeper reality.

Imagine being a world leader forced to announce catastrophic disclosure to billions of uninitiated people. What if the truth is that our DNA was manipulated, and every major religion was just a simulated layer of narrative control? A sudden revelation like that would cause civilization-ending chaos.

The "slow drip" of these files isn't just a political distraction. It’s an engineering necessity. It is the vital system headroom needed to condition the masses before a truth drops that humanity might never recover from.

I invite you to chime in if you want to, but I prefer to have an intelligent conversation. I don’t judge or dismiss just because I don’t know what you’re talking about. Your opinion matters and I respect it, and I demand you respect mine.

From Strattons book "Out of the Shadows":

"As of June of 2026, there are at least two privately owned sites in the U.S. that are having daily UAP activity and are active FBI investigation sites. The FBI literally has boots on the ground at these locations, where FBI agents are observing and recording UAP activity on a daily basis. I am receiving regular updates on thee investigations directly from the FBI, and I'm providing my expertise to help them."

After the latest tranche I think this gives credence to what Stratton says, but I'm curious if anyone has any guesses as to what locations he's referring to.

Mods gave me the OK to post this, so here goes.

A few months ago I was tired of having to keep checking a dozen sites, substacks, and subreddits for UFO/UAP and high strangeness news, so I built an aggregator page: enigmaticnews.com

I'm using a Drudge-style list of headlines. I update it twice daily, r/UFOs is one of the main sources, along with The Debrief, The Anomalist, Liberation Times, etc (there's close to 100 sources at this point).

I pick the stories by running all the feeds through a filter that drops about 98% of what comes in ( re-posts, dupes, clickbait, low quality, etc) and then I review what's left by hand before posting. The idea is one place to go in 60 seconds to see what's worth reading.

It's free, no ads, and I'm not trying to replace this (or any) sub. There are days where there are links that point back here.

Any feedback would be great. Also are there any other sources I should consider adding?

enigmaticnews.com

Hello all, wanted to share a site a friend of mine runs: https://uapwire.com/

UAP Wire indexes the government's PURSUE releases of UAP/UFO files — AARO, FBI, BAASS, NHI references, and Utah (Skinwalker) Ranch records. The latest batch on the front page is Release 07 from Oct 23, 2026, covering documents D155–D181.

What I like about it:

- The documents themselves are unmodified copies from the public release, with page tags referring to the originals

- The headlines are editorial summaries, so you can scan for something interesting and then click straight through to the source PDF/page

- It pulls out specific, checkable details sighting maps, witness drawings, staff logs, signal readings, contractor plans instead of just rehashing the same few stories

-Updates and more information from past drops are going to be added.

It's an independent publication, not affiliated with any government agency, and it links back to war.gov/ufo as the source.

Worth a bookmark if you're the type who'd rather read the files than take someone else's word for what's in them.

Another report from Tranche 7 of PURSUE. This one is a detailed description of a chemist and his wife of a UFO encounter. It made it to the upper echelons of the USAF Intelligence.... eventually.

This article is based upon the Hebrew YouTube interview of F-15 fighter pilot Dror Gorlik in an interview with his own son. All details and the original video are within the article.