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Another great example of a pilot being convinced he's not seeing Starlink when he's actually seeing Starlink.
Northwest of Brussels in October is exactly where Starlink flares would be. The images and video are exactly what they look like.
Pilot claims he spotted UFOs moving across sky during ‘seven flights’ metro.co.uk/2026/11/05/pilot… #ufo #ufos #ufology #ufosightings #ufosighting #ufologist #paranormal #UAP #UAPs #supernatural #ufotwitter #unexplained #uaptwitter #ufoX
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ALIEN PHOTOS AND YANKEE BLUE
In July 2026, I submitted a number of written questions to former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as part of my research for an article that I haven't published yet.
One of my questions (#1) pertained to photos that a number of people claim to have seen, purportedly depicting recovered non-human vehicles and/or bodies. As an example, I quoted this statement by David Grusch: "I did get access to crash retrieval photos and everything. So I’ve seen the recovered vehicles and everything...I got a small smattering, a sample of that, of ones that have landed or crashed on the surface of the Earth." (Fox News Big Weekend Show, June 13, 2026) The core of my question #1 was: "Let us assume for the sake of discussion that at least some of those individuals, while holding security clearances and in some cases while serving as active intelligence officers, did indeed view in classified settings images that they sincerely believe depicted craft of nonhuman origin and/or bodies of nonhuman beings. I have to wonder: What did they see?"
I also asked Kirkpatrick, as Question #2, if he could offer any specifics that might help those filing FOIAs to locate government records pertaining to the "Yankee Blue" fake-alien enterprise that he and former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips said they had discovered. Kirkpatrick has spoken of the Yankee Blue matter in the Wall Street Journal in mid-2025, and in an April 2026 speech. But the matter was kept out of AARO's March 2024 Volume I historical report, ostensibly to allow the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate the matter, and the volume 2 historical report is two years overdue. The Pentagon has mysteriously failed to locate records documenting Yankee Blue in response to FOIA requests.
Kirkpatrick provided on-the-record answers in an email dated July 19, 2026. Note that this was about three months before the publication of the book "Out of the Shadows" by former UAP Task Force Director @jaystratton. The book includes Stratton's account of a briefing he gave to Kirkpatrick in 2020 at USSPACECOM (on page 200). Because Kirkpatrick discusses the same meeting, and also answered my question about Yankee Blue records, and because my intended article is not yet ready for publication, I've decided to publish Kirkpatrick's responses now as additional data points for those studying and debating the relevant histories.
Sean Kirkpatrick's answers to my Questions #1 and #2 appear verbatim below. I offer no comments of my own here; when I transmit someone's answers that does not mean that I endorse them. When I want to express an opinion on something, I will do so explicitly.
In the meantime, Kirkpatrick's answers are data points. Compare and contrast them with information from other sources. If you have pertinent comments on his specific answers or the underlying subjects (those being purported photos of in-custody nonhuman craft or bodies, the Kirkpatrick-Stratton encounter at USSPACECOM, and Yankee Blue), state your observations in a straightforward manner, or make your arguments on the merits. Those who instead post here ad hominem attacks on Kirkpatrick, Stratton, Phillips, David Grusch, or others, will probably be blocked. This is not a thread about Skinwalker Ranch, or briefings and claims associated therewith.
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ANSWERS BY SEAN KIRKPATRICK (July 19, 2026):
1. Jay Stratton briefed me while I was at USSPACECOM. I’d known him before. He showed me everything he had and what he had gathered at the time was nothing more than the collection of videos and frames pulled from the videos that have already been released to the public. He had briefed me to get my review of their analysis, and to be a reviewer of his first task force report [the UAP Task Force]. The analysis needed a lot of work and the report, when provided, was filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, most of which were written by Grusch who worked with Stratton at the time. The report had to be massively corrected/rewritten (others did that, not me, I just provided edits and comments).
As for pictures of crafts or bodies, he had none to share. Frankly, neither did anyone else, just stories. What I saw from Yankee Blue showed a real photograph on what looked to be a saucer shape with someone in a lab coat standing over it. Since it was a real photograph, people would accept it for what they see in it. If you look at it and are told that’s an alien craft, you’d probably believe it at first review. The mind sees what it wants to believe. It’s not until you learn that it is a photograph of the heat shield of the lunar lander upside down that your mind sees the truth.
If Grusch (or anyone else) saw these alleged pictures, then where are they? Who showed them to him? Where did he see them? What organization? When? I suspect his answer will be “it’s classified and I can’t share it.” BS. He had and still has an opportunity to share with the Director AARO who is cleared and has authorities to view. No such information has been shared by him or anyone.
2. I was present with the Secretary of the Air Force when he directed his staff to take action [regarding Yankee Blue]. Other than the ensuing IG review I do not know what form that action took. It was also nearing the change in administration and subsequently the change in AF [Air Force] leadership, and there was a lot lost in translation.
ALT Former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick (left). Former UAP Task Force Director Jay Stratton (right).
Mick West retweeted
I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote.
But now that the election is over, I have something to say.
For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma.
What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics.
They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility.
The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it.
Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election.
Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear.
I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque.
To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone.
What did you teach them about the value of their suffering?
I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure.
Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward.
If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it.
This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears.
Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better.
And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
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.@JamesTalarico: This is a win the size of Texas.
And we now have a mandate the size of Texas.
We must get Big Money out of our politics so no billionaire — or trillionaire — can buy an election.
We must unrig this economic system that only benefits the top 1%.
We must pass universal healthcare so no one goes bankrupt just because they get sick.
We must invest in our teachers and our students so every underdog has a fighting chance.
We must end these corrupt forever wars that are driving up prices and killing our brave men and women in uniform.
The Fox News hosts hurriedly tried to change the subject when Trump started off on some delusion about how Europe had "given" Greenland to the United States. All the deal involved was the expansion of some military bases and some restrictions on non-NATO countries.
PRESIDENT TRUMP on EUROPE: They just gave the United States the greatest gift we were ever given. Do you know what it was? Greenland.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Greenland remains a self-governing territory of Denmark and was not given to the United States. A September 2026 security agreement expands US military cooperation but reaffirms Danish sovereignty over the island.
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HAVE WE BEEN ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION?
In the Great Silence – Trailer
A documentary about the Fermi "paradox". Coming soon.
FT: @ProfAviLoeb, Nick Bostrom, Edward Witten, Liu Cixin, @jilltarter @robinhanson @david_kipping @skdh @romanyam @ChrisKMellon @michaelshermer @donalddhoffman @AdamFrank4 @MorphoTime @MickWest @anderssandberg @ProfSaraSeager @thenightshirt @DavidBrin @LordMartinRees, Nick Lane, Kevin Knuth, Stephen Webb, Peter Ward, Nathalie Cabrol, Sylvester James Gates, Erik Davis, Jane Greaves
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Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda. We can’t afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. #MISEN
Yet another UFO report that again tells us what we already know. Lots of cool stories, lots of ambiguous videos, lots of videos of birds and balloons.
No real evidence. Never any real evidence for 80 years.
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans say they have seen a UFO, according to CBS News polling.
Finding evidence of aliens and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — or UAPs — would be “the greatest discovery in human history,” Dr. Matthew Szydagis, a physics professor, says.
Luke Burbank looks the decades-old question, is anybody out there?
Mick West retweeted
The Jersey "drone" looks to me like yet another misidentification of a plane. This London-bound easyJet flight appeared to be hovering almost motionless above the airport around 8.15pm on Friday. The first plane diverted about two to three minutes later.
I'm told by a source that the @RoyalAirForce are being deployed to Jersey, I've not verified this with a 2nd source yet.
Britain's national defence for drone panics is the RAF with @Leonardo_UK ORCUS, usually it finds civilian incidents are simply misidentification.
If Jay Stratton's chapter on the FAA "not using radar" wasn't clear enough, here's him saying "the Federal Aviation Administration stopped using radar to track our air travel."
Blatantly wrong. The FAA still uses primary radar to track non-squawking targets, and they alerts pilots to them. See AIM 4-5 faa.gov/air_traffic/publicat…
Jay Stratton has repeatedly made the bizarre claim that the FAA has stopped using radar, and so UAP are invisible to air traffic controllers and hence would pose a navigation hazard if a UAP were to enter controlled airspace. He stated:
“The FAA stopped using radar. So the only way they can actually hear UAPs is if they’re squawking or only if the pilots see something and say something.”
He repeated the claim in more detail in his book, saying that the FAA told him this after he briefed them on UAP.
It is utter nonsense. The airspace around airports and across much of the county is covered by local high resolution ASR radar (around airports), and the longer range ARSR radar that covers en-route traffic. Both of these give what is known as primary radar coverage - which is where the aircraft is located by bouncing radio waves off it.
Stratton describes secondary radar, which is where the planes themselves transmit a coded radio signal that allows more precise locating and identification. He described this as if it’s the only thing that the FAA uses.
This is factually wrong. Air traffic controllers have access to the primary radar data. They have overlays that show unidentified moving targets derived from that primary radar. They regularly give alerts for unidentified traffic that shows up on primary radar.
Stratton has been wrong about this for years. He seems to have grossly misunderstood or misremembered what the FAA told him, and the tale has grown in the telling. He needs to stop repeating this.
I finally saw Spielberg's Disclosure Day. It was quite clearly a glorification of ufology culture. "Experiencers" portrayed as messianic figures. Aliens as near-gods. The entire pantheon of UFO mythology taken as true.
A fun but simplistic what-if, but ultimately ridiculous
Mick West retweeted
I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this cordinated campaign to delegimatize Muslim Americans - not just as citizens but as humans.
These increasingly hysterical attacks are a prelude to Republicans bringing us to a very, very dark place after the election.
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"[I]t was a media spectacle: a decorated Navy rear admiral presenting evidence of alien life, and the media lapping it up. It was not science but entertainment ... The circus had only just begun."
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Such a shame that nobody ever gets a photo in these “clear as day” UFO sightings with multiple witnesses.
The excuse is that they don’t think to take a photo of this world-changing event, as it was too surprising.
Count out 20 seconds. That’s a long time to not take a photo.
Nobody was supposed to hear this part. A 40 to 50 foot object appears out of thin air in broad daylight and open air, moves like physics doesn’t apply, and then it’s gone. No engine. No propulsion. No sound we’d recognize. Multiple people watched it happen, and he didn’t want to say it on camera, but he did. Then he asks the one question nobody is ready to answer, and the room goes silent. Blink and you’d have missed it, so don’t scroll away. Watch to the last second before this gets pulled.
WATCH FULL EPISODE LINK!!!
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Jay Stratton has repeatedly made the bizarre claim that the FAA has stopped using radar, and so UAP are invisible to air traffic controllers and hence would pose a navigation hazard if a UAP were to enter controlled airspace. He stated:
“The FAA stopped using radar. So the only way they can actually hear UAPs is if they’re squawking or only if the pilots see something and say something.”
He repeated the claim in more detail in his book, saying that the FAA told him this after he briefed them on UAP.
It is utter nonsense. The airspace around airports and across much of the county is covered by local high resolution ASR radar (around airports), and the longer range ARSR radar that covers en-route traffic. Both of these give what is known as primary radar coverage - which is where the aircraft is located by bouncing radio waves off it.
Stratton describes secondary radar, which is where the planes themselves transmit a coded radio signal that allows more precise locating and identification. He described this as if it’s the only thing that the FAA uses.
This is factually wrong. Air traffic controllers have access to the primary radar data. They have overlays that show unidentified moving targets derived from that primary radar. They regularly give alerts for unidentified traffic that shows up on primary radar.
Stratton has been wrong about this for years. He seems to have grossly misunderstood or misremembered what the FAA told him, and the tale has grown in the telling. He needs to stop repeating this.
It’s not complicated. Stratton, like Elizondo and others, genuinely believes in ridiculous things like poltergeists and orbs flying around his house. Things where it would be easy to get evidence, but he doesn’t.
This does not disprove his incredible unevidenced claims about UFOs, but it’s a red flag. A big red flag.
Unfortunately, plenty of people believe in domestic orbs, ghost, and poltergeists. So they don’t recognize the red flag.
But it’s all part of the same sandwich. You can’t just pick and choose which bits you want to deem credible. If you accept his claims about aliens, you accept his claims about poltergeists.
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