In 2026, the U.S. President announced the release of government alien files - on social media. Where did that go? Guess wars are distracting enough!
This episode goes past the headline and into the actual documented record: the USS Nimitz encounter confirmed by radar and classified for 13 years, the Soviet nuclear facility where missiles began launching themselves while UFOs circled overhead, the congressional testimony of a U.S. intelligence official who claimed the government recovered non-human biological matter and said he feared for his safety after going public.
We also go ancient to the Nazca lines, the Dogū figurines, the Wandjina, and get brutally honest about what it all says about us, our weapons, and the things we'd rather stay distracted from. Not a conspiracy episode. A critical thinking one. All sources linked below.
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Sources:
U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book (National Archives, declassified) — Pentagon UAPTF Report, June 2021 (dni.gov) — U.S. House Oversight UAP Hearings, July 2023 & September 2025 (congress.gov) — David Grusch Congressional Testimony, July 2023 — USS Nimitz Tic-Tac Encounter — Commander David Fravor, 60 Minutes, CBS, 2017 — Soviet UAP Program "The Network" — Dr. Boris Shurinov, UFOs in the USSR — Usovo Nuclear Incident — George Knapp, Mystery Wire; referenced in U.S. House Oversight Committee hearings — Malmstrom AFB 1967 — Robert Salas Congressional Testimony, 2023 — Belgian UFO Wave 1989–90 — SOBEPS Reports; Belgian Air Force declassified radar data — Westall 1966 — Dandenong Journal archive; witness testimonies via Westall '66 documentary — Petrozavodsk 1977 — Soviet Academy of Sciences investigation reports — Nazca Lines — Yamagata University AI geoglyph study, 2024 (National Geographic) — Jacques Vallée — Passport to Magonia (1969); Confrontations (1990) — Federation of American Scientists — Nuclear Notebook 2025 (fas.org) — New START Treaty expiration — Arms Control Association, February 2026 — UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (un.org/disarmament) — The Galileo Project — Prof. Avi Loeb, Harvard University (galileo.harvard.edu)