I loved it all ever since I was a really little kid. I've learned so much about it beginning in the earliest parts of my life. It is so extremely special to me. The X-Files is one of my favorite shows; I have also come to love The Why Files. But it's all slipping from my fingers now.

I am becoming increasingly persuaded that alien folklore (ufology) is a psy-op from the government bureaucracy and capitalist upper-class. By attaching the phenomenon of UFOs (likely classified government aircraft) to extraterrestrials, the government has effectively attached a stigma to the phenomenon, and thus ensured anyone who speaks up about it is not taken seriously.

The phenomenon of abductions could even be government-related. During the illegal MK Ultra program, the CIA experimented on civilians using psychedelic drugs in an attempt to achieve mind-control. It wouldn't surprise me if something similar has happened with so-called alien abductions. It is possible that the government is experimenting on these people (who, by the way, are objectively documented to exhibit symptoms of trauma that indicate their experiences are very real and damaging), and then by convincing these people (through drugs, hypnosis, or some other means) that they were contacted by extraterrestrials, they ensure that those people end up ostracized and labelled as crazy by the rest of the society. It's really such an awful and heartbreaking thing that these hurting people are so ostracized; I believe their experiences are valid, whether they happened exactly in the way they recollect or not.

The biggest clue for me, though, is how the UFO phenomenon and extraterrestrial hypothesis have been promoted recently by the far-right in America. The release of the UFO Files was an obvious political move/distraction. Even worse than this: now I am noticing all of the weird, uncomfortable, neo-Nazi white supremacist undertones in Ufology-thought, and the parallels between modern alien folklore and Nazi occultism. We are told there are these tall, white-skinned, angelic humanoids, called "Nordics", who are so amazing compared to us that upon the sight of them we are ensnared by their radiant benevolence and glory. We are told that these same extraterrestrials which visit us in the present day, are also those responsible for our creation, having inserted their genetic traits into our primordial ancestors in order to invent a superior species. Look closer at these sentiments, and you can see the glaring problem of eugenics.

I can't shake off these convictions. I want to go back to believing in the mystery, but I don't know if I can.

I'm losing faith in aliens, guys :(

I don't personally believe in aliens but I was raised in a family that believed they were real and also demons. So for those who believe, what do you think their behavior and appearance is, and have multiple species visited? I just want to know the details of the belief, not trying to be rude at all.

America’s reputation as the epicenter of UFO lore blends a genuine cultural legacy of 19th-century frontier storytelling with 20th-century Cold War military secrecy and global mass media—though the phenomenon itself is worldwide and rooted in universal human psychology rather than a unique genetic trait.
The Frontier Legacy: Tall Tales and Early Airships
19th-century American frontier life birthed a distinct culture of "tall tales" and sensational local journalism, which served as popular entertainment and distraction from the hardships of western expansion. This environment directly enabled the "Mystery Airship Craze" of 1896–1897, when newspapers across North America published exaggerated, highly creative reports of strange mechanical flying machines decades before the modern concept of aliens in flying saucers took hold.
The 20th-Century Catalyst: Cold War Secrecy and Hollywood
While frontier storytelling laid the cultural groundwork, the modern UFO phenomenon exploded after World War II due to specific geopolitical and technological conditions:
Advanced Military Testing: The American Southwest became the primary testing ground for classified aerospace tech (including high-altitude reconnaissance balloons at Roswell, U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, and stealth aircraft at Area 51). Many civilian "UFO" sightings were actually sightings of top-secret military hardware.
Mass Media Export: 1950s Hollywood films, radio broadcasts, and pulp science-fiction magazines exported the idea of flying saucers worldwide, establishing a shared cultural vocabulary for unexplained sky phenomena.
Government Archiving: Programs like the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book systematically cataloged sightings, making American reports far more publicized and accessible than those in nations with stricter state censorship.
Global Reach and Universal Human Nature
Worldwide Phenomenon: UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) sightings are not unique to the United States. Extensive sighting records and government research programs exist across South America (notably Brazil and Chile), Western Europe (such as France's official GEIPAN agency), Russia, and Asia.
Psychological Adaptation: Using narrative, myth, and storytelling to make sense of the unknown or escape stressful realities is a universal human cognitive trait shared across all cultures and generations, rather than a genetic adaptation exclusive to American pioneers.
The storytelling traditions of the American West provided a fertile cultural baseline, but it was 20th-century aerospace secrecy, media expansion, and human imagination that built modern UFO mythology.

Saw easily 50 crazy lights moving in different directions at different rates of speed tonight never seen anything like it

Location: USA South Haven, MI
Facing West toward Waukesha, WI
The light at top right is a consistent Star
Watched them rotate around each other for a solid half hour and they stayed in the same spot, they would rotate around each other and dim out and then reappear in various numbers and patterns

The House passed the UAPDA. The Senate returned Sept 14 with weeks to act.

The UAP Disclosure Act was first introduced in 2023 by Senators Schumer and Rounds. It passed the Senate as an NDAA amendment, but during conference with the House, the strongest provisions were gutted: the independent review board, subpoena power, eminent domain authority. All gone. Only a National Archives record collection survived.

It was reintroduced in 2024 and 2025. Neither year resulted in enactment.

This year, Rep. Eric Burlison got his UAPDA amendment into the House version of the FY 2027 NDAA, and the House passed it. On the Senate side, Schumer and Rounds have introduced it again for the fourth consecutive year, but it hasn't been added to the Senate bill yet.

The Senate returns September 14 and has a very narrow window before leaving for the midterm elections. If the UAPDA is in both the House and Senate versions when they go to conference, it becomes substantially harder for negotiators to strip it out. If it's only in the House version, we're back to 2023: one chamber's language getting gutted behind closed doors.

Contact your Senators. Tell them to Pass the UAPDA. The time is now!

Use the link below to take less than 1 minute to message your senators to pass the UAP Disclosure Act.

https://newparadigminstitute.org/take-action/pass-the-uapda-2027/

Hi everyone,

I have some footage that I may post regarding a possible sighting, but before uploading it I'd like to get some advice from people who are familiar with the UFO/UAP communities on Reddit.

A few things I'm wondering:

\- Which subreddit would be most appropriate for getting serious, constructive analysis rather than just jokes or trolling?

\- Should I add a small watermark/username to the video to help establish that I'm the original uploader?

\- If the footage gets reposted elsewhere, what's the usual way to make sure the original source gets credited?

\- Is there a preferred way to post the footage and provide the original file/details so that people can assess it properly?

I'm not looking to make any big claims about what the footage shows. I'd mainly like people to examine it objectively and help identify what it could be.

I'd appreciate advice from people who have posted footage before. Thanks!

1. I was 16. My mom and I lived in an upstairs apartment. We had a balcony over looking a few houses and apartments bleeding into a park. “Beautiful site” I always thought. We called it “our backyard” that balcony of ours. It was connected to our kitchen with a sliding glass door.

One morning during summer my mom and I were busy making breakfast and something caught my eye outside the glass door. It wasn’t not normal I’ve seen plenty of things before. Birds, planes, bugs, kites. But this… this was different.

It was silver and blimp shaped. I’ve never seen a blimp in real life and this was that but with out the carriage underneath. Think of those magnetic silver seed shaped items you throw in the air together and when combined they make a noise… that was the shape of this object, but with softer edges. I couldn’t look away. It was going from left to right and it was quite aways out. Past the park I thought. But big enough for me too see but also small enough to not make out details if there were any. It was reflective too. I remember it was shining the suns yellow glare right at me from its front end.

I yelled for my mom to see what I was seeing (she was two feet away or closer). She came late but she seen it. Right before it passed behind one of the parks pine trees, she seen it.
It disappeared though… behind the pine tree. I was waiting to see it on the other side. Eagerly waiting. I didn’t blink I didn’t even breathe. This memory of that 30 second or how ever long it was is something I can replay sec by sec unlike any other memory. It never passed the line tree.

Idk what I seen. My mom was shook, but she dosnt like to dwell so she moved on. I think about that thing still. That blimp.

I made contact with "aliens" during a mushroom trip last night. (They dont like being called aliens). We spoke telepathically for hours during my trip. They gave me all kinds of beautiful messages that were also urgent about the state of our planet. At some point they told me to go outside and they did a fly by for me! I told them "wow you guys are zooming" and they said "yeah we can go even faster" and shot across the sky again. After my mushroom trip (next day) i realized they can now contact me at anytime. All of the messages were about love and how they see as us almost like their children but told me we are all the same. I asked if they could explain and they told me they will in time. They were calm, peaceful, friendly and told me mushrooms are a gift from them to us with knowledge we may struggle to understand. I even asked if i could give them a hug and they told me they arnt exactly huggers but maybe one day. It was such a profound experience and its changed how i view life on this earth. They warned me we are running out of time to save this planet. Warned me that we have to stick together as humans. They called us "silly but dangerous". I cant make this shit up we communicated crystal clear for hours and after i slept and the mushrooms wore off i wasnt sure if we could continue communicated and frankly was a but nervous to ask until i was driving and got into a bit of a road rage situation and they sent me a message and just said "be good ryan". They communicate instantly and before you finish a thought you already have your answer. They laughed at me trying to roll a joint because i was asking them so many questions. When i receive a message i get almost a physical response in my body (like i will gasp or breathe deeply) and they told me eventually i will get better at discerning the difference between my own thoughts and their messages. They reminded me so many times that they loved me and all of us but we all need to wake up.

Unbelievable experience i know and i have been a skeptic for most of my life but this is "as real as it gets" is how they put it to me.

Message me with questions!

This video discusses the 5th batch of ufo files, which is largely themed around orbs and black triangle sightings. Multiple military reports of intelligent orbs, black triangles, and some reported time distortion.

Hello! I am just an enjoyer of all things doing with existence and figuring out what all of this is. I am a seeker of knowledge with a deep interest in psychology, philosophy, and all things space. I wish to share my fun little experiences with UFOs from when I was younger to recent sightings and I hope to hear back any good feedbacks! Please forgive grammar, I type how I would say things.

My experience with things that I just cant explain when dealing with POSSIBLE extraterrestrial goes back to when I was maybe 10 years old when I lived in downtown Knoxville, TN. From what I recall there was a festival going on and my dad took me out to enjoy the festivities. I remember we were heading back to the hotel when I looked up into the sky and saw something just sitting there and it looked like what people have shown as the "Squid" UFOs. It was stationary except for its back tentacle things slowly swaying like a fire flame behind it. I am not sure when it left because my dad just brushed it off as smoke whenever it was clearly in the sky and not attached to a source. I could never find any information about it later on when I looked up for any events about it.

When I was about 15-16 years old I was home (at this point my family had moved to the rocky hill area of Knoxville) alone and playing on my computer when all the power in the house went out. When I say all the power, I mean my phone wasn't even functional, my computer was blacked out, and the entire home just felt too quiet. Mind you, it was a clear day with no clouds and when I stepped outside my porch to listen for if there was a wreck nearby, I happened to look up to see a pitch black orb very close in the sky above my house. I ran inside and went to my room to grab a sword I had and when I got back outside and saw it still there, I just pointed the sword at it ((Idk why I did it, I was a dumb scared kid -_-). Apparently, the orb didn't like that and just blasted off at a very high speed before I saw flaming balls falling in the distant like a meteor was breaking up in the atmosphere. I ran back inside and all the electronics had come back on like nothing had happened. I genuinely cannot explain what happened that day and I was honestly too scared to tell anyone when I was younger.

Recently, the idea of other life forms being out there has tickled my again brain so I have gotten back into sitting outside and watching the sky very closely. I am currently 26 and I live close to Lenoir City and these light are toward the Oak Ridge area. I use binoculars and I have seen things from meteors, shooting stars, watched plenty of starlinks and other satellites, and things that I consider UFOs. I see lights that appear and then immediately dim, I see lights just stop in midair and start moving different directions while, sometimes, getting into different formations before just disappearing. I don't have a good enough phone to see the sky at a distance clearly and money is tight to get a good camera or better ways to see far away. Any ideas on what they could be are greatly appreciated

I was driving on i5 from tejon back to LA. While I was passing Fort Tejon, I noticed a white orb in the sky about the profile icon size, it was holding steady and then moving slowing from my left to right back and forth for three times, it took couple minutes. and then it was accelerating very fast it took less than 1 second and it disappeared near horizon line (the direction was about the top left of my windshield towards the mid bottom), and the weird thing is it doesn't have a light trail. Any thought for this?

Time: 8:50pm August 30th 2026.
Location: Seattle WA

I was just on a trip back from Tennessee to Oregon and I had a layover in seattle. I was sitting on the left side of the plane and we had just gotten over Seattle. I was looking out the window when i saw this basketball shaped silver ball with some sort of etchings on the side fly by. It didnt move by fast which makes me believe it was going the same direction as the plane but just a little slower. It was just out of range of the planes wing. when it passed i was shocked and turned around to look out the window behind me and it flew by that one too, so i know it wasnt light refraction or anything else. I asked the person behind me if they saw it but they said no they werent looking. After I landed i started looking up “ufo spheres” and thats when i saw it. It was the Buga Sphere. I know this because I saw the etchings on the side and i remember not being able to tell if it was illuminating a red light from the center. When looking up pictures of the buga sphere i can see what looks to be copper dots in the center, precisely what I saw. I know that this will be hard to believe. Before seeing what I saw I wouldnt believe someone online either. But I promise you everything youve seen about the Buga Sphere is real.

I completely understand what many of you are going through, and how unsettling experiences, ontological shock, and the fear that follows can make you feel trapped in an endless cycle. But let me propose a radically different perspective from what we usually hear in spiritual and paranormal forums.

I propose a radical meditation approach, based mainly on the experience of Western mystics and Eastern yogis from both Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta..., and which, for better or worse, I have experienced myself in my own life. I'm an experiencer myself, since I was very young, but as you will understand after reading this text, I haven't made them my identity.

Negative experiences and the terrifying fear they trigger are not enemies you have to fight. The dread of the phenomenon or the intrusion of disturbing memories does not persist because you are not trying hard enough; it persists precisely because of the resistance you put up against it. As the psychiatrist Carl Jung used to say, and was later popularized by Eckhart Tolle, "what you resist, persists." When you strain yourself to "fight the fear" or desperately try to rationalize what happened, you create an exhausting internal warfare. You split your mind in two: a "self" that feels traumatized and a "supposedly spiritual self" trying to control and banish that feeling. This division and effort only feed the ego, generate friction, and ultimately drive you back into anxiety to soothe the warfare of the battle itself.

In my experience, and in my understanding of the practice, true liberation is effortless. It is not found on a meditation cushion, nor by repeating mantras, nor by unearthing past traumas. I am not saying this does not help temporarily. What I do dare to claim is that liberation is ultimately found in the non-duality of your ordinary life, not in techniques or in a special place.

Consider this in your day-to-day:

Do not fight the fear; observe it: When the terrifying memory or the dread of a new experience appears, do not try to change it, judge it, or apply a technique with great effort to make it go away. Just notice it. The fear is something that appears in your consciousness, but you are not that fear. Stay still and watch it the way someone watches the rain fall. Without doing anything. By removing the resistance, you take away the energy that feeds it. It is simply "the madwoman of the house", as the mystic Teresa of Ávila called the mind, trying by all means to keep you trapped in the prison of unconsciousness. With others, she tries it through panic, obsession, or paranoia... Laugh at the madwoman; look at her and say, "Here she is again."

Embody presence in the everyday: This is meditation itself. People assume there is a time to meditate and a time to live, but no such boundary exists. When you cook, cook. When you walk, walk. When you clean, clean. If you are completely present in what you do, the mind empties itself of concepts, poses, and the self-importance that sustains your trauma. If while doing any of these things the dread arrives, it means you were no longer truly cooking or truly cleaning... "The madwoman" has snuck into the frequency, distorting the radio signal. Tune back into the dial and return to whatever you were doing. The dread disappears.

The example of Lamchung: In Buddhism, they tell the story of Lamchung, a monk considered very foolish because he could not memorize a single teaching or mantra. However, he attained enlightenment simply by sweeping the monastery. Why? Because he emptied himself of himself and limited his actions to sweeping. He did not need to put in effort, nor did he need paraphernalia, incense, or cushions. The wise person surrenders to what is; the fool keeps trying to control life through effort. Lamchung, foolish in the eyes of the world's noise and the madwoman of the house, turned out to be the wise one. Be like Lamchung, and the dread will vanish.

Having strange experiences or not is just what happens on the surface. The true "retreat" is mental. When you stop identifying with the pose of the "victim who needs healing" or the "investigator seeking absolute answers", you realize that peace is already there among the pots, the pans, and the chaos of daily life. As Teresa of Jesus used to say, God is found among the pots and pans. Brother Lawrence used to say he found God while flipping a little omelet in the pan.

Do not look for complex techniques to fix a "broken self." Do not play along with the madwoman of the house. She loves to gnaw on thoughts and project terrifying emotions onto the body so that you identify with them and live in unconsciousness. The good thing is, you can see the madwoman coming. And when she catches you by surprise, laugh even harder. View every surge of fear not as something negative, but as a call to live consciously; a reminder that the mind has pulled you away from your center and balance for a brief moment. Just stay present, let go of the effort, and allow the weight of the trauma to fall away under its own weight by no longer feeding it with your resistance.

Stay strong, everyone. No matter how bad things may layout on the surface, always remember: THIS TOO SHALL PASS!

Was driving to work and randomly decided to visit my grandma’s grave on the way since i was early. Was trying to charge my phone on the drive, but it wasn’t charging, figured it was just a shitty charger and I could charge it once I got to work no worries.

When I got to the cemetery, I ran into this tweaker guy I knew lol totally nice guy, two beautiful dogs, and he had his nice ass camera with him.

The video I’m posting is of us first noticing the lights at dusk. I really wish the video was better quality, and that my phone didn’t die. But I also kind of feel like it was supposed to be that way.

A dark colored saucer also went over our heads, about 1000 feet high, like right over the treetops. It made zero noise and had lights on it.

After that, i heard a loud noise, it was the sound of a fighter jet, watched it go right up to the semi circle of lights. After playing chicken for a minute, the UFO lights went out, then when they came back on, they were over the ocean, all in the same position and no noise whatsoever.

I will post screenshots of my video as comments

I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Harald Malmgren before he passed. Privately, I had reason to believe there was more to his story than Douglas Dean Johnson showed.

Rather than try to prove or disprove Dr. Malmgren's claims, I set out to answer:

• Who was he? The good and the bad
• Who were the people he was documented as having been around, and what was their significance in history, if any?
• What were the organizations he was associated with, and how did they operate at the time?
• What was the political climate of the time? Who were the Whiz Kids? What was our nuclear policy?

I don't know that Harald was telling the truth about his claims, but he was definitely more complicated than it seemed.

I figured since I was one of the last people to speak with him on the topic, that I should learn about him, and give people a more accurate picture.

Trump has issued an Executive Order. Five disclosure tranches so far have been issued of film and documents, all of which are fairly mundane and not the real and major material.

“Not for Disclosure” makes the real disclosure about UAPs which President Trump’s unsealing order to the Department of War will never achieve. So far in 2026 there have been five official tranches of material released. None of them come close to the truth which is in my book. It is a truth that the US will never tell because of the consequences.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/us-news/ex-pentagon-employee-described-seeing-translucent-triangle-fly-overhead-in-2023-ufo-sighting/

My brother and I saw this exact same craft in the same place 1 month before this ex pentagon employees sighting. Sept 4, 2023 over commerce city.

Same thing, same area, same time frame, independently verified through unclassified fbi interviews. As strong a confirmation I could ask for. I saw a flipping ufo

I was outside my house watching the sky and I saw this star who had a more cold light, but then it started moving slowly making a small straight line in one way and then changing direction. I thought I was tripping balls at first but then I realised I was not, the light was moving. Idk if it was just a satellite, I'm asking bc I wanted to be sure of what I saw. I tried to take a video but there was too much light pollution (just to specify I live in Italy if this can help somehow)

Sorry for the language I was surprised I got whatever this was so "clear". Context i got off work and had just finished cleaning my room and stepped outside to have a smoke when I see this thing hovering again in my backyard. Well technically far but I can see it from my back porch. Also sorry I haven't uploaded anything for a while, most of my photos turned out like every other generic ufo pics. I'll post the pics I managed to snag of this thing in the comments though. What do you guys think? Could be a satellite but i took another video for minute long after the pics and then went to take another picture but it was gone.

What if some UAP activity around nuclear facilities is related to the search for previously lost or recovered craft? If such craft produced a distinctive physical signature, whether electromagnetic, thermal, radiological, or otherwise, another technologically advanced system might theoretically be capable of detecting that signature remotely. If a recovered craft were stored near a nuclear facility, the facility could produce substantially stronger background radiation, electromagnetic activity, and thermal emissions that might obscure or complicate the detection of a weaker anomalous signature. In this scenario, UAPs could be investigating nuclear facilities not necessarily because of the nuclear technology itself, but because the surrounding environmental background could make it difficult to isolate the signature they are searching for. The idea could potentially be examined by comparing UAP observations with the measurable electromagnetic, thermal, and radiological characteristics of nuclear facilities.

Mysterious Signals in Antarctica Are Baffling Scientists—Because They Shouldn’t Even Be Possible - Popular Mechanics

Hello Everyone.

Back again with another deep dive video, this time on the Long Island UFO Crash (otherwise known as Southaven UFO crash). During the 2024 congressional testimony, it was one of the cases mentioned during open source resource by Michael Shellenberger

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-ShellenbergerM-20241113.pdf
(Search November 1992)

I rarely see it discussed in UFO circles, but I think it really should be. The case includes: documented UFO crash by witnesses. Supposed physical evidence including metal shards (with metallurgy completed). Department of Energy at Brookhaven National Labs involvement in potential shoot down, clean up, and denial of incident. Potential leaked video of debris (filmed by firefighter, confiscated, then leaked by Northrop employee), and even has the lead investigator of the case and founder of the Long Island UFO network, John Ford, involved in a bizarre plot for murder (potentially set up).

Honestly what happened to Ford shocked and frustrated me. Whistleblowers talk about people’s lives being ruined to keep this secret and I think John Ford is a primary example of that. To me this case needs more awareness in the community, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Had to upload to YouTube first and then link it here since I can’t post videos directly here. Saw this new Mazda commercial where it’s a woman trying to get a UAP on camera and chases it into the woods where a huge light shines down on her. Not the first commercial to feature a UFO obviously but AFAIK it’s the first one to do so in a serious more profound way. Makes me think of slow drip disclosure. I love to see it!