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Original Title: "The Age of Disclosure" premieres at SXSW March 9, 2025, features "34 senior members of the U.S. Gov't, military, and Intel Community revealing an 80-yr cover-up of the existence of non-human intelligent life and a secret war amongst major nations to reverse engineer technology of non-human origin".

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“He worked at the CIA from 2021 to 2024 as the associate director for military affairs. Before his time at the CIA, Caine served as the director of special programs at the Department of Defense (DOD) special access program central office at the Pentagon. There, he was the principal staff assistant and advisor to the defense secretary ‘for all programs protected under special access controls.’ He held several roles while in the Air Force, including as a F-16 pilot, special operations officer, weapons officer and a member of the White House staff, according to his military biography.”

As much as the Reddit community hates the new administration (dare I say any names), I cannot help but wonder if this is part of a more elaborate plan for disclosure. You typically do not see people with this secretive background make it to this position as it doesn’t fit the usual status quo track of running a geographical combatant command, then being a service chief of staff, then the JCS. Also, usually that background could involve a lot of data masking (redacted records) which could hinder upward mobility in the military as nobody can see what impacts/contributions you made.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/mattlaslo on 2025-02-22 22:48:05+00:00.

‘Talk with anyone in the Trump administration about your UAPDA with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer yet?’ I ask. 

“No,” Sen. Mike Rounds says of their disclosure act that aligns with President Trump’s executive order on JFK transparency.

LISTEN to Rounds & Laslo here (unpaywalled b/c Ask a Pol’s FREE!):

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/phr99 on 2025-02-22 18:14:34+00:00.

Original Title: Sheehan: "Materialists will be more traumatised by the reality of psionics. Psionics can transcend the limits of time, but time travel causes serious problems. Child psionic pilots were drugged, the Justice Department is investigating this. NHI beings were killed after their craft was shot down"

Again some quotes from a recent interview with Daniel Sheehan:

Atheists, materialists are going to be more traumatized

Timestamp 19:35

Mishlove: "There have been reports, particularly from Jake Barber, that the government employs what he calls psionic assets. [...] have the ability to interact with the occupants or with the vehicles if the vehicles themselves are conscious. The interaction is telepathic in nature, it seems to me. As soon as you introduce the concept of ESP or telepathy, many of the fundamental principles upon which our legal system is based come into challenge"

Sheehan: "Yeah, no, there's no doubt about this. You know, the worldview issue arises right away. [...] there's an entire octave, a spectrum of worldviews shared among our human family. Those that more integratively approach the issue of consciousness are going to rise into the ascendancy here. Those who are kind of steadfastly atheistic, and radical materialist scientific logical positivists, are going to be more traumatized by this. Because they've been so emphatic and aggressive for so long about actively denying the reality of the conscious realm"

The psionics can transcend the limits of time

Timestamp 52:18:

Sheehan: "We've got to have a more positive program here, and that therefore, they're focusing on the psionic abilities, the capacities that people have to engage in telepathic communication and precognition. And actually be able to transcend the potential limits of time. A very important issue here of being able to get outside of the fourth dimension of time itself, and realize that all events are taking place all at the same time as it were. This is something that people have a hard time grasping for reasons we can understand"

Time travel causes serious problems in the pilots

Timestamp 1:05:39:

Mishlove: "Some of these craft, I don't know whether we're talking about the ARVs or the captured vehicles, but that they have asked adult humans to try to pilot them. They're piloted apparently through conscious intention of some sort and I've heard these adult humans were able to make some progress, but one of the problems they ran into was that the craft are involved in time travel. And that for a normal adult human, time travel makes one very dizzy. And the people initially recruited as pilots couldn't handle that"

Sheehan: "Well, it's an interesting way that you've heard this, okay, that various of us have heard various things depending upon the access we have to some of these programs, but the bottom line is that that I can affirm that there have been some very serious problems with the regular trained pilots of our American military, because that's where they all come from"

Sheehan: "... especially difficult for these people [the pilots] to get into the more subtle dimensions of their consciousness. And so when they're pushed into a situation where they have direct contact with these vehicles, where that's sort of forced upon them, as you saw with Jake Barber, that this is a very disquieting experience and that they become disoriented, they begin to have mental problems and these translate into various psychological characteristics of the people and they begin to suffer"

Child psionic pilots were drugged. The Justice Department is investigating this

Timestamp 1:07:49

Sheehan: "But the reality is that it's become even more serious than that. Some of the pilots, the care being taken for their own psychological health and for their physical health has been less than ideal inside those programs. And that was one of the reasons why they started looking to try to find younger children and train them and bring them up to be to pilot these craft for them"

Sheehan: "But the problem is that they've also discovered that, I need to be careful here, but that they've engaged in the utilization of certain drugs amphetamines and stuff to hyper dose their own pilots, and even some of these younger children, that have had extremely adverse consequences. This is part of what we're investigating now in cooperation with the Justice  Department"

Sheehan: "And we're trying to overcome some of the features of even our Justice Department, which is so designed for retribution or punishment as a means of enforcing proper standards here and we're trying to avoid doing that here because we're at one in the same time trying to be as compassionate and considerate as we can for people that have engaged in conduct that is highly questionable, but we also want to be thinking in terms of positive solutions for all of this"

Sheehan: "But there are some significant problems that have been encountrered in this psionics program up to this point and we're going to work with people that are coming into the new administration and new leadership that's going to be in the Justice Department and in the intelligence community and in the military and in the State Department to try to solve these problems"

The ontological shock of time travel

Timestamp 1:10:00:

Mishlove: "[...] We're dealing with ontological shock on many levels at once. Ontological shock that our government, whom we come to trust, has been behaving unethically and illegally. Ontological shock about the existence of ET civilizations. Ontological shock about the existence of psychic abilities and finally ontological shock about the possibility of time travel"

Sheehan: "All true. All those are true. All those are true. And very importantly, the additional shock that the entire realm of organized religions and institutionalized religions on our planet may well have been a means by which information has been gleaned in part by encounters with these phenomena, have been codified in a way that is going to have to be subject to some substantial modification. And that the institutions are going to hold on and resist this"

Sheehan: The NHI beings were killed after their craft was shot down

Timestamp 37:16:

Mislove: "I'd like to go back to the Jake Barber story. [...] [Barber] also acknowledged that the program he was involved in used microwave pulse weapons to shoot UFOs down out of the sky, so they could be captured. And apparently the psionic assets, these human beings, are involved in some sort of a program to control the UFOs with their own consciousness, get them to land where they can also be captured"

Sheehan: "That's right. No, no, this is fairly frightening, this kind of the commandeering of people who have these kind of subtle psychic capabilities to setting up what they refer to as the honey trap, you know, to kind of send out signals, oh, we're here, we love you, please come, please come. And then when they come near them, try to knock them out of the sky and capture them. And according to some reports, actually kill the beings that are on board. I had direct information that that's happened in the past"

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Original Title: UPDATE 2: “A Georges St-Pierre interview about a UFO sighting is gaining traction. Here's a clip from an interview with him where a UFO appears in the background and displays instantaneous acceleration.”

Time: February, 2011

Location: Montreal Quebec, Canada

Hey everyone, so this will probably end up being the last update to the GSP interview UAP. If anyone was following the comments I made in the first update I claimed there was a faint streak that resembles a motion blur to the left of the anomaly, perfectly adjacent, once it disappears. It is only visible for a single frame. In order to make sure I wasn’t going crazy, I had it verified by someone else personally and also u/KLAM3R0N. It took a while to get it ID’d by KLAM3R0N since the streak was so faint. Everytime I tried to screenshot or screen record it wasn’t there due to compression/degradation I suppose. Eventually after feeling like a deluded nutcase for a while he was able to also ID it and made a great clip by adjusting the RGB curves to enhance contrast that really helps see it.

I was able to ID it originally on my IPhone 15 Pro Max. I mention this only because depending on the resolution of your screen etc. it’s possible you either might not see it or may miss it. This is the clip he made clearly showing the path the anomaly took if it indeed is a solid tangible object:

To all the skeptics saying it is a video artifact, would you mind explaining to me how this would happen with a video artifact if it is somehow apart of an object that is stationary? (Flag pole, light pole, tower are among the claims) feel like it’s a little too much of a coincidence at this point. May sound like I’m being condescending, but genuinely curious.

If you want background information on this post, u/APensiveMonkey made the original post. I also created the first update with very pertinent information as well as a much better clip of the event that u/KLAM3R0N found. Thanks again to KLAM3R0N for putting in the awesome work to help bring this event into much better view all around!!!

Best original video:

Stabilized edit:

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Could this be why the NHI / UAP flap is happening now?? As it has been discussed in these 'circles' unlimited access to energy may also be a way to unlimited weaponazation from the same power? Your thoughts?

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Original Title: Sheehan: "Barber worked for Grumman. His new team [Skywatcher] will bait NHI craft telepathically and try to capture them. 5 ET species are monitoring earth. Earth is quarantined, all attempts to exit the solar system will be thwarted. Trump has agreed to share the existence of NHI with the world"

Below are some quotes from a recent interview with Daniel Sheehan:

Trump has agreed to share the existence of NHI with the world

Timestamp 7:23:

Sheehan: "The creation of this new task force is extraordinarily important and now that president Donald Trump has been inaugurated, he has declared that he is going to insist upon being briefed in on all of the information that we have about the UFO phenomenon. And what extraterrestrial or conceivably extradimensional NHI is responsible for this phenomenon, and he has agreed he's going to share this with the American people and the world"

Barber worked for Grumman

Timestamp 1:46:18:

Sheehan: "People haven't really grokked this, you know his [Barbers] activity of recovering this egg and these other things is inside some range. It's a privately owned area where there's a private Aerospace corporation, Grumman actually, that he was employed by. And to have the commercial private for profit corporations engaged in trying to capture the UFO craft, is just slightly less ominous an activity than our United States military uh taking them down and trying to reverse engineer them"

Sheehan: "Neither one of these two motives in our opinion is appropriate. Trying to either gain some explicit military advantage over Russia or China by back engineering these craft, by knocking them down and taking their technology, or the private commercial industry trying to capture these vehicles so that they can get patents on these technologies... I think both of those are low consciousness motivations"

5 ET species are monitoring earth

Timestamp 1:53:27:

Sheehan: "I believe that there's convincing evidence that there are at least 5 very specific species that are ET in origin, who are in fact coming here to our planet. And that the UFOs are vehicles by means of which they transit from their separate star system to here"

Sheehan: "I believe that they are part of a a task force basically that's been assembled inside our galaxy to explore planets where life has actually evolved and that they are exploring sort of as a an anthropology kind of experiment, looking at the other the life forms, at what stage that we're all in"

Sheehan: "And it's in this capacity that they've been coming to our planet monitoring the development of our species, our activities toward each other, looking toward setting up some sort of standards by means of which... when we reach a point where we're prepared to venture out into space, into their their territory, that they can make assure themselves assured that we're not going to bring military weapons"

Earth is quarantined. Attempts to exit the solar system will be thwarted

Sheehan: "So I believe that we are in a sense quarantined right now. That as long as we are going to insist upon bringing nuclear weapons, and undertake aggressive military action to try to establish our superiority with regard to gathering together for ourselves the strategic raw materials that we believe our major business corporations need to maintain profit and stimulate our economies... that we're not going to be allowed to come out there. Every type of experiment that we do to try to get outside of our our own solar system, is going to be thwarted. Until we've overcome these deficiencies that we have in our culture right now"

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Join us February 22nd for another multi-subreddit collaboration on UAP and Experiencers with our host, Leslie Kean and guests Karin Austin, Executive Director of the John Mack Institute, and Dr. Peter Skafish, Anthropologist and co-founder and current Executive Director of the Sol Foundation.

Following on the heels of our two livestream AMA events (James Fox, Kirk McConnell and Lenval Logan (here) and Leslie Kean, Hal Puthoff, Garry Nolan, Jim Segala (here), multiple moderators from r/aliens, r/Experiencers, r/HighStrangeness, r/UFOB and r/UFOs are coming together to host a third AMA event exploring anthropological and sociological aspects of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) and the Experiencer Phenomenon.

About the AMA

This AMA will focus on the nature of experiencer phenomena and the wider context for both individuals and society. Leslie Kean will be hosting this event and discussions around Karin Austin’s work with the late John Mack, becoming the Executive Director of the John Mack Institute after his death, and the upcoming inclusion of his work in Rice University’s Archives of the Impossible; and Dr. Skafish’s work as co-founder and current Executive Director of the Sol Foundation and upcoming projects related to Experiencers and UFO/UAP Witnesses. This is a great opportunity to ask about the historical and global context of experiencer reports and their possible connection with spirits, fae, and gods, and whether these experiences represent a continuum of contact throughout human history. Let’s tackle the challenges of legitimizing experiencer studies, how academia can engage with the topic without stigma, and the ethical considerations in working with individuals who have had life-altering encounters.

The live AMA will occur on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025, at 1pm PST / 4pm EST with journalist and author Leslie Kean, as well as scientists and researchers Dr. Peter Skafish and Karin Austin. This collaborative event will be live-streamed, reaching audiences across platforms including YouTube, and Twitter/X. You can also stay up to date with us on Instagram and also on BlueSky

Important Resources for this AMA

From the Sol Conference 2024

• Dr. Peter Skafish with Leslie Kean - "The Relational Communicative Problem of UAP Pathbreaking journalist Leslie Kean explores with Sol cofounder, anthropologist Dr. Peter Skafish, a range of problems that he addresses through his work for Sol and ongoing academic research, from the implications for democracy of UAP secrecy to the insight anthropology provides into researching UAP events to their unconsidered communicative dimensions. Fireside from the second Sol Foundation Symposium, November 22, 2024, in San Francisco.
• Dr. Jeffrey Kripal & Karin Austin - "Introducing the Archives of the Impossible Rice University professor and Archives of the Impossible founder Dr. Jeffrey Kripal and John Mack Institute director Karin Austin discuss “experiencers” of UAP and related phenomena and the challenging enigma their stories present to human thought.
• Eric Davis, Kirk McConnell, and Peter Skafish - The Politics of Executive Branch UAP Secrecy Physicist Dr. Eric Davis and retired Senate Armed Services Committee staff member Kirk McConnell in a fireside chat on US government UAP secrecy with Sol cofounder Dr. Peter Skafish.
• Ryan Graves and Leslie Kean - "Update From the Front Lines: Aviation Safety and UAP" Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA) founder Ryan Graves and journalist Leslie Kean engage in a conversation about the recent UAP encounters of civilian and military aviators, congressional legislation that was recently proposed by ASA, and past advocacy and research UAP efforts focused on aviation safety.

How to Participate

This is a bit different than a typical AMA. Questions will be collected in advance on the following subreddits: r/aliens, r/Experiencers, r/HighStrangeness, r/UFOB and r/UFOs. Please read posted questions and upvote the ones you want to see asked! Due to the multi-subreddit nature of this AMA we are only able to take questions on reddit in advance - no questions will be taken live, or on YouTube or X.

Why This Matters

This collaboration represents a unique collective effort by Reddit’s UAP-focused communities to raise awareness and demand clarity on one of the most compelling issues of our time. Together, we are amplifying our voices and fostering a broader conversation about the more enigmatic side of the UAP phenomenon. Mark your calendars and join us on January 18th for this rare opportunity.

Bios:

Leslie Kean

Investigative journalist and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, published in eleven languages. Her over two decades of investigation and mainstream coverage of UFOs were profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. Leslie and reporter Ralph Blumenthal have contributed articles to The New York Times on UFOs/UAPs for seven years, beginning with a 2017, game-changing front page story about a secret Pentagon UFO program. This story included reporting on the 2004 Nimitz incident and the release of the now famous Gimbal and FLIR Navy videos. Leslie and Ralph [broke the story of former senior intelligence officer and whistleblower David Grusch in The Debrief in June, 2023, which led to an open Congressional hearing on crash retrievals and UAP. Leslie also works with Break Thru Films, an award-winning film and television production company based in New York City. Together they have produced two seasons of the documentary series UFOs: Investigating the Unknown. Season 2, made for National Geographic, premiered on January 9, 2025. Previously, Season 1 was commissioned and produced by CNN, and aired on NatGeo/VICE platforms in early 2023.

Leslie is also the author of the award-winning 2017 book Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife, which is the basis for a six-part documentary series on Netflix, also produced and directed by Break Thru Films in 2021. In addition, she has co-authored a play dealing with the existential ramifications of UFO disclosure, described by a leading Broadway producer as “’12 Angry Men’ meets ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’”. Her website is

Dr. Peter Skafish

Dr. Peter Skafish is a sociocultural anthropologist who works between his discipline and philosophy on how ideas, cosmologies, and translation shape the diversity of human thought and experience. He is currently engaged in research that employs anthropological perspectives on pluralism, cosmology, modernity and religion to anticipate how the sort of nonhuman beings that we imagine to design UAP might think, and in what ways this thinking is likely to be both commensurate and incommensurate with our own. Dr. Skafish is also developing in his advisory research for Sol broad recommendations for a genuinely democratic, “whole of society” approach to solving the legal, political, and environmental problems raised by UAP.

Dr. Peter Skafish has a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and has held faculty and research positions in the United States, France, Canada, and Germany, including at universities such as UC Berkeley, the Collège de France, McGill University, and the Bauhaus-University, Weimar. He also has been the recipient of funding from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Humanities, and the Fondation Fyssen. He is the author of the book Rough Metaphysics: The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts, which...

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A few weeks ago there was a brief interest peak in the claims Richard Banduric made in episode 69 of Nasa and DOD backed Ecosystemic Futures. A full transcript can be read here.

In summary, Banduric casually talked about working for classified programs that reverse engineered stuff that "wasn't ours". He talks about Black Triangles that cloak themselves and extraterrestrial smart materials that "disentigrate" and "reconfigure themselves", among other wild claims.

Ususally i take whistleblowers testimony for granted because there are usually red flags all over the place or there is some grift attached. This guy is not a whistleblower. He is not part of the UFO community. He made his claims in a scientific setting without even being asked for it. He worked for DARPA. He holds a range of patents for propellant-less space craft propulsion systems. He uses images of the CARET craft in his extremely scientific presentations (1.5k views in 4 years). (Stunningly also, no one in the lengthy Q&A follow-up asked about the image.)

I guess what i want to say is that i find it incomprehensible and frustrating that no one seems to be paying attention, at least to my knowledge. We keep getting the usual dose of interviews with people like Sheehan, Strieber, etc.

I do not have the platform or means myself so i am really counting on the usual suspects here. There is a potential uncharted goldmine there. So, Jesse Michels, Coulthart, Dolan, UAPGerb..anyone.. get this guy on. Banduric said himself there is stuff he is allowed to talk about - but no one is asking questions.

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Original Title: After the most recent Congressional UFO Hearing (11/13/2024), Captain Robert Salas had the opportunity to speak personally with Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Salas told her about the Malmstrom incident in 1967, when UFOs shut down nuclear missiles.

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Original Title: Lue Elizondo: ‘The 22M allocated for DIA AAWSAP was originally intended to SCIF-out Bigelow Aerospace facilities in Las Vegas due to a UAP material divestment plan proposed to AAWSAP leadership by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Vice President, Dr. James Ryder (now deceased)’

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Context for those outside Australia - our media and government have been monitoring a group of Chinese warships that have been manoeuvring inside our economic exclusion zone waters for just over a week.

Yesterday, they were spotted 150km off the coast of Sydney, which is unusually South (and on the opposite side of the continent to China, so they've had to come a very long way).

For the record, I believe some of the sightings over NJ and other locations were truly bizarre, but I also think a foreign power could have potentially been behind some of the initial sightings around military facilities. There were also multiple reports that drones were spotted flying to and from somewhere out at sea.

Full article text:

Commercial pilots have been warned of a potential hazard in airspace between Australia and New Zealand, where three Chinese warships are conducting military exercises.

The ABC has confirmed with Australian authorities formal advice has been issued by Airservices Australia which prompted several international flights to divert course.

Airservices Australia, which is responsible for aviation safety within the region, has referred all questions to the Department of Defence.

On Thursday Defence Minister Richard Marles said Australian ships and aircraft were working "very closely" with New Zealand's military to monitor a Chinese naval taskforce transiting south east off the east coast of Australia.

An earlier report from Washington in the UK's Financial Times newspaper said the flotilla was around 150 nautical miles (277 kilometres) east of Sydney.

The Defence Department first revealed the Chinese naval taskforce was being monitored in the Coral Sea, north east of Queensland, but within Australia's exclusive economic zone.