U.S. official says Pentagon committed to understanding UFO origins

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Translator: I know all you morons love UFO's way more than who was doing what on Pedophile Island or who ICE executed this week. So pay attention, MAGAWITS, I am the most exquisitely tremendously momentously and stupendously releasing information on the aliens and Area 51. I'm doing this, and you'll know what I know, but first you gotta let this other shit go. Hail Satan. Cough cough. I mean God Bless America.
 

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In fact, when surveyed, 86.6 per cent of astrobiologists recently said they either agreed or strongly agreed that extraterrestrial life likely exists somewhere else in the Universe.
When asked the same question but for complex or intelligent life, the agreeing percentage only drops to 58.2 per cent. More believe than don’t. So, what do these scientists know that we don’t know? And why are they so sure we’re not alone in this Universe?
 
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That's just belief, not expertise. The two schools of thought are "The chemical processes that lead to life exist everywhere, therefore life exists everywhere" and "The chain of actions and reactions that led to life and intelligent life on Earth is so complex that statistically, it's unlikely (or impossible) to have occurred twice, like rolling a hundred consecutive 12s with honest dice." There is simply insufficient data thus far to prove, or even really indicate, either, or some unknown third.
 

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That's just belief, not expertise. The two schools of thought are "The chemical processes that lead to life exist everywhere, therefore life exists everywhere" and "The chain of actions and reactions that led to life and intelligent life on Earth is so complex that statistically, it's unlikely (or impossible) to have occurred twice, like rolling a hundred consecutive 12s with honest dice." There is simply insufficient data thus far to prove, or even really indicate, either, or some unknown third.
It would be foolish, and extremely self centered to believe we are the only place in the entire solar system with life, and conveniently being the highest intelligent species at that.
 

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Kacey Musgraves details 'craziest f---ing' UFO experience
Three glowing orbs allegedly followed Grammy winner's flight from Texas to Nashville


Author of the article:Mark Daniell
Published Apr 10, 2026 • Last updated 3 hours ago • 5 minute read

Singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves visits SiriusXM Studios on March 18, 2024 in Nashville.
Singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves visits SiriusXM Studios on March 18, 2024 in Nashville. Photo by Jason Kempin /Getty Images for SiriusXM
Kacey Musgraves has taken to Instagram to share what she is describing as the “craziest f—ing orb UFO experience” of her life during a recent flight between Texas and Tennessee.


“So I just got off a plane. I flew from Fort Worth to Nashville. It was me and one of my managers, Bobby, and we just had the craziest, f—ing orb UFO experience. He saw it with me,” Musgraves said in a self-shot video posted to her Instagram Stories.


“I’ve seen many crazy things,” she continued. “I mean literally, keep looking up. I’ve seen fire burning in the sky. I’ve seen things that I can’t explain. So this is not the first time … I’m a noticer. I’m always noticing things.”


The American singer and musician said she spotted three orbs in the sky and shared video of the alleged UFOs.

“I was about to lay down and take a nap, and I saw these lights that caught my eye that just didn’t look normal. And I watched them for a minute and they were definitely trailing each other … They were about 50,000 feet up probably. We watched them for maybe like 45 minutes. I have videos and it looks like I filmed them on a f—ing toaster. But that’s the quality. That’s what we’re working with. I have an iPhone 17.”

Kacey Musgraves attends the Ralph Lauren Collection Fall 2025 on April 17, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by T/Getty Images)
Kacey Musgraves attends the Ralph Lauren Collection Fall 2025 on April 17, 2025 in New York City. Photo by Theo Wargo /Getty Images
The Grammy winner said the objects were “far off” and it was “nighttime,” but the spheres were “not moving like any craft that we can control.”

“They were intermittently coming and going, forming triangle patterns. They were kind of an orange-ish colour. Sometimes they would get extremely bright and change colour, change size. The craziest thing is, so they followed us from about Little Rock area — that’s when I noticed them all the way to Nashville — and we landed and Bobby and I were like, ‘Oh my God, this is insane.’”

After landing, the Slow Burn singer confirmed that the pilots saw the same phenomenon.

“We’re like, ‘Did y’all just see something weird?’ And they’re like, ‘Um, three orbs off in the sky?’ And we were like, ‘Yeah,’ and both pilots were laughing and were like, ‘Yeah, we’ve seen these every single night and all the other pilots are seeing them too and nobody knows what they are.’”



Musgraves said one of the pilots told her that he had seen something similar in New York the night before while the other confessed he had a similar encounter in Dallas.

“So yeah, s— is weird. But I’m here for it. I am open to it. I’m here for it,” she said.

“This is one of many, many strange unexplainable things I’ve seen,” Musgraves said at the end of her video. “Are y’all seeing stuff? We live in this time where we don’t know what’s real … The thing is, you could have the best, most high-quality footage of something and no one would believe it anyway.”

The truth is out there
Musgraves isn’t the first celebrity to publicly claim they’ve seen unidentified objects flying through the sky.

In 2021, pop star Demi Lovato shared an experience she had in California.

“We went out into the desert in Joshua Tree and I basically saw this blue orb that was about 50 feet away, maybe less,” Lovato told E! News. “And it was kind of like floating above the ground, just like 10 or 15 feet, and it was kind of keeping its distance from me.”


Kesha shared a similar experience in the same location.

“I had an experience with a UFO when I was in Joshua Tree,” the TiK ToK singer revealed in a 2018 radio interview. “We were just, like, sitting on a rock, and all of a sudden there were fireballs in the sky.”

In 2013, Oscar winner Russell Crowe tweeted a video which showed the glowing red lights of an alleged UFO outside his office in Australia.

Meanwhile, NFL star Aaron Rodgers said he was left “wondering what the hell just happened” after one close encounter.

“It was a snowy night. It was orange and moving in the clouds from left to right, and the bizarre part that was attached to it was, after it was out of sight, we were frozen looking at each other wondering what the hell just happened,” Rodgers shared with Pat McAfee in 2021. “About 30 seconds after that, we heard fighter jets.”

Elsewhere, Kurt Russell reported the Phoenix Lights UFO incident on March 13, 1997.

“I saw six lights over the airport in an absolute uniform, in a ‘v’ shape, and … I was just looking at them,” Russell told BBC in 2017. He reported it, but forgot all about the encounter until he saw his partner Goldie Hawn watching a special about the Phoenix Lights incident several years later.


“The fascinating part to me is that it literally just went out of my head … had I not seen that show, I’d have never thought of it again,” he said.

Trump directs government to release files on UFOs
Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.”

In a Truth Social post in February, Trump said he was directing government agencies to release files related “to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”

Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump also said that the president is readying a speech addressing extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

“I’ve heard kind of around, I think my father-in-law has actually said it, that there is some speech that he has, that I guess at the right time, I don’t know when the right time is, he’s going to break out and talk about and it has to do with maybe some sort of extraterrestrial life,” Lara said on the Pod Force One podcast earlier this year.

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11th dead scientist linked to UFOs emerges in recent string of disappearances, deaths: 'NOT NORMAL'
President Donald Trump declared that his administration will have an answer in the coming days

Author of the article:Denette Wilford
Published Apr 17, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 4 minute read

Amy Eskridge, whose death in 2022 has resurfaced in a possible connection to other missing or dead scientists privy to top-secret information.
Amy Eskridge, whose death in 2022 has resurfaced in a possible connection to other missing or dead scientists privy to top-secret information. Photo by Jeremy Rhys /YouTube
The number of scientists with access to U.S. secrets who have been found dead or have gone missing is “too coincidental” to ignore, one congressman believes.


President Donald Trump declared Thursday that his administration will have an answer within the next few days about a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances of the experts with ties to advanced research.


“I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week-and-a-half,” Trump told reporters. “Pretty serious stuff, hopefully a coincidence, or whatever you want to call it.”

There appears to be no known evidence of a connection among the cases, but some lawmakers are calling for a closer examination of the disappearances and deaths.


‘Too coincidental’
Rep. Eric Burlison, of Missouri, said his office had already been eyeing some of the disappearances for about a year and he believes the mystery surrounding the scientists is “certainly” tied to the access some of them had to classified aerospace, defence and UFO information.

“This is a rallying call to pay attention to this issue and make sure that our nation’s top scientists are safe and secure,” Burlison said Friday on Fox & Friends.

He also suggested the possibility that bad actors from China, Russia or Iran could be involved.

“This is too coincidental, and so we have to be investigating this,” he continued. “We need to have our nation’s top investigators, the FBI and every agency looking into this matter.”

Burlison said some of the scientists have “literally just disappeared” without a trace, noting how Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland vanished from his Albuquerque, N.M., home in February — after Burlison said he tried to contact him twice about his research into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).


Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, missing since Feb. 27, 2026.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William “Neil” McCasland, missing since Feb. 27, 2026. (Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office) Photo by Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office
The congressman also believes that “some form of threat” was delivered to the scientists before they vanished or died.

“They literally just disappeared. Left all of their devices at home. This is not normal,” Burlison said.

“These are some of the most advanced scientists, researchers in our nation, some of the most important people for national security efforts. And they all just mysteriously disappeared.”



McCasland, who retired in 2013 and vanished on Feb. 27, had worked in top positions in space research and acquisition.

Burlison sounding the alarms on Fox comes hours after another scientist’s mysterious death emerged, the Daily Mail reported.

Is 2022 death related?
Amy Eskridge, 34, was involved in extensive research into anti-gravity technology, UFOs and extraterrestrial life, according to the outlet.

She died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at her Huntsville, Alabama, home in 2022.

Her death was ruled a suicide and no public information was released.

However, prior to her death, Eskridge had launched a research company, The Institute for Exotic Science, in order to create a “public-facing persona to disclose anti-gravity technology.”

Eskridge revealed in a 2020 interview that she had plans to disclose information about UFOs and extraterrestrials to the public — and was receiving threats.

“I need to disclose soon, man. I need to publish soon because it’s like escalating,” she said in a wide-ranging, revealing interview that would be one of her last.


“This has been going on for like four or five years, and over the past 12 months, it’s been escalating, like more aggressive, more invasive digging through my underwear drawer and sexual threats.”



She worked with retired British intelligence officer Franc Milburn to investigate the alleged harassment, according to the Mail.

Milburn discovered that Eskridge had endured multiple physical and psychological attacks.

He submitted his findings to Congress in 2023 and later concluded that Eskridge’s death was not a suicide.


These are the officials who have disappeared or died since 2023:

DISAPPEARED
– William “Neil” McCasland, retired U.S. Air Force major general (missing since Feb. 27, 2026)

– Steven Garcia, government contractor at the Kansas City National Security Campus in Albuquerque, N.M. (missing since Aug. 28, 2025)


– Anthony Chavez, former employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory (missing since May 8, 2025)

– Melissa Casias, administrative worker at Los Alamos National Laboratory (missing since June 26, 2025)

– Monica Reza, director of materials processing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (missing since June 22, 2025)

DEAD
– Jason Thomas, pharmaceutical researcher at Novartis working on cancer treatments (died on March 17, 2026)

– Carl Grillmair, Caltech astrophysicist who worked on NASA’s NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor missions (died on Feb. 16, 2026)

– Nuno Loureiro, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (died from gunshot wound on Dec. 16, 2025)

– Frank Maiwald, principal researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (died on July 4, 2024)

– Michael David Hicks, research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1 mission (died on July 30, 2023)
 
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I figure UFOs are alien intelligences coming here, looking us over, and saying "Aw, HELL no!" and fucking off at Warp Factor getusthefuckouttahere.
The Supreme Commander figures the aliens are scientists, and we are the experiment that has gone drastically wrong, and they don't know what to do about it. Perhaps in inter galactic circles, it is uncool to just eliminate your failed experiments and you must follow them through to the inevitable end. They simply come around from time to time to see how much longer it is going to take.
 
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U.S. official says Pentagon committed to understanding UFO origins
Author of the article:Reuters
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Publishing date:May 17, 2022 •
Canada too, apparently, or at least to gather as much info as possible.
The Sky Canada Project is studying how Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings reported by the public are managed in Canada. Currently, UAP reports are not collected systematically by the Canadian government or any other official organization.Jan 15, 2025.