Weekly News

Timestamped coverage of the latest UAP developments, updated throughout each week.

Portrait of Nick Pope, 1965–2026
April 6, 2026 – April 12, 2026

Nick Pope, 'The Real Fox Mulder,' Dies at 60

Burchett tells Stephen A. Smith he's 'seen pictures' of alien evidence and spoke with White House about disclosure today | Kacey Musgraves films three orange orbs from her jet for 45 minutes – both pilots confirm they see them nightly and nobody knows what they are | Daily Mail publishes dedicated investigation into missing rocket scientist Monica Reza – sole surviving inventor of a burn-resistant superalloy used in US national security rocket launches | Burchett says only Trump can break the UFO cover-up – claims evidence is hidden across private contractors and even the president is on 'need-to-know' | FOIA records reveal 22 drone incursions at US nuclear power plants including a triangular object with spotlight hovering over Pennsylvania's Susquehanna station for two hours | Diamond-shaped UFO with flashing lights reported over northern Minnesota – Bemidji mayor among witnesses | Rep. Luna demands 46 classified military UAP videos from Pentagon by April 14 – the most specific congressional demand for UFO evidence ever made | Burchett files H.R. 8197 to terminate AARO and ban any future centralized Pentagon UFO office | VASCO transients anticorrelate with geomagnetic storms – ruling out cosmic rays and plate defects as explanations; nuclear-test correlation strengthens to 3.1 sigma | Nick Pope, former UK MoD UFO investigator known as 'the real Fox Mulder,' dies at 60 of Stage 4 esophageal cancer in Tucson | Burchett reveals military briefings on five underwater UAP base locations off the US coast | Connecticut advances bipartisan bill for state-funded UAP study – would be second state after New Jersey | Daylight fireball over NJ/NY/PA confirmed by NASA – 260 reports, trajectory crosses drone-mystery zone | DIA AAWSAP director Lacatski says his four books are 'the closest thing to full disclosure the public might ever get' | Burchett confirms briefings describe both alien life and recovered machinery; recounts a naval official's 'Tim, they're real' moment | Ninth scientist tied to US secrets dead: JPL cluster draws FBI and congressional attention

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Matt Gaetz during his UFO interview on The Benny Show, March 2026
March 30, 2026 – April 5, 2026

Gaetz: Army Whistleblower Told Me About Alien-Human Breeding Programs

Burlison working with White House on updated UAPDA language for NDAA – expects 'more support' this year | Himes (HPSCI Ranking Member): 'I would love the public to see what I've seen' on UAP | Bob Lazar returns to Joe Rogan (JRE #2479): 1941 map shows road into S4 mountain, aerial photos reveal possible hangar doors, new S4 documentary on Amazon | Burchett on camera: 'We are not alone'; calls McCasland 'The UFO Gatekeeper,' insiders 'very nervous' | Gaetz: alien-human hybrid breeding programs | Luna demands 46 classified UAP videos by April 14 | McCasland 911 call: wife says he 'planned not to be found' | UK drone inquiry ends with zero suspects | NORAD scrambles F-16s over California – turns out to be weather balloons

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Illustration of Vice President JD Vance at a podcast microphone with demonic silhouettes and a UAP radar overlay behind him
March 23, 2026 – March 29, 2026

'I Think They're Demons': VP Vance Weighs In on UFOs

White House registers aliens.gov – site sits empty, press secretary says 'Stay tuned!' | Daily Mail permanently deletes its CIA crash retrieval exposé – reporters speak out | Japan proposes government UAP office under Cabinet crisis management | Rep. Burlison touring secret UFO bases with Pentagon permission – Grusch is his advisor, one foreign site 'too big to move' | Jamming-resistant drone swarms shut down Barksdale nuclear bomber base for six days during Iran operations | ODNI invited Immaculate Constellation whistleblower Matthew Brown in, then smeared him as fabricator and traitor | VP Vance says UFOs are 'demons' – same night, Bill Maher fires back: skeptics are the real conspiracy theorists

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Retired USAF Maj. Gen. William McCasland near Albuquerque with a Silver Alert missing poster and the Sandia Mountains behind him
March 16, 2026 – March 22, 2026

A Second Person Vanishes

Daily Mail reveals aerospace engineer Monica Reza, who worked on a rocket project McCasland oversaw, vanished on a California hike in June 2025 | McCasland search produces almost nothing after three weeks – 700 homes canvassed, no confirmed leads | Wife Susan says Neil 'does not have any special knowledge about ET bodies and debris from the Roswell crash stored at Wright-Patt' | Coulthart calls disappearance a 'grave national security crisis' – retired FBI agent suspects suicide

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Eric Weinstein and Eric Davis in conversation on the American Alchemy podcast
March 9, 2026 – March 15, 2026

Weinstein Confronts Pentagon Scientist: 'Where Are the Physicists?'

Eric Weinstein confronts Eric Davis on why no theoretical physicists were ever on the alleged crash-retrieval program | Davis states '100%' conviction on Roswell and publicly vouches for the Wilson-Davis memo | McCasland search: 600+ homeowners asked for security footage, no sightings to date | Weinstein: 'You can't engineer your way out of a science problem'

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Eric Weinstein at a chalkboard of physics equations, a shadowy figure near filing cabinets, and the New Mexico desert with UFOs between them
March 2, 2026 – March 8, 2026

'Atomic Weapons, UFOs, and Epstein Are All Going to Merge Into One Story'

Eric Weinstein links Epstein's science network to UFO disclosure and New Mexico national labs | Harvard's Galileo Project claims UAP detection capability – no findings yet | McCasland search update: FBI involved, possible sighting near Piedra Lisa Canyon, wife says no foul play suspected | MJ-12 document stamps match declassified CIA Paperclip files | Silver Alert still active for retired Maj. Gen. McCasland

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters at Sierra Space in Colorado about the UFO file release
February 23, 2026 – March 1, 2026

The Machine Starts Moving

Mellon calls Trump's UAP directive 'historic' but warns disclosure won't come from an archival data dump – real confirmation goes straight to the White House | NASA overhauls Artemis – adds 2027 test mission, pushes crewed Moon landing to 2028, cancels Boeing upper stage contract | Former AARO acting director Tim Phillips now describes objects in space and impossible maneuvers – contradicting his own 2024 DoD testimony | Grusch tells Bret Baier Trump is 'very well informed' on UAPs, confirms photos of non-human remains | Elizondo names 2027 and 2036 as rumored UAP timeline dates, says Pentagon officials called UFOs 'demonic' | Hegseth confirms Pentagon is actively working the UFO file release at Sierra Space | AARO caseload exceeds 2,000 cases as records move toward public release | Schumer and Trump find rare bipartisan common ground on UFO transparency | Luna says declassified UAP files will be housed on the National Archives website

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President Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One about releasing UFO files
February 16, 2026 – February 22, 2026

Trump Pulls the Trigger

Trump directs Pentagon to begin releasing UFO, UAP, and alien-related files – no timeline set | ODNI announces UAP records coming 'soon' – references 500K documents already declassified | Scientists and transparency advocates react with cautious optimism – Mellon warns follow-through is everything

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Barack Obama during a podcast interview where he said aliens are real
February 9, 2026 – February 15, 2026

They're Real

Obama tells a podcast aliens are 'real' – then issues an Instagram clarification walking it back | AARO quietly publishes a new white paper on standardizing UAP narrative data | A mysterious dawn glow over South Australia sparks UFO speculation before being linked to an Ariane 6 launch

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