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    The Micah Hanks Program – Micah Hanks

    The Micah Hanks Program is a weekly podcast that covers science and the mysteries of our universe. Taking a critically-minded approach to the study of our world, each week Micah presents commentary and discussions with guests on subjects that include mysteries of physics and astronomy, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), UFOs, myths and folklore, archaeology and ancient mysteries, artificial intelligence, futurism, cryptozoology, science fiction, and entertainment. Each week we journey to the boundaries of human knowledge, in search of the most unusual things our world has to offer.

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    The Horror Out of Time: Time Travel, UAP, and Cosmic Enigmas | MHP 10.30.24. Oct 31, 2024

    "Conflict with time seems to me the most potent and fruitful theme in all human expression," wrote the acclaimed writer of weird fiction H.P. Lovecraft, who noted that time was often emphasized in his stories because he viewed it as "the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe."

    In this special Halloween installment of The Micah Hanks Program, we look at scientific and literary themes involving time, as well as its role in cosmic horror, theories involving time travel, and also the possible relationship between time and UFOs, artificial intelligence, and much more, in an eerie exploration of one of Lovecraft's most famous and frightening motifs.

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    • NEWS: Ready for an extra hour of sleep? Here's when daylight saving time ends in 2024
    • How to prepare your body and mind for the end of daylight saving time
    • Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel
    • Does this 1941 photo include an iPad? Some shocked viewers think so: ‘Time for the Twilight Zone theme’
    • Debunking the Charlie Chaplin Time Travel Video
    • Time traveler caught in 1940 photo?
    • Conspiracy theorists spot ‘time traveler using mobile phone’ in 1940s
    • "The Wormhole Dilemma: Could Advanced Civilizations Use Time Travel to Rewrite History? - The Debrief
    • LOVECRAFT: The Shadow Out of Time (Full Text via Project Gutenberg
    • UFOs AND TIME TRAVEL: Time-traveler UFO hypothesis

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    UFOs & Counterintelligence: False Narratives & Fake UAP Programs | MHP 10.22.24. Oct 23, 2024

    For decades, rumors have suggested the existence of secret U.S. government programs involved in the study and possible retrieval of mysterious craft of non-human origin. Such narratives have long maintained that the intelligence community has withheld information about these alleged UFO programs from the public, as well as from Congress.

    However, a less often examined question involves the role of counterintelligence and the use of deception in military operations that may have helped give rise to false narratives related to UFOs and alleged secret programs. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at explosive statements by former U.S. government officials that point to the existence of fake UFO programs, forged documents, and other deceptive measures that may have helped foster belief in a widespread UFO coverup.

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    • NEWS: Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped
    • Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks
    • Protective Nets To Shield F-22s Eyed For Airbase Swarmed By Mystery Drones
    • Drone swarms targeting US military bases are operated by 'mother ship' UFO
    • FBI investigates alleged leak of U.S. insights on Israeli war preparation
    • COUNTERINTELLIGENCE: Army Field Manual No. 34-60: FM 34-60 Counterintelligence
    • KIRKPATRICK: Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Discusses CIA Recovery Claims and “Fake NDAs”
    • LACKATSKI: I have seen, in multiple cases, what I can only call forged documents…

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    Immaculate Constellation: UAP Bombshell or Disinformation? | MHP 10.16.24. Oct 16, 2024

    Recently, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger reported on the allegations of an alleged U.S. government insider who claims they discovered evidence of an unacknowledged special access program, codenamed "Immaculate Constellation," which has been secretly collecting data on encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, amid ongoing allegations that the U.S. government is withholding secret information about UAP programs that include databases with imagery and other evidence of anomalous craft operating in our skies, we examine the latest whistleblower claims and their possible implications, as well as the precedent for whether such highly secretive programs could exist, and remain a secret for so long.

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    • NEWS: FEMA forced to pause Hurricane Helene aid due to reported threats toward responders
    • Hurricane Relief Workers Forced to Evacuate Due to Threat of ‘Armed Militia’
    • Man charged with making threats against FEMA workers in North Carolina
    • SHELLENBERGER: Pentagon Is Illegally Hiding Secret UFO Program From Congress
    • INTERVIEW: Report names ‘Immaculate Constellation’ UAP program: Journalist
    • MORE: Immaculate Constellation: What is the alleged Pentagon program on UAPs?
    • OPINION:Immaculate Constellation? Could The Government Really Hide a Secret UFO Program?
    • FLASHBACK: More Sources Step Up to Buttress Whistleblower Claims (June 2023)
    • JESSE MICHELS: A “spike of searches for ‘immaculate constellation’ when Grusch went public in 23
    • DAVID GREENING EP: Craft of Non-Human Origin (Album Released June 12, 2023, by Dave Greening)

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    Misinformation: Helene Rumors and Conspiracy Theories | 10.09.24. Oct 10, 2024

    Following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, misinformation and conspiracy theories have spread widely, hampering recovery efforts. This, in addition to new claims from independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, who has reported on an alleged whistleblower's extraordinary claims regarding an alleged secret Pentagon UAP retrieval program called "Immaculate Constellation," which we cover amid the ongoing hurricane relief effort here in Western North Carolina.

    As false claims continue to circulate, including rumors of secret land sales for lithium mining, allegations of disaster-relief funds being diverted, and unverified reports regarding current death tolls, many claims suggest federal authorities are covering up casualties or seizing land, while others promote baseless theories about weather control. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a deep dive into what North Carolina state representatives and FEMA officials have said and done amid these rumors, and the potential dangers of misinformation in undermining relief efforts and creating unnecessary fear and confusion among affected communities.

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    • BeLoved Asheville
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    • Loving Food
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    • NEWS: Live updates: Hurricane Milton hits Florida with tornadoes, surge and wind
    • UAP NEWS: Report names ‘Immaculate Constellation’ UAP program: Journalist
    • HELENE UPDATES: 11 members of same family killed when mudslide wiped out NC neighborhood
    • Mark Huneycutt visits Chimney Rock
    • Public officials urge halt to the spread of rampant disinformation around Hurricane Helene
    • MISINFORMATION: Another Hurdle in Recovery From Helene: Misinformation Is Getting in the Way
    • Helene response hampered by misinformation, conspiracy theories
    • Marjorie Taylor Greene condemned over Helene weather conspiracy theory
    • FEMA prepares for Hurricane Milton and battles Helene recovery rumors | AP News
    • FEMA administrator continues pushback against false claims as Helene death toll hits 230
    • Press Conference with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell from Asheville (Oct 9 2024)
    • FEMA’s Official Rumor Response Page

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    Hurricane Helene: Report from the Front Lines of a Disaster Zone | MHP 10.05.24. Oct 06, 2024

    In the final days of September, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall over the southeastern United States, causing widespread destruction that affected several states, with areas around Asheville, North Carolina, being among those most adversely impacted.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, Micah is joined by Matthew Oakley and Christopher Heyes to provide a detailed report on the situation on the ground here in Asheville, including personal experiences in the community, commentary on the local and federal emergency response, and also analysis of rumors and conspiracies about the storm that have begun to circulate since the devastation ensued.

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    • NEWS: Helene death toll may rise; 'catastrophic damage' slows power restoration: Updates
    • Helene is deadliest mainland US hurricane since Katrina as toll hits 200
    • 'Nothing like this': National Guard rushes supplies to communities cut off by Helene
    • Why was the flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, so extreme? Meteorologists explain.
    • ‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis
    • We’re only beginning to understand the historic nature of Helene’s flooding
    • Photos: Helene decimates Chimney Rock, N.C., a mountain town that was washed away in the storm
    • CONSPIRACIES: US officials struggle to quash Hurricane Helene conspiracy theories
    • Helene response hampered by misinformation, conspiracy theories

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    Salvatore Pais and the U.S. Navy's 'UFO' Patent Controversy | MHP 09.24.24. Sep 25, 2024

    Between 2016 and 2019, a series of secretive tests were conducted by the U.S. Navy into a mysterious phenomenon that became known as "The Pais Effect." The experimentation stemmed from the publication of a collection of unusual patents describing UFO-like technologies by Salvatore Pais, an engineer and inventor whose work remains controversial today.

    Joining us this week on The Micah Hanks Program, Salvatore Pais speaks with Micah and colleague Tim McMillan for an on-the-record discussion about the patents, what inspired them, official inquiries that resulted from the Navy's experiments, and also the national security significance of Pais's research into "The Pais Effect."

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    • NEWS: NASA's Perseverance Rover Makes Discovery of Bizarre 'Freya Castle' Rock on Mars
    • What’s That in the Desert? ESA Satellite Captures Incredible Images of Iconic Event as Seen from Orbit
    • Concerns Over Unauthorized UAS Incidents Prompt New International Defense Collaboration
    • Earth Will Temporarily Have a "Mini-Moon" in Its Orbit Until Late November
    • Look: Over 300 New 'Nazca Lines' Geoglyphs Have Been Revealed by AI
    • SALVATORE PAIS: Design of an experiment for observation of thermocapillary convection phenomena in a simulated floating zone under microgravity conditions / by Salvatore Cezar Pais
    • "Bubble Generation in a Continuous Liquid Flow Under Reduced Gravity Conditions"
    • THE PATENTS: Craft using an inertial mass reduction device". USPTO (10144532)
    • High frequency gravitational wave generator". USPTO (10322827)
    • Electromagnetic field generator and method to generate an electromagnetic field". USPTO (10135366)
    • Plasma Compression Fusion Device". USPTO (20190295733). September 26, 2019
    • Laser augmented turbojet propulsion system". USPTO (20170313446)
    • THE STORY: Docs Show Navy Got 'UFO' Patent Granted By Warning Of Similar Chinese Tech Advances"
    • The Navy Finally Speaks Up About Its Bizarre "UFO Patent" Experiments

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    Skinwalker Ranch: Journey to a Notorious Hotspot for the Unexplained | MHP 09.17.24. Sep 17, 2024

    Skinwalker Ranch, located in the Uintah Basin of northeastern Utah, is renowned for its reputation as a hotspot for unexplained phenomena. The 512-acre property has garnered international attention for a wide variety of strange events, ranging from UFO sightings and cattle mutilations to paranormal activities like poltergeist-like occurrences.

    With the ranch's mysterious history attracting the attention of everyone from researchers and government entities, to private organizations and their investigators over the decades, this week on The Micah Hanks Program we discuss Micah's own recent trip to the famous ranch, along with an analysis of the strange happenings that are purportedly connected with the location.

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    • NEWS: Suspect in apparent assassination attempt on Trump was near golf course for 12 hours
    • Jane's Addiction Cancels Tour After Perry Farrell Throws Punch at Dave Navarro During Concert
    • China frees American pastor after 18 years in detention
    • Millions Could Qualify for Psilocybin Therapy if FDA Approves Depression Therapy
    • Scientists Discover Odd, Potentially Dangerous Lifeforms Thriving High in Earth’s Atmosphere
    • Big Bang theory of how the universe began is refuted by Webb telescope study
    • SKINWALKER RANCH: The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch
    • Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah
    • Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program
    • Inside the Government’s Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations

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    The Hunt for Darkstar: America's Next Top Secret Spy Plane | MHP 09.10.24. Sep 10, 2024

    In 2013, a feature article appeared on the website of legendary aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin that quickly had aviation buffs talking. The piece, titled “Speed is the New Stealth,” claimed that a new hypersonic aircraft was under development at the company’s famous Skunk Works facility, which would soon set a new standard for speed and stealth in American aerospace technologies. They called it the SR-72, an aircraft Aviation Week had already dubbed "the son of Blackbird" after its predecessor, the legendary SR-71.

    Today, the status of the SR-72 program remains in question, although recent reports suggest that America's next secretive spy plane could soon be taking flight. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we delve into the mystery surrounding this aircraft, it's relationship to the fictional "Darkstar" program depicted in the film Top Gun: Maverick, and also look at UAP sightings that could involve encounters with unacknowledged U.S. stealth technologies.

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    • NEWS: James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies aged 93
    • Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing's Starliner during landing, NASA says
    • China’s Classified Space Plane, Shenlong, Returns from Secretive 267-Day Mission in Space
    • Japanese Eels Have Evolved the Ability to Escape a Predator’s Stomach After Being Eaten
    • DARKSTAR: Secretive SR-72 Hypersonic Aircraft, Successor to Lockheed Martin’s Legendary SR-71, Could Soon Take Flight
    • SKUNK WORKS: Speed is the New Stealth: Lockheed Martin Skunkworks
    • It Sure Seems Like Darkstar, Lockheed’s Secret High-Speed Jet, Is Real

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    Arrival of the Saucers: Eghigian on the History UAP | MHP 09.03.24. Sep 04, 2024

    In the years immediately following the Second World War, sightings of strange phenomena in our skies gave rise to one of the strangest developments of the postwar era: the "arrival" of flying saucers, strange objects that the U.S. government now calls unidentified anomalous phenomena.

    Joining us this week is Greg Eghigian, a Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. An expert on the history of the abnormal and the paranormal in the modern world, his research has been supported by NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and Greg joins us on The Micah Hanks Program to discuss his recent book, After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon.

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    • NEWS: Fishermen Off Hawaii Stumble Upon Mysterious Classified DARPA Drone
    • Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control – here’s why that’s so dangerous
    • EGHIGIAN: Greg Eghigian, Department of History at Princeton University
    • BOOK: After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon

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    Emergence: Aliens, Crashes, and the Origins of the Modern UFO Mythos | MHP 08.27.24. Aug 27, 2024

    Throughout the final decades of the 20th century, strange beliefs began to pervade the UFO research community. Ranging from stories of alleged flying saucer crashes, to strange encounters with "malevolent" alien beings, these and other controversial narratives began to predominate the minds of many in the UFO field. Where did these ideas originate, and how have they continued to shape the modern UFO narrative?

    Joining us this week to discuss the origins of such ideas is Charles Lear, an independent historical researcher and author of books that include his latest work, Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens: The Emergence of the Popular Modern UFO Mythos in the Late 20th Century. We explore these ideas, and much more, on this week's edition of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • ELIZONDO: Imminent: Former Counterintelligence Agent's New Memoir Reveals an Insider's Look at UFOs
    • AARO: The Pentagon’s Official UAP Investigative Office Has a New Full-Time Director
    • ANNOUNCEMENT: Department of Defense Announces the New Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
    • JON KOSLOSKI BIO: Dr. Jon T. Kosloski: U.S. Department of Defense Biography
    • CHARLES LEAR: Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens: The Emergence of the Popular Modern UFO Mythos in the Late 20th Century

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    Take Me To Your Lawyer: UAP, SETI, and the Law of Contact | MHP 08.20.24. Aug 21, 2024

    As humans continue to search the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life from other worlds, and the UAP debate suggests the possibility that it may already have found us, legal scholars are now considering how laws would apply to potential contact scenarios.

    Joining us on The Micah Hanks Program this week are Professor Michael Bohlander, the Chair in Global Law and SETI Policy in the Durham Law School, and Dr. John Elliott, an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science and the Coordinator for the SETI Post Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews. Together we explore how international laws could apply if contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence were made, and how a recent survey the researchers are conducting could be used to develop post-contact protocols.

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    • ELIZONDO: I Investigated UAPs at the Pentagon—Americans Can Handle the Truth
    • NEWS: Palmdale UFO Scare Leads To Revelations About Mystery Drone Incursions Over Plant 42
    • How Would Humans React to Contact with Extraterrestrials? UK Researchers Seek Answers in New Survey
    • MICHAEL BOHLANDER: Professor Michael Bohlander - Durham University
    • BOOK: Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law: The Applicability of Rules of War and Human Rights
    • ARTICLE: Take Me to Your Lawyer: The Legal Aspects of Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
    • JOHN ELLIOT: Dr John Elliott - School of Computer Science
    • PAPER: Meeting extraterrestrials: scenarios of first contact from the perspective of exosociology

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    Sightings II: Status Report From the Case Files of the UAPSRS | MHP 08.13.24. Aug 14, 2024

    Over the decades, sightings of mysterious objects in our skies have been reported from all over the world. Boasting a wide range of physical features, questions about these mysterious objects which the U.S. government now calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) have long perplexed experts.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we offer a status update from the case files of the UAP Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS), which officially launched earlier this year. In our analysis, we'll examine trends we have observed in the current batch of reports, detailed in a series of odd first-hand witness reports involving sightings of spherical UAP, and massive triangular craft observed in our skies.

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    • NEWS: Carvings at ancient monument may be world's oldest calendar
    • Ancient Babylonian Tablets Are Finally Deciphered. They’re Full of Bad News
    • UAPSRS SPHERICAL UAP SIGHTINGS:
    • United Kingdom, 2020: UAPSRS Case No. 171
    • North Carolina, 1997: UAPSRS Case No. 179
    • Channel Islands, 2022: UAPSRS Case No. 167
    • Kentucky, 2023: UAPSRS Case No. 153
    • UAPSRS TRIANGULAR UAP SIGHTINGS:
    • Kentucky, 2008: UAPSRS Case No. 151
    • California, 1997: UAPSRS Case No. 150
    • Canada, 2020: UAPSRS Case No. 106
    • Alabama, 2000: UAPSRS Case No. 145
    • Texas, 2002: UAPSRS Case No. 163
    • Colorado, 2021: UAPSRS Case No. 124

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    Unit 731: Operation Paperclip of the East and the Roswell Controversy | MHP 08.06.24. Aug 07, 2024

    After the surrender of Japan that marked the end of the Second World War, American forces began to unravel clues to the existence of a disturbing secret program involving biological experiments carried out on human test subjects during the height of the conflict. Known as "Unit 731", the program has never been officially acknowledged, and although its existence is well established, the American government's secretive dealings with Japanese scientists led to an eastern counterpart to the controversial "Operation Paperclip" that ensued with Nazi scientists after the war.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the tragic history of Unit 731's war crimes, as well as the American effort to cover up its cooperation with the secretive group after the war, and finally, its possible connection to one of the most controversial alleged UFO incidents of all time.

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    • NEWS: Tropical Storm Debby hits Florida with floods, threat of record rain in Georgia and the Carolinas
    • Dow tumbles 1000 points, S&P 500 posts worst day since 2022 in global market sell-off
    • U.S. to send more warships, fighter jets to Middle East to bolster defenses
    • Chinese-made humanoid robots raise alarms in Congress: 'Stealth army on our land'
    • Inbred, gibberish or just MAD? Warnings rise about AI models
    • UNIT 731: A mysterious pile of bones could hold evidence of Japanese war crimes, activists say
    • Unit 731: Japan's Biological Force (BBC News Article)
    • 100,000 Pages Declassified in Search for Japanese War Crimes Records | National Archives
    • Japanese War Crimes and Japanese Biological Warfare, 1934-2006
    • POPULAR MECHANICS: July 1997 “Roswell” Issue
    • THE SMOKING GUN? Document: “Analysis of Factors Contributing to "Pilot Error" Experiences in Operating Experimental Aircraft Controls”

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    Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists & the UFO Connection | MHP 07.31.24. Jul 31, 2024

    In postwar America, a shocking secret program was undertaken to bring former Nazi scientists to the United States, in order to maintain a strategic advantage against the Soviet Union. Known as Operation Paperclip, the program involved hundreds of German scientists who ultimately helped give birth to the American Space Program.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a historical deep dive into the controversial program, with an analysis that also looks at the various connections the program, its scientists, and the curious technologies involved may have had to UFO sightings during and after World War II. Is there an even deeper secret history to the U.S.'s post war collaborations with German scientists?

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    • OPERATION PAPERCLIP: Project Paperclip and American Rocketry after WWII
    • Memorandum by The Acting Secretary of State to President Truman
    • CIA DOCUMENTS: Operation Paperclip CIA documents
    • 'Engineer claims saucer plans are in Soviet hands'
    • OBERTH: Herman Oberth UFO lecture notes
    • VON BRAUN: Werner von Braun at Roswell
    • Aerospace Executive Carol Rosin on Braun and space weapons

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    The Operators: UAP Intentions and the Atomic Connection | MHP 07.23.24. Jul 23, 2024

    In the early 1940s, the world was engulfed in the Second World War. During the height of the battle, a secretive scientific endeavor began to take shape, The Manhattan Project, which would forever alter the course of history.

    During this period, sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena would also begin to rise, with a concerning number occurring around sites related to the American atomic warfare complex. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at what historical research and recent studies have revealed about this period, as well as the potential intentions of the UAP operators, and finally, a series of strange secrets about UAP-related happenings in the American southwest at that time.

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    • NEWS: Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 Presidential Race
    • Secret Service director, grilled by lawmakers on the Trump assassination attempt, says 'we failed'
    • Asheville Red Lobster delivered rare orange lobster
    • Deputy has 'close encounter' with UFO-shaped vehicle
    • MAKING THE BOMB: The Manhattan Project
    • 1947: Year of the Flying Saucer
    • Ellsworth UFO sighting
    • SCU STUDY PART I: UAP Pattern Recognition Study 1945-1975 US Military Atomic Warfare Complex
    • PART II: UAP Activity Pattern Study 1945-1975 Military and Public Activities
    • STRINGFIELD: UFO Crash Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum - Status Report VI

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    The Roswell Material: Oak Ridge & AARO Analyze 'Art's Parts' | MHP 07.17.24. Jul 17, 2024

    In 1996, radio host Art Bell received a mysterious package containing small metallic samples and an incredible story. According to the anonymous author of the enclosed letter, the material fragments had been collected during the recovery of an advanced aerospace vehicle that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947.

    Recently, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) conducted a series of tests on the legendary material, whose unique physiochemical properties were claimed to enable "inertial mass reduction" (i.e., levitation or antigravity functionality), potentially due to the bismuth and magnesium layers acting as a terahertz waveguide. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, look at AARO and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's findings, as well as a deep dive into the bizarre story of these alleged Roswell materials.

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    • ROSWELL MATERIALS: UAP metal fragment not alien in origin: AARO
    • Material of Interest: Magnesium-Zinc-Bismuth – To The Stars*
    • FLASHBACK: Dr. Hal Puthoff Address to the SSE/IRVA Conference, Las Vegas, 8 June 2018
    • Tom DeLonge’s UFO Organization Says It’s Obtained ‘Exotic’ Metals Unknown to Science
    • Linda Howe Lecture from X Con 2004
    • Analysis of "Art's Parts" by Nicholas A. Reiter
    • AARO: AARO's Supplement to Oak Ridge National Lab Analysis of Metallic Specimen
    • OAK RIDGE: Oak Ridge Synopsis of Material Analysis
    • ORNL and AARO Material Analysis Update – To The Stars*
    • The Truth About Those Alien Alloys in the NYT UFO Story
    • OURS OR THEIRS? US says UFO sightings likely secret military tests

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    AARO Audit: UAP, Roswell, and the GAO | MHP 07.08.24. Jul 09, 2024

    In the summer of 1995, following a congressional request, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigated documents related to the alleged crash of a "flying disc" near Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF), New Mexico in 1947. The result, which produced no "smoking gun" evidence of the purported crash, did reveal the mysterious destruction of records from the period, raising questions about who, and under what authority, the records might have been destroyed.

    Now, new draft language has revealed a possible effort by present-day U.S. lawmakers to have the GAO conduct a similar audit of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the situation, and also look at the history of the GAO's involvement with U.S. government investigations into UAP.

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    • NEWS: Mysterious glowing objects found above Jupiter's Great Red Spot
    • Crew of NASA's earthbound simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year
    • Boeing in talks with US defense department on impact of guilty plea
    • Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers
    • DOUGLAS D. JOHNSON: Will the GAO Be Investigating AARO?
    • THE GAO: GAO Report on Roswell Incident
    • DOD IG: The DoD IG's UAP Audit

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    The UAP Singularity | MHP 07.01.24. Jul 02, 2024

    As humanity continues its journey forward into the era of artificial intelligence, many leading futurists are looking ahead to what the following decades may hold for us. Some scientists are also questioning what the implications of the current progress with machine intelligence might be in terms of understanding mysteries like unidentified anomalous phenomena. Could AI help us solve the UAP mystery, or might some part of the phenomenon itself be related to AI, representing a kind of "UAP Singularity" hinted at by our own current technological progression?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we explore how recent advancements with AI relate to the UAP question, including ideas such as whether alien life we may encounter would necessarily be biological, and how the concept of technological singularity could potentially give rise to superintelligences, time travel, and other futuristic concepts that could be related to the UAP mystery.

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    • NEWS: It's International Asteroid Day, and astronomers have much to celebrate | Space
    • Report claims 12 people at Red Rocks saw massive UFO hovering in the sky
    • NUFORC UFO Sighting 181776
    • Enigma Labs SIghting Over Colorado
    • LIKELY SOURCE: Starlink launch marks 20th mission for Falcon 9 booster
    • KURZWEIL: AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’
    • THE SINGULARITY: The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
    • THE UFO SINGULARITY: The UFO Singularity by Micah Hanks
    • Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It | Scientific American
    • Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: Why UFOs May Be AI
    • NASA study team suggests applying artificial intelligence to trove of mystery sightings
    • AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations
    • PASULKA: Apocalypse now, and always: On UFOs, AI and encounters with non-human intelligence

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    USOs: Mystery Submarines and Undersea Anomalies | MHP 06.24.24. Jun 25, 2024

    During the Cold War, sightings of strange "mystery submarines" were reported in various parts of the world, from the coastal waters of Scandinavian countries to the ocean surrounding parts of New Zealand, South American countries, and others. Although fears of Soviet espionage ran high, some of the incidents defied simple explanation, seemingly pointing to other alternatives as to what these mystery "USOs" and their origins may have been.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we dive into cases involving mystery submarines and odd sightings of unidentified submersible objects (USOs) from throughout the years, as well as some of the prevalent theories about their origins and possible relationship to the UAP phenomenon.

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    • NEWS: We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality
    • Videos Reveal This Bloodsucking Parasite Doing Something Odd That Settles a Century-Old Debate
    • Shiny monolith removed from mountains outside Las Vegas. How it got there still is a mystery
    • Top secret US undersea drone 'Manta Ray' spotted on GOOGLE before being scrubbed from internet
    • NASA Plans to Put an Artificial Star in Orbit. Here’s Why.
    • MYSTERY SUBS: What was lurking in Sweden's waters? - BBC News
    • Suspected Foreign Submarine Turned Out to Be a Fishing Boat
    • US detects ‘highly unusual’ North Korean submarine activity | CNN Politics
    • Mystery Submarine Spotted in Swedish Waters
    • Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea
    • South China Sea: US submarine collides with unknown object
    • Russian sub deployment off Florida worries Pentagon that Moscow will stalk U.S. coasts
    • TIM GALLUDET: Beneath the Surface: Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet

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    Emergency in Orbit: Accidents and Unknowns in Outer Space | MHP 06.18.24. Jun 19, 2024

    On June 12, 2024, a concerning situation began to unfold as an official NASA live stream featured audio that appeared to reveal a medical emergency unfolding on board the International Space Station. Although the incident turned out to be a false alarm, it served as a reminder of the dangers astronauts face while in orbit.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at several of the most alarming incidents that have occurred in the history of spaceflight, as well as occasional encounters with unidentified objects reported by astronauts during orbital operations.

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    • NEWS: Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest as New York activates the National Guard
    • New Boeing whistleblower shared ‘chilling’ account of retaliation, senator says
    • U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin Test Advanced Mk21A Missile Reentry Vehicle Over the Pacific
    • What's That? NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Just Spotted Something on the Far Side of the Moon
    • NASA: Emergency on the ISS? Disturbing Audio Led to Concerns About a Medical Situation in Space
    • Audio of the NASA "false alarm"

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    Silent Giants: Secret Military Tech and UAP ‘Motherships’ | MHP 06.11.24. Jun 12, 2024

    In the 1980s, Popular Mechanics featured an intriguing cover story that detailed encounters with a colossal black flying wing in California’s desert skies. Throughout the decades, similar reports involving massive Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) have continued, which include ongoing sightings of enigmatic black triangles reported across the globe.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at some of history’s most famous cases involving encounters with “silent giants” that include massive black triangular UAP, the “mothership” observed by pilot Kenji Terauchi over Alaska in 1986, and an incredible encounter by a military police officer over Johnston Island in the late 1980s. What were these mysterious craft, and could they have any potential links to secretive military technologies that have remained hidden within the world of U.S. black projects?

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    • NEWS: Mysterious Sonic Booms Rattle the SoCal Coast
    • Wild elephants may have names that other elephants use to call them
    • Ongoing Sightings of This Enigmatic Lost Species Continue to Challenge Accepted Views on Its Extinction
    • Gravity Without Mass? New Study Challenges the Existence of Hypothetical Dark Matter
    • UAP MOTHERSHIPS: “America’s New Secret Stealth Aircraft” PopMech 1989
    • 30 years later, we still don't know what really happened during the Belgian UFO wave
    • The St. Clair Triangle UFO Incident of 2000: A Fresh Look
    • UFO Investigators Flock to Stephenville, Texas
    • Unfriendly skies: The extraordinary flight of JAL 1628, Alaska’s best known UFO encounter
    • Federation of American Scientists: “Mystery Aircraft: Our Analysis”

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    The UAP Mystery: NASA, AARO, and Scientists Pursuing the Unexplained | MHP 06.05.24. Jun 05, 2024

    Despite NASA and the Pentagon intensifying their investigations into UAP, each agency maintains that no evidence of extraterrestrial technology has been found, and has presented only moderate results with their investigations. Meanwhile, civilian scientists are making significant contributions to our understanding of UAPs, with events like the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies and its 2024 AAPC conference bringing together leading researchers and academics to discuss the science behind UAP sightings and their potential implications.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a look at the SCU's analysis of flight characteristics of these phenomena, revealing extraordinary capabilities that challenge current technological understandings. We also dive into recent discussions with military and intelligence professionals that underscore the seriousness of the UAP issue, highlighting skepticism towards AARO’s efforts and the need for a more collaborative approach to uncover the truth behind these mysterious encounters.

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    • NEWS: ChatGPT is down again – here's what we know about the latest outage
    • OPENAI Insiders Warn of 'Reckless' Race for Dominance
    • A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
    • SCU: The Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies
    • NASA UAPIST: NASA’s UAP Independent Study Team Report
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    Paradigm Shift: Cosmic Mysteries and Out-of-Place Artifacts | MHP 05.28.24 May 29, 2024

    Recent advancements in archaeology are expanding our knowledge about the ancient past, enabling scientists to date prehistoric sites more accurately, and revealing new insights into people's lives throughout the ancient world. However, with the new knowledge we are attaining, new questions are coming to light about our ancient past, as well as some controversial revelations that could lead to paradigm shifts in archaeology.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, after an update on the ever-evolving UAP whistleblower claims, we shift our focus over to a pair of recent archaeological discoveries that are causing many experts to revisit old perplexing questions about cosmic-scale events that occurred long ago, as well as questions over who may have been among the earliest to arrive in North America.

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    • NEWS: Pentagon: Russia likely launched counter space weapon into low Earth orbit last week
    • ”Zero Doubt” Non-Human Intelligence is on Earth: Col. Karl Nell at SALT
    • Kirkpatrick DID speak with Grusch's attorney, according to Dean Johnson
    • ARCHAEOLOGY: Mystery of Ancient Space Superstorms Deepens
    • 7000-Year-Old Evidence of a Mysterious Cosmic Event is Helping Reveal the Secrets of an Ancient European Settlement
    • Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas

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    Missing Pieces: The DoD's 'Perception Management' of UAP | MHP 05.21.24. May 21, 2024

    In 2017, Luis Elizondo, a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and former employee of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, revealed that he had been involved with the U.S. Department of Defense's investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena. Since coming forward, Elizondo has remained a controversial figure, with some questioning his claims, as well as whether the program he said he ran, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, even existed.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we delve into Elizondo's recent claims that he had been made aware of potential threats targeting him, and what the former special agent characterizes as "perception management" being undertaken by the DoD with its assertions about his relationship to the AATIP program, and claims regarding the destruction of his official correspondences.

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    • NEWS: Brazil floods drive thousands from their homes
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    • Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Underground 'Anomaly' Near Giza Pyramids
    • This Long Lost Waterway May Hold the Secrets to How the Pyramids Were Built
    • Congressman moves to declassify UFO docs: 'If you got nothing to hide, release the files'
    • The Vatican Has Updated Its Guidelines for Evaluating Apparitions and Supernatural Phenomena. Here’s What That Means.
    • ELIZONDO: New FOIA Release Highlights Redactions in Key AATIP Correspondence
    • Elizondo’s response on X
    • Greenewald on X: "The email records of Dr. James Lacatski… have been destroyed."
    • Elizondo’s response on X

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    Skinwalkers on Capitol Hill | 05.14.24. May 13, 2024

    Skinwalker Ranch in Utah has long remained a focus of intrigue and controversy in UFO research. The famous alleged paranormal hotspot, marked by its geological history and the foreboding shadows of sandstone mesas, is haunted by legends of the Skinwalker—a malevolent shapeshifter from Native Ute lore. Over time, these myths have been joined by contemporary accounts of unexplained occurrences, from strange lights in the night sky to the mysterious disappearance of cattle, reinforcing the ranch's reputation as a nexus for unexplainable activity.

    The ranch's allure has not only captivated the imaginations of those who visit but has also garnered attention from members of the U.S. government. In 2018, a confidential briefing was held on Capitol Hill, attended by notable individuals including the ranch's current owner, Brandon Fugal, and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, who would go on to become the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we discuss these recent revelations, and explore the strange history that showcases the peculiar bridge between governmental curiosity and the enduring legends of Skinwalker Ranch.

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    • NEWS: Most Severe Geomagnetic Storm Forecast in Two Decades Could Mean Aurora Sightings
    • Musk's Starlink satellites disrupted by major solar storm
    • 1600-Year-Old Stone Inscribed in Mysterious Ancient Language Unearthed in Accidental Discovery
    • Future Humans Could be Haunted by Digital “Ghosts” of Their Dead Loved Ones, Researchers Warn
    • Mysterious Objects in Space Could Be Giant Dyson Spheres, Scientists Say
    • SKINWALKERS: Pentagon UFO Hunter Reveals What He Knows About Aliens
    • Brandon Fugal on Twitter
    • MUSIC: Skinwalker Music by De Componist via Youtube

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    The UFO Silencers | MHP 05.07.24. May 07, 2024

    Over the decades, many people who claim to possess knowledge of UFOs or have even seen these unusual objects themselves have alleged that threats, intimidation, or other efforts to silence them have been undertaken. But who are these mysterious "UFO silencers," and where does the line between fact and folklore fall on this contentious subject?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, following an analysis of the latest controversies involving whistleblower David Grusch, we examine his claims of reprisals following his choice to come forward with claims of knowledge about secret UAP-related programs within the U.S. government. We then look at AARO's investigations into potentials means by which those with insider knowledge could be potentially be held accountable, and finally, the UFO folklore involving claims of "UFO silencers" from over the decades.

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    • NEWS: New Fusion Milestone with ‘WEST’ Tokamak Sustains Super-Hot Plasma for Six Minutes
    • 'Lost' satellite found after orbiting undetected for 25 years
    • Siberia's 'gateway to the underworld' is growing a staggering amount each year
    • Existence of dark matter confirmed by new study
    • EGLIN UPDATE: Is there a video of the Eglin UAP after all?
    • GRUSCH: Whistleblower David Grusch refused to meet with Pentagon UFO office
    • FOIA Documents Reveal AARO’s Authorized and Repeated Attempts to Engage with David Grusch

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    Incident at Eglin Air Force Base | MHP 04.30.24. May 01, 2024

    In January 2023, a U.S. military pilot reported an encounter with a group of unusual objects flying in a diamond formation over the Gulf of Mexico near Eglin Air Force Base. The incident, which eventually came to the attention of Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, became a matter of public record after Gaetz discussed it during a Congressional hearing in the summer of 2023.

    Now, the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has released its official report on the incident, claiming the case has now been resolved. However, there are several problems with AARO's analysis, and this week on The Micah Hanks Program, we dive into all of the issues that present rationale for why there may be unresolved questions about this alleged UAP incident.

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    • NEWS: US to test ground beef in states with bird-flu outbreaks in dairy cows
    • Contact with Non-Human Intelligence of the Aquatic Kind: Will Extraterrestrials be Next?A Stunning New AI Has Supposedly Achieved Sentience
    • EGLIN UAP INCIDENT: AARO's official Tweet about the Eglin UAP Incident
    • Matt Gaetz responds
    • Matt Gaetz Details Shocking UAP Evidence That 'I And I Alone Have Observed'
    • Congressman Provides Account of Military UAP Image That He Says Matches No “Human Capability”
    • UAP Incident Over the Gulf of Mexico Confirmed in Newly Declassified Files and Images
    • AARO Has Only “Moderate Confidence” in Findings From Latest UAP Investigation. It’s Easy to See Why.

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    UFOs: A Scientist's Perspective | MHP 04.23.24. Apr 23, 2024

    What do we really know about UFOs, following several decades of studying these phenomena? With the many questions that remain about unidentified aerial phenomena, how can science help us to implement new strategies that may allow us to broaden our knowledge about these aerial mysteries?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, former R&D scientist Robert Powell joins us to discuss his nearly two decades of investigation into UFOs, culminating in his new book UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know).

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    • FOIA: FOIA Documents Reveal AARO’s Authorized and Repeated Attempts to Engage with David Grusch
    • CHRISTOPHER MELLON: Another Signal Exchange...
    • ROBERT POWELL: UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know)
    • SCU: Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

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    Broken AARO: The 'Mellon Report', UAP, and Area 51 | MHP 04.15.24. Apr 16, 2024

    On March 8, 2024, the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released its historical report on UAP, shortly after briefing only a select group of journalists associated with seven mainstream media outlets, none of whom seemingly bothered to fact-check the error-ridden report. "The disappointing lack of critical press coverage of this important report prompted me to begin compiling the insights of UAP scholars and experts who have studied the history of UAP and the US government," wrote former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, in a recent lengthy rebuttal in response to the report's release.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we analyze Mellon's response to the AARO report, along with several intriguing revelations it contains, including the purported existence of a secretive UAP sightings program at Area 51 in the 1980s, how the CIA may have once considered whether UAP were extraterrestrial technologies, and much more.

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    • NEWS: Iran and Israel's shadow war is exposed. What's next?
    • World leaders urge Israel not to retaliate for the Iranian drone and missile attack
    • Bishop and worshippers attacked in another mass stabbing in Sydney
    • FBI opens criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse, AP source says
    • AARO: DOD Report Discounts Sightings of Extraterrestrial Technology
    • CHRIS MELLON: The Pentagon's New UAP Report is Seriously Flawed

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    The DoD's Dark UAP Secret | MHP 04.09.24. Apr 09, 2024

    In the Autumn of 1957, a series of events unfolded that, for a time, left U.S. defense officials believing that the country was on the verge of war with the Soviet Union, as a pair of mysterious objects were tracked on radar systems making their way toward a series of high security facilities. Before action could be taken, the objects mysteriously vanished, and the story receded into the shadows of Cold War memories for decades, prior to a series of once-secret CIA files surfaced detailing the startling incident.

    What do such circumstances say about the U.S. military's capabilities in terms of unidentified aerial phenomena? Based on a recent series of documents released through FOIA requests, decades later the U.S. is still struggling to reconcile the problem presented by UAP in our airspace. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we analyze the ongoing problem that may very well represent the DoD's darkest UAP secret of all: what it doesn't know about mysterious aerial phenomena.

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    • NEWS: The Great American Eclipse of 2024
    • N.J. earthquake aftershock tally climbs to 39 after Friday’s big tremor. More expected.
    • Strong Taiwan Quake Kills 9, Injures Hundreds
    • Weather Service radar, warning systems fail during severe storm outbreak
    • Media Outlets Sunk By April Fool's Prank of the Navy's New "Caterpillar Drive" Stealth Submarine
    • Look at What NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Just Caught Speeding in Orbit Around the Moon

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    The UFO Deception Game | MHP 04.02.24. Apr 02, 2024

    In 1950, a bizarre story involving the alleged crash of a flying saucer near Aztec, New Mexico, and its subsequent recovery by the U.S. military, sparked one of the most notorious claims in 20th-century UFO studies. Although revealed to be a hoax, why might U.S. intelligence agencies have taken interest in the story, and its bizarre claims about alien bodies recovered from the wreckage?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, after an analysis of the current state of the UFO debate, we reveal why it’s really only another case of history repeating itself. However something that is often left out of the debate over U.S. government disclosure of information about aerial mysteries involves human deception, and why it is so interwoven with the UFO mystery.

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    • NEWS: U.S. Army Moves Closer to Unleashing ‘Dark Eagle’ Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon
    • Driver arrested after ramming car into gate at FBI Atlanta office in Chamblee
    • Over 150 students and staff at North Carolina university 'are diagnosed with host of tumors
    • Investigation Links Russia's Shadowy "Unit 29155" to 'Havana Syndrome' Attacks
    • First human case of avian flu in Texas raises alarm
    • What UFO Cultists Can Teach Us About Political Paranoia
    • UFO DECEPTION: The Aztec New Mexico UFO Hoax
    • FBI Records on Majestic 12
    • James Carrion to Podcasters: Deception Inherent to Ufology

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    The Secret History of Aviation: Strange Sightings & Special Projects | MHP 03.26.24. Mar 26, 2024

    For years before the beginning of the modern UFO era in 1947, sightings of bizarre, cigar-shaped flying objects capable of unusual aerial feats were reported by pilots during World War II, as well as military and civilian pilots over the Americas. After the war, strange sightings continued involving aircraft that were mysterious for their time... but which look eerily familiar to us today.

    What were these mysterious objects, and do some of the "UFO" reports from decades past actually point to a secret history of aviation in the U.S. that could explain some of the mystery? This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at some of the most compelling UFO reports from over the decades that could point to the existence of experimental technologies developed by the U.S. that have never been fully disclosed.

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    • NEWS: Key Bridge collapses into Patapsco River in Baltimore after vessel hits support column
    • Putin Acknowledges 'Radical Islamists' Committed Moscow Attack
    • Elon Musk’s Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands
    • Lawsuit by Elon Musk's X was an attempt to punish free speech, judge rules
    • Roswell conspiracy source revealed | Annie Jacobsen and Lex Fridman

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    Darkness in the Desert: The Roswell Controversy | MHP 03.18.24. Mar 19, 2024

    According to the findings of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the object that crash-landed near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 was a balloon used during a once-secret covert operation called Project Mogul. These findings, of course, are the same conclusions the U.S. Air Force came to decades ago which were detailed in a pair of official reports that sought to definitively explain what, for many, had once been deemed Ufology's "smoking gun"... but could there still be more to the story?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at developments that have occurred in the years since the Air Force's 1990s assessments, which were repeated in AARO's recent historical report on the U.S. government's historical involvement with UFOs. Then, we examine an unsettling series of alternative hypotheses about what might have occurred in the New Mexico desert so many decades ago, and whether they could offer a better explanation for one of history's most baffling cases.

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    • HAVANA SYNDROME: NIH probe of ‘Havana syndrome’ finds no sign of brain injuries
    • DISINFO: Supreme Court examines whether governmnet can combat disinformation online
    • OR MISINFO? White House’s Efforts to Combat Misinformation Face Supreme Court Test
    • BOEING: Boeing Whistleblower Warned Family Friend 'It's Not Suicide' Before Death
    • UAP DISCLOSURE ACT UPDATE: National Archives UAP
    • Doug Johnson’s post on X
    • MYSTERY DRONES: Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks
    • NAPOLITANO: Judge Napolitano on Trump and JFK
    • ROSWELL: The USAF’s Official Roswell Report
    • The Ramey Memo
    • The Walter Haut Affadavit
    • Haut’s interview with Wendy Connors
    • REDFERN: Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story
    • JACOBSEN: Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
    • FARRELL: Roswell And The Reich: The Nazi Connection

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    The AARO Historical Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 03.12.24. Mar 12, 2024

    A new Defense Department report detailing the United States government's involvement in investigations of unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, was released late last week, resulting in divided opinions over the merit of the research conducted by the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the mainstream media's coverage of the controversial new government UAP report before moving on to a fact-check of several errors it contains, in addition to revealing why AARO's over-reliance on past U.S. government studies set them up for failure, and finally, the few interesting tidbits we did notice in the completed historical assessment.

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    • NEW YORK TIMES: Pentagon Review Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up
    • WASHPO: Pentagon report finds no evidence of alien visits, hidden spacecraft
    • POLITICO: US once considered program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft, Pentagon report reveals
    • DEFENSE SCOOP: DOD developing ‘Gremlin’ capability to help personnel collect real-time UAP data
    • AARO’S HISTORICAL REVIEW: AARO Historical Record Report: Volume 1; 2024
    • Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds a Press Briefing
    • FACT CHECK: Pentagon UAP Report Says No Evidence U.S. Has Collected Exotic Technology, Kept Programs Hidden from Congress
    • DEEP DIVE: Fragmented Facts: AARO Report Unearths Odd Claims Involving U.S. Recovery of Material From 1952 UFO Incident

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    Project Moon Dust: The Secret U.S. Crash Retrieval Program | MHP 03.05.24. Mar 05, 2024

    In the 1970s, the existence of a once-secret program called "Project Moon Dust" first came to the attention of UFO researchers employing the Freedom of Information Act to obtain U.S. government documents about unidentified aerial phenomena. Although the U.S. Air Force initially denied its existence, it was later confirmed that Project Moon Dust, along with the similar Project Blue Fly, had been tasked with the acquisition of any fallen space objects believed to have originated within the Soviet Union... but is that all the program collected?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the strange saga of Project Moon Dust, what is known about the Cold War-era program from official documents, and how claims about its alleged involvement with the recovery of crashed UFOs were amplified by a once-prominent UFO whistleblower. Could Project Moon Dust have actually had any relationship to the collection of objects of unknown origin?

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    • NEWS: NASA Collects First Surface Science in Decades via Commercial Moon Mission
    • An Ocean Moon Thought to Be Habitable May Be Oxygen-Starved
    • The April total solar eclipse could snarl traffic for hours across thousands of miles
    • UFO News: National Archives launches UAP records collection
    • Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives
    • UAP SIGHTINGS UPDATE: Texas, 2013-2 014: UAPSRS Case No. 131
    • SCU Announces 2024 AAPC Conference in Huntsville, Alabama
    • PROJECT MOON DUST: Just Cause, June 1986 (via Sacred Texts)
    • Project Moondust - Chapter 8, by Kevin Randle (via NICAP)
    • UFO Crash Recovery - Sgt. Clifford Stone Testifies
    • Project Moon Dust Official Documents (via Archive.org)

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    Disinfo and the UFO: True Tales of Saucers and Psyops | MHP 02.26.24. Feb 27, 2024

    Since the late 1940s, stories about crashed flying saucers in the American Southwest have perplexed UFO researchers, and while many believe the stories have at least a grain of truth, others have wondered whether at least some of the tales could involve intentional efforts to mislead the public to help cover up legitimate secret programs maintained by the U.S. military.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the role of disinformation in the bizarre hall of mirrors of Ufology, and historical case studies involving how lies, misdirection, and psychological warfare have been used to steer the UFO narrative for more than half a century.

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    • NEWS: Intuitive Machines lands on moon in nail-biting descent of private Odysseus lander
    • Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander tipped over on the moon during 'spicy' lunar landing
    • Pyramid at Giza's Controversial Restoration Has Been Halted by Egyptian Authorities
    • New Russian PSYOPs mix disinformation, spam, and Navalny
    • Military Officials Tracking High-Altitude Balloon Spotted Over Western United States
    • All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office - Mission Brief
    • DISINFO: Report of Air Force research regarding the "roswell incident" July 1994 executive summary
    • Ex NASA scientist disputes Mogul balloon theory for Roswell
    • David Rudiak’s (and Brad Sparks) analysis
    • Mirage Men (Documentary) - Watch on Youtube

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    UFOs & U.S. Presidents: Aerial Phenomena & the Oval Office | MHP 02.19.24. Feb 20, 2024

    Since the late 1940s, Americans have remained perplexed by stories of unidentified flying objects in our skies, a question that has also been viewed as a significant question--and a national security concern--by many who have held the office of the President of the United States.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a historical deep dive into investigations of aerial phenomena and their relationship to the Oval Office, separating the fact from fiction about past involvement of U.S. presidents with the UFO issue.

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    • RUSSIAN THREAT: Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say
    • PRESIDENTS & UFOs: Which Presidents Have Seen UFOs? Yep, It’s More Than One
    • FURTHER READING: The Presidents and UFOs: A Secret History from FDR to Obama
    • UFOs and The White House: What Did Our Presidents Know and When Did They Know It?

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    The Sol Foundation UAP Initiative: NHI, Research, & Policy | MHP 02.12.24. Feb 12, 2024

    On November 17-18, 2023, a symposium of academics, current and former government officials, and other leading voices in the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) convened for the inaugural Sol Foundation Initiative for UAP Research and Policy event in Palo Alto, California.

    The event’s stated objectives were to “propose tangible government policies, programs of research, and investment strategies that can meet the challenge of the phenomena,” along with elevating the dialogue and generating new approaches toward resolving it. This week, joining us on The Micah Hanks Program are Dr. Garry Nolan and Dr. Peter Skafish, who discuss the Symposium, the release of new videos featuring lectures from the event, and the Sol Foundation's current efforts involving UAP research and policy.

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    • NEWS: Opinion | The Challenges of an Aging President - The New York Times
    • Statement From Walter Reed Medical Center on Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Health Status
    • Super Bowl 2024 - Highlights from Chiefs' win vs. 49ers
    • THE SOL FOUNDATION: The Sol Foundation, Academia’s New UAP Think Tank, Releases Videos of Lectures from Its Inaugural Symposium
    • The Sol Foundation Website: UAP Research and Policy
    • WATCH: The Official Sol Foundation YouTube Channel

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    Plasmas: UAP and Life-Like Luminous Phenomena | MHP 02.07.24. Feb 07, 2024

    For centuries, reports of strange lights moving through the skies have been reported around the world. Beginning in the late 1940s, popular reports of sightings involving mysterious aerial lights and other phenomena have formed the basis of the modern UFO phenomenon. But could some of these aerial apparitions have a natural explanation?

    This week, we examine a new science paper that argues many modern UAP sightings could represent manifestations of plasmas in space and in the atmosphere, which at times have been known to take on very odd, even life-like qualities. Could some of these curious electrical events be connected to the origins of alien life, or even life on Earth? We explore all these questions, as well as some of the latest happenings in the ongoing UAP controversy in America in this installment of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Appeals court denies Trump immunity in 2020 criminal election case
    • Record-setting storm that killed 3 dumps rain on Los Angeles; flash flood alerts still in effect
    • Study Calls for New Category 6 Mega-Hurricane Classification Amid Climate Change - The Debrief
    • A Mysterious Noise is Aggravating Florida Residents. One Woman is Working to Find Out It’s Causing
    • The 'Guerrilla' Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories
    • PLASMAS: We know what ‘foo fighters’ that buzzed Second World War pilots really were, say scientists
    • Extraterrestrial Life in Space. Plasmas in the Thermosphere: UAP, Pre-Life, Fourth State of Matter
    • THE CONDIGN REPORT: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region
    • DoD IG REPORT: Unclassified Summary of Report No. DODIG-2023-109, “Evaluation of the DoD’s Actions Regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” August 15, 2023
    • ‘Uncoordinated’: Internal watchdog raps Pentagon’s UFO tracking effort
    • SILENCING SEAN: Former UFO boss: Pentagon needs to be less secretive
    • The Government's Former UFO Hunter Found Something More Concerning than Aliens
    • REPORT A SIGHTING: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)

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    Exit Strategy: AARO's Former Director Speaks | MHP 01.31.24. Jan 31, 2024

    In a recent opinion and analysis piece written for Scientific American, Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the Pentagon's official UAP investigative office, lashed out against what he characterized as "sensational but unsupported claims" involving UAP and an alleged secret program within government involved in withholding information about them from the American public.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a deep dive into the recent allegations made by the DoD's former chief UFO investigator, and examine why there is cause for skepticism amidst the scientist's assurances that the investigative office he helped establish "is unwaveringly committed to harnessing science and technology to bring unprecedented clarity to these fascinating, important, and stubborn mysteries and to do so with maximum transparency."

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    • SEAN KIRKPATRICK: Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter
    • AARO: The Official Website of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
    • OPINION: What has happened to the Pentagon’s former UFO hunter?
    • REPORT A SIGHTING: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)

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    The Quickening: Experiencers and the NHI Enigma | MHP 01.23.24. Jan 23, 2024

    Humankind continues to move steadily toward an uncertain future... one where advancements in artificial intelligence, the potential discovery of alien life, the prospects of contact with non-human intelligence (NHI), and global threats our planet may face are all becoming distinct potentials.

    For many, the idea of an apparent "quickening" resonates deeply in light of such future developments, but what do they mean for humanity, and how do they relate to the experiences of those who say they have had firsthand encounters with the anomalous? This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by author Whitley Strieber, who discusses the role of the experiencer in the UAP equation, as well as his own famous recollections that helped to normalize the concept of contact with non-human intelligence.

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    • THE QUICKENING: Almost 40 percent of jobs worldwide could be disrupted by AI: IMF analysis
    • Opinion: Non-Human Intelligence at the Threshold
    • The Sol Foundation Conference: A Great Success and a Greater Issue to Face
    • WHITLEY STRIEBER: Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country
    • REPORT A SIGHTING: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)

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    Classified: The Intelligence Community UAP Briefing | MHP 01.16.24. Jan 16, 2024

    Recently, several lawmakers on Capitol Hill received a classified briefing from the Intelligence Community Inspector General on allegations that first surfaced last year regarding an alleged UAP program that has been illegally withheld from Congress.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, in addition to covering what we have learned since the intelligence community UAP briefing, we also look at new legislation that aims to increase pilot reports of UAP, a harrowing encounter with a 30-foot-tall triangle reported by one pilot late last year, and the odd reason that flying jellyfish have been the talk of the online UAP community in recent days.

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    • NEWS: ​​Planet's most abnormally cold air to surge into Lower 48 states
    • 2,500-Year-Old Network of 'Elusive' Ancient Roads Found Hidden Deep within the Amazon Rainforest
    • NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Unveiled in Ceremony at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
    • UAP: Implications of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Amendment in the 2024 NDAA
    • U.F.O.s Remain a Mystery to Lawmakers After Classified Briefing
    • New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Strengthen UAP Reporting from Civilian Pilots and Aviation Personnel
    • TRIANGLES: Pilot’s Bizarre Encounter With 30-Foot-Tall Triangle UFO Prompts Aviation Safety Concern
    • JELLYFISH: Marine says 'jellyfish' UAP video was 'ghost story of the base'
    • ALIEN LIFE: Have we just discovered aliens?
    • REPORT A SIGHTING: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)

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    Cryptoterrestrials: A Hypothesis of Earthly NHI Origins | MHP 01.08.24. Jan 09, 2024

    Since mysterious aerial objects were first encountered by pilots during World War Two, questions have remained among world leaders about whether there could be a technological presence on Earth of unknown origin. If so, what could they be, and where could the be from?

    This week,we are joined by philosopher and computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of the Essentia Foundation. With Ph.D.s in philosophy and computer engineering, he is the author of several books, including Why Materialism is Baloney, as well as a new controversial new essay,“UAPs and Non-Human Intelligence: What Is the Most Reasonable Scenario,” recently published at The Debrief. Kastrup shares his perspectives on why UAP and NHI could represent a phenomenon much closer to home in this wide-reaching discussion on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Medical Care
    • Pentagon didn't inform Biden, White House for days about Austin’s hospitalization
    • Deputy defense secretary was not told Austin had been hospitalized when she assumed duties
    • The Lloyd Austin fallout is growing: ‘Someone’s head has to roll’
    • UAP NEWS: Miami Mall 'Creature' Video Goes Viral
    • Congress members will receive secret UFO briefing next week from top spy chief
    • Top secret UFO meeting in Congress to reveal 'classified' details of illegal crash retrieval program
    • KASTRUP: UAPs and Non-Human Intelligence: What Is the Most Reasonable Scenario?
    • Bernardo Kastrup’s Official Website
    • REPORT A SIGHTING: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)

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    Sightings: Real Encounters with Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 01.03.24. Jan 03, 2024

    What if world militaries were beginning to make detections with advanced sensory equipment that corroborated sightings of phenomena not unlike historic accounts dating back centuries that involve strange phenomena in our skies? And what if a growing number of observers were beginning to come forward and describe their sightings of these anomalous phenomena?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we kick off the New Year with a brand new feel in this special first installment of the podcast for 2024, and following an exciting announcement, we examine several sightings of uncanny aerial phenomena observed by witnesses who have reported their personal accounts in recent weeks. Ranging from strange spheres to saucers, big black triangles, and other unusual phenomena, we wade into the thick of one of the greatest modern enigmas of science.

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    • NEWS: Powerful earthquakes leave at least 55 dead, destroy buildings along Japan's western coast
    • Japan Airlines Plane Erupts into Flame After Collision with Coast Guard Aircraft at Tokyo Airport
    • Mickey Mouse Is Now in the Public Domain
    • Horror Movie Trailer Drops Starring “Steamboad Willie” Version of Micky Mouse
    • These South Pole Scientists Who Watch The Thing Every Year Are Just Asking for Trouble
    • Scientists Have Detected Something Migrating Under Arctic Ice. Now They’re Worried About What May Happen If It Escapes.
    • ANNOUNCEMENT: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings Reporting System (UAPSRS)

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    UAP Secrecy: Law, Democracy, and the Phenomenon | MHP 12.26.23. Dec 27, 2023

    The National Defense Authorization Act has been signed into law by the President of the United States, but not without a few concerns, according to an official White House statement citing one of the massive bill's UAP provisions. This, following a showdown in Washington over a landmark bipartisan transparency provision put forward by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer that saw significant pushback from Congressional leadership that illustrated just how far we may have to go in the fight for government transparency on UAP.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined to discuss these developments by J.P. Hague, a dual national and qualified lawyer who is the author of a recent piece published by The Debrief which provides an extensive overview of the US political and legislative developments related to UAP we have seen in recent months.

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    • NEWS: Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction
    • Resurrection biology: Why it’s gaining traction around the world
    • Statement from President Joe Biden on H.R. 2670, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
    • Quick guide to UAP-related provisions in the final FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act
    • J.P. HAGUE: A Dramatic Dilution of the Disclosure Process: A Temporary Shore Break Against The Waves of Change?

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    Catastrophic Disclosure: A Mitigation Plan | MHP 12.19.23. Dec 19, 2023

    In 1938, an infamous broadcast based on H.G. Wells’ classic War of the Worlds allegedly incited confusion and panic as listeners questioned whether a real alien invasion might be underway. While modern analysis of news from the period casts doubt on some of the “panic” claims, the question remains as to what would really happen if the existence of extraterrestrial visitation were revealed under uncontrolled, chaotic means, in a “catastrophic disclosure” of an ET reality?

    Recently, a retired U.S. Army Col. presented a proposal aimed at the prevention of what he termed ‘catastrophic disclosure,' involving the unplanned–and potentially chaotic–disclosure of UAP revelations potentially resulting from the actions of U.S. foreign adversaries. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we explore this concept, and whether mitigation strategies could help reduce the chances of harm resulting from uncontrolled or unplanned disclosure of the existence of non-human intelligence.

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    • NEWS: US and Britain say their navies shot down 15 attack drones over the Red Sea
    • SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of X-37B space plane now targeted for Dec. 28
    • US Congress passes stripped-down measure to release UFO records
    • RETURN OF THE RANGE FOULERS: Navy Range Foulers: Latest Reports (Dec 2023)
    • Background info from John Greenewald at The Black Vault
    • CATASTROPHIC DISCLOSURE: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic myth
    • Retired US Army Colonel says secret UFO projects should be made public by October 2030 - to beat America's rivals and get ahead of a 'catastrophic' leak

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    UAP Disclosure: The Empire Strikes Back | MHP 12.14.23. Dec 14, 2023

    Earlier this year, a 64-page proposal to bring about the disclosure of information on what the U.S. government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD). However, in a potential blow to UAP disclosure efforts, recent pushback from House leadership appeared to be set to severely limit the bill, if not stop it altogether.

    Now, as the empire strikes back, there is nonetheless hope on the horizon, as Senators Schumer and Rounds are speaking out about the bill passing, as well as the work that is yet to be done in future legislation geared toward UAP disclosure. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at all the latest developments, as well as what one famous UAP whistleblower has had to say on the matter of UAP transparency in Washington.

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    • NEWS: "Full swing": Analysis shows three respiratory viruses on the rise in the U.S.
    • ChatGPT may have become 'seasonally depressed' as creators race to fix AI
    • Warning of ‘risk to our survival,’ pope calls for global treaty on AI
    • Hamas 'plot to carry out attack on civilians in Europe is foiled' as Danish cops arrest seven
    • Morning Person? You Might Have Neanderthal Genes to Thank
    • Senate passes mammoth annual defense policy bill
    • UAP DISCLOSURE: UAP disclosure bill revised; two key provisions stripped
    • Government UAP records repository on the verge of becoming law, opened to public viewing
    • Doug Johnson's quick guide
    • Majority Leader Schumer And Republican Senator Mike Rounds Floor Colloquy On UAP
    • Schumer and Rounds discuss UAP Disclosure Act
    • UFO whistleblower: Congress' pared-down UAP measure a 'total failure' BECOME AN X SUBSCRIBER AND GET EVEN MORE GREAT PODCASTS AND MONTHLY SPECIALS FROM MICAH HANKS.
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    The Minot Air Force Base UFO incident | MHP 11.05.23. Dec 06, 2023

    In the early morning hours of October 24, 1968, witnesses at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, which included security personnel at the installation’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch complex, maintenance staff, the crew aboard an airborne B-52H, all participated in one of the most significant UFO incidents ever to have occurred at high-security United States military base.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a deep dive into the Minot Air Force Base UFO incident, one of the most significant UAP cases associated with U.S. strategic nuclear weapons facilities, as well as what its implications are, and why it remains influential even today as lawmakers in Washington continue the battle for UAP transparency.

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    • NEWS: Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100; Shaped the Nation's Cold War History
    • Pentagon says US warship, commercial ships attacked in Red Sea
    • Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them
    • Drunk and Asleep on the Job: Air Traffic Controllers Pushed to the Brink
    • We Have a UFO Problem. What We Don't Have (Yet) Is a Serious Answer.
    • New book details U.S. government’s UFO investigations and search for alien life
    • THE MINOT AFB UFO INCIDENT: Thomas Tullien’s Minot AFB UFO Investigative Site
    • The Investigation of UFO Events at Minot Air Force Base - Tom Tullien, SCU
    • “Analysis of Radar and Air-Visual UFO Observations on 24 October 1968 at Minot AFB, North Dakota, USA” by Claude Poher, Ph.D.

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    The Fight For UFO Transparency: The UAP Disclosure Act Under Fire | MHP 11.28.23. Nov 28, 2023

    There’s trouble brewing on Capitol Hill, as a group of top lawmakers are banding together to attempt to block the UAP Disclosure Act of 2023, potentially one of the most significant pieces of legislation related to government and UFO transparency in the history of the U.S., from ever becoming law.

    Joining us to discuss the fight for UAP transparency is Daniel Sheehan, a constitutional and public interest lawyer, political activist and educator who has participated in several legal cases of public interest, including the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate Break-In case. Sheehan joins us, along with Kevin Wright, a public issue advocate, founder of Solve Advocacy, and Director of Public Relations for the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU) to outline the current fight over the UAP Disclosure Amendment, and what it means for the effort to end decades of government stonewalling on UAP secrecy.

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    • NEWS: Subaru Now Has a Flying Car
    • US Space Force wants to track 'abnormal observables' with unknown origins in Earth's orbit
    • Lawmakers ‘mystified’ after NASA scales back Mars collection program
    • OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
    • OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’
    • Contrary to reports, OpenAI probably isn’t building humanity-threatening AI
    • UAP DISCLOSURE: UAP Disclosure Act Receives Pushback From Lawmakers on Capitol Hill, as Bipartisan Fight for Transparency Continues
    • Black Friday: Republican Leadership Takes Axe To UFO Transparency Legislation
    • Daniel P. Sheehan: Federal Civil Rights Attorney
    • The People's Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America's Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer
    • Kevin Wright: Solve Advocacy

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    The Sol Foundation: Academia's Cutting-Edge UAP Think Tank | MHP 11.20.23. Nov 21, 2023

    “The time has come for serious, well-funded, and cutting-edge academic research into the nature of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and their broad cosmological and political implications.” So reads a statement appearing on the website of the Sol Foundation, a new California-based think tank that has positioned itself to become “a premier center for UAP research.”

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, Micah reports on the Sol Foundation's first annual event that was recently held at Stanford University, which he and several colleagues attended, along with many of the biggest names in the field of UAP study. We provide a comprehensive overview of the event, those who attended from government and academia, and also the big issues that were discussed at this groundbreaking event.

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    • NEWS: Mixed results for SpaceX's Super Heavy-Starship rocket on 2nd test flight
    • SpaceX Starship: A Musing on Rockets and Their Effect on the Earth - The Debrief
    • Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return
    • Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do
    • A Mystery Object Left a Bizarre, Double Crater as It Smashed into the Moon Last Year
    • The Sol Foundation: Official Website
    • How a New Think Tank of Academics is Applying 'Cutting-Edge Research' to the UAP Mystery

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    uNHIdden: The Non-Human Intelligence Initiative | MHP 11.14.23. Nov 14, 2023

    Recent revelations by government whistleblowers are raising questions about whether the United States and other nations could have information about the existence of non-human intelligence, or NHI, which has been suppressed for decades. Although recent legislation in America are aimed at bringing such information, if it exists, into the light of day, nations like the United Kingdom appear to have shown no similar movement on the issue.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by an international panel composed of physicist and former UK civil servant John Priestland and Daniel Stubbings, Ph.D., both of whom are behind a new UK-based initiative called uNHIdden that aims to promote good mental health and reduce anxiety on the issue of non-human intelligence. Also joining the program is a return guest, Ted Roe, who is director of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) and the UAP Medical Coalition; our guests engage in an in-depth discussion about NHI, and how to move the discussion about it forward.

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    • NEWS: U.S. Carries Out Another Round of Airstrikes on Targets Tied to Iran
    • 4000-Year-Old Markings on Stone Hailed as ‘Europe’s Oldest Map’ May Lead to a Remarkable Discovery
    • NASA Just Lost Communication with Its Robot Scientists on Mars. This Phenomenon is to Blame.
    • Pentagon Confirms Retirement of AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as New Deputy Director is Named
    • Statement by Deputy Sec. of Defense Kathleen Hicks on Departure of AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick
    • Are Aliens Real? We Asked the Pentagon’s Outgoing UFO Chief.
    • NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE: Why Is the United Kingdom So Far Behind on UAP Policy?
    • uNHIdden: uNHIdden Official Website: Supporting fact-based conversations on the NHI
    • UAPMed: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon Medical Coalition
    • NARCAP: National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

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    Aliens: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrials | MHP 11.06.23. Nov 07, 2023

    Are we alone in the universe? Could intelligent aliens exist somewhere in the cosmos, and how close are we to finally discovering them? Or is it even possible that intelligent aliens are already in our own back yard, and have been visiting Earth, as evidenced by decades of sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by astrophysicist Adam Frank, a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun and one of the leaders of the Categorizing Atmospheric Technosignatures (CATS) project. Frank is also author of "The Little Book of Aliens," and joins us to discuss SETI, UAP, and the search for alien life throughout the cosmos.

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    • NEWS: A NASA Spacecraft Just Had Its First Close Encounter with an Asteroid
    • New Covid Pirola strain warning as mysterious JN.1 variant 'takes off' in Europe
    • San Jose shipwreck dubbed 'the Holy Grail' to be exhumed off Colombia with $20 billion sunken treasure
    • Pentagon UFO chief Dr Sean Kirkpatrick will be REPLACED by end of the year
    • ADAM FRANK: Adam Frank’s Official Homepage
    • The Little Book of Aliens - By Adam Frank
    • Categorizing Atmospheric Technosignatures (CATS)

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    From Beyond: Uncanny Encounters with Eerie Visitors | MHP 10.31.23. Oct 31, 2023

    Autumn fills the air, and of all the things that frighten us, some of the most terrifying are those which involve "the terrors next door," and the lurking fears of the everyday. Yet there are also stories involving stranger things... encounters with odd individuals that don't seem to have a place in our consensus reality. Can science explain these experiences, or is there something more complex involved?

    In this special Halloween 2023 installment of The Micah Hanks Program, after news involving alleged hauntings and exorcisms, examine a collection of terrors and odd tales, ranging from horrific murders that happened very close to home for our haunted host back in the 1990s. We then suspend our disbelief as we shift our attention toward unreal experiences from over the decades where people have described visits with entities hailing "from beyond." Who are these mysterious visitors... Ghosts? Extraterrestrials? Time travelers? Or do they represent something else entirely?

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    • NEWS: Millions of Americans Believe in Ghosts. An Expert Reveals Why.
    • Patrick Stewart sold haunted Los Angeles home without revealing ghosts
    • Goldie Hawn recounts alien encounter: 'Oh, my God. I think I made contact with outer space'
    • Police discover 'exorcism spells' notebook at the scene of Cumberland County shooting
    • Dressing up as evil creatures for Halloween ‘dangerous’ – exorcists
    • I'm a Vatican-trained exorcist. I've stared demons in the face, watched people slither on the floor like snakes, and seen people levitate.
    • THE TERROR NEXT DOOR: The Halloween Murder of Karen Styles
    • FROM BEYOND: Sam the Sandown Clown: Alien, Man in Black, or Folie à Deux?
    • The crash of a UFO or Time Traveler in 1790 in France
    • Men in Black in Maine - The 1976 Herbert Hopkins Case

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    The 2023 Annual Report on UAP | MHP 10.23.23. Oct 24, 2023

    A classified report detailing the Pentagon’s latest findings in its ongoing investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, has been delivered to Congress, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) last week.

    For the rest of us, an unclassified version of the 2023 Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena was made available on the website of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), but to limited fanfare from UFO advocates online. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we provide an in-depth analysis of the 2023 UAP report and highlight the key takeaways many missed, along with several historical UAP reports submitted by our listeners.

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    • NEWS: Israel hits Gaza with one of deadliest bombings so far in war against Hamas
    • Hezbollah steps up attacks, IDF says, fueling fears of wider conflict
    • World’s oldest known dog dies aged 31 after being saved from shallow grave as pup
    • In Utah, The Largest and Oldest Organism of Its Kind is Breaking Its Ancient Silence
    • Why Do UFO Sightings Keep Happening Near Nuclear Sites?
    • 2023 UAP REPORT: New U.S. Government Report Details Latest Findings in the Pentagon’s Investigations of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
    • Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder on the Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)
    • Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

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    Impossible Archaeology: Strange Structures & Ancient Enigmas | MHP 10.16.23. Oct 17, 2023

    At England's famous Stonehenge, new analysis of one of the site's most enigmatic features has revealed the extraordinary lengths its ancient builders were willing to go in order to construct the world-famous monument. Elsewhere, in the American southwest, footprints left in the sands of time are revealing some of the earliest human arrivals, and much more about the hidden history of humanity.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at these and other "impossible" discoveries that are being revealed in the latest scientific developments at England's Stonehenge, as well as mysteries in America and Africa that are pushing back the timescales on early human achievements.

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    • NEWS: U.S. Is Expanding Military Presence Near Israel
    • Blinken meets resistance in courtship of Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Gaza war
    • Iran warns Israel of regional escalation if 'aggressions do not stop'
    • France mobilises 7,000 troops for extra patrols after teacher slain
    • Israel: 199 people held hostage in Gaza
    • Gaza hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and desperately low on supplies as invasion looms
    • FBI warns of Hamas copycat terror attacks on US soil
    • Annular solar eclipse of 2023 wows skywatchers with spectacular 'ring of fire'
    • Mysterious Prehistoric Monument Discovered by Archaeologists: 'Very Rare'
    • ARCHAEOLOGY: Stonehenge Mystery Deepens as New Discovery Upends Century-Old Theory
    • Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North America | U.S. Geological Survey
    • Confirmation of Oldest Fossil Human Footprints in North America Upends Once Accepted Timeline
    • Ancient Structure Unearthed by Archaeologists Was Built Far Earlier Than Once Thought Possible. It Wasn’t Made by Homo Sapiens.

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    The Albuquerque Anomaly: UAP Entities and Military Encounters | MHP 10.10.23. Oct 11, 2023

    For decades, sightings of unusual aerial phenomena have been logged by observers from around the world. Yet in only a handful of the countless number of sightings, observations of strange, tangent phenomena--including sightings of possible UAP occupants--have also been reported.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine a series of UAP incidents involving the observation of an unusual figure during a 1967 encounter in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as a pair of multiple witness military UAP sightings reported by a former member of the Air National Guard, who shares his recollections about these uncanny encounters with anomalous phenomena.

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    • NEWS: What to know as Israel declares war, bombards Gaza Strip after unprecedented Hamas attack
    • Israel on war footing, Hamas threatens to kill captives
    • Confirmation of Oldest Fossil Human Footprints in North America Upends Once Accepted Timeline
    • Annular solar eclipse will turn the sun into a spectacular 'ring of fire' this week
    • Call them UFOs or UAPs, scientists need better data, according to weekend panel

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    The U.S. Department of Energy UAP Files | MHP 10.02.23. Oct 03, 2023

    Since the early years of the Atomic Age, sightings of unidentified flying objects near American facilities involved with nuclear research and power generation have been reported. Now, in the latest of a series of ongoing disclosures involving mysterious sightings logged by government agencies, the U.S. Department of Energy has released several incident reports involving observations at its facilities.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we dive into the latest documents and examine a possible sighting of a metallic spherical UAP, as well as what the new files reveal about the government's attitudes--and possible misunderstandings--about unidentified flying objects.

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    • NEWS: Webb Telescope Has Spotted Something Lurking in the Orion Nebula That “Shouldn’t Exist”
    • Hackers Take British Royal Family Website Down Amidst Inflammatory Statements by Russian Officials
    • The DOE’s UAP Files: 20220809 | Department of Energy
    • U.S. Dept of Energy UAP Documents Reveal Puzzling Aerial Incursions Near American Nuclear Sites
    • UAP Indications Analysis,1945-1975 United States Atomic Warfare Complex
    • DOE Document describing green fireball sightings

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    Witnessed: The Case of the White Pine Triangle | MHP 09.25.23. Sep 26, 2023

    It was an ordinary late afternoon in the early 1980s, when something incredible happened to a rural family in Eastern Canada. As they looked out the windows of their home, they observed a massive, triangle-shaped object hovering motionless in the sky, in a sighting that would forever change their lives.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we interview a witness to these events, whose incredible recollections offer a unique perspective on the ongoing eerie appearances of large, triangular UAP over the decades.

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    • NEWS: OSIRIS-REx Mission Achieves Historic Milestone with Successful Delivery of Asteroid Samples to Earth
    • NASA's OSIRIS-REx lands samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth after historic 4-billion-mile journey
    • NASA's Mars Sample Return mission may never fly
    • US exploring potential space force hotline with China
    • Scientists Estimate When Humans Could Become Extinct
    • ChatGPT can now hear, see and speak as OpenAI gives the chatbot its most humanlike update

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    The NASA Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena | MHP 09.18.23. Sep 19, 2023

    "The study of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) presents a unique scientific opportunity that demands a rigorous, evidence-based approach," reads a portion of a new report issued by NASA's UAP Independent Study Team. "NASA – with its extensive expertise in these domains and global reputation for scientific openness – is in an excellent position to contribute to UAP studies within the broader whole-of-government framework led by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)."

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at what NASA's new report details, and get commentary from Mark Rodeghier, Ph.D, the Director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. What new approaches can be applied toward the phenomenon, and how can past data obtained on UAP move us toward obtaining a better understanding of them?

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    • NEWS: US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after ‘mishap’ sees pilot eject
    • Baffling: $78 Million F-35B Stealth Fighter Reported Missing After Mysterious In-Flight ‘Mishap’
    • Exclusive: A close encounter with the 'alien bodies' in Mexico
    • Ryan Graves Responds to Mexican Mummy Incident
    • Alien mummies in Mexico? NASA's UFO study team says don't bet on it
    • THE NASA REPORT: NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team Report
    • NEWS CONFERENCE: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report
    • SPERGEL ON NEWS NATION: Taking UAPs from sensationalism to science | NewsNation Live
    • HANKS ON NEWS NATION: NASA report: no evidence UFOs were aliens | NewsNation Now
    • THE DIRECTOR IS NAMED: UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director

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    Hunt for the Mystery Spheres: AARO and Metallic Spherical UAP | MHP 091123 Sep 12, 2023

    According to the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a significant majority of UAP incidents reported by members of the military involve sightings of peculiar metallic spheres, which are often observed moving through the skies over strategic sites and military training areas. Although many presume the objects are likely to be balloons, a deeper look at the UFO literature may suggest otherwise.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the history involving sightings of strange metallic or translucent spherical UAP, and why the evidence suggests that these phenomena are more than just balloons or a new variety of drones used by foreign adversaries of the United States.

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    • NEWS: More than 2000 dead after earthquakes in Morocco
    • How to donate to charities working to help victims of Morocco earthquake
    • Mysterious Blue Light Flashes Moments Before Moroccan Earthquake
    • Read 'Secret' memo for Trudeau on unidentified object shot down over Yukon
    • In U.S., most UFO documentation is classified. Not so in other countries.
    • UFOs and UAPs | National Archives
    • News Nation on UFO Document Digitization
    • UFO Tales and Witness Credibility Falling Apart After Congressional Hearings
    • Floating Mystery Ball Is New Nazi Air Weapon - The New York Times
    • ‘Mosul Orb’: US silent on UFO filmed by military over Iraq | Fox News
    • Senate Hearing: All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (April 2023)
    • Project Sphere — National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

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    Incident at Ford Road: A Close Encounter with Triangular UAP | MHP 09.05.23. Sep 05, 2023

    It seemed like any other clear Michigan evening as Wayne and Michelle drove their Jeep Wrangler home from a late-night game of bingo. Then, suddenly in the distance ahead, they saw three large bright white lights in the sky... and they appeared to be coming directly toward them.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, Wayne and Michelle Braden join us to discuss their encounter with a triangular UAP in 2018, and the events that followed in the aftermath which fundamentally changed their lives.

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    • NEWS: The Official Website of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
    • The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Has Finally Launched Its Website. Here’s What’s Missing
    • Michigan UFO Sightings and Paranormal Encounters Podcast
    • Wayne and Michelle Braden on YouTube

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    Aerial Threats Over the United States: NASA's Latest UFO Sightings | MHP 08.29.23. Aug 29, 2023

    Several recent UFO sightings logged by American pilots are revealing details about harrowing encounters with strange objects they couldn't identify. The reports, which include sightings of oblong white fast-moving objects, as well as dark-colored mysterious craft flying in controlled airspace without transponders, are among the many sightings of this kind that have been quietly collected for decades by NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at what the latest reports all reveal, and how they highlight the safety concerns of pilots who say these objects and their activities in controlled airspace represent aerial threats over the United States.

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    • NEWS: Idalia could rapidly strengthen to a major hurricane before coming ashore in Florida
    • At least 500 UK flights cancelled by air traffic chaos following 'network failure'
    • Biden is 'old,' Trump is 'corrupt': AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch
    • Chris Christie complains about getting the UFO Question
    • NASA UAP: NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System

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    Watchers: Surveillance, UAP Secrecy, & the MH370 Enigma | MHP 08.22.23. Aug 22, 2023

    As a bipartisan group within Congress is pushing for the establishment of a new select committee on UAP, information presented within classified hearings on the enduring enigma continues to be withheld from the American public. So who are the operators behind UAP, and do they represent foreign adversaries like China and Russia, or do some of the less easily explainable reports point to a far more complex phenomenon?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine issues related to UAP secrecy and U.S. surveillance technologies, along with an analysis of what U.S. officials have recently had to say about the mysterious objects, as well as questions regarding alleged crash retrieval programs, and much more.

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    • NEWS: Legendary Writer and Show Host Lee Speigel Passes
    • Russian Spacecraft Crash Ends Country’s “Last Hope” to Revive Its Lunar Program, Raises Questions
    • Ötzi the Iceman’s true appearance revealed by new DNA analysis
    • Reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a national security imperative
    • UAP: Bipartisan House group pushes for select committee, classified hearings into UFOs
    • Fact Check: Do Videos Show MH370 Boeing 'Teleported' Away by UFOs?
    • The MH370 video is CGI - Analysis on Reddit
    • WashPo: Sixty Years of Missing Planes
    • Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known

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    Antigravity: Zero Point and the Classified World of UAP Technology | MHP 08.15.23. Aug 15, 2023

    For decades, rumors involving secret research efforts to find a means of opposing gravity have hinted at efforts by the United States and other world governments to achieve antigravity technology. Is antigravity possible, and could it be that the U.S. or some other world power may already have this technology in its possession? More importantly, could successful experiments with antigravity technology even potentially explain some UAP sightings from over the decades?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we go in search of the truth about the classified world of antigravity, the DoD's efforts to make this science-fiction technology a reality, and a possible resolution to the mysterious disappearance of one of the world's most promising antigravity research scientists.

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    • NEWS: Death toll rises in Hawaii, making it the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history
    • LIST: Help Maui Fire Victims: Here's Where You Can Donate
    • Revealing 33 years of UFOs over Catalonia
    • The Struggles of a Whistleblower: Separating Fact From Fiction in the Latest UAP Revelations
    • Chinese Military Says It’s Figured Out How to Build Laser Weapons That Can Fire Indefinitely
    • Breakdown of Standard Gravity Reported in New Study Defies Newton’s Law of Gravitation & Relativity
    • ANTIGRAVITY: The Truth Is The Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
    • Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
    • Obituary | Ning Li of Madison, Alabama | Berryhill Funeral Home & Crematory
    • Solving The Mystery Of Huntsville’s Brilliant Anti-gravity Scientist

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    Non-Human Intelligence: UAP, Humanoids, & Flying Saucer Folklore | MHP 08.08.23. Aug 09, 2023

    What would a form of exotic non-human intelligence potentially look like, and how might it behave? Would it be anything like us, or would it be impossible to speculate what a potential encounter with non-human intelligence might be like? Lastly, if UAP are truly of exotic origin, do alleged reports involving sightings of their operators offer any potential insights?

    Following a recent series of whistleblower revelations involving the alleged recovery of craft of non-human origin, as well as recent legislative language that includes provisions aiming to disclose information related to such claims, this week on The Micah Hanks Program we delve into UFO folklore in search of whether credible reports exist of humanoid operators, and other alleged examples of non-human intelligence.

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    • NEWS: Powerful sun storm knocks out radio transmissions across North America
    • Australian Space Agency Confirms Fireball Seen Over Melbourne Was Russian Rocket Reentry
    • Nasa asteroid strike unleashes boulder storm ‘as deadly as Hiroshima’
    • A snake fell from the sky onto a woman in Silsbee, Texas, while she mowed her lawn
    • Chinese Fossil Represents Unknown Hominin Species
    • Ancient Remains Could Challenge Everything We Know About Human Evolution
    • NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
    • Encountering Aliens: The Speculative Science of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Physiology and Tech
    • The Villa Santina Case (two humanoids encountered by Italian artist)
    • The Humanoids (Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review)

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    The 2023 Congressional Hearing on UAP | MHP 07.31.23. Jul 31, 2023

    Last Wednesday, lawmakers convened for a widely-anticipated hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) featuring testimony from witnesses that included former Navy pilots Commander Dave Fravor and Ryan Graves, and recent UAP whistleblower David Grush.

    In this installment of The Micah Hanks Program, we provide an analysis of last week's hearing, and the explosive statements the former military witnesses provided under oath to members of Congress about the U.S. federal government's involvement with UAP, as well as bombshell claims about the alleged coverup of a UAP crash wreckage retrieval program.

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    • NEWS: Record heat wave in Phoenix could end with a bang
    • Mystery Leprosy Case in Texas
    • World's oldest man dies at 127
    • Why do some people get cancer, while others don't? Scientists have one 'revolutionary' explanation
    • How Humans Will Become Multi-Planetary Species
    • UAP HEARING: UFO hearing key takeaways: cover-up claims and Pentagon denials
    • Whistleblowers Testify Under Oath About "Craft of Non-Human Origin" and Military Encounters with UAP
    • Congressman Provides Account of Military UAP Image That He Says Matches No “Human Capability”
    • The Congressional Hearing on UAP: What We Learned From Yesterday's Testimony
    • Director of Pentagon's UAP Investigations Challenges Claims Made in Recent UAP Hearing
    • Independent Research and Development

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    Crashes, Casualties, and Cover-Ups: Assessing the UAP Whistleblower Claims | MHP 07.25.23. Jul 25, 2023

    As the latest round of Congressional hearings on UAP approaches, many questions remain about the claims of whistleblower David Grusch, and the information he says he was provided by intelligence officials about crashed vehicles of non-human origin, the bodies of UAP pilots, and even human casualties associated with UAP incidents.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a balanced look at historical cases involving UAP crashes, UAP incidents that led to deaths and disappearances, and alleged observations of non-human remains belonging to UAP pilots that have circulated over the years, which may help provide context for Grusch's core claims in advance of this week's Congressional hearing where he and former U.S. Navy pilots David Fravor and Ryan Graves will appear as witnesses.

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    NEWS

    • Emergency Rooms Swamped as Record Heat Above 100F Wilts US South
    • Authorities call off Berlin lioness alarm, saying they've found no evidence of a predator
    • Here’s What Asteroid Sample Recovery Will Look Like – OSIRIS-REx Mission
    • The story behind Barbenheimer, the summer’s most online movie showdown
    • Pentagon Official Warns of Threat of Extraterrestrial “Technical Surprise” as UAP Hearing Approaches
    • Spaceship of Fools - Art Levine (Washington Spectator)

    Deaths Associated with UFO Sightings

    • Thomas Mantell, January 7, 1948
    • Carl Hunrath and Wilber Wilkinson (November 10, 1953)
    • The Kinross Incident, November 23, 1953
    • F-86 Incident, Early 1957 (Just Cause Newsletter, No.1, Page 5)
    • Cuban Jet Incident, March 1967
    • Frederick Valentich, October 21, 1978

    Alleged UAP Crashes

    • The Coyame Incident, 1974
    • Aurora, Texas UFO incident, 1897
    • Roswell New Mexico UFO Incident, 1947
    • Aztec UFO Crash, March 25, 1948
    • Kecksburg UFO incident, Dec 9, 1965
    • Shag Harbour UFO incident, 4 October 1967

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    The UAP Disclosure Act: The Senate's Fight for UFO Transparency | MHP 07.17.23. Jul 18, 2023

    In a historic new bipartisan measure led by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer of New York, government records on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) may soon be required to be released to the public, in what has proven to be the latest and most significant push for UAP transparency by lawmakers.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at what has been presented in draft language as "The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023," and the incredible measures it is calling for, which include the release of records pertaining to the collection of exotic UAP craft, biological representations of non-human intelligence, and much more.

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    • NEWS: Northrop Grumman's B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Celebrates Three Decades of Air Dominance
    • What were the mysterious banging noises heard during the search for the missing Titanic sub?
    • Life on Mars? Discovery at Jezero Crater Reveals Promising Evidence for Organic Molecules
    • Meet the little-known cable TV network that’s cashing in on renewed interest in UFOs
    • Multiple UAPs Reported On FAA’s Internal Hotline In Just A Week
    • THE UAP DISCLOSURE ACT: Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of U.F.O. Records
    • The ‘UAP Disclosure Act of 2023’: Chuck Schumer and the Senate’s New Push for UAP Transparency
    • Senate Press Release on Legislation
    • Draft Language of the Bill
    • HISTORY: Suit Seeks to Lift Secrecy Veil From Agency's UFO Documents
    • Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (Archived from Wikipedia)
    • NSA CAUS Affadavit

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    Soviet USO Encounters: The Quacker Mystery and Unidentified Acoustic Phenomena | MHP 07.11.23. Jul 11, 2023

    For centuries, unusual sounds have been reported throughout the world. From the quaking "Ton der Dove-Bai" reported in Greenland to the mysterious "Bloop" recorded by NOAA in the 1990s, odd sounds of unexplained origin have captured our imagination and hinted at phenomena in our world that continue to evade us in modern times.

    Arguably, one of the strangest unexplained acoustic phenomena ever reported involves the mysterious "Quackers" encountered by Soviet submarine crews during the Cold War. Did these deep sea anomalies represent Soviet USO encounters, mysterious deep-sea animals, an experimental U.S. technology, or something else entirely? This week, we go in search of answers to these questions on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Brutal heat maintains grip on the Southwest
    • Defining the Anthropocene: Radioactive traces in ocean materials mark start of the modern age
    • North Korea warns it may shoot down US spy planes violating its airspace
    • A record share of Americans is living alone | The Hill
    • STRANGE SOUNDS: What is the bloop?
    • THE QUACKERS: Ghosts from the Bottom of the Sea (Russian Language)
    • UFO: Croaking in the Ocean (Russian Language)

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    Italy's Fascist UFO Files: Crashes, Coverups, and the RS/33 Cabinet | MHP 07.04.23. Jul 05, 2023

    In 1996, a strange series of documents were delivered to several Italian media outlets and UFO researchers, purporting to reveal the existence of a secretive investigative committee that looked into sightings of unconventional aerial vehicles during the 1930s and 40s. Called RS/33 Cabinet, the alleged UFO study group was purportedly led by Guglielmo Marconi under the direction of Italy's fascist regime under Benito Mussolini.

    Recently, the claims involving an alleged UFO crash that occurred in 1933 near Magenta, Italy, have received renewed scrutiny after they were cited amidst claims of a UAP coverup by whistleblower David Grusch. This week, we examine the strange history of Italy's Fascist UFO files and their relationship to the modern UFO crash wreckage retrieval debate on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Twitter chaos leaves door open for Meta's rival app
    • Extreme Pride in Being American Remains Near Record Low
    • Scientists use Exotic Stars to Tune into Hum from Cosmic Symphony
    • Controversial Study Reveals Humankind’s Earliest Ancestors Coexisted with Dinosaurs
    • EXCLUSIVE: Gillibrand scheduling hearings with UAP whistleblower David Grusch
    • ITALIAN UFO FILES: Italian researcher shares files of secret 'first' UFO crash in Italy
    • New Documents 'Will Revolutionize UFOlogy'! (UFO Cover-Up By Mussolini)
    • Roberto Pinotti’s own account (via The Black Vault)
    • Pinotti OpenMinds Interview, 2012
    • Mussolini's UFO - Cabinet RS/33 - Pepijn van Erp

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    Giant UFOs on Radar: UAP, Whistleblowers, and the Stephenville Enigma | MHP 06.26.23. Jun 27, 2023

    In 2008, one or more massive unidentified flying objects were observed moving erratically through the evening skies over Stephenville, Texas. Among the many witnesses were several law enforcement officers who said they observed the giant UFOs, although it was the radar data later obtained from the FAA that seemingly proved there had been such objects in the area, one which flew over the ranch home of then-President George W. Bush.

    This week, Robert Powell, an executive board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies and the researcher who obtained the radar data on the Stephenville UAP incident, joins us to discuss this landmark case involving giant UFOs, along with recent happenings in Washington, the revelations of UAP whistleblower David Grusch, and much more on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Titan sub implosion: US Coast guard launches investigation into disaster - BBC News
    • With Wagner’s Future in Doubt, Ukraine Could Capitalize on Chaos
    • CIA Director: “Be very careful around open windows.”
    • Senate bill: Holders of "non-earth origin or exotic UAP material" have six months to deliver it to AARO

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    The Nuclear Connection: UAP and the Atomic Warfare Complex | MHP 06.20.23. Jun 20, 2023

    Throughout the early years of the Cold War, recurrent appearances of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) were documented near several radioactive materials production plants, atomic weapons assembly facilities, and atomic weapons stockpile sites in the United States. What were the objects that were seen, and what was the intention of their operators?

    Larry Hancock a graduate of the University of New Mexico and a veteran who served in the United States Air Force, is the lead author of a new paper published by the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies titled “UAP Pattern Recognition Study: 1945-1975 US Military Atomic Warfare Complex.” Larry joins us to discuss the background that led to this study of UAP historical patterns, and what it means with relation to nuclear weapons sites on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Summer solstice: The science behind the longest day of the year
    • In race against clock, expanding fleet of ships searches for submersible lost near Titanic wreck
    • Woman Who Woke Up Inside Coffin Declared Dead For Second Time
    • What’s That Orbiting the Moon? Data Suggests a Lost Spacecraft Could be Lurking in Lunar Orbit

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    David Grusch: The UAP Whistleblower Controversy | MHP 06.12.23. Jun 13, 2023

    As the developing story of UAP whistleblower David Grusch continues to unfold, new statements from the former member of the U.S. Air Force and intelligence community have erupted in controversy, following a lengthy interview conducted in recent days by journalist Ross Coulthart.

    In our ongoing analysis, this week on The Micah Hanks Program we look at Grusch's most recent statements, along with the resulting media response, and finally, what the implications of his claims about acquisitions of technologies stemming from non-human intelligence by the U.S. government may be.

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    • NEWS: Bombshell Whistleblower Testimony Suggests Virgin Galactic is Wildly Undervalued
    • House Oversight Committee to hold hearings on UFOs soon
    • Canada attends first-of-its-kind UFO briefing at the Pentagon
    • Skeptics, believers discuss whistleblower's claims
    • Dr. John Garrison’s body language analysis

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    Craft Retrievals of Non-Human Origin | MHP 06.05.23. Jun 06, 2023

    Is the United States in possession of anomalous craft of non-human origin? Has this information been illegally kept from Congress? These are among the questions raised by a bombshell story published in The Debrief by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal who, in 2017, reframed the public debate about unidentified aerial phenomena in an article published in The New York Times. Now, a former intelligence official, David Charles Grusch, has come forward and filed a complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General alleging that knowledge of such retrievals of non-human craft has been illegally kept from Congress.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, Kean and Blumenthal join me to discuss the story, the investigative process behind it, and how it all came together. Then later in the program, co-founder of The Debrief and investigative reporter Tim McMillan joins us to discuss the vetting and research process behind the scenes prior to the article's publication.

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    • NEWS: Sonic boom over DC: No survivors found after small plane crashes in Virginia
    • Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation
    • KEAN & BLUMENTHAL: Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

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    The RB-47 Incident: Mystery at 2800 Megacycles | MHP 05.29.23. May 30, 2023

    In the early pre-dawn hours of July 17, 1957, an Air Force RB-47—an aircraft that served at the time as the backbone of Strategic Air Command’s bomber fleet—was in mid-flight on a composite mission that included gunnery exercises over the Texas Gulf Coast, when its crew had an encounter with the extraordinary.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the RB-47 UFO incident, and how the electronic intelligence collected about this 1957 encounter may represent one of the most significant UAP-related events in modern history, potentially offering calibrated scientific data in support of the existence of the phenomenon.

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    • NEWS: Study claims New York City is sinking under the weight of its buildings
    • Groundbreaking Israeli cancer treatment has 90% success rate
    • Hibernation artificially triggered in potential space travel breakthrough
    • Russian 'spy' whale surfaces in Sweden
    • Investigation and Tracking of UAP Explored in New Publications by Harvard Team
    • The Micah Hanks Program- AG1 Podcast Brief
    • RB-47 INCIDENT: RB-47- Federation of American Scientists
    • RB-47 Incident - NICAP Website
    • Dr. James MacDonald’s Report

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    On the Trail of the Skinwalker: Colm Kelleher Ph.D. on the AAWSAP Investigations | MHP 05.23.23. May 23, 2023

    Between 2008 and 2010, what is arguably one of the most atypical government investigations into the unexplained was carried out by employees with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) out of Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of a Defense Intelligence Agency effort known as the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Applications Program, or AAWSAP.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the controversial DIA program with Colm Kelleher, Ph.D., a biochemist who between 1996-2004 led the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) team on Skinwalker Ranch, and in 2008 became deputy administrator of BAASS where he led the day-to-day operations in executing the AAWSAP contract with Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Kelleher shares his reflections about the program, what it discovered, and how it applies to the ongoing efforts by the Pentagon to evaluate unidentified anomalous phenomena.

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    • NEWS: Did you feel it? Boom, shaking reported across the Lowcountry
    • Apollo 11’s Eagle Might Still Be Orbiting Around The Moon
    • Details on Mysterious Object That Followed China’s Spaceplane Revealed in Space Threat Assessment
    • 13% of Academics Who Responded to UAP Survey Suspect "Devices of Unknown Intelligence"
    • Garry Nolan on ET intelligence
    • Garry Nolan: A Stanford Professor's Quest to Resolve Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
    • COLM KELLEHER: Hunt for the Skinwalker (Amazon)
    • Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (Amazon)
    • Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies

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    Black Knight: Dark Satellites, Anomalous Echoes and Alien Probes | MHP 05.15.23. May 16, 2023

    Since the 1950s, American astronomers and military officials have monitored the orbital space above planet Earth for signs of objects that may represent threats to the United States. However, even prior to the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, strange objects of unknown origin were being detected in orbit above Earth, giving rise to theories about the existence of an alien probe that could have quietly monitored our planet from a once-hidden position in orbit for thousands of years.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we dive into the strange history involving what is popularly known as "The Black Knight Satellite", and how a genuine scientific anomaly first detected in the 1920s helped give rise to theories about possible evidence of alien technologies in Earth's orbit.

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    • NEWS: The Hottest Online Game: Hunting for Classified Documents
    • Prosecutor seeks to free man imprisoned 33 years for murder, citing evidence of innocence
    • Ancient tablet found on Mount Ebal predates known Hebrew inscriptions
    • In 'crazy' coincidence, 2 earthquakes occur one second apart on different faults, jostling San Diego County
    • Denmark's mystery tremors caused by acoustic waves from unknown source, officials say
    • BLACK KNIGHT: Short Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis
    • Science: Message from a Star...
    • The Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes
    • Evidence of Non-Terrestrial Objects Surveilling Earth Could Be Revealed in New Research Effort

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    Lost: Missing Persons, UFOs, and High Strangeness | MHP 05.08.23. May 09, 2023

    Few perennial mysteries intrigue us more than people who vanish. Throughout history, there have been countless examples of cases involving individuals who went missing under unusual circumstances, many of which were never found. But are there truly any cases that point to extraordinary phenomena that could have been related to people's disappearances?

    In this installment of The Micah Hanks Program, following a review of recent UFO-related news, we take a critical look at several modern disappearances and the purported high strangeness that is often associated with such incidents, along with what U.S. crime statistics say. Finally, we address the question of whether unidentified aerial phenomena has actually ever been linked to cases where individuals have vanished under odd circumstances.

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    • NEWS: Chilling 'Oppenheimer' Trailer Released, Promises Absolute Carnage
    • Henry Kissinger on a potential artificial intelligence arms race
    • UFO search: Retired Navy senior chief 'not going to jail' to report what he saw in Afghanistan | Fox News
    • How science — and politics — are bringing an end to UFOlogy
    • THE MISSING: This Baffling Disappearance In Wyoming Still Remains Unsolved 20 Years Later
    • Wyoming family searches for son missing for three years
    • Dennis Lloyd Martin: 50 Years Ago, This Boy Vanished in the GSMNP
    • International Comission on Missing Persons: Who are The Missing? Missing Persons
    • How Prevalent is Violence in Missing Persons Cases? | National Institute of Justice
    • 2022 NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics — FBI
    • Missing Persons | ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing

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    UAP: Knowns, Unknowns, and Uncertainties | MHP 05.01.23. May 02, 2023

    On June 2, 1964, Charles Davis, a youth living near the town of Hobbs, New Mexico, had been playing outside in full view of his grandmother when a small, top-shaped black object swooped down from the sky and hovered over him, dumping a shower of flames onto the frightened child. Although he said he could feel no pain, Davis was left temporarily disfigured after the incident, and prefers today not to talk about UFOs.

    What were the objects that young Charles Davis, and many others have had seemingly terrifying encounters with over the years? In this installment of The Micah Hanks Program, we look at potentially harmful cases involving UAP, and whether they should cause us to rethink many of our presumptions about the nature and possible intention of the phenomenon.

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    • NEWS: Pentagon Confirms New Details on Mysterious Balloon Being Tracked by U.S. Military Over Hawaii
    • New Satellite Images Reveal First Look at Chinese Airship and Laser Anti-Satellite Weapons Capabilities
    • In a Surprise Move, Russia Says it Will Support International Space Station Operations Through 2028

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    Garry Nolan: UAP Analysis and Anomalous Pathology | MHP 04.19.23. Apr 26, 2023

    Since 2017, reports of unusual encounters U.S. military personnel have had with anomalous aerial phenomena have seen renewed debate among the military, the media, and the academic community. Meanwhile, an undercurrent of cases involving anomalous health incidents has also gradually come to the attention of the intelligence community; but could there be a relationship between the two, and if so, what is it?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we are joined by Garry Nolan, a Stanford University professor of pathology who discusses his groundbreaking research into anomalous health incidents, and their possible relationship to UAP, as well as the analysis of materials purportedly recovered from anomalous aerial vehicles.

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    • NEWS: Southern and northern lights sweep planet in stunning display of auroras
    • Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson part ways
    • Don Lemon, CNN Star Anchor, to Leave the Network
    • European nations scramble to evacuate citizens from Sudan amid a lull in fighting
    • Intelligence Community Leaders Meet at Wright Patterson for “Historic” National Security Briefing

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    The Senate Hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena | MHP 04.19.23. Apr 20, 2023

    On April 19, 2023, a hearing by the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities was held that focused on the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and its assessment of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

    Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of AARO and witness in attendance for the Senate hearing, discussed common shapes of UAP, as well as their flight dynamics and other reported characteristics, along with a pair of new videos that are part of AARO's current assessments. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we dive into the recent hearings, and what they convey about the U.S. government's ongoing assessments of the mysteries in our skies.

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    • NEWS: India will surpass China as world's most populous country by mid-year, UN says
    • Classified Document Leak Reveals Presence of Western Special Forces in Ukraine, and Much More
    • Pentagon Details Review of Policies for Handling Classified Information
    • Air Force halts intelligence mission of suspected classified document leaker's unit
    • New Concerning Details on Chinese Spy Balloon Technology Revealed in U.S. Classified Document Leak
    • AARO: Senate Hearing on UAP Reveals New Videos and Common Features, but Says No Proof of ET

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    The Secret Life of Tom Slick: The CIA and the Search for the Yeti | MHP 04.11.23. Apr 11, 2023

    In 1957, a wealthy Texas philanthropist and oil tycoon named Tom Slick Jr. was making headlines across the nation. Slick, who had already poured much of his family fortune into the establishment of foundations aimed at exploring various areas of the sciences, was now getting international attention for his plans to launch an expedition in search of a modern mystery: the famous Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.

    However, questions have lingered over whether there could have been more to the purpose of Slick's Yeti-hunting adventure than the public had known... and this week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at Slick's possible connections to the U.S. intelligence community, and whether the CIA had been involved in espionage with help from the man who, at the time, had become America's most-famous monster hunter.

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    • NEWS: In the pope's Easter address, a call to pray for Ukrainians, Russians and refugees
    • NASA Administrator Names New Goddard Center Director
    • Leaked Pentagon documents provide rare window into depth of US intelligence on allies and foes
    • UAP Pattern Recognition Study 1945-1975 US Military Atomic Warfare Complex
    • Famous Bigfoot Footage Stabilized Using AI, Making It Pretty Clear What It Is
    • LOREN COLEMAN: Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology
    • CATHERINE NIXON COOKE: In Search of Tom Slick: Explorer and Visionary

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    Area 51 Uncensored: Tales From America's Best-Known Secret Base | MHP 03.05.23. Apr 05, 2023

    In the heart of the Nevada desert is one of the most legendary and talked about locations in the United States... despite the fact that, until a decade ago, it "officially" didn't exist. However, since the late 1980s, the secret Air Force installation known as Area 51 has remained almost synonymous with UFOs, thanks in large part to Bob Lazar, a man who in addition to claiming to have worked there, also said he saw recovered alien craft at the base.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we go in pursuit of the modern legends that have become associated with Area 51, how it became a mainstay of American conspiracy theories, and look at the history--as well as the speculations--involving America's best-known secret base.

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    • NEWS: Forecast warns of more severe storms in South, Midwest
    • Trump surrenders to NY authorities ahead of arraignment
    • Finland joins NATO in major blow to Russia over Ukraine war
    • Physicists Prove Famous Double-Slit Experiment Can Be Recreated in Time, Not Just in Space
    • The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon are Finally Ready to Unleash StormBreaker
    • AREA 51: The Black Mailbox
    • The Little A’Le’Inn
    • Tikaboo Peak
    • Area 51 Research Center
    • Air Force, FBI raid Nevada homes in probe of Area 51 website
    • Bob Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51's Alien Fuel. The Truth Is Weirder
    • Declassified: The CIA’s Secret History of Area 51

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    Superintelligence: An A.I. Takeover Scenario | MHP 03.27.23. Mar 27, 2023

    By the early years of the new millennium, experts were already sounding alarms about the potential threat that machine intelligence might eventually pose to humanity. As of 2023, following the arrival of AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard—enhanced performance chatbots that many view as little more than party tricks—the race to create genuinely intelligent machines seems to be fully underway... but where will it go from here, and what are the dangers that could result from the creation of a genuine machine superintelligence?

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at several potential future scenarios involving the creation of an A.I. superintelligence, how machines could one day rise against humanity, and what that could mean for humankind in the decades ahead. Will A.I. become our saviors, or our overlords?

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    • NEWS: Sandstorms on an Alien World Revealed in Data Collected by the James Webb Space Telescope
    • Tasmanian Tiger 'Probably' Survived to 1980s or Even Later, Study Claims
    • In fight over key surveillance law, officials look to sway congressional skeptics
    • OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet
    • RISE OF THE MACHINES: Google AI updates: Bard and new AI features in Search
    • ChatGPT: Does This Clever Chatbot Mark the Dawn of a New Era in AI? - The Debrief
    • Is This the Start of an AI Takeover? - The Atlantic
    • Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans | Pew Research Center
    • The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation
    • The Doomsday Invention
    • Future Progress in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Expert Opinion
    • AI Will Change War: Institute for National Strategic Studies
    • AI & Global Governance: Robots Will Not Only Wage Future Wars but also Future Peace
    • We're told to fear robots. But why do we think they'll turn on us?

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    Law Enforcement Encounters with UAP | MHP 03.21.23 Mar 21, 2023

    Throughout the mid-1970s, several incidents occurred throughout the United States involving law enforcement encounters with UAP. Involving multiple witnesses to the aerial phenomena in question, some of the incidents also resulted in real-time recordings of police dispatch calls featuring descriptions of the objects police officers sighted.

    This week, we examine several of these incidents, and examine the broader significance of law enforcement encounters with UAP, as well as what such cases may convey about the phenomenon on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Climate Change Report Warns That World Leaders Must Take Action to Limit Severe Weather Events
    • How AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet
    • Pentagon issues official warning over 'alien mothership UFO sending probes to Earth'
    • Rolls-Royce secures funds to develop nuclear reactor for moon base
    • NRL to Launch First In-Space Laser Power Beaming Experiment
    • Lockheed Martin Won't Deny The Existence of This Mysterious Hypersonic Spy Plane

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    The Hunt for an Invisible Killer: Colorado's Mystery Cattle Deaths | MHP 03.14.23. Mar 14, 2023

    In October 2022, dozens of cattle were found dead under mysterious circumstances on U.S. Forest Service property along Colorado's Western Slope. Although initially believed to have involved wolf depredation, as officials closed the investigation earlier this year, there was no evidence to support the presence of any kind of predator, and the cause of the strange deaths remains unknown.

    This week, in the aftermath of the mysterious spate of cattle deaths that baffled ranchers in Colorado last year, we present the results of an investigation based on official documents and interviews with investigators who worked to track down an unknown, "invisible" livestock killer on this week's episode of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: 'Everything' wins best picture, is everywhere at Oscars
    • Nor'easter To Bring Heavy Snow, Rain, High Winds, Coastal Flooding To East Coast
    • Seaweed blob visible from space takes aim at Florida Gulf coast
    • Scientists discover superconducting material that could bring total revolution in energy and electronics
    • AI And Savvy Marketing Create Dubious Moon Photos
    • How often does the International Space Station have to dodge space debris?
    • CATTLE DEATHS: On the Trail of a Unseen Killer: Questions Linger Over Unexplained Cattle Deaths in Colorado
    • Colorado Parks and Wildlife investigating report of wolf depredations on U.S.F.S. land near Meeker
    • CPW closes Meeker investigation, cause of death of calf losses in Meeker still unconfirmed

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    Physics of the Phenomenon: A New Scientific Perspective on Aerial Mysteries | MHP 03.06.23. Mar 06, 2023

    In a recent bombshell scientific paper, Harvard astronomer and head of the Galileo Project Avi Loeb joined forces with Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to make the argument for "physical constraints" they say can be applied to unidentified aerial phenomena.

    "Claims of objects exceeding the transonic to supersonic range," the authors argue in the paper, should be studied based on the "known physics of ionization, radar reflectivity, temperature, sonic booms, and fireballs." Avi Loeb joins us to discuss this unique paper, as well as the equally novel collaboration that produced it, and how it could provide significant benefits to future studies involving UAP, on this week's episode of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Epic winter storm turns SoCal snow white
    • Last-minute problem keeps SpaceX rocket, astronauts grounded
    • A ‘climate solution’ that spies worry could trigger war
    • Memories of Wounded Knee reflect mixed legacy after 50 years
    • EXCESSIVE SECRECY: Excessive Secrecy Could Undermine U.S. Efforts to Evaluate UFOs
    • AUDIO: Avril Haines on Classification and Excessive Secrecy
    • TIM McMILLAN: No Plans To Release Images of Unidentified Objects From Recent Shootdowns

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    Secrecy: Classification of the UAP Mystery | MHP 02.28.23. Feb 28, 2023

    Recent incidents involving objects the Pentagon has, to date, refused to identify have renewed debate over excessive secrecy in the United States, especially as it relates to the question of unidentified aerial phenomena. If the government won't release imagery it has of suspected balloons shot down over North America, then what does this say about any truly anomalous imagery in its possession?

    Joining us to discuss this is reporter Tim McMillan, who weighs in on the subject of excessive secrecy with relation to the ongoing UAP debate in this installment of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Epic winter storm turns SoCal snow white
    • Last-minute problem keeps SpaceX rocket, astronauts grounded
    • A ‘climate solution’ that spies worry could trigger war
    • Memories of Wounded Knee reflect mixed legacy after 50 years
    • EXCESSIVE SECRECY: Excessive Secrecy Could Undermine U.S. Efforts to Evaluate UFOs
    • AUDIO: Avril Haines on Classification and Excessive Secrecy
    • TIM McMILLAN: No Plans To Release Images of Unidentified Objects From Recent Shootdowns

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    Unidentified Aerial Objects: A Presidential Dilemma | MHP 02.20.23. Feb 21, 2023

    Last week, as controversy following the recent downing of unidentified objects over North America continued, President Joe Biden finally spoke out on the matter, defending his administration's decision to shoot down three objects that, to this date, still officially remain unidentified.

    The President's remarks offered a rare glimpse at Biden's position on UAP, or what he characterized as "unidentified aerial objects," and his role in directing the intelligence community to learn what they can about them. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we analyze the President's statements, the leading explanations for what the objects were, and why the Pentagon remains silent on recent images that have surfaced online purporting to depict an anomalous object over Mosul, Iraq.

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    • NEWS: FBI records deepen mystery of dig for Civil War-era gold
    • Biden declares 'Kyiv stands' in surprise visit to Ukraine
    • Tributes pour in for former President Jimmy Carter after he enters hospice care
    • Presidents Day is not just a day for an appliance sale. So who does it celebrate? Lincoln or Washington?
    • UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS: Biden says the 3 aerial objects shot down were not Chinese spy balloons
    • As Mystery Objects Get Shot Down, U.S. Sets Up New Task Force on UFOs
    • Special UFO task force with FAA, Pentagon & Homeland Security experts is being set up
    • Pentagon warned that UFOs are a threat ‘to the immediate safety of US citizens’ just weeks ago
    • White House: Leading Explanation is Commercial or Benign Objects
    • Decision to shoot down balloons puts spotlight on hobbyists
    • Airborne Low Speed Clutter Not National Weather Service's Fault
    • 'Large white balloon' seen by pilots over Honolulu, Hawaii, online reports claim
    • ‘Mosul Orb’: US silent on UFO filmed by military over Iraq

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    Shoot-Down: Unidentified Objects in North American Airspace | MHP 02.14.23. Feb 14, 2023

    On Friday, February 10, 2023, a dramatic series of events began to unfold involving the shoot-down of what the Pentagon characterized as an "object" over northeastern Alaska. The White House was quick to comment on the incident, and within just hours, a second object was taken down over Canada, followed by a third object over Lake Huron on Sunday. As of Tuesday, none of the objects have been identified, leaving the American public with more questions than answers.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, in addition to providing updates on the quickly developing situation involving the shoot-down of several unidentified flying objects over North America, we are also joined by investigative journalist Leslie Kean, who discusses recent UAP-related events, and the government and media's role in the slow release of new information about it.

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    • NEWS: U.F.O. Shot Down by U.S. Military Over Alaska Raises New Questions Over Possible Foreign Surveillance
    • New Details on Unidentified Objects Shot Down Over the U.S. and Canada: Here's Everything We Know
    • White House Says Mysterious Objects Shot Down Over U.S. and Canada Remain Unidentified
    • Efforts Underway to Recover Object Downed Over Lake Huron
    • U.S. Missed Lake Huron Object with First Missile Strike
    • LESLIE KEAN: The Official Website of Leslie Kean
    • Leslie Kean at The Debrief: UFOs: Shifting the Narrative from Threat to Science
    • UFOs: Investigating the Unknown

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    Incursion: Spy Balloons, UAP, and the New Cold War | MHP 02.07.23. Feb 07, 2023

    Recently, a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down by a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor as it drifted over the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast, ending an unusual series of events that placed additional strain on already tense relations between China and the United States.

    With a payload the size of three school buses, China claimed the balloon was “a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes," although U.S. officials said otherwise. However, the bizarre events have also reinvigorated debate over the DOD's investigations into UAP, and whether some instances involving military encounters with strange phenomena could represent similar spy balloon incursions. This week, we dive into the controversy, joined by Space.com editor Brett Tingley, and examine one of the most unusual diplomatic crises in recent memory on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: 50-car train derailment causes big fire, evacuations in Ohio
    • Russia Says Its ‘Unstoppable’ Nuclear Underwater Drone Is Ready to Go
    • Pentagon Secretly Working To Unleash Massive Swarms of Autonomous Multi-Domain Drones
    • Man rescued by Coast Guard wanted in 'Goonies' fish incident
    • Scientist who edited babies' genes says he acted 'too quickly'
    • Man arrested, but motive unknown in Dallas Zoo monkey theft
    • Have We Been Visited by Aliens? Depends on Whom You Ask
    • SPY BALLOON: U.S. Downs Chinese Spy Balloon, Ending Chapter in a Diplomatic Crisis
    • China Calls U.S. Shoot-Down of Balloon “Indiscriminate Use of Force.” International Law Says Otherwise.
    • In world of drones and satellites, why this?
    • Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability
    • What the Chinese Spy Balloon Has to Do With the Pentagon's UFO Obsession

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    Cold-Flyer: The DHS 'Rubber Duck' UAP: An Analysis | MHP 01.31.23. Jan 31, 2023

    On November 23, 2019, a FLIR camera system onboard an RC-26B aircraft with the Air National Guard managed to film an unconventional flying object as it passed over Arizona. Displaying no visible means of propulsion or aerodynamic lift, the odd footage has been touted as one of several examples of Department of Homeland Security videos depicting unidentified aerial phenomena.

    This week, joining us to discuss his scientific analysis of what has since been dubbed the "Rubber Duck UAP" is Peter Reali, a researcher with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. Peter's new paper, "A Forensic Analysis of 'Rubber Duck,' a Publicly Available Video Showing a UAP Purportedly Filmed by Arizona National Guard on November 23, 2019," provides the most comprehensive analysis to-date of the mysterious object in the video, which we discuss in-depth on this week's installment of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Doomsday Clock moves to 90 seconds to midnight, signaling more peril than ever
    • Mysterious White Spots Are Appearing in the Ocean and Nobody Knows Why
    • A robot was scheduled to argue in court, then came the jail threats
    • Watch This Liquid Metal Robot Escape From Jail, Just Like 'Terminator 2'
    • PETER REALI: A Forensic Analysis of the “Rubber Duck” UAP Video

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    Health Effects of the Phenomenon: Secrets of the ODNI UAP Report | MHP 01.24.23. Jan 24, 2023
    The ODNI Report: AARO and the DOD's UAP Problem | MHP 01.17.23. Jan 17, 2023

    On October 31, 2022, the second installment of a series of reports involving the Department of Defense's ongoing evaluation of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) was scheduled for delivery, and after weeks of waiting, the ODNI report has finally been delivered... and with mixed reception from the UAP community.

    This week, we provide a complete breakdown and analysis of what the data in the report actually means, explain why it's significant, and what the mainstream media missed in its attempts at reporting on it. Then, we are joined by former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves, who offers his own perspectives on the ODNI report and its relevance to aviation safety issues presented by UAP in this installment of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Additional Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home, White House Says
    • Nepal finds black boxes of aircraft after deadliest crash in 30 years
    • FAA investigating how Delta, American Airlines planes nearly collided at JFK
    • Pilots May Notice Something Missing from the FAA’s Newest Aeronautical Charts
    • Mystery Antennas Turning Up in Utah Have Officials Stumped. Here's What They Might Be.
    • UAP NEWS: Did Aliens Land on Earth in 1945? A Defense Bill Seeks Answers
    • VALLEE: Opinion: Let's Bring the UAP Challenge Into the Light of Day
    • ODNI UAP REPORT: 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

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    Disinformation Nation: Truth, Lies, and Flying Saucers |MHP 01.10.23. Jan 10, 2023

    For decades, rumors of an alleged film depicting the landing of a flying saucer at Holloman Air Force Base have persisted, following the depiction of a story based on the alleged incident in a 1970s documentary, UFOs: Past, Present, and Future, and in a book of the same title by Robert Emenegger. The story emerged after Emenegger was purportedly told he would be given the footage for his documentary, a promise his sources did not keep.

    Over the years, several similar instances of this "dangling carrot" phenomenon, where UFO researchers were promised explosive information by military officials, only to be denied the information at a later time, have occurred. It was ultimately revealed that much of this had involved disinformation efforts by special agents with the United States Air Force during the 1970s and 1980s, an effort that some claim is still underway. This week, we explore the question of disinformation related to UFOs on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • ANNOUNCEMENTS: Limina Inaugural Symposium 2023
    • NEWS: Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
    • How has ancient Roman cement stood test of time so well? Scientists finally have an answer after 2,000 years! - Study Finds
    • Hubble Finds Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Mysterious “Ghost” Stars Wandering for Billions of Years
    • NASA's moon-orbiting space station will be claustrophobic, architect says
    • AI UPDATE: New AI chatbot is scary good
    • The smartest AI is dumb without people
    • The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel

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    Deception: UAP and the Military: Ours or Theirs? MHP 01.03.23. Jan 04, 2023

    In a recent series of Wall Street Journal opinion editorials, columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. has argued that military UAP encounters might be the result of a "secret military laser program", which he suggested might have been tested on active-duty pilots and that the Pentagon “may know exactly what [UAP] are.” His criticisms of the topic, and of military personnel who have had such encounters, recently evoked a response from former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves, who wrote in a rebuttal published by The Debrief that "This kind of cynical speculation gives rise to the stigma that has long surrounded UAP. Not only does it have a chilling effect on military and commercial pilots coming forward, but it also discourages scientists from pursuing funding to study these phenomena."

    This week, we dive into the controversy surrounding UAP and the military, as we examine the testimony of pilots who say they have encountered anomalous phenomena while on duty, as well as the opinions of various commentators who suggest that UAP are likely to be nothing more than secret government technologies. Is there a large-scale deception underway, in an effort to guard the "real" truth about UAP from the public... and even active-duty members of the military who encounter them? We explore these, and other possibilities in this week's installment of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Americans Largely Pessimistic About U.S. Prospects in 2023
    • Spanish police find hundreds of archaeological artefacts at two homes
    • Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots
    • HAARP Experiment Bounces Radio Signals Off Space Object to Help Boost Planetary Defense
    • Why the US is enlisting a spy agency during hurricanes | Stars and Stripes
    • RYAN GRAVES: As a Former Fighter Pilot Who Encountered UAP, We Need Science—Not Stigmas and Conspiracies—to Solve This Mystery
    • JENKINS: UFO ‘Mystery’ Shouldn’t Drag On
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    Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: The Pentagon's 'X-Files' | MHP 12.27.22. Dec 27, 2022

    As 2022 draws to a close, some have argued that the last twelve months were a "slow year" for developments regarding UFOs, or what the Department of Defense now even more broadly calls "unidentified anomalous phenomena." However, the reality is that this couldn't be further from the truth: 2022 may eventually be seen as a landmark year in terms of developments related to the Pentagon's ongoing investigations, as recent events make clear.

    This week we look at the DOD's real-life "X-Files" with its ongoing investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena, as we examine the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 and its relevant UAP legislation, as well as a media briefing by the DOD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and what it revealed, in this week's installment of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: The Dead Sea is dying. These beautiful, ominous photos show the impact
    • U.S. Dept. of Energy Plasma Discovery Unravels Odd Solar Phenomenon, Offers Clues to Cosmic Mysteries
    • The U.S. Air Force is Preparing to Unleash Hypersonic Mayhem - The Debrief
    • 10 things we learned about UFOs and aliens (or the lack thereof) in 2022
    • 2023 NDAA: Biden Signs National Defense Authorization Act Into Law
    • $858 Billion Defense Bill Signed into Law by Biden Includes “Unprecedented” Legislation on "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena"
    • AARO BRIEFING: DOD Office Moving Ahead in Mission to Identify 'Anomalous Phenomena'
    • USD(I&S) Ronald Moultrie and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick Media Roundtable on the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
    • PODCAST APPEARANCES: Micah Hanks joins Richard Syrett
    • Micah Hanks on That UFO Podcast

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    The Chrononauts: UAP and the Science of Time Travel | MHP 12.20.22. Dec 20, 2022

    Unidentified Aerial Phenomena have received renewed attention in recent years, following the U.S. government's focus on resolving incidents with anomalous phenomena occurring in air, undersea, and space domains. However, the underlying source of these unusual objects remains undetermined. While one popular theory holds that they could represent extraterrestrial technologies, another interpretation of the phenomenon involves the potential that time travel could account for the presence of unusual aerial technologies encountered by our military.

    Could UFO occupants actually be "chrononauts" from our own future, and how likely is this proposed solution in the range of possibilities regarding UAP and its origins? Joining us to discuss this possibility is Michael P. Masters, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology and author of books that include Identified Flying Objects, which examines what he calls the "Extra-Tempestrial" hypothesis for UAP. Masters discusses this, and other theories related to the potential for time travel in relation to UAP in this holiday edition of The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Last minute efforts help send Christmas gifts to hundreds of kids
    • Inflation raises Christmas costs, with some trees selling for over $100
    • Why is Christmas celebrated on Dec. 25?
    • NORAD Tracks Santa
    • Yuletide ghost stories no longer a thing of Christmas past
    • MASTERS: Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon

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    Secrets of the Skies: Area 51 Black Jets & Skunk Works UFOs | MHP 12.12.22. Dec 13, 2022

    Since the Cold War era, the United States has worked to build the world's most advanced stealth aircraft, which produced the famous U2 spyplane, the SR-71, the B2 bomber, and most recently, the Air Force's impressive B-21 Raider, the world's first sixth-generation-aircraft. However, for decades there have been rumors about other aircraft that have been designed at Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works facility.

    Did programs like the mysterious and long-rumored "Aurora" actually exist? And could Lockheed engineers like the famous Kelly Johnson have even been inspired to build such stealth planes after he and several employees observed a genuine UFO? We look into all these questions this week on The Micah Hanks Program.

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    • NEWS: Flight Day 26: Orion splashes down, concluding historic Artemis I mission
    • U.S. Department of Energy to Make Major Fusion Energy Announcement This Week
    • Scientists discover new possible clue in Amelia Earhart mystery
    • Debris find offers new clues to MH370 mystery
    • B-21 RAIDER: World Gets First Look at B-21 Raider
    • US Air Force unveils new B-21 Raider stealth bomber, most advanced military aircraft
    • Fog machines, short lenses, no iPhones: Managing the B-21′s rollout
    • Defense Business Brief: Behind the scenes at B-21 unveiling
    • Here's What We Know About the World's First Sixth-Generation Aircraft

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    Pilot Encounters With UAP: Aviation Safety and UFOs | MHP 12.06.22. Dec 06, 2022

    In recent months, reports of sightings involving unidentified aerial phenomena by pilots have been making news, involving a variety of observations of unusual luminous displays by aviators over the United States. While some of the sightings appear to have been resolved, a number of the pilot reports continue to perplex experts, and more broadly, point to challenges that aviation professionals face.

    This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at several of the recent pilot encounters with UAP, along with similar incidents logged in years past that showcase the potential safety hazards these objects represent.

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    • NEWS: Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano is erupting, prompting an ashfall advisory for the Big Island
    • Clashes in Shanghai as protests over zero-Covid policy grip China
    • No joke: Supreme Court case could take a big bite out of the First Amendment
    • A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost | New Scientist

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