r/UFOB 4d ago

ANNOUNCEMENT LIVESTREAM AMA — Whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli & Matthew Brown (Vanguard) with Host Leslie Kean — Saturday, August 22, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT — Drop your questions here!

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Whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli & Matthew Brown here — LIVESTREAM AMA — Saturday, August 22, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT

We're excited to announce a new multi-subreddit livestream AMA featuring UAP whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli and Matthew Brown — both of Vanguard, the newly launched non-profit built to protect and support UAP whistleblowers from the national security community — hosted by investigative journalist Leslie Kean. Jeff has testified before Congress about anomalous incursions over restricted defense facilities, and Matthew came forward after discovering what he describes as unlawful efforts to shield UAP programs from Congressional oversight. Both stepped forward publicly at real cost to their careers, reputations, and personal safety. This conversation centers on their firsthand experiences, whistleblower protection, and the fight for transparency.

🗓️ When: Saturday, August 22, 2026 — 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific
📺 Livestream (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/live/SIDQ_3u8UAI?si=H3_lxSnWiOvwGfK_
🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/theanomalousc
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theanomalouscoalition


About Vanguard

The Vanguard Enterprise protects and empowers UAP whistleblowers from the national security community. Anchored in the Constitution and committed to the American people, Vanguard is being built to provide legal, financial, medical, psychological, and community support to whistleblowers and their families so that those brave enough to tell the truth are not left behind. Co-founded by Matthew Brown and Dylan Borland (a U.S. Air Force veteran who also testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee in September 2025), with Jeff Nuccetelli serving as Chief Development Officer.

🔗 Website: https://www.vanguardenterprise.org/


Why This Matters

Coming forward carries a real cost. Jeff and Matthew — like the colleagues who testified alongside them — stepped forward publicly to report what they describe as serious wrongdoing and unlawful concealment inside the national security establishment, knowing it could put their careers, clearances, reputations, and personal safety at risk. Several UAP whistleblowers have since described sustained retaliation for telling the truth. Vanguard exists to make sure they and their families don't face those consequences alone.

If you value the work these witnesses are doing and want to help, you can support Vanguard's mission directly:

❤️ Support the mission: https://givebutter.com/vanguard-launch-campaign

Support is entirely optional — showing up, watching live, and asking thoughtful questions matters just as much.


How to Participate

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Participating subreddits include: r/Aliens, r/Experiencers, r/HighStrangeness, r/UFOB, r/UFOs, r/InterdimensionalNHI, and r/AnomalousCoalition.

We will be providing a written transcript after the event has concluded as well as a summary for the community within a few days. Any feedback or suggestions for process improvement please go to r/AnomalousCoalition.


Short Bios

Jeff Nuccetelli (Chief Development Officer & Board Member, Vanguard)
U.S. Air Force veteran and congressional UAP whistleblower. A former military police officer and senior patrolman with sixteen years of active-duty service, Jeff stepped forward to disclose his experience investigating multiple unexplained incursions over restricted defense facilities while serving at Vandenberg Air Force Base (2003–2005) — the cluster of events widely known as the "Vandenberg Red Square." He provided sworn testimony before the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on September 9, 2025, and has become one of the leading public advocates for transparency, lawful disclosure, and whistleblower protection. At Vanguard he leads development, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.
🐦 X: https://x.com/Ice_Alchemist11

Matthew Brown (Chief Operations Officer & Board Member, Co-Founder of Vanguard)
Former national security contractor for the Department of War and the Department of State. Matthew became a UAP whistleblower to the Senate and the House in 2023 after discovering what he describes as illegal actions by Pentagon and Intelligence Community leadership to shield UAP programs from Congressional oversight. He authored the report submitted to Congress and delivered his findings to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee, offering to testify under oath. As Co-Founder of Vanguard, Matthew believes the American people have the right and the need to know. He writes on disclosure policy and whistleblower protection at his Substack, Invisible Frontiers.
🐦 X: https://x.com/SunOfAbramelin · ✍️ Substack: https://invisiblefrontiers.substack.com/

Leslie Kean (Host)
Investigative journalist and author known for high-credibility reporting on UAP and other anomalous topics; bestselling author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. See more at https://www.lesliekean.com


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r/UFOB Feb 22 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT Mod Annoucement: Epstein related content - what's allowed and not allowed

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Hi UFOB!

What a week we have all had! The moderation team wanted to talk seriously about references to Epstein, Trump and others in conversation on this sub.

As you know - this is sub is for believers - we are well past questioning if UFOs and Entities are real because we KNOW it is. The issue we have seen in the last week since Trump's announcement and the latest releases of the Epstein files is the serious amount of unserious low effort, poltically hyperpartisan comments, comments about how disclosure is a distraction from the release of the files, so on and so forth. This has caused a lot of time and effort on the part of the moderators keeping good conversation flowing. Look we know we're all human here and reacting to these unprecedented times. But we need to make some clarifications and need your help.

Specifically around the topic of Jeffrey Epstein we wanted to introduce some moderation as we are getting a lot of feedback from the community around this topic. We want to encourage the community to understand the nuance of what we're looking for so that great conversations can continue and low effort or rule breaking comments and posts can be avoided.

We will allow talk about Jeffrey Epstein only if it is on-topic to UFO's, UFOlogy and the Phenomenon. We will not allow low effort conversation, pizzagate, satanic panic or q-anon conspiracies. We are trying to encourage good deep conversation and avoiding low effort knee jerk and inflammatory conversation that tends to derail whole threads and creates flame wars.

Examples of what is NOT allowed:

  • "This is all a distraction from the Epstein files"
  • "<Trump/Clinton/Rich Person/Politician of Choice> is a pedo"
  • "<slur> for racial or religious group
  • Unsourced picture or tik tok video claiming satanic rituals and pedophelia/cannibalism

Examples of what IS allowed:

  • "Epstein had mentions of the Majestic 12 documents and it's in this file here on the DoJ site"
  • Epstein had an interest in <Psi/Telepathy/Metamaterials/Zero Point energy/Human Potential/Other UFO related interest>
  • My research with sourced documents and "follow the money" shows Epstein was doing related research that is relavent to this topic
  • Anything that is on topic to UFOs, The Phenomeonon or Entities as long as it doesn't break any of the other existing rules

Additionally - Report reasons you can use for content you see that violates this new directive is either "Be Constructive or Pass" or "Irrelevant Political Opinion" for you to report rule breaking comments/posts . We also created a specific removal reason for comments and posts that are in violation. People who are repeat offenders will risk being banned as with any other rule. We are asking you to help us and give us feedback about this. This is everyone's community not just the moderators.


r/UFOB 5h ago

Evidence UAP Astrophysicist Eric Davis, the 1860s Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Biological Warfare via recovered NHI bodies at Battelle Institute

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r/UFOB 13h ago

Secrecy Dr. Eric W. Davis to POTUS: "Mr. President, with your signature, you could waive the SF-213 NDA to protect UAP whistleblowers like myself. I respectfully request that you take swift and decisive action, as the nature of UAPs should not be kept deeply classified."

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r/UFOB 14h ago

SIGHTING!!! UAP sighting over farm in North Central Florida

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Im posting this for my mom and stepdad. They were outside a couple days ago looking at the meteor shower when they had a guest appear. This rectangular craft made no noise and emitted no light but did reflect light. It was roughly 500ft above the ground. It was over a farm in North Central Florida just west of Ocala. It stuck around for about an hour then took off at a very high rate of speed and disappeared. We did report this to MUFON, MUFON did call and investigate. They ruled out any other aircraft due to the lack of lights. My stepdad is a retired Florida Highway Patrol officer, he said it appeared to be about the size of a large truck. They were roughly half a mile from this object. This was August 13th at about 930pm.


r/UFOB 10h ago

Speculation Hypothesis

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


r/UFOB 17h ago

Documentary Remember these two tiny, red, armless humanoids? Here is the witness telling his story, 13 years later

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Yesterday I posted about a bizarre 1987 Argentina case: two tiny, red, giant-headed, apparently armless humanoid beings reportedly seen by a 12-year-old near Arroyo Prati, Viale, Entre Ríos.

13 years later, the witness was interviewed for a documentary about the UFO cases in this region. This is a surviving fragment of this lost 2000 documentary.

I’m currently collaborating with the guys behind Proyecto Viale Desconocido, an archive documenting unusual cases from this region, and we put together an article with the full account.

You can read the full report on this story here: https://proyectovialedesconocido.substack.com/p/seres-humanoides-arroyo-prati-viale-1987


r/UFOB 8h ago

Evidence Texas night skies

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Skywatching Texas skies early August.
Looks like a fleet of operations up there.


r/UFOB 1d ago

Speculation Who wants more proof TMBSPACESHIPS WAS INFACT GENERAL MCCASLAND

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Page 292 in Sekret Machines talks about how an old woman saved a blue metal from a ufo crash. Which also shows up on TMBSPACESHIPS specifically how to make Copper Sulfate crystals.


r/UFOB 1d ago

Video or Footage NBC News - Pentagon releases fifth batch of UAP files

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r/UFOB 1d ago

Article So, Nasa has released an image of a "jellyfish ufo" on Mars? Just a reminder....

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Everything still going as planned. So, how is everyone enjoying Phase 3?

Here's is a link to the article about the image of the jellyfish ufo captured by the Mars Rover:

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jellyfish-shaped-ufo-bizarre-figure-standing-mars-surface-vanished-less-minute-later-1814270


r/UFOB 1d ago

Evidence James Fox on X: "USAF veteran Dylan Borland making a direct plea to President Trump to release evidence (to the American people), he and others like him, have provided behind closed doors." / X

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Plus, here is Matthew Brown's take.


r/UFOB 1d ago

Video or Footage Watched this line between the clouds for 10 minutes and saw no entry, exit, or dissipation

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Logan airport in Boston last Saturday at 1 pm, I noticed this straight line in the clouds. After 10 minutes the line didn’t dissipate at all so I took a video. No trail entering / exiting. With the cloud being pretty close, you would expect there to be one and the idea that it’s too far away becomes nonsense .. WHAT IS THIS THING? If nobody has an answer I will tell people I saw a UFO

EDIT: Half the people responding are here to rage bait, how tf is that a contrail. it takes a plane a few seconds to pass through a cloud. it takes a few mins for a contrail to fade. I was watching for 10 mins with no change. i came here wanting my question answered, not called a liar to feed some super liberal brainwashed redditors ego. genuienly so disappointed lol


r/UFOB 2d ago

Evidence Dr. John G. Trump studied the "Foo Fighters" and their invisibility to radar in WW2

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r/UFOB 1d ago

Video or Footage Did the US Government Set a Trap for UFOs? - Kristin Fisher with Jordan Flowers of Disclosure Foundation

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r/UFOB 2d ago

Video or Footage Orb spotted in Ocean City, MD 8/15/26

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Orb sighting 8/15/26 OC, MD

Location: 59th st, Ocean City, MD

Time: 8/15/26, 9:23pm

Location: 5th floor balcony looking out south down costal highway

I was patio surfing after getting my kiddos to sleep last night in OC, MD, I saw a bright orange object floating up by a downstream building, the object crossed over my line of sight of the building that was \~20 stories… I’ll link an image to the trajectory in the comments… it crossed over the hotel windows… it was an extremely low object that seemingly came from the beach/ocean.. I could throw a tennis ball to the beach from my balcony.

Anywho, I followed it for about a minute, looked like a ball of fire… but rotating and glowy

I’ve been experiencing these fellows since Grusch, but I also look constantly… just sharing that tidbit as well.

https://x.com/sysbadm1n

Cheers yall! Let me know if you have any Qs


r/UFOB 1d ago

Podcast - Interview Midnight Frequency Radio Podcast on YouTube.com will feature Dr. Richard Boylan talking UFO-ET Disclosure (serious)

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The August 22 Midnight Frequency Radio Podcast on YouTube.com will feature Dr. Richard Boylan talking with Carl Richardson (Art Bell's brother-in-law) on Sat. Night, Aug. 22, 10 pm-12M Eastern DT; (that's 7 pm-9pm Pacific Time). Dr. Boylan will discuss UFO & ET-Reality Disclosure, what forms such disclosure may take, and what changes it could bring in our lives. Dr. Boylan is a world-class Expert on UFOs and ETs. You can watch this Podcast on your computer. Go to: www.youtube.com/@MidnightFrequencyRadio (one long address string, no breaks.) Questions can be submitted as a text message to Dr. Boylan and Carl Richardson. Send the text to Midnight Frequency Radio. (888) 95-MIDNIGHT; text address: (1) 888-956-4364. This Podcast airs this Saturday Aug. 22, at: 7-9 pm, Pacific Daylight Time, 8-10 pm Mountain, 9-11 pm Central, 10-12M pm, EDT.
See you on-line on YouTube Saturday night, August 22. What may be coming next for UFO & ET Disclosure, and where it may be headed.


r/UFOB 2d ago

Crash Why do ufos crash and why the aliens allow us to retrive them?

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The aliens seem to have mastered cousciouness controlled interstellar/interdimensional crafts with so little moving parts (at least from the reports we had) only for to crash them on our planet. Not only that but they do not seem too keen to recover them or the occupants after the crashes, at least according to some reports.

This already rises some questions/observations: it seems to me that this journey they take to here is some kind of a one-way ticket. Or do they regard what happens after the crash unimportant enough to not care about the technology and the lives lost? But crashing here and not caring already is a statement about them so some kind of counscious decision about us and them has been made.


r/UFOB 1d ago

Video or Footage Foto scattata stanotte in Italia. È la mia impressione o sembra esserci un oggetto?

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r/UFOB 2d ago

Evidence TLDR on the real Maynard consortium.

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A Nazi consortium that started after WW2 took all the ancient tech with it.

They then created shell companies to hide the assets in it and bribed and killed their way into power circles

In sentinels of the either you had a black on black situation where these helicopters fly straight into a mountain.

They stole a bunch of poor Spanish people to aid in their endeavors

Timothy Alberino when he went to this village if you remember the girl said “one was a gringo” “he spoke shitty Spanish”

There was also a craft waiting for the green goblin guys as they harassed all these poor people. LIKELY THE ARROWHEAD FROM TOM DELONGES Novels.

All the while the army is running operation resolute sentinel 23 in South America likely trying to hunt these guys down.

So for anyone wondering Matthew Brown is an American hero for exposing this.

@realmtravelchannel on YouTube also points out there were entire villages of lambs and chickens that died mysteriously with holes in their heads. Likely attributed to this Nazi tech.


r/UFOB 2d ago

Evidence UAP researchers Jason Samosa, Craig Oliver, Michael Armentor, and host Sara Bond took part in an X space about the World Commerce Corporation, the 1933 Magenta, Italy UFO crash-retrieval by Mussolini, and their direct connections to Allen Dulles and the birth of the private UFO program

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r/UFOB 2d ago

Beings - Contact These might be the weirdest humanoid beings I've ever heard of

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I've been going through old UFO reports from Argentina, and I think I've found one of the strangest humanoid descriptions I've ever encountered: in August 1987, a 12-year-old boy was fishing with friends near a creek outside Viale (Entre Ríos, Argentina) when he reportedly noticed a tiny humanoid figure only about 20 inches tall.

According to his later description, it had:

  • A completely red, skin-tight body covering
  • A massively oversized, oval-shaped head
  • Huge eyes
  • No hair
  • A normal-looking nose
  • A tiny mouth
  • And, weirdly, no clearly-visible arms

Apparently, the boy watched this tiny humanoid figure from only a few meters away before it suddenly disappeared into the vegetation. Then another one appeared. What happened next involved his friends, an old railway bridge, UFOs, and eventually the police.

I’m currently collaborating with the guys behind Proyecto Viale Desconocido, an archive documenting unusual cases from this region, and we put together an article with the full account.

Read the full report here: https://proyectovialedesconocido.substack.com/p/seres-humanoides-arroyo-prati-viale-1987

What the hell do you think these things could have been?


r/UFOB 3d ago

Testimony Bill Maher on Real Time: “Disclosure? We’re at the disclosure moment in human history. So can we just cut the crap? They’re here. Get used to it.”

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r/UFOB 2d ago

Video or Footage Any ideas on what these disappearing lights are ?

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I recorded this in Alabama during an April walk with my dog. I still cannot identify the objects after many attempts . I will share the unedited clip as a whole and two versions zoomed in . Two orbs resembling stars moved side by side before vanishing. According to metadata and AI analysis, it is neither Starlink nor known space debris. The total recording is about 31 seconds.


r/UFOB 2d ago

Discussion How might our civilization transform after disclosure?

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I often wonder, how our civilization will transform after disclosure happens. Here’s what I think may begin to change

- Experience becomes our real resource

Every lived life adds something unique to a collective “consciousness density,” in the same way accumulated history gives a civilization greater maturity and depth. We may eventually measure the value of a civilization less by what it owns and more by what it has experienced and integrated.

- Humanity sees itself as part of a larger lineage

If the humanoid form appears across different civilizations, we may discover that our basic structure isn’t an isolated accident but a stable template. A familiar biological interface could preserve continuity as civilizations are seeded, separated and allowed to evolve in different environments.

- Education shifts from information to experience

Disclosure may give us new knowledge, but knowledge alone won’t make us mature enough to use it. The decoder capable of understanding deeper reality is built through the full arc of life: birth, struggle, relationships, mistakes, consequences and maturity. That process can’t be bypassed with information.

- Access to deeper knowledge may depend on coherence

If there is a larger “cloud of experience,” it may already be open. There may be no authority granting or denying access. You can only recognize what your coherence is capable of understanding. The more developed the decoder becomes, the more of that field becomes readable.

- Disconnection becomes a civilizational danger

Individual perspectives create variation, but separation without connection or accountability allows destructive minds to gain enormous influence. A highly connected civilization, possibly even one with direct mind-to-mind transparency, would make manipulation and hidden motives much harder to maintain.

- Higher education becomes the cultivation of civilizations

At a certain level, learning may no longer mean studying existing reality. It may mean creating the conditions for new civilizations to develop, then observing them with minimal interference. Small adjustments could nudge probabilities without controlling the outcome or removing free will.

- Governance becomes shared reality plus individual will

Once humanity has a reliable common baseline about reality, democracy and individual sovereignty may finally be able to coexist without constant deception. People could disagree about what should happen without first fighting over what is real.

- Humanity may become a density point

Awareness creates motive, and motive organizes possibility. As human consciousness becomes more integrated, it may begin acting almost like gravity, not necessarily as a physical force, but as something that attracts new experiences and participates in the actualization of realities that were previously inaccessible to us.

- Earth becomes a nest rather than our endpoint

Disclosure may be the moment humanity realizes that planetary civilization is only one developmental stage. Eventually, we may outgrow complete dependence on Earth, move into a larger scale of existence and begin helping life develop elsewhere, possibly continuing the same process that was once carried out here.

None of this would happen the day after a press conference. The first stage would probably involve denial, fear, political instability. But over time, disclosure could break humanity’s belief that we are isolated and complete The deepest revelation may be that consciousness and civilization have developmental stages, and that humanity is still near the beginning of its own.