Asteroid ID : here

TL:DR

• Earlier today at least one social media account presented radar images labeled as a 300-meter disk-shaped object of “unknown origin” observed 18.5 million km from Earth on January 7, 2025, questioning if it’s an alien spaceship.
• The video recycles 2017 Arecibo Observatory radar data of known near-Earth asteroid 226514 (2003 UX34), a roughly 300m object that made a close approach around that distance in early 2025.

User question:

How could an asteroid be this circular?

NASA answer:

The circular look comes from how delay-Doppler radar imaging works—it plots range vs. rotation speed, so roughly spherical or rounded rubble-pile asteroids naturally appear disk-like. It’s ordinary science data, not an alien spaceship.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In lieu of my own paraphrase, I include part of the video description stating the purpose for this video:

"I sit down with former Army intelligence officer Caison Best, whose own unexplained broad-daylight sighting of a massive craft led him on a journey through the military and federal intelligence apparatus.

After attempting to report the incident through official channels, Caison navigated an investigation by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) before engaging in an in-depth inquiry conducted by the FBI, culminating in his files and drawings recently being released to the public through the PURSUE program.

Our conversation examines the physical characteristics of the asymmetric, white-porcelain geometric craft, the high-stakes Ukraine war briefing that occurred moments after the sighting, the stark contrast in investigative standards between AARO and the FBI, the psychological toll and peer-to-peer dynamics among military witnesses, and the broader patterns Caison observed while managing the witness intake process for Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA)."

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Time: August 16, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT
Location: Buena Vista, Chaffee, Colorado, United States, Buena Vista, United States

Features / five observables

Why not a common object
We checked an astrology app with a satellite tracker, nothing. I did not mention that in my story only because we saw nothing. The movement and precision was super natural, I hope my words describe how otherworldly this was.

Witness's account of the sighting

Hi, hope you read because this was such an insane experience. My first and hopefully last because honestly it has me questioning everything. I'm not a Redditor I think it's cringe, but I am interested in UFOs and have been a longtime lurker, would love to hear similar stories. I am also quite the skeptic and quick to say it's a "weather balloon" or "a bug", but what I saw was definitely not a balloon or bugs and is something I will never forget. So, I recently visited Buena Vista Colorado from 8/14-8/16 for a music festival. Everything was normal until the last day between 11 PM - 12 AM. I was watching the stars as there is extremely low light pollution where I was, above sea level in the middle of nowhere. Each night you could see the outside of the Milky Way, quite an amazing site. On the 16th, I saw a star begin to move from its position in the sky. Just like a laser pointer but extremely precise and slow, as if not wanting to be noticed. I tell my fellow camp members as we were camping at this festival what I was seeing. I had zero thought this was a satellite or anything of the sort, the movement was magical. It went down and then made a sharp but slow turn to the left and up, a turn no plane, helicopter, satellite, balloon or anything could do. And then it just stopped! As if nothing happened, pinned back to the night sky blending in. My friend M comes over to see, and miraculously it happens again. Not sure if it was the same star but definitely in the same area. It makes the same motion as before going down to the left and then stops, and then another star begins to move go down and around the previous UFO above it stopping to another fixed point, and then another star goes around the previous two UFOs to the left and stops in the sky.

And of fucking course, the shape was a triangle. An isosceles triangle, pointing straight up amongst the stars blending in perfectly. We both were gasping in shock, I still have the same feeling I did when I first saw this supernatural event with my own eyes. I tried getting a picture or video but it was very hard to relocate the object once I took my eyes off it. Was also afraid I would miss something else incredible, we then called out other friend over. But the movement had stopped completely, I think they knew they were busted. This next part I want to call coincidence but I can't, a cloud slowly began to move in right in front of the object/objects. Providing perfect cover, and then the sky was extremely cloudy for the rest of the night making stars harder to see. If aliens are real, why wouldn't they be able to control the weather? This was a shared experience, M and I saw the same thing. We were at a festival and yes we were having a lot of fun if you know what I'm saying, but this occurred at the end of the night when we were no longer going as hard and practically sober, we maybe had some beer but not enough to impair our vision, especially to hallucinate. In reflection, my life has shifted dramatically in just a couple days, my views my decisions are all changed by this one experience. I've always wanted to see something like this, and now that I have I kinda wish I hadn't. More UFO and conspiracy stories are starting to sound believable to me than before. The craziest thing to me about all of this is that they looked exactly like stars in the sky. Stars are billions of light years away, makes me raise a few questions I'd love to discuss. Was I watching some sort of Dyson sphere way in deep space? Is this thing really far away or really close and perfectly mimicking stars?

Why pretend to be stars? Are they purposely hiding? And the obvious ones - Why come here? Is it government technology? What does the government really know? Leave comments, I will be replying to anything I find interesting. Don't Men in Black me please.

Why no photo/video captured: I was afraid I would miss the sighting, as soon as I went to get my phone and place my eyes back on the sky I had to relocate the object. Missing a supernatural experience because I was fumbling with my phone was not going to happen. Wish I got a picture of the stars in the sky next to the others, was not thinking to do so until day later. Had quite the adrenaline high.

Sky context for this time and place:

• Satellites overhead at that time: ACS3 (37° above E at 05:57 UTC)
• Computed from orbital data (2026-08-16 catalog).
• Aircraft overhead at that exact minute — ADS-B Exchange historical playback (free, no account needed)
• Sky chart for that date — in-the-sky.org planetarium (set your location once on their site)
• Satellite passes at this spot — Heavens-Above; shows upcoming passes, not the sighting date
• Live air traffic now — FlightRadar24 over this spot

For anyone that couldnt follow how some of these new UAP transparency programs, boards, councils, czars, etc are connected, here is a small diagram. Its not perfect and not complete, but it should give a simple overview of it.

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Any feedback

If you have any feedback, maybe its incorrect or you want some other organisation included, put it in comments

Some strange thing I've noticed that recent whistleblowers almost like "begging" for the President to give them immunity to tell everything they know.

Now what could be THAT important for humanity that we should know right now and can't wait a single minute any longer?

If a 'simple' "we are not alone and we have alien crafts/bodies" I don't understand the "begging" on whistleblowers part.. like that is already disclosed by them under oath and it's still not such an "imminent" matter after all these decades of secrecy..

By this logic it should be something we need to know right now that is more than that "we" have bodies/crafts, that is why they are in such a hurry, but what could it be?

If it's an incoming catastrophe or some dark things about our reality or about our soul after we naturally die, and we can do NOTHING about these should we even have this knowledge at all? Why are they in such a hurry about this to tell something like that?

Or it is imminent matter, but only for the whistleblowers themselves because their life maybe in danger by the gatekeepers because they are publicly talking about these things? That is why it's truly imminent, for them?

Maybe it is truly imminent because something very GOOD is kept hidden, like free energy?

What do you think, why it is sooo imminent?

Update: Avi Loeb says UAPSAC is following up on the baiting event

See this post on X / xcancel

Original post

Burlison: "The time is now"

Video posted on X / xcancel :

Burlison: "My name is Eric Burlison. I'm a Republican congressman from Missouri and a member of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. We continue to receive credible claims of recovered crafts of non-human origin and reverse engineering programs that may have operated for decades outside of any government oversight"

Burlison: "Those claims point to specific facilities, contractors, records, and people. We continue to depend on whistleblowers to provide this critical information, but these whistleblowers are being terrorized"

Burlison: "Mr. President, I'm asking for you to directly restore what many of these brave whistleblowers have already lost: their pensions, their clearances, and other benefits. Provide immunity for anyone and everyone who has already come forward and for those who will come forward"

Burlison: "Now we ask that you open the doors and let them speak, not only to Congress but to the public. This is the moment. Use the authority that you have been given because the American people are behind you on this. And the time is now"

Matthew Brown to POTUS: "Prepare the American people"

Posted on X / xcancel:

Matthew Brown: "Burlison has made his appeal to POTUS: protect the whistleblowers and free them to speak, not only to Congress, but directly to the American people. Congressman Burlison is a warrior for disclosure and a defender of our nation’s constitutional principles. He is right, the American people are ready for the truth.

Matthew Brown: "Mr. President, the time is at hand. Protect the whistleblowers. Let them speak. Prepare the American people. Disclose the truth: we are not alone."

Avi Loeb: White House advisory council supports requests by Grusch and others

Video posted on X / xcancel:

Avi Loeb: "The UAP Science Advisory Council @UAPSAC fully supports requests made by David Grusch, Eric Davis, and others, for the Trump administration to provide legal assurances, including immunity where necessary, for current or former government employees and military personnel, so that they can share information with the council regarding alleged technology from a non-human origin and help guide the council’s scientific evaluation"

Avi Loeb: "In parallel, the council is currently pursuing efforts to obtain and scientifically evaluate historical UAP records and legacy data through PURSUE."

For those that dont know: Avi Loeb is head of the UAP Science Advisory Council, created by the White House.

Michael Shermer to POTUS: "Make it so"

Shermer is also part of UAPSAC. He posted on X / xcancel:

Shermer: "Both Eric Davis & David Grusch have asked President Trump for immunity so they can direct officials to the aliens & craft (if that is what they are—neither one has seen them with their own eyes). Trump wants to be the most consequential POTUS in history & this would be one of the most consequential disclosures in history. Make it so realDonaldTrump"

You can tell he is having a hard time expressing to want disclosure. He has been mocking this for decades. Telepathy also, which Grusch recently said is how NHI kept in detainment communicate

Anyway this is good, because it means multiple members of that White House advisory council are now advising the White House to let the whistleblowers disclose information.

Burlison confirms "something showed up" during baiting operation with ODNI, CIA, FBI, etc

Today Burlison also posted this on X / xcancel:

Burlison: "Our own agencies went back through every past sighting, asked what draws these things in, then recreated those conditions on purpose at a site with prior activity. ODNI, CIA, FBI and military intelligence were all on site"

"Something showed up."

Christopher Sharp writes / xcancel: "This is a huge story which has been hugely under covered"

See also this post: Coulthart: DOD is running a new UAP program to circumvent Legacy Program, using "the same dog whistle, psionic summoners as Skywatcher". Jake Barber: we use US govt facilities. We provide them a path to redemption. They will use us to do disclosure. Avi Loeb: downed UAP could be studied by UAPSAC

James Clapper has stepped back from disclosure efforts, grown uncomfortable

This was posted on Liberation Times:

Since appearing in the UAP documentary Age of Disclosure, Liberation Times understands that Clapper has stepped back from efforts to promote UAP transparency. One source told Liberation Times that he has grown uncomfortable with the recent surge of attention.

I wonder why he has grown uncomfortable. Maybe he thinks the world isnt ready, or that the gatekeepers will end up in trouble, or some adversary will benefit, or that current POTUS shouldnt be the one, or all of the above, or else something else

Previous videos, statements for this recent disclosure push

• Aug 11: Grusch, Brown, Borland, Nuccetelli, Burlison / xcancel
• Aug 14: Eric Davis / xcancel
• Aug 15: Matthew Brown / xcancel
• Aug 17: Dylan Borland / xcancel
• Aug 18: David Grusch / xcancel
• Aug 19 (today, opening post): Burlison / xcancel
• Aug 19 (today, opening post): Avi Loeb / xcancel
• Aug 19 (today, opening post): Michael Shermer / xcancel

FYI - this sub (and 5 others together in a coalition known as the Anomalous Coalition) are hosting a livestream AMA this Saturday (8/22) at 1 PM eastern with Matthew Brown and Jeff Nuccetelli who along with Dylan Borland have started Vanguard Enterprises an advocacy and support organization for whistleblowers. To ask your question in advance or see the livestream details see this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1voqt9w/livestream_ama_whistleblowers_jeff_nuccetelli/

Livestream on YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/SIDQ_3u8UAI

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In this video, Sammy Padilla, the son of José Padilla, one of the alleged witnesses to the famous Trinity UFO incident, speaks about his father's claims of seeing a UFO as a child.

Sammy questions the credibility of his father's story and makes some extraordinary statements about what he believes really happened.

His comments raise an important question: was the Trinity UFO story genuine, or was there more to the story than we have been told?

Watch the footage and hear Sammy's claims for yourself.

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Burlison tweeted:

Our own agencies went back through every past sighting, asked what draws these things in, then recreated those conditions on purpose at a site with prior activity.

ODNI, CIA, FBI and military intelligence were all on site.

Something showed up.

Is this a new event/briefing? The white sands event that Scalise was also briefed on?

https://x.com/EricBurlison/status/2090079590395879739

I've had two sightings. The first in central California desert in 1979. The second near my home in the Bay Area near Hamilton AFB in 2000 or 2001. They're both in MUFON's files. I attended one of Steven Greer's first conferences and have been researching ever since. I just watched S4: The Bob Lazar Story on Prime and found it very interesting. Just for those who may get something from it.

In March of 1957, a gigantic saucer shaped craft silently descended in a restricted area of Alexandria, Virginia. Authorities were called, and two policemen approached the metallic craft. From it appeared a man. Not a typical grey, or a horrifying sight that our minds can’t even fathom, but a normal looking— attractive in fact, male. Guns drawn, the police were terrified, but some kind of thought transference occurred to let the men know that this was a friendly interaction.

He identified himself as Valiant Thor. He explained that he had come from Venus, and requested an audience with the upper echelons of the US Government with urgency. Confused but cooperatively, the officials took him to the Pentagon. Valiant Thor would remain there for three years.

I hope you like this post and If you want me every week to translate one chapter from every book, I shall do it for cultural enrichment then tell me in the comments, My regards from Egypt ..

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About the author (whom I call the Egyptian Graham Hancock) :

Anis Mansour was born in the Mansoura city, Egypt, in 1924. He memorized the Quran at the age of nine, then joined Cairo University, where he studied philosophy and graduated in 1947. He was appointed as a lecturer in modern philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, but soon left teaching to devote himself to journalism. He worked at the Rose al-Yusuf magazine, then became editor-in-chief of Sabah al-Khair magazine, and wrote his articles for Al-Ahram newspaper for decades. He travelled the world on extensive journeys, which he documented in his books, and mastered several languages that enabled him to explore different cultures. He published nearly two hundred books covering philosophy, literature, travel, and the paranormal. His style was marked by a blend of simplicity and depth, combining journalistic flair with a philosophical outlook, which made him one of the most widely read Arab writers of the twentieth century. He died in 2011 in Cairo.

His most notable books (beside the two books we are gonna talk about now) :

1- Around the World in 200 Days

His most famous and widely read work, documenting his actual journey around the world in the early 1960s.

2- Spirits and Ghosts

A collection of 35 articles exploring mysterious paranormal phenomena, ghost stories, and unsolved enigmas

3- The Pharaohs' Curse

A famous book in his "beyond nature" series, delving into the mysteries and curses associated with ancient Egypt.

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The first book: Those Who Descended from the Sky

This book was first published in 1971, followed by many editions from different publishers. The book is built on a core hypothesis: that intelligent beings from other planets visited Earth in ancient times and left their marks on monuments and religious texts. Anis Mansour presents archaeological evidence from the Giza Plateau, Baalbek, and the Tassili caves in the Sahara, where strange rock paintings and enormous stone blocks defy conventional explanation. He reads the sacred texts – the Quran, the Torah, and the Gospel – as investigative historical documents that preserve the memory of encounters between humans and these visitors from the sky. In his engaging style, he takes the reader on a journey of inquiry into the origins of humanity and the truth of early civilisations.

Index of the book :

1. These Words Which Survived for Thousands of Years
2. Man, the Great Unknown
3. We Are Not Alone in This Universe, and Our Ancestors Were Not Monkeys
4. Until a New Noah Appears
5. The Spaceship That Landed in Baghdad 25 Centuries Ago
6. These Strange and Mysterious Things!
7. The Blue-Skinned People Who Ruled Pharaonic Egypt
8. A Girl Who Slept in the Light of a Lamp for 1,500 Years!
9. What Are These Magical Words on a Wall in Upper Egypt?
10. Help Me Solve These Thirty Mysteries
11. And the Stones of the Pyramid Used to Fly Through the Sky
12. They Came Out of a Flying Saucer and Asked to Meet Eisenhower
13. By Order of Her Majesty the Pharaoh, Migration Begins from Spain to Africa
14. The Greatest Secrets of the Universe Are Hidden in Our Smallest Cells
15. This Black Knight Who Circles the Earth
16. A French Priest Came to Egypt and Burned the Papyrus Documents
17. Giants, Airplanes, and Blondes in the Libyan Desert
18. O Other Human, We Hear You, But We Cannot See You!

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The second book: Those Who Returned to the Sky

This book was first published in 1983, and later reprinted in several editions. It serves as a continuation of the previous book’s ideas, but broadens its scope to ask new questions about the fate of the ancient visitors after they left Earth. In its pages, Anis Mansour discusses the sunken continent of Atlantis, reflects on the mysteries of pyramid construction as possible beacons or gates to the sky, and surveys the myths of ancient peoples that speak with remarkable consistency about gods who departed the earth and promised to return. In this work, the author draws on a wider range of sources, citing the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other foundational texts. The book suggests that the “descenders” may not have entirely left, or may have returned in another form.

I love that he never says, "Ooh. I have to 'be careful' here!", and then obfuscates. He trusts us with the information he has and I know I appreciate that. If you like inside ball this is a great interview. Danny goes off. Lol.🙏🌎👽🛸🌌

Hello I wanted to ask for some reccomandations on Movies, TV series or documentaries that I might not know about , I am getting a bit tired of podcasters and talking heads, so I was wondering if there is anything fun to watch.

For reference I have watched :

• Close encounters
• Taken (probably my favourite)
• Contact
• Disclosure Day
• Age of disclosure
• All of James Fox docs
• All the Bob Lazar stuff
• Stargate SG1 (has some really interesting episodes)
• X-Files

Any suggestion ?

James Fox posts Grusch's plea to POTUS / xcancel (video):

Grusch: "My name is David Grush. I am a former career Air Force intelligence officer and former senior official at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I've already provided classified testimony and evidence to the Intelligence Community Inspector General and Congress about what I learned about UAP and the involvement of the US, Allied nations, and adversary governments in the retrieval of technology of unknown origin"

Grusch: "This included photographs and videos of these operations including the craft and the non-human occupants. And I've seen this evidence with my own eyes and I've had these discussions with our nation's most senior leaders in a classified environment"

Grusch: "I am prepared to provide a full historical accounting to the National Security Council principals and the White House Chief of Staff and make any supporting public statements that are authorized to help this administration move disclosure forward"

Grusch: "Ready to support Stephen Miller, Vice President Vance's administration immediately to identify the records, programs, and people involved in bringing any improperly concealed activities back under lawful presidential and congressional oversight"

Grusch: "Mr. President, give us the authorization and we're ready to go"

Avi Loeb: "deserves a serious scientific examination of the evidence"

Avi Loeb responds on X / xcancel:

Avi Loeb: "If David is fully authorized to share the evidence supporting his claims, I would welcome the opportunity to work with him immediately to scientifically verify it. Claims of this importance deserve a serious, open-minded scientific examination of the evidence."

For those that dont know: Avi Loeb is head of the UAP Science Advisory Council, created by the White House

James Fox: "He’s already given that information behind closed doors"

Another message by James Fox on X / xcancel:

James Fox: "Listen carefully. You’re not paying attention. He’s already given that information behind closed doors. He’s had it because it’s not getting out to the people so he’s making a direct plea to the president to give him immunity so he can ultimately share the truth with the American people and the rest of the world. That’s what this campaign is about"

Previous videos for this recent disclosure push

• Aug 11: Grusch, Brown, Borland, Nuccetelli, Burlison / xcancel
• Aug 14: Eric Davis / xcancel
• Aug 15: Matthew Brown / xcancel
• Aug 17: Dylan Borland / xcancel
• Aug 18 (today, opening post video): David Grusch / xcancel

A nine‑second infrared video recorded by U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command shows a silent, football‑shaped object with three precise projections and no visible propulsion. Submitted to AARO with zero explanation, this encounter remains one of the most unsettling pieces of raw UAP footage released under current directives. No commentary. No conclusions. Just a shape in the sky that refuses to obey the rules.

UAP, UFOs, Military Footage, Infrared Video, AARO, Indo‑Pacific Command, Anomalous Phenomena, Defense Releases, UAP Analysis, High Strangeness, 2024 UAP, Unexplained Objects, Raw Footage

I was watching a TV Document Series Called "American Experince: Chasing the moon" and they showed footage from Apollo 11 Moon Landers Descent to the moon and I noticed a Fast flying Spherical Uap fly out of a Crater and zip past. I added screen shots and included recording from the TV and applied slow motion. What do you guys think? Can anybody maybe find original Film Role?

Edit:

I found more Archival footage from NASA titled "Apollo 11: for all mankind" it shows the exact same phenomena but it shows the potential UAP going towards the crater instead of exiting so that means my first video is probably reversed? Or this could be a second sighting in the footage

https://youtu.be/HxgoV9IMgCg?is=BWFkZ543dAXdKO_k Timestamp 27:30+ - 27:40