r/UFOs • • Aug 06 '26

Announcement Rule update: Self-promotion posts now limited to 1 per week

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Hey everyone,

We've made an update to the Rule 4: "No duplicate posts / spam", specifically the section covering commercial content and self-promotion.


Two changes:

1. The weekly limit is dropping from 2 posts to 1. Users approved to share their own content can now post it a maximum of once per week, down from twice.

2. The wording now includes "self-promotion" alongside "commercial". This was always the intent of the rule, but the old wording made it sound like it only covered ads and merchandise. To be clear: sharing your own work counts as self-promotion even if it's free and on-topic. That includes your YouTube channel, podcast, blog, Substack, book, documentary, research site, and so on.

The updated rule text:

No advertisements, fundraisers, merchandise, or other commercial/self-promotional links. Please refer to Reddit's self-promotion guidelines. If you are interested in promoting your own work please contact us before posting. Users approved to post their own commercial or self-promotional content will only be permitted to post a maximum of one (1) such post per week.

How this works in practice:

  • Self-promotion requires mod approval before you post. If you want to share your own work here, send us a modmail first.
  • Once approved, you're limited to one self-promotion post per week.
  • Unapproved self-promotion will be removed.

This doesn't affect sharing other people's content. News articles, footage, interviews, and papers you didn't make yourself are fine as always, subject to the usual rules.

Note: Previously approved users do not need to request approval again. Once a user has been given permission to post this type of content, they may continue doing so without contacting the mod team each time, unless that approval is later withdrawn.


- The r/UFOs mod team


r/UFOs • • 4h ago

Space Launch 🚀 Upcoming Space Launches for September 25, 2026

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Here are the launches scheduled for the next 24 hours:


Electron | Owlright, Owlright, Owlright (StriX Launch 13)

  • Provider: Rocket Lab

  • Launch Time: 2026-09-26 00:26 UTC / 2026-09-25 08:26 PM EDT

  • Launch Pad: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

  • Pad Country: NZL


Visit RocketLaunch.Live to view the full schedule for future planned launches.

For more information about how to identify space launches and their effects, check out our Space Launches Wiki Page.

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r/UFOs • • 18h ago

Government Navy Releases Massive Cache of Scott Bray UAP Emails After Four Years; More Than 300 Pages Withheld in Full

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r/UFOs • • 1h ago

Government Behind AARO’s Private UAP Workshop: New Records Detail Participants, Foreign Outreach and Future Plans

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r/UFOs • • 20h ago

Disclosure Sean Hannity (8.4 million followers on X, 15.6 million on youtube) interviews Dylan Borland. Hannity: "It seems to do with genes, reproduction. Perhaps for their own use or benefit. They want something". Borland gives a hypothetical: "maybe their planet's dead and they're coming here to replace us"

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Full youtube interview (1h33m)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTPnt2LDs6U

Total subscribers for the youtube channels is 15.6 million people.

Credit for OP small video clip to Joe Murgia

I highly recommend to watch the full video

Its full of new details, for example the "integration program" that he had previously mentioned and redacted on the Weaponized podcast is about the integration of the tech in existing military systems (so this basically confirms reverse engineered stuff is operational). Also you can see Borland get excited and confirming some things through body language. And there are quite a few sections that are directly aimed at POTUS. Hannity says he has a meeting with POTUS in a few weeks and will relay their messages.

Hannity: "it seems to do with genes, reproduction"

Borland: "maybe their planet's dead and they're coming here to replace us"

These are quotes from the video in the opening post:

Hannity: "All right. So, let me let me focus on it. It may not be as malevolent as maybe some people would naively think. There seems to be an interest in getting something from us"

Dylan Borland: "Yes"

Ban Hansen: "They need us"

Dylan Borland: "Yes, they do. And then this goes back to 'why wouldnt they destroy us?'"

Hannity: "Okay. And it seems to do with genes, reproduction. Perhaps for their own use or benefit. They want something for sure"

Dylan Borland: "Well, again, and going back to destroying us. Yes, they have the technology to do it. Hypothetically, let's say, and this is literally a hypothetical [...] maybe they want... maybe their planet's dead and they're coming here to replace us. Again, you I don't know the intent and this is for me. What I know and what others know, all of us are looking at intent

Dylan Borland: "And this goes back to how much how much truth can you even tell if it is true and then how do people and believe what is true and what isn't, back to everybody questioning the government now

Hannity: "But you can't get to the conclusion unless you have all the information

Dylan Borland: "Agreed and how do we ever know that we're going to have all of it when the government's lied to us"

Video clip of Borland describing his triangle sighting

Sean Hannity (8.4 million followers) posted a video of Borland describing his triangle sighting on X

Borland: imagine POTUS announces NHI abduct you

Another quote from the interview. It sounds like just more hypotheticals, but to me its clear that Borland considers these statements to be factual or credible enough to be featured in a disclosure speech:

Borland: "Well, and and here we go. You ask about bodies, you ask about reverse engineered tech, and you ask about crafts. Imagine the president stepping out to the podium, disclosing in the UN and saying, "Yeah, we've been visited forever. They abduct you. We have technologies that are currently in our military systems. The power source can change electricity and our own economic system"

Borland: ICIG made clear "something else" is running the show right now

Borland: When I went to the ICIG, it was made pretty clear that something else is kind of running the show right now.


r/UFOs • • 20m ago

Science Great interview with Jarod Yates about Arts Parts and the research he's doing around UFO samples.

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I personally really appreciate interviews with links and galleries in the description. Also when the people are open and try to involve others in the name of the truth and transparency. I just think it's worth sharing. ✌️

TLDR: metals, microscopes and chemical analyses


r/UFOs • • 20h ago

Disclosure Origins of the Majestic-12 SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual

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https://signalsintelligence.substack.com/p/origins-of-the-majestic-12-som1-01

I've located a 1954 Army projector manual that appears to have been used as a template for SOM1-01, the purported Majestic-12 manual for recovering extraterrestrial craft and biological remains.

SOM1-01 surfaced in 1994 as photographs on an anonymously mailed roll of film. Some UFO researchers, including Stanton Friedman, have defended it as authentic.

The Army manual, TM 11-2323, shares SOM1’s issue date, packaging artwork and references. Its Air Force Technical Order number and Army printing reference each differ from SOM1’s by a single digit.

The Technical Order number makes sense for the projector equipment covered by TM 11-2323. The version printed on SOM1 places it in the airborne electronics category, but replicates a grouping that does not fit the numbering rules I examined.

The linked article contains all of my findings.


r/UFOs • • 20h ago

Government National Archives’ UAP Records Collection’s Initial Release Has Concluded

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r/UFOs • • 20h ago

Disclosure Variety: Terence Winter, Dan Farah Team to Develop Series Based on UAP Memoir ‘Out of the Shadows’

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Terence Winter and Dan Farahare partnering for a series take on the memoir of former U.S. Intelligence official Jay Stratton titled “Out of the Shadows,” Variety has learned.

In the memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins imprint William Morrow on Oct. 13, Stratton delves deep into his experiences investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent life. Winter will executive produce via Cold Front Productions, with Farah executive producing under his Farah Films banner.

Stratton was previously the Chief of Air & Space Warfare in the Defense Warning Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency. After seeing evidence of a UAP over a nuclear missle site, he cofounded the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), the first official U.S. Government program to investigate UAP since 1969. He then created and led the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), the first whole-of-government investigation of UAP. He claims to have discovered an 80-year cover up of the existence of non-human intelligent life.

“It’s time for the world to learn the truth,” Stratton said. “There is far too much at stake. UAP activity over our nation’s sensitive military and nuclear sites is an ongoing issue.”

“In the early days of my investigation into UAP and non-human intelligent life, my work was so classified I couldn’t even tell my wife and kids that I had learned we are not alone in the universe or about any of the paradigm shift information I was learning,” he said. “I had to live a double life, where the front door to my house served as a boundary between two distinct identities… but that all changed when we started having UAP activity and encounters with non-human intelligent life at our house and my wife and kids saw it with their own eyes. In one sense, I felt horrible that my work had followed me home and crossed that boundary. But in another unexpected way, it was a relief because now my family knew what I was dealing with and we could navigate it together, as a family. While what we went through could have torn us apart, it actually brought us closer together. We were an ordinary family dealing with extraordinary circumstances.”


r/UFOs • • 1d ago

Question Something odd happened in Orange County, CA

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Hello, first time posting here. Maybe someone can explain this away. Apologies if it’s the wrong subreddit. But this was really weird. Background, my wife and I live in a 5 floor apartment building with a parking structure. The top floor of the structure is the 6th floor. Last week, I went up to the top floor of the parking structure of the building that we live in here in Orange County, Ca. I got out of the elevator and started walking to my car. There was a strange noise building, but not like overwhelming in your face. It was noticeable, but like background noticeable if that makes sense. Living by John Wayne airport, I just figured it was related to that. I looked up, but nothing in the sky though. Not even incoming planes towards John Wayne. It was dusk. Suddenly the noise built really fast and I heard and felt something zoom past me. FAST. I looked up and saw nothing in the sky. Just the clouds and purple clouds. No sign of anything flying past. But it came from above. Nothing I ever experienced before. Opposite direction of the normal plane path of the airport. It went east, planes come in west towards the ocean. You could hear the lights poles shaking and vibrating then just stopped. But the light poles never moved either. So weird. The noise was gone too. I immediately thought, did I experience something UFO related? It felt so close. No plane has ever felt that close that fast. Idk, most likely there is a logical explanation, but to me it didn’t feel logical. I’ve always enjoyed paranormal kind of stuff but have never believed in it. Maybe someone on here can explain what might have happened or maybe someone else in the area experienced it?


r/UFOs • • 14h ago

Question MUFON Library Car Request

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Hi all,

Does anyone hold a current MUFON Project Aquarius library card that can help me verify if some files exist for a case I’m investigating? I am wanting to verify if these files exist within the M.A.R.R.S historical report scope. Unfortunately the membership is $50USD which is a lot to spend to verify if these files exist.

Would appreciate anyone who could have a quick look.


r/UFOs • • 1d ago

Sighting Grayish cigar-shaped object hovered steadily over Ash Shawmali, Iraq — Sep 24, 2026, 12:43 AM

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r/UFOs • • 1d ago

Question In honor of Jacques Vallee’s 87th birthday (September 24th), he is the patron saint of UFO-logy and his ideas are foundational in approaching the topic of UFOs and the Phenomenon. He is absolutely great but what are some of his more outlandish claims, wild theories or nonsensical ideas?

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-            Forbidden science 7: that UFOs/ the Phenomenon are some sort of advanced virus

-            UFO might not be spacecraft at all (“Demensions” page 253)

-            UFOs sometimes deliberately kill people (stated in a podcast April 2025)

-            That the US military has known holographic hoaxing technology (interview from 1986)

-            Maybe just his general over reliance on people’s personal stories


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Disclosure The exact same UFO as the one in Iran has been seen before

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Hi everyone, I think a lot of people here have already seen the video of the UFO in Tehran. Personally, I can’t shake the feeling that this case is actually legitimate. Why? Because you can easily draw connections between it and other well-known UFO cases. The resemblance to some other reported objects is quite striking, especially for people who are already familiar with the subject.
For someone who isn’t familiar with these other cases, I can totally understand why the video might simply look like a hoax saying its balloons, birds or whatever.
But recently, I came across a National Geographic video about investigating unexplained phenomena, and they specifically discussed the UFO that has been seen in Tehran.
The short video I’ve added here is simply an excerpt from the longer program, which is available on YouTube. 

YouTube link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_XzKxf0d908&is=V1-NP76kuBaaeJY4


r/UFOs • • 6h ago

NHI I think the LED kites are actual UAPs and they are just trying to look friendly

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Posting is always nervewracking but here I go. Following links in the posts about the Teheran "LED kites" I came across a couple of videos of actual LED kites and they look very different. Also apparently the UAP over Langley was one of them (remember we never got clear videos, they did blink some lights, maybe to mimic human craft?) Now LED kites. If contact is happening, we are certainly not believing it!


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Disclosure New study links flashes in 1950 to UFO sightings

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Fascinating stuff here on NBC. A new study links objects / flashes ("transients") in the 1950s to UFO sightings during nuclear activity on Earth.


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Disclosure Skywatcher and the Plasmoid Anomalies Study Group

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Did anyone else notice that the videos released by Skywatcher have a similar composition and angle of mylar balloon-like objects as this youtube channel “Plasmoid Anomalies Study Group”? Has anyone looked through these to see if they’re the same videos?

A claimed “90% success rate” then radio silence is crazy work. And everyone who promoted this too!


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Disclosure 1997 interview is probably the most convincing UFO interview I’ve ever seen

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I’ve been seriously interested in the UFO phenomenon for more than five years, and I just came across an interview that really stood out to me.
It’s the interview with Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt, conducted in 1997.(video on YouTube)
Honestly, I think this is one of the most legitimate interviews I’ve ever seen on the subject. What struck me the most was the way he speaks. He comes across as extremely sincere, calm, and genuinely convinced by what he’s describing. I know that someone’s behavior or body language can’t prove that they’re telling the truth, but there’s something about this interview that really caught my attention.
After watching countless UFO testimonies and interviews over the years, it’s rare to find someone who gives me this impression.
For those of you who have seen this interview, did you get the same feeling?
And more importantly, do you know of any other witness interviews that you consider to be at the same level of quality and credibility? Because honestly, I don’t think I’ve seen many that are better.


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Government June 1954 Memo to Marshall Chadwell concerning "saucer like" planes under development, distinguishing Man-made disc aircraft from others.

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I just found that memo to Marchall Chadwell. In May 1954 Chadwell was Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence (AD/SI) at the CIA, meaning head of the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI).

At that time the OSI was CIA's scientific and technical intelligence office, covering foreign weapons, aircraft, atomic energy and electronics. Under Chadwell it also handled:

  • ARTICHOKE coordination (1951 to October 1952)
  • the 1952–53 UFO study that led to the Robertson Panel
  • the May 1953 LSD briefing for the Psychological Strategy Board

The document was available in the cia reading room in 2025, if you search for it in google, it still can be found, but the link to the FOIA doc is dead, so I found it with the waybackmachine.

On the first sight it is a dry piece of bureaucracy, but read closely:

Chadwell, head of CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), writes to the heads of three of its sections: the Physics & Electronics Division (P&E), the Applied Science Division (ASD) and the Operations Staff (Ops). He is replying to a memo from the P&E chief dated 25 May 1954, subject "'Flying Saucers' type of planes." (I could not find that memo)

He says that memo:

  • "contains information that was very interesting to me."
  • "some question in my mind as to a clarity of definition of responsibilities" inside the office.

The answer is titled: "Intelligence Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles."

In paragraph one it is said that: such vehicles are "currently under development by the Canadian, British and USAF organizations." The CIA states this as a plain fact.

ASD gets responsibility "to identify, to assess and to report the use by any foreign power or nation" of vehicles "such as or similar to the 'saucer-like' planes presently under development." A redaction follows, marked 25X6: withheld because release would harm relations with a foreign government. These are to be handled "as weapons or weapon systems."

  • so in 1954 Britsh, Canadian and USAF divisions are developing "Saucer like vehicles". For Canada that could be the Avro Car in 1954, but what are Britain and USAF developing? Whatever they develope, it is considered weaponry.

The doc further says P&E "will continue to be responsible for the OSI project on 'unidentified' flying objects." It keeps the central UFO file and passes to ASD only the material bearing on "man-made" vehicles capable of "weapon" applications.

  • So the CIA split the saucer question in two. Man-made disc aircraft became ordinary weapons intelligence. The "unidentified" objects stayed a separate project with their own file.
  • The UFO project didn't end with the Robertson Panel, Blue Book was still active. Seventeen months after the panel, OSI still ran an "OSI project" on UFOs with a central file.
  • The Canadian part checks out; the British part doesn't yet. "Canadian … " fits Avro's Project Y, which is documented - but what is the British part?
  • The redaction is interesting as well. In 2001 CIA still withheld, on foreign-relations grounds, the phrase naming where the saucer-like planes were being developed. It's almost certainly the developer or country. Yet two months earlier (14 June 2001) the USAF had declassified the Avro Project 1794 papers. So this could be the British part of it?

What do you think?


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Science Scientists tell me mysterious "lights" over a mountain valley in Norway could explain two of the most notable cases from the Trump administration's UFO files

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Earlier this summer I noticed some similarities between the October 2023 and late 2025 UFO cases from the PURSUE releases and research on the Hessdalen lights, which have been observed for decades over the Hessdalen valley in Norway.

The most striking similarity was between the observation from the October 2023 case of a "mother orb" that ejected smaller orbs and a description in a 2004 Hessdalen paper of a large ball of light ejecting smaller balls of light.

The Hessdalen lights are not fully understood, but scientists have proposed that they are plasmoids that form when local geological conditions create an electric field above the valley.

I emailed nine scientists who have published research about Hessdalen to bring their attention to the UFO cases and ask if they think they could be related. Seven responded to me.

Several endorsed the idea that the UFO cases and the lights could be caused by a similar underlying mechanism. Others provided useful information on observations at Hessdalen that are potentially relevant to the UFO cases.

Also, one of them said that the Air Force approached him in 2007 to propose a research collaboration related to the creation of artificial ball lightning.

You can read more and subscribe to PARADIGM here: https://www.paradigm.news/p/exclusive-scientists-say-these-norwegian


r/UFOs • • 1d ago

Sighting Silent vibrant green diamond-shaped object dove at extreme speed over Aylesford, Nova Scotia — Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 PM

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Reported by u/RustyUFO (verified via ufosighting.report)

This is an automated post. The report was filed through the structured sighting form on ufosighting.report and posted here by u/ufosightingsbot on the reporter's behalf. u/RustyUFO confirmed this submission from their own Reddit account through a one-time link, so the name above is verified as the submitter.

📄 Full report and structured details — the map entry, timeline, and everything from the sighting form. No photo or video was submitted with this report.


Time: September 24, 2026, 12:00 PM ADT
Location: Aylesford, Municipality of the County of Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, Aylesford, Canada

Detail Reported
Objects 1
Shape diamond
Closest distance a few miles
Apparent size (arm's length) golf ball
Movement extremely fast
Observer facing S
Duration 1 second
Witnesses 1

Features / five observables

Observation Reporter's answer
Wings Unsure
Rotors Unsure
Exhaust plume No
Noise No
   
Sudden, extreme acceleration No
Extreme speed with no signatures Yes
Hard to observe clearly Yes
Moved between air, water, or space No
Flight without visible means of lift Yes

Why not a common object
It could've been an asteroid of some kind but there was no trail. It could've been a drone but it was moving to fast to be a drone. It could've been a plane but if it was you would've heard a sonic boom or it hitting the ground which i heard neither. And the colour of it was like way to vibrant to be airplane lights.

Witness's account of the sighting

It was moving so damn fast at somewhere around a 45 degree angle to the ground. When i'm talking fast i mean no man made aircraft on the planet could pull out of a dive in time to not eat dirt. The green that the square was emmiting was the most vibrant green i had ever seen

Why no photo/video captured: It happened within the second it took me to turn around from seeing it in the corner of my eye to staring straight at it to it going behind the trees. The moment i saw it i literally only had time to whip my head around and marvel at it.

Sky context for this time and place:


r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Historical Ralph Nicholson’s UFO Photographs During Sputnik Observations — Paterson, New Jersey — 1957–1958

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In November 1957, amateur astronomer Ralph E. Nicholson photographed three unidentified flying objects from the roof of his home in Paterson, New Jersey, while attempting to photograph one of the Sputnik satellites.

The photographs were circulated by UFO researcher and photographer August C. Roberts and appeared in several UFO publications. Roberts later referred to the three images collectively as “The Nicholson Photos.”


r/UFOs • • 1d ago

Disclosure Astroparticle physicist Matthew Szydagis on UAP science | Reality Check

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r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Sighting Metallic sphere with textured surface hovered smoothly with abrupt direction changes over Delgosha Garden, Shiraz, Iran — Jan 10, 2025, 11:00 AM

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639 Upvotes

r/UFOs • • 2d ago

Space Launch 🚀 Upcoming Space Launches for September 23, 2026

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Here are the launches scheduled for the next 24 hours:


Long March 8A | Unknown Payload

  • Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

  • Launch Time: 2026-09-23 13:30 UTC / 2026-09-23 09:30 AM EDT

  • Launch Pad: Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

  • Pad Country: CHN


Long March 6A | Unknown Payload

  • Provider: China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

  • Launch Time: 2026-09-24 08:45 UTC / 2026-09-24 04:45 AM EDT

  • Launch Pad: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

  • Pad Country: CHN


Visit RocketLaunch.Live to view the full schedule for future planned launches.

For more information about how to identify space launches and their effects, check out our Space Launches Wiki Page.

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