Why is the new media so obsessed with angels and demons? Christian paranormal podcasters explain sudden shift



We are living in a time of great change. The mainstream media is dying, but podcasts exploring angels and demons are exploding. Perhaps we are entering a new age of enlightenment, but this time, society is turning toward the supernatural, not away from it.

The Robertson brothers recently invited podcasters Luke Rodgers and Nate Henry to the show to discuss this shift in public interest.

Rodgers and Henry are the hosts of “Blurry Creatures” — a highly popular Christian paranormal podcast that uses scripture to explore concepts like Bigfoot, aliens and UFOs, giants, and really any mysterious creature that hasn’t been proven to exist yet.

Christians, Rodgers says, must have a way to evaluate “the weird stuff,” especially now that the weird stuff is moving out of the fringe and into the mainstream. The fact that Congress just had a hearing to discuss “alleged secret government investigations into UFOs” is proof of this.

And now that big names in the new media, like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, who claims he was mauled by a demon, and Shawn Ryan, among others, are talking about strange phenomena, more and more people are beginning to reject a materialistic worldview. What once was “relegated to wearing tinfoil hats” is becoming a subject of widespread interest.

Al Robertson, who’s been “studying and teaching and preaching the Bible for most of [his] adult life,” says that Christians shouldn’t be shocked or even that skeptical when strange otherworldly events occur.

So much of scripture, he says, involves "another realm and people on this Earth who are interacting back and forth” with that realm.

To believers who scoff at things like UFOs/UAPs and other kinds of preternatural events, he says, “Well, the Bible is full of it. ... What’s so shocking about things we can’t really explain or describe?”

Henry, invoking Dr. Michael Heiser, Old Testament scholar and Christian author whose studies on the supernatural culminated in his oft-cited book “The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible,” adds that “the average seminarian graduate only gets two classes on angels and demons.”

And by “classes,” he doesn’t mean courses but rather “lectures,” meaning that the average seminary student spends only two to three hours learning about supernatural entities in the entire time it takes to earn their degree.

This lack of education doesn’t make sense when you consider that “our Bible has got a lot of weird stuff in it,” says Rodgers, noting that angels, beings that are “not earthborn ... by definition should be extraterrestrial.”

Henry and Rodgers then share what they’ve learned about God, humanity, and the supernatural from their years of dissecting strange phenomena. Jase also shares his one experience that made him “revisit [his] thoughts on modern-day demon possession.”

To hear these harrowing stories, watch the episode above.

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Key US Air Force base shut down over drone activity as aerospace CEO unveils chilling theory on wave of mysterious drones



Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton was shut down for four hours on late Friday night and early Saturday morning because small unmanned aerial systems were spotted in the vicinity, WJW reported.

'My belief is that they're trying to smell something on the ground — gas leaks, radioactive material, whatever.'

Robert Purtiman — a spokesman for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — stated on Sunday, "Installation leadership has determined none of the incursions impacted our base, our residents, our facilities, or our assets. We're taking all of the appropriate measures to safeguard the installation and all of our residents."

The drone incident in Ohio highlights growing concerns over the barrage of drone activity in the Northeast, especially in New Jersey.

The Joint Staff confirmed that there had been sightings of drones over two military installations in New Jersey but said it is "not a new issue."

"We have had confirmed sightings at Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle," a spokesperson for the Joint Staff said. "This is not a new issue for us. We've had to deal with drone incursions over our bases for quite a time now. It's something that we routinely respond to in each and every case when reporting is cited."

In New York, Stewart International Airport was shut down for an hour around 9:40 p.m. on Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration reported that a drone was spotted in the vicinity. The airport reopened its runways roughly an hour later.

"There were no impacts to flight operations during the closure," said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Stewart Airport, located about 60 miles north of New York City.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) called on Congress to take action on the drone situation because it "has gone too far."

Hochul petitioned Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act, which would strengthen the FAA's oversight of drones and grant more authority to state and local law enforcement agencies to investigate drone activity.

Hochul also implored the New York State Intelligence Center to investigate drone sighting incidents.

"Extending these powers to New York State and our peers is essential," Hochul proclaimed. "Until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden administration must step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people."

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also called for Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act.

"It is critical, as we all have said for a number of years, that we need from Congress additional authorities to address the drone situation," Mayorkas stated. "Our authorities currently are limited, and they are set to expire. We need them extended and expanded."

"We want state and local authorities to also have the ability to counter growing activity under federal supervision," Mayorkas said.

On Sunday, Mayorkas told “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, "There's no question that people are seeing drones. I want to assure the American public that we in the federal government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings."

"Some of those drone sightings are, in fact, drones. Some are manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones," Mayorkas continued. "But there's no question that drones are being sighted."

As Blaze News reported on Monday, two men were arrested for allegedly operating a drone "dangerously close" to Boston's Logan Airport.

The FBI said its tip line has received 5,000 tips, but fewer than 100 have led to leads “deemed worthy of further investigative activity.”

The DHS, DOD, FAA, and FBI said they have been unable to determine who is responsible for flying the drones but noted that there is no indication that the drones are being operated by America's enemies with nefarious ambitions. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said during a Wednesday press briefing there was “no evidence these are coming from a foreign entity or the work of an adversary.

"We're going to continue to monitor what is happening," Singh continued. "But you know, at no point were our installations threatened when this activity was occurring."

Singh stressed, "These are not U.S. military drones. Again, this is being investigated by local law enforcement."

As Blaze News reported on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump said the government "knows what is happening" with mysterious drones.

When asked about the wave of suspicious drone sightings across the country, Trump declared, "The government knows what is happening."

"Our military knows where they took off from," Trump proclaimed. "They know where it came from and where it went."

Trump told reporters at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, "For some reason they don’t want to comment … for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. Something strange is going on. For some reason they don’t want to tell the people."

The CEO of an aerospace company revealed a chilling theory about the potential mission of the drones. John Ferguson is the CEO of Saxon Aerospace — a drone manufacturer in Kansas. Ferguson claimed that the drones could be searching for "gas leaks" or "radioactive material" in a TikTok post that has gone viral.

Ferguson noted that the drones "have no reason to be in the air at night," unless they are looking for "bad guys or a victim."

"My own guess is that these drones are not nefarious in intent. If they are, they are, but I doubt it," he said. "But if they are drones, the only reason why they would be flying, and flying that low, is because they're trying to smell something on the ground. That's it."

Ferguson stated, "My belief is that they're trying to smell something on the ground — gas leaks, radioactive material, whatever."

In his assessment, he said drones currently don't have the capabilities to fly from the Atlantic Ocean to the interior of the East Coast, as some have suggested.

Prolific podcaster Joe Rogan said of Ferguson's theory, "This is the first video about these drones that has got me genuinely concerned."

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DOD has captured alien craft? Bombshell report from congressional whistleblower alleges decades-long cover-up



Congressional lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee held a joint subcommittee hearing Wednesday to discuss alleged secret government investigations into UFOs — now called unidentified anomalous phenomena — and the knowledge obtained from the inquiry.

During the hearing, Michael Shellenberger, a publisher of the Twitter Files and co-founder of the "Public" newsletter on Substack, shared some shocking claims from a government whistleblower about an alleged special access program at the Defense Department called "Immaculate Constellation. "

Shellenberger noted in his written testimony that existing and former government officials have notified members of Congress that notwithstanding suggestions to the contrary, the Pentagon has kept a "significant body of information about UAPs, including military intelligence databases that have evidence of their existence as physical craft," under wraps.

One unnamed whistleblower submitted a report to Congress through the UAP whistleblower mechanisms established by the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, detailing the nature of the alleged Immaculate Constellation project.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) published that report this week.

Shellenberger acknowledged that DOD spokesperson Susan Gough indicated last month the "Department of Defense has no record, present or historical" of Immaculate Constellation.

However, the journalist said that a source subsequently notified him that Immaculate Constellation, apparently created after the New York Times reported in 2017 on a similar program called the Advance Aerospace Threat Identification Program, is "controlled by the White House and executed and administered by the DOD to avoid compliance with Title 10 of the United States Code."

A former intelligence community official reportedly told Shellenberger's Public that Immaculate Constellation "is run out of SEC DEF," adding, "They don't want to acknowledge it's real."

'The F-22 pilot noted multiple metallic orbs — slightly smaller than a sedan — hovering in place.'

The whistleblower report alleges at the outset that "elements of the U.S. Executive Branch have conspired to prevent the U.S. Legislative Branch from exercising its lawful powers of governance with respect to the UAP, [Technologies of Unknown Origin], and [Non-Human Intelligence] issues."

While the allegation of a criminal conspiracy might itself be newsworthy, what is more interesting is the conclusion drawn in the report:

The official disclosure of the existence of Non-Human Intelligences (NHIs) and their presence on Earth is a pivotal moment in human history. The nature of this information is of such incomparable relevance to the public good that it demands to be shared. Some may object and say that disclosure at this time poses too many risks. To them it must be said that we will never be able to predict how individuals, families, communities, and nations will react to revelations of such magnitude. Moving forward, we must guard against the lure of authoritarian solution justified by expediency and appeals to national security. The Good in humanity will always triumph through time, and it is in moments of crisis that our capacities for achieving the extraordinary are discovered. Be not afraid.

According to the whistleblower, who Shellenberger has indicated "discovered this material accidentally," Immaculate Constellation collects high-quality imagery intelligence on UAPs in low earth orbit, the upper atmosphere, maritime environments, and at military aviation altitude and "acts as a nexus for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence on the activities, capabilities, and locations of anomalous aerospace threats that originate from foreign or unidentified sources."

The report details multiple alleged UFO sightings, some of which were apparently captured by high-powered sensors and others that were documented by military personnel.

There is, for instance, allegedly infrared and full-motion video daytime footage of roughly 12 "metallic orbs skimming the ocean surface at high speed before dispersing in multiple directions" and maneuvering with rapidity and agility "incompatible with known aerospace vehicles."

The metallic orbs apparently flew in a tight "cuboid" formation, creating the illusion of a cube at a distance. The sensor platform reportedly lost sight of most of the UAPs when they ascended and accelerated.

UAPs reported from 1991 to 2022 in one alleged Immaculate Constellation dataset varied in shape and size and included spheres, saucers, ovals, arrowheads, and irregular or organic shapes. The report catalogues various descriptions and properties recorded for each of the various vehicle types.

The whistleblower indicated that Immaculate Constellation also has plenty of intelligence obtained from human sources as well. One account highlighted in the report claims that metallic orbs intercepted an F-22 fighter jet that was conducting a routine surveillance and control mission.

"An F-22 fighter observed multiple UAP contacts at mission-altitude," said the report. "Moving to intercept, the F-22 pilot noted multiple metallic orbs — slightly smaller than a sedan — hovering in place. Upon vectoring towards the UAPs, a smaller formation of the metallic orbs accelerated at rapid speed towards the F-22, which was unable to establish radar locks on the presumed-hostile UAPs."

The report noted that when the fighter jet attempted to flee, it was "intercepted and boxed in by approximately 3-6 UAPs. One UAP maneuvered in proximity (>12 meters) to the area directly starboard of the cockpit; there the UAP established a rigid spatial relationship with the F-22, maintaining its exact position and orientation parallel with the F-22's cockpit despite multiple evasive rolls and maneuvers."

Ultimately, the orbs reportedly escorted the fighter jet out of the mission area.

According to the whistleblower report, other countries are aware of UAP events and take them deadly seriously, especially since the unidentified objects have an apparent tendency to fly over sensitive military and intelligence facilities.

Earlier this year, the DOD's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office released a report claiming no governmental evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

"All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification," said the report. "Although not the focus of this report, it is worthwhile to note that all official foreign UAP investigatory efforts to date have reached the same general conclusions as USG investigations."

The AARO report noted, "Although many UAP reports remain unsolved or unidentified, AARO assesses that if more and better quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena."

Shellenberger said that the American government "appears to know significantly more about UAPs than it is revealing. But even those who believe the U.S. government has revealed all that it knows should have no objection to congressional demands for greater transparency."

Mace emphasized, "The American people have every right to know what is really happening."

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Pentagon says no evidence of aliens or covert government UFO programs, but are developing 'Gremlin' system to track UAPs



The Pentagon said there is no evidence of extraterrestrial lifeforms visiting Earth and claimed the U.S. government does not conduct covert operations with recovered UFO spacecraft.

The Pentagon released a 63-page report on Friday titled: "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)."

Unidentified anomalous phenomena is a relatively new term for UFOs that includes mysterious objects from the sky, underwater, or in space.

The Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office examined data regarding UAPs from 1945 through October 2023.

"To date, AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of a UAP represented off-world technology or the existence of a classified program that had not been properly reported to Congress," the report read.

"Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena," the AARO declared. "Although many UAP reports remain unsolved, AARO assesses that if additional, quality data were available, most of these cases also could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena."

The Pentagon addressed suspicions that the U.S. government has covert programs attempting to reverse-engineer spacecraft from other worlds.

Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement, "AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation; or resolve to a disestablished program."

Ryder added that the "rigorous analytic and scientific" investigation found no evidence that the "U.S. government and various contractors have recovered and are hiding off-world technology and biological materials."

The AARO plans to publish a second volume of the report later this year that covers information gathered after November 2023, and will include interviews with current and former U.S. government personnel regarding UAPs.

There have been government reports and congressional testimony that hint at the possibility of UFOs existing.

In June 2021, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence published its preliminary assessment of UAPs that said 143 UAP encounters were unexplainable.

In the same month, the head of NASA said he didn't think we were alone in the universe.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said he believed UAPs to be "something that is out of our galaxy" and claimed that the government "covered up" Roswell.

Last July, a former intelligence official claimed the government is hiding a top-secret program focused on reverse-engineering a spacecraft from another planet.

The UFO whistleblower is David Grusch – a former national reconnaissance officer representative for the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Task Force, a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and an Air Force veteran.

On Friday, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office announced that it is developing a portable surveillance system to detect and document UAPs.

Tim Phillips – the acting director of the AARO – told the DefenseScoop website, "We're working with some of the government labs, such as the Department of Energy labs, and we have a great partner with Georgia Tech. And what we’re doing is developing a deployable, configurable sensor suite that we can put in Pelican cases. We’re going to be able to pull it to the field to do a long-term [collection]."

Phillips noted that the new sensors will utilize "hyperspectral surveillance" to attempt to capture UAP encounters, which contain information across a wide range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum.

"If we have a national security site and there are objects being reported that trend within restricted airspace, or within a maritime range, or in the proximity of one of our spaceships, we need to understand what that is," Phillips continued. "And so that’s why we’re developing a sensor capability that we can deploy in reaction to reports."

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Did Tucker Carlson actually just admit to believing in aliens?



When Alex Stein asked Tucker Carlson his thoughts on extraterrestrial life, Tucker’s response didn’t disappoint.

“I believe it was Ronald Reagan who said that it would take an existential outside threat in order to bring all the nations together, so I think that they might be using aliens as a psyop to scare us. What is your opinion on aliens?” Stein asked.

“Well the whole topic has certainly been frequently used as a psyop; that's documented,” explained Tucker, referencing Project Blue Book and other similar operations.

“There's absolutely no question. The U.S. government used this story as a distraction and has lied a great deal about it,” he continued. “The question is — at the core, underneath all of that, underneath all the lying — is there something there?”

“Yes, there is, and it's been written about since we have a written record; it's been written about for thousands of years, and so, yes, there is something that is not human flying around. It is an independent intelligence. Is it extraterrestrial? I don’t think that it is ... but whatever it is, it is real.”

Tucker’s evidence comes from personally knowing some of the whistleblowers who have brought forth allegations.

“The U.S. government absolutely does have physical evidence of this (whatever it is), and we know that from 10 separate whistleblowers, a couple of whom I know,” he told Stein.

“The third thing we know is the U.S. government — the Congress specifically, including the Senate Majority Leader, including the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and including two different committee chairmen — [is] making extraordinary efforts to prevent the UAP disclosure Act of 2023 from taking effect, from preventing the act from releasing the information to the public. They're trying really, really hard, and that's true, and I know that for a fact,” Tucker assured Stein.

“Of course, there are psyops, and they're going in many different directions. It's hard to know exactly what they are, but the core facts are: this is real; the U.S. government does have physical evidence; and they are still trying to hide it from us.”

While he’s not sure what all this adds up to, he is confident in saying that whatever the truth is, “there's dark stuff at the center of the story.”

To hear Tucker’s full analysis and his insight regarding Operation Paperclip, the moon landing, and more NASA conspiracies, watch the clip below.


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Allie Beth Stuckey: 'Is it biblically possible for there to be aliens?'



Everyone is talking about aliens right now.

Are they real and the government just isn’t telling us? Or is this the art of distraction at its finest?

Former intelligence agent David Grusch testified in Congress last week that aliens are indeed real, and the government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomena and non-human biological remains.

But Allie Beth Stuckey isn’t buying it.

Given that the powers that be are experts in fear-mongering, Allie wouldn’t be surprised if this is just another tactic to incite panic.

“Like, we already have the threat of nuclear war. We’re already being run by a kakistocracy ... they’re already plaguing our lives and disturbing our peace,” she continues, adding, aliens are “just one more thing that could kill us, that could disturb us, that could conquer us.”

Given the dire state of the world, Allie jokes that she isn’t convinced an alien takeover would be worse than our current governing powers anyway.

But, the reality is, “I don’t believe in aliens,” she says.

She then projects a world map that displays where all UAP sightings have occurred, and nearly all of them are in the United States, which Allie assumes is a product of Hollywood cinema and folklore.

“If this [was] really a phenomenon everywhere, then I think we would probably see more reports than we currently do,” she explains.

Further, Allie believes extraterrestrial life is not a theological possibility.

As a Christian, she does not deny the existence of angels and demons, but she “doesn’t see any room in scripture for some kind of creature that is not described in the first couple chapters of Genesis that is made in the image of God but is not human.”

Since God made humans with the ability to rationalize and reason, Allie can’t see how aliens, who supposedly are just as sentient, can be placed into “a biblical category.”

Further, “you would have to fit these non-human but apparently rational and civilization-building beings into that plan of redemption, and I just don’t think we see that,” she says.


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Stanford professor says aliens are 100% already on Earth living among us and have 'been here a long time'



A Stanford University professor and renowned ufologist confidently declared that not only have aliens visited Earth, but they have "been here a long time."

Dr. Garry Nolan, a professor of pathology at Stanford’s medical school, made the eyebrow-raising assertations during a recent conference SALT iConnections conference held in New York City titled: "The Pentagon, Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Crashed UFOs."

When asked if he believes that aliens have visited Earth, Nolan declared, "I think you can go a step further — it hasn’t just visited, it’s been here a long time, and it’s still here."

Nolan proclaimed, "Aliens have been on Earth for a long time and are still here."

"I think it's an advanced form of intelligence that using some kind of intermediaries," Nolan claimed. "It's not that they walk among us wearing a skin suit. You're going to put something there that I think of as an intelligence test."

He likened aliens visiting in UFOs to when South American native tribes first saw Spanish ships, saying that they didn't understand what they were seeing.

"They're showing up and saying who amongst you are intelligent enough to realize what it is you're looking at," Nolan said at the conference. "Can you see what's in front of you for what it really is? Can you see the anomalous data point?"

"You know, people talk about the 'Wow! signal' looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. The 'Wow! signal' is that people see it on an almost regular basis, that’s the communication that’s already here,” Nolan told moderator Alex Klokus.

The New York Post said, "The 'Wow! signal' refers to a burst of radio waves captured from outer space in 1977. The signal was 30 times stronger than typical background radiation and prompted some astronomers to believe it may have come from aliens looking for other signs of life. Scientists have since said the sound may have come naturally from a pair of comets."

When asked to quantify how confident he is about aliens visiting Earth, Nolan fired back, "100%."

"And that’s not just my opinion," he added. "The National Defense Authorization Act passed last year, signed by [President] Biden in December. Thirty pages of that is the establishment of an unidentified aerial phenomena office."

The Stanford professor defended his belief in extraterrestrials on our planet by saying, "You just need to look at what your government is doing right now about it."

"Dr. Nolan said that office, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which has 25 people working in it, had been tasked with 'collecting the information across all of the U.S. Department of Defense, intelligence offices, and collation of that into a uniform format for the very first time, and provision of that then to Congress,'" according to news.com.au.

He stated, "The most recent [whistle-blowing incident that] happened was just last weekend, and it created quite a hornet’s nest in Washington."

Nolan said 12 U.S. senators have requested more information regarding UFOs.

The ufologist alleged that experts are working on reverse engineering unknown crashed crafts from outer space.

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NASA administrator reacts to new UFO report: 'Are we alone? Personally, I don't think we are.'



The U.S. intelligence report on UFOs released Friday created more questions than it answered. Of the nearly 150 U.S. government-reported UFO sightings over a nearly 17-year period, only one was explainable, the report said.

According to the head of NASA, the government document both raises domestic security concerns and leads him to believe humans are not alone in the universe.

What's happening?

The long-awaited unclassified report on the government's preliminary assessment on UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena, from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence hit the internet Friday. It revealed that the U.S. government reported 144 incidents of UAPs spotted between November 2004 and March 2021. However, 143 of those UAPs remain unexplainable. The only identified incident was a large, deflating balloon.

NASA Director Bill Nelson, a former Florida Democratic senator and onetime astronaut, spoke to CNN about the report Monday and revealed both his national security concerns and his belief that we are not alone in the universe.

Nelson, who has read both the classified and unclassified reports, told CNN that he has told NASA scientists to research possible explanations "from a scientific point of view" and report back.

He added that he "talked to the Navy pilots" who saw the UAPs and "that there is clearly something there."

"It may not necessarily be an extraterrestrial, but if it is a technology that some of our adversaries have, then we better be concerned," Nelson said.

Though he said he does not believe the United States' foreign adversaries can create the technologies the government is looking into, the nation had better be prepared.

Then Nelson addressed the one-eyed, one-horned giant purple people eater in the room.

He said that the government does not "think" U.S. adversaries have this technology, but "remember the universe is so large, we have a program in NASA called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." So far, he added, "we don't have any receipt of communication from something that's intelligent."

But he acknowledged that "people are hungry to know" what's going on with UFOs, adding that "ever since 'Star Trek,' you know people are yearning to find out what's out there in the cosmos."

Then he made an admission that truly caught people's attention.

"Are we alone?" the NASA chief asked. "Personally, I don't think we are."

"The universe is so big," he explained. "Thirteen and a half billion years ago is when the universe started. That's pretty big. But people are hungry for this kind of information, and we're going to keep searching."

And the search for life on other planets is gaining, he told CNN.

"We are already finding examples of other planets around other suns," Nelson said. "When we launch the James Webb telescope in November, it will peer back in time, almost to the beginning, and then we'll find additional information; we'll find more planets."

Long-awaited US intelligence report on UAPs says 143 out of 144 UFO sightings are unexplainable



The highly-anticipated U.S. intelligence report on UFOs was released on Friday, but offered few answers to sightings of mysterious unidentified aerial phenomena.

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public its preliminary assessment on UAPs, which revealed the U.S. government reported 144 incidents of UFOs spotted between November 2004 to March 2021. However, 143 UAPs remain unexplainable. The ODNI could only identify one UAP, which was determined to be a large, deflating balloon.

There were 18 incidents in which witnesses said they saw "unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics."

The ODNI characterized the UAP incidents into five categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall "other" bin.

"Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion," the report reads. "In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings."

"In a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics," the report states. "These observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis."

"The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP," the report says. "The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) considered a range of information on UAP described in U.S. military and IC (Intelligence Community) reporting, but because the reporting lacked sufficient specificity, ultimately recognized that a unique, tailored reporting process was required to provide sufficient data for analysis of UAP events."

"We quite frankly have a bit of work yet to do in order to truly assess and address the threat posed by UAP," a senior U.S official said Friday. "Not all UAP are the same thing."

"This report is an important first step in cataloging these incidents, but it is just a first step. The Defense Department and Intelligence Community have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the ranking member and former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said.

"We should approach these questions without preconceptions to encourage a thorough, systematized analysis of the potential national security and flight safety risks posed by unidentified aerial phenomena, whether they are the result of a foreign adversary, atmospheric or other aerial phenomena, space debris, or something else entirely," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said.

There is no definitive proof that the UFO sightings are aliens. Officials are concerned that the unidentified flying objects could be security threats from other countries.

"Today's rather inconclusive report only marks the beginning of efforts to understand and illuminate what is causing these risks to aviation in many areas around the country and the world," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said.

"We have no clear indications that there is any nonterrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us," a senior U.S. government official said. "We do not have any data that indicates that any of these unidentified air phenomena are part of a foreign collection program nor do we have any data that is indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary."

"It is critical that the United States maintain operations security and safety at DoD ranges," Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said in a memo. "To this end, it is equally critical that all U.S. military aircrews or government personnel report whenever aircraft or other devices interfere with military training. This includes the observation and reporting of UAPs."

"It's clear that we need to improve our capacity to further analyze remaining UAP observations, even as we accept that there are some limits to our capacity to characterize and understand some of the observations that we have," one official said.

Over the next three months, the Department of Defense will develop a new strategy for collecting and tracking information on UAPs.