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Donald Trump has ordered the release of hundreds of classified files relating to sightings of unidentified flying objects, including a total of 169 items in the first tranche. Among these were State Department cables, FBI documents, and NASA transcripts pertaining to crewed space flights.

Donald Trump has ordered the release of hundreds of classified files on unidentified flying objects, which includes 169 items such as State Department cables and NASA transcripts. FBI director Kash Patel stated, “The FBI is proud to stand alongside President Trump and our interagency partners in this landmark release of UAP records.”

A total of 169 items, including State Department cables, FBI documents, and NASA transcripts, have been released in the first tranche of files regarding unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon has confirmed it will release additional documents on a rolling basis.

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Donald Trump has ordered the release of hundreds of never-before-seen classified files relating to the sighting of unidentified flying objects.

Among the disclosures was footage of a triangular-shaped UFO and testimonies from US citizens recounting their own alleged close encounters and sightings of strange objects in the sky.

A picture taken from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 shows three dots in a triangular formation, which analysts believe to be a physical object floating in the sky.

A total of 169 items have been released in the first tranche, including State Department cables, FBI documents and NASA transcripts of crewed flights into space.

One report released by the US Department of War is an account by a drone pilot who claimed he had experienced ‘weird dreams’ and had struggled to sleep after spotting an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) in September 2023.

He claimed to have seen an object for five to 10 seconds which was smaller than a Boeing 737 and about the length of ‘one or two blackhawk helicopters’, flying at around 5,000ft.

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Trump orders release of classified UFO files including witness testimonies
A picture of a suspected UAP released in the tranche of files (Picture: US Department of War)

He added that the suspected UFO sighting preceded a storm, which bizarrely caused outages to all the TVs in the hotel where he was staying.

In addition, the crew of Apollo 11, which delivered the first astronauts to the moon in 1969, reported three unusual sightings.

These were: an object sighted on their way to the moon; flashes of light inside the cabin; and a further sighting on the return trip of a bright light, which the crew assumed to be a laser.

Also released is a transcript of a conversation between the crew of Gemini 7 and the Manned Flight Center in Houston about a ‘bogey’ or unknown aircraft, as well as a debris field.

Astronauts James ‘Jim’ Lovell and Frank Borman claimed they saw ‘very, very many […] hundreds of little particles’ within four miles of their spacecraft.

Another document revealed that in October 2001, Georgia claimed Russia had violated its airspace and bombed the Kodori Gorge.

Russia denied the allegations, suggesting the attack could have been the work of UFOs.

Also included in the release were a number of images, including one taken in 2024, appearing to show a football-shaped object with three projections.

But despite these unexplained sightings, a 2024 report found no evidence that any government had confirmed its recognition of alien technology.

Congress members ordered the Pentagon to disclose files in 2022 after military officials reported encounters with unknown aircraft.

It has confirmed it will release additional documents on a rolling basis.

FBI director Kash Patel said of the latest disclosure: ‘The FBI is proud to stand alongside President Trump and our interagency partners in this landmark release of UAP records.

‘For the first time in history, the American people have unfettered access to declassified government files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon – a level of transparency that no prior administration has delivered.

UFO DISCLOSURE Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) The Trump administration released declassified UAP files featuring Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 photos and transcripts as part of the president's transparency initiative. https://www.war.gov/UFO/
An FBI graphic made from eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, (Picture: U.S. Department of War)

‘The FBI remains committed to supporting this rolling declassification effort with the same rigor and integrity we bring to every national security matter. As these files continue to be reviewed and released, the American people can be confident that their security remains our highest priority.’

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the release of the files would ensure ‘maximum transparency’ on information held by the department.

‘Today’s release is the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort,’ she said.

Meanwhile, in a post to Truth Social, Donald Trump said of the release: ‘In an effort for complete and maximum transparency, it was my honour to direct my administration to identify and provide government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.

‘Have fun and enjoy!’

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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents

A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.

Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.

She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.

In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.

“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”

She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.

McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”

She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”

At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.

McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.

Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.

The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.

But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.

The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.

Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.

It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.

Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.

“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”

She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/virginia-mccullough-arrest-video-murder-parents-chelmsford-b2627978.html

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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.

The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.

During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.

Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.

Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.

Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.

Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.

The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.

At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.

“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.

It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.

The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.

Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.

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