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  {
    "id": "2b615ec65fec",
    "date": "2026-10-09T04:39:00+08:00",
    "title": "Pete Slattery posts his own video of lights filmed at Jaya Sanctuary, Australia, in September",
    "persons": [
      "Pete Slattery"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Original footage posted by the person who filmed it. The objects are not identified and the exact location is not confirmed. No credible sightings were found in Perth or WA.",
    "url": "https://x.com/PMSLATTERY/status/2108296339952160910",
    "source_label": "X · @PMSLATTERY",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:11:27+08:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "ded28b7a0aa8",
    "date": "2026-10-09T03:38:00+08:00",
    "title": "Brent Friedman stands by his claim that Herrington told him in 1981 he had seen aliens",
    "persons": [
      "Brent Friedman",
      "Bryce Zabel",
      "John Herrington"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "In a response video, Friedman and co-host Bryce Zabel answer Herrington's 'total BS' denial and say Friedman's account stands. It is one man's memory against another's, with no recording or documents.",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-0E8sbtNA",
    "source_label": "YouTube · Sound, Light & Frequency #34",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:11:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "herrington"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "46aa22484be2",
    "date": "2026-10-09T02:44:00+08:00",
    "title": "Skafish says a classified version of the whistleblower NDA waiver exists",
    "persons": [
      "Peter Skafish",
      "Marik von Rennenkampff",
      "John Greenewald Jr."
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Second-hand claim with no document published. The Black Vault says its pending FOIA request covers it.",
    "url": "https://x.com/_SolFoundation/status/2108267342794817662",
    "source_label": "X · @_SolFoundation (Sol Foundation discussion)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:11:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "house-uap-hearing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "f0ba8bbd1808",
    "date": "2026-10-09T02:00:00+08:00",
    "title": "RFK Jr. says a NASA scientist and special forces veterans told him they worked on UFO crash-retrieval teams",
    "persons": [
      "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.",
      "Anna Paulina Luna"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "On The Secretary Kennedy Podcast with Rep. Luna, Kennedy said a high-level NASA scientist and former Navy SEALs and Green Berets told him during the transition that they served on UFO crash-retrieval teams. No names, evidence or agency comment.",
    "url": "https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2108256115368804354",
    "source_label": "X · @SecKennedy (The Secretary Kennedy Podcast)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:11:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "crash-retrieval-claims"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "82accd663e4d",
    "date": "2026-10-08T06:09:00+08:00",
    "title": "Comer plans to restart the cancelled House UAP hearing",
    "persons": [
      "James Comer"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "House Oversight Chair James Comer said he plans to restart the cancelled UAP hearing after the November election, with Burlison, Luna and Burchett leading. No date or witness list has been set. (Confirmed that he said it.)",
    "url": "https://x.com/AskaPol_UAP/status/2107956396176158899",
    "source_label": "X · @AskaPol_UAP (interview)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "house-uap-hearing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "cb23fa5966f9",
    "date": "2026-10-08T05:42:00+08:00",
    "title": "Ex-Energy Secretary Herrington says unknown craft fly over US sites",
    "persons": [
      "John Herrington",
      "Jesse Michels"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Former Energy Secretary John Herrington says unknown craft fly over sensitive US military sites. He calls the story that he received an alien briefing 'total BS'.",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F7DHbSbgbQ",
    "source_label": "YouTube · American Alchemy (Jesse Michels)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "herrington"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "45c44f0f381a",
    "date": "2026-10-07",
    "title": "Canadian MP lodges written question Q-1526 on UAP briefings and the Sky Canada report",
    "persons": [
      "Branden Leslie"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "The question asks what Ottawa did on the report's 14 recommendations and which agencies got UAP briefings in 2026. Answer due 23 Nov 2026.",
    "url": "https://www.noscommunes.ca/written-questions/45-1/Q-1526",
    "source_label": "House of Commons of Canada",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:11:27+08:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "f755fa947e12",
    "date": "2026-10-07",
    "title": "Ryan Graves is now a member of Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council",
    "persons": [
      "Ryan Graves",
      "Avi Loeb",
      "Peter Diamandis"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "In an essay, council chair Avi Loeb lists Ryan Graves as a council member; PARADIGM first reported it. Loeb also says he urged XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis to fund a prize for proof of alien technology, which is not yet funded.",
    "url": "https://avi-loeb.medium.com/alien-technology-deserves-an-xprize-78473efb24b4",
    "source_label": "Medium · Avi Loeb (council chair)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "loeb-science-council"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "814dafc0ee80",
    "date": "2026-10-07",
    "title": "Knapp and Bigelow say DIA found the missing AAWSAP files",
    "persons": [
      "George Knapp",
      "Robert Bigelow"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "George Knapp and Robert Bigelow say the DIA has found the missing AAWSAP case files and will release them through PURSUE. Bigelow read a DIA letter dated 29 Sep that has not been published, and the DIA has not confirmed it.",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5uvuIn4ayE",
    "source_label": "YouTube · Bigelow Podcast Ep. 10",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "aawsap-files"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "004405c2c702",
    "date": "2026-10-07",
    "title": "Ex-CIA official pleads guilty to $194M fake-program fraud",
    "persons": [
      "David Rush"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "Former CIA official David Rush pleaded guilty to a $194M fraud that used a fake special access program. It is not a UAP case, but UAP commentators are citing it.",
    "url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-federal-employee-pleads-guilty-defrauding-federal-government-approximately-194",
    "source_label": "US Department of Justice",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "c1521bfd87bf",
    "date": "2026-10-07",
    "title": "Elizondo says he is working for the US government again",
    "persons": [
      "Luis Elizondo"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Lue Elizondo says he works for the US government again on UAP disclosure but will not name the role, and it is unconfirmed. He also called the UFO community a 'cesspool'.",
    "url": "https://podcastufo.com/789-lue-elizondo/",
    "source_label": "Podcast UFO #789",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "0e77527f7862",
    "date": "2026-10-06T01:32:00+08:00",
    "title": "AARO withholds all material on Rep. Luna's 5 cases",
    "persons": [
      "AARO",
      "John Greenewald Jr.",
      "Anna Paulina Luna"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "AARO's FOIA reply to The Black Vault says it holds more than video on Rep. Luna's five cases but withholds all of it as classified.",
    "url": "https://x.com/theblackvault/status/2107161919534870996",
    "source_label": "X · @theblackvault",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "house-uap-hearing"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "a3582d800a77",
    "date": "2026-10-06",
    "title": "Loeb council's first preprint says '480 mph' Pentagon video shows birds",
    "persons": [
      "Avi Loeb"
    ],
    "status": "mixed",
    "summary": "The UAP Science Advisory Council's first preprint argues the Pentagon 'six objects at 480 mph' video shows birds. The study exists; its finding is a hypothesis.",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.08692",
    "source_label": "arXiv",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "loeb-science-council"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "c759f072d72d",
    "date": "2026-10-05",
    "title": "LeoLabs' WA radar tracks Soviet satellite break-up",
    "persons": [
      "LeoLabs"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "LeoLabs' Western Australia radar saw the Soviet satellite Meteor 2-7 break up. This is space debris, not a UAP.",
    "url": "https://x.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/2107848541997834401",
    "source_label": "X · @LeoLabs_Space",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "62f6a8ac8a11",
    "date": "2026-10-03",
    "title": "Ex-Brazilian minister urges US to release Varginha files",
    "persons": [
      "Aldo Rebelo",
      "James Fox"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Former Brazilian minister Aldo Rebelo asks the US to release its 1996 Varginha files. James Fox says Congress asked the CIA and FBI about Varginha.",
    "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/world-news/ex-brazil-official-urges-us-to-release-varginha-ufo-crash-files-on-captured-alien/",
    "source_label": "New York Post",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00"
  },
  {
    "id": "bec0663f8b21",
    "date": "2026-10-02T12:24:00+08:00",
    "title": "WEAPONIZED podcast claims the US sometimes shoots down UAP",
    "persons": [
      "Jeremy Corbell",
      "George Knapp",
      "Chris Sharp"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Corbell, Knapp and Chris Sharp claim the US has shot down some UAP and ask whether Trump approved it. No evidence or official confirmation.",
    "url": "https://x.com/JeremyCorbell/status/2105876659165643036",
    "source_label": "X · @JeremyCorbell",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T16:23:34+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "crash-retrieval-claims"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "c15a5c9b63de",
    "date": "2026-10-02T00:01:00+08:00",
    "title": "Jay Stratton memoir out 13 Oct with crash-retrieval claims",
    "persons": [
      "Jay Stratton"
    ],
    "status": "mixed",
    "summary": "Jay Stratton's memoir comes out on 13 Oct with claims about a crash-retrieval program. The release date is confirmed; the content is a claim.",
    "url": "https://x.com/WmMorrowBooks/status/2105689463904985536",
    "source_label": "X · @WmMorrowBooks (publisher)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "crash-retrieval-claims"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "e06a4a8a1928",
    "date": "2026-10-02",
    "title": "Galileo Project publishes first three-site infrared tracking results",
    "persons": [
      "Avi Loeb"
    ],
    "status": "mixed",
    "summary": "The paper exists but is not peer reviewed. One week of data found nothing anomalous, and aircraft distances were within 5%.",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2610.06922",
    "source_label": "arXiv",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:11:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "loeb-science-council"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "ab46523fb43a",
    "date": "2026-10-02",
    "title": "Podesta confirms 2016 call but rejects Grusch's account",
    "persons": [
      "John Podesta",
      "David Grusch",
      "Tom DeLonge"
    ],
    "status": "mixed",
    "summary": "In an email to PARADIGM, John Podesta confirmed for the first time the 2016 call with Tom DeLonge, Gen. McCasland and Robert Weiss. He rejected Grusch's claim that he approved a campaign to prepare the public.",
    "url": "https://www.paradigm.news/p/exclusive-podesta-responds-to-gruschs",
    "source_label": "PARADIGM (Ben Schreckinger)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "david-grusch"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "grusch-burlison-exit",
    "date": "2026-10-02",
    "title": "Grusch has left Rep. Burlison's staff",
    "persons": [
      "David Grusch",
      "Eric Burlison"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "Grusch said on JRE #2560 that he left Rep. Eric Burlison's staff around Labor Day. Burlison spokesman Nate Lucas confirmed this to PARADIGM.",
    "url": "https://www.paradigm.news/p/exclusive-podesta-responds-to-gruschs",
    "source_label": "PARADIGM (Ben Schreckinger)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "david-grusch"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "ed8ef60d2148",
    "date": "2026-10-01T01:00:00+08:00",
    "title": "David Grusch on The Joe Rogan Experience #2560",
    "persons": [
      "David Grusch",
      "Joe Rogan"
    ],
    "status": "claim",
    "summary": "Grusch made second-hand claims about UFO crash retrievals, 'reptilian' beings and firefights at crash sites. He said he did not see these himself, and he gave no evidence.",
    "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYPXINFcvmI",
    "source_label": "YouTube · PowerfulJRE (The Joe Rogan Experience)",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T15:10:27+08:00",
    "stories": [
      "crash-retrieval-claims",
      "david-grusch"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "34b1de1eb562",
    "date": "2026-09-25",
    "title": "NASA's Isaacman says to 'be open-minded' about UAP and that NASA should have a seat at the table if it's aliens",
    "persons": [
      "Jared Isaacman"
    ],
    "status": "confirmed",
    "summary": "In a NewsNation interview on 25 Sep (US), Isaacman said he leans toward natural phenomena or adversary technology, which he called a possible 'Sputnik moment'. Space.com reported the on-record quotes on 5 Oct.",
    "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/nasa-chief-jared-isaacman-wants-to-stay-open-minded-about-ufos-if-its-aliens-i-think-nasa-should-have-a-seat-at-the-table",
    "source_label": "Space.com",
    "added_at": "2026-10-09T16:23:34+08:00"
  }
]