When the Exorcist Said the UFOs Were Demons
Why a theologian thinks the church is getting UFO disclosure wrong, in two directions at once
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CIA's secret office has conducted UFO retrieval missions on at least NINE crash sites around the world, whistleblowers reveal
A November 2023 Daily Mail investigation, co-bylined by Matt Ford with Josh Boswell and Chris Sharp, on the CIA's Office of Global Access and its reported role coordinating UAP crash-retrieval operations. The Daily Mail removed the article from its site in early 2026; this links to the archived original, with its sourcing intact.
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I Had AI Stress-Test the New “UAP Orbs Are Meteor Dust” Paper. It Doesn’t Hold Up.
Avi Loeb’s UAP Science Advisory Council is reviewing a chemist’s claim that some UAP “orbs” are burning meteor dust. I had a fleet of AIs stress-test the physics. It does not…
The Astrophysicist Who Worked the Pentagon's UFO Program Says We Have Debris ----
Dr. Eric Davis, the source behind the Wilson-Davis memo, joins The Good Trouble Show live this Sunday
The Evidence They Wanted Buried
Steve Aspin coughed up an implant the size of a grain of wheat. Part 2 is the forensic case behind UFO abductions: the lab results, the four kinds of beings, and the ones that now look exactly like us
Why Michael Shermer Doesn't Belong on Avi Loeb's UAP Council
My mother hid her UFO encounter for a lifetime. People like Shermer are the reason.
Avi Loeb and the Discipline of Wonder
The Harvard astrophysicist on UFOs, interstellar visitors, and why the universe is under no contract to give us pleasure
The Man Who Saw It First
Steve Aspin described the Area 51 "sport model UFOs " fifty years before Bob Lazar made it famous. In Part 1, what that costs a person, and why he kept the memory.
The White House Has a New UAP Council. We’re Going Live With the Scientist Leading It.
Avi Loeb on what the new UAP Science Advisory Council can - and can’t - do, and where disclosure goes next. Plus your questions, live.
I Wrote the Speech Schumer and Rounds Should Give Today
They put “non-human intelligence” into U.S. law. Tomorrow, they could finish what they started.
The Part That Wasn't the Aliens
An Arkansas skeptic says the government surveilled his family after a UFO encounter. We asked him to walk us through it.
They Deleted Our UFO Story
What it means when a classified CIA office gets exposed, the article disappears, and the journalist gets followed
What a Pentagon Image Scientist Sees in Trump’s UFO Files
Sarah Gamm spent her career analyzing imagery for the Defense Department. This week she turned that eye on the 28 files the administration just declassified.
Sunday LIVE: Pentagon Intel Analyst reacts to Pentagon's 28 new UFO Files
Sarah Gamm returns to The Good Trouble Show this Sunday.
Inside the CIA Office That Retrieves UFOs
The Daily Mail Investigation, Mysteriously Pulled. Reprinted in Full.
Filmmaker Darcy Weir on the half-million-subscriber industry behind the secret space program
Inside Gaia TV, the kingmaker, and a documentary filmmaker who has spent 20 years watching this ecosystem grow
The Cottage Industry Collapses
Marik von Rennenkampff's new Gimbal analysis ends the debate that's defined nine years of UFO discourse
The 30 UFO Cases That Made the Cut
After 1,000+ interviews, one podcaster mapped the UFO cases that actually matter
Drones Are the New Swamp Gas
Bill Maher said the quiet part out loud. The real question is — which version of disclosure are you getting?
What If the Paranormal Was Just Physics We Haven’t Accepted Yet?
Dr. Jim Segala, Skinwalker Ranch, and the Sensor Network That’s Changing Everything
Air Force Guard Breaks 60 Years of Silence on Alien Abduction at Nuclear Missile Site
Richard Barth describes being taken aboard a craft at Vandenberg AFB in 1964 — and the warning he received about nuclear war