Aliens Explored: Video Podcast

John Lennon, May Pang and a mysterious UFO over New York City.

In August 1974, Lennon reported seeing an unusual, silent object close to his Manhattan apartment. Pang corroborated his account, and the pair attempted to photograph what they were witnessing.

Unfortunately, the film came back blank.

In this Aliens Explored solo video essay, Stu examines Lennon's original testimony, the reference to the sighting on his Walls and Bridges album, Pang's recollections, and photographer Bob Gruen's account of what happened to the photographs.

With no verified images of the object, conflicting levels of eyewitness corroboration and several possible conventional explanations, how much of this celebrated UFO encounter stands up to scrutiny?

Question of the Week: When eyewitnesses agree but independent evidence is missing, how much weight should their testimony carry?

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Haim Eshed is talking again.

Six years after the former Israeli space-security chief claimed that governments were already in contact with extraterrestrials and a Galactic Federation, he has resurfaced alongside Uri Geller and continues to stand by the central claim.

He also describes unidentified men coming to his apartment and questioning him about scientific subjects — an encounter Geller connects to the “Men in Black”, although Eshed’s own account is less definite.

Stu and Neil examine what Eshed actually says, what his remarkable professional background does — and does not — add to the case, and how much credibility credentials can lend to a claim when verifiable evidence remains elusive.

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September brought another sizeable batch of UFO/UAP developments — but one in particular stands out: the Pentagon wants access to a vast archive of historical UFO research held outside government.

Stu examines what AARO is seeking, why old civilian case files may matter, the latest PURSUE release, new scientific attempts to obtain better measurements of unidentified objects, newly released Navy correspondence, disputed programme claims, witness allegations and more.

Across the stories, one question keeps returning: are we simply accumulating more UFO information, or getting closer to evidence that can actually be tested?

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PURSUE Tranche 6 mixes Project Blue Book history, AAWSAP research, modern military sensor footage and local law-enforcement material.

Stu has gone through the release and selected three documents and three videos that most deserve a closer look — not because they all point towards the same explanation, but because each reveals something interesting about how UAP evidence is recorded and interpreted.

Among them are Edward J. Ruppelt’s 1952 Air Force presentation, a 2025 report describing six grouped objects, two military sensor cases and fifteen minutes of footage recorded by a Colorado police officer.

The question throughout: when the public evidence is incomplete, how much weight should we give the observer’s interpretation — and how much should depend on what can actually be demonstrated from the data?

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Before Roswell became synonymous with UFOs, wartime pilots were already reporting strange objects and lights in the skies.

Stu and Neil trace the beginning of the modern UFO story from the Second World War’s “Foo Fighters” through Kenneth Arnold, the birth of the flying-saucer era, Roswell, Project Sign, Project Grudge and into Project Blue Book.

Along the way they ask how much terminology and popular culture shaped later reports, separate Roswell’s contemporary evidence from the story that emerged decades later, and examine what the Air Force’s thousands of UFO investigations actually tell us.

No assumption that “unidentified” means extraterrestrial — just the history, evidence and arguments that shaped the subject.

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What does genuine progress in UAP transparency actually look like?

Stu and Neil review the UFO and UAP developments that mattered in August 2026, beginning with David Grusch’s increasingly specific claims about alleged recovered craft and the photographs and video he says he has seen.

Against that, a new analysis of 112 government-released PURSUE sensor videos highlights a very different problem: without enough measurement data, apparently dramatic motion may be impossible to translate into reliable physical speed.

The discussion also covers new NDA-reporting guidance, PURSUE Release Five, Robert Bigelow’s claimed meeting with President Trump, European aviation and monitoring developments, Gallup’s latest UFO polling and new material entering the US National Archives.

The recurring question throughout: are we getting closer to answers — or simply getting a clearer picture of what remains publicly untestable?

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Scientists Jacob Haqq-Misra and Ravi Kopparapu have analysed all 112 PURSUE UAP sensor videos released so far — and their new preprint identifies a fundamental difficulty in working out what some of the footage actually shows.

Stu examines PR113 and its remarkable “bird or Mach 5?” range of possible interpretations, PR149 and the useful reference provided by a ship in frame, and GOFAST as an example of what changes when more telemetry is available.

The bigger issue is not simply whether these objects remain unidentified. It is what we can legitimately infer about their speed, size and behaviour from the released evidence.

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A strange metallic obstruction found beneath an ordinary Tallinn garden in 1969 eventually became Object M — one of the more unusual UFO mysteries to emerge from the Soviet era.

Stu looks at what was reportedly discovered, why Soviet scientists became interested, and the 2017 analysis that identified a supposed surviving fragment as likely ordinary industrial ferrochrome.

There is, however, one crucial question: can anyone prove the tested sample actually came from the original object?

And with no modern ground-penetrating-radar survey yet carried out beneath the property, what — if anything — remains down there?

Question of the Week: Is Object M effectively solved, or does the provenance problem justify one more proper investigation?

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41 newly released UAP files. Sixteen videos. Three images. Twenty-two documents. But is there anything genuinely new?

Stu Jackson and Neil Kelly examine PURSUE Tranche 5, separating what is genuinely interesting from what is merely unexplained.

The newly released footage may not provide the extraordinary evidence many were hoping for, but the historical documents tell another story: US government agencies were seriously investigating unexplained aerial phenomena almost 80 years ago, considering conventional explanations while acknowledging that some cases remained unresolved.

This episode covers Project SIGN, early military film analysis, recurring UAP characteristics, the limits of infrared and sensor footage, and a Brazilian crashed-UFO story that spectacularly falls apart when investigated.

No instant declarations of disclosure.

No assumption that “unidentified” means “alien”.

Just the evidence, the questions — and two hosts who don't necessarily agree about what it all means.

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The fifth tranche of records from the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) has been released.

Before Stu Jackson and Neil Kelly sit down to analyse the wider Tranche 5 material, we're doing something simpler: presenting the newly released video material without comment.

No instant reactions. No conclusions. No attempt to tell you what you're looking at.

Aliens Explored has always preferred to take the time to examine new evidence properly before offering an opinion, and that's exactly what we'll be doing with Tranche 5.

Our full discussion and analysis of the documents, photographs, videos and other material will follow on Friday 14 August.

Until then, here are the videos.

Watch them. Consider them. Make up your own mind.

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