Residents of New York and Los Angeles were recently treated to an eye-grabbing display, with the sudden appearance of mysterious promotional billboards advertising a new project by legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The eerie imagery was accompanied solely by the words "ALL WILL BE DISCLOSED," along with Spielberg's name and the presumed premiere date of the forthcoming film, the official title of which currently remains unknown.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, along with speculations about the film and whether it could feature "real aliens" and other theories that have proliferated online, we dive into the history of alleged U.S. government disclosures of information about UFOs in films and popular media, as well as the use of such platforms for the dissemination of disinformation.

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• NEWS: Live updates: 10 killed in shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, 2 in custody | CNN
• Bondi Beach: Hero 'did not hesitate', family tells BBC, as Albanese says gunmen motivated by extremism
• Video of Australian "hero" disarming gunman in recent Bondi shooting
• DONATE: Fundraiser by CarHubAustralia Australia : Support the Hero Who Disarmed a Bondi Attacker
• Rob Reiner's Son Nick Arrested Following Deaths of His Parents, Held on $4 Million Bail
• Egypt reveals restored colossal statues of pharaoh in Luxor
• Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 19
• ALL WILL BE DISCLOSED: Spielberg Poster Teases Mysterious New UFO Movie: "All Will Be Disclosed"
• REAL ALIENS: Does Steven Spielberg's new film star real aliens?
• E.T. phone Steven? Spielberg's new UFO movie, cryptic billboards reignite real alien conspiracies
• What's The Latest On Steven Spielberg's Mystery UFO Movie? What We Know So Far
• U.S. Admits UFOs Exist - Washington, PA Observer-Reporter - Nov 13, 1974
• UFO COVERUP: Emenegger and Shartle in 'UFO Coverup? LIVE'
• Robert Emenegger 'Update' Interview
• 'ET' IN REAL LIFE: Spielberg Discusses Regan Statement at ET Private Screening

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From out of the shadows of the U.S. intelligence community, Dr. James T. Lacatski, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) career intelligence officer and scientist, has emerged to become best known as the program manager who initiated and oversaw the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). The program was, in short, the Pentagon's most comprehensive—and at times most controversial—known inquiry into unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a look at Lacatski's contributions to the UAP research effort, as detailed in formerly classified files released through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as several books he has authored about his tenure with AAWSAP, the latest of which, Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights, details the secretive scientist's ongoing revelations about the DIA's investigations into the unexplained.

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• NEWS: A Curious Stairway to Nowhere Led Archaeologists to the Discovery of a "Lost Pompeii"
• The New York Times Reports on 'The Area 51 of New England'
• Kecksburg Turns 60: The night the sky caught fire over Pennsylvania
• AAWSAP CONTRACT UPDATE: AAWSAP Contract Update (FOIA Release)
• LACATSKI'S NEWEST: Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights
• VOL II: Inside the US Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations
• VOL I: Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program

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In a major development for the future of UAP science, physicists at the University of Albany, New York, have announced a new research initiative—dubbed UAlbany Project X—that marks the beginning of a long-term scientific study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).

Joining us this week on The Micah Hanks Program to discuss the exciting news are two of the project's lead scientists, Dr. Kevin Knuth and Dr. Matthew Szydagis, who discuss the "rebirth" of the original UAPx initiative as a fully funded UAP investigation backed by the University of Albany. Where will the team's future studies of anomalous phenomena in our skies take us in the years ahead?

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• NEWS: The Oxford 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Rage Bait'
• Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
• New Explanation: Hegseth Did Not Order That All Boat Operators Be Killed
• UPDATE: White House confirms Hegseth authorized second strike on drug boat
• UALBANY PROJECT X: UAlbany Receives Major Gift to Advance Scientific Research on UAP
• How a Team of New York Physicists is Launching a Cutting-Edge Investigation into Aerial Mysteries

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For decades, the subject of UAP has hovered at the uneasy intersection of national security, scientific curiosity, and public trust. While bipartisan momentum in Washington has pushed for greater transparency, the federal government's fragmented responses and long-standing culture of classification have only deepened questions about what is known—and what might remain hidden.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, following the release of the new documentary film "The Age of Disclosure" by Director Dan Farah, we offer a complete analysis involving the film and main takeaways, as well as the media responses and intriguing details that have emerged since its release.

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• NEWS: Dutch military opens fire at drones over Volkel Air Base - ABC News
• NATO scrambles jets after deepest drone breach yet into Romania
• Vancouver liquidator to auction off decades of research
• THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE: The Age of Disclosure (2025) by Dan Farah - IMDb
• REVIEWS / MEDIA COVERAGE
• NYT: 'The Age of Disclosure,' Documentary About U.F.O.s, Gets a Congressional Audience
• INDIEWIRE: A Case for Alien Life That's Far More Serious Than Anything We've Seen Before
• HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Dan Farah's Polished Doc Legitimizes Unverifiable Theories About UFOs
• VATICAN OBSERVATORY: From the Living Room Cinema: Reaction to the 'The Age of Disclosure'
• COLAVITO: Review of "Age of Disclosure": An "Ancient Aliens" Episode with Better Lighting
• EW: President Trump could reveal existence of non-human intelligent life in 'near future,' says doc director
• CONTEXT / HISTORY: The Pentagon's New UAP Report is Seriously Flawed - The Debrief

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Since the late 19th century, the concept of an "alien invasion" has been a recurring theme in literature, and also served as a kind of cultural pressure gauge—it reveals our fears about what might be lurking in the cosmos, as well as the everyday horrors of the human condition, forcing us to confront questions about our vulnerabilities, and our assumptions about intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with a bit of discussion about the persistent rumors about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and whether its presence could actually bring the discussion about alien visitation out of fiction and into reality. Then, we shift our attention to the discussion about what a real alien invasion might entail, and what it could mean for life on Earth if it were ever to occur; would humanity be up to the task of defending against a cosmic threat from beyond the stars?

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• NEWS: Grandest Thanksgiving Yet? 2025 Holiday To Cost Average American Up To $1,000
• Pranksters bypass Louvre's security and sneak painting in
• Oldest sequenced RNA reveals details about a mammoth's final moments 40,000 years ago
• Archaeological breakthrough contradicts the timeline of human civilization
• 3I/ATLAS: The Harvard Scientist, Kim Kardashian and the Comet That Probably Isn't an Alien Spaceship
• INVADERS: Increased UFO Reports Aren't Aliens, But Earth Is Still Unprepared for an Alien Invasion
• Aliens may have stopped trying to contact humans because they simply got bored, Nasa scientist claims
• Mind of its own: Will "general AI" be like an alien invasion?

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Ancient Greek mythology tells of a daunting underground maze known as the labyrinth, which, according to legend, housed the fabled beast known as the minotaur. However, clues hidden in ancient writings through the centuries have suggested that there may be more to the tale than mere legend, and that there had in fact been more than one labyrinth that existed in the ancient world.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, a remarkable new discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind one of ancient Greece's most enduring legends, and it marks only the beginning of our search for answers to one of history's most enduring mysteries. Where were the locations of these massive underground complexes in antiquity, and could they indeed still exist into the present day?

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• NEWS: Senate advances plan to end historic shutdown in bipartisan breakthrough
• Flight disruptions from shutdown worsen as Trump threatens air traffic controllers
• The shutdown is about to end. Will millions lose their health insurance?
• ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS: Archaeologists Decode Peru's Mysterious Band of Holes
• Officials Seek Answers as Mysterious Vehicle Revealed by Melting Ice in the Swiss Alps
• "Monster of the Earth": Archaeologists Uncover Ceremonial Marker Revealing Royal Power at Maya Site
• THE LABYRINTH: Myths of the Labyrinth: The Ashmolean Museum
• THE GREEK LABYRINTH: The Cretan Labyrinth (via Britannica)
• Half–bull, half-truth… How English archaeologist claimed credit for discovering home of the minotaur
• 4000-Year-Old Labyrinth Discovery, "One of the Most Important Archaeological Finds" of the Century
• EGYPT'S LABYRINTH: The lost Egyptian labyrinth – The Past

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For centuries, strange phenomena associated with our seas have been reported by credible observers, which include several Cold War-era sightings by personnel with the U.S. and Soviet militaries. But what are these strange oceanic counterparts to the UAP mystery, which many refer to as "unidentified submerged objects," or USOs?

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, following an update on unusual behavior displayed by the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its recent nearest approach to the Sun, we shift our attention to the USO mystery, what contemporary data says, and also how several historical examples describe unusual phenomena encountered throughout the height of the Cold War.

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• NEWS: Couple's brand new Tesla struck by suspected meteorite on drive home from dealership
• Scientists Use Materials to Mimic Wormholes and Multiple Realities
• JD Vance talks UFOs, suggests 'spiritual forces working on the physical world'
• 3I/ATLAS UPDATE: Astronomer reveals first look at Comet 3I/ATLAS as it reappears from behind the sun
• We can visit interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS with spacecraft. Here's how scientists say we'll do it
• Did 3I/ATLAS Just Show Signs of Technology? Interstellar Object Displays 'Non-Gravitational Motion'
• NEWS: Mysterious UFOs Spotted Along US Coast - Newsweek
• THE REPORT: Unidentified Submerged Objects: USOs | Enigma Labs
• PROJECT BLUE BOOK: Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships

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Recently, striking correlations between mysterious flashes of light captured on 1950s astronomical plates, reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and atmospheric nuclear weapons tests of the same era have been revealed in a pair of new peer-reviewed scientific papers. Analyzing more than 106,000 short-lived "transients" from the VASCO project archives, the team found that such flashes were 68% more likely to occur the day after a nuclear test, and increased further when UAP sightings were also reported. A companion study detected potential solar reflections from flat, highly reflective objects in orbit before the first human satellites launched, with one event coinciding with the famous 1952 Washington, D.C., UAP sightings.

Joining us on The Micah Hanks Program to discuss the new research is Stephen Bruehl, Ph.D., a Vanderbilt University professor of anesthesiology, who discusses the statistical analysis of the data collected on these unusual "transients," and why at least one-third of these pre-satellite flashes may represent genuine objects in high orbit, challenging long-held assumptions that such points of light were photographic artifacts.

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• NEWS: Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia, a Wikipedia Competitor
• TRANSIENTS: Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations
• THE PAPERS: Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First Palomar Sky Survey
• Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of UAP
• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Did Astronomers Photograph UFOs Orbiting Earth in the 1950s?
• NUCLEAR CORRELATIONS: Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey | JDog on Metabunk
• HISTORY: Clyde Tombaugh and the Mysterious Satellites

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Recently, a United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 en route from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after colliding with an unidentified object over Utah. The impact shattered the cockpit windshield, injuring one of the pilots and prompting the crew to announce that the aircraft had "collided with an object." Early investigations seem to rule out space debris or meteors, and while investigators continue working to resolve the situation, a potential break in this unusual case may have now revealed what actually happened.

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the unnerving incident, along with the issue of potential dangers that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) may represent to pilots, with a look at historic cases and similar incidents where possible collisions with unknown objects may have imperiled aircraft.

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• NEWS: French crown jewels: What we know about missing Louvre treasures stolen in 'national disaster'
• The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?
• Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday
• A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
• NJ drone and 'UFO' scare solved? Private contractor unveils strange aircraft, takes credit for sky mystery
• UTAH COLLISION: Investigators Baffled by 'Mystery Object' That Struck Plane, Caused Minor Injuries
• UAP and AVIATION: Pilot UFO Sightings Collected by NASA Reveal Serious Safety Concerns Over Objects in U.S. Airspace
• NIGHT SHIP 282: Plane's wreckage puzzles investigators - May 21, 2004
• NTSB: 'Collision With Unknown Object' Killed Mobile Pilot

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In an odd turn of events, officials have revealed unusual new details about an aircraft crash that occurred near Area 51 in late September. The crash, initially described as minor and non-fatal, has since taken a strange turn after investigators reportedly discovered "tampering" at the site, which includes the discovery of objects that included an "inert training bomb body" and aircraft material of "unknown origin."

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at the latest news about the ongoing investigation, as well as the strange history involving several of the key players involved in the investigation into the mysterious crash near America's most controversial high-security facility.

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• NEWS: Living Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners are freed as part of Gaza ceasefire
• She saw a car-sized object above a Texas farm and found a wayward hunk of NASA equipment
• 3I/ATLAS is Displaying Surprising Activity Scientists Call "a Note from Another Planetary System"
• Scientists Track Over 1000 Martian Dust Devils, Revealing Hidden Wind Patterns Across the Red Planet
• Forget the Sixth Sense: New Study Says the Human Brain May Be Wired for Seven Senses
• AREA 51: Officials Say Aircraft Material of "Unknown Origin" Found at Site of Crash Near Area 51
• RAID ON DREAMLAND RESORT: Air Force, FBI raid homes of man with Area 51 website
• STATEMENT ON RAID: Press release regarding FBI raid
• KNAPP REPORTS: Questions remain 16 months after dual raids on Area 51 website creator

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