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“There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2 a.m., you wake up with a fever and your throats on fire.”From the transcript
Cristina Gomez reviews the latest UFO / UAP news and covers Congressman Tim Burchett's claim that the FBI is prying hidden UFO files from officials, a former NASA astronaut dismissing the newest UAP videos, and investigative journalist Ross Coulthart's report that the clearest UFO footage from the Pentagon's sixth batch is still being withheld. This UFO update breaks down the six orbs over the Middle East, AARO's public reporting shutout, and Stephen Miller's push for disclosure. 

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00:00 - The UFO Files Fight
00:24 - Prying UFO Files Loose
01:38 - Silenced Over UFO Footage
02:22 - NASA's UFO Problem
04:29 - Six UFO Orbs Released
05:26 - The Hidden UFO Videos
06:33 - No One Wants Your UFO Report
08:33 - Who Controls UFO Truth 


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Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2 a.m., you wake up with a fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacy's clothes. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions, sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea, and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling, or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue.

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high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2am, you wake up with a fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care? Close. ER? Slam. Telehealth? Maybe. But the pharmacy's closed. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection. UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diaria, and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription, or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drug store at home. When you're sick, traveling, or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. As sitting congressman says people inside the FBI have been sent to physically pull hidden files

out of the hands of officials who didn't want you to see them. And at the same time, a former NASA astronaut is telling everyone the videos from the UFO batches prove nothing. Let's see what's really going on here. Hey you followers, I'm Christina Gomez and this is your UFO News update. Timbershot of Tennessee code chairs the Congressional UAP caucus and has pushed for full release of these records for years. In a recent interview with Benny Johnson, he described a phone call from Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who, according tobershot, has made these releases a personal priority. Pershut says Miller told him the hold up is not at the top. It's the people on the inside, these types of agencies who do not want this material out. They they've assigned people within the FBI to do just that to pull this stuff out. I mean, to see they can't just say, hey, turn this stuff loose, but they gotta get somebody going there literally physically right from their fingers. Pretty much she's saying a group inside

the FBI has been sent into other departments to take records that officials are refusing to release. Reporting from Ask a Pull reports that Miller put the effort on a priority and assigned people to it, which Pershut reads as a sign the push comes from the top. However, none of it can be verified from the outside as of yet. All we really know is that Miller is looking into this and hopefully he continues to make it a priority. Pershut has also described talking with pilots and service members who saw unexplained objects and then destroying their own footage to avoid retaliation. He says some sat through eight hour debriefs that went into their personal files and psychological evaluations that get them pulled from flight line. So that's really the pressure. He says that keeps people silent and it is the first pressure now shaping which files probably ever reach you. All of this

comes down to trust who inside the government releases information and who buries it and these files reach further than most people probably realize some of the records in these batches are reports and audio that NASA handed to the Pentagon, including accounts from its own astronauts. Former NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, who has lived in orbit, was asked on Fox News about the newest UAP videos. You bend the space. What do you think these things are? Peter, I say show me some real data. I mean show me some real proof. This is video release from Ford looking infrared, FLIR video. FLIR picks up all types of different things and many times I mean there's back in the day way back when FLIR refers being coming into fruition. I mean there's high altitude ice clouds, not dilucent clouds that reflect light and they had questions about what is it. So all of this about

aliens and what these things are. I say show me some real data thus far we haven't seen for Wilmore. What do you think is substantial data? We have thousands of official documents on UFOs, data archives for your requests, witness testimony and some say even material. So what does substantial data even look like to you? In that clip Wilmore is describing FLIR, forward looking infrared, the heat camera on military aircraft. His point is that a heat sensor can lock onto something that looks impossible but turns out ordinary once you know the source. Like high ice clouds reflecting light back at the lens and really it's a fair challenge. It skeptics raised the same one about that in an earlier Navy footage and even in some earlier NASA releases that came with the UFO batches. So there's that but Wilmore says that he still needs to be shown real proof. Bershatt says the proof exists and it's being pulled out of locked drawers. What?

Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2 a.m., you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care? Close. ER? Slam. Telehealth? Maybe. But the pharmacies close. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and ship to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com-slashblue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com-slashblue. And file at a time. But then which one is it?

Are we never going to see these files? Are we slowly seeing these files? It goes back to the question, what is substantial evidence and what is substantial data? Here is what the government actually put out on September 18th. The batch runs from the 1950s to 2025. And the clip, getting the most attention, shows six small metallic orbs moving together over a military site in the Middle East at roughly 480 miles per hour. Recorded by US Central Command. The same batch included a second recent clip, a 59-second infrared video shot over the East China Sea in 2023. And handed over by the Indo-Pacific Command. Arrow, the alt-domain anomaly resolution office, which reviews these cases, say small orbs are the most commonly reported shape, and that nothing it has reviewed shows verifiable proof of technology from beyond Earth, which they've been saying since their creation.

So there's nothing really new there. But many cases still remain open. If the most shared clip of the week is orbs, a pentagon can identify, and a congressman says the clearer footage is being held back, how much are we actually seeing? 10%, 1%, you tell me. And that goes straight to what investigative journalist Ross Coltart told NewsNation. He says the videos in these public batches are a small, chosen slice of what the government holds and what they want to show you. Primarily, Hannah, because I've got sources who are telling me that there are many more excellent 4K high-resolution quality videos that are sitting in covered not being disclosed to the public. A lot of the files in this latest release, they actually contain references to source documents, source data, source imagery that hasn't been released. It's quite clear the pentagons got a lot more information than it's publicly allowing to be disclosed. And I think it's time that they

were more fulsome with the public. He says some files in this very batch point to source imagery and documents that were left out of the releases itself. The same system that describes what comes out also decides who is even allowed to report it. If you saw something strange in the sky tonight, no official government channel would take your report. On his show Reality Check, Ross pointed that arrow states this on their very own website. Arrow actually says quote, arrow is not currently accepting reports of UAP sightings encounters from the general public. And they do promise that in the future, reporting eligibility will be extended to the general public, but not right now. Frankly, they don't give a hoot about what you the public know, because I suspect they already know what it is that you're seeing, and they don't want you to know about it. And they certainly don't want to answer your questions about it.

So the best way to do that is to tell you we're not interested. Arrow only takes reports from current and former government employees, service members, and contractors with the direct knowledge of government UAP programs. It says public reporting may open up later, but not now. So the military reports, pilot reports, and the millions of people who look up the most have nowhere official to send what they see, except for places such as Mufon, Newfork, Enigma Labs, and many people also report their sightings on Reddit. But no government body has kept a public sightings record since Project Blue Book closed in 1969. But should put the frustration like this. So Stephen Miller actually called you and said that bad people are blocking the release of the real stuff. Yeah, yeah. But you know, I guess he was afraid that's going to blast him. And I was like, no, I'm, you've heard me many times. I'm very proud that the president believes in transparency and he trusts the American people. You know, he said, I don't know what it all this stuff is,

but we're going to let y'all decide that's what a president should be. And so these crazy deals that they dangle something in front of us and then pull it back. So when a national, a national journalist and a congressman all agree the strongest evidence is being held back, the argument is no longer whether something is up there. It is who decides when you get to see it. Does the next batch break the pattern? Or do we run this loop again in a month with maybe the next batch? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. And Christina, go man, say it for today. I will see you again next time for another UFO news update. Be safe and remember, keep your eyes on the skies.

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