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Someone recorded the end of an 89-year radio era on an old receiver

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  The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive recently preserved a particularly beautiful piece of radio archaeology: BBC Radio 4’s May program The Sound of Soft Power , recorded through a vintage Pye Mistral receiver as Britain prepared to shut down the historic Droitwich 198 kHz longwave service . The archival upload was published June 27 specifically to mark the closure of one of Britain’s longest-running AM broadcast transmissions. That combination is almost too perfect: a program about international broadcasting and soft power, preserved through the dying technology it was discussing . Why it matters: International radio was never just news. Voice, music, announcer style, signal strength and even engineering communicated national identity. Governments understood that broadcasting could make a country emotionally present thousands of miles beyond its borders. FMPU angle: “SOFT POWER AT 198 kHz: When Nations Fought Wars With Announcers.” Put BBC longwave beside Radio Moscow, VOA, R...

THE PENTAGON JUST DROPPED 41 MORE UFO FILES — AND THE REAL STORY ISN’T THE ALIENS

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  S omething interesting happened to the UFO story this weekend: it escaped the UFO community again. The U.S. government’s fifth PURSUE release , published August 7, has become the fastest-moving UAP story across mainstream news, YouTube and UFO social media over the past day. The new tranche (no, the use of "tranch" has not escaped my vision, much the way the word "robust" had been used that past few years!) contains 41 records drawn from agencies including the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Office of the President. CBS reported that the material ranges from 1950 through 2026. Among the stranger entries are reports and artistic reconstructions involving triangular objects, historical CIA material, and military encounters. A 2023 Colorado case was reconstructed by the FBI from the testimony of a former Defense Department employee; other reporting has focused on military imagery and unusual observations over the Gulf of Oman. And here comes th...

THE UFO FILES ARE OPEN — EXCEPT, APPARENTLY, FOR THE GOOD STUFF

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The fifth federal UFO/UAP document dump landed August 7, and the government has officially entered the strange new business of mass-producing disclosure. The Department of War’s PURSUE archive confirms that Release 05 is now public, following earlier tranches in May, June and July. The government says the records are deliberately drawn from unresolved cases—meaning officials cannot determine what was observed, sometimes simply because the available data are insufficient. More releases are promised on a rolling basis. � U.S. Department of War Forty-one newly declassified files reportedly span incidents from 1950 through 2026 and include Pentagon, FBI, CIA and State Department material. Among them are accounts involving a triangular object reported at Bagram Airfield and military sensor recordings from the Gulf of Oman. � News.com.au So naturally, just as everybody began rummaging through Uncle Sam's new UFO garage sale, another story appeared. Sources told the New York P...

Interesting JFK Analysis

"Roswell Incident Is The Perfect Psyop"

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Excellent data and media breakdown in this video, comments? I know quite a lot of people who are "all-in" on the ufo stuff. Unfortunately for them, they will have to answer many concerns brought in videos of this ilk.  Have a browse at TruthstreamMedia videos .

PURSUE RELEASE 05: THE GOVERNMENT DROPS ANOTHER BOX OF UFO FILES — AND THIS ONE DESERVES A CLOSER LOOK

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On August 7, 2026 , the U.S. Department of War released PURSUE Release 05 , the fifth tranche of government UFO/UAP records made public under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The government describes the archive as a rolling effort to identify, review, declassify and release unresolved UAP records from across federal agencies. Release 05 follows earlier drops on May 8, May 22, June 12 and July 10. You'd think I'd learned my lesson by now, but I haven't.   The immediate online reaction has centered on the new video material. A rapidly growing r/UFOs discussion highlighting four of the newly released clips accumulated hundreds of upvotes within hours, while another community compilation identified 16 videos in the tranche, including multiple recordings associated with a September 2021 Gulf of Oman incident, five Pacific Ocean clips from 2019, Middle East infrared footage and a recent FBI thermal recording from the western United States. N...

The Blacklist Reunion Hollywood Almost Lost Twice

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  Hollywood loves remembering Hollywood. Preferably after everyone involved is dead, the rights are cleared, and somebody has found a tasteful way to monetize the trauma. Which makes the rescue of deteriorating footage from a 1981 gathering of Hollywood blacklist survivors particularly wonderful. The reunion brought together writers, actors and filmmakers connected to the era when refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee could transform a working Hollywood professional into yesterday's lunch reservation. Careers vanished. Credits disappeared. Some writers worked behind fronts. Others left the country. Hollywood, displaying the legendary courage for which major corporations are universally celebrated, mostly went along. But decades later, blacklist veterans got together—and somebody rolled 16mm film. Then Hollywood nearly lost that , too. The surviving reels warped and deteriorated. Roughly 104 quarter-inch Nagra audio rolls also had to be recovered, di...