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THE 107: WHEN BEDROOM RADIO FREAKS MONITORED THE WORLD

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Before the internet convinced everybody that information had been invented in 1995, there were people sitting alone at night with shortwave receivers, notebooks, cigarettes, coffee, bad eyesight and absolutely no intention of going to bed. They were listening to the planet. Now 107 issues of Review of International Broadcasting , spanning roughly 1978 through 1997, have been gathered into the Internet Archive’s radio collections. Edited by Glenn Hauser, the publication tracked international stations, pirates, strange signals, schedule changes, political broadcasts and whatever else happened to wander across the bands. In other words: a pre-digital intelligence network run by hobbyists in spare bedrooms. Nobody called them analysts. Nobody gave them clearances. Nobody issued laminated badges. They simply wrote down what they heard. And that may turn out to be more valuable than anybody realized. Because radio disappears beautifully. A station changes frequency. A g...
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Critical Gorilla — THE MUSEUM OF CERTAINTY

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#6, deliberately moving away from last week's impossible-library composition. Critical Gorilla stands alone inside a pristine mid-century Museum of Certainty, a government-modernist building constructed almost entirely from glass, brushed aluminum and institutional beige. Behind him are immaculate museum cases containing yesterday's unquestionable truths: a newspaper permanently frozen at FINAL EDITION, a television anchorman trapped inside a glass cube, a scientific chart whose confident arrow abruptly disappears off the page, and a marble filing cabinet labeled SETTLED. But Gorilla has discovered the museum's maintenance corridor. Behind one enormous exhibition wall is a chaotic second reality: photocopies, crossed-out documents, redactions, abandoned hypotheses, contradictory headlines, erased names, arrows, handwritten questions and discarded pieces of history. The public sees the beautifully curated front. Gorilla sees the wiring. The joke is subtle. Gorill...
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THE UFO THEY SAY EXISTS — AND NOW THE PENTAGON SAYS IT’S LOOKING FOR IT

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The fastest-growing UAP story of the last 24 hours is not a released UFO video. It is an unreleased one. A New York Post report says two classified cellphone videos allegedly show a roughly 100-foot black triangular object maneuvering near a Colorado military installation in 2023. According to sources cited by the paper, the recordings are held by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and remain unavailable to the public. The same report quotes former Air Force personnel and whistleblowers arguing that recent disclosure measures have not actually removed the classification barriers keeping potentially important evidence out of public view. � New York Post That story caught fire on r/UFOs, where discussion quickly split into the familiar camps: extraterrestrial technology, secret American aerospace hardware, insufficient evidence, or another tantalizing claim whose best evidence always seems to be located somewhere civilians cannot go. � Reddit Then something materially changed...
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THE UFO STORY HAS LEFT THE BASEMENT — NOW ABC NEWS IS SERVING THE ORBS

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Something changed in the last 24 hours, and it wasn’t the UFO. It was the audience. The Pentagon’s fifth PURSUE release, originally posted on August 7, 2026, has now broken decisively out of the usual UFO/UAP ecosystem and into broader mainstream circulation. EarthSky published a fresh breakdown on August 12, while ABC World News Tonight amplified the new Pentagon material across its national platforms. � EarthSky +2 That matters because Release 05 contains 41 files: 16 videos, 22 documents and three images drawn from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Office of the President. The government says the archive contains unresolved cases and explicitly cautions that unresolved can simply mean insufficient data—not extraterrestrials arriving late for dinner. � EarthSky +1 But one case is proving especially sticky. During a September 8, 2021 live-fire exercise over the Gulf of Oman, an intelligence report says personnel observed roughly 25 UAP incidents. The o...
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Another Sporks Cover

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Midnight Special: FMPU Bumper

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Critical Gorilla — THE MUSEUM OF TOMORROW’S RUINS

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Creative rationale: This week, Critical Gorilla moves out of maps and libraries and into Underground Futurism. He has wandered into a pristine museum in the year 2176 where our present-day civilization is already archaeology—and the curators have hilariously misunderstood almost everything. The joke underneath the spectacle is epistemological: evidence survives; context doesn't. Critical Gorilla is the only visitor who seems to notice the difference.
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