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Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

Reality Check with Ross Coulthart

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NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart digs into stories the media is supposedly not meant to tell, taking a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to other mysteries often missing from the headlines.

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  1. Whistleblowers 'fear being murdered,' author says | Reality Check

    57 min

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. In this episode of …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. In this episode of "Reality Check," Coulthart sits down with David Burkett, author of the new book “Lies Above: How the Pentagon Misled Congress and Cost America Its Skies.” Burkett is a cybersecurity researcher at cybersecurity firm Corelight Labs and part of an aerospace defense team that earned the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s Cogswell Award.


    He calls himself a lifelong skeptic who changed his mind after digging into the data. Burkett explains why he believes the government’s handling of UAPs is a scandal, starting with the 1967 Malmstrom nuclear missile shutdown and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick’s later explanation that it was an electromagnetic pulse test. They also discuss the Condon Committee’s blind spot, the unexplained 2024 New Jersey drone incursions and the sensor data behind the 2004 Nimitz “Tic Tac” encounter. Burkett also explains why a break-in at a source’s home convinced him whistleblowers face real retaliation.


    #Pentagon #UAPs #Malmstrom


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    1:35 Meet David

    3:12 David’s “aha” moment

    4:40 Why the cover-up is a huge scandal

    6:55 “No threat” claims and the New Jersey drones

    8:58 Integrating QR codes into books

    12:07 The smoking gun

    13:46 The Malmstrom incident

    15:01 Kirkpatrick’s EMP explanation

    18:10 The McMinnville photos

    19:16 Why is the UAP topic dismissed?

    22:25 Why is there a cover-up?

    24:11 What is the phenomenon?

    27:18 The gatekeepers vs whistleblowers

    29:55 Contradicting accounts

    31:18 Possible intimidation attempts to scare David

    35:08 What was Stephen Miller told?

    36:20 Where is Nimitz Tic Tac data?

    39:02 What data is David looking for?

    40:03 Is NASA lying to us?

    43:57 Why is the secret being kept?

    45:30 Recovered craft and materials

    51:00 Stigma surrounding the topic

    53:15 Drone incursions over military sites

    54:55 Final thoughts

  2. Ross Coulthart Q&A: UFO crashes, the 'face on Mars' and US midterm elections | Reality Check

    47 min

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about whether the Trump administration is hesitating on disclosure and why he says NDA waivers only apply if whistleblowers go through the PURSUE initiative or All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). He also takes on whether multiple nonhuman species could be fighting over Earth, whether the “face on Mars” could be artificial and why Avi Loeb’s science advisory committee is frustrated. He examines the long history of false flags, from Operation Northwoods to Wernher von Braun’s alleged “alien card” warning. Plus, Coulthart breaks down Tom DeLonge’s claim of a buried alien artifact in Alaska that is “suppressing consciousness.”


    Is there a ruined civilization on Mars? A theoretical physicist runs the numbers | Reality Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc7L1gLRQrg&t=7s

    Former senior intelligence officer finds UAP by Colorado defense bunker | Reality Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ud-5Ld48Y&t=2758s

    Brian Entin goes inside America’s most secure military center | NewsNation Reports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBHt_xvf97o


    #nonhumanintelligence #disclosure #AviLoeb



    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:47 Reaction to U.S. midterm elections

    4:07 Is President Trump hesitant on disclosure?

    10:49 Are NHI fighting over Earth territory?

    12:47 Civilizations on Mars?

    17:30 Summoning the sphere network

    20:36 False flags

    31:41 What would Ross ask President Trump?

    33:52 Colorado UFO sightings

    36:19 Alien artifact in Alaska?

  3. Inside the Pentagon's Anomaly Office | Reality Check

    52 min

    In this episode of Reality Check, Ross Coulthart sits down with physicist Dr. Randy Bostick, former science advisor to the Pentagon office that investigates unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the …

    Notas del episodio

    In this episode of Reality Check, Ross Coulthart sits down with physicist Dr. Randy Bostick, former science advisor to the Pentagon office that investigates unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference in Toronto. Bostick explains what AARO does and does not hold, walks through his analysis of the Navy's Go Fast video, and describes Gremlin, the office's own sensor system built to watch the sky for weeks at a time. The conversation turns to the New Jersey drone incursions, objects reported over nuclear sites and weapons test ranges, and a presidential records release that tied military encounters with unknown objects to active radar jamming. Through all of it, Bostick returns to one problem: military aircraft and sensors detect these objects, and the data that could explain them is rarely saved.CHAPTER SUMMARY:0:00 Intro1:45 Inside the Pentagon's Anomaly Office3:45 Crash Retrieval Program Allegations6:51 Analyzing the Go Fast Video12:30 Glowing Orbs and Black Triangles13:37 Criticism and Project Blue Book16:59 The New Jersey Drone Incursions22:40 The Gremlin Sensor System26:53 Spectral Analysis of Unknown Objects29:58 Missing Data and Radar Jamming36:09 Objects Over Nuclear Sites39:17 Is Jamming a Flight Safety Threat?43:13 Why the Videos Are Redacted47:33 Judging the Office's FutureCREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickProducer: Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Kanyon LyonsSOCIAL TAGS:X: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthartInstagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/

  4. Ross Coulthart Q&A: Skinwalker Ranch, Congress roadblocks and reptilian claims | Reality Check

    44 min

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.Ross …

    Notas del episodio

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.


    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the Pentagon's newly released reports mentioning bipedal werewolf-like beings, whether Congressman Eric Burlison's upcoming UAP team hire will be announced soon and addresses a purported Signal transcript linking Jake Barber to the Gilgo Beach murders.


    He also discusses the history of UAP sightings near Australian defense installations and nuclear test sites, David Grusch's comments on reptilian entities, the ongoing challenges Congress faces in accessing classified legacy programs and whether official disclosure is finally addressing human abductions.


    Congressman Eric Burlison on UAP Disclosure, Government Secrecy & David Grusch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT5J3fI8k7k&t=17s


    #Pentagon #UAP #DavidGrusch


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTER:

    0:00 Intro

    1:28 Dog-like cryptids

    10:28 Update on Rep. Burlison’s UAP investigation team

    11:52 Is the UAP caucus doomed?

    15:27 Gilgo beach murders & a UAP connection?

    18:36 Nuclear submarines and Australian UAP sightings

    24:08 David Icke’s reptilian claims

    32:21 Crash retrieval programs

    39:55 Reported abductions

  5. An unusual client, a congressman and Roswell | Reality Check

    1 h 7 min

    For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to https://Smalls.com/ROSS.In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Robert S. Martinez, a retired …

    Notas del episodio

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    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Robert S. Martinez, a retired employment lawyer whose book, "My Most Unusual Client: The Shocking Truth of the Alien Agenda," recounts a case he took on in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1996. Martinez describes a client from Alamogordo, whose name attorney-client privilege still keeps confidential, who said he spent nearly 50 years with a government contractor at the White Sands Missile Range, first monitoring space and later helping coordinate the retrieval of crashed craft.


    The client spoke of photographs from the 1947 Roswell crash and of American fighter jets lost in confrontations with unidentified craft, beginning in the Korean War and returning in the 1990s with encounters near commercial airliners over New Mexico. Martinez recounts bringing the case to Congressman Steven Schiff, who was pressing the Air Force for its Roswell records at the time. Within days of that meeting his client was dead and Martinez traces what followed, from a stolen case file to two incidents that put him and his girlfriend in the hospital.


    Robert S. Martinez's book, "My Most Unusual Client: The Shocking Truth of the Alien Agenda," is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVRYNK56


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    #Roswell #NewMexico #UAP


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Sarah Jackson


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    2:15 The Client Behind the Book

    3:26 A Word From Our Sponsor, Smalls

    6:34 The Client Behind the Book

    12:39 Congressman Schiff's Roswell Inquiry

    16:21 The Espionage Act Fax

    22:57 Forced Out After 50 Years

    24:45 The Client's Sudden Death

    27:25 What He Knew About Roswell

    31:36 The Fighter Jet Crashes

    37:41 Eisenhower and Forrestal at White Sands

    40:22 Three Jets Ordered Back to Base

    42:14 Was Martinez Targeted?

    53:05 The Empty Ejection Seat

    56:49 Does He Believe It Now?

    59:35 Congressman Schiff's Death

    1:02:34 Testifying to Congress

  6. Are governments secretly working with hybrid beings? | Reality Check

    34 min

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about whether the U.S. government has secretly worked with hybrid extraterrestrials for decades; Tim Taylor, the enigmatic NASA aerospace biomedical engineer widely identified as “Tyler D” in Diana Walsh Pasulka’s books; why he believes the Pentagon’s categorical denials only speak for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO; and what legal basis allows the legacy program to be kept from presidents.


    #legacyUAPprogram #NASA #AARO


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:36 Has the gov’t been working with NHI hybrids?

    3:53 Rep. Tim Burchett’s comments

    8:18 Claims of hybrid programs

    13:45 Who is Tim Taylor?

    25:23 Charles Hall & the tall whites

    31:46 Final thoughts

  7. Witnesses say they saw low-flying, triangular craft over military sites | Reality Check

    3 min

    The White House on Friday released the latest tranche of declassified UFO files that includes information about recent incursions over U.S. military sites. Some of the documents date back to the 1940s, 1950s …

    Notas del episodio

    The White House on Friday released the latest tranche of declassified UFO files that includes information about recent incursions over U.S. military sites. Some of the documents date back to the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, but perhaps the most intriguing records on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” are from this year. They include three separate reports describing what the FBI and the Pentagon call a black, triangle-shaped craft flying over sensitive military sites. The object reportedly flew at an elevation of 200 to 300 feet and measured about 9-feet long, with a wingspan of approximately 13 feet.


    The craft traveled roughly a mile and a half in less than three seconds while flying near military personnel. It reportedly had no obvious propulsion mechanism and produced no sound or lights. Some officials interviewed about the sightings said the U.S. may still be years away from developing technology comparable to what military personnel reported seeing with their own eyes. Other documents in Friday’s file release include reports of cylinder-shaped flying objects dating back to the 1960s and 1970s in Saudi Arabia, Sweden and other locations. Many of those records have never been declassified until now.


    #UAP #USmilitar #disclosure


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Kanyon Lyons


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/

  8. The Lakenheath drone incursions | Reality Check

    1 h 2 min

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Mike Morgan, a former senior investigating officer with 30 years in British policing and the author of "The Silence is Deafening," and Liberty …

    Notas del episodio

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Mike Morgan, a former senior investigating officer with 30 years in British policing and the author of "The Silence is Deafening," and Liberty, a plane spotter who lives near Royal Air Force Lakenheath. The conversation centers on the objects reported over Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford in November 2024, which officials called drones without naming an operator or releasing a single photograph.


    Morgan explains what his Freedom of Information requests turned up, from a police helicopter's near-miss report to an investigation staffed by part-time officers who, by his account, made no inquiries of local drone operators. Coulthart presses both men on the case for Russian or Chinese involvement and on why bases associated with nuclear weapons might draw that kind of attention. Liberty describes the silent craft that crossed his field the day before the incursions began and the radio call he says he heard from one of the pilots sent up to chase them.


    Mike Morgan's book, "The Silence is Deafening": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3WSXH6D


    Footage courtesy of Liberty, Military Aviation Channel.


    Senator Mark Warner audio courtesy of Matt Laslo, Ask a Pol UAPs: https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/chinese-drones-shuttered-air-force-base-on-us-soil


    Images of General Glen VanHerck courtesy of the United States Department of Defense.


    SOCIAL TAGS:

    Ross Coulthart

    X: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthart

    Instagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/


    Mike Morgan

    Website: msmorganbooks.co.uk https://www.msmorganbooks.co.uk/


    Liberty

    YouTube: @MilitaryAviationChannel https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryAviationChannel

    TikTok: @militaryaviationchannel https://www.tiktok.com/@militaryaviationchannel


    #UFO #RAFLakenheath #UAP


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    1:30 Senator Warner on Langley

    4:48 The British Base Incursions

    10:42 Drones as the Official Answer

    12:53 A Sighting the Day Before

    17:37 The Police Helicopter Encounter

    24:44 The Air Force Statement

    28:38 What Liberty Heard on the Radio

    31:04 Reports of a Drone Brought Down

    32:37 The Russian Sabotage Theory

    35:00 Nuclear Weapons at the Bases

    39:06 Why Officials Say Drones

    44:23 The Five Observables

    50:34 Freedom of Information Refusals

    55:53 Inside the Police Investigation

  9. Ross Coulthart: The White House is going around the legacy program | Reality Check

    43 min

    🚗 See if you're overpaying for car insurance with Jerry: https://pnl.link/mNppXwk Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified …

    Notas del episodio

    🚗 See if you're overpaying for car insurance with Jerry: https://pnl.link/mNppXwk


    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about Avi Loeb’s plan to deploy scientific sensors at orb hotspots, starting with White Sands, and why he believes the White House is working around the legacy program’s cover-up. He explains why older UAP accounts describe gears and shafts while modern ones don’t and why Europe’s UAP hotspots include Greece. Plus, he gives his take on Jake Barber’s new mothership video and the Cold War-era nuclear explosions that may have brought down a UAP.


    Watch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-


    #UAP #UFO #AviLoeb


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:45 Ross’ reacts to Jay Stratton’s book release

    4:45 Ross responds to NASA

    7:55 Will the government ever admit there was a cover-up?

    11:33 Did David Grusch work for the CIA?

    13:00 Is there NHI tech that resembles human tech?

    19:43 Europe’s UAP hotspots

    24:15 Is there legal risk for corporations holding onto NHI technology?

    35:18 Beyond institute UAP video

    39:32 Could a nuclear event harm NHI?

    42:33 Final thoughts

  10. 'Archive X' and the impossible | Reality Check

    1 h 2 min

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and host of the new six-part series …

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    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and host of the new six-part series "Archive X: Unexplained Phenomena." Kripal oversees Rice's Center for the Impossible, formerly the Archives of the Impossible, a collection that holds the papers of John Mack and Jacques Vallée among more than a million items on telepathy, near-death experience, abduction and precognition.


    The conversation opens with the nonverbal autistic children of the series' first episode and the place they call the hill. Then, moves to the abduction account of Karin Austin, the artist Andrew Paquette's dreams of disasters that later happened and Kripal's argument that the brain is a receiver of consciousness rather than its producer. Coulthart puts the harder questions to Kripal, including why a nonhuman intelligence would block a witness's memory, whether a future human civilization is behind the encounters and what to make of Christian arguments that the phenomenon is demonic. Kripal's answer runs through all of it, that these experiences cluster around trauma and love, that they have happened for millennia and that the task is to listen before reducing them to any worldview.


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    Jeffrey Kripal

    Substack: @jeffkripal https://jeffkripal.substack.com/

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    #telepathy #abduction #nonhumanintelligence


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Intro

    3:07 Has the Phenomenon Increased?

    4:59 Non-Local Consciousness

    6:16 The Telepathic Autistic Children

    12:15 The Hill

    18:23 Becoming Superhuman

    19:58 Karin Austin's Abduction Account

    28:38 The Future Human Hypothesis

    31:50 Andrew Paquette and Precognition

    39:28 Trauma and the Thinned Veil

    44:47 Unreliable Space-Time Sensors

    49:20 Ross's Esalen Experience

    51:26 The Demonic Interpretation

    52:38 The John Mack Archives

    56:22 Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi Texts

  11. NASA chief says all UAP data released; Coulthart says no | Reality Check

    51 min

    Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick open with a “Reality Check” exclusive: NewsNation’s Nancy Loo sat down with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who said the agency has already released all of its UAP data …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick open with a “Reality Check” exclusive: NewsNation’s Nancy Loo sat down with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who said the agency has already released all of its UAP data. Coulthart says that isn’t the case and he walks through the Apollo, Gemini and Skylab records he says are still unreleased.


    In this week’s episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the Apollo 17 “blue dots” film still under Pentagon and NASA review, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s announcement that it has found missing files and Jake Barber’s new claim that a cylindrical “mothership” releases egg-shaped craft, which Coulthart compares to historic sightings over Tehran in 1976. He also examines whether artificial intelligence is the key to understanding the UAP phenomenon, from Dr. Beatrice Villarroel’s geostationary-orbit research to the possibility of an autonomous monitoring system watching Earth.


    Mapping the Palomar transient hotspots | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXB-uBMfkcw

    Royal Navy sailor says UAP encounter triggered downloads from nonhuman intelligence | Reality Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62KInNHZAY&t=290s

    Watch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-


    #NASA #UAP #jaredisaacman


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

    Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/


    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    0:38 Nancy Loo speaks with Jared Isaacman

    5:35 Ross reacts to Isaacman’s comments

    11:47 The NASA “dirty dozen”

    14:53 What NASA has released so far

    15:36 What NASA hasn't released

    18:50 The missing frame 70 photographs

    20:29 The Gemini 7 bogey

    23:51 Edgar Mitchell and the blue dots

    24:36 The Apollo 17 science and technical debriefings

    29:02 Jay Stratton briefing

    30:43 Missing AAWSAP files located

    31:58 Jake Barber’s comments on mothership craft

    39:16 Nick Redfern’s “Final Events” book

    41:27 NHI and AI

    47:43 Could UAPs be AI controlled?

    49:50 Final thoughts

  12. Mapping the Palomar transient hotspots | Reality Check

    56 min

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, founder of the VASCO project at Nordita in Stockholm, and Vanderbilt's Dr. Stephen Bruehl, whose new …

    Notas del episodio

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, founder of the VASCO project at Nordita in Stockholm, and Vanderbilt's Dr. Stephen Bruehl, whose new paper suggests something in near-Earth space was flashing sunlight onto the photographic plates at Palomar Observatory years before Sputnik ever reached orbit. Projected back down to the ground, those flashes don't scatter at random. They cluster over some very familiar places, including the Pacific off Southern Mexico near where the Nimitz Tic-Tac encounter took place in 2004, the southern Gulf of Mexico off Tampico and the American Southwest around Sedona and White Sands Missile Range.


    The nuclear connection gets even stranger. On the night before Castle Yankee, the 13.5-megaton hydrogen bomb detonated at Bikini Atoll in May 1954, 203 high-probability transients appeared over the Pacific, while the transients tied to Nevada tests fell over Arizona and New Mexico instead.


    Coulthart plays the debunker for much of the hour, pressing the pair on plate defects, cosmic rays, radioactive fallout, survey bias and whether enough statistical tests will always turn up a hit. They also discuss independent work by former Hubble scientist Ivo Busko, whose plates from a German observatory show the same spike in transients on April 4, 1956, that appears in the Palomar data. By the end, Villarroel says she believes they're looking at some kind of surveillance system, Bruehl puts the odds of nonhuman monitoring at better than 50% and both confirm the three-letter agencies have taken notice.


    #nonhuman #Palomar #sputnik


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    5:40 Mapping the Transient Hotspots

    8:08 Plate Defects or Real Objects

    13:46 Survey Bias and Cosmic Rays

    17:07 The Nuclear Test Window

    20:27 Ruling Out Natural Reflectors

    22:36 Hypotheses Set in Advance

    24:59 Castle Yankee, May 1954

    34:55 Nevada Tests and Operation Teapot

    40:13 Pre-Sputnik Human Technology

    42:12 Replication and Falsification

    47:29 The Tic Tac and Tampico Hotspots

    50:22 Taking It to Peer Review

    51:20 Non-Human Surveillance

    53:01 Interest From Three-Letter Agencies

  13. David Grusch: Americans killed by reptilian beings at crash site | Reality Check

    44 min

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.Ross …

    Notas del episodio

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.


    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about whether UAP disclosure is "screwed" if Republicans lose the House in the midterms, the ongoing mystery of General Neil McCasland's disappearance and UAP incursions over nuclear sites in India, including an extraordinary sighting of a robotic humanoid in the Himalayas. Coulthart also breaks down the biggest takeaways from David Grusch's interview with Joe Rogan, including claims the Navy tracks a nonhuman base on the ocean floor "the size of multiple city blocks."


    #NHI #nonhumanintelligence #DavidGrusch


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    1:07 Ross reacts to David Grusch’s new claims

    14:01 Disclosure & U.S. midterm elections

    23:56 Will Tom DeLonge sit down for an interview?

    25:13 Missing generals & scientists

    33:37 Jake Sullivan break in

    37:26 Failures of the secret service

    39:13 India’s government’s interest in UFOs

    42:49 Final thoughts

  14. The 'real' secret space program | Reality Check

    1 h 13 min

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    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Canadian documentary filmmaker Darcy Weir, whose films "Dark Alliance" and "Dark Alliance: The Next Generation" examine the secret space program stories promoted by Corey Goode, David Wilcock and the New Age conference circuit. Weir describes a 2022 deposition in which Goode stated he had never physically been to space, the copyright actions that took his earlier film offline and the 20 and Back, Dark Fleet and med bed accounts that spread through Gaia TV programming.


    Coulthart and Weir separate that mythology from the documented record of covert space activity, from the Manned Orbiting Laboratory and the X-37B to Gary McKinnon's account of his NASA intrusion, before turning to David Wilcock's final years as a director at Stavatti Aerospace and a company statement, read on air, about an insider's "space fighter" drawing that turned out to be a canceled Navy attack aircraft. The final stretch covers orbital encounters witnessed by NASA astronauts and recorded by military satellites, including the Skylab 3 object, the Air Force Fast Walker database, DSP Flight 7 and STS-80 imagery now listed as unidentified in the government's Pursue release.


    🔺 Secret Space UFOs: Fast Walkers & Rise of the TR3B

    Military secrecy, covert aerospace programs, and the biggest cover-up questions you never thought to ask.

    ▶️ Fast Walkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIol5hApCfw&rco=1

    ▶️ Rise of the TR3B: https://youtu.be/iAW7N5Q7vv4?si=vx4JHpXz6uWHIUkp

    Over a 13-year career, Weir has produced over 20 independent documentary productions, including 18 feature-length documentaries and two specialized TV docuseries. While his work is widely accessible to mainstream audiences via major streaming giants, including Amazon Prime and Apple TV, he is also dedicated to releasing high-quality investigations directly to the public.


    🌍 Puerto Rico's UAP

    The 2013 Aguadilla Homeland Security incident is the most analyzed UAP footage ever captured. Hard data, real answers.

    ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Qs3bJIDLQ

    Weir has become a high-profile figure within the global "Disclosure Movement," highly respected for his ability to make complex, enigmatic information accessible and engaging to the general public. He focuses on the human element behind extraordinary events.


    📡 Pascagoula 73

    1973. Two fishermen. One encounter that changed everything. Still unexplained 50 years later.

    ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/show/SCf_vgYIAGbRro6iHBIlHB4g

    Because of his investigative rigor, Weir is a frequent speaker at UAP/UFO conferences, a recurring guest on top-tier podcasts, and a lecturer on the findings uncovered throughout his filmmaking career. He approaches the subject with a critical eye, aiming to protect genuine disclosure by holding the community accountable.

    🎬 Dark Alliance: The Next Generation

    Not everything in the disclosure space is truth. This one teaches you how to tell the difference.

    ▶️ https://tubitv.com/movies/100053908/dark-alliance-the-next-generation


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    5:34 Corey Goode's Copyright Claims

    8:02 Twenty and Back and Total Recall

    12:01 Documented Covert Space Programs

    20:42 A Word From Our Sponsor, Morgan & Morgan

    22:45 Gary McKinnon and the TR-3B

    26:31 The 20 and Back Witnesses

    32:49 Med Beds

    36:07 Deliberate Disinformation?

    40:03 David Wilcock and Stavatti

    46:56 NASA Astronaut Sightings

    54:24 The Fast Walker Database

    59:40 The STS-48 Footage

    1:01:29 DSP Flight 7, 1984

    1:04:22 Shuttle Crew Transmissions

    1:09:42 STS-80 and the Pursue Files

  15. US just deployed space weapons — here's what we know | Reality Check

    53 min

    If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/RossRoss Coulthart explores …

    Notas del episodio

    If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross


    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode of "Reality Check," Coulthart tackles questions about why he believes "catastrophic disclosure" may be inevitable, the science behind the wormholes in “Interstellar" following newly declassified Pentagon documents and the U.S. Space Force's surprise announcement that it deployed weapons to space. He also shares an Australian soldier's previously unreported UAP sighting from Afghanistan and dives into meditation, near-death experiences and consciousness research. Ross is also joined by a listener, who provides a deep dive into Steven Spielberg's father and uncle, who allegedly worked at Wright Field during the Roswell wreckage recovery and raises the question of whether Spielberg's films are a form of soft disclosure.


    Preparing for war in space: inside a Space Force base | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcigf4t3I3E


    #SpaceForce #UAP #disclosure


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    :53 Clarification on David Grusch’s lawsuit

    8:40 Why are certain UAP files selected for release?

    14:23 Wormhole research

    19:27 Weapons in space?

    31:32 UAP sightings during the war in Afghanistan

    33:55 Update on Ross’ meditation practices

    37:01 Near death experiences

    39:40 A viewer joins the program

    41:39 Steven Spielberg’s family connection to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

    50:00 Final thoughts

  16. The case for UAP science | Reality Check

    1 h 55 min

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Matthew Szydagis, an astroparticle physicist at the University at Albany SUNY, who was recently appointed to the UAP Science Advisory …

    Notas del episodio

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Matthew Szydagis, an astroparticle physicist at the University at Albany SUNY, who was recently appointed to the UAP Science Advisory Council for the White House and federal agencies. Szydagis describes what the council can and cannot do without security clearances, including the more than 50 declassification requests its members have already filed and names the Varginha UFO case as the one he most wants disclosed.


    He walks Coulthart through the energy a Tic Tac maneuver would demand, and why he treats the claim that interstellar distances are too great as a misreading of relativity rather than a limit on visitation. He also gives a detailed account of his ongoing testing of one of the Art's Parts samples entrusted to him by Tom DeLonge and Hal Puthoff, including the millimeter-scale holes that point toward a human origin. The harassment that followed came not from debunkers but from people who want the sample to be alien, and he says it has been worse than anything skeptics have sent him.


    #UAP #science #declassification


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Kanyon Lyons


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    2:18 Funding UAP Science at Albany

    5:22 Why One Camera Is Never Enough

    17:08 Disclosure From the Bottom Up

    19:17 Inside the Science Advisory Council

    27:17 Stigma and Threats Against Researchers

    30:26 What Catastrophic Disclosure Means

    38:46 Energy From the Quantum Vacuum

    44:54 Evidence Versus Proof

    48:38 Time Dilation and Warp Drive

    55:16 Eric Davis and Extraordinary Claims

    1:04:51 Testing Art's Parts

    1:12:22 The Millimeter Holes

    1:20:54 Ubatuba Sample

    1:25:09 Malevolent NHI and the Trickster

    1:29:18 Faith, Demons, and Ontological Shock

    1:39:58 Designing the Ideal UAP Program

    1:43:42 Is Physics Being Suppressed?

  17. Ross Coulthart Q&A: Coulthart: New whistleblower rules are 'not transparency'

    43 min

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about why there is still no official government platform for ordinary Americans to report UAP sightings, whether DMT could ever be used as a legitimate research tool at Skinwalker Ranch, and the ongoing speculation around a major UAP-related event in 2027. He also breaks down the "zoo hypothesis" and whether non-human intelligence is deliberately avoiding contact and international guidelines for how humanity should respond if a genuine ET signal is ever confirmed.Watch Meagan's show Unreported here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-CHAPTER SUMMARY:0:00 Intro0:49 UAP disclosure rules1:21 DoW responds to Reality Check7:33 Discrepancies and confusion around guidance11:32 Where can the public report UFO sightings?19:23 Drug taking and skinwalker experiments21:37 2027 & 2034 speculation24:47 Are NHI trying to conceal their presence?27:42 Does Ross recommend trying to make contact with NHI?33:28 Will there be a tridactyl follow-up?39:27 What's behind Ross?41:06 Final thoughtsCREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine JenkinsonResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Anthony Diasio

  18. Jacques Vallée's final report | Reality Check

    1 h 50 min

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Dr. Jacques Vallée, the astrophysicist, computer scientist and venture capitalist whose seven-volume "Forbidden Science" diaries have shaped UAP …

    Notas del episodio

    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Dr. Jacques Vallée, the astrophysicist, computer scientist and venture capitalist whose seven-volume "Forbidden Science" diaries have shaped UAP research for six decades. They discuss the final volume, "Forbidden Science 7." Vallée describes the data warehouse of some 260,000 sightings he built for the Bigelow Aerospace project funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency, why the work was cut off after roughly three years before the analysis he designed could run and the fact he has never been debriefed from his clearance.


    He walks Ross through his correspondence with a master remote viewer he calls "Gilbert," who describes being taken inside a laboratory built into a mountain and brought face to face with a living nonhuman entity that answered in configurations of light. He also tells Ross that he once came face to face with an entity himself. Vallée says a member in good standing of the National Academy of Sciences told him the academy was warned it could lose funding if it moved into the subject, and after sixty years of investigation, he has concluded that nobody is actually in charge of the phenomenon inside the U.S. government.


    The conversation closes on a 1966 Louisiana case in which a physics professor watched an object radiate energy on the order of a nuclear power station and on the piece of tree bark Vallée has kept ever since, waiting for a way to test it that does not cut into the wood.


    #ForbiddenScience #BigelowAerospace #NationalAcademyofSciences


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    4:31 The Answers That Emerged in 2025

    7:16 The Capella Database

    15:58 Why the AAWSAP Project Was Shut Down

    20:59 Working at the Wrong Level

    31:58 Gilbert and the Living Entity

    40:07 Inside the Mountain Laboratory

    48:43 Hynek and the 1984 Hearings

    57:20 Communication Through Light

    1:10:07 Higher Reality Levels

    1:17:25 Samples and Recovered Craft

    1:23:45 The National Academy Was Warned

    1:26:14 Nobody Is in Charge

    1:36:55 The Haynesville Case

    1:43:23 Using Tree Bark to Measure Energy

  19. Ross Coulthart Q&A: Did nonhuman intelligence really warn astronauts off the moon? | Reality Check

    33 min

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    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's Q&A, Coulthart tackles questions about the Kordylewski dust clouds and whether they could be conscious, long-circulating claims that nonhuman intelligence warned Apollo astronauts never to return to the Moon, and why UFO "hotspots" so often correlate with nuclear weapons facilities like White Sands, China Lake, and the Nevada Test Site. He also addresses the science behind human telepathy and psionic ability and breaks down China's FAST telescope SETI protocols.


    #Apollo17 #nonhumanintelligence #China


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:39 Research at Green Mountain military base

    6:45 Kordylewski clouds & consciousness

    12:32 Alien warnings to the Apollo astronauts?

    19:10 Recurring UFO sighting hotspots

    21:57 Telepathic communication

    25:39 Chinese FAST telescope & communication warnings

    31:01 Final thoughts

  20. Physicist, former NASA researcher takes UAP seriously | Reality Check

    59 min

    Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business at https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMNIn this episode of "Reality Check," recorded at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference in Toronto, Ross …

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    In this episode of "Reality Check," recorded at the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies conference in Toronto, Ross Coulthart sits down with professor Kevin Knuth, the University at Albany SUNY physicist and former NASA Ames researcher. His 2019 peer-reviewed paper in the journal Entropy estimated the 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac at thousands of G with no sonic boom, no exhaust and no heat signature.

    Knuth opens with the anomalous experiences that shaped him long before physics, from a childhood intuition on a Wisconsin bench seat to the night he and his toddler son both saw a boy standing at a bedroom gate in their Albany home. The conversation moves through the 1988 Montana cattle mutilations, the Malmstrom missile shutdowns and Knuth's own hypothesis for how a craft warping spacetime could knock out an ICBM's navigation system, and his account that AARO had a copy of his paper two months before Sean Kirkpatrick told the Senate no such peer-reviewed work existed.

    He describes sonar data from a New Zealand Navy frigate showing an 800-foot object closing 2.5 kilometers in 25 seconds underwater, the UAPx sensor network now deploying radar and RF spectrum analysis in Connecticut, and the limits already placed on the new UAP Science Advisory Council, which has been told it will see only unclassified material. Asked what he wants most, Knuth says he would like to stand inside one of these crafts, and he has spoken with people who say it's possible.


    #UAP #TicTacUFO #AARO


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Kanyon Lyons


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Intro

    2:51 A Childhood Premonition

    5:35 A Word from Our Sponsor, Odoo

    7:02 The Boy in His Son's Room

    14:22 Montana Cattle Mutilations, 1988

    17:17 Malmstrom Missile Shutdowns

    21:51 The 2019 Entropy Paper

    23:26 Kirkpatrick's Senate Testimony

    25:41 Energy Conservation and G-Limits

    29:56 JAL 1628 and the NASA Report

    35:42 UAPx Sensor Network

    40:21 NDAs and Crash Retrieval

    42:09 Transmedium Cases and Sonar Data

    47:22 Stigma in Academia

    52:03 The UAP Science Advisory Council

  21. Ross Coulthart Q&A: Pentagon wants access to private UFO archive | Reality Check

    32 min

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    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about President Trump's NDA-waiver executive order and why he says it doesn't go far enough to protect whistleblowers.


    Plus, a report on drone incursions at White Sands Missile Range that Coulthart says is an attempt to muddy the waters on the real lure-and-shoot-down operation, including a new claim that nuclear technology is involved. He also dives into historical contact cases involving so-called "Nordic" humanoid beings. Coulthart reacts to Sandra Bullock's on-record UFO sighting account and delivers a passionate take on why the topic still gets mocked. And an explosive new report states that AARO is requesting private records from a database relating to UAP sightings. Ross confirms its existence and calls it the “most comprehensive” archive possibly in the world.


    #UAPs #disclosure #AARO


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:35 AARO requesting private records

    4:46 Trump waiving NDAs

    12:38 Are NHI allowing craft to be shot down?

    19:14 20th century Nordic cases

    26:39 Celebrity UFO sightings

    31:06 Final thoughts

  22. Why 250 British officers finally spoke about 'close encounters' | Reality Check

    1 h 16 min

    Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business at https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMNIn this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with inspector Roy Teague, a serving West Midlands …

    Notas del episodio

    Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business at https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMN


    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with inspector Roy Teague, a serving West Midlands Police tactical firearms commander whose new book, "Close Encounters of the Police Kind," collects unidentified aerial phenomenon encounters from about 250 British police officers. Teague explains how a 2016 documentary on UAP over American missile fields led him to ask which witnesses the public would find hardest to dismiss and why he concluded the answer was serving police.


    The conversation works through his strongest cases, among them a metropolitan police helicopter crew and an Army warrant officer who watched a dart-shaped aircraft over central London accelerate away and disappear into an opening in the sky in July 1997; an off-duty constable who lost two and a half hours on the A14 with his wife, his children and the family dog; and a Grampian officer whose MRI shows a small metallic object behind his right eye. Teague also details the pressure that follows these sightings, from a colleague grounded and quietly debriefed by the RAF at a private address in Croydon, to the senior officers who advised him to pick another subject to write about. Of the officers who came to him, all but nine agreed to be named and Teague argues the ridicule attached to this subject is exactly why so few of these accounts have ever surfaced.


    #UAP #UFO #Britain


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    1:51 Why a Serving Inspector Started Asking

    4:50 London 1997, a Police Helicopter

    7:52 A Word From Odoo

    9:21 What They Did With the Footage

    16:40 Ninety Nine Percent Said Nothing

    20:34 Missing Time on the A14

    24:52 Aldridge 1971 and J. Allen Hynek

    29:00 Aboyne 1989 and an MRI Scan

    34:22 Benbecula, 640 Miles in 80 Seconds

    37:38 PC Barman's Malta Photographs

    40:50 A Black Triangle a Mile Wide

    44:20 The Risks of Speaking Out

    48:50 Sergeant Spinks and the Vigo Village Saucer

    54:36 The Too Difficult Box

    59:08 Chased Down the A19 in 1973

    1:02:28 Todmorden, Adamski, and PC Alan Godfrey

    1:10:06 The Hitchhiker Effect and 250 Officers

  23. White House authorized secret UFO 'retrieval' program, Coulthart says | Reality Check

    40 min

    Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your businessOdoo Link: https://www.odoo.com/r/4gMNGo to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps …

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    Check Out Odoo, The all-in-one platform to manage your business

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    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.


    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the Majestic 12 documents and the alleged 1954 "Eisenhower Alien Treaty."


    He also answers questions about Eric Davis' claim that the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program might still be active alongside a White House-authorized covert retrieval program and whether scientist Avi Loeb is being used unwittingly in a government disinformation effort. Coulthart addresses the mysterious disappearance of a U.S. general, ongoing drone incursions at an Australian air force base, new evidence tying Donald Rumsfeld to the legacy UAP program and why NASA has never released a single continuous video of a full orbit around the moon.


    #AATIP #UFOs #UAP


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:45 Robert Bigelow breaking his silence

    3:41 Is the U.S. working with NHI?

    7:51 Is AATIP still active under a new name?

    12:24 Is Avi Loeb being used for disinformation unknowingly?

    16:21 Missing sources

    18:14 Drone sightings at Williamstown Air Force base in Australia

    26:21 Donald Rumsfeld’s link to the legacy program

  24. 'Something is observing us': Man tracks every flyover at America's nuclear plants | Reality Check

    1 h 22 min

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.In this …

    Notas del episodio

    Go to https://ground.news/ross to get 40% off unlimited access to the news tool I actually trust. It helps you cut through the noise and understand how stories are being reported across the spectrum.


    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Daryl Johnson, the former senior security specialist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who spent more than a decade monitoring and trending every reported drone and UAP flyover at America's commercial nuclear power plants. Johnson reveals that close to 300 flyovers were logged between 2014 and 2025, with fewer than one percent ever traced back to an operator, and that the vast majority of plants still have no no-fly zone, no radar and no aerial detection requirement of any kind.

    Johnson recounts the incidents that defied a conventional drone explanation, including a black triangle that hovered over Pennsylvania's Susquehanna plant for more than two hours in 2022 and a December 2024 incident near Virginia's Surry plant in which lights vanished and reappeared a mile away within seconds before ascending out of sight. Johnson also describes the resistance he met inside the NRC when he pushed for UAP reporting guidance, and the AARO data request that first put the phenomenon on his desk. His conclusion, drawn from his new book "Unguarded Skies," is blunt: something is observing us and we don't know what it is or who controls it.


    #nuclearplant #UAPs #drones


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Tony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    4:04 What Are These Drones?

    5:06 Why Nuclear Plants Are Targets

    7:40 A Word From Our Sponsors

    10:12 How Serious is this Threat?

    11:08 Bigger Than a Vehicle

    13:11 Two Hours Over Susquehanna

    15:33 No Detection Equipment

    17:09 Less Than One Percent Identified

    18:09 Discovering the UAP Question

    20:05 Where Plants Are Vulnerable

    23:47 Lessons From Ukraine

    25:43 Only Two No-Fly Zones

    28:06 Fighting His Own Agency

    32:09 Security Rolled Back

    37:21 The Inexpensive Fix

    39:26 How Japan Solved It

    41:47 An Order Without Teeth

    44:52 Triangles in the Archive

    47:18 The Surry Incident

    48:51 Laughed at by Management

    52:14 Incomplete Data to AARO

    55:57 "Something Is Observing Us"

    1:00:20 Nearly 300 Flyovers

    1:01:25 Told to Stand Down

    1:04:29 A Secret American Craft?

    1:06:08 The White Paper

    1:08:25 The Pantex Contrast

    1:11:07 No Aerial Detection Required

    1:14:07 Can't Jam, Can't Shoot

    1:16:26 Safer Skies and Cotton Bill

    1:18:51 What Does He Think?

  25. 'Give us the authorization': David Grusch's direct message to Trump | Reality Check

    37 min

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the alleged decadeslong U.S. Air Force disinformation campaign, Rep. Eric Burlison's confirmation of an alleged "luring and shoot-down" operation at White Sands Missile Range involving high-pulse microwave weapons, and why the national media has failed to press President Trump. Plus, Coulthart responds to a viewer question on alleged Chinese government contact with reptilian entities and China's own UFO crash-retrieval program.


    #DavidGrusch #UFOs #UAPs


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson, Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    1:36 Ross responds to Grusch’s new claims

    9:38 Reddit leak about a disinformation campaign ran from an air force base

    16:20 Rep. Burlison’s claims that the U.S. government is downing UAPs

    19:00 Why doesn’t the media ask Trump directly about UAPs

    29:05 Reports of Chinese government contact with NHI

    34:08 Final thoughts

  26. Secret Soviet UFOs: What happened when two scientists knocked on a door in Estonia? | Reality Check

    33 min

    Something metallic turned up under a garden in a quiet Tallinn suburb in 1969, and the Soviets spent the next twenty years trying to get it out, bringing in excavators and scientists and military, borrowing the …

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    Something metallic turned up under a garden in a quiet Tallinn suburb in 1969, and the Soviets spent the next twenty years trying to get it out, bringing in excavators and scientists and military, borrowing the house from its owners and living in it, digging on and off until perestroika ended the whole effort and they walked away. Astrophysicist Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and Ocean X co-founder Dennis Åsberg went to that address to find out what is still down there. Nobody came to the door, but the neighbor who had watched all of it from his window talked to them for an hour.


    This is their full conversation with Ross Coulthart, recorded for "Secret Soviet UFOs" and running well past what the special had room for. Villarroel walks through the peer-reviewed work that brought her to Estonia, highly reflective objects photographed in orbit years before anyone on Earth had launched a satellite, and why she thinks the same search belongs in the ground. Åsberg ties Merivälja to the Baltic Sea anomaly his team found on sonar roughly 300 kilometers away and argues that both could predate the last ice age. Between them, they count five European cases and will not give up the coordinates of one of them. What nobody can answer yet is what sits under that garden, and the only thing that would settle it is ground-penetrating radar in the yard of a man who has already told them no.


    This interview is part of our Secret Soviet UFOs special, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vjO5Xn56s

    Watch the full interview with Mart Sander here: https://youtu.be/OQULI6QqIhY?si=LahZm4UFT_lF4PmY

    Follow Reality Check on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@RealityCheckNN⁩


    #ObjectM #Estonia #UAP


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    1:55 The European Crash Retrieval Initiative

    3:09 The Australian Who Sent the Tip

    4:39 The Whole Street Knows

    5:44 An Unanswered Door, and an Hour With the Neighbor

    7:13 Is It Still Down There?

    10:03 Reflective Objects Before Satellites

    12:00 The Nuremberg Engraving and The Baltic Sea Anomaly Connection

    14:22 Five Cases, Coordinates Withheld

    16:16 Dead Sensors and KGB Reports

    17:41 Too Large to Move

    19:13 The Japanese Radar Survey

    21:45 Twenty Years in the House

    23:14 The 2017 Analysis

    24:53 Before the Last Ice Age

    27:58 Why Science Assumes the Mundane

    30:17 How to Reach Us

  27. KGB swarms suburban house in UFO hunt | Reality Check: Secret Soviet UFOs

    1 h 1 min

    The UFO story is not just an American one. As a new era of drone war rages in Eastern Europe, strange sightings in the skies invite questions about an overlooked Cold War mystery in the same region. Archive …

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    The UFO story is not just an American one. As a new era of drone war rages in Eastern Europe, strange sightings in the skies invite questions about an overlooked Cold War mystery in the same region. Archive records beg an urgent question: why did the Soviets seriously investigate an alleged crashed UFO behind the Iron Curtain, and why can't anyone close the case today? NewsNation takes you on the ground to Estonia with the scientists pushing for answers, and the man who claims to have a piece of the mysterious "Object M." Features new interviews between Ross Coulthart and Dennis Asberg, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, and Mart Sander.


    Watch the full interview with Mart Sander here: https://youtu.be/OQULI6QqIhY?si=LahZm4UFT_lF4PmY


    Follow Reality Check on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@RealityCheckNN


    CHAPTER SUMMARY

    0:00 The Drone Wars

    2:49 Stalin and the Soviet Union

    4:56 George Knapp smuggles Soviet KGB files out of Russia

    13:08 David Grusch: U.S. in UFO Cold War with Russia & China

    15:47 Dennis Asberg and Beatriz Villarroel investigating 'Object M'

    19:24 Why KGB flooded this Estonian suburb

    26:30 Meet Igor Volke, Estonian UFOlogist

    28:43 NewsNation visits the so-called 'UFO House'

    33:17 Meet Mart Sander & where is 'Object M' today?

    46:10 Can testing results on 'Object M' be trusted?

    50:05 Estonia's long history of UFO sightings

    54:28 How NATO nations monitor airspace today in former Soviet Union

    57:22 Russian drone incursions

    1:00:07 Ross Coulthart's Closing Message


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Robert Jones

    Editor: Kanyon Lyons

    Photographer: Augustin ‘Gus’ Chauvet

    Designers: Lauren Cowin, Doug Howell

    Additional footage and images provided by: Getty, Associated Press, Enigma Labs, Mart Sander, Timo Tahvanainen | YT Shadow Camera, Jesse Michels, KLAS-TV


    #ufo #kgb #sovietunion #realitycheck #rosscoulthart #newsnation




    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

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  28. Ross Coulthart Q&A: Skinwalker's dire wolf, CIA cover-ups, and time-traveling UFOs

    32 min

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to …

    Notas del episodio

    Ross Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week. In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles questions about the reported dire wolf recovery and DNA results at Skinwalker Ranch, the CIA's continued influence inside the ODNI following Tulsi Gabbard's exit, and whether the legacy program is in possession of technology that could make time travel possible. Coulthart also responds to a retired detective's daytime sighting of a silver metallic cylinder over a Southern California freeway and why the phenomenon may be capable of manipulating who does and doesn't see it. Plus: new details on Admiral Thomas Wilson's alleged legacy-program briefing to Dr. Eric Davis, why his national security oath may outlast any presidential order, and whether Soviet-era "underwater beings" have anything to do with modern USO (Unidentified Submerged Objects) sightings.Watch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-Ross' interviews with Brandon Fugal 2025: Skinwalker Ranch owner says former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick lied, shows proof | Reality Checkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtilGOcNmgYRoss' interviews with Brandon Fugal 2024: Skinwalker Ranch, Oak Island curse and Kona Blue | Reality Checkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNEJaw-ErksRoss' interview with Jacques Vallée Jacques Vallée: Project Blue Book, space travel and military secrecy | Reality Checkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqptVKs7wbcReality Check: Underwater UFOs with Richard Dolan interview Reality Check with Ross Coulthart: Underwater UFOshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvorziWMm8CHAPTER SUMMARY:0:00 Intro0:36 Reaction to Jesse Michael’s interview with Brandon Fugal5:50 Lack of reports from Brandon Fugal on Skinwalker Ranch8:24 Aaron Lukas’ role at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence11:50 Has the legacy program cracked time travel?17:39 Why does the phenomenon only reveal themselves to certain experiencers22:37 Was Admiral Thomas Wilson recruited to the legacy program?26:12 Is there a connection between mermaids and USOs?29:02 Final thoughtsCREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Christine Jenkinson, Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: John NockOn "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to [email protected] NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/

  29. Object M: The buried Estonian mystery the KGB spent years trying to reach | Reality Check

    1 h 8 min

    If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/RossIn this episode of …

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    If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross


    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Estonian filmmaker and author Mart Sander, whose new book, "Object M: Estonia's Buried Mystery," traces one of the strangest and least understood cases in Europe. In 1969, a man drilling a well in the Tallinn suburb of Merivälja struck something solid roughly seven meters down, and the fragments he broke loose eventually reached Soviet laboratories that concluded the alloy could not have been produced on this planet.


    Sander walks Coulthart through the two decades of excavation that followed, the shafts sunk under the garden, the KGB files stamped top secret and the researchers who reported burns, blackouts and stranger effects the closer they got to whatever sits beneath the upper layer. He also lays out the counterarguments, from the meteorite explanation to the claim this is a forgotten first World War superalloy buried in a hurry, and explains why the physical evidence points in two directions more than a 100,000 years apart.


    What neither man can account for is why, years after the Soviets left Estonia, two strangers turned up at the homeowner's door with a suitcase of cash for a small suburban house that nobody had ever proven held anything at all.


    #unexplained #mystery #objectm


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson

    Associate Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

    More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/

    Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp

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    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Intro

    6:00 A Story That Found Him, and a Hundred Thousand Year Contradiction

    7:26 An Ancient Wildlife Camera, and We Are the Wildlife

    8:22 Shards of an Outer Layer, and No Way to Reach What Lies Below

    11:04 A Word From Our Sponsors

    13:10 His Favorite Teacher Lived in the House

    14:43 What Two Years of Digging Did to the Family Inside

    17:12 Viivika, the Caretaker Paid to Keep the Legend Alive

    19:30 Seven Meters Down, Into Soviet Laboratories, and Out of Estonia

    24:03 A Claim About Two Occupants

    25:37 Aleksander Dejev, the Villain of the Book

    29:27 Is It Still There, or Is It Moving Through the Soil

    30:13 Nuremberg, April 1561, and the Calculation That Led to Tallinn

    34:33 What the Vatican Archives Say

    36:03 D Generators in the Basement

    39:11 A Swedish Psychic and a Russian File

    42:03 Photographs of the Dig, and Nothing of the Object

    44:06 Igor Volke's Two Objects

    45:58 Bottomless Pockets

    47:40 A Meteorite, or a 1917 Superalloy Buried in a Hurry

    51:05 Books Flying, and a Dog That Would Not Settle

    52:41 Vormsi Enn Says Bury It, and by 1988 They Do

    54:54 Even the Hardened Skeptics Agree Something Is Down There

    55:41 Japanese Television Arrives

    58:48 The Public Discrediting of Aleksander Dejev

    1:01:42 A Suitcase of Money

    1:04:17 Ross Asks Mart

    1:06:10 The Book, the Movie, and an Invitation to the Dig

    1:07:22 Coming Up on Reality Check

  30. Ross Coulthart Q&A: What really happened to Skywatcher? | Reality Check

    34 min

    If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/RossRoss Coulthart explores …

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    If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/RossRoss Coulthart explores mysterious untold stories using a fact-based approach to address various topics, from unidentified aerial phenomena to other mysteries that often go unreported. Now, he is turning to viewers, answering their pressing questions each week.


    In this week's episode, Coulthart tackles the most requested question to date: What really happened to Skywatcher? The UAP research group founded by Jake Barber, James Fowler and investor Alex Klokus abruptly went dark. Coulthart addresses Skywatcher's mysterious disappearance from its Texas operations, the real story behind February's sudden FAA shutdown of El Paso's airspace and how a classified U.S. government operation is now allegedly using Skywatcher's own "dog whistle" and psionic summoning techniques to detect and shoot down anomalous craft.CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson, Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat, Sarah Jackson


    On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.


    More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/


    Email your questions to [email protected]


    NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.

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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    0:37 What happened to Skywatcher?

    3:20 Is Skywatcher working with government agencies?

    7:44 Ross reveals why El Paso’s airspace was shut down earlier this year

    13:27 Airspace closure over Skywatcher operations

    19:04 UAP intercept operations

    23:13 What is the President being told?

    25:39 Why would Skywatcher partner with government agencies?

    27:02 Should Jake Barber testify to Congress?

    31:35 Downing of civilian aircraft

    34:26 Final thoughts

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