Are They Preparing Us for Alien Disclosure? (Richard Dolan)

The latest rumors of an imminent White House announcement concerning UFOs and non-human intelligence have generated some discussion. In this video, I examine what is actually known and explain why I remain unconvinced that a genuine disclosure plan is underway. I also take a close look at two new documents addressing the psychological and social consequences of disclosure. Some of their recommendations seem sensible, on the face of it. But others envision an extraordinary national apparatus involving HHS, intelligence agencies, educators, clinicians, religious leaders, coordinated public messaging, and population-level behavioral-health monitoring. This raises a basic question: Who will control the information, and who will define the public’s proper response? Finally, I return to the historical record—official memoranda, extraordinary military encounters, and decades of crash-retrieval testimony—which strongly suggests that the real problem is far older and more serious than the latest Washington rumor.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 12, 2026.]

'They're here' — a Harvard scientist on UFOs | Jesse Weber Live (News Nation)

If advanced civilizations exist in the universe, why haven’t they reached out to us? That’s the basic premise behind “The Fermi Paradox.” Theoretical physicist Avi Loeb joins “Jesse Weber Live” to discuss some possibilities. “We’re really ignorant about most of the constituents in the universe, including technologies well beyond what we have,” he says.



With all the UFO sightings, the obvious answer is that they are already here.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 4, 2026.]

The UFO Psyop Theory Is Missing Its Psyop (Richard Dolan)

The Wall Street Journal says our UFO “obsession” is distracting us from real national-security threats—and even acknowledges that military and intelligence institutions have sometimes deliberately encouraged UFO hysteria. Fine. But that creates an awkward question. If the UAP discussion is a coordinated psyop to convince us aliens are here, why isn’t one of the establishment’s most powerful propaganda organs on board?



The author of the Wall Street Journal article, James B. Meigs, is a known 911 disinformation artist. He's one of those 'conspiracy debunkers' and part of the gaggle of skeptics who use false arguments to make their case. He has a long history of protecting corrupt government actions. His obviously bankrupt arguments about UFOs reveal himself to be an embellishment hack, or a fool.

Editor's comment:

I post this stuff because it is analytical and an education about mainstream media lies and deception. But in today's climate this sort of disinformation is a transparent joke. It worked better in the past before all of the present disclosure videos - when the official denials were still in place - as opposed to the recent admissions.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 30, 2026.]

New Study: Missing Data Behind 112 UAP Videos (Richard Dolan)

A new scientific paper examines all 112 military UAP videos released through the government’s PURSUE program, and reaches a damning conclusion. The imagery may be genuine and potentially important, but the government has withheld the range data, aircraft information, sensor settings, unredacted telemetry and radar records needed to determine what these objects were actually doing. I have argued that while the videos do show interesting activity, this is not scientific transparency. The public deserves not only to see the videos, but also the evidence required to understand them. More than half a century after James McDonald published “Science in Default,” the government is still preventing independent scientists from resolving the UFO mystery. The imagery is important, but we must demand the complete data.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 24, 2026.]

After a Lifetime of Mystery, What Remains? (Richard Dolan)

What does living with an unresolved mystery for many decades do to a person? In this video, I reflect on how the UFO subject changed my understanding of history, authority, secrecy, truth, and even the search for disclosure itself. But this is not simply a personal retrospective. It is about what happens to anyone who spends a lifetime pursuing answers that continually reveal deeper questions. Additionally, why the search for truth in the world may ultimately lead us toward the mystery inside ourselves.



A very rational look at the subject, about how to deal with a complicated issue with varying levels/types of (incomplete) evidence and speculation. This is a powerhouse talk oozing with wisdom and humility. A MUST SEE video reflecting upon one's ego and general mindset/shifting assumptions, where he says the investigator is part of the investigation and to be mindful of this fact. Openness and discipline is essential, with warnings about false certainty. Dolan points out that he sees his work as a journey into understanding in general. This talk, and Richard Feynman's lecture on the Scientific Method, are invaluable when it comes to rationally thinking about our world. 

Best comments on You Tube:

@KyleNitzsche
This level headedness is precisely why I have listened carefully to Dolan for many years.

@nicholasmarshall7827
Wisdom and humility. That felt like a personal chat Richard. I am sure most would agree.

@00ddub
One of the things I enjoy most about Richard is what a grounded thinker he is and also how careful he is in presenting his thoughts, not only on his research, but also on his remarks about other people’s experiences and views. It’s refreshing.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 19, 2026.]

Tasmania’s Mystery Lights Continue: What Is Happening Over Meander Valley? (Interstellar Discussion)

Strange lights have been appearing over Meander Valley and Mother Cummings Peak in Tasmania almost every clear night since early July 2026. Up to six bright lights at a time, moving at sharp angles, visible for up to 45 minutes and seen from 20 - 30 kilometres away.

Meander Valley Mayor Wayne Johnston has publicly called for answers after receiving the first reports on 6 July. He and other locals initially thought they were drones but commercial pilots say battery life doesn’t match the long durations. Police, Parks and Wildlife, and other authorities have no explanation.

In this full investigation we cover:

The latest witness accounts and circulating footage

Mayor Johnston’s statements and call for people to come forward
Radio interviews and local media coverage

Links to Tasmania’s longer history of unexplained aerial sightings (including Bass Strait cases)

The lights are still being reported as of August 2026. What are they?



Earthlights phenomena or something else? 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 18, 2026.]

FBI unveils ENORMOUS UFO and new UAP Hotspot in the American Southwest! (Angry Astronaut)

Very little of the latest DOW UAP drop was particularly interesting.
Just more grainy thermal footage that, without context, could be anything.
But the FBI was much more informative, unveiling a new UFO hotspot, with many unique cases, across the American West...including a colossal Triangular UAP!



Angry Astronaut channel doing a great job in clearly explaining the FBI UFO sighting reports that came with videos, from 2002 up to 2026, this year. They describe a lot of triangular shaped objects, that had a similar/identical appearance to those seen in the Hudson Valley sightings of the early 1980s, and those in Belgium in 1990. The big deal is these things ranged from being aircraft sized to 'as big as a parking lot'. They could move slowly, or stop, and then take off at supersonic speeds, or faster, and all completely silently. In the Hudson Valley sightings there were numerous reports of people getting out of their cars and saying the object seen was so low they could almost touch it. We know from officially released US military film, and direct admission, that UFOs are real. The only questions are where are they from, what is their purpose and how do they function.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 12, 2026.]

UAP Tranche 5: If You Think There’s Nothing Here, Look Again (Richard Dolan)

The fifth White House UAP release contains far more than many people seem to realize.

In this deep dive, I examine some genuinely remarkable contemporary and historical cases: a Special Operations AC-130 encounter with multiple “cold orbs” over the Gulf of Oman; a 1964 Navy pursuit of a delta-shaped object tracked above 3,800 knots; new material surrounding the USS Omaha encounter; extraordinary FBI reports involving enormous triangular objects, close encounters, thermal detections, and a bizarre five-hour event in the western United States; and newly assembled historical records showing how seriously the U.S. military was privately treating the UFO problem as far back as the 1940s and 1950s.

The release remains frustratingly incomplete—critical telemetry, locations, dates, and other details are often missing or redacted. And no, this is not “Disclosure.” But anyone claiming there is nothing important here simply isn’t paying attention.

Taken together, these documents and videos add new evidence to a phenomenon the U.S. government has been encountering, investigating, and struggling to understand for nearly eighty years.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 10, 2026.]

3I Atlas hasn't left! Two more bizarre discoveries just destroyed all natural explanations! (Angry Astronaut)

We may not be able to see 3I Atlas any more, but it hasn't left the Solar System!
In fact, it's still inside the orbit of Saturn.
And astronomers just made two bizarre discoveries about this mysterious interstellar object that punched some huge holes in the latest natural explanation! So what's left?



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, August 1, 2026.]

What If We Have More in Common with Aliens Than We Think? | Richard Dolan Intelligent Disclosure

For many years, I've focused on the ways an advanced non-human civilization might differ from our own. In this video, I'd like to explore the opposite question. What might we actually have in common? This is a speculative discussion rather than an attempt to present definitive answers.

Drawing on anthropology, the history of civilization, information theory, and decades of UFO research, I consider the possibility that any technological civilization, wherever it arises, must eventually confront many of the same fundamental challenges: managing knowledge, increasing complexity, coordination, and long-term survival.

If so, then in addition to offering clues about advanced Non-Human Intelligences, the UFO mystery may also provide an opportunity to think more deeply about the nature of civilization itself—and perhaps about our own future as a species.



Dolan is talking about alien visitation in terms of other creatures that have developed through evolution. But some of the beings may be bio-engineered, or they might be AI constructs, that only look biological, or they may be 'other dimensional' too. Regardless, they seem to be operating in a rational, science-based way (as if we are animals to be observed).  

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 19, 2026.]

Pentagon declassifies new UFO files tying sightings to nuclear sites | NewsNation Prime

The Pentagon has declassified 40 additional UFO files containing information dating back to the 1940s. Investigative journalist Ross Coulthart tells "NewsNation Prime" he is particularly intrigued by details describing objects spotted near nuclear facilities.



We've known about this fact of UFO interest in nuclear technology for many decades. The latest releases confirms this fact. The clip also shows objects that can be described as 'high strangeness' objects. This is yet again something that has been known about for many decades to UFO researchers but is the first time that decent footage of such objects has been aired. It raises questions about the nature of reality and our level of technological/scientific understanding. 

Viewers will note that the reports of these objects going back to the 1940s rules out the modern drone hypothesis, unless these were drones from other civilisations. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 16, 2026.]

The BEST UFO footage from the Pentagon! A proper analysis. (Angry Astronaut)

The DOW is at it again. Yet another UAP drop with loads of documents and several videos.
But were they anything special?
Here's a proper analysis of the best stuff the Pentagon had to show us, PLUS, the real story of yesterday's drop...the STS 80 UFO photos!



One thing to remember about the military footage is that it has been degraded before release. The raw footage is much more clear. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 13, 2026.]

Can We Trust Disclosure Insiders?| Richard Dolan Show

In this video I take a careful look at the recent controversy surrounding Ross Coulthart's claims about Luis Elizondo and the idea of a managed disclosure effort beginning in 2017. Rather than choosing sides, I examine the historical logic behind the claims and ask what such a strategy would actually have been trying to accomplish. Finally, I explore whether a long-running bureaucratic struggle may better explain the history than either a simple disclosure narrative or a simple disinformation narrative. As always, my goal is not to rush to conclusions, but to ask better questions.



Insiders, ex-CIA, ex-NSA etc, always have limits put on what they can talk about. If they reveal information that is not authorised for release they can get in a lot of trouble. Many of these people also act as disinformation agents, in conjunction with other experts appearing in the media. This doesn't mean that they don't want to reveal the full truth, as they understand it, but it means they have boundaries. 

Consider the CIA and their involvement in drug running and human trafficking, including of children. Where are the whistleblowers for these crimes? The ones that speak out tend to be killed. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 4, 2026.]

The Disclosure Forum - What It REALLY Revealed (Richard Dolan)

I spent a good portion of the day watching the recent Disclosure Forum in Washington, D.C. If you were expecting dramatic new revelations, you probably would have been disappointed. But after watching the entire event, I came away thinking it was historically important for a different reason. In this analysis, I look beyond the headlines to examine what the forum tells us about the current state of the disclosure movement, the growing role of Congress, the continuing struggle over government transparency, and why we should be careful not to confuse disclosure with understanding the phenomenon itself.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 28, 2026.]

ANALYSIS - Jellyfish UAP shoots down F15? (Angry Astronaut)

We've got an incredible story from a US pilot shot down in Iran.
Apparently, he encountered "Jellyfish UAP"!
Did a UFO actually shoot down a fifth [fourth] generation US fighter?



IF the account of the US pilot is correct then what happened is truly strange. But why would a UFO shoot down a US jet over Iran? Did it distract the pilot at the same time a surface to air missile struck? Regardless, this clip does show video of a bizarre jellyfish UFO from 2017 flying over a US base in Iraq. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 27, 2026.]

Is SETI lying to us about Aliens? Here's over 100 Extraterrestrial signals that we HAVE detected! (Angry Astronaut)

If you believe the mainstream media, SETI has spent the last 65 years searching for Alien signals and they've found...nothing.
But, is that actually true?
That's what we're going to find out today!



Is SETI actually being used to hide extra-terrestrial signals? 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 21, 2026.]

Disclosure Day REVIEW - Spielberg's WORST Film (Nerdrotic)

Disclosure Day is as disappointing as the so-called real UFO Disclosure.



Editorial comment: As another expert on the issue of the subject, like Nerdrotic, the present UFO disclosure 'process' is doing a lot of good in cementing the reality of the phenomena. I think it's asking a lot for the government to reveal everything they know, including hardware, after decades of lies and disinformation - although it's something everyone wants. The clip is correct to point out that Spielberg could have, and should have, done a lot better with the story especially with all the material there is at hand.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 16, 2026.]

I Reviewed Every File in the White House UAP Release (Richard Dolan)

The third White House UAP release is now available, and I've gone through the files in detail.

This presentation examines what I consider the most significant material in the release, including the Colorado Springs "potato-shaped" object case, FBI orb investigations, the Western U.S. orb cluster, the Harare Airport incident, Cold War intelligence documents, Soviet UFO files, Project Blue Book material, NASA astronaut debriefings, the Gordon Cooper–Walter Cronkite interview, and NASA's official public position on UFOs.

There is no smoking gun here. There is no disclosure document hiding in the release. What there is, however, is a substantial collection of historical and contemporary records from multiple agencies, including the FBI, CIA, NASA, military organizations, and other government entities.

Some of the files are routine. Some are skeptical. Some are genuinely intriguing. Taken together, they provide another window into how governments, intelligence agencies, and researchers have approached the UFO problem across many decades.

In this presentation I review the files, provide historical context, discuss the strongest cases, and explain what I believe is genuinely valuable—and what is not.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 15, 2026.]

David Grusch Just Changed the UAP Debate (Richard Dolan)

In this video, I examine today's UAP briefing on Capitol Hill featuring David Grusch, members of Congress, and several prominent figures involved in the disclosure effort. While no dramatic new evidence was released, I believe the event was important for another reason.

The central issue is no longer whether the phenomenon exists. The real battle concerns access to information, congressional oversight, whistleblower protection, and the continuing resistance of a secrecy system that appears determined to protect itself.

I discuss Grusch's latest statements, the push for immunity, the growing pressure on the White House, and why the struggle over disclosure may be entering a new phase.

As always, I try to separate what was actually said from what people merely assume was said, and place today's event within the larger historical context of the disclosure movement.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 11, 2026.]

The Missing UAP Scientists: Suppression or Coincidence? (Richard Dolan)

This video dives into the bizarre cases of missing UAP scientists and the insights shared by Lue Elizondo.

I will admit that I was initially slow to come around on this story. Like many of you, I get deeply turned off by the constant hype in the UFO field. But when you look at the data regarding brilliant scientists in anti-gravity and plasma physics who have vanished into thin air, it becomes genuinely inexplicable. It looks less like a coincidence and much more like a disturbing pattern of suppression.

In this discussion, we address what Lue has shared about researchers facing immense pressure right before they were scheduled to speak to Congress. We also look past the superficial noise of our mainstream media and what I call our pretend democracy to look at the behavior of the phenomenon itself.

What if non-human intelligence is running a behavioral science program on us? Instead of trying to communicate, they might simply be calibrating our responses, tracking our nuclear thresholds, and testing our capabilities from the safety of our oceans and orbit.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 9, 2026.]