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- 1 weeks ago1h 7m
An unusual client, a congressman and Roswell | Reality Check
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 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/B0DVRYNK56Ross Coulthart Socials:X: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthartInstagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/#Roswell #NewMexico #UAP CREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickProducer: Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Sarah JacksonOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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 Intro2:15 The Client Behind the Book3:26 A Word From Our Sponsor, Smalls6:34 The Client Behind the Book12:39 Congressman Schiff's Roswell Inquiry16:21 The Espionage Act Fax22:57 Forced Out After 50 Years24:45 The Client's Sudden Death27:25 What He Knew About Roswell31:36 The Fighter Jet Crashes37:41 Eisenhower and Forrestal at White Sands40:22 Three Jets Ordered Back to Base42:14 Was Martinez Targeted?53:05 The Empty Ejection Seat56:49 Does He Believe It Now?59:35 Congressman Schiff's Death1:02:34 Testifying to Congress
- 1 weeks ago34 min
Are governments secretly working with hybrid beings? | Reality Check
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 CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine JenkinsonResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Mariko CharvatOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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 Intro0:36 Has the gov’t been working with NHI hybrids?3:53 Rep. Tim Burchett’s comments8:18 Claims of hybrid programs13:45 Who is Tim Taylor?25:23 Charles Hall & the tall whites31:46 Final thoughts
- 1 weeks ago3 min
Witnesses say they saw low-flying, triangular craft over military sites | Reality Check
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 CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine JenkinsonResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Kanyon LyonsOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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/
- 2 weeks ago1h 2m
The Lakenheath drone incursions | Reality Check
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/B0G3WSXH6DFootage 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-soilImages of General Glen VanHerck courtesy of the United States Department of Defense.SOCIAL TAGS:Ross CoulthartX: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthartInstagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/Mike MorganWebsite: msmorganbooks.co.uk https://www.msmorganbooks.co.uk/LibertyYouTube: @MilitaryAviationChannel https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryAviationChannelTikTok: @militaryaviationchannel https://www.tiktok.com/@militaryaviationchannel#UFO #RAFLakenheath #UAP CREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickProducer: Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Anthony DiasioOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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 Intro1:30 Senator Warner on Langley4:48 The British Base Incursions10:42 Drones as the Official Answer12:53 A Sighting the Day Before17:37 The Police Helicopter Encounter24:44 The Air Force Statement28:38 What Liberty Heard on the Radio31:04 Reports of a Drone Brought Down32:37 The Russian Sabotage Theory35:00 Nuclear Weapons at the Bases39:06 Why Officials Say Drones44:23 The Five Observables50:34 Freedom of Information Refusals55:53 Inside the Police Investigation
- 2 weeks ago43 min
Ross Coulthart: The White House is going around the legacy program | Reality Check
🚗 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 CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine JenkinsonResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Mariko CharvatOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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 Intro0:45 Ross’ reacts to Jay Stratton’s book release4:45 Ross responds to NASA7:55 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 hotspots24:15 Is there legal risk for corporations holding onto NHI technology?35:18 Beyond institute UAP video39:32 Could a nuclear event harm NHI?42:33 Final thoughts
- 3 weeks ago1h 1m
'Archive X' and the impossible | Reality Check
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.SOCIAL TAGS:Ross CoulthartX: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthartInstagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/Jeffrey KripalSubstack: @jeffkripal https://jeffkripal.substack.com/Website: https://jeffreyjkripal.com/#telepathy #abduction #nonhumanintelligence CREDITSHost: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickProducer: Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Anthony DiasioOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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/CHAPTERS0:00 Intro3:07 Has the Phenomenon Increased?4:59 Non-Local Consciousness6:16 The Telepathic Autistic Children12:15 The Hill18:23 Becoming Superhuman19:58 Karin Austin's Abduction Account28:38 The Future Human Hypothesis31:50 Andrew Paquette and Precognition39:28 Trauma and the Thinned Veil44:47 Unreliable Space-Time Sensors49:20 Ross's Esalen Experience51:26 The Demonic Interpretation52:38 The John Mack Archives56:22 Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi Texts
- 3 weeks ago50 min
NASA chief says all UAP data released; Coulthart says no | Reality Check
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-uBMfkcwRoyal Navy sailor says UAP encounter triggered downloads from nonhuman intelligence | Reality Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62KInNHZAY&t=290sWatch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-#NASA #UAP #jaredisaacman CREDITS:Host: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickSegment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine JenkinsonResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Mariko CharvatOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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 Intro0:38 Nancy Loo speaks with Jared Isaacman 5:35 Ross reacts to Isaacman’s comments11:47 The NASA “dirty dozen”14:53 What NASA has released so far15:36 What NASA hasn't released18:50 The missing frame 70 photographs20:29 The Gemini 7 bogey23:51 Edgar Mitchell and the blue dots24:36 The Apollo 17 science and technical debriefings29:02 Jay Stratton briefing30:43 Missing AAWSAP files located31:58 Jake Barber’s comments on mothership craft39:16 Nick Redfern’s “Final Events” book41:27 NHI and AI47:43 Could UAPs be AI controlled?49:50 Final thoughts
- Oct 6, 202655 min
Mapping the Palomar transient hotspots | Reality Check
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 CREDITSHost: Ross CoulthartExecutive Producer: Andy GipsonEditorial Producer: Meagan MedickProducer: Will TomasiResearch Producer: Rob JonesEditor: Anthony DiasioOn "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 RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com 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 Intro5:40 Mapping the Transient Hotspots8:08 Plate Defects or Real Objects13:46 Survey Bias and Cosmic Rays17:07 The Nuclear Test Window20:27 Ruling Out Natural Reflectors22:36 Hypotheses Set in Advance24:59 Castle Yankee, May 195434:55 Nevada Tests and Operation Teapot40:13 Pre-Sputnik Human Technology42:12 Replication and Falsification47:29 The Tic Tac and Tampico Hotspots50:22 Taking It to Peer Review51:20 Non-Human Surveillance53:01 Interest From Three-Letter Agencies
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