A newly released Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has revealed that no records exist for an August 28, 2017, meeting listed on the official calendar of Neill Tipton, then Director for Defense Intelligence, Collection and Special Programs. The finding stands in contrast to an earlier FOIA-released calendar showing the meeting was scheduled as an UNCLASSIFIED “SAP Coordination Meeting,” with a point-of-contact phone number matching one found on Luis Elizondo’s DD Form 1910 request to release three Navy UFO videos back in 2017. OSD’s “no records” determination, issued today to The…
Author: John Greenewald
Amelia Earhart’s disappearance in 1937 remains one of the most enduring mysteries in aviation history, inspiring investigation, speculation, and government inquiry for nearly nine decades. As federal agencies prepared records across generations, much of the documentation remained scattered, classified, or only partially accessible to the public. That situation changed in 2025, when President Donald J. Trump ordered the release of government records “related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her.” The directive initiated a government-wide effort to identify, declassify, and publish material across the intelligence, military, diplomatic, and archival communities, culminating in the first comprehensive public…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formally replaced the term “Unidentified Flying Object” (UFO) with “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAP) in its core air traffic control manual, marking a notable procedural update that aligns with recent federal terminology and U.S. code. The change was highlighted by Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA) and its founder, former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who praised the revision as a step toward transparency and improved aviation safety reporting. The update was issued under FAA Notice N 7110.800, effective October 26, 2025, and applies to all Air Traffic Organization (ATO) personnel. The notice modifies two key sections…
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has released its official after-action report on the January 1, 2025, Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. The 78-page document, published November 3, 2025, details the incident, the extensive local and federal response, and an unusual federal intervention that resulted in the suspect’s manifesto being classified by the Department of Defense. According to the report, Army Special Forces soldier Matthew Livelsberger deliberately drove a rented Tesla Cybertruck into the hotel’s porte cochere at approximately 8:40 a.m. and detonated it seconds later. The explosion killed Livelsberger and injured six others. The…
Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and armed rebellion. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and many of these movements did not fully achieve their goals, although the efforts of these movements did lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed groups of people. Below are files…