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Pentagon Releases Second Batch of UFO Videos, First-Hand Testimony

The Pentagon released a second batch of UAP files, including 50 videos and documents showing unexplained objects over the Middle East, Syria, Iran, and in NASA recordings. Despite the reports, the agency stresses that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin. The Guardian reports: In one video from the Middle East in 2019, taken "likely from an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform operating within the US Central Command area of responsibility," according to the Pentagon, three UAP are captured flying in formation over the Persian Gulf. Another formation of four unidentified objects is seen flying past vessels on the water off Iran in a video from 2022.

Footage taken over Syria in 2021 shows a mysterious object racing away at speed akin to instantaneous warp-speed acceleration from science fiction movies. Few of the objects seem to resemble flying saucers, discs or other traditionally perceived forms for UAP, although one October 2022 clip taken at an undisclosed location shows a cigar-shaped entity racing over what appears to be a residential area.

None of the videos are accompanied by explanations, and the Pentagon's all-domain anomaly resolution office (AARO) has previously stated it has no evidence to suggest any of the thousands of objects seen on video, or described in written testimony, is of extraterrestrial origin. In its May 8 release, a statement from the defense department said the public "can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files." Additionally, the information is collated from a diverse range of sources, including government agencies including several military branches, the FBI, the state department and Nasa. "Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody," the Pentagon notes

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Formula 1 News

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Stella reacts to Piastri Red Bull move rumours

McLaren Team Principal Andrea Stella has shared his reaction to various "silly season" rumours, including speculation linking Oscar Piastri to Red Bull.

Can anyone stop Russell’s Canada comeback?

Mercedes brought their first in-season upgrade for 2026 to Montreal – and the early signs were very encouraging as George Russell hit the ground running to pip his team mate Kimi Antonelli to Sprint pole. But can he continue that form and get his championship back on track?

Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

Motorrijder overleden bij ongeluk voor Ketheltunnel

Op de A4 richting Delft is in de vroege zaterdagochtend een motorrijder verongelukt. De crash was vlak voor de Ketheltunnel.

Operatie Hondius: zo bereidde Rotterdam in recordtempo de komst van een besmet cruiseschip voor

Het was wereldnieuws: de uitbraak van een besmettelijk virus op cruiseschip MV Hondius. Maar weinig havens wilden het schip en haar bemanning helpen. Rotterdam werd lastminute aangewezen als quarantainehaven met tijdelijke woonunits. Voor Boudewijn Seijn van Havenbedrijf Rotterdam was de ontvangst een race tegen de klok.

Wel.nl

Minder lezen, Meer weten.

Zeker vijftig doden bij explosie in Chinese kolenmijn

CHANGZI (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Het dodental door een explosie in een Chinese kolenmijn is opgelopen naar zeker vijftig mensen, melden Chinese staatsmedia. Eerder in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag meldde het Chinese staatspersbureau Xinhua nog een dodental van acht, met nog 38 mijnwerkers die vastzaten in de mijn.

Het incident gebeurde in een kolenmijn bij de Chinese stad Changzi, in de Chinese provincie Shanxi in het oosten van het land. Er waren op dat moment 247 mijnwerkers aanwezig in het ondergrondse complex.


Koopziek? 8 tips om af te kicken

Er moet worden bespaard, want door de inflatie worden we een beetje armer. Als je een kick krijgt van geld uitgeven is dat lastig.

HLN geeft 8 tips om je koopdrift in te dammen.

1. Ik herhaal...“Wie dagelijks even uitzoomt en positieve zinnen (als in: ‘Ik kom niks tekort’) herhaalt, komt in een mindset die je gedachten ondersteunt. Meditatie en mindfulness kunnen ook heilzaam zijn.”

2. Supermarkt“Uit testen blijkt dat wie vermoeid of hongerig is, sneller te verleiden is tot impulsaankopen. Je aankopen ’s ochtends doen en boodschappenbriefjes, kunnen je helpen om alleen het nodige te kopen.”

3. Overvloed troef“Abundance-denkers gaan nog een stapje verder. Probeer in plaats van in tekorten of beperkingen te denken, ervan uit te gaan dat er van alles – liefde, geld, succes … – genoeg is. Geven help ook.

4. Mechanisme“Een koopverslaving gaat meer over koopprikkels en de aankoopdaad dan de gekochte producten op zich. Je bewust worden van dat mechanisme (wat heb ik daar écht aan?) kan helpen om je aankoopdrang het hoofd te bieden.”

5. Zelfcompassie“Op social media, televisie, in de media … krijg je vaak het perfecte plaatje voorgeschoteld, terwijl in de echte wereld ‘mislukken’ meer voorkomt. Dat aanvaarden begint met zelfcompassie, een belangrijke voorwaarde om jezelf geen tekorten kwalijk te nemen.”

6. Bye Bye Facebook“Probeer af en toe een social-media-luwe periode in te lassen. Wie minder aankoopimpulsen krijgt én minder vergelijkt, zal ook minder geneigd zijn om overbodige zaken te kopen.’”

7. Open air“Wandelen in de buitenlucht is een ideale manier om je stresshormoon cortisol af te breken en letterlijk te vertragen. Ideaal om de drang naar meer om te buigen naar ‘het is oké zo’”.

8. Verbaasde kabouter“Bekijk de wereld eens vanuit een ander perspectief. Stel dat je een nieuwe auto overweegt, kijk dan met verbazing naar dat voornemen, vraag je af waar het vandaan komt en of het terecht is.”


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Gentle Officers at the Plum Festival

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The Metropolitan Police mounted unit visits the Setagaya Plum Festival every year, offering traffic safety lessons and horse-riding experiences for children.

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Behance Featured Projects

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Rhythm Dialogues


How do you give form to something that resists fixed definition?  Almost seven years ago, we began searching for something ? a creative space that could hold aliveness. Not productivity, not output, but that quality of attention where everything becomes more vivid, more present, more open to questioning and deeper thought. That space became Rhythm Dialogues. The project includes a mobile artist residency housed in a 1974 redesigned Airstream; annual Convergences that bring together celebrated artists, designers, and thinkers; and a publishing arm, 11:11 RD Editions.

The Guardian

Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

The conservative tycoon’s grip on media and cinema is unhealthy. An EU fund could protect democracy in perpetuity

The shadow of Joseph McCarthy’s “red scare” loomed over the storied steps of this year’s Cannes film festival. Echoing the mid-20th-century blacklist, which shut out about 300 suspected communists from Hollywood, the French media group Canal+ announced an effective ban on twice that many French cinema professionals, including actors such as Juliette Binoche and film directors such as Jean-Pascal Zadi and Arthur Harari. Their crime? An open letter denouncing the growing influence on French media and cinema of conservative tycoon Vincent Bolloré, Canal+’s main shareholder.

The Canal+ chief executive, Maxime Saada, justified punishing the signatories on the basis that their claim was an “injustice” against the staff of Canal+ – who were, he said, committed to the organisation’s independence.

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‘Every health facility said they were full’: fear that spread of Ebola in DRC is gathering pace

New strain of virus, aid cuts and cultural norms around burials and touch add to difficulties in stemming outbreak

The warnings from aid groups and healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been stark, their calls for coordinated international action impassioned.

As the country reels from the return of Ebola virus, there is growing concern that its fragile healthcare system will struggle to cope with an outbreak that experts say goes well beyond the number of confirmed cases.

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