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Earlier this month, the Defense Department released a long-awaited report designed to address renewed public interest in unidentified flying objects. UFOs—or, UAP, as they’ve recently been rebranded—have been back in the news a lot lately, thanks largely to a few true believers who think the government has been hiding evidence of extraterrestrials.How Important Was it for Jason Reitman to be a Part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?The most influential of those true believers is a former high-ranking intelligence official,…

Image: rafapress (Shutterstock)After a batch of classified documents were leaked from the Pentagon, it appears open-source intelligence analysts have pinned the leak down to an unlikely place: Discord. The documents were apparently used by patrons of the messaging platform, which is frequently used by avid video game players, in order to settle a debate about the ongoing war in Ukraine.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-FactAs detailed in The Wall Street Journal, at least 50 documents with Secret and Top Secret…

Photo: Kyle Brasier, U.S. Air ForceThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm for a self-flying F-16 fighter jet less than three years after creating the control simulated F-16 jet.The flight took place on Lockheed Martin’s VISTA X-62A, which Lockheed Martin said in a press release is a modified F-16D Block 30 Peace Marble Il aircraft upgraded with Block 40 avionics.DARPA used its Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program to create the autonomous jet…

Screenshot from a Facebook video taken by a civilian in the city of Gangneung, South Korea showing a fire after a failed missile test by the South Korean military.Screenshot: FacebookSouth Korea’s military accidentally hit its own air force base during a missile test on Tuesday, according to a new report from the Korea Times. The unfortunate accident caused a fire and sent the opposite of its intended message: That South Korea and the U.S. are ready to respond to North Korea in the event of any military escalation.North…