• The Lakenheath drone incursions | Reality Check
    Oct 21 2026

    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/B0G3WSXH6D


    Footage 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-soil


    Images of General Glen VanHerck courtesy of the United States Department of Defense.


    SOCIAL TAGS:

    Ross Coulthart

    X: @rosscoulthart https://x.com/rosscoulthart

    Instagram: @rosscoulthart https://www.instagram.com/rosscoulthart/


    Mike Morgan

    Website: msmorganbooks.co.uk https://www.msmorganbooks.co.uk/


    Liberty

    YouTube: @MilitaryAviationChannel https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryAviationChannel

    TikTok: @militaryaviationchannel https://www.tiktok.com/@militaryaviationchannel


    #UFO #RAFLakenheath #UAP


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "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/


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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    1:30 Senator Warner on Langley

    4:48 The British Base Incursions

    10:42 Drones as the Official Answer

    12:53 A Sighting the Day Before

    17:37 The Police Helicopter Encounter

    24:44 The Air Force Statement

    28:38 What Liberty Heard on the Radio

    31:04 Reports of a Drone Brought Down

    32:37 The Russian Sabotage Theory

    35:00 Nuclear Weapons at the Bases

    39:06 Why Officials Say Drones

    44:23 The Five Observables

    50:34 Freedom of Information Refusals

    55:53 Inside the Police Investigation

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Ross Coulthart: The White House is going around the legacy program | Reality Check
    Oct 18 2026

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    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 Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "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.

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    0:45 Ross’ reacts to Jay Stratton’s book release

    4:45 Ross responds to NASA

    7:55 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 hotspots

    24:15 Is there legal risk for corporations holding onto NHI technology?

    35:18 Beyond institute UAP video

    39:32 Could a nuclear event harm NHI?

    42:33 Final thoughts

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    43 mins
  • 'Archive X' and the impossible | Reality Check
    Oct 13 2026

    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:

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    Jeffrey Kripal

    Substack: @jeffkripal https://jeffkripal.substack.com/

    Website: https://jeffreyjkripal.com/


    #telepathy #abduction #nonhumanintelligence


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "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.

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    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Intro

    3:07 Has the Phenomenon Increased?

    4:59 Non-Local Consciousness

    6:16 The Telepathic Autistic Children

    12:15 The Hill

    18:23 Becoming Superhuman

    19:58 Karin Austin's Abduction Account

    28:38 The Future Human Hypothesis

    31:50 Andrew Paquette and Precognition

    39:28 Trauma and the Thinned Veil

    44:47 Unreliable Space-Time Sensors

    49:20 Ross's Esalen Experience

    51:26 The Demonic Interpretation

    52:38 The John Mack Archives

    56:22 Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi Texts

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • NASA chief says all UAP data released; Coulthart says no | Reality Check
    Oct 11 2026

    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-uBMfkcw

    Royal Navy sailor says UAP encounter triggered downloads from nonhuman intelligence | Reality Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62KInNHZAY&t=290s

    Watch Unreported with Meagan Medick here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PrA6lo8rJKtTsTq9eAtpNdZzuyST-R-


    #NASA #UAP #jaredisaacman


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Mariko Charvat


    On "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/

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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    0:38 Nancy Loo speaks with Jared Isaacman

    5:35 Ross reacts to Isaacman’s comments

    11:47 The NASA “dirty dozen”

    14:53 What NASA has released so far

    15:36 What NASA hasn't released

    18:50 The missing frame 70 photographs

    20:29 The Gemini 7 bogey

    23:51 Edgar Mitchell and the blue dots

    24:36 The Apollo 17 science and technical debriefings

    29:02 Jay Stratton briefing

    30:43 Missing AAWSAP files located

    31:58 Jake Barber’s comments on mothership craft

    39:16 Nick Redfern’s “Final Events” book

    41:27 NHI and AI

    47:43 Could UAPs be AI controlled?

    49:50 Final thoughts

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    51 mins
  • Mapping the Palomar transient hotspots | Reality Check
    Oct 6 2026

    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


    CREDITS

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "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.

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    CHAPTERS:

    0:00 Intro

    5:40 Mapping the Transient Hotspots

    8:08 Plate Defects or Real Objects

    13:46 Survey Bias and Cosmic Rays

    17:07 The Nuclear Test Window

    20:27 Ruling Out Natural Reflectors

    22:36 Hypotheses Set in Advance

    24:59 Castle Yankee, May 1954

    34:55 Nevada Tests and Operation Teapot

    40:13 Pre-Sputnik Human Technology

    42:12 Replication and Falsification

    47:29 The Tic Tac and Tampico Hotspots

    50:22 Taking It to Peer Review

    51:20 Non-Human Surveillance

    53:01 Interest From Three-Letter Agencies

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    56 mins
  • David Grusch: Americans killed by reptilian beings at crash site | Reality Check
    Oct 4 2026

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    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 UAP disclosure is "screwed" if Republicans lose the House in the midterms, the ongoing mystery of General Neil McCasland's disappearance and UAP incursions over nuclear sites in India, including an extraordinary sighting of a robotic humanoid in the Himalayas. Coulthart also breaks down the biggest takeaways from David Grusch's interview with Joe Rogan, including claims the Navy tracks a nonhuman base on the ocean floor "the size of multiple city blocks."


    #NHI #nonhumanintelligence #DavidGrusch


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "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.

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    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    1:07 Ross reacts to David Grusch’s new claims

    14:01 Disclosure & U.S. midterm elections

    23:56 Will Tom DeLonge sit down for an interview?

    25:13 Missing generals & scientists

    33:37 Jake Sullivan break in

    37:26 Failures of the secret service

    39:13 India’s government’s interest in UFOs

    42:49 Final thoughts

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    44 mins
  • The 'real' secret space program | Reality Check
    Sep 29 2026

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    In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Canadian documentary filmmaker Darcy Weir, whose films "Dark Alliance" and "Dark Alliance: The Next Generation" examine the secret space program stories promoted by Corey Goode, David Wilcock and the New Age conference circuit. Weir describes a 2022 deposition in which Goode stated he had never physically been to space, the copyright actions that took his earlier film offline and the 20 and Back, Dark Fleet and med bed accounts that spread through Gaia TV programming.


    Coulthart and Weir separate that mythology from the documented record of covert space activity, from the Manned Orbiting Laboratory and the X-37B to Gary McKinnon's account of his NASA intrusion, before turning to David Wilcock's final years as a director at Stavatti Aerospace and a company statement, read on air, about an insider's "space fighter" drawing that turned out to be a canceled Navy attack aircraft. The final stretch covers orbital encounters witnessed by NASA astronauts and recorded by military satellites, including the Skylab 3 object, the Air Force Fast Walker database, DSP Flight 7 and STS-80 imagery now listed as unidentified in the government's Pursue release.


    🔺 Secret Space UFOs: Fast Walkers & Rise of the TR3B

    Military secrecy, covert aerospace programs, and the biggest cover-up questions you never thought to ask.

    ▶️ Fast Walkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIol5hApCfw&rco=1

    ▶️ Rise of the TR3B: https://youtu.be/iAW7N5Q7vv4?si=vx4JHpXz6uWHIUkp

    Over a 13-year career, Weir has produced over 20 independent documentary productions, including 18 feature-length documentaries and two specialized TV docuseries. While his work is widely accessible to mainstream audiences via major streaming giants, including Amazon Prime and Apple TV, he is also dedicated to releasing high-quality investigations directly to the public.


    🌍 Puerto Rico's UAP

    The 2013 Aguadilla Homeland Security incident is the most analyzed UAP footage ever captured. Hard data, real answers.

    ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Qs3bJIDLQ

    Weir has become a high-profile figure within the global "Disclosure Movement," highly respected for his ability to make complex, enigmatic information accessible and engaging to the general public. He focuses on the human element behind extraordinary events.


    📡 Pascagoula 73

    1973. Two fishermen. One encounter that changed everything. Still unexplained 50 years later.

    ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/show/SCf_vgYIAGbRro6iHBIlHB4g

    Because of his investigative rigor, Weir is a frequent speaker at UAP/UFO conferences, a recurring guest on top-tier podcasts, and a lecturer on the findings uncovered throughout his filmmaking career. He approaches the subject with a critical eye, aiming to protect genuine disclosure by holding the community accountable.

    🎬 Dark Alliance: The Next Generation

    Not everything in the disclosure space is truth. This one teaches you how to tell the difference.

    ▶️ https://tubitv.com/movies/100053908/dark-alliance-the-next-generation


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Producer: Will Tomasi

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    CHAPTER SUMMARY:

    0:00 Intro

    5:34 Corey Goode's Copyright Claims

    8:02 Twenty and Back and Total Recall

    12:01 Documented Covert Space Programs

    20:42 A Word From Our Sponsor, Morgan & Morgan

    22:45 Gary McKinnon and the TR-3B

    26:31 The 20 and Back Witnesses

    32:49 Med Beds

    36:07 Deliberate Disinformation?

    40:03 David Wilcock and Stavatti

    46:56 NASA Astronaut Sightings

    54:24 The Fast Walker Database

    59:40 The STS-48 Footage

    1:01:29 DSP Flight 7, 1984

    1:04:22 Shuttle Crew Transmissions

    1:09:42 STS-80 and the Pursue Files

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • US just deployed space weapons — here's what we know | Reality Check
    Sep 27 2026

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    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 of "Reality Check," Coulthart tackles questions about why he believes "catastrophic disclosure" may be inevitable, the science behind the wormholes in “Interstellar" following newly declassified Pentagon documents and the U.S. Space Force's surprise announcement that it deployed weapons to space. He also shares an Australian soldier's previously unreported UAP sighting from Afghanistan and dives into meditation, near-death experiences and consciousness research. Ross is also joined by a listener, who provides a deep dive into Steven Spielberg's father and uncle, who allegedly worked at Wright Field during the Roswell wreckage recovery and raises the question of whether Spielberg's films are a form of soft disclosure.


    Preparing for war in space: inside a Space Force base | Reality Check with Ross Coulthart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcigf4t3I3E


    #SpaceForce #UAP #disclosure


    CREDITS:

    Host: Ross Coulthart

    Executive Producer: Andy Gipson

    Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick

    Segment Producer: Will Tomasi, Christine Jenkinson

    Research Producer: Rob Jones

    Editor: Anthony Diasio


    On "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 Intro

    :53 Clarification on David Grusch’s lawsuit

    8:40 Why are certain UAP files selected for release?

    14:23 Wormhole research

    19:27 Weapons in space?

    31:32 UAP sightings during the war in Afghanistan

    33:55 Update on Ross’ meditation practices

    37:01 Near death experiences

    39:40 A viewer joins the program

    41:39 Steven Spielberg’s family connection to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

    50:00 Final thoughts

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    53 mins