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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet has a teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its solid, icy nucleus. Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure. [Credit — Image: NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)]

US government grapples with questions about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS amid shutdown

NASA experts are set to connect with at least one congressional lawmaker about the mysterious object this week.
In a an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) before the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee on May 17, 2022, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Mr. Scott Bray shared a video of a US. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object in a fleeting pass. This image is a screen capture of the UAP observed in a video of the flyby captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet. (DVIDS)

UAP disclosure advocates call for expanded reforms in fiscal 2026 NDAA

A Senate committee draft of the annual defense policy bill includes three provisions that would impact the Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Christopher Mellon, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence, briefs lawmakers and attendees during an event hosted on Capitol Hill by the UAP Disclosure Fund and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Photo by DefenseScoop’s Brandi Vincent.

Former defense officials raise concerns about unexplained drone and UAP threats to U.S. airspace 

The public is largely in the dark about what’s happening with airspace vulnerabilities, and more accountability measures and coordination is needed, the officials argued.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 07, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on January 20. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump’s team convenes with Pentagon personnel in 100-plus transition meetings, so far

Heads of the Defense Innovation Unit and Chief Digital and AI Office have met with the transition team, among others.
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