07 August, 2026

Defence Protocols, Disclosure Rumours and ‘Craft’ Around the Moon: Exploring the UFO Phenomenon This Week

Australian Defence Used a Standard UAP Response—But What Happens When Military Personnel Actually See Something?

A newly released FOI correspondence package shows how Australian Defence coordinated its response to media questions about UAP reporting. The real story is not aliens or a smoking gun: it is the apparent gap between Defence’s insistence that no dedicated UAP protocol exists and Australia’s need to identify unusual aircraft, drones, sensor contacts and potential intelligence threats.1


US Intelligence Agencies Ordered to Waive UAP NDAs for Authorized Reporting—but Public Disclosure Is Still Off Limits

A signed ODNI memorandum has instructed the CIA, NSA, FBI, military intelligence services and other agencies to create channels allowing current and former personnel and contractors to report UAP information to AARO or PURSUE despite prior nondisclosure commitments. The measure is potentially significant, but narrower than “UAP whistleblowers freed from their NDAs”: it protects authorized government reporting, not unrestricted public testimony. The real test begins with the agencies’ forthcoming procedures, designated contacts and treatment of the first witnesses who use the system.2


Is the White House Considering a UAP Disclosure Speech? >>RUMOUR<<

A niche report claims that a presidential speech acknowledging some UAP as non-human is under consideration before the November 2026 midterms. The surrounding government activity—PURSUE releases, NDA-waiver instructions and interagency coordination—is real, but the speech itself remains unsupported by any public document or independent confirmation.3


Robert Bigelow Says He Put a UAP Confirmation Plan on Trump’s Desk

In a newly published interview with investigative journalist George Knapp, aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow says he personally presented President Donald Trump with a written proposal urging him to publicly confirm that a non-human intelligence has long operated on Earth using advanced craft. Bigelow further claimed—without releasing supporting evidence—that the United States has recovered non-human vehicles and transferred material to private contractors.

Bigelow says the meeting occurred on February 6, 2026, lasted approximately 75–80 minutes, and included Trump and White House Staff Secretary William Scharf. He says he brought seven reports, one devoted to UAP, non-human intelligence and a staged disclosure strategy.

According to Bigelow, his proposed presidential wording was essentially that a non-human intelligent presence has operated on Earth for a very long time using spacecraft beyond known human capabilities. He wanted Trump to make a brief confirmation first, while withholding sensitive technical details for later controlled release. We shall wait and see.4


Independent analysis identifies a PURSUE “unresolved UAP” as a likely tactical missile

On 6 August 2026, Avi Loeb and postdoctoral researcher Devesh Nandal published a technical analysis of DOW-UAP-PR043, an infrared video released through the US government’s PURSUE archive as an unresolved 2025 UAP case from Africa. Their conclusion is that the object was most likely a fast tactical missile, not an anomalous craft.

Avi Loeb and Devesh Nandal used terrain matching and flight-physics modelling to identify the likely location and motion of a military infrared object released through PURSUE. Their conclusion—that PR043 was probably a fast tactical missile—remains unofficial and model-dependent, but it offers the clearest demonstration yet of how independent researchers can turn sparse government UAP footage into a testable conventional explanation.5


Ukrainian observatory paper claims enormous “craft” around the Moon

A niche report published on 6 August 2026 has brought renewed attention to a March 2026 preprint by three researchers affiliated with Ukraine’s Main Astronomical Observatory. The paper, UFO Dynamics on the Moon, claims that telescope footage from August and September 2025 shows more than 20 objects near or apparently crossing the lunar disc—including discs estimated at 25–40 kilometres wide and toroidal objects allegedly travelling at up to 11 kilometres per second.

The paper goes considerably further than reporting unidentified imagery: its authors state that they believe the Moon serves as a UFO base and that the objects represent a technologically advanced civilisation. Those conclusions are not supported by independent observations, peer review or released raw data.6


sources

1.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1vcgp7b/foia_release_australian_department_of_defence/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEa01xm584A

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qQ9s8Y4709MHyyE9_xqrazNxhYQm5wLH/view?usp=drivesdk

2.

https://burlison.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/burlison.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/memorandum_2026.pdf

3.

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/ufo-history-is-being-shaped-in-washington-no-one-knows-how-this-ends?

4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0N33jb7Bhk

https://www.abovethenormnews.com/2026/08/05/robert-bigelow-recovered-non-human-craft/

5.

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-declassified-dow-uap-pr043-in-the-pursue-disclosure-is-likely-a-missile-4d4116776c85

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1006159/dow-uap-pr43-unresolved-uap-report-africa-2025

6.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399584853_Observations_of_Unidentified_Flying_Objects_on_the_Moon 

https://www.abovethenormnews.com/2026/08/06/giant-objects-moving-across-the-moon/

https://www.mao.kiev.ua/media/kunena/attachments/0/UFOdynamicsMoon.pdf