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It’s a Very Exciting Time
by Scott Vandehey and Chuck Lauer Vose
A podcast by a UFO nerd and his tolerant friend. Because if UFOs are real… what else? If any of this turns out to be true, it’s a very exciting time!
Episodes
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Q&A
Scott and Chuck answer your questions about UFOs, the paranormal, and more! Doomer Friday Fundraiser Livestream - Friday, October 2, at 11am PT You can find show notes and references at our website, VeryExcitingTime.com, or support us at patreon.com/VeryExcitingTime.
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“They’re in the ocean.”
President Trump claims aliens live in our oceans. AARO purchases access to a private collection of UFO records. George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell claim the White Sands operation used nuclear material to lure UAP. The UAP Science Advisory Council learned the US has a disclosure preparedness plan....
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Whistleblowers Appeal to Trump
Five more whistleblowers and UAP disclosure advocates joined James Fox’s “Dear Mr President” campaign, pressing Trump to release more UFO information and release whistleblowers from their nondisclosure agreements. Plus, Dr. Eric Davis shares more information about alien races and why there has…
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David Grusch on Dr Phil
It’s been a wild couple weeks. Billionaire Robert Bigelow met with President Trump and gave him a suggested statement for disclosure. UAP whistleblower David Grusch was interviewed by Dr. Phil, and says the US has recovered dozens of UAPs, some with non-human bodies, and even some living beings....
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Trump Waives UAP NDAs
Big news this week, as President Trump directed the Department of War and the Intelligence Community to waive all UAP-related NDAs for government employees speaking with AARO or PURSUE, the President’s UAP task force. Could this be the start of a wave of disclosure? Does it relate to the previous...
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Lunar Monoliths
Former AATIP directory Lue Elizondo claimed that there are soon-to-be-released photographs of monolithic structures on the surface of the moon. UAP whistleblower Matthew Brown published an article listing the crimes committed by the Legacy Program and discussed recent rumors of an amnesty offer…
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Coulthart vs Elizondo
This week we’re discussing Ross Coulthart’s accusation that Lue Elizondo was previously part of a legacy program effort to limit UFO disclosure, and how it affects Lue’s consideration for a “UAP Czar” role. We also discuss persistent rumors that some sort of announcement is coming, perhaps on the...
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David Grusch Press Conference
In the last two weeks, the third batch of UFO files was released by the government, the UAP Disclosure Act was submitted for the fourth time, Avi Loeb announced he was asked by the White House to start a UAP Science Advisory Council, and whistleblower David Grusch spoke at a Congressional press...
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Project Rubik’s Cube
No UFO files released this time around, but we’ve got plenty of other exciting news. Jeremy Corbell revealed that ODNI agents, while trying to smear Dylan Borland, revealed the name of a UFO program: Project Rubik’s Cube. Meanwhile, Lue Elizondo was asked about secret military hybrid alien…
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UFO Files Batch #2
Congress is receiving multiple UAP briefings, including on described as “intense,” “eye-opening” and “the hottest ticket in town.” Neil deGrasse Tyson drops his long-held dismissiveness towards the UFO community to write a book about alien contact. And the Pentagon dropped the second batch of UAP...
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First UFO Files Released!
The Pentagon released a new UFO website containing 162 files, including videos, photos, witness accounts, and historical documents. This is promised to be only the first batch in a rolling release schedule, with more documents promised to drop in coming weeks. Is this the start of an incredible...
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Aliens.gov and Commemorative Coins
An Air Force general associated with UFOs has gone missing along with multiple NASA-linked scientists. Trump’s post that he will release the UAP files led to Rep. Luna requesting a list of specific videos from the Pentagon. Michael Ian Black says he was told about a massive object entering our...
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Burlison Site Visits have White House Support
In a wide-ranging Ask Me Anything interview featured questions from several UFO subreddits, Rep. Eric Burlison discussed how President Trump’s recent UAP disclosure post on Truth Social has already had an impact on disclosure efforts. He also shared that a new UFO investigative body has been...
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Will Trump Trigger UFO Disclosure?
The UFO community is on fire, after former president Obama’s comments about alien life led president Trump to say Obama revealed classified information, and then later post that he was directing the Pentagon to release all UFO-related files. What does this mean? What might happen next? Can Trump...
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Varginha: New Revelations
Recently, James Fox released an updated version of the “Moment of Contact” documentary about the UFO crash and alien encounters in Varginha, Brazil in 1996. Among the new witnesses are the doctor who performed the autopsy on the military police officer who died after capturing an alien, and a...
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David Grusch Calls Out Former DNI James Clapper
We’re kicking off the new year with two new interviews with UAP whistleblower David Grusch, who drops some juicy new details, including that he was partially read into government UFO programs, that there are multiple feuding programs with no central leadership, and that former DNI James Clapper...
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The Age of Disclosure
The Age of Disclosure is a UFO documentary that has been hyped as a form of soft disclosure. It covers the modern UFO phenomenon, tracking Lue Elizondo and Jay Stratton as they launch a government UAP program, discover the secret legacy crash retrieval program, and work together to put inform...
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Vanishing Stars: Dr. Villarroel’s search for pre-Sputnik satellites
Dr Beatriz Villarroel is a Swedish astronomer and a member of the Sol Foundation, who has recently published three peer-reviewed papers showing evidence for artificial objects in Earth’s orbit before the launch of Sputnik in 1947. The evidence for these claims, and the correlation with historical...
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Project Preserve Destiny: NSA secret program to communicate with aliens
Above Black is an interesting book written by former Air Force Sgt Dan Sherman. He claims that his job working as an Electronic Intelligence Specialist for NSA black projects, he was secretly part of Project Preserve Destiny, a long-term project involving alien abductions and genetic manipulation...
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Prehistoric Tic-Tacs? Dylan Borland Tells All!
Following his appearance at the recent Congressional UAP hearing, whistleblower Dylan Borland gave an extended interview to George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell, expanding on his claims of firsthand knowledge of crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs, and the reprisals he’s suffered…
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Hellfire Missiles and Smuggled Russian UFO Files: The September 2025 Congressional UAP Hearing
Recently, Congress held another UAP hearing! This one was primarily focused on the need to protect whistleblowers from reprisals. We were shown an unusual video of a missile appearing to bounce off a UAP, and we heard from three new military witnesses, including our first active-duty witness.…
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Taking a Hiatus
TL;DR: To avoid burnout, we're taking an indefinite hiatus from the show, so we can figure out how to come back in a more sustainable way.
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Murder, AI, and Occultism: UAP whistleblower Matthew Brown's Odd Twitter Message
In the wake of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s public feud, Immaculate Constellation whistleblower Matthew Brown posted a very odd tweet, addressed to Elon. In it, he claims that Elon was lied to about the White House having a future-predicting AI, implies that Sam Altman created (and then murdered)…
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Dr. Eric Davis on Alien Races: Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, Insectoids
The UAP Disclosure Fund held an informational briefing about UFOs for Congress. In addition to hearing from Chris Mellon, Avi Loeb, and Tim Gallaudet, we got to hear from Dr. Eric Davis, the alleged author of the Wilson/Davis notes. He spoke about his background in astrophysics and how he started...
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Matthew Brown, Immaculate Constellation Whistleblower
Matthew Brown has gone public as the whistleblower who wrote the Immaculate Constellation report. Join us as we review his three-hour interview with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, covering how he discovered the program on the Pentagon’s secret internet, his attempts to report it to his chain of...
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Lue Elizondo’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
While we wait for the third part of the interview with the Immaculate Constellation whistleblower to drop, let’s talk about a surprisingly eventful few weeks in the UFO world, including a UFO roundtable at Congress, multiple new whistleblowers, and Lue Elizondo sharing a UFO photo that was…
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JFK Advisor Malmgren Handled UFO Debris
Harald Malmgren was an advisor to multiple US presidents, including JFK, and involved in numerous historic incidents, including in the war room during the Cuban missile crisis. Days before he died, he gave a final interview to Jesse Michels, exploring his interactions with the UAP topic…
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Skywatcher: “100% Success Rate” Summoning UAP
UAP whistleblower Jake Barber’s group, Skywatcher, has had a busy few weeks. They announced they intend to prove mechanical and psionic UAP summoning by the end of the year. To support that goal, they released a scientific discovery framework, a structured way to handle UAP research, with six...
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UAP Whistleblower Grusch Hired to Assist Task Force
Rep. Eric Burlison has hired UAP whistleblower David Grusch to his personal staff. This will allow Grusch to advise Burlison (who is on the House Oversight Committee and is investigating UFOs for the Federal Secrets Task Force) on the topic of UFOs, and enable Congress to restore his clearance…
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White House Drone Answer Disappoints
This week we’re bringing you updates to a bunch of long-running stories. We’ve got the latest on the Congressional UAP Task Force, as well as updates on NASA’s UAP efforts. Skywatcher is preparing their next video, Elon Musk is making some wild claims, and we’re diving into the White House’s...
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UAP Declassification Task Force
Since the last Congressional UAP hearing, there has been growing demand for a UAP select committee, and pressure on President Trump’s administration to push for UFO disclosure. This week, we learned that Rep. Luna will head the Task Force On the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which will...
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Jake Barber Summons UFO at Nude Hot Springs
UFO crash retrieval program whistleblower Jake Barber made some shocking claims in his first interview with Ross Coulthart. Now, they’ve released the full-length 3-hour interview, as well as interviews with his supporting witnesses, another 3-hour interview with Jesse Michels, and Skywatcher’s...
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Jake Barber: New Whistleblower Worked for UFO Retrieval Program
This week Ross Coulthart introduced his new whistleblower, Jake Barber, an Air Force veteran who has come out as a whistleblower claiming to have worked in the secret UFO crash retrieval program. He shared stories of recovering exotic craft from a testing range in the desert, where he and his…
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Cybertruck Bomber Says Mystery Drones are Chinese Anti-Gravity Tech
Mystery drone swarms in New Jersey and elsewhere are ongoing, triggering further FAA flight restrictions, snark from former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick, and claims that FBI drone detection tech is inadequate. Perhaps most surprising, however, is that the Cybertruck bomber sent an email…
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Mystery Drones: Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes, Government Says
It’s been more than a month of nightly drone swarms over New Jersey, and the sightings have now spread to four additional military bases, as well as civilian sightings coast-to-coast. The government attempted to explain the sightings away as hobby drones and misidentified stars, and made a…
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Mystery Drone Swarms in New Jersey & UK
Last year, mysterious drone swarms targeted Navy ships and Langley Air Force Base, nearly colliding with an F22 and causing a fighter squadron to be relocated. Despite intense investigation, their origin is still unknown. This year, the drones are back! This time they’re targeting several RAF…
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“Truly Anomalous:” AARO’s 2024 Annual UAP Report
AARO’s new director, Dr. Jon Kosloski, got his first moments in the spotlight this week, dropping the newest annual UAP report, hosting a media roundtable, and appearing before the Senate. He confirmed UAP are real, some cases are “truly anomalous,” and discussed some cases they’re investigating....
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Bombshell UAP Hearing: Exposing the Truth
In the latest Congressional UAP hearing, retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, former AATIP director Lue Elizondo, and journalist Michael Shellenberger testified that secret UAP crash retrieval, reverse engineering, and surveillance programs are being illegally concealed from Congress.…
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US Elections and UAP Disclosure: What's Next?
Hot on the heels of the US election, we’re looking ahead to consider whether the upcoming government changes will impact the push for UFO disclosure, or the November 13 UAP hearing in Congress. We also discuss persistent rumors that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of life, and…
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Death Threats and Dead Man’s Switches
This week we’re covering a selection of UFO-related news. The National Archives extended the deadline for government agencies to turn over their UAP files. Journalists George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell have received credible death threats, and have created dead man’s switches to trigger…
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Immaculate Constellation: New Whistleblower Reveals Another Pentagon UFO Program
Journalist Michael Shellenberger broke the news of a new whistleblower who has provided a report to Congress on an illegally concealed Pentagon program called “Immaculate Constellation.” This is a parent program that is designed to “detect” and “quarantine” UFO data from the rest of the DoD.…
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Upcoming UAP Hearings in Congress
This week we’re covering a grab bag of UFO news that happened while we were talking about Lue Elizondo’s book. We’ve got presidential advisor Harald Malmgren announcing that he was briefed on the UAP reverse engineering program, stories of a massive and incredibly fast USO, a bit of information...
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Colares: When UFOs Attacked in Brazil
In Lue Elizondo’s book, he dedicates a chapter to a bizarre historical case that informed his UFO threat narrative: In 1977, in Colares, Brazil, UFOs attacked and terrorized thousands of people. The attacks were investigated, witnessed, and documented by the Brazilian Air Force. The resulting...
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How Lue Elizondo Saved AATIP
Ever since Lue Elizondo emerged as a whistleblower in the New York Times in 2017, the Pentagon has constantly changed their story about him. First they acknowledged he ran the UFO program, then they said it wasn’t a UFO program and Lue wasn’t involved. Lue claims it’s retaliation for going…
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Imminent: Lue Elizondo and the Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program
Lue Elizondo’s new book: Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs is finally out, and it’s jam-packed with fascinating information. Broadly speaking, Lue confirms David Grusch’s allegations about an illegally hidden UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program, but he also gets into…
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“Major things happening” - Matthew Pines
Matthew Pines, the Director of Intelligence at SentinelOne, spoke recently about the UAP Disclosure Act being resubmitted for the NDAA, and the “major things” that are coming this summer to support it, including Lue Elizondo’s book, two documentaries with new people backing David Grusch’s claims,...
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Remote Viewing: The CIA’s Secret Psychic Spy Program
Back in 1995 the CIA declassified a 20-year long secret spy program that used psychics! What was this program? Why was it declassified? Did it work? Why are we talking about this on a UFO podcast? We’ll dive into the answers to all those questions in this exciting episode! You can find show notes...
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“We are in contact with NHI:” Tim Gallaudet
Today we’re talking about the latest high-profile figure to call for public disclosure of contact with a non-human intelligence, retired US Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet. After serving as administrator of NOAA, he’s now on the boards of the SOL Foundation and Americans for Safe Aerospace, and…
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UFO Amendments in the 2025 NDAA
This week we’re checking in with Congress. Understandably, it seems the UAP issue is taking a back seat in the run up to the election, but we’ve still got a bit of movement on two fronts. First, there are several UAP amendments being considered for the 2025 NDAA, including improved whistleblower...
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Which US Presidents Know About UFOs?
Did you know that two different presidents have reported UFO sightings? Or that one president campaigned with a promise to open the UFO files? Find out which president is rumored to have attended a meeting with extraterrestrials at an air force base, and which president is reportedly afraid that...
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