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Search results for "Pentagon UFO files just dropped"

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Fact-checks (15446)

Facebook posts stated on September 23, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“Pentagon releases NASA footage of 2,000 mile long UFO near Saturn.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• September 29, 2023
Lizzo stated on July 26, 2023 in a post on X, formerly Twitter:
“The government just stated under oath that they are in possession of UFOs and nonhuman alien bodies.”
By Jeff Cercone, Nuria Diaz Muñoz• July 28, 2023
Instagram posts stated on December 15, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“The Pentagon has confirmed that the mysterious drones appearing across the globe are NOT of earthly origin.”
By Jeff Cercone• December 16, 2024
Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2022 in a Facebook post:
An image shows a “UFO photographed on June 21, 2014 by the pilot from the cockpit of an F-16 military plane flying near Lackland Air Force Base of the United States located in San Antonio, Texas.”
By Bill McCarthy• June 30, 2022
Facebook posts stated on December 09, 2024 in a video on Facebook:
Drones reported in the U.S., including around the U.S. Capitol, have directed-energy weapons that have a “space-based laser generating system that can create pestilence.”
By Madison Czopek• December 17, 2024
Kirsten Gillibrand stated on February 23, 2021 in an interview with WNYC:
“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest prosecution rate.”
By Landon Allison, Cassidey Kavathas• March 25, 2021
Facebook posts stated on April 17, 2019 in a viral image:
Prominent Democrats were born in April 1948, "nine months after" a UFO crashed near Roswell, N.M.
By Madison Czopek• May 7, 2020
Bloggers stated on June 16, 2023 in a blog post:
“Unprecedented UFO landing” in Las Vegas.
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 21, 2023
Rick Scott stated on August 16, 2022 in a press release:
The IRS is adding 87,000 new agents, making the IRS “larger than (the) Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs and Border Protection and the State Department combined.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann• August 17, 2022
Dennis Kucinich stated on October 30, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa.:
"More people in this country have seen UFOs than I think approve of George Bush's presidency."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 31, 2007
Bloggers stated on April 09, 2018 in a web post:
Says Buzz Aldrin "passes UFO lie detector test leaving experts convinced that he encountered alien life."
By Louis Jacobson• April 10, 2018
Facebook posts stated on July 04, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Official Navy photographs show an unidentified flying object in the Arctic Ocean in 1971.
By Mia Penner• July 11, 2024
Facebook posts stated on February 06, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“The moon is a habitable place.”
By Madison Czopek• March 6, 2023
Facebook posts stated on November 02, 2024 in a post:
“Elon Musk unveils UFO fighter jet that defies physics.”
By Grace Abels• November 8, 2024
Bloggers stated on June 23, 2018 in a blog post:
"NASA announced that it communicated with four races of aliens."
By Bill McCarthy• June 25, 2018
Instagram posts stated on September 12, 2022 in an image:
“No plane debris was found at the Pentagon.”
By Gabrielle Settles• September 14, 2022
Instagram posts stated on December 16, 2023 in an Instagram reel:
Video is evidence that Hillary Clinton is a reptile.
By Sara Swann• December 21, 2023
Ben Cline stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement.:
A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”
By Warren Fiske, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann• August 24, 2022
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on December 02, 2018 in a tweet:
"$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T. That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon."
By Louis Jacobson• December 3, 2018
Facebook posts stated on November 02, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Says Elon Musk said, “I am releasing $1,000 Tesla e-bike today!”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 12, 2024

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By Maria Briceño• February 20, 2026

Fact-checking claims about missing, dead scientists: Were they researching UFOs, nuclear weapons?

By Loreben Tuquero• April 28, 2026

Taylor Swift: Singer, songwriter, psyop? How conservative pundits spread a wild theory

By Madison Czopek• February 2, 2024

Fact-checking the movie The Post, Oscar nominee for best picture

By John Kruzel• February 26, 2018

Fact-checking Joe Biden at CNN’s town hall

By Monique Curet, Louis Jacobson, Tom Kertscher, Amy Sherman• October 22, 2021

We didn't stop at 140 characters

By Martha M. Hamilton, Louis Jacobson• July 7, 2011

The ‘Storm Area 51’ trend, explained

By Daniel Funke• July 19, 2019

Fact-check: What to know about US military boat strikes as death toll passes 200

By Maria Briceño• June 2, 2026

Did Cuccinelli almost ruin the state's recruitment of Northrop Grumman?

By Nancy Madsen• October 29, 2013

How improperly using AI could deter you from voting, or hurt your health

By Loreben Tuquero• July 17, 2023

When the U.S. goes to war, TV networks call on the warheads

By Katie Sanders• September 25, 2014

'Don't ask, don't tell' promise now In the Works

By Louis Jacobson• February 2, 2010

The whole story behind the burned Bibles

By Robert Farley• May 18, 2009

Trump said US has a ‘virtually unlimited supply’ of munitions to fight Iran ‘forever.’ Is that true?

By Amy Sherman• March 6, 2026

Is the Pentagon court-martialing Christian soliders?

By Becky Bowers• May 6, 2013

On Facebook, Elon Musk is an invention superhero. But many of these posts are made-up and feature AI

By Loreben Tuquero• November 20, 2024

Three-hour delay: A Pentagon-National Guard timeline for Jan. 6

By Louis Jacobson• March 5, 2021

Campaigns dig into the archives to attack

By Robert Farley, Alexander Lane• October 7, 2008

Trump directed the Pentagon to create a Space Force. What would it look like?

By Manuela Tobias• August 13, 2018

Did Trump’s freeze on Ukraine aid violate the Impoundment Control Act?

By Bill McCarthy• December 5, 2019