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UFOs exist. Not just hearsay or fuzzy photos of unidentified, apparent aerial phenomena — and not mere testimony from government officials, as in the case of but actual scientific evidence of artificial shiny objects in orbit around Earth.

In the 1950s. Before Sputnik.

So, more accurately, it appears that, at the very least, UFOs existed!

In orbit, before the Soviets sent up the first satellite (as we have read in the history books and what some of us remember from the news when we were young).

“The studies by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel and her colleagues have identified bright ‘transient’ objects that appeared in photographs but were not present in photographs taken soon thereafter,” explains The Washington Examiner. “The transient nature of these lights strongly suggests they are not stars.” Indeed, Dr. Villarroel and her colleagues go much further, weeding out any natural explanations. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of examples of these transients not only appear on photographic plates from the 1950s taken from the Palomar Observatory.

Since these studies hit the news a few years ago, we haven’t heard much on it from major news sources despite its obvious news value and historic importance. But Dr. Villarroel has not stopped working on the project, and has maintained a fairly heavy podcast presence.

Now a new paper from Ivo Busko, late of NASA, appears to confirm Villarroel’s results, using plates from a different astronomical observatory.

Meanwhile, Representatives Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) have made news regarding their work in Congress investigating UFOs (the Deep State calls them “UAPs” now). When Rep. Luna called for defunding AARO, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, because she says it keeps lying to Congress, Burchett leaped quickly on board.

And Burchett said this to Ross Coulthart:

I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is, and I’ll just tell you this: if they would release the things that I’ve seen, you would stay up — you’d be up at night worrying about or thinking about this stuff.

We just need to disclose it all. I’m sick of it. Well, I was briefed — I’ll just tell you this — I was briefed last week on an issue, or excuse me, two weeks ago, and it would have set the earth on fire.

This country would have come unglued, I think, if they would have heard all that I heard. They would demand answers.

And we need to — but you know, it’s never going to get — unfortunately, it just keeps getting covered up and covered up, and the people that know are dying or disappearing, as the case may be.

Paul Jacob has been covering the ongoing UFO disclosure story for some time, demanding transparency:

• Fravor’s Fake UFOs? (May 26, 2021)
• Transient Stars (January 26, 2024)
• The UFOs Are Here (December 12, 2024)

On April 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served (he died on his 32nd day as president). A renowned Indian killer (having risen to fame for his part in 1811’s Battle of Tippecanoe), a proponent of the expansion of slavery into Northwest Territories, and a Whig, Harrison won the presidency in part by turning the Democrats’ “log cabin and hard cider” aspersions on his character as the basic symbols of the campaign.

Though hardly a “limited government man,” some libertarian history buffs proclaim him the Greatest President, on the ostensibly droll and possibly cynical grounds that he spent so little time in office.

The campaign slogan of 1840, “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too,” proved an actual campaign promise, as Vice President John Tyler took over the job of the presidency, establishing a precedent on presidential succession that would later be enshrined into constitutional law, in the form of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.

With the Acte de déchéance de l’Empereur (“Emperor’s Demise Act”) of April 2, 1814, France’s Sénat conservateur officially recognized the downfall of Napoléon I of France. The original resolution to remove the Emperor was moved on the legislative body’s floor by Thomas Jefferson’s friend Destutt de Tracy* and was drawn up by Charles Lambrechts. The final paragraph summarized the new reality concisely:

The Senate declares and decrees as follows: 1. Napoleon Buonaparte is cast down from the throne, and the right of succession in his family is abolished. 2. The French people and army are absolved from their oath of fidelity to him. 3. The present decree shall be transmitted to the departments and armies, and proclaimed immediately in all the quarters of the capital.

Nine days later, after attempting to put his son on the throne, Napoléon abdicated unconditionally. The Allies exiled him to Elba, which was to be the whole extent of this reign as “Emperor.”

This arrangement proved unstable, with Napoléon staging a comeback, eventually leading to more war, his defeat at Waterloo, and his exile to an island in the South Atlantic.

* According to Tracy himself — official records do not name the member.

On April Fools’ Day, 1957, the BBC offered for viewers of the current affairs program “Panorama” the infamous spaghetti harvest report hoax.

By sheer coincidence (?), one definition of “noodle” is “fool.”

On March 31, 1717, a sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ,” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.

The sermon’s text was John 18:36, “My kingdom is not of this world,” and from that Hoadly deduced — supposedly at the request of King George I himself, who was present in the assembly — that there was no Biblical justification for any church government. Hoadly identified the church with the kingdom of Heaven, noting that Christ had not delegated His authority to any representative.

King George’s preference for the Whig Party, and for latitudinarianism in ecclesiastical policy, is widely thought to have been a strategic maneuver to degrade church power in political government.

On March 30, 2017, SpaceX conducted the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.

On March 29, 1990, the Czechoslovak parliament proved unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the “Velvet Revolution” — in which the Communist Party was booted from power. This sparked the “Hyphen War,” a tongue-in-cheek moniker for the dispute between Czechs and Slovaks about official recognition of the two nations’ equal status. (The Slovak representatives wanted to insert a hyphen into the name, to make the Slovak part stand out.) Eventually, the dispute was resolved with the “Velvet Divorce,” in which the two countries split up, on New Year’s Day, 1993, the two countries now being named:

Czech Republic, also known as Czechia;

Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská republika).

The Twenty-Eighth of March just so happens to mark three occasions of political life in imperial Rome:

• A.D. 37 — Roman emperor Caligula accepted the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
• A.D. 193 — After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auctioned off the throne to Didius Julianus.
• A.D. 364 — Roman Emperor Valentinian I appointed his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.

On March 27, 1782, the Second Rockingham ministry assumed office in Great Britain and began negotiations to end the American War of Independence.

On 1794 on this day of the month, the United States Government established a permanent navy and authorized the building of six frigates.