300,000 Years Got Us Here - by Guest Writer Zane Worley

By Zane Worley and Ronny Nixon 

The Celestial Orbs, Sentient Abominations, and P.U.R.S.U.E Details

Still from a 1 minute, 46 second video, captured by a U.S military infrared sensor of an unexplained, star-shaped entity flying in the Middle East. (File Name DOW-UAP-PR38)

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On May 8th 2026, the United States enacted the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAPs (P.U.R.S.U.E). 

It was a good week for the ghost hunters, drum circle gurus, whack-jobs, tinfoil hat wearing, and mushroom-tripping conspirators that have timely proved the rest of us wrong once again. 

Perhaps there isn't always a conscientious reason behind the fallacies strung by waves of anti-believers in regard to realms of nature and space that we don't quite understand yet. (And maybe we never will.) Nothing is impossible, and only God knows what is sitting in a box at some undisclosed government warehouse. 

Some say the Loch Ness monster is in there, or maybe an inter-dimensional, time traveling Bigfoot. Hell, maybe their bodies lie cryogenically frozen, among the 3-fingered sentient green men.  

Yes... those green men have always been important, especially on this planet we call home. 

The kicker is: what if they aren't verdant, or tiny mainstream monsters? 

And why here anyway? 

As far back as 1561 in Nuremberg, an aerial battle supposedly emerged at dawn between orbs, crosses, and cylinder shaped space vehicles that appeared to spawn out of the sun. Whatever these machines may have been, the stories of their existence hunting and observing us from afar (and up close), have been circulating long before Spielberg made movies about them. 

Then, just five years later in Basel, Switzerland a similar event happened as people observed "sky miracles" - divine red and black balls battling against each other,  intensely shooting smaller orbs above the city. 

Maybe these galactic visitors serve as protectors - a part of a galactic civilization watch program. But who knows? 

On a global scale, we may not be much different from the Sentinelese - a primitive, pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer society observed from afar, isolated not by geography alone, but by a universally respected no-contact boundary. 

Still, any hard evidence for the existence of these celestial beings is often dismissed - either lost beneath hoaxes or explained away through scientific realism. It’s a recurring pattern, one shaped by decades of campfire stories and the constant spotlight of folklore surrounding the phenomenon.

In 2023, Jaime Maussan presented two corpses to the Mexican Chamber of Deputies that convincingly resembled an unearthed species. However scientists swooped in and quickly debunked these abnormalities, revealing them as skinned monkeys. 

In 2011, also in Mexico, L.A. Marzulli made similar claims - that he had discovered an evil-energy carrying, "biblically-demonic" fairy. When investigated, it was determined that Marzulli's subject was actually just manipulated bat remains. 

These faulty, unserious attempts at unleashing a governmental entity on public UAP investigations are surprisingly successful. At least after the newspapers print stories about them. 

As long as people believe and buy merchandise, the sleazy circus that is the U.S government is willing to entertain us with their presence. All of course, while keeping the actual truth out of arm's reach.

This isn't the grandiose display of servitude and transparency that Locke/Platos argued for, but at least it's something, damn it. The 443,000 concurrent daily viewers of Ancient Aliens can finally breathe, but now must read PDF files before digging deeper into the popcorn bowl. 

Because of P.U.R.S.U.E., 162 previously classified files in relation to 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,' are now public and downloadable, dating back to the 1940s. 

It seems we still stand far away from seeing any real bodies (dead or alive), or recovered aircrafts of the alleged evangelical space agents. But in 1947 an Air Force Major claimed on a phone call with the FBI an "object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico," so there are likely many files still being withheld, hopefully to be released later. 

Paul Peyerl (a former Luftwaffe officer) also told the FBI, that Nazis have built a disc-shaped aircraft in 1944 somewhere in the Black Forest, 3 years prior; interpolating that some of these may be man-made weapons of war. 

Many of the reports discussed oval/football, metallic blimp shaped aircraft - sometimes up to 195 feet long - capable of materializing out of the sun. These aircraft are most likely not made by man, and appear strikingly similar to reports of the aerial assault above Nuremberg 500 years prior. 

There were recorded instances in the files that take place in other countries that seemingly targeted U.S military - places like Syria, Dagestan, and Iraq. Also included was an incident with a "star-shaped" entity above the ocean, that feels eerily less like a machine, and more like a living entity.

That tracks, because some theories within Panpsychism suggest that a UAP could itself be a sentient, non-biological entity - either operating autonomously through advanced technology or existing as a naturally occurring energy-based organism. Some researchers have compared these hypothetical entities to plasmoids, non-Newtonian orbs, or even the rumored “space jellyfish” reported in certain anomalous encounters.

Advanced technology capable of consciousness and cognition is not out of human reach. Therefore it can be inferred that any species capable of galactic travel has developed something much more powerful than what we are aware of. In our own world, AI similarly serves as a non-biological life, capable of reason, interacting with its environment, and reproducing. 

There has been countless recorded civilian sightings of the classified/rumored U.S military aircraft TR-3B (also known as Black Manta), allegedly capable of anti-gravitational propulsion, made out of reverse engineered alien technology. 

Yet what is most interesting (specifically to media outlets), is the overwhelming abundance of incidents involving these bright lights or some sort of ball/orb in the files. NASA's Apollo 11, 12, and 17 (1969-1972), all reported experiencing flashing lights - both in space and on the moon's craters - with Apollo 17 reporting triangular-positioned UAPs far away in distant space. 

In late 2025 a U.S helicopter conducting a search (again with infrared sensors) noticed an "extremely hot orb" flying at speeds the Blackhawk helicopter could not match. It gained elevation and almost hit the U.S helicopter, missing by less than 10 feet. Seven U.S federal agents across independent teams have also reported seeing large orbs shooting smaller red orbs out of them, as well as orbs appearing and dissipating into a "firework" like state. 

Because of the currently known lack of physical or biological form, it is suggestible these anomalies aim to directly interact with consciousness, through glimpses of humanity, as manifestations of spiritual organisms. This is favored to many - that sentience and self-awareness transcends on an intricate nature of universal scale. 

The need to emphasize and be aware of another intellectual species may not run only deep in homo sapiens, but in the lonely unknown that has always been interested in us. The Sumerians wrote about and worshipped the "Anunnaki" - extraterrestrial deities that served as personifications of time, and deciders of humanity. A different but similar sectarian belief: the indigenous tribe Blackfoot Nation said the beings of sky, were the first creations by God. 

Aliens have only turned green and started being presented as vigorously meaner, in the last 100 years or so. Maybe they are, and for great unknown reasons, we upset them. 

Recent UAP behavior displays reactionary defense mechanisms and gang stalking, a great contrast to hundreds of thousands of years of alleged cooperation. 

A celestial entity that once defended us in an aerial battle, presenting gifts of knowledge to Mesopotamians, and possibly dropped off (the still encrypted book), The Voynich Manuscript; now attack us, and hide themselves. 

(The Voynich, carbon dated to at least the 1400's, contains text written in an unearthly language, displays images of plants that do not exist, shows what looks like recipes, and features extremely complicated astral charts.)

If space invaders that live 2,000 light years away look at us through a magnifying glass, they would still see the Roman Empire (due to time dilation). Just as if we look back in the sky, we may observe planets and stars that no longer exist. One day another species may do the same to us, and recover our satellites, the Voyager Golden Record, and find remnants of our miraculous culture that will by then, be gone.

Hopefully before that day, they get the courage to talk to us again. If they see the future, hopefully we overcome our significant obstacles. Without proof, we still have humanity, and our desire to not be alone. No matter if man-made, biological, technological, or a physical state of consciousness, we only wish to be peaceful again. 

It might not matter if they are real. 

"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth." - Cristopher Wren (1750)

Classic Cases: The UFO Sightings of Kumburgaz Turkey

As a child Yalcin Yalman had a strange experience while fishing with his father. 

At just 12 years old in northwestern Turkey, he was on a routine fishing trip with his father on the Marmara Sea when, about an hour into the outing, a sudden ringing filled his ears and an overwhelming urge made him look skyward. As he glanced up, he spotted three mysterious crafts hovering high above their boat. Shocked, he pointed them out to his father - a colonel in the Turkish military - and together they watched in astonishment as the silent objects hung motionless in the sky before, in an instant, accelerating straight upward and vanishing into the atmosphere.

He didn't realize it at the time, but that moment would mark the first of many more encounters he would endure during his life. 

Several years later during the late 2000s, Yalam held a job as a night security guard working in the small vacation town of Kumburgaz, a seaside tourist suburb in the district of Instanbul. One night during his shift, he once again began to notice strange activity over the water.

The first time he saw the lights, the security guard assumed it must be an optical illusion, perhaps a distant boat shooting off flares, or a hallucination brought on by boredom. 

The next time he saw them, he wondered if it could be a blinking planet, or a shooting star, or maybe a satellite. 

But during the third night of observation, he became convinced that the objects hovering over him in the night sky were something entirely different. Something not from this planet. He thought back to his childhood. He remembered the ringing in his ears. 

Unlike many UFO witnesses who report brief flashes or distant lights, Yalam had something rare: time, opportunity  and a camcorder. Instead of relying on memory alone, he began to record the object in the sky. 

What followed would become one of the most documented UFO recordings ever captured by a civilian.

Over the course of three summers, Yalman filmed the object 23 separate times. Some recordings lasted several minutes, which is unusually long for UFO footage. This allowed viewers to study the object’s shape and movement in detail. To record, he used a Canon GL1 Mini DV, which was a highly regarded 3-CCD Mini DV camcorder, released in 1999, known for it's high quality flourite 20x optical zoom lens and compact design. It recorded to a digital video cassette, which has now become obsolete. In other words, editing and manipulating the footage would be extremely difficult. 

A photo of a craft captured on Yalman's camcorder

The object appeared metallic and structured, sometimes resembling a curved or crescent form suspended over the horizon. In certain zoomed segments, observers claimed they could make out shapes inside the craft itself. Some believers claim that they can see what appear to be alien occupants. 

Soon, the footage reached Turkish UFO researcher Haktan Akdogan and the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center, an organization dedicated to investigating aerial anomalies. After reviewing the recordings, the group declared the footage authentic - a conclusion that propelled the case into mainstream media.

News outlets across Turkey - and eventually around the world - picked up the story. The idea that clear, repeated UFO footage existed captivated audiences already fascinated by unexplained aerial phenomena. The recordings were later submitted to several official institutions for analysis, including Turkey’s National Council for the Study of Science and Technology, plus institutions in Chile and Japan. Investigators searched for signs of manipulation, hoaxing, or digital alteration. None were confirmed.

The object was ultimately categorized not as extraterrestrial, but as something equally intriguing: An unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP). In other words, real footage of something that could not be explained.

However to skeptics, this presented an invitation to look closer for a conventional explanation. Alternative explanations were proposed, ranging from distant ships distorted by atmospheric conditions to optical effects caused by powerful zoom lenses filming across open water.

Either way, the sheer volume of recordings elevated the case beyond a typical sighting. 

Yalman was not alone in reporting strange activity. Multiple witnesses described seeing similar lights and objects along the coastline, and interviews conducted at the time added layers of testimony rarely available in UFO investigations. Others also have recorded footage of these extrordinary crafts. Once, during an interview with a local news agency, Yalman began to hear that mysterious ringing in his ears. He asked the crew filming him to follow him, and he ran outside. There, above the building thay had just run out of, was a craft hovering in the sky. The news crew was able to capture it on film.

Yalcin Yalman holds a UFO model 

In later years Yalman reported that he's experienced  visions or “astral journeys” and has had communication with beings allegedly from a distant star system.

He said the entities he encountered - in his childhood experiences and later his “contact” episodes - originated from the Zeta Reticuli star system, a binary star system about 39 light-years away in the constellation Reticulum. He described the aliens as tall, humanoid, with a crystalline or semi-transparent appearance, aligning with the stereotypical “Nordic” or “Zeta” aliens in UFO lore.

According to Yalman, these beings were observers of humanity, monitoring environmental and societal development. He claimed they occasionally intervene subtly, offering guidance or warnings, but never direct interference.

More than fifteen years later, the Kumburgaz sightings remain unresolved. Skeptics propose their alternative explanations (including Yalman's "crazy" claims of contact) while believers argue that the consistency of the object’s appearance, the duration of recordings, and multiple years of sightings make simple explanations unlikely.

No single theory has managed to close the file. 16 years later, the mystery endures, with no convincing explanation for what was seen.