Erica Lukes

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There's a lot of public confusion about the FOIA. What it should do - and what it actually does - are not always the same. The FOIA is an articulation of public entitlement to the people's records. View the full half-hour discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9K... CLIP: youtu.be/VlMdDqq1QqM

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Physicist & UFO advocate Dr. James E. McDonald & his wife Betsy - & "her 'bearded and filthy' friends" that she helped circulate petitions to get candidates on ballots - were investigated by FBI for peace activism & opposition to the Vietnam War, per FBI records. www.patreon.com/posts/151645...

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SAUCER NEWS HEADOUMIERS VISITED BY FBI AGENTS On August 23rd, your Editor's apartment in Fort Lee was visited by two FBI agents from the New York City office. They were doing a "background check" on a man named Robert Vorwitt, who was apparently associated at one time with the New York Saucer Information Bureau {NYSIB). The agents asked your Editor for the address of Lois Jessup, a NYSIB member, in hopes that she could lead them to Vorwitt or at least give them some information on the man. We were unable to supply Miss Jessup's address, but we put the FBI men in touch with another NYSIB member who did. After the FBI visited Miss Jessup, we heard nothing further about the case.

Our evolving investigation of an FBI espionage probe that veered into flying saucer land just swerved into Jim Moseley's apartment in Jersey. From the Oct. 1963 edition of Moseley's 'Saucer News' & the latest blogpost & accompanying video from EFR: www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/post/the-rob...

Abuse is horrible. In addition, survivors of SA and of domestic violence are often pressured to justify themselves and their experiences. This can be as traumatizing, and often more traumatizing, than the actual abuse that they survived in the first place. Believe survivors.

Another banger of a show coming up this week at UFO Classified with Erica Lukes (@ericalukes.bsky.social)! One of her most popular & requested guests, James Carrion, will be LIVE Friday. Link to come as the weekend nears. Watch this space!

Erica Lukes, Susan Gerbic and Jack Brewer on the Jan. 23 episode of UFO Classified.

Big thanks to Susan Gerbic @susangerbic.bsky.social for joining Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social and Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social for a wide-ranging discussion on mediums, the UFO community, Wikipedia & more. www.youtube.com/live/CdvmQlO...

YouTube video by UFO Classified with Erica Lukes Sue Gerbic | Guerrilla Skeptic

Join Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social LIVE with award-winning scientific skepticism activist & the driving force behind Guerrilla Skeptics of Wikipedia, Susan Gerbic @susangerbic.bsky.social, Fri, 1/23, 7pm EST. Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social will join in too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdvm...

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Scientists as Spies: Cold War FBI Memos Document Exploiting U.S. Residents for Intelligence Purposes Frank Drake & Peter Sturrock among scientists referenced

Scientists as Cold War spies and FBI assets. Check out the blogpost and accompanying video, created as the result of records obtained through the FOIA: www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/post/fbi-rec...

A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

"'Your trust in me,' the bot added, 'has unlocked this reality.'"
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The late Dr. Leon Festinger

Erica Lukes, Tanner Boyle & Jack Brewer converse during a recent episode of Erica's UFO Classified.

The late Timothy Beckley with a fellow cosmic traveler

A sign identifying the Department of Energy with a building in the background

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More Like Ancient FAILiens TV Reviews Podcast · Did aliens build the pyramids? What's with all the abductions? And why do they like gold so much?In More Like Ancient FAILiens, journalist Brandon R. Reynolds and podcaster Toby B...

This season of More Like Ancient Fail-iens with Toby Ball @tobyballnh.bsky.social included a 2-parter on Skinwalker Ranch with Erica Lukes @ericalukes.bsky.social & a Prototypes episode with Jack Brewer @jackbrewer.bsky.social. Check out the podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

A hand holding a mobile phone with the writing, "Learning How to Learn, Episode One: Sarah Scoles".

The CIA emblem.

A person taking a photo of signs outside Area 51 that state there is no trespassing and that photography is prohibited.

The header of a 1954 FBI memo from the Cincinnati Field Office to Dir. Hoover, Subject: Truman Bethurum; Flying Discs Miscellaneous Information Concerning (Espionage).

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In an email exchange today, the Uintah County Community Development Office advised EFR it continues to await further information from the applicant on its permit request for SWR-adjacent Don Hicken Farms. An approval or denial has not yet been issued.

FBI Records on Contactee Wayne Aho Another Indictment of UFO Genre Self-described contactee left dubious legacy

In the latest blogpost at EFR, we consider FBI records responsive to Wayne Aho and their context to our wider investigation of subversive activity in the mid-20th century UFO genre. www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/post/fbi-rec...

A screenshot from a 1955 FBI memo which reads, "Both sources plan to go to Iceland for a short visit upon completion of the astronomical meeting in Ireland. For the information of the Bureau, [redacted] hopes to confer with United States Air Force personnel in Iceland regarding a type of "position finder" he hopes to develop as a private business venture, with the thought that the United States Air Force might desire to purchase this "position finder" which he is "working on".

A 1955 FBI memo documented its relationship with confidential sources working on what was termed a "position finder" in which they hoped to interest the USAF. Previous work from James Carrion & EFR is suggested in the context of our most recently obtained FBI records. www.patreon.com/posts/fbi-in...

FOIA Request Obtains FBI Records Responsive to Galileo Project FBI releases records responsive to Galileo Project, withholds others

While Avi Loeb gets attention from groups ranging from critical peers to credulous UFO buffs & even potential donors, don't overlook the IC. In early 2024, EFR shared heavily redacted FBI records on Galileo Project. They always follow the money. www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/post/foia-re...

We homeless don’t deserve this.

I feel each of my guests who I talked with earlier this year were equally wonderful to speak with, and I've learned a lot from each of them over the years. I wanted to highlight Erica's interview though, for how incisive her answers were, especially regarding ufo b.s. I truly feel honored.🙏

You have let our country down.

YouTube video by API Case Files Case Files Live Episode 9

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Jack Brewer will be live on API Case Files at 9:30pm EST.

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Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in either chamber of Congress gets a CBO “score” of how much it would add to the national debt.

Sources say the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, and email and chat logs between lawmakers’ offices and nonpartisan researchers might have been accessed.

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American Oversight Warns USAID Over Unlawful Policy Undermining FOIA Rights - American Oversight We demanded the agency reverse a new rule requiring requesters to reconfirm interest in pending records requests.

In September, we sued DOE over a policy that would let it dismiss more FOIA requests, warning that if the court didn’t step in, the unlawful policy would spread.

Now, USAID has adopted a similar policy. We sent a letter demanding USAID reverse it.
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Self-care is not as easy for trauma survivors as it may sound. We've been conditioned to deny our need for care ("needing" anything feels awfully vulnerable) & to prioritize others at our own expense.

Learning self-care can be like learning a new language as an adult-- awkward.

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

The Lies Have It: Advice for Journalists Approaching Misinformation Kai Kupferschmidt, KSJ '24, shares actionable tips for journalists seeking to reduce the harm of misinformation.

"As journalists... a growing part of our job is to scrutinize suspicious information, call out lies, correct falsehoods, and debunk nonsense. How do we best do that? In many ways we are still figuring that out, but here is the advice I can give from what I have learned." ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/10...