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Every time I read about Neptune, I'm reminded of how truly terrifying and fascinating it is. It has 2,100 km/h permanent winds on a frozen world with barely any solar heat, a captured moon (Triton) that it's slowly pulling in to destroy into rings, and a magnetic field that literally rotates independently from the planet itself.

Voyager 2 only spent 6 hours there in 1989. With missions like Trident getting rejected or pushed back, the absolute earliest we might return is around 2045.

Why do you think ice giants get so little love compared to Jupiter, Saturn, or Mars? Is it purely the brutal 12-year travel time, or is the scientific justification harder to pitch to NASA compared to looking for life on Europa/Enceladus?

(For reference, this video covers a lot of the specific anomalies that made Voyager 2's data so unsettling at the time:https://youtu.be/ube7fjzEwaE)

Been going through the war.gov/ufo files
since they dropped. Most coverage is focused
on the videos but the documents are where
it gets interesting.

The Dallas field office memo from July 8,
1947 sent directly to Hoover reads:

"An object purporting to be a flying disc
was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico."

That's not my interpretation. That's the
FBI's own language in an internal memo.

A few other things I found that haven't
been discussed much:

The Los Alamos document from April 1991
shows an all-day classified meeting between
CIA, NSA and military. The agenda literally
says "extraterrestrial anomalies." Not UAP,
not aerial phenomena. That specific word
choice in a 1991 classified document caught
my attention.

There's also a 2025 FBI report senior
intelligence officer, not civilian about
an orb described as "super-hot" that
outran a military helicopter over 20 miles.

And Apollo 11 transcripts that were
apparently never meant to go public. Buzz
Aldrin describes seeing something in space
he couldn't identify.

Still working through everything. Anyone
else found anything worth flagging?

Time: 12 May 2026. 17:35 UTC
Location: Spain

The most interesting ones aren't the ones making headlines.

Case 1: A senior intelligence officer filed a report with the FBI in 2025 about an orb that traveled 20 miles at a speed a military helicopter couldn't match.

Case 2: NASA transcripts from Apollo 11 — never meant to be public — where Buzz Aldrin describes seeing "a fairly bright light source" in space. His exact words: "which we tentatively ascribed to a possible laser." In 1969. No laser technology existed that could do that.

Case 3: A pilot over the Mediterranean in 2023 reported a triangular metallic UAP at 25,000 feet. No aircraft matching that description was filed in the airspace that day.

Case 4: The Roswell FBI file — case 62-HQ-83894 — now has fewer redactions than any previous release. The Dallas field office memo from 1947 uses the words "an object purporting to be a flying disc." Not a weather balloon. Not debris. All of this is directly from war.gov/ufo.

Full breakdown here: https://youtu.be/YKOsmskD84U

Time: 12 may 2026 15:07 UTC
Location: Spain