| Yesterday’s Capitol Hill UFO / UAP news conference (watch below) should have dominated the national conversation. Instead, it landed in the odd American gap between historic significance and minimal mainstream attention: a startling public moment in which lawmakers and UAP figures made statements with |
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"James Fox did not go to Washington to sell a movie; he went to give one of the most contentious UFO cases on record a direct line into the U.S. political bloodstream. Between a closed door briefing on Capitol Hill and a high profile press conference at the National Press Club, the 1996 Varginha incident—long dubbed “Brazil’s Roswell”—is now being treated by lawmakers, doctors, and investigators as a live, unresolved case with potentially historic implications"
| On January 15, 2026, three members of Congress—Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna, and Eric Burlison—met in the former’s office in the Longworth House Office Building with Brazilian witnesses and researchers to hear detailed testimony on Varginha. As The Debrief reports, the scene was disarmingly |
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Five days later, Fox hosted a full scale UAP event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., bringing together first hand Brazilian witnesses, medical professionals, investigators, and U.S. insiders to present the same case in a public forum. NewsNationn carried hours of live coverage, with Ross Coulthart and Meagan Medick framing the gathering as part of a wider debate over alleged crash retrieval programs and non human intelligences. FanBolt, in a detailed feature, described the National Press Club event as a “landmark” moment that moved Fox’s previous documentary work on Varginha directly “into the heart of Washington, D.C.” and tied it explicitly to the broader push for UAP transparency.
| Yesterday’s National Press Club event with filmmaker James Fox dragged the Varginha case back into the harsh light of global scrutiny, three decades after a handful of terrified Brazilian witnesses said they saw something not of this world in the municipality of Varginha, southwest Minas Gerais state, Brazil. As |
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Birdsall, a leading UK UFO researcher/journalist who co-founded UFO Magazine with his brother, Mark (and died in 2003) was among the first Western researchers to sit down with the Brazilian investigators at the heart of the case and to stitch together a timeline from dozens of frightened locals, military insiders, and medical staff. His early reporting still frames much of what the public thinks it knows about what happened in Varginha in January 1996.
The Crash Before the Creatures
In Birdsall’s reconstruction, the story begins a week earlier with a wave of UFO sightings over southern Minas Gerais. On 13 January 1996, he reports, resident Afrânio da Costa Brasil and his nine year old daughter Emeline watched a strange craft hovering near their home; Emeline’s drawing of a cigar or submarine shaped object would later echo in multiple testimonies.
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| To try to understand what the Pentagon calls UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena, Military Matters host Rod Rodriguez talks with Christopher Mellon, former Deputy |
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Chris Mellon is a member of Tom DeLonge's To the Stars Academy and claims he got the videos "in the Pentagon parking lot."
| In the recently released UFO documentary The Phenomenon, Chris Mellon, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, stated that he was the source who provided the New York Times with the three infamous UFO videos it published in 2017. |
By MJ Banias
Vice 10-20-20 |
Lt. Col. Robert Friend was in charge of Project Blue Book, the military’s famous UFO study.
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A retired Air Force official in charge of one of its
most famous UFO research efforts said before his death last year that
the effort may have been scuttled not because it was fruitless, but just
the opposite. |
By Ed Mazza
The Huffington Post 10-15-20 |
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| As he often does, Tucker Carlson took a break from talking politics for a few minutes at the very end of his Fox News show on Friday night — to talk about aliens and UFOs. |
By Phil Owen
The Wrap 10-9-20 |
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Former U.S.
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repeated claims in a new documentary that UFOs interfered in U.S nuclear
weapons facilities – even prohibiting the weapons’ launch altogether. In the documentary “The Phenomenon” that released Tuesday, |
By Laura Widener
americanmilitarynews.com 10-6-20 |
The Phenomenon studies the history of UFO claims from the 1940s to this summer’s revelation of a Department of Defense investigation into military sightings
| The question of unexplained phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects have long fascinated the public, as the subject of feverish American news coverage in the years post-second world war and too many films and investigative documentaries |
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The Guardian 10-7-20 |
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“The day the sun didn’t come up was so surreal. I
mean, it was literally apocalyptic. There was this orange glow in the
sky all day, the sky was orange and dark and everybody was walking
around like they were in some matrix. It was eerie and spooky and
unsettling, and it was like, let’s get the hell out of here, man, we
can’t even breathe fresh air.” James Fox is doing the phoner from somewhere in Arizona, where the choking ashes from multiple conflagrations near his home in |
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Released on Tuesday, James Fox's new documentary The
Phenomenon, offers a historical inquiry into UFOs. Or what the U.S.
Military refers to as "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." [...]
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By Tom Rogan
www.washingtonexaminer.com 10-5-20 |
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Twenty-four minutes into the
long-awaited documentary
“The Phenomenon,” director James Fox foreshadows its final act with a
look back at what happened outside Australia’s Westall School in 1966.
That’s when several hundred students came swarming out of their
classrooms upon hearing about a disc-shaped UFO stunting in broad
daylight over the power lines near the athletic field. They watched it
descend below the treeline, rise again, turn on its broad side, and zip
away at a crazy velocity. |
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James Fox's feature exploring 70 years of history behind
proving UFOs exist will now have a digital release on Oct. 6.
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UFO documentary The Phenomenon, which takes
an expansive look across 70 years' worth of history behind proving the
existence of UFOs, right up to the latest discoveries, has a new trailer
and release date. |
By Alex Ritman
The Hollywood Reporter 9-15-20 |
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| If aliens exist, eventually we’ll know about it. How will we find out? What will they want? These are the kinds of questions that spark our imaginations every single day. Could the revelation possibly come in the form of a documentary? If the | By Germain Lussier Gizmodo 2-2-20 |
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The film includes interviews with former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
| 1091 Media has acquired North American and digital rights to the UFO documentary The Phenomenon, with a nationwide theatrical release set for June of next year, followed by a digital release in September. | By Mia Galuppo www.hollywoodreporter.com 11-13-19 |
| James is working very hard on his new documentary "701". During this exclusive interview we covered these subjects: | By OmniTalk Radio 11-27-17 |
• Current status of "701" production.
• New information about Holloman UFO Landing film.
• Vandenberg UFO film.
• Deep sources, contacts, and search for physical evidence.
• Interview with col. William Coleman before his death.
• Interview with former Secretary of the Air Force
• Anthony McPeak.
• Interview with John Podesta. ... and more.
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| An American documentary maker has urged Australian authorities to lift the lid on one of the nation's most baffling UFO reports. | By Heraldsun.com 9-21-17 |
