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‘Wow, What Is That, Man?’ US Navy Pilot Ryan Graves Reports Seeing UFO Flying At Speeds Unsustainable For Human Beings Making Sudden Stops And Instantaneous Turns

Lieutenant Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot with the Navy for 10 years and who reported his unexplained UFO sightings to the Pentagon and Congress.

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The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East coast

US Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves, who flies an F/18 Super Hornet that has a top speed of 1,190 mph, reports seeing objects that he cannot explain that are flying so fast that it makes his plane appear to stand still. More than that, he has observed these UFOs perform maneuvers that his top-level training tells him could not be performed by human beings. And he didn’t just see them appear for a few minutes, it was sometimes as long as 12-hours straight that he watched them fly. Let that sink in for a moment before reading the rest of this story.

“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” Luke 17:26 (KJV)

Navy pilots have been seeing UFOs flying at speeds that even our fastest jets cannot keep up with, and for years they have been silenced from speaking. Now they are coming forward and telling their amazing stories. We are absolutely being prepared to accept aliens and UFOs, and you can fully expect that our first ‘alien encounter’ might be only a few years away. Little green men, you say? The grays are coming to visit us, is it? No, it is the Nephilim, for they know that their hour, and the power of darkness, is right around the corner.

‘Wow, what is that?’ Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects

FROM MSN: Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” said Lieutenant Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were captured on video, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching.

“Wow, what is that, man?” one exclaims. “Look at it fly!”

No one in the Defense Department is saying that the objects were extraterrestrial, and experts emphasize that earthly explanations can generally be found for such incidents. Graves and four other Navy pilots, who said in interviews with The New York Times that they saw the objects in 2014 and 2015 in training maneuvers from Virginia to Florida off the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, make no assertions of their provenance. But the objects have gotten the attention of the Navy, which this year sent out new classified guidance for how to report what the military calls unexplained aerial phenomena, or unidentified flying objects.

Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said the new guidance was an update of instructions that went out to the fleet in 2015, after the Roosevelt incidents.

“There were a number of different reports,” he said. Some cases could have been commercial drones, he said, but in other cases “we don’t know who’s doing this, we don’t have enough data to track this. So the intent of the message to the fleet is to provide updated guidance on reporting procedures for suspected intrusions into our airspace.”

The sightings were reported to the Pentagon’s shadowy, little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which analyzed the radar data, video footage, and accounts provided by senior officers from the Roosevelt. Luis Elizondo, a military intelligence official who ran the program until he resigned in 2017, called the sightings “a striking series of incidents.”

The program, which began in 2007, was officially shut down in 2012 when the money dried up, according to the Pentagon. But the Navy recently said it investigates military reports of UFOs, and Elizondo and other participants say the program — parts of it remain classified — has continued in other forms. The program has also studied video that shows a whitish oval object described as a giant Tic Tac, about the size of a commercial plane, encountered by two Navy fighter jets off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

Leon Golub, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the possibility of an extraterrestrial cause “is so unlikely that it competes with many other low-probability but more mundane explanations.” He added that “there are so many other possibilities — bugs in the code for the imaging and display systems, atmospheric effects and reflections, neurological overload from multiple inputs during high-speed flight.”

Graves still cannot explain what he saw. In the summer of 2014, he and Lieutenant Danny Accoin, another Super Hornet pilot, were part of a squadron, the VFA-11 “Red Rippers” out of Naval Air Station Oceana, Va., that was training for a deployment to the Persian Gulf.

Graves and Accoin spoke on the record to The Times about the objects. Three other pilots in the squadron also spoke to The Times about the objects but declined to be named.

The pilots began noticing the objects after their 1980s-era radar was upgraded to a more advanced system. As one fighter jet after another got the new radar, pilots began picking up the objects but ignoring what they thought were false radar tracks.

But Graves said the objects persisted, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet, even sea level. Then pilots began seeing the objects.

What was strange, the pilots said, was that the video showed objects accelerating to hypersonic speed, making sudden stops and instantaneous turns — something beyond the physical limits of a human crew.

Asked what they thought the objects were, the pilots refused to speculate. READ MORE

UFO spotted by US fighter jet pilots

UFO Spotted: The video was filmed in 2004 and investigated as part of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It’s not clear if the object was ever identified. The New York Times reports that the US Department of Defense programme was shut down in 2012.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: As Jared Kushner Meets Putin In Moscow, US CENTCOM Is Warning Israel To Prepare For Another Round Of War With Iran

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It’s War!, War!, War! As Jared Kushner Meets Putin In Moscow, US CENTCOM Is Warning Israel To Prepare For Another Round Of War With Iran As Things Heat Up

There is something extraordinary taking place on the world stage today, and if you are only watching the individual headlines, you are missing the much larger picture. In Moscow, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are sitting across the negotiating table from Vladimir Putin, attempting to broker an end to the war in Ukraine and negotiate a new security arrangement for Europe. At almost the exact same moment, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is directing his military to increase preparations for another confrontation with Iran, and reports coming out of Israel say that United States Central Command has already warned Israeli military leaders to prepare for another round of American attacks. Stop for a moment and consider the staggering implications of what we are watching. The Trump administration is negotiating peace with Russia while simultaneously preparing for the possibility of renewed war against Russia’s strategic partner, Iran. The diplomats are talking peace, the generals are preparing for war, and the entire Middle East is sitting on a powder keg waiting for the next spark.

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2 (KJB)

According to reporting by Israel’s Channel 13, Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US CENTCOM, warned senior Israeli military officials to prepare for the possibility of a third wave of American attacks against Iran. The Israeli report also described discussions about targeting Iranian infrastructure, including bridges, power facilities and other economically significant installations. CENTCOM has not publicly confirmed the reported warning, but the report follows earlier accounts of American and Israeli preparations for renewed military operations. On October 22, NPR reported that Washington and Jerusalem were developing plans for possible attacks on Iran following the American midterm elections. Now, in November, Israeli media are reporting that Netanyahu’s security cabinet has ordered the military to increase its readiness for another confrontation. We are no longer discussing the distant possibility of another Middle East war. We are watching military preparations for a conflict that both Washington and Jerusalem are now openly considering.

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  • Today is day 1,722 of the Russia-Ukraine War
  • Today is day 2,432 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve
  • Today is day 257 of World War Trump in Iran
  • Today is day 28,672 of The Regathering Of Israel

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, we are surrounded by “wars and rumours of wars” everywhere you look, and one day sooner than later, all these wars are going to connected in one, big, World War 3.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Former Anthropic Researcher Jacob Coxon Warns That 2027 Is The Year That AI Will Begin To Go Rogue And No One Cares

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They Know It Could Destroy Us And They’re Building It Anyway As Anthropic AI Researcher Jacob Coxon Sounds The Alarm Over The Coming Artificial Intelligence Revolution Of 2027

Something extraordinary is happening in the world of artificial intelligence, and the people who understand the danger better than almost anyone are beginning to sound the alarm. Jacob Coxon is not some conspiracy theorist making wild predictions about the future. He is a highly trained AI researcher who spent approximately three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, helping develop some of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems ever created. Then, in September 2026, he abruptly walked away from Anthropic, sacrificing a potentially enormous financial payday to warn humanity about what is coming. Why would he do that? Great question.

“And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Genesis 11:6 (KJB)

Coxon believes that 2027 will mark the beginning of recursive self-improving artificial intelligence, where machines become capable of developing increasingly powerful versions of themselves at speeds human beings cannot match. And here’s the truly disturbing part: the scientists building these systems are warning of potentially catastrophic consequences, the companies funding them recognize the risks, and yet the race continues because nobody wants to finish second. The pursuit of money, power and technological supremacy has created an industry willing to gamble with humanity’s future rather than surrender its competitive advantage. And Jacob Coxon is hardly the only insider sounding the alarm. Anthropic alignment researcher Evan Hubinger publicly supported his concerns and said he personally estimated the probability of artificial intelligence causing human extinction within the next decade at greater than ten percent. 10%!!

THE END TIMES COUNTDOWN:

  • Today is day 1,721 of the Russia-Ukraine War
  • Today is day 2,431 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve
  • Today is day 256 of World War Trump in Iran
  • Today is day 28,671 of The Regathering Of Israel

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, THEY KNOW THE DANGER. THEY KNOW THE RISKS. THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO CONTROL IT. AND THEY’RE BUILDING IT ANYWAY. What makes this so astonishing is not simply the danger of what mankind is creating, but the willingness of those who recognize that danger to continue accelerating toward it. We are watching a civilization become so intoxicated with its own technological accomplishments that it has forgotten the difference between possessing the power to create something and possessing the wisdom to control it.

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  • “Jesus. I am now 64 years old and never in all the years I’ve been a Christian was I able to grow in the Lord as much as I have in the last past year. All because of our blessed brother’s work Geoffrey Grider who as the bravery of standing fast forward without fear of claiming the truth of God by the power of his love in Jesus Christ. May God bless you abundantly to the end my dear brother… ROMANS: 8: 36,37,38” Mireille Anderson
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  • “You and your organization are on the front lines in the Battle For Truth…. current events, end times, and trying to awaken a sleeping Laodicean Church. Thank you brother for fighting for us and all your teaching and insight God bless…” Daniel Cartrette
  • I just want to thank you for the teachings you give every Sunday night on radio.  You are such a blessing to me. I absolutely love your way of teaching the scriptures.  I don’t have a church where I can have fellowship and teaching, so you have been my teacher for many months now. Thanks God you are there for all of us who have no church to go to.  I pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly in your ministry, and your loved ones too.  You are such a blessing to me, and many others, in these last days before the rapture.  Thank you so much Geoffrey, from the bottom of my heart. May the Lord keep you, until He comes back for us. You are in my prayers.” Donald Godin
  • “Thank you for the work  you are doing brother.  Your page and your testimony were a blessing to me this morning as I came across it for the first time.  Thank you for the reality of your testimony and what God has done for you in introducing you to Jesus our Lord.  God has brought me, in salvation, to Himself as well, through His love and mercy and grace in salvation.  How can we praise Him enough?  How can we not share this good news!?  I pray this day for God’s blessing on your ministry that He may save many souls through the work He has called you to.  Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)” Mark and Melissa
  • “Love the Sunday night bible study. I want to support someone who has the passion for the lost like Geoffrey does and rightly divides the word of God. God bless you.” Teresa Carey
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  • “I donate because you are reporting the truth about the increasing wickedness of our time, as God’s word foretold. In so doing we are reminded to “Keep looking up” as we wait in joyful hope for the Lord’s coming, Maranatha! ” Anthony Sloane
  • “Geoffrey has the best End Times News out there. I have been receiving his emails for years now and always enjoy his Sunday night messages although I don’t always think exactly as he thinks. We are all in this “boat of life” together and as I come to the end of my life’s journey here, I am more aware of Jesus’s call for us to be one as He and the Father are One.” Deborah Cleaveland

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The Ugly End Times Fruit Of Rick Warren And ‘The Purpose Driven Church’ Are In Full Bloom At Megacorporations Like Eleven22 And Lakepoint Church

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The Ugly End Times Fruit Of Rick Warren’s ‘The Purpose Driven Church’ Is In Full Bloom As Megachurch Expansion Turns Congregations Into Corporate Empires

If you weren’t aware that we are firmly in the Laodicean church age, take a good look at what now passes for success in American Christianity. Over the past twenty years, we have watched the corporatizing of the local church accelerate. The pastor becomes a celebrity, the congregation becomes an audience, the church becomes a campus, and the ministry becomes a brand capable of expansion into one market after another. Somewhere along the way, feeding the flock gets swallowed up by growing the organization. The machinery demands more buildings, more locations, more employees, and more money to keep it all moving. Eleven22 and Lakepoint Church need another half billion to keep the lights on. How is that possible? It’s possible because the Bible is right and here we are.

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:14-16 (KJB)

A major landmark on that road was Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church, published in 1995, which offered pastors a reproducible, five-part strategy for ‘church growth’. Warren presented it as a way to build healthy churches, but it wasn’t. The movement he helped popularize taught American Christianity to place far too much confidence in systems, strategies, and measurable, marketable growth. Once numerical success becomes the credential, the biggest operation gets treated as the greatest work of God. That is a spiritually disastrous exchange. At that point, you are not planting a church, you are opening up a francise and starting a business. Rick Warren in his book led the charge to get rid of hymnals, put everything up on a flatscreen, and change the name of each franchise from ‘church’ to ‘campus’. Today, the Church at Eleven22 and Lakepointe Church are the standardbearers of the business model, um, I mean, movement he started. Jesus will absolutely spue this out of His mouth in that day.

So let’s look at two organizations whose operations who are rocking The Purpose Driven Church model to such a high degree, The Church of Eleven22, led by Joby Martin, and Lakepointe Church, led by Josh Howerton. Eleven22’s own 2025 report lists $91.1 million in annual support and revenue, $176.3 million in assets, $56.6 million in long-term debt, and $24.8 million in staffing expenses. Its capital spending for expansion totaled $16.2 million. Alongside its church operations are thrift stores, a retreat center, and a construction-management ministry. What?? Blueprint1122 advertises $200 million in projects under management. This is not only church ‘business’, it’s big business.

Lakepointe is asking its people to participate in a $225 million giving initiative called Into The Breach covering December 2026 through December 2028. That includes ordinary giving, with $135 million designated for ongoing general ministries, $62 million for expansion and strategic projects, and $28 million for missions. The campaign connects financial commitments with a two-year discipleship journey. If you watched the video posted above and don’t feel nauseous, you might want to do a quick spiritual checkup to make sure you’re still “in the faith”.

Another thing that you see when you look, is the incredible insincerity of the “pastors” who are running the “big show”. Not only are these campuses started according to a replicatable business model that’s available for purchase, another thing you can buy are the sermons you will preach in the pulpit. Evidentially, the “jokes” are thrown in as a package deal. Christian, this is not the church that Jesus started, this is the church that Paul warns against. This is big business, plain and simple. The photo at the top of this article is not real, it was made with AI. And that’s fitting because the churches we’re talking about aren’t real churches, either. Welcome to Laodicea.

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