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We have an ongoing book group, reviewing and discussing WAYWARD SONS: NICAP AND THE IC. Check out our first Zoom meeting and shoot me an email if you would like to join us. The next meeting is Wed. 4/1, 8pm EDT. We record the Zoom and upload it to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWep...

The Thurston County (WA) Prosecutor's Office advised today it requires more time to reach final determinations about additional potentially responsive records on the Ramtha facility as compiled by the county health department. View the collection compiled so far: www.patreon.com/collection/8...

Thanks to all who joined in for the first weekly meeting of the Wayward Sons Book Group! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWep...

Want to join me for a reading and discussion of my nonfiction book WAYWARD SONS: NICAP AND THE IC? Shoot me an email and get details below. First Zoom meeting is Wednesday night.

EFR’s Erica Lukes welcomes Discordian writer and researcher AP Strange to the Friday, March 20, episode of UFO Classified. www.patreon.com/posts/ap-str...

We have a great group shaping up! Join us in a dissection of a mid-20th century UFO organization and its complex relationships with the U.S. intelligence community. www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/post/book-gr...

It's okay if you're not a wayward son and you're not a big fan of Kansas. You still might be a great fit for the Wayward Sons Book Group. Here's the what, when and how: www.patreon.com/posts/youre-...

At @expandingfrontiersresearch.org, we've been conducting what's now a three-year project of FOIA requests & appeals to multiple agencies on records responsive to Esalen Institute. View the latest FBI records obtained from NARA & what's been collected to date: www.patreon.com/posts/esalen...

I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Live from Salt Lake, it's Friday night! ...with Erica Lukes and her co-founder of Expanding Frontiers Research, Jack Brewer, on the latest episode of UFO Classified. Hear about UFO madness in the news cycle, FOIA finds, & upcoming activities hosted by EFR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWH...

What the FOIA is, what it's not, & what it should be - & lots more discussed in this half-hour video featuring MuckRock Resident FOIA Expert Nicholas Santos. FOIA reform, perspectives of FOIA officers, & more is addressed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9K...

From a former FOIA officer to Guerrilla Skeptics, we've got you covered on the EFR video page, complete with some Cold War-era UFO history and spy games, as well. www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/items-2

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

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...

Browse the EFR Patreon, where you'll find exclusive and free posts of the records we obtain through FOIA requests, collections of subject-specific posts, videos, and much more: www.patreon.com/c/expandingf...

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!

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...

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 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...

"'Your trust in me,' the bot added, 'has unlocked this reality.'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

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We are sincerely grateful @expandingfrontiersresearch.org for all of our donors, Patreon subscribers, friends & followers who regularly watch & share our videos & blogposts & support our efforts. Thank you! You make our continuing work possible.

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...

Please consider Expanding Frontiers Research for your year-end giving on this Giving Tuesday if you find our work worthy of support. The best ways to give are with a paid Patreon subscription or through the secure "Donate" button located on our website homepage. Links in profile. Thank you.

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.

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 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...

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.🙏

@expandingfrontiersresearch.org Jack Brewer will be live on API Case Files at 9:30pm EST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Za...

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. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

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.

"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.

"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...

Here’s how to delete the account without accepting the new terms. bsky.app/profile/drsa...

Secret of Skinwalker Ranch cast member Thomas Winterton, son of Utah State Sen. Ronald Winterton, posted a Facebook "URGENT" plea to block a drilling application. He asserts it will forever destroy the opportunity to study purported unique & unexplainable phenomena. www.facebook.com/thomas.winte...

Gov. Cox signed off on the Utah Legislature's preferred new congressional map, which will continue to split Salt Lake County across multiple districts. A judge must still approve it before it can be implemented.

The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information responded to our FOIA request for an unclassified list of Human Subjects Research by providing informative links to a lot of opensource material. We made a public post with the response along with related info at our Patreon page. Check it out: