September 3, 2025 • 10 mins
Cristina Gomez reviews and discusses a former Army Special Forces intelligence officer's public account of a remarkable UFO encounter witnessed by the US military, as reported upon by Ross Coulthart in a dramatic interview, and other UFO news updates.
00:00 -The Sighting Description
05:15 - AARO's Unprofessional Response
07:25 - FBI Takes Over Investigation
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00:00 -The Sighting Description
05:15 - AARO's Unprofessional Response
07:25 - FBI Takes Over Investigation
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A former Army Special Forces intelligence officer, has gone public
with an incredible UFO encounter documented by US military personnel.
On February fifteenth, twenty twenty two, Captain case Best and
four colleagues witnessed a massive three hundred foot elliptical object
hovering motionless over Cheyenne Mountain, one of America's most secure
(00:23):
military installations, and what happens next reveals troubling gaps in
how our defense establishment handles these encounters and raises serious
questions about what is operating in restricted airspace above our
most sensitive facilities. I'm here to report the information without bias,
and you can decide what to believe. As always, you
(00:44):
can find the sources in my detailed articles at ufoews
dot co, along with in the description box below. Hey,
you follow yours on Christina Gomez and welcome to this
episode of UFO News Updates.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What did you say? It's hard to describe even now,
just a few years later. It was unlike anything that I,
frankly could have made up, and I'm not the most
creative person, but it was a massive, perfectly still elliptical
object and the stillness was just shocking, like like it
(01:19):
was almost tied to a fixed point in space. If
I were to guess, and this is this is hard
to say, you know, six miles away, but I would
guess maybe three hundred feet at least elliptical like this
white in color comprised of these uniform panels that seemed
(01:40):
to be all pentagons, but were all irregularly shaped. They
were joined at the scenes, you know, the linear seems
and these irregularly shaped, but you know, uniform in area.
Pentagonal panels were like a like a mother of pearl
or a white ceramic color. And it was a perfect
(02:02):
sunny Colorado bluebird day, fifty degrees, not a cloud in
the sky, and you could see these panels move as
they kind of glisten in the sun.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That was Captain case best on Reality Check. And this
is not your typical UFO witness. West Point graduate Army Ranger,
special Forces officer, and intelligence specialist with top secret clearances.
And at the same time of his sighting, he commanded
sixty five intelligence personnel as a military intelligence Detachment commander
(02:31):
for the tenth Special Forces Group. And the location makes
his case really interesting. Chyenne Mountain Complex built between nineteen
sixty one and nineteen sixty six at a cost equivalent
to one point five billion dollars. Today serves as NORAD's
alternative command center. The facility can withstand a thirty megaton
(02:53):
nuclear blast that sits two thousand feet inside solid granite
designed to protect North America's aerospace defense operations. And this
isn't just any military base obviously, this is where nuclear
war would be coordinated from where threats to North American
airspace are monitored. Twenty four seven and February fifteenth, twenty
(03:16):
twenty two was significant timing. Just one week before Russia's
invasion on Ukraine. Best and his team were heading to
a classified intelligence briefing when they witnessed this object, and
for at least thirty seconds, all five highly trained intelligence
personnel observed this craft in perfect daylight conditions. The object
(03:40):
was completely silent, no visible propulsion, perfectly stationary despite being
six miles away at about three hundred to five hundred
feet above the mountain peak. But perhaps most remarkable was
how the sighting was concluded.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Our observation of the up that we saw is we
had i've set of eyes looking at it, and then
in one instance it was there, and the next instance
it was completely gone.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you think it moved or do you think it
literally disparated.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's so frustrating because we don't have, like a song
conclusion of events. The quickest. Whatever happened had happened instantly.
We didn't see it fizzle out. We didn't see it
blink away, we didn't see the objects shoot off at
rapid speed. It was just there one moment and then
it wasn't there the next. And our location is on
(04:36):
a hill and we can see three hundred and sixty
degrees pretty much to the horizon except to the west
where Cheyenne is, And we looked around instantaneously and it
was nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here's where this story becomes deeply concerning. Best eventually reported
this incident to Arrow, the Pentagon's official UFO investigation office,
and the response he received exposes serious flaws in our
government's approach to this phenomenon. Best does everything right. He
(05:08):
sends all the data and all the notes to Arrow,
only to receive this.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I wait for a month or two. I don't hear
anything back, you know, kind of put it on the
back burner in my mind as well. And then one
day I'm checking one of my computers, and I have
a response from them with something along the lines of
thhx dash aro, so thanks Ero. I think there was
(05:35):
a sentence along with it too, like saying they received
the copy. But that sentence the only thing I remember
of it is that I had typos in it. So
I've worked with most agencies within the intelligence community, quite
a few agencies in the Department of Defense. I've had
generally very professional experiences. This one stood out as shockingly
(05:56):
unprofessional and unlike any other experience.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I'd had Prior Arrow's conclusion. They suggested Best and his
team witnessed a surveillance balloon, specifically a PTID system, and
this explanation falls apart under well any kind of scrutiny.
Per recent reports, Arrow has opened hundreds of investigations since
(06:19):
twenty twenty two, with about half resolved through mundane explanations
like weather balloons, while the other half kind of remains
unexplained due to insufficient data. But Best had seen these
balloons hundreds of times during deployments. The object they witnessed
was noticeably larger, exhibited different behavior, and most crucially, it
(06:44):
vanished instantaneously rather than slowly descending like tethered balloons do.
But Arrow gave a very funny name to the encounter.
What did you call the object?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What was your nickname for it? So we didn't have
the nickname. Maybe we'll get into a little bit later.
But Arrow, their office nickname was for this object was
the crystalline potato Witch. I'm not sure. It didn't seem
like it was made of crystal, but it did have
a kind of a reflection to it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Very frustrated by Arrow's dismissive response, Best turned to another avenue,
one that took his report far more seriously. Through Americans
for Safe Aerospace, he was connected to FBI investigators, and
while Arrow said typo filled dismissals, the FBI conducted formal investigations,
(07:38):
brought in sketch artists, and interviewed multiple witnesses, and Americans
for Safe Aerospace, founded by former Navy pilot Ryan Graves,
has become the world's largest UFO organization by membership, primarily
from pilots and veterans, And this raises a very uncomfortable question,
(07:59):
why is the FBI, a law enforcement agency conducting more
thorough UFO investigations than the Pentagon's office specifically created for
this purpose studying UFOs, Arrow's current director, John Koslowski, acknowledged
they have this geographic bias where we are getting reports
(08:21):
neither national security sites, and admits they need to build
a baseline for reference to understand what normal looks like
near these types of facilities. The timing of these encounters
is also noteworthy. Best sighting occurred during heightened tensions preceding
the Ukraine conflict, and historical precedent shows similar objects have
(08:45):
appeared during other geopolitically sensitive moments, including over the Northwest
Cape facility in Australia during the nineteen seventy three Middle
East Crisis when the US went to Defcon two. So
what concerns you more that unknown objects are operating over
our most sensitive facilities or that official responses appear to
(09:08):
be institutional dismissals rather than serious investigations. As noted by
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Mellon regarding Arrow's
historical report, quote, hundreds of credible military reports remain unexplained
and are continuing to pour in. The public needs to
understand why it is imperative to continue to aggressively investigate
(09:31):
UAP for both national security and science. I'm Christiana Gomez
and that is it for today. I will see you
next time. Be safe and remember keep your eyes on
the skies. If you enjoy today's show, hit that like
(10:12):
button and if you're not subscribed, what are you waiting for?
Hit notification bell As I do daily UFO, mews and updates.
Thrash awaiting stories, government disclosures and breaking developments land here
every single day.
A former Army Special Forces intelligence officer, has gone public
with an incredible UFO encounter documented by US military personnel.
On February fifteenth, twenty twenty two, Captain case Best and
four colleagues witnessed a massive three hundred foot elliptical object
hovering motionless over Cheyenne Mountain, one of America's most secure
(00:23):
military installations, and what happens next reveals troubling gaps in
how our defense establishment handles these encounters and raises serious
questions about what is operating in restricted airspace above our
most sensitive facilities. I'm here to report the information without bias,
and you can decide what to believe. As always, you
(00:44):
can find the sources in my detailed articles at ufoews
dot co, along with in the description box below. Hey,
you follow yours on Christina Gomez and welcome to this
episode of UFO News Updates.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What did you say? It's hard to describe even now,
just a few years later. It was unlike anything that I,
frankly could have made up, and I'm not the most
creative person, but it was a massive, perfectly still elliptical
object and the stillness was just shocking, like like it
(01:19):
was almost tied to a fixed point in space. If
I were to guess, and this is this is hard
to say, you know, six miles away, but I would
guess maybe three hundred feet at least elliptical like this
white in color comprised of these uniform panels that seemed
(01:40):
to be all pentagons, but were all irregularly shaped. They
were joined at the scenes, you know, the linear seems
and these irregularly shaped, but you know, uniform in area.
Pentagonal panels were like a like a mother of pearl
or a white ceramic color. And it was a perfect
(02:02):
sunny Colorado bluebird day, fifty degrees, not a cloud in
the sky, and you could see these panels move as
they kind of glisten in the sun.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That was Captain case best on Reality Check. And this
is not your typical UFO witness. West Point graduate Army Ranger,
special Forces officer, and intelligence specialist with top secret clearances.
And at the same time of his sighting, he commanded
sixty five intelligence personnel as a military intelligence Detachment commander
(02:31):
for the tenth Special Forces Group. And the location makes
his case really interesting. Chyenne Mountain Complex built between nineteen
sixty one and nineteen sixty six at a cost equivalent
to one point five billion dollars. Today serves as NORAD's
alternative command center. The facility can withstand a thirty megaton
(02:53):
nuclear blast that sits two thousand feet inside solid granite
designed to protect North America's aerospace defense operations. And this
isn't just any military base obviously, this is where nuclear
war would be coordinated from where threats to North American
airspace are monitored. Twenty four seven and February fifteenth, twenty
(03:16):
twenty two was significant timing. Just one week before Russia's
invasion on Ukraine. Best and his team were heading to
a classified intelligence briefing when they witnessed this object, and
for at least thirty seconds, all five highly trained intelligence
personnel observed this craft in perfect daylight conditions. The object
(03:40):
was completely silent, no visible propulsion, perfectly stationary despite being
six miles away at about three hundred to five hundred
feet above the mountain peak. But perhaps most remarkable was
how the sighting was concluded.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Our observation of the up that we saw is we
had i've set of eyes looking at it, and then
in one instance it was there, and the next instance
it was completely gone.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Do you think it moved or do you think it
literally disparated.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's so frustrating because we don't have, like a song
conclusion of events. The quickest. Whatever happened had happened instantly.
We didn't see it fizzle out. We didn't see it
blink away, we didn't see the objects shoot off at
rapid speed. It was just there one moment and then
it wasn't there the next. And our location is on
(04:36):
a hill and we can see three hundred and sixty
degrees pretty much to the horizon except to the west
where Cheyenne is, And we looked around instantaneously and it
was nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here's where this story becomes deeply concerning. Best eventually reported
this incident to Arrow, the Pentagon's official UFO investigation office,
and the response he received exposes serious flaws in our
government's approach to this phenomenon. Best does everything right. He
(05:08):
sends all the data and all the notes to Arrow,
only to receive this.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I wait for a month or two. I don't hear
anything back, you know, kind of put it on the
back burner in my mind as well. And then one
day I'm checking one of my computers, and I have
a response from them with something along the lines of
thhx dash aro, so thanks Ero. I think there was
(05:35):
a sentence along with it too, like saying they received
the copy. But that sentence the only thing I remember
of it is that I had typos in it. So
I've worked with most agencies within the intelligence community, quite
a few agencies in the Department of Defense. I've had
generally very professional experiences. This one stood out as shockingly
(05:56):
unprofessional and unlike any other experience.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I'd had Prior Arrow's conclusion. They suggested Best and his
team witnessed a surveillance balloon, specifically a PTID system, and
this explanation falls apart under well any kind of scrutiny.
Per recent reports, Arrow has opened hundreds of investigations since
(06:19):
twenty twenty two, with about half resolved through mundane explanations
like weather balloons, while the other half kind of remains
unexplained due to insufficient data. But Best had seen these
balloons hundreds of times during deployments. The object they witnessed
was noticeably larger, exhibited different behavior, and most crucially, it
(06:44):
vanished instantaneously rather than slowly descending like tethered balloons do.
But Arrow gave a very funny name to the encounter.
What did you call the object?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What was your nickname for it? So we didn't have
the nickname. Maybe we'll get into a little bit later.
But Arrow, their office nickname was for this object was
the crystalline potato Witch. I'm not sure. It didn't seem
like it was made of crystal, but it did have
a kind of a reflection to it.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Very frustrated by Arrow's dismissive response, Best turned to another avenue,
one that took his report far more seriously. Through Americans
for Safe Aerospace, he was connected to FBI investigators, and
while Arrow said typo filled dismissals, the FBI conducted formal investigations,
(07:38):
brought in sketch artists, and interviewed multiple witnesses, and Americans
for Safe Aerospace, founded by former Navy pilot Ryan Graves,
has become the world's largest UFO organization by membership, primarily
from pilots and veterans, And this raises a very uncomfortable question,
(07:59):
why is the FBI, a law enforcement agency conducting more
thorough UFO investigations than the Pentagon's office specifically created for
this purpose studying UFOs, Arrow's current director, John Koslowski, acknowledged
they have this geographic bias where we are getting reports
(08:21):
neither national security sites, and admits they need to build
a baseline for reference to understand what normal looks like
near these types of facilities. The timing of these encounters
is also noteworthy. Best sighting occurred during heightened tensions preceding
the Ukraine conflict, and historical precedent shows similar objects have
(08:45):
appeared during other geopolitically sensitive moments, including over the Northwest
Cape facility in Australia during the nineteen seventy three Middle
East Crisis when the US went to Defcon two. So
what concerns you more that unknown objects are operating over
our most sensitive facilities or that official responses appear to
(09:08):
be institutional dismissals rather than serious investigations. As noted by
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Mellon regarding Arrow's
historical report, quote, hundreds of credible military reports remain unexplained
and are continuing to pour in. The public needs to
understand why it is imperative to continue to aggressively investigate
(09:31):
UAP for both national security and science. I'm Christiana Gomez
and that is it for today. I will see you
next time. Be safe and remember keep your eyes on
the skies. If you enjoy today's show, hit that like
(10:12):
button and if you're not subscribed, what are you waiting for?
Hit notification bell As I do daily UFO, mews and updates.
Thrash awaiting stories, government disclosures and breaking developments land here
every single day.
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