UFOs Are Now UAPs: As forecast here on June 16 (“Aliens Did 9/11?”), a report was issued last week on things flying around out there that “authorities” can’t figure out. In the New York Times the story was headed “U.S. Can’t Explain U.F.O.s, Report Says, and Doesn’t Rule Out Aliens.” An AP story is headed “No ET, no answers: Intel report is inconclusive about UFOs.” UAP stands for unidentified aerial phenomena.

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Condo Collapse in Florida:  Confirmed deaths this weekend from the collapse of the 13-story beachfront condominium building in Miami Dade County are at five, with the unaccounted-for at 150. Among the stories online are two from the Associated Press, HERE and HERE. The collapse will prompt comparisons to the destruction of three skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 — the Twin Towers and the 47-story Building 7. Will the mainstream media continue to shield the U.S. government’s Executive Branch from questions about its impossible narratives cloaking the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

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Fake News? Word yesterday out of Iceland that 28-year-old Sigudur Ingi Thordarson now says he made up some or all of his testimony against Julian Assange was unexpected. Thordarson is apparently a seasoned criminal and con artist cultivated by the FBI for testimony thought helpful to the U.S. Justice Department’s indictment of the Wikileaks founder, currently imprisoned in England. HERE is our first look at it. HERE is Consortium News’s coverage. HERE is something from ParsToday, an Iranian outlet. These and other online services got the jump on mainstream media. The development originated from the Icelandic biweekly Stundid.

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Always on Guard: Dusty Bahlman, a weekly columnist for The Berkshire Eagle, concluded his tribute to a fallen “reporter’s reporter” and weekly newspaper founder with these words: “Pittsfield was lucky to have such a tireless sentry overlooking its civic affairs for so long. Jonathan Levine was a plain-spoken, scrupulously honest and deeply principled journalist. His work and the work of others like him, always will put the lie to the evidence-free, paranoid blather peddled by the many manufacturers of ‘fake news.’”

— Mark Channing Miller