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The Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury rematch poster has been corrected after fans questioned the decision to name the Gypsy King as the A-side despite his loss in the first fight.  

Usyk became the first undisputed world champion of the four-belt era in May, stripping Fury of his WBC title to write his name into the history books as one of boxing’s all-time greats.

The pair will go toe-to-toe for a second time in Saudi Arabia on December 21 – with  Turki Alalshikh taking to social media to announced the undercard earlier this week. 

However, fans were surprised to see the rematch poster had Fury named as the A-side despite losing his belt to the Ukrainian via split decision with the scores reading 115-112, 113-114, and 114-113 in Usyk’s favour. 

Boxing fans commented on the post claiming the poster should be changed to reflect Usyk’s achievements in the first bout and it wasn’t long before a new poster was shared. 

Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury rematch poster corrected after fans question the decision to name the Gypsy King first

The Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury rematch poster has been corrected amid fan questions

Fans were surprised to see the rematch poster had Fury named as the A-side despite losing his belt to the Ukrainian via split decision with the scores reading 115-112, 113-114, and 114-113

Boxing fans commented on the post claiming the poster should be changed to reflect Usyk's achievements in the first bout and it wasn't long before a new poster was shared

Fans were surprised to see the rematch poster had Fury named as the A-side (left) despite losing his belt to the Ukrainian

Usyk has now been named as the A-side for the highly-anticipated bout – due to take place in Saudi Arabia on December 21 as part of the ongoing Riyadh Season spectacle.  

The undercard for the rematch has also been announced, with Alalshikh sharing the line-up ahead of Artur Beterbiev’s undisputed title fight with Dmitry Bivol this weekend. 

The co-main event will be a thrilling match-up between Ukraine’s Serhii Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) and Uzbekistan’s Israil Madrimov (9-0-1, 6 KOs). 

Both men are known for their power and aggressive styles, with Bohachuk boasting an astounding knockout rate – having KO’d 23 of his opponents. 

The Ukrainian puncher, trained by Manny Robles, is looking to bounce back from his defeat to Vergil Ortiz Jr and make a statement on the world stage. 

Madrimov, a former amateur standout and Olympic alternate for Uzbekistan, has been on the fast track since turning professional. 

Known for his slick boxing skills and ability to switch between orthodox and southpaw stances, Madrimov boats a 10-1-1 record. 

Madrimov became a world champion at the age of 29 after 10 professional fights, but, lost his most recent fight against Terence Crawford. 

In the heavyweight division, 19-year-old Moses Itauma (pictured) is set to face his toughest test yet against Australia's Demsey McKean

In the heavyweight division, 19-year-old Moses Itauma (pictured) is set to face his toughest test yet against Australia’s Demsey McKean

Itauma, widely regarded as one of the brightest prospects in the sport, has been demolishing opponents with ease

Itauma, widely regarded as one of the brightest prospects in the sport, has been demolishing opponents with ease

Madrimov’s latest fight was a unanimous decision loss to Crawford, in which he lost his WBA super-welterweight title. 

In the heavyweight division, 19-year-old British phenom Moses Itauma (10-0, 8 KOs) is set to face his toughest test yet against Australia’s Demsey McKean (22-1, 14 KOs).

Itauma, widely regarded as one of the brightest prospects in the sport, has been demolishing opponents with ease, knocking eight of his opponents out. 

Standing at 6ft4′ with an imposing frame, the young fighter has already drawn comparisons to a young Mike Tyson for his fearsome power and relentless pressure.

McKean, a 6ft6′ southpaw, will experience and durability to the contest set to take place on December 21. 

A former rugby league player turned boxer, McKean has fought internationally, including on high-profile cards in the UK and the US. 

While coming off a recent loss to Filip Hrgović, McKean remains a credible gatekeeper in the heavyweight division. 

For Itauma, a win over an opponent of McKean’s calibre would further cement his reputation as a future title contender.

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In another heavyweight bout, Johnny Fisher (12-0, 11 KOs), also known as ‘The Romford Bull,’ will take on British journeyman and Dave Allen (21-6-2, 18 KOs). 

In another heavyweight bout, Johnny Fisher (pictured) will take on journeyman Dave Allen

In another heavyweight bout, Johnny Fisher (pictured) will take on journeyman Dave Allen

This will be Fisher’s first fight since his surgery – which ruled him out of his scheduled fight with Andrii Rudenko on the Catterall-Prograis undercard.

Dave Allen, a seasoned and colourful veteran, has become a cult figure in British boxing – fighting the likes of Dillian Whyte and Luis Ortiz.

After a brief retirement, Allen returned to the ring in 2023 and remains a dangerous opponent, capable of upsetting less experienced fighters.    

Dennis McCann and Peter McGrail have also been pitted against each other, while Isaac Lowe and Lee McGregor will also go toe-to-toe on the undercard. 

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In the final hours before Election Day, Kamala Harris appealed to voters upset by the Gaza war, while Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric, suggesting journalists could be shot. Both candidates aggressively campaigned across swing states, aiming to sway undecided voters as the tight US election neared its conclusion.

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Something strange is happening. Autism, a serious, neurodevelopmental condition, has gone from being relatively rare to being everywhere. Turn on the TV, open a newspaper or scroll social media and you’ll encounter more and more people talking about being diagnosed.

What is behind this apparent epidemic? It’s baffling, because until a few years ago, I could count on one hand the number of patients I had seen in general mental health outpatient clinics with autism. Now, I see at least one a week.

Many of these new patients come complaining of social awkwardness, perfectionism, obsessive traits and so on. However, having worked in learning disability services with people with profound autism, their complaints are nothing near what true autism, at least how it used to be termed, is like.

Partly fuelling this epidemic is that in recent years autism was reclassified as ‘autistic spectrum disorder’ (ASD). Autism is a complex condition, and it was believed the idea of a ‘spectrum’ better captured the variation in how it can manifest.

DR MAX PEMBERTON: Why we must stop diagnosing those who say they feel awkward as autistic

Autism is a complex condition, and it was believed the idea of a ‘spectrum’ better captured the variation in how it can manifest

But the problem is that in medicine, when anything is on a spectrum, there is inevitably a ‘diagnosis creep’ – the criteria is widened so much that, eventually, the diagnosis can become almost meaningless.

In fact, a study published by the universities of Montreal and Copenhagen in 2018 concluded, astonishingly, that if the trend continues, within a decade there will be no separation between someone with the condition and the average person – meaning we’ll all be classed as autistic.

Another study revealed that between 1998 and 2018, autism diagnoses rose ‘exponentially’ by 787 per cent.

In response, Professor Uta Frith, an expert in cognitive development at University College London, warned ‘it strongly suggests that the diagnosis of autism has been stretched to breaking point and has outgrown its purpose’.

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Doctor Mike Shooter, a child psychiatrist and the former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has said that ASD is ‘vastly and dangerously over-diagnosed’.

Also, there’s no doubt social media, awash with test-yourself quizzes, is adding fire to this alarming trend. Thanks to the way algorithms work, after taking a few tests or searching for autism symptoms, you’ll be served up a feed of similar content, nudging you ever further into being convinced that you or your loved one must have the condition.

I’m seeing an increasing number of adults who have been diagnosed – many after paying out a lot of cash for a private assessment.

It’s become a trendy label to medicalise simply not fitting in or being a bit shy and different.

While autism was always considered a male condition (it had been termed an ‘extreme male brain’), the suggestion that women could learn to ‘mask’ symptoms and therefore have been historically underdiagnosed has now opened the flood gates. 

If women can learn to mask the symptoms, maybe some men can too? And so, the creep of over-diagnosis continues. In true American style, being autistic has now become an ‘identity’.

Many of us who have worked with autistic people – or who have relatives with the condition – baulk at this.

It’s hugely offensive that this condition, which places serious limitations and difficulties on sufferers’ daily lives, can be hijacked by people who like coding or feel awkward at a party, for example. This diminishes and belittles the battles of those with true autism.

Of course, those with autism can lead happy, fulfilling lives, but they – along with their family and carers – need support and resources. The legions now flooding psychiatric clinics demanding to be tested simply take time and resources away from those who are in desperate need.

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There’s no doubt that many of these people claiming to have autism have problems. But autism characteristics, such as social impairment and obsessional behaviour, are not unique to the condition. They’re present in many psychiatric conditions.

What’s more, being given a label removes responsibility and agency from the person. It unnecessarily pathologises difference, labelling it as a psychiatric condition when it is just a normal part of human variation – part of life’s richness.

Some may like being diagnosed as autistic because it makes them feel different and means they can then plead some sort of special circumstances.

People love a label, especially if they think it means they don’t have to change and can be used as a foil against criticism of their behaviour or shortcomings.

The consequence of this over-medicalising of our differences is that the term autistic is becoming meaningless.

If we don’t fight this, it will be those who need the most help and resources who will ultimately suffer.

My heart sank when I heard millions of health monitoring smart watches are to be handed out by the NHS. God knows how much this gimmick is going to cost. People don’t want a smart watch – they just want to see a GP.

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Strictly dancer Amy Dowden missed competing in this weekend’s shows after falling ill while filming the previous Saturday

Strictly dancer Amy Dowden missed competing in this weekend’s shows after falling ill while filming the previous Saturday

Strictly dancer Amy Dowden missed competing in this weekend’s shows after falling ill while filming the previous Saturday. Just hours before collapsing backstage, she admitted returning to work was ‘very, very tough’.

In May 2023, the 34-year-old, left, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, and later that year diagnosed with ‘another type of cancer’, forcing her to miss last year’s series. I hope Amy, who also has Crohn’s disease, is giving herself enough time to convalesce.

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We have so much faith in modern medicine, we forget our bodies need time to recover. Skipping this part doesn’t do us any favours and means we often feel unwell for longer and increases the risks of complications. 

How many of us have gone to work with a cold or after an operation when we should have been in bed? I hope Amy doesn’t feel she has to return until she’s ready.

I admit to being very cynical about the Government’s new NHS consultation. I’m not sure why they need it given the problems the health service faces are patently obvious.

I also suspect this public consultation will be used to justify unpopular changes – an attempt to soften us up for backdoor privatisation, reducing what the NHS offers and introducing covert costs for certain aspects of healthcare. 

However, if we don’t tell the Government how we feel about the NHS – good and bad – it sends a message that we’re not interested and don’t care. So, I’m encouraging everyone to have their voices heard loud and clear by submitting a response at: change.nhs.uk.

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A History of Medicine in 12 Objects

This fascinating book by Dr Carol Cooper is a great Christmas gift for history buffs.

It takes 12 objects – such as the bone saw, X-ray machine and ECT machine – and uses them as a starting point to explore our human ingenuity, changing understandings of health and advances in medicine through the ages.

 Priced at £17.24 (hardback) at Amazon.

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Real Madrid ‘eye two alternatives to Trent Alexander-Arnold including another Premier League defender incase he signs a new Liverpool deal – but Spanish giants remain confident of luring star on a free next summer’

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  • Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contract end in the summer and Real Madrid are keen
  • Spanish giants have two alternatives if the defender decided to stay with Reds 
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Real Madrid reportedly have two alternative right-backs on their shortlist if they fail to land Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold. 

The 26-year-old has been an integral component of Liverpool’s success in recent years and has remained a key player for the Reds since Arne Slot succeeded Jurgen Klopp in the hot seat.

However, questions surrounding his future at his boyhood club have only intensified in recent months.

Like team-mates Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold’s current deal at Anfield is set to expire at the end of the season.

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With Dani Carvajal sidelined long term, the England international is Real Madrid’s No 1 target at right-back and the move appeals to him as reported by AS. 

Real Madrid ‘eye two alternatives to Trent Alexander-Arnold including another Premier League defender incase he signs a new Liverpool deal – but Spanish giants remain confident of luring star on a free next summer’

Trent Alexander-Arnold’s long-term future at boyhood club Liverpool remains in doubt

Real Madrid are keen on the England star as he is set to be a free agent in the summer

Real Madrid are keen on the England star as he is set to be a free agent in the summer

There is said to be pessimism at Anfield on the defender’s future beyond this season.  

However, should Alexander-Arnold commit his long-term future to Liverpool, the Spanish giants could go for Tottenham’s Pedro Porro as an alternative. 

Porro has impressed in the Premier League since his move to north London in 2023 and plated twice for Spain in the last international break   

Bayer Leverkusen star Jeremie Frimpong, who has impressed under Xabi Alonso, is also on Real’s shortlist. 

Alexander-Arnold’s Liverpool contract expires in June 2025 meaning he would be free to begin negotiations in January with clubs in Europe about potentially moving on a free transfer next summer.

However, Reds boss Arne Slot a fortnight ago insisted Real’s interest will not unsettle Alexander-Arnold.   

‘I think you underestimate our players,’ said Slot. ‘These players are used to being linked with all the top clubs on a daily basis, if they have contracts or not.

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‘If you think they’re disturbed by these interests, then I think you don’t do justice to how strong they are mentally and what they are used to. This is part of our job. I was at Feyenoord last year and they linked me with many clubs and before that and before that. This is part of this world we are living in.

Tottenham star Pedro Porro is seen as an alternative if Alexander-Arnold renews at Anfield

Tottenham star Pedro Porro is seen as an alternative if Alexander-Arnold renews at Anfield

Bayer Leverkusen star Jeremie Frimpong is also on the Spanish giants' right-back shorlist

Bayer Leverkusen star Jeremie Frimpong is also on the Spanish giants’ right-back shorlist  

‘You just focus on what you have to do. Maybe if you’re 17 or 18 years of age, that could be difficult for you. But Trent has won the Premier League, he has won the Champions League; Virgil and Mo the same. I don’t think that is a problem for them to perform.

‘That’s also what we see at the moment because they’re playing really well – put it that way.’

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FRANCE 24’s Wassim Cornet takes a look at mail-in ballots in the US which have been sent to millions of voters weeks before election day and walks us through the process of this particular way of voting. 

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Girl, 10, mauled to death by her family’s ‘XL Bully’ dog: Mother screamed ‘my baby’s dead’ in aftermath of horrifying attack as tributes paid to ‘lovely little lass’

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A mother ran outside screaming ‘my baby’s dead’ after a ten-year-old girl was mauled to death by an ‘XL bully’ dog.

Witnesses spoke today of the traumatic scenes in a sleepy Yorkshire village that sparked a huge emergency response on Friday afternoon.

The schoolgirl – known locally as ‘Savannah’ and described as ‘beautiful and intelligent’ – died after being bitten by her family’s dog inside their home.

The family, who have not been named, live in a static caravan in a compound behind a shop premises in East Heslerton, North Yorkshire.

The girl’s father works as a mechanic there and she is the couple’s only child, said local residents.

North Yorkshire Police said the girl had a ‘close, loving relationship’ with the dog that went on to kill her. The force said the mutt would be put down.

Tragically, before her death the 10-year-old reportedly boasted to pals: ‘I have got a new pet – an XL Bully.’ 

People at a nearby caravan site were alerted by the screams of the girl’s traumatised mother at around 4.15pm on Friday.

Girl, 10, mauled to death by her family’s ‘XL Bully’ dog: Mother screamed ‘my baby’s dead’ in aftermath of horrifying attack as tributes paid to ‘lovely little lass’

The family live in a static caravan in a compound behind a shop premises in East Heslerton, North Yorkshire 

People at a caravan site (pictured nearby) were alerted by the screams of the girl's traumatised mother at around 4.15pm on Friday

People at a caravan site (pictured nearby) were alerted by the screams of the girl’s traumatised mother at around 4.15pm on Friday 

The surrounding areas of the caravan site where the 10-year-old girl was killed

The surrounding areas of the caravan site where the 10-year-old girl was killed 

One local farmer, who asked not to be named, said: ‘The dog is an XL bully. It has been certified and is well looked after. It’s a very big dog. I’ve seen it around the pub a few times, it doesn’t bother anyone or other dogs and is well-behaved.’

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Describing the incident, the farmer said: ‘The mother ran out from the static caravan screaming ‘my baby’s dead.’ Some people from the caravan site went over to help. She was obviously really distraught.

‘The police got here very fast, there were two helicopters, ambulances turned up and an armed response unit.

‘Someone put the dog in a car apparently.’

The farmer said the family lived in a static caravan behind the business where he worked as a mechanic.

‘They are really nice people. The girl is a really polite girl who always says please and thank you. She was a lovely little lass who you would see riding her bike around.’

A man who was in one of the nearby caravans was in a pub on the site when there was a massive emergency response.

‘The mother came out screaming about her ‘baby.’ It’s terrible. I have a son aged 11 of about the same age who knew her. I’ve not told him yet. She was a really beautiful little girl and very intelligent for her age.’

Commenting on the dog, he said: ‘It is a massive dog and looks like an XL bully but I don’t know the breed.’

Another villager who knows the family also confirmed the dog was an XL bully.

The family live in a static caravan in a compound behind a shop premises in East Heslerton

The family live in a static caravan in a compound behind a shop premises in East Heslerton

Mourners leave tributes and flowers to the 10-year-old girl who tragically died

Mourners leave tributes and flowers to the 10-year-old girl who tragically died 

People leave floral tributes to the child after she was killed by an 'XL Bully' dog

People leave floral tributes to the child after she was killed by an ‘XL Bully’ dog 

A ten-year-old girl was mauled to death by her family's 'XL bully ' dog (Stock photo)

A ten-year-old girl was mauled to death by her family’s ‘XL bully ‘ dog (Stock photo) 

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North Yorkshire Police said the girl died at the scene after suffering serious injuries.

The dog has been taken to secure kennels and is ‘being assessed as part of the investigation.’

An inquest will be held at a later date.

Ownership of American bully XL dogs is restricted under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. Since the start of this year it has been against the law to sell, give away, abandon or breed from an XL bully.

Since 1 February it has been a criminal offence to own an XL bully without an exemption certificate.

When this ban was introduced a government press release stated there had been 23 fatal dog attacks since the start of 2021 with the XL bully ‘being involved in many of these tragic attacks.’

The Office for National Statistics does not break down attack according to breed.

Caravan site manager Samantha Robinson said: ‘The static caravan moved here about four months ago.

‘This little girl said she had a new pet, an American XL bully.

‘She was a lovely little girl, she asked permission to play on the swings in the park and we gave it.’ 

Some residents saw the child coming and going to her caravan. One said: ‘It is just a horrible tragedy. She was such a sweet thing. I only know her because she would come in the park to play.

‘Everybody is totally shocked and upset about it. The family have not lived here long. I have only met her. I have never met her mum and dad.

‘She would come on the park and play on the swings and I would pass the time of day with her. She was a lovely little girl – really chatty. It is just so sad.’

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Residents of the holiday caravan park had no idea anything was wrong until the girl’s mother emerged from the caravan screaming: ‘My baby is dead. My baby is dead.’

The child was seen happily playing on the swings in the play area of the adjoining caravan park near Malton, North Yorkshire, just the afternoon before tragedy struck.

She had moved there over the summer with her parents and were living in static caravan on a private yard behind a neighbouring warehouse.

A site official said: ‘We knew they had an XL bully dog. We only knew [the girl] because her mum had asked if she could play in the park and we said ‘Of course she can’.

‘[The girl] told us she had a new dog. It was not that long ago.

‘We used to come onto the park and play with the other children.

‘I have never seen or heard the dog and I am here every day.

‘[The girl] had said herself ‘We have got a new pet’.

‘Other children who played with [the girl] in the yard said it was family pet.

‘The static caravan arrived during the summer in a field next to the Snooty Fox caravan park outside the village of East Heslerton.’ 

North Yorkshire Police said: ‘One of the lines of enquiry relates to the behaviour of the dog to help explain, as far as possible, why it attacked the girl.

‘All indications so far suggest it was out-of-character, with the girl and dog having a close, loving relationship.

‘Due to the circumstances of the incident, the dog will be destroyed.’

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An annual LGBTQ Pride march in Buenos Aires drew thousands of participants Saturday, with speeches and banners targeting austerity policies of far-right President Javier Milei that the group says are discriminatory. 

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The Pentagon’s former chief UFO investigator has revealed a sensitive new government program to recover ‘alleged alien tech’ in the event of a ‘shoot down.’

Dr Sean Kirkpatrick — a longtime CIA scientist who headed the US military’s UFO-chasing All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — admitted to the program’s existence when pressed during a new interview.

The retrieval program’s protocols were for ‘any UAP recovery’ involving ‘everything from balloons to drones to alleged alien tech,’ as Dr Kirkpatrick told podcast host John Michael Godier.

In recent years, Pentagon brass, NASA experts and academics have all reframed what were once called ‘flying saucers’ as ‘unidentified anomalous phenomena’ (UAP).

The revelation is the first time that the US government has officially acknowledged a UAP or UFO retrieval program, despite decades of speculation and whistleblower testimony that America has already been in possession of alien craft for decades.

It also comes amid multiple federal investigations into ‘mothership’ UFOs over key US military sites, releasing hard to identify, much less catch, ‘drone swarm’ UFOs.

This week, the Pentagon’s North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) admitted that America’s military installations have been plagued, since 2022, by at least 600 so-called ‘drone’ incursions, many still unexplained.

Pentagon UFO chief reveals US military’s new ‘alien tech’ crash retrieval program

This model of a sunken and deteriorated Soviet K-129 submarine was created by the CIA during its 1971-74 AZORIAN mission – one of the most elaborate terrestrial ‘crash retrieval’ missions undertaken in secret by the US intelligence community and now declassified  

The now retired director of the Pentagon UFO office, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick (above), spent 2023 engaged in heated public sparring with UFO whistleblowers over alleged retrievals of alien spacecraft dating back to the Cold War-era

The now retired director of the Pentagon UFO office, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick (above), spent 2023 engaged in heated public sparring with UFO whistleblowers over alleged retrievals of alien spacecraft dating back to the Cold War-era 

Classified documents suggest that the new UFO crash retrieval program began in early 2023, with a focus on ‘response and recovery and material transfer.’

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Dr Kirkpatrick initiated high-level meetings formalizing AARO’s version of a UFO crash retrieval program in January and February 2023 — according to the redacted documents released last September via the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  

As one scheduling email explained: ‘The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the disposition of funding within the context of safety and security implications of UAP.’

Establishing ‘a receiving point’ for any and all recovered UFO materials was one key issue to be addressed, the meeting memo added.

‘The problem is those types of activities are already covered under Foreign Materiel Collection and Analysis,’ as Dr Kirkpatrick told Godier and listeners to his Event Horizon podcast Thursday.

‘There’s already a process and procedures in place for many of these things,’ he continued. ‘So this conversation was really to start [asking]: How do we document that for UAP? And, what kind of procedures do we need to put in place?’

Since at least the dawn of the Cold War, America has had crash retrieval programs, led by the CIA, but comprising all branches of the US military.

These programs were set up mainly to acquire Russian and Chinese tech, including the CIA’s top secret salvaging of a nuclear-equipped, sunken Soviet sub in 1974.

‘Equally important was retrieving US fragments that had landed in foreign nations to prevent the Soviets from recovering and exploiting them,’ according to curator James E. David of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

Dr Kirkpatrick's latest disclosure adds context to an intriguing release of 78-pages worth of redacted plans between AARO and US Space Command (above), where the physicist had previously served as deputy director of intelligence from 2019 to 2021

Dr Kirkpatrick’s latest disclosure adds context to an intriguing release of 78-pages worth of redacted plans between AARO and US Space Command (above), where the physicist had previously served as deputy director of intelligence from 2019 to 2021

Space Command was only the just one of the branches AARO consulted.

Leadership from the White House’s Joint Chiefs of Staff also weighed in on the UFO recovery effort, including its directorates for intelligence (J2), operations (J3), strategy and policy (J5).

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‘AARO is Congressionally directed to come up with not just standard reporting procedures, but also mitigation and response procedures in the event of a shoot down or a collection of any sort of UAP,’ Dr Kirkpatrick said.

‘To do that mitigation and response, as well as standardized reporting,’ he added, ‘will occur through all of the combatant commands.’

‘Because they already have people in place that would collect [crashes].’ 

‘Like, if we shot down another Chinese high altitude balloon, it’s that team that would go and collect it, right? It’s those procedures and processes on how it gets notified and how we go and get it.’

Space Command records obtained via FOIA show that Dr Kirkpatrick had meetings to establish AARO’s version of a UFO-specific crash retrieval program on April 10 with Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, Commander of US Northern Command. 

General VanHerck, who led the mission to takedown the infamous Chinese spy balloon back in February 2023, has also taken a hard stance on domestic UFO cases.

‘If there are unknown objects within North America,’ he said of the recent wave of baffling drone swarms over US bases, ‘go out and identify them.’ 

Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch (center) testified under oath before Congress in July 2023 alleging widespread illegalities stemming from a long-secret UFO 'crash retrieval' program. Grusch and Dr Kirkpatrick sparred publicly over these claims that summer

Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch (center) testified under oath before Congress in July 2023 alleging widespread illegalities stemming from a long-secret UFO ‘crash retrieval’ program. Grusch and Dr Kirkpatrick sparred publicly over these claims that summer

General VanHerck, who also has a leadership role over NORAD, has pled with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to authorize more electronic eavesdropping equipment to solve the severe national security mysteries involving the drone UFOs. 

But the general has also acknowledged that strict rules govern the use of this level of espionage tech over US soil. 

Although Dr Kirkpatrick told Event Horizon’s listeners that he found no evidence that the US government has previously recovered an alien spacecraft via its past crash retrieval programs, several of his predecessors have contradicted his claims.

Dr James Lacatski, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and missile expert who managed one UFO-centered program from 2008-2012, has claimed that the US not only has recovered alien spacecraft but that officials have gotten inside one.

‘The United States,’ as Dr Lacatski wrote in a 2023 book on that program, ‘was in possession of a craft of unknown origin and had successfully gained access to its interior.’

This craft, as he briefed then US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2011, had ‘no intakes, exhaust, wings, or control surfaces […] no engine, fuel tanks, or fuel.’ 

Dr Lacatski’s book, ‘Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Initial Revelations,’ was co-authored with Las Vegas-based investigative reporter George Knapp and biochemist Dr Colm Kelleher. 

Dr Kelleher had worked alongside Dr Lacatski from the private contractor side of the DIA’s once highly secretive UFO program, the Advanced Weapons System. Application program (AAWSAP).

When asked by UFO documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell whether or not he himself had entered this recovered UFO, Dr Lacatski replied: ‘I can’t answer that.’

DailyMail.com has reached out to Dr Lacatski for comment and will update this article if he replies.

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Iranian authorities on Saturday arrested a female student who staged a solo protest by stripping to her underwear in public. Reports indicate the action aimed to highlight the oppressive enforcement of Iran’s dress code, which mandates women wear a headscarf and loose-fitting clothing in public.

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Hospitals and police stations in England will be forced to pay a new ‘levy’ under ‘ill thought-out’ plans to ease pressure on the High Street, according to analysis.

Universities, prisons, army barracks and even HM Treasury’s headquarters in Westminster will also be caught up in the tax hike, according to commercial real estate firm Altus.

Rachel Reeves said in the Budget that Labour plans to reduce the business rate burden on smaller firms with a permanent cut in the ‘multiplier’ used to calculate their taxes.

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‘Ill thought-out’: Hospitals and police stations in England will be forced to pay a new ‘levy’

That will be paid for by a new higher multiplier for more expensive properties intended to ensnare warehouses used by big online retailers.

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However, figures from Altus show that while this charge will cover 1,589 large warehouses, it will also affect 15,278 non-domestic properties, including 297 NHS hospitals, 310 universities, army barracks and court buildings. Alex Probyn, at Altus, said it was ‘ill-thought-out’.

The Treasury said it was ‘engaging with stakeholders to finalise plans’.

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