Hey, weirdos. Just wanted to let you know that on the Weird Darkness YouTube channel recently, we've been having fun doing a live chat each weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central Time. I set up the YouTube channel to premiere a video at that time, usually the podcast episode for the day, and then during the premiere, we all hang out in the YouTube live chat. Even if you've already heard that day's episode here in the podcast, you're

still welcome to join us for the YouTube chat. It's every weeknight at 10.30 p.m. Central

time. And sometimes I do it over the weekends, too, because I have no social life whatsoever.

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I'm Darren Marler, and this is a Weird Darkness bonus bite.

This morning, September 9th, 2025, military personnel stood before Congress to describe

encounters with objects that shouldn't exist

and revealed a system designed to keep them quiet.

The hearing room filled with an unusual tension as witnesses took their oaths.

These were conspiracy theorists or retention seekers.

They were active duty military personnel, intelligence officers, and federal employees with

decades of service.

They came to discuss objects that violated the laws of physics, programs hidden from congressional

oversight, and careers destroyed for speaking truth.

Jeffrey Neusatelli, a former Air Force military police officer with 16 years of service, described

five separate incidents at Vanderburg Air Force Base between 2003 and 2005.

The base housed the National Missile Defense Project and was conducting what the National

Reconnaissance Office called their most important launches in 25 years.

500 Air Force police officers guarded these operations.

On October 14, 2003, Boeing contractors reported a massive glowing red square hovering silently

over two missile defense sites. The object, now known as the Vanderberg Red Square,

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