High-level policy pushes for UAP transparency from Christopher Mellon and Rep. Tim Burchett met fresh accounts of institutional secrecy, including a reportedly suppressed interview with David Grusch. These developments were contextualized by the landmark release of 1980 audio from Roswell intelligence officer Jesse Marcel Sr. and an extraordinary claim of a 40-meter metallic 'Tic-Tac' craft found beneath an Egyptian labyrinth. Simultaneously, scientific debates intensified around the anomalous interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, while foundational physicists questioned the very structure of scientific progress and the nature of intelligence.