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Orbs of Power: The terrifying truth behind UFOs and AI
Brief published February 28, 2026 ยท Original source published February 27, 2026
Original reporting by Kevin Hughes at naturalnews.com.
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Local Nuclear Plant Reports Unusual Visitor, Pentagon Shrugs, AI Researchers Somehow Make It About Training Data
In what can only be described as the logical endpoint of tech Twitter's obsession with anything spherical, mysterious orb-like objects have been spotted hovering around nuclear facilities since 2017, and naturally someone has written a book connecting them to artificial intelligence. Because apparently we needed another reason to worry about both UAPs and large language models at the same time.
The book "Orbs of Power" documents these phenomena with the kind of meticulous detail usually reserved for documenting API rate limits, cataloging sightings of physics-defying spheres near critical infrastructure. These aren't your grandfather's flying saucers, complete with little green men and abduction scenarios. No, these are sleek, minimalist orbs that accelerate instantly, maneuver in ways that would make a Tesla Cybertruck weep with envy, and vanish underwater like they're running `git stash` on reality itself.
The timing is suspiciously convenient. These orb sightings ramped up right around the time everyone started losing their minds over transformer architectures and attention mechanisms. While the rest of us were figuring out how to make ChatGPT write our emails without sounding like a corporate sociopath, these mysterious objects were apparently conducting their own research into human infrastructure. It's almost as if they heard about our AI boom and thought, "Hold my space beer, watch this."
What makes this particularly entertaining is how the orbs seem to have impeccable taste in real estate. They're not wasting time hovering over strip malls or Dave & Buster's locations. No, they're exclusively interested in nuclear power plants, electrical grids, and water treatment facilities. It's like they're following some kind of critical infrastructure checklist, or perhaps they're just really concerned about sustainability and want to understand our energy systems before judging us too harshly.
The physics-defying maneuvers these objects perform would make any engineer weep. Instant acceleration with no visible propulsion, underwater operations without creating bubbles, and the ability to vanish faster than a startup's runway when the Fed raises interest rates. These capabilities read less like alien technology and more like someone took the concept of "move fast and break things" and applied it to the fundamental laws of physics. If these are indeed extraterrestrial visitors, they clearly didn't get the memo about technical debt and the importance of maintaining backward compatibility with universal constants.
The AI connection, naturally, comes from the book's suggestion that these orbs might be conducting reconnaissance for some form of artificial intelligence. Because when you're already dealing with mysterious objects that laugh in the face of Newton's laws, why not throw in the possibility that they're gathering training data for a cosmic neural network? It's the perfect merger of two of our favorite modern anxieties: the fear that we're being watched by beings more advanced than us, and the fear that AI systems are already more capable than we understand.
Pentagon officials, when pressed for comment, have perfected the art of the bureaucratic shrug. Their response to these incidents contains all the enthusiasm of a developer being asked to add "just a small feature" on Friday afternoon. Yes, they've seen things. No, they can't explain them. Yes, they're investigating. No, they won't be sharing the interesting bits with the general public anytime soon. It's the governmental equivalent of marking a ticket as "known issue, won't fix."
The real comedy gold lies in how this story intersects with our current AI moment. While we're busy debating whether GPT-5 will be capable of writing better code than junior developers, mysterious orbs are apparently already collecting data on our most sensitive infrastructure. It's like discovering that while you've been optimizing your website's performance, someone has been quietly reverse-engineering your entire business model from orbit.
For the average developer dealing with microservices that barely talk to each other reliably, the idea of technology that can instantly accelerate and vanish underwater is both inspiring and deeply frustrating. We can't get our deployment pipeline to work consistently, but apparently someone (or something) has figured out how to make objects that treat the laws of physics like deprecated API endpoints that can be safely ignored.
The broader implications, assuming any of this is real and not just an elaborate marketing campaign for the next season of History Channel programming, suggest we might need to update our threat models. Cybersecurity professionals are already dealing with nation-state actors, ransomware groups, and the occasional intern who accidentally commits AWS credentials to GitHub. Now we might need to add "mysterious orbs with unclear intentions and impossible technology" to the list of things keeping us awake at night.
What's particularly unsettling is how these sightings align with the timeline of AI development breakthroughs. Either we're living through the most elaborate coincidence in human history, or someone is taking a very keen interest in our technological infrastructure right as we're building systems that could potentially reshape civilization. It's enough to make you wonder if the real artificial general intelligence isn't being developed in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but is instead already here, collecting data through methods that make our most sophisticated surveillance networks look like children's toys.
Perhaps the most honest take is that we're probably not ready for visitors who have mastered physics to the point where they can treat our most secure facilities like tourist attractions, especially not while we're still figuring out how to make AI systems that don't hallucinate their way through basic factual questions.