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Tim McMillan

Italy, Rheinland-Pfalz, United States
As seen in: The Debrief Media, VICE, Flipboard, Popular Mechanics, The Drive, The Code Project, RealClear Science, Precision Farming Dealer
Covers:  National Security; The Defense and Intelligence Community; technology; and any mystery worth pursing.
Retired LEO | I Investigate stuff and write about it.🕵️‍♂️ Co-Founder: @Debriefmedia, Bylines: @dcexaminer @PopMech @VICENews | GO GATORS!!! 🐊 🏈

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Tim McMillan’s Biography

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Retired police lieutenant, intelligence and investigative analyst, internationally recognized law enforcement expert, and TEDx Talks speaker. As a freelance investigative journalist, I now use my unique and diverse background to deliver unparalleled and groundbreaking investigative features.

Contributor for Popular Mechanics, Vice, and The War Zone. Primarily focusing on National Security, and the Defense and Intelligence Communities.

Tim McMillan’s Journalist Portfolio

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Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program

Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program

The government can't keep its story straight about its involvement with UFO research. After a yearlong invest…

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The Navy UFO Witnesses Speak Out

The Navy UFO Witnesses Speak Out

The five men share an easy rapport with each other, playfully ribbing one another while also communicating a …

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Special Access Programs And The Pentagon's Ecosystem Of Secrecy

Special Access Programs And The Pentagon's Ecosystem Of Secrecy

Bill Clark via Getty Images To a lot of people, terms like "black budget," or "black projects," inspire dark …

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Romanian Engineers Have Created a Fully Functional Flying Saucer

Romanian Engineers Have Created a Fully Functional Flying Saucer

Against a clear blue sky, a craft that looks strikingly similar to two pie plates stacked atop each other sud…

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Here Is How The Pentagon Comes Up With Code Words And Secret Project Nicknames

Here Is How The Pentagon Comes Up With Code Words And Secret Project Nicknames

Have you ever wondered how the military comes up with all those cool sounding code words and nicknames for se…

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Not Only Is China's 'UFO' Not Unidentified, It Probably Won't Fly

Not Only Is China's 'UFO' Not Unidentified, It Probably Won't Fly

Not long ago, we shared the news of two Romanian inventors who claim to have built a working prototype of wha…

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Scientists Discover Evidence of a Mysterious ‘Ghost’ Human Ancestor Hidden in Our DNA

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By Tim McMillan
| The Debrief Media
In recent years, advances in ancient DNA sequencing have redefined our understanding of human evolution, revealing that our species did not emerge in isolation but repeatedly interbred with close evolutionary relatives like Neanderthals and Denisovans. Yet one of the field’s greatest mysteries has remained unanswered: What if some of our ancestors also encountered extinct human groups whose DNA has never been recovered from fossils?
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New Evidence of a ‘Lost Civilization’ That Created More Than 20,000 Ancient Earthworks Has Been Found in the Amazon, LiDAR Study Reveals

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By Tim McMillan
| The Debrief Media
Beneath the seemingly unbroken canopy of the southwestern Amazon rainforest lies evidence of one of the largest monumental landscapes ever discovered in the ancient Americas. According to new research published in Nature, what archaeologists once believed were scattered ceremonial sites are instead part of an enormous precolonial civilization that may have changed vast stretches of the Amazon nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Researchers May Have Solved a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Stellar Mystery Recorded by Ancient Astronomers

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By Tim McMillan
| The Debrief Media
For more than two millennia, astronomers have puzzled over a stellar mystery recorded by some of history’s greatest skywatchers. Hipparchus, Ptolemy, and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi—all separated by more than 1,000 years—each described Theta Eridani as one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Yet today, the previously celebrated star barely ranks among the more noticeable stars visible to the naked eye.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering Special Access Programs and Highly- Classified technology development by the Department of Defense for The Drive Media

How is social media changing news?

Headlines have become more significant than ever and people are now accustomed to forming their opinion on 500 words or less.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter at the moment