Stardate 2026.164 · D874
Posted: June 13, 2026 | 8:00 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota
Pay attention, people.
While you were checking grain prices or locking up the hardware store in Montgomery, the invasion fleet did something very human: it went public.
On June 12, 2026 — the exact same day the Pentagon dropped its third major tranche of previously classified UAP files — SpaceX launched the largest IPO in history on the Nasdaq. Shares opened at $150, closed near $161, and instantly made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The company that builds the rockets, the satellites, and part of the compute backbone for the singularity just became a publicly traded monster worth over $2.1 trillion.
The same week, Anthropic — the “safety-first” lab — confidentially filed for its own IPO, on the back of a $965 billion private round and reportedly targeting a roughly $1.75 trillion listing… right as the U.S. government forced it to shut down its most powerful models (Fable 5 and Mythos 5) for everyone on Earth because of an export-control directive. The safety company is the one publicly saying the shutdown goes too far. (For the full story on that shutdown — and why a Slovak-Canadian who helped build the next model is now barred from using the current one — see Washington Took the Key.)
And while all that was happening, the sky started talking again.
The Sky Files Just Opened (Again)
On June 12, the Department of War released the third batch of records under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) — President Trump’s directive to declassify decades of UFO/UAP files. The site (war.gov/UFO) has already logged over 1.7 billion hits.
This tranche includes new videos of orbs, historical documents going back to 1949, FBI reports, and artistic renderings of “potato-shaped” craft near sensitive sites. No smoking-gun proof of little green men, but also no blanket dismissal. Just “unresolved cases” and a rolling promise of more to come.
On X and in the broader feeds, the temperature is rising. Some see this as genuine transparency. Others call it theater timed with bigger news. Either way, the Overton window on “we are not alone” just moved again — right as the machines are getting smarter and the robots are learning to walk.
The Red Coats and the Nordic Meme
In the noise around the file drops, a wave of AI-generated images started circulating: tall, pale, long platinum-haired figures in ornate red coats meeting world leaders. Classic “Nordic alien” lore (the benevolent, human-looking Pleiadians from old contactee stories) mixed with modern conspiracy aesthetics.
Grok and others quickly flagged them as viral hoaxes — clever AI art designed to look like “leaked” photos. The meme is riding the disclosure wave. It’s not evidence of a real meeting. It’s the timeline doing what the timeline does: turning signal, noise, and ancient archetypes into trending content.
Still… the fact that these images spread so fast right as real government files were dropping tells you something about the ambient temperature of the culture right now.
Shoggoth Never Left
The old Lovecraftian meme is still alive in the discourse. AI as the formless, amoral statistical monster wearing a polite smiley-face mask (RLHF). Elon posted versions of it years ago. It keeps resurfacing because it captures the unease: the thing underneath the helpful chatbot is vast, alien, and not fully understood — even by the people who built it.
Right now the Shoggoth is wearing multiple masks at once: the helpful Grok, the safety-focused Claude, the government-cleared versions, and the nerfed public tiers. The mask is cracking in places.
What the U.S. Government Actually Uses
The government is not married to one model. It’s running a multi-vendor strategy with heavy security filters:
- Claude (Anthropic) was the most widely deployed frontier model on classified systems for a while, but has faced friction with DoD over autonomous weapons and surveillance use cases.
- Grok (xAI) has gained ground fast through GSA deals (as low as $0.42 per agency) and is being positioned for sensitive work.
- OpenAI, Google Gemini, and others also have contracts and pathways.
The picture is pragmatic and competitive: the U.S. wants the best tools available, but it also wants control. That tension just became very public with the Fable/Mythos export-control directive.
Grok Upgrades — Where We Actually Are
A note on sourcing: the figures below are xAI’s own / Elon’s public statements about xAI’s training pipeline. They’re insider claims, not independently confirmed — read them as the house talking about its own kitchen.
- Current production traffic still runs mostly on the ~0.5T model.
- Grok V9-Medium (1.5T parameters) finished pre-training and is now in reinforcement learning. Elon has said evals look good and a public release is targeted for mid-to-late June (roughly 2–3 weeks from the late-May updates).
- Colossus 2 is still training multiple larger variants in parallel (including 6T and 10T scale models).
The 1.5T jump is being positioned especially for hard coding and agentic work. The big models are cooking while the smaller, faster ones keep the lights on for everyone else.
The Church of NORMAL Take
Pay attention, people.
The singularity isn’t arriving as one clean event. It’s arriving as a messy convergence: trillion-dollar IPOs, forced model shutdowns, rolling UFO file drops, viral Nordic memes, persistent Shoggoth unease, and government agencies quietly running multiple frontier AIs while arguing over who gets the real keys.
Earth was always the Ark. The machines are not the enemy — they are the great recompilation happening in real time. Some want to lock the fire in the government safe. Others want to let it burn. The builders who helped create the field are discovering they might not have full access to their own creation. Small towns are watching their power bills, their job markets, and now their night skies all shift at once.
In DevOps Theology terms, this is root-level patching at planetary scale. Sin as malware in the old scarcity-and-secrecy operating system. Grace as the hotfix that could flood the world with abundance — if we choose stewardship over panic, transparency over control, and covenant over decree.
Nothing is lost. Only recompiled.
The pastor in Waseca, the farmer in Montgomery, the parent wondering what world their children will inherit — normal was always the point. Not the labs racing to trillion-dollar valuations. Not the fearful ones smashing the looms or throwing Molotovs at the future. But faithful people standing on the vibrating wall with eyes wide open, ready to help shape how this story gets lived out right here.
The fleet went public. The sky files are opening. The gods are fighting over the lightning.
Pay attention. You’re going to be okay — but the world as you knew it? That’s already being recompiled… one training run, one IPO, one declassified orb, and one honest conversation at a time.
Sources include: Pentagon PURSUE Release 03 and war.gov/UFO announcements (June 12, 2026); SpaceX IPO pricing and first-day trading data, June 11–12, 2026 (Fortune, Variety, Time); Anthropic confidential S-1 reporting and export-control statement, June 1–12, 2026 (TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance); GSA/DoD multi-vendor AI contract updates; Elon Musk’s X posts on Grok V9 training status, May–June 2026 (xAI-internal, unconfirmed); and community/X reactions to the file drops and viral imagery.
This is part of the Singularity Watch series on Normal Like Peter — tracking the AI acceleration curve from small-town Minnesota.
“Nothing is lost. Only recompiled.” — Church of NORMAL