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Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs (apnews.com) 83

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The Pentagon has begun releasing new UFO/UAP files through a newly launched public website, starting with 162 documents from agencies including the FBI, State Department, NASA, and others. Officials say more files will be released on a rolling basis. The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on "unidentified anomalous phenomena" like an object that a drone pilot says shone a bright light in the sky and then vanished. It said in a post on X on Friday that while past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Donald Trump "is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files." It said additional documents will be released on a rolling basis.

Besides the Pentagon, the effort is led by the White House, the director of national intelligence, the Energy Department, NASA and the FBI. A newly unveiled website housing the documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, has a decidedly retro feel, with black-and-white military imagery of flying objects displayed prominently on the page, with statements displayed in typewriter-like font. The first release includes 162 files, such as old State Department cables, FBI documents and transcripts from NASA of crewed flights into space.

One document details an FBI interview with someone identified as a drone pilot who, in September 2023, reported seeing a "linear object" with a light bright enough to "see bands within the light" in the sky. "The object was visible for five to ten seconds and then the light went out and the object vanished," according to the FBI interview. Another file is a NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, showing three dots in a triangular formation. The Pentagon says in an accompanying caption that "there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly" but that a new, preliminary analysis indicated that it could be a "physical object."
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  • wrong files bro (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:08PM (#66134568)

    "focused on providing maximum transparency to the public" indeed

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by korgitser ( 1809018 )
      Looking forward to the release of the lizard files, because it sure ain't human that our leaders rape minors and eat childern.

      • It's all distractions (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        This is just a distraction from the real distractions that are distracting us from the real things.

      • Got me to look at AC. Unthanks, even if there might have been an atom of substance in there somewhere. Feeding the sock puppets and trolls is one of those tricks that never works.

        (Like solutions that will never happen because Slashdot lacks a financial model that can support improvements, be they ever so evolutionary. Increasingly clear to me that part of the website I am looking for would involve a different kind of financial model... Slashdot is just one of those ancient portable nuisance things?)

        Now to l

    • "maximum transparency " -> invisible UFOs... you can see right through them!

    • What files are you looking to be released? I must have missed something important in the news.
  • Guessing: blurry, jittery and stories.

    • Guessing: blurry, jittery and stories.

      Not guessing: Infrared not visible light, gun camera in a maneuvering jet fighter, and observations by an aviator trained to recognize aircraft via gun camera to help recognize friend/foe or maneuvering for attack.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by geekoid ( 135745 )

        Let me introduce you to ma friend, parallax.

  • ...that government cameras really suck.

    • ...that government cameras really suck.

      Many of the images are from "gun cameras." Gun cameras in high performance fighters are quite different than the cameras you are used to. They are far more tolerant of intense glare, being pointed towards the sun, may be highly magnified, may be IR rather than visible light, etc.

      • Re: Gun cameras have a different role (Score:5, Insightful)

        by flyingfsck ( 986395 ) on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:46PM (#66134772)
        Hmm, I used to build military observation systems and the few things I looked at are obvious lens reflections making dots that, if you try to chase them, keep moving as you turn. With complex lens systems, you can get multiple dots. I have even seen a big spot caused by my aircraft window when flying over clouds, so the effect is not limited to a camera system - an Airbus A320 window will also do!

      • None of that matters when they're out of focus. Unfocus any camera a certain way and you'll see an image of the shape of that camera's current aperture. Congress has released "We've completely investigated these and couldn't identify them" UFO videos that have simply been unfocused cameras pointed at the moon or other light sources. Demonstrated by doing just that and creating an identical video.

        In summary, any UFO video with a distinct geometric shape is probably just an out of focus camera. You see a

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Himmy32 ( 650060 )
      To quote Mitch Hedburg:

      I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here.

  • public can draw their own conclusions (Score:4, Insightful)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:18PM (#66134584)

    No Epstein anywhere, I gather.

  • How many of the aliens were underage? (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Unless these are about the president raping aliens, I think this doesn't really address the currently-unfolding scandal.

  • Not UFO, UAF, which is "unknown aerial phenomena".

    Let's drop the idiotic UFO moniker once and for all. Aliens have not visited us (yet) and given the distances involved, they as may never will.

  • Release the UFO Files (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Local ID10T ( 790134 ) <ID10T.L.USER@gmail.com> on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:52PM (#66134678) Homepage

    (... and forget the EPSTEIN Files)

  • Only because anything they are releasing almost certainly isn't a picture of a top-secret experimental military aircraft.

  • We need to distract the public from the Soviet bomb sniffing balloons we're flying... er, embarassing sex files we're hiding! What should we do?

    UFO stories?

  • Look at these amazing UFO files!!!! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by umopapisdn69 ( 6522384 ) on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:32PM (#66134756)

    And argue about them vehemently!

    Pay no attention to Iran. Or gas prices. Or food or rent prices. Or thugs disappearing foreigners off the street. Or Epstein. Or . . .

    • Yup, the current regime certainly has the circuses portion down but they seem to be lacking bread.
      • Well, they're pirates. That's why they sail the high seas looking for bread baked in oil and tariffs.
    • Several American citizens have been disappeared for several weeks at a time. So far all of them have turned up only slightly worse for wear but it keeps happening and eventually some of them will not turn up or if they do they will have permanent physical damage.

  • The Files are Out There.

  • President Donald Trump "is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public

    Awesome, we await the unredacted Epstein files with interest.

  • It's going to bring out all the conspiracy theorists. "See, we told you they were hiding things from us!" "Do you *really* think these are *all* of the UFO files?" "The aliens are already here, and they're controlling the Pentagon, calculating that this release of documents would buy them more time to keep infiltrating humans."

    • Some people will only be satisfied if what is released perfectly matches what they already believe is true. Just like some people will only believe all the Epstein files have been released if there is clear evidence implicating their least-favorite politician, and some people will only believe that all the JFK files have been released when something says that Bush Sr. personally fired from the grassy knoll.

      • I think you are too optimistic.

        People who believe in conspiracy theories, will simply move on to another conspiracy theory, if their pet theory is disproven or proven. There is a kind of person who simply believes in conspiracy theories, they are primed and ready at all times to believe them.

        • Do they though? Or do they just invent ways to dismiss whatever counter evidence is provided? There's probably data on it.

          • Both are true.

            There are some kinds of conspiracy theories that are irrefutably exposed as hoaxes. For example:
            - Jade Helm 15 (2015) predicted a military takeover of the state of Texas.
            - Operation Gotham Shield (2017) claimed that FEMA would use nuclear preparation drills to declare martial law.
            - COVID lockdown takeover (2020-2021) predicted that the government would use the pandemic to declare permanent martial law in the US

            There are plenty more examples. Even the conspiracy theorists who believed these thi

            • Then maybe we need to distinguish between conspiracy theories and predictions. What you listed were conspiracy predictions, and "but it didn't happen", is nearly impossible to refute. Conspiracy theories that don't involve predictions, like those about JFK, 9/11, UFOs, the moon landing, etc., don't face irrefutable and directly observable evidence. Any evidence contradicting a 9/11 conspiracy will just be dismissed as part of the supposed cover up. Hell, I bet that if you put every flat-Earther on a roc

              • Yes, I completely agree. And that's my point, that conspiracy theorists will always believe conspiracy theories. It's not about proof or evidence, it's about unsatisfiable suspicion.

                • We've come to a place of agreement? Well, that's no fun. Now I'm forced to argue that conspiracy theories are the conspiracy theory and don't actually exist. That won't be easy!

                  (obviously kidding)

                  • LOL crazy, right! I think our agreement isn't real, there's got to be a hidden agenda somewhere!

                    • One of us must be working for "They". And "They" are so clever and powerful that we may never know who it was.
  • Now, with extra Joe Rogan!

  • This will soon enough provide proof that very little intelligent life exists on earth.

  • There was a weirs message in our elementary school books in Germany that we learned as children. You are aware the foo fighters were a widely reported phenomenon in the II. world war over Germany, lots of reports of allied aviation crews.

    The Message was Fu ruft Uta, in English: Foo calls Utah.

    Am I onto something really big here?

  • along with bigfoot, lockness and everything else.

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