Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs (apnews.com) 74
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."
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."
wrong files bro (Score:5, Insightful)
"focused on providing maximum transparency to the public" indeed
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It's all distractions (Score:1)
This is just a distraction from the real distractions that are distracting us from the real things.
Look over here! No, here! Wait, it's over here! (Score:2)
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
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"maximum transparency " -> invisible UFOs... you can see right through them!
Don't tell me - blurry and jittery and stories. (Score:2)
Gun cam, in a maneuvering jet (Score:2)
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: Gun cam, in a maneuvering jet (Score:2)
How shadows and reflections move when you're 10 milies from a mostly flat surface a thousand miles across is legitimately hard to analyze for a visual system that evolved on the ground, especially if you throw in small periodic surface orientation variations. Given how complicated it is to explain rare rainbow-related phenomena like sun dogs, it would be surprising if we'd identified and explained everything that can appear when flying above the ocean.
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Let me introduce you to ma friend, parallax.
This just proves... (Score:2)
...that government cameras really suck.
Gun cameras have a different role (Score:2)
...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)
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"obvious lens reflections"
So what you're saying is JJ Abrams is an alien.
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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
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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)
No Epstein anywhere, I gather.
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No doubt that Bill Clinton is skeezy as hell, but he's specifically requested that the Epstein Files be released in their entirety [abcnews.com].
Bill's a perv, but a perv that likes legal aged women.
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Do you think that might be politically advantageous of him, perhaps as payback for unthroning his wife, and that he realizes that the chance of them getting released is zero despite anything he might say?
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OF COURSE! The Build-A-Bears!!!
Those shops always creep the hell outta me
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No Epstein anywhere, I gather.
So you don't believe Epstein was an alien, eh? No one's told you about the REAL conspiracy?
I think you should have been modified Funny rather than insightful. Even funnier with some tail-wagging-dog angle about the let's-not-call-it a war in Iran.
How many of the aliens were underage? (Score:2, Funny)
Unless these are about the president raping aliens, I think this doesn't really address the currently-unfolding scandal.
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UAF (Score:1)
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.
Re: UAF (Score:4, Insightful)
That of course assumes there isnt a shortcut involving physics we're not even close to discovering.
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Yes, lets invoke magic technology that counters every piece of actual evidence and data we have.
Than some solid thinking right there.
Re:UAF (Score:4, Insightful)
How did you manage to spell UAP wrong when writing it out correctly immediately after?
What letter in UFO do you think stands for "aliens?"
Best site for intelligent discussion of this stuf (Score:2)
Release the UFO Files (Score:5, Insightful)
(... and forget the EPSTEIN Files)
Interesting data point... (Score:2)
Re: Interesting data point... (Score:2)
Retro indeed (Score:2)
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)
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 . . .
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The US Navy has been acting as pirates in international waters. That is a fact. People have been kidnapped, cities on the shore have been bombed, civilian ships have been threatened, damaged, and sunk, people have been murdered. What part of this isn't piracy?
And the comment wasn't unrelated to the thread: Bread and circuses. Roman Empire. Predatory behaviours. Every empire that runs low on resources inevitably thinks to plunder from the neighbours.
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Not just foreigners (Score:2)
I Want to Believe (Score:2)
The Files are Out There.
\o/ (Score:1)
Awesome, we await the unredacted Epstein files with interest.
This is just lovely (Score:2)
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."
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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.
Epstein files smokescreen (Score:2)
proof (Score:2)
This will soon enough provide proof that very little intelligent life exists on earth.
Foo Fighters (Score:2)
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?
Keep on hoping (Score:2)
along with bigfoot, lockness and everything else.