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Mystery Orb Videos, Other UFO Records Released By White House (axios.com) 69

The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents. At lease some of the sightings took place near sensitive government facilities, according to the reports. Videos showing red and yellow light-emitting orbs, some of which appear to split apart and then reattach as they fly across the sky. The videos were taken by witnesses whom the government deemed "credible."

Illustrations and videos showing reenactments of what observers saw, and the positions they were in when they viewed them. Memos from government agents describing their experiences seeing flying objects. An illustration of a grayish-white balloon-like object hovering above an area near Colorado Springs, Colo. An illustration depicting a series of incidents that took place in the "western United States" where government officials reported seeing UAPs in 2023.

There also are decades-old records documenting the government's involvement in investigating UAPs, including a 1949 letter then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote federal agents after receiving a message from an American citizen expressing their belief they'd seen a non-human-made flying object. The records released by the administration do not express any conclusions as to whether the government believes the UAPs represent the existence of alien life. They also do not indicate any conclusions as to whether UAPs represent a national security threat to the U.S.

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  • Epstein's Orbs (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SlashbotAgent ( 6477336 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:07AM (#66190006)

    Can we get someone to verify if these are Epstein's orbs or not?

  • by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:09AM (#66190008)

    The only reason they release this nonsense now is that they need to misdirect away from Epstein, the economic catastrophe, the criminal efforts and the war with Iran and some other things they have messed up.

    • Uhh, the war was a distraction from Epstein - this is a distraction from the distraction as the war is going as badly as possible without the US accidentally bombing themselves.

    • Are you forgetting that it was announced back in February?
  • Credible (Score:5, Informative)

    by Ozeroc ( 1146595 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:15AM (#66190016)
    The current government has no credibility so neither do their sources.
    • Re: Credible (Score:5, Informative)

      by fortfive ( 1582005 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:36AM (#66190046)

      While the leadership of the current government is a corrupt shambles, not all sectors are, and in the past there were greater numbers of serious and community minded workers. At least some of this material comes from there and that makes it interesting.

      Of course it is distraction, and of course the most interesting stuff has been culled, but that doesnâ(TM)t make it all worthless.

  • Sad seeing slashdot reduced to spouting UFO waffle. Isn't there anything more relevant to the tech sector?

    Pokémon images used to train military drones [dronexl.co]

    We're Living in the Matrix [singjupost.com]
  • Why Aliens (Score:5, Funny)

    by gurps_npc ( 621217 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:54AM (#66190068) Homepage

    Why do we always think the UFO/UAP are Aliens? Here are a bunch of other explanations that are JUST as credible as Aliens:

    Dragons. With Wizards riding them.

    Time Traveling humans. Mostly likely drunk Fraternity brothers considering all the reports of anal probes.

    Hallucinations caused by my Canadian girlfriend's psychic powers.

    Humans are drunk and/or ignorant enough to think a balloon will not appear to move even though they are in a car.

    • Or, Occam's Razor - camera anomalies.
      • by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

        Camera anomalies are not just as credible as drunk anal probing Canadian fraternity wizards riding dragons. Those, plus ducks, balloons and 737s are actually credible.

    • What is more likely, that we're seeing a mix of domestic and foreign surveillance tech, rare weather phenomena, camera artifacts, and outright fakes... or that aliens invested the incredible amounts of time and resources to travel tens of light years to mutilate cows, rectally probe repressed homosexual hicks, and buzz secret facilities and then never follow up with an open visit?

      • It gets worse. The aliens are taking extreme measures to remain hidden, but also actually crashing frequently and world governments are waging some super double secret Cold War to recover the wrecks first and reverse engineer anti-gravity ftl anal probes.

        Ok, joking about the anal probes. They actually believe that other shit though, no joke.

        • May favorite is the idea that aliens could travel the vast interstellar distances - and then fall out of the sky because we pointed a radar at them. A real claim made by people who claimed to have been involved in recovering alien craft.

          If they can get here, they can avoid being seen. If they aren't preventing us from seeing them, it's because they don't have to care because we can't hurt them. If we can't hurt them, we never shot any down. If we can't see them, we can't shoot them down. So, how cou

      • > rectally probe repressed homosexual hicks

        Youâ(TM)re joking, but also itâ(TM)s true. Itâ(TM)s also sadly true that some of these are distorted memories of sexual trauma.

    • Look at that greyish-white balloon shaped object in the sky... It must be an ALIEN!
    • Maybe these objects are Haitians using their steal dog stealing technology to gather food?

    • Pretty sure it is dolphins
    • Or that they are just areal phenomena we aren't familiar with. If it looks like a physical object is breaking the laws of physics, maybe it isn't a physical object. Or it isn't a solid object. Maybe it's a cloud of charged particles caused by something that makes things glow. Like radioactive material. There are plenty of reports of glowing things in the vicinity of nuclear reactors and warheads - should that be surprising? Also, ball lighting exists.
      • I agree that some of these things---the ones that aren't explicable as searchlight beams reflecting off of clouds, or Venus, or balloons--- are not physical objects. My favorite idea is that someone (China, say) has lined up a bunch of tiny drones with radar transponders. When the first one in the line detects a radar ping from some American fighter, its transponder sends out a response that makes it look like a sizable object (whereas the drone itself is too small to show up on radar). Simultaneously it

        • Well, there was a famous case, over DC I think, where fighter pilots thought a stationary balloon was performing all sorts of crazy maneuvers as they flew in circles around it. I always have that in mind.

          But too many of the reports precede the drone technology needed for what you describe, which may still not be there (they'd have to be too small to have the battery life to get in place). A similar effect could be achieved with clouds of chaff, perhaps created by exploding cannisters on parachutes drop

  • by Anonymous Coward

    Fix the economy. Just fix the economy.

    But they can't.

    This is the administration that thought DOGE was a good idea when we already had GAO. It epitomizes the cluelessness of their voters and desire of this administration to be all for show and all for grift.

    • "But they can't" sums up their entire project. The solutions are all things that would either harm them personally, or require them to admit they've been wrong their entire lives. Not a chance of that.

      Since doing anything is out of the question, that's why we get bread and circuses. Well, maybe not the bread anymore. But the circus is bigger than ever.

      Just wondering how long people can stay enthralled with UFOs when they can't pay rent. They could hold out indefinitely, I think. What homeless person hasn't

  • by GeekWithAKnife ( 2717871 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @11:17AM (#66190104)
    That's the sort of commitment we need. Years of documenting and investigating all of Epstein's friends, accomplices, business partners and those in government that are obstructing said investigations.

    Apparently there's many thousands of mentions of current US government officials in those files in very compromising fashion.

    Maybe the government can get Anthropic's Fable 5 to do a thorough analysis and sign all the files, their dates, counts, mentions of people and interactions with all metadata into a publicly verifiable library.

    After all, the current POTUS is a huge proponent of transparency and honesty. Some say the most transparent and honest president ever, in the history of all mankind. All the people that work for him say so.
  • by Rumagent ( 86695 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#66190132)
    Release the files, you orange fuck.
  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @11:45AM (#66190152)
    Is it every idiotic and horrible thing they do is they distraction from the next idiotic and horrible thing they are going to do or the previous idiotic and horrible thing they did. They even have a name for it it's called flood the zone.

    Also I've noticed that the judge that used to show up here and defend Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all those other motherfuckers just keep their damn mouths shut now. They stay in the safe spaces whenever they want to talk about dear leader. Occasionally one of them gets mod points and I can always tell because they go through my last five posts and mod them down because that's how many points slashdot hands out at a time.

    But I'm upset with all the high inflation and useless wars and the 8 million dead children Elon Musk killed so they feel like they are winning because to them winning means the other guy loses and gets upset.

    It's 12-year-old thinking and that's basically where they stopped. An entire group of people who never learned to read or think past the 6th grade level. And they are in charge of the world right now.
    • ...they go through my last five posts and mod them down because that's how many points slashdot hands out at a time.

      Actually, SlashDot will give you 15 mod-points at a time, as long as you've got good karma.

      I'm not surprised you didn't know...

      • Yeah they stopped giving me mod points a while ago even though my karma is consistently excellent. Notice how as soon as I post I have a +2.

        What I suspect they are doing is that there aren't a lot of posters because this is a dying forum so anyone who gets engagement doesn't get mod points because you can't comment on a thread you moderate on.

        So it's actually the opposite, my posts are popular and well written and well received and drive engagement at least what little is left on this dying forum.
        • by kackle ( 910159 )

          Yeah they stopped giving me mod points a while ago even though my karma is consistently excellent.

          It happened to me; I emailed them and they fixed it.(?)

  • I understand that most of what is released is from lower classification surveillance systems; not National systems, which carry higher classification. That being true, is very telling. Otherwise, we have Senators coming forward, making statements about the "truth" being terrifying, indigestible, that it would frighten, along with knowledge (and potential interaction with) of interdimensional travel of beings. Yet, we get the grainy videos, hoping that will placate the public -- an old tactic that simp

  • Aren't the records of glowing orbs consistent with ball lightning sightings?

    AFAIK there are some scientific works by now describing the ball lighting phenomenon.

    • "Orbs" are also consistent with bright or very reflective things that are far away. Which I think is worth noting.
  • by Sloppy ( 14984 ) on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:56PM (#66190372) Homepage Journal

    Every single day, it seems like the White House does something to keep the ongoing Epstein Obstruction Scandal in the news. It's been the top story for months and every single day there's new news about it.

    On Thursday, Todd Blanche, presumably acting under orders, spent all day obstructing the release of the information. And then he did the same thing on Friday. And now there's this UFO story, looking almost custom-made as a silly distraction. Blanche or Trump clearly wants to keep the illegal obstruction on voters' minds, as an evergreen topic so that it never goes away. But why?

    What does Trump get by working so hard to persuade every American that he disagrees with a law that he signed, implying that laws is a bad idea and shouldn't be applied or enforced? What advantages are gained by an explicitly pro-crime agenda? What's the advantage of campaigning on releasing the files but then breaking my campaign promise?

    I (naively?) think if I were in his position, I would comply with the law so that I don't go to prison for obstruction, and so people wouldn't notice every day that I'm still casually and continuously committing crime. I would let, no make the files come out, so that everyone can see the criminal witnesses confused me with the actual rapist, Biden. That would put me in a position where I'm seen as pro-law instead of anti-law, and it would also put to rest all the speculation that the "Epstein" files are actually mostly about me. Seems like that would be good for everyone, including myself.

    So why commit obstruction when the releasing files will exonerate you and make all the problems go away? This strategy doesn't make any sense. What could I possibly be missing?

    I feel like there's something incredibly obvious that everyone with a more-than-50 IQ has figured out about the president's lily-white innocence, but somehow I'm just too fucking stupid to figure it out. It's humbling, and makes me question my deeply-held faith in the president's genius.

  • Where are the rest of the epstein files?
  • Apparently none have been seen over Epstein island

  • Just stop. Flying saucers, golden tablets, bigfoot, ghosts, honest politicians, universal simulations, men in black, crashed spaceships, etc.etc. Don't feed the idiots with "well you never know they may exist.." NO. They do not exist. Shoot down every idiot who says otherwise.

  • It's a cookbook!
  • ENOUGH! Wake me when the Epstein files are released.

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