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The Pentagon Releases New Trove of Declassified UFO Files

The Pentagon Releases New Trove of Declassified UFO Files

Trump first teased the release in February in a Truth Social post. The Pentagon coordinated the release in partnership with the White House, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the Energy Department, NASA, and the FBI. Many of the files in this new drop contain documents that are already publicly available. However, some versions of these known documents in the new files contain more pages, or fewer redactions, than previously released versions. More than 60% of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about UAP, according to YouGov, while 40% think UAP are likely alien in origin, according to Gallup. Congress has held hearings into whether there’s been a decades-long program to recover “non-human” technologies, yet evidence remains elusive. Courtesy U.S. Department of War “If it’s just more blobby photos or redacted documents that don’t have any details in them, it’s more of the same,” Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester who studies the search for alien life, says of the new files. “What we need are actual scientific results from …

11 Scientists Are Dead or Missing. It Was Only a Matter of Time Before Conspiracy Theories Hit the White House.

11 Scientists Are Dead or Missing. It Was Only a Matter of Time Before Conspiracy Theories Hit the White House.

Proponents of some variant of the conspiracy, Radford adds, are working backward. “They’re finding people who are already dead or missing and then trying to find some connection, however tenuous,” he says, “to the defense industry, the Pentagon, UFOs, UAP, NASA.” (McCasland’s flimsy link to the UFO community is, among the scientists, the most substantive connection to these subjects.) In a comprehensive rejoinder to the theory, UFO investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick West pointed out that the US top-secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce includes about 700,000 people. Ordinary mortality rates over the time span of some of the purportedly linked deaths and disappearances would predict, he said, around 4,000 deaths, 70 homicides, and 180 suicides in this community—as of this week, Rogan, Kraus, et al. are working with 11 cases. “People just kind of go looking for names,” West tells me, “and if you go looking for names, you’re gonna find them.” What West describes as “death-list fallacies” have a rich history as a kind of conspiracy theory folk tradition. Beginning in the 1960s, the …

Trump government to release ‘very interesting’ files on UFOs | US | News

Trump government to release ‘very interesting’ files on UFOs | US | News

Trump spoke at a Turning Point event (Image: Getty) US President Donald Trump said that his administration will soon start releasing government files relating to UFOs. Speaking at a Turning Point event in Arizona on Friday, April 17, Trump asked the crowd whether they remembered that he had directed US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to “begin releasing government files relating to UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomena.” “I’m pleased to report today… that this process is well underway and we found many very interesting documents.” “The first releases will begin very, very soon.” Trump did not provide a specific date on which the release can be expected. Read more: Trump’s UFO files prove we’re not alone, says ex-Pentagon chief Read more: Mysterious UFO ‘formation’ spotted over military base as scientist missing Responding to a reporter’s question on Thursday, April 16 regarding 10 scientists who had already disappeared or been found dead, Trump said: “I hope it’s random, but we’re going to know in the next week and a half.” “Pretty serious stuff… Some of them …

Hollywood’s Narrative on UFOs and ETs Reaches Back Many Decades

Hollywood’s Narrative on UFOs and ETs Reaches Back Many Decades

Before zombies shambled about, ghoulishly feasting on the flesh of those too slow to flee, aliens from outer space ruled movie theaters, drive-ins and late Saturday night creature features on television. Even as Hollywood still drives how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads, fiction soon could be separated from — or revealed as — fact if government agencies release secret files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs as called for in February by President Donald Trump. The science fiction genre has shaped how people think about intelligent life elsewhere in the universe — “whether it’s invasion narratives or aliens coming to warn us that we’re on the wrong track or aliens just trying to come and make contact and help us with things or just say ‘hi,’” says Duke University professor Priscilla Wald, who teaches a class on science fiction and film. Trump’s announcement on social media followed former President Barack Obama suggesting in a podcast interview that aliens were real. Obama later clarified that he had not seen evidence that …

The Demonic Side of UFOs – OpentheWord.org

The Demonic Side of UFOs – OpentheWord.org

Satan’s Temptation of Jesus in St. Wolfgang Church in Salzkammergut, Austria by Michael Pacher, 1471–79, Credit: Uoaei1, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 There are many be reasons why the National UFO Reporting Center based in Washington DC reported that the number of world wide UFO sightings in the first half of 2025 was nearly double that of the same period in 2024. It increased from 1,492 to 3,000. This ranges from a growing interest in the subject to a rise in the usage of drones. But perhaps the least cited explanation is supernatural. Some Christians believe that UFOs are satanic entities manifesting in the natural realm. This is the opinion held by Father Chad Ripperger, a Catholic exorcist, during an interview with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan. Ripperger serves as a priest and exorcist for the Archdiocese of Denver. Ripperger acknowledged that there are natural explanations for most of the sightings. “Obviously some of the UFOs can be explained, some of them, by governmental experiments and things of that sort, which people are not necessarily used …

Don’t Expect Big Surprises in the Government’s Alien Files

Don’t Expect Big Surprises in the Government’s Alien Files

“Even some sort of really remarkable and extraordinary revelation would certainly not satisfy the social-media-verse,” says Eghigian. “‘Hey, is this another hoax? Is this another game that the government is playing with us? What else are they keeping from us?’” “I don’t foresee almost any way for this thing to be definitively resolved in terms of the public interest,” he adds. What’s Likely in the Files? If history is any guide, a new release would center on UAP sightings and the government programs that track and study them. Since the first major UFO craze in 1947, the US government has periodically released documents and reports from internal teams, such as Project Blue Book, which covered the years from 1947 to 1969, the 1994 Roswell Report, and the more recent declassification of the Pentagon UAP videos, which had previously been leaked. Many of these files contain eerie visuals of UAP that have defied explanation. UAP “can be a number of things,” says Berea. “It’s not like they are all in one bucket. Many of them actually …

Boebert on Hillary Clinton questions in Epstein probe: ‘I think everybody wants to know about UFOs’

Boebert on Hillary Clinton questions in Epstein probe: ‘I think everybody wants to know about UFOs’

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) weighed in on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s criticism of questions during her deposition Thursday, saying “everybody wants to know about UFOs.” Clinton, following her closed-door testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in its probe of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, knocked lawmakers for asking questions about… Source link

Trump orders Pentagon, federal agencies to release files on UFOs and aliens | Donald Trump News

Trump orders Pentagon, federal agencies to release files on UFOs and aliens | Donald Trump News

US president’s announcement comes amid a surge of interest following comments on aliens by ex-President Barack Obama. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 20 Feb 202620 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share United States President Donald Trump said he is directing federal agencies, including the defence department, to begin “identifying and releasing” government records related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and alien life forms. Trump did not specify whether classified documents would be released to the public, but added that the files should include “any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters”. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” Trump said late on Thursday in a post on his Truth Social platform. The move …

Trump says he’ll ask DOD to release files on ‘UFOs,’ ‘alien and extraterrestrial life’

Trump says he’ll ask DOD to release files on ‘UFOs,’ ‘alien and extraterrestrial life’

President Trump on Thursday said he will direct the Department of Defense and other agencies to release its files about UFOs and “alien and extraterrestrial life” to the public. “Based on the tremendous interest shown,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to… Source link

Why Some Religions Believe in UFOs and Aliens – OpentheWord.org

Why Some Religions Believe in UFOs and Aliens – OpentheWord.org

153 | Why Some Religions Believe in UFOs and Aliens FOLLOW OUR PODCAST ON (search opentheword): PODCAST NOTES: In his book, Religions and Extraterrestrial Life published in 2014, Vanderbilt University Astronomer David Weintraub revealed the results of a poll he conducted on beliefs in Aliens and UFOs by different religious groups. Now these numbers are dated, because there has been a dramatic surge in the belief in aliens in recent years. But nevertheless his poll showcased the significant differences in Alien beliefs among different religions. Muslims led the pack with 44% stating they believed in aliens. Jews were third at 37%, Hindus 36% and Christians came in last with only 32% stating they believed in aliens. Weintraub attributed the high rate of belief in UFOs among Muslims to passages in the Qu’ran, such as chapter 21 verse 30 and chapter 42 verse 29, that speak of living beings being dispersed on other planets. The Qu’ran even suggests that these aliens are practicing a different form of Islam.  Weintraub added that some Hindus believe that humans …