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Someone would have sent a selfie with a green man a long time ago.
The Pentagon has published the first major collection of documents about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPUAP. So in the United States now officially called observations, which used to be more often attributed to UFOs. About 160 files were posted in the public domain: videos, photos, reports, scans of old documents, eyewitness accounts and materials from different departments for several decades.
Documents were posted on the new government website. The collection has fresh surveillances of military and federal employees, as well as archival materials that go to the programs for the study of UFOs of the 1940’s and Apollo missions. Some of the files have already been found in public access, but the new versions in places contain more pages and fewer closed fragments. The Pentagon also said it would lay out new shipments of materials as declassified.
The documents contain a 2023 report from federal employees in the western U.S. about facilities that have been described as balloons that produce other balls. In the materials for 2024 mention the observation of the US military in Syria: an uneven white glowing ball. Among the visual files there is an amoe-shaped object taken in the area of responsibility of the US Indo-Pacific Command, a bright round shape of the materials of the Central Command and lights in the images of the Apollo 17 crew from the surface of the moon.
The archival part is no less curious. In the collection there are handwritten and typewritten messages of the late 1940-ies, early reports on flying discs, materials of the FBI, NASA, the State Department and the Ministry of Defense. Of particular interest is the mention of observations during lunar missions, including a flash of light on the surface of the moon in the materials of Apollo 17.
The most important clause remains the same: no published file confirms the discovery of extraterrestrial life. The documents describe unidentified phenomena, that is, cases where the government has no final explanation or lacks data for a confident conclusion. An unidentified object in a report does not mean an alien apparatus. This status is often obtained by blurred shootings, rare atmospheric effects, objects with incomplete data on trajectory or observation, where it is impossible to restore all conditions.
The publication is associated with the initiative of the administration of Donald trump to disclose materials about the UAP. The coordination was attended by the Pentagon, the White House, the office of the directors of national intelligence, NASA, the FBI, the Department of Energy and other structures. The website says that the agencies should find, check, declassify and post material in stages, because we are talking about tens of millions of records, many of which exist only on paper.
Interest in the topic in the United States has long gone beyond amateur ufology. The YouGov survey showed that more than 60% of Americans believe that the government hides some of the information about UAP. According to Gallup, 40% of respondents allow the extraterrestrial origin of such phenomena. Congress has already held hearings on possible secret programs to study non-human technology, but there is still no public evidence of such statements.
Scientists refer to the new publication cautiously. Astrophysicist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester, who studies the search for extraterrestrial life, believes that society does not need another blurred pictures and documents with closed lines, but full-fledged scientific results of inspections. If there are extremely bold statements around the observations, you need data that can be analyzed, reproduced and compared with known physical explanations.
There is also skeptical from the astronauts. Participants of Artemis II in a recent conversation with journalists doubted the idea of a great state secret around extraterrestrial life. Their argument is pragmatic: the real discovery of alien life would sharply strengthen the position of NASA and would solve many budget disputes. Barack Obama this week also ironically over the version of the total conspiracy, noting that under the real contact, someone from the guard would have sent a selfie with an alien familiar.
The new publication does not close the UAP dispute, but changes access to materials. Previously, a significant part of the documents existed in archives, requests, individual leaks and retellings. Now the government has begun to collect materials on the same site and promises to add new batches. For supporters of disclosure, this is an occasion to look for details in old reports. For researchers, value will appear only where the initial data are attached to the descriptions: time, place, shooting parameters, trajectories, sensor readings and the possibility of independent verification.
The Pentagon has published the first major collection of documents about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPUAP. So in the United States now officially called observations, which used to be more often attributed to UFOs. About 160 files were posted in the public domain: videos, photos, reports, scans of old documents, eyewitness accounts and materials from different departments for several decades.
Documents were posted on the new government website. The collection has fresh surveillances of military and federal employees, as well as archival materials that go to the programs for the study of UFOs of the 1940’s and Apollo missions. Some of the files have already been found in public access, but the new versions in places contain more pages and fewer closed fragments. The Pentagon also said it would lay out new shipments of materials as declassified.
The documents contain a 2023 report from federal employees in the western U.S. about facilities that have been described as balloons that produce other balls. In the materials for 2024 mention the observation of the US military in Syria: an uneven white glowing ball. Among the visual files there is an amoe-shaped object taken in the area of responsibility of the US Indo-Pacific Command, a bright round shape of the materials of the Central Command and lights in the images of the Apollo 17 crew from the surface of the moon.
The archival part is no less curious. In the collection there are handwritten and typewritten messages of the late 1940-ies, early reports on flying discs, materials of the FBI, NASA, the State Department and the Ministry of Defense. Of particular interest is the mention of observations during lunar missions, including a flash of light on the surface of the moon in the materials of Apollo 17.
The most important clause remains the same: no published file confirms the discovery of extraterrestrial life. The documents describe unidentified phenomena, that is, cases where the government has no final explanation or lacks data for a confident conclusion. An unidentified object in a report does not mean an alien apparatus. This status is often obtained by blurred shootings, rare atmospheric effects, objects with incomplete data on trajectory or observation, where it is impossible to restore all conditions.
The publication is associated with the initiative of the administration of Donald trump to disclose materials about the UAP. The coordination was attended by the Pentagon, the White House, the office of the directors of national intelligence, NASA, the FBI, the Department of Energy and other structures. The website says that the agencies should find, check, declassify and post material in stages, because we are talking about tens of millions of records, many of which exist only on paper.
Interest in the topic in the United States has long gone beyond amateur ufology. The YouGov survey showed that more than 60% of Americans believe that the government hides some of the information about UAP. According to Gallup, 40% of respondents allow the extraterrestrial origin of such phenomena. Congress has already held hearings on possible secret programs to study non-human technology, but there is still no public evidence of such statements.
Scientists refer to the new publication cautiously. Astrophysicist Adam Frank of the University of Rochester, who studies the search for extraterrestrial life, believes that society does not need another blurred pictures and documents with closed lines, but full-fledged scientific results of inspections. If there are extremely bold statements around the observations, you need data that can be analyzed, reproduced and compared with known physical explanations.
There is also skeptical from the astronauts. Participants of Artemis II in a recent conversation with journalists doubted the idea of a great state secret around extraterrestrial life. Their argument is pragmatic: the real discovery of alien life would sharply strengthen the position of NASA and would solve many budget disputes. Barack Obama this week also ironically over the version of the total conspiracy, noting that under the real contact, someone from the guard would have sent a selfie with an alien familiar.
The new publication does not close the UAP dispute, but changes access to materials. Previously, a significant part of the documents existed in archives, requests, individual leaks and retellings. Now the government has begun to collect materials on the same site and promises to add new batches. For supporters of disclosure, this is an occasion to look for details in old reports. For researchers, value will appear only where the initial data are attached to the descriptions: time, place, shooting parameters, trajectories, sensor readings and the possibility of independent verification.
