Always has been, at least since 1947.
Two of them have already leaked before. Both of those are missiles being viewed with an infrared camera. One of them shows a missile passing through the field of view rapidly with a motion blur streak behind it. The other shows a missile performing maneuvers and a camera artifact showing a star-like diffraction+aperture artifact around the bright IR light source.
None of these pieces of imagery look like something doing something particularly interesting. What happens is a military personnel records a video. They don't know what it is in the moment. It gets labeled "unknown" and put on a DoD file server, and then either they or someone else who stumbles across it clips out part of it and starts to spread rumors about this amazing video of a UAP they saw. There are people who work for the DoD who appear to spend a great deal of their free time scrolling around internal DoD file servers looking for anything they can portray as proof of aliens, and sometimes they leak their stories and even clips to public UFO influencers like Jeremy Corbell.
Convince me I'm wrong.
If gas prices double from here it will be less stupid distraction and more overt authoritarianism... the ICE question has not been settled. ICE is still violating your neighbors and making a mockery of what is supposed to be a society of free people. They merely thought the overt city takeovers and shooting Americans in the head had become a bad look that wasn't worth it politically. The persistence of this calculus is not inevitable.
More than anything, that's the one thing that they want to avoid. That's something that's radicalized at least one person into doing something rash and could radicalize more.
The reality is that there's no shortage of dirt in them (that likely doesn't pile up to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), but his base doesn't care, and will never care.
1) Maxwell was under prosecution at the time, so some of it was related to that.
2) The kind of people being mentioned as potential indictees are the kind who can do something about it.
"NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos all confirm definitive concrete proof, and publish this proof, for the presence of organisms, or technology created by organisms, which originated from outside Earth's atmosphere, and was present within Earth's hill sphere at some point since 1900."
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy who made his campaing on ending wars the first thing he does after being elected changes the name from DoD to DoW and starts new wars.
Serious question btw. I mean, the Simpsons were already making the case against him in 2000!
But he didn't. That requires congressional action. The DoW is just a "secondary" name attached via executive order. Contracts still say DOD. The only reason people are saying "DoW" it is to appease certain forceful personalities.
I do wish there was even more resistance though, war has been effectively pitched as costless or even as a boon. Perhaps if this war bites there will be more resistance to future wars. At the very least the Iran war being such a disaster may have saved us from a more costly war with China - which the US was and in some ways still is gearing up for.
Like you'd think Americans would have learned after "read my lips, no new taxes" even if they somehow memory-holed Trump's entire first administration. But I guess not.
Is there actually a term for every discussion about something code related turning into a debate about LLMs, just increasing the signal to noise ratio on the topic at hand?
I'll throw 'second order AI slop' into the ring.
I don't know if I'd want to drive on it.
I miss the days when 18F made bespoke sites from scratch.
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/2024-04-30-compo...
I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery.
The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids).
Tells you something.
That’s the correct interpretation, yes?
Sailors saw mermaids all the time too, I don't think they're all hiding under a rock since we invented the camera
Dataset: https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-csv.c...
Mirror: https://gist.github.com/ahmetcadirci25/e4edb7d30109fdb8ff14b...
Could be useful for anyone interested in data analysis, anomaly detection, or open government datasets.
On the other hand, there is no link in the CSV for NASA-UAP-D3A, Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965 but the link in the webpage does work. It utilizes https://api.dvidshub.net/ to request the content.
Another example are incident dates like with DOW-UAP-PR36, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, May 2020 that are N/A in the CSV but have an incorrect one inside the snippet (5/1/20 as opposed to 5/14/20). It also seems like there are duplicate incidents just with different media. By the way, the video in this incident is compelling.
I look forward to dissecting the dataset but it's far from perfect. There is definitely a massive amount of potential here.
The file for "65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153" is here:
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_HS1-834228961...
"War" is the application of violence for political ends. "Defense" is only a subset of that.
So yeah, sure, in the current attitude and action that are very much "hey let's go back to that great time where we openly agreed war of conquest are a good thing" they have it makes sense.
The other name changes by the Trump administration are also not catching on.
70+% also continue to call the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of Mexico".
A large majority also continue to call Mount Denali "Mount Denali".
A significant majority is still calling the Kennedy Center that instead of "The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts".
Nope. Actually renaming it was too long and complicated a process, so instead they're pretending they renamed it.
Edit: I had a look at a bunch of the videos and didn't find anything remarkable, in my opinion. The witness testimonies read like so many others.
This seems like it would be a CLM, as the authority of their testimony is central to their function as federal LE.
For example, see this document: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/western_us_event...
(from series of documents from incident data 9/1/23)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_UFO_Museum_and_R...
That's ridiculous.
My first thought when I saw this is how much will it cost me to kick it up to a HF I stance.
I did a trial run with the Epstein files and it was genuinely fun to catch a few bits before the media caught up.
Not to mention that if they add any metadata thats just increasing their exposure and they will be held to what the LLMs label it.
But extremely limited access to competent human beings.
Who are the others?
I guess that’s what “Unexplained Areal Phenomena” means.
Some of the new videos were already identified as imaging artifacts a while ago.
1. Have both domains point to the same IP address.
2. Make sure both domains are working and DNS has fully propagated.
3. Make your old domain a 301 redirect.
4. Do a couple of find and replaces in your codebase and ship it out.
Pathetic. They launched like a business, and I guess for the bourgeoisie class, war is a business.
Honestly, what difference does it make?
Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing. I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to $5/gal in Kansas City, and I'll still be wondering if I'll be replaced by AI before I finish up saving for retirement.
And that's to say nothing of Epstein or Iran.
https://x.com/i/status/2037559378958766591
""" We can be sure as the war ends, there will be another distraction by the US using "Aliens, UFOs, and UAPs".
If Iran war was a distraction from Epstein files, this will be a distraction from war crimes. We can be sure of some Aliens dot gov site launching distracting the world """
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/dow-uap-d32-miss...
They left the classification labels untouched (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY). They really are supposed to remove those or at least cross them out. To see a document on the public internet with those labels still attached is very odd behavior.
> Infrared still image (black hot) captured of unidentified object *below helicopter* over western United States in September of 2025.
Update: I guess I am on some kind of list now. And with list I mean Plantirs big brother database.
These distraction comments always sound a little condescending to me. They are all over Reddit and it's a bit of a bummer to see it taking off here.
The list is endless. Obvious distraction.
I can't tell if comments like this are serious or rage bait.
You can read my “sanitized” past threads to get an idea, though the full details are things that will get me immediately banned and I’m tired of trying to do the right thing to the ire of every hypocrite who wants to know yet hates hearing things they don’t want to know.
No upvotes, no dirty secrets.
Not my area of expertise, I should say!
> STATEMENT: "The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency." -United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
If they truly want to 'serve the people' it would be time to release the full Epstein files - or at least stop starting wars and/or supporting warmongers while profiting of the resulting world-wide miseries with their insider trading.
Anyone who’s guilty of that either has sufficient corrupt clout to have eliminated the evidence of their crimes (thus no “files” threaten them), or, are already known about.
And come on, with the guy at the top of the government being very likely one of them and very openly and obviously corrupt, it is more of a stretch for me to believe that “Epstein permanent deletion service” isn’t an item on his main bribe menu.
It's why the Democrats keep only pushing social issues, they are captured and cannot make any radical change without losing the support of their wealthy donors.
Another way to look at it, consider that every coup that occurred in South America was done extra-legally to protect American corporate/monetary interests.
Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing.
I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to $5/gal in Kansas City, and I'll still be wondering if I'll be replaced by AI before I finish up saving for retirement.
And that's to say nothing of Epstein or Iran.
> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/26/jimmy-savile-s...
An annual summary from Homeland Security’s inspector general said the department initiated 1,389 investigations into internal matters, leading to 318 arrests and 260 convictions of DHS employees. In 2011, the auditor -- which describes itself as “the principal agency within the department with the authority to investigate employee corruption” -- found instances of bribery, child pornography and “nonconsensual sexual contact” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees among the crimes DHS staff allegedly committed.
> https://www.govexec.com/defense/2012/08/laptop-thefts-drug-s...
> https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/enforcement/former-acting-hhs-cybe...
> https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/federal-employee-charge...
You could go all day. Surface just being scratched.
Until it stops being hilarious. Then what?
Do you believe in the rule of law?
Do Americans? Really? You’re used to agreeing among yourselves, and they are in the majority. A landslide majority.
You are not the America you think you are.
> All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemou...
An incorruptible righteous rule of law!
An “righteous rule of law” is one principled upon truth, and serves to protect the innocent from violation by will or neglect.
And how, does Man maintain an “inccoruptible” righteous rule of law? When their lives are staked upon the truth of their word before a righteous rule. That’s what the stack of bibles are for after all.
How curious!
Also it occurs to me that the ufo conspiracy nutters are like dogs chasing cars. What happens when they find the UFOs? Why does it matter?
What does this mean? Can't the president declassify things by their own will? Like when Trump revealed extremely high resolution satellite imagery during a presentation? Didn't Trump himself say he can declassify stuff whenever he wants?
> Trump added to the confusion when he said in an interview with Fox personality Sean Hannity, “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. ... If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it.”
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
Unfortunately, that's not something one can openly say these days.
If you hear someone say "I personally like Epstein as a wingman", will you be "oh, fine"?
Do I have the right to choose a preferred political party? Yes.
Do I have the right to express which political party I prefer? Yes.
Yet people attack me for that ... it seems deranged.
Do I have the right to express my opinion of your choice?
Your answer here please: __________
And how do you balance those?
So go ahead and say something you know is unpopular, and pretend you're persecuted for it.
"This sandwich is good, but I can't enjoy it because Epstein files are not released"
“This sandwich is bad, also we’re ignoring their covering for sex trafficking.”
- there exist technologies on our planet that human engineers and physicists do not know the underlying principles of their operation
- there exist unknown physical principles and forces that a party other than the USG has harnessed and implemented for advanced flight capability
- information about the phenomena has in fact been officially secret for several decades
- this concern is both real and existentially meaningful where, to sustain its own democratic legitimacy in its role as a servant to its people, the executive branch of the USG determined it is obligated to inform the public of its knowledge of these phenomena
The second part is the economic forecast of this. People absolutely knew, so we have to ask the question, why bother with SpaceX or even oil drilling if there was going to be an imminent overturning of flight physics? Arguably, just because some people have Bugatti's doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't still need rickshaws. I think commercial space exploration with chemical rockets will be economical presently and foreseeably. Turns out we're the rickshaw people now.
> - there exist unknown physical principles and forces that a party other than the USG has harnessed and implemented for advanced flight capability
These certainly have not been shown to be true. People have told stories alleging these are true, but they have for decades failed to substantiate them with evidence. All they've been able to do is tell wild fantasy stories and occasionally get a video or photo released that is laughably bad and does not support the story at all.
Which keeps happening, but the people who believe in alien visitation to Earth never seem to care that the alleged "evidence" keeps falling apart when it's actually released and scrutinized. They just move on to hyping up the next alleged evidence. It's honestly a cult dynamic at play here. Always reference to secret evidence and no epistemic adjustment after repeated cases of what they believed was evidence for their belief turning out to not be evidence for their belief. They never learn from all the past times they got scammed.
> so we have to ask the question, why bother with SpaceX or even oil drilling
Because everyone with advanced access to this program knows, without a shadow of a doubt, that these UFO videos are a nothingburger and distraction from the DOJ's unreleased Epstein files.
they weren't better before, they just weren't generic crap.
p.s. : https://www.war.gov/portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/Slideshow...
>Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.
lol finally we can actually know how the FBI imagines the fake aliens, ray-traced 90s Bryce3D art.
Thankfully ive been UFO hunting for some time, so I can corroborate: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1adf348d93e3...
The UI is awful btw. I want searchable folders.
I think this was two winters ago. They floated, sometimes would briefly hold position. Third time in the past decade I encountered them.
I pulled to the side of the road. Nobody else pulled over or noticed. Encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes. I honestly don't remember.
https://files.catbox.moe/05tysy.jpg
From the photos alone it's also hard to rule out distant airplanes with their bright forward landing lights on. When planes are flying towards you they appear to move very slowly and at a distance they appear as single bright orange/yellow glowing spots. Take this example showing 3 airplanes a few miles away:
https://i.imgur.com/vVB6Cf0.png
They could also be drones or helicopters with bright spotlights on. Hard to say with this.
Any-who,
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