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The Trump administration on Friday launched a new website featuring a collection of “new, never-before-seen” files on UFOs, according to the Pentagon. (And yes, it looks like we’re OK with calling them UFOs again, as is the new site URL.) war.gov/ufo.)
In a year advertisement By the Department of Defense — renamed under Trump as the War Department — the initial collection of files on the site will include those containing videos, photos, and original source documents of unidentified anomalous phenomena from across the U.S. government. The material has been reviewed for security purposes, but much of it “has not yet been analyzed to resolve any anomalies,” the ministry said in a statement.
He noted that the collection will also grow over time as additional files are released “on a rolling basis.”
The release of the documents follows a December 2017 news story, which was broken by New York Times, POLITICOand others, about a secret $22 million Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which investigated military encounters with unidentified objects.
Since then, interest in UAPs, the modern term for unidentified flying objects, has increased among the public, raising growing concerns about what is in our skies, as was the case with UFOs. 2024 US drone sightings. Figuring out what’s really unexplained has been complicated by the fact that our skies look a lot different than they did in years past, thanks to things like SpaceX launches and satellites. That’s why the collection of files backed by military intelligence is so interesting.
News of government funding for the Pentagon program also weighed in Pop culture In recent years, it’s also reflected in films like 2023’s “Jules,” about a man’s relationship with an alien that crashes in his backyard, “Bugonia,” about conspiracy theories about aliens among us, and in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film “Disclosure day“, which indicates a government cover-up on the matter.
Years ago, such publication of the UFO files would have been major news, but today many Americans are more concerned about everyday stressors, such as the Iran war and its impact on gas prices, the ever-rising cost of living, job losses blamed on artificial intelligence, health care, climate change, and other more important issues.
According to the Pentagon, the release of the UFO files is the result of an interagency effort, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting of UAP Encounters (PURSUE) system. This initiative includes the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and components of other U.S. intelligence agencies.
And before that, independent News website 404media We also discovered in March that the Executive Office of the President had registered the domain Aliens.gov; However, this site is inactive at this time.
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