So, the Pentagon’s highly publicised release of UFO related files began a few days ago.
The initial tranche of files – as promised by the Trump administration – was made available on May 8th, with more dumps planned on a rolling basis.
It’s probably fair to say the general response has been mixed, with some enthusiastically combing through videos and images while others remain underwhelmed.
As I’ve covered this subject area multiple times before, I’ll try to avoid covering the same ground too much again. But I’m taking more of an inquiring overview of what’s happening here rather than a forensic-style analysis of the specific items.
At the heart of this is the question of why this process is happening right now at all, and why the subject is being handled the way it is.
But what of the files themselves? I haven’t managed to sift through all the 162 files yet. There are some interesting photos and videos: but nothing spectacular or game-changing at this point.
People have commented on some of the poor quality. It’s as if a lot of this material is specifically designed to be inconclusive or ambiguous.
One striking video that was widely shared in the media shows a particularly strange object. But I find it curious it’s only a nine-second clip: if you were filming an anomalous object – especially in a military context – wouldn’t you film for more than nine seconds?
Wouldn’t you at least film for long enough to show where the object goes or how it departs or de-materialises?
There’s a bunch of new orb-type videos. I remain of the view that some of these bright orb objects are not material craft or tech at all, but some kind of as-yet unconfirmed and unknown lifeforms, possibly energy or plasma based.
But that’s a whole other subject.
Some, though not all of the images, have already seemingly been explained rationally by some analytical minds: though of course refutations and arguments ensue. The star shaped object (see further down) has already been widely explained as being non mysterious.
And as I’ve noted before, there’s more interesting stuff already in the public domain, including lots of amateur video and photos going back years.
That’s not to say these new files are entirely a nothing-burger. There is interesting stuff here.
One thing that’s important to understand is that anything officially released by the Pentagon or the government is an official acknowledgement by said Pentagon or government that the phenomena being depicted (whatever it is) is real.
In other words, if files show orb objects flying at high speeds or performing impossible maneuvers then it’s an acknowledgement by the government that the orbs are a real phenomenon.
And that in itself is reasonably significant.
Because twenty years ago there would’ve been no such acknowledgement.
For example, in 1997, in Phoenix, Arizona, what was reported to be an enormous unknown object was witnessed by hundreds of people over a state-wide radius – and the government still didn’t acknowledge that anything inexplicable had happened.
Now, by contrast, they’re tossing out pictures and videos of all kinds of unknown objects and saying ‘we don’t know what it is’.
That’s a big change in approach: and the question of why this change has happened is as interesting as the questions about what these unidentified objects are.
However, this dump of seemingly random files doesn’t come with any clear comment or narrative from the government about what these things are or where they’re from.
“Draw your own conclusions…” President Trump said himself.
But this strategy of deliberate ambiguity is something I’ve talked about in older articles on the subject.
The whole approach to this subject has been evolving over different eras: there was originally a policy of denial for a few decades, then for some time a policy of disinformation. And now it’s a policy of deliberate ambiguity.
Plenty of implication – but no clear narrative.
They don’t want to say what interpretation is correct or even most likely: but they do seem to want people to perceive that there’s an unknown force out there that may be a security threat.
As previously discussed, this is most likely because this can be directed towards justification or pretext for the military industrial complex’s preexisting desires (particularly the weaponisation of space).
Perhaps the most notable files in this May 8th release concerns astronauts.
It’s genuinely interesting that they’re now openly releasing curious items from the Apollo missions. There are interesting transcripts from astronauts in the Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 missions, including Buzz Aldrin saying he saw several strange things, including “what appeared to be a fairly bright light source which we tentatively ascribed to a possible laser.”
Two astronauts from Apollo 17 in 1972 reported seeing flashing lights. “It’s like the Fourth of July out there!” astronaut Jack Schmitt is quoted as having said.
There’s a NASA photograph from Apollo 17 showing three dots in a triangle formation. The Pentagon’s accompanying text says that “there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly”.
There’s also an audio recording (listen below) from the 1965 Gemini 7 space flight that reveals communication between astronaut Frank Borman and mission control, in which he reports seeing an unidentified object, describing it as a “bogey” and “trillions of little particles”.
Claims about NASA astronauts encountering non-human tech in space or on the moon have been around for many years, of course. For example, the belief that aliens were the reason we supposedly stopped going to the moon for so long.
Without diverting here into the question of whether any of that’s true or not, it’s still significant that files playing into that idea – even if only tentatively – are now being publicly released.
It’s odd that NASA hasn’t addressed these particular files, as far as I’m aware.
It’s worth saying though that some of the above mentioned information was already in the public domain. And also that some of them seem to have relatively mundane scientific or technical explanations that were already known about.
It’s curious too that the release of these Apollo related files comes right after the recent Artemis moon mission.
Even in my recent post on the Artemis II mission, I talked about the incongruity of the official narratives concerning our presence on the moon and concerning space in general. I also included in that article video links to an amateur Ufologist’s You Tube archive, which contains some amazing footage of unexplained things filmed on the moon.
I bring that up again here to highlight that there’s all kinds of footage available in the public domain that is probably more interesting, more compelling, than these official files being released.
Are we to believe that amateur enthusiasts and hobbyists are able to capture better anomaly footage and evidence than military or government entities with billions of dollars in their budget and all the state-of-the-art equipment and techniques?
There’s also always the question of why some things are released and other things remain unaddressed. For example, these current files show footage captured in all kinds of places, like Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Indonesia: yet there hasn’t been a word ever said about the pyramid shaped object that was filmed over the Pentagon itself.
I covered that pyramid object here a few years ago: and I have my theories about what it might’ve been. But the point is, why are vague captures around Syria or Kazakhstan more significant than an unknown object floating over the Pentagon of all places?
On a similar note, and I keep coming back to this whenever I cover this subject, why do they never talk about or revisit the UFO invasion of Washington DC in 1952? This was a documented event involving multiple unknown objects over the American capital, including over the Capitol Building itself. I covered some of this in this older article about the UFO subject.
This should be regarded as one of the most significant events in UFO history: but is never discussed. Shouldn’t records or accounts of that event be near the top of the list of files for release or discussion?
Clearly, in other words, these are carefully selected releases. It’s not everything they have: just what they think is useful for us to see at this time.
We should note that more releases are coming: and that there are supposed ‘insiders’ hinting on influential channels that some of the files coming soon are going to be more explosive.
That might or might not prove to be true. But it’s curious that they’re hyping it up in advance.
Which again adds to the sense of carefully calibrated marketing going on with some of this stuff.
The fact that the ‘Department of War’ website housing these files seems to be designed to evoke retro, X-Files style visuals is another example of the carefully calibrated way this is all seemingly being done.
But, yes, some interesting stuff here.
But it all also seems calibrated to play into pre-existing ideas, claims, theories or mythology that’s already popular in UFO-related or conspiracy lore.
Almost as if they’re trying to encourage all of it: string people along.
But it’s continual smoke and mirrors: pure logic suggests so. After extensive programmes of study and investigation into UFO phenomena going all the way back to Project Bluebook in the 1950s and up to the current day programmes, there’s simply *no way* they haven’t reached definitive conclusions about whether either extra-terrestrial or interdimensional intelligences have visited Earth or are active on the planet.
Likewise, they would know by now if some other nation had advanced technologies roaming around US airspace.
But of course if a rival nation had tech that was able to freely move around American airspace (including, let’s remember, interfering with nuclear sites), there’s no way the Pentagon or the US government would be as (apparently) nonchalant as they’ve been about it.
But again, if we’re looking at otherworldly technology here, it’s simply not believable that they wouldn’t have already ascertained this to be the case.
The modern UFO phenomenon goes back to at least 1947 and investigations have been conducted since at least the fifties: how could they have not reached *any* conclusions yet?
So, there’s a few possibilities. (1) some of this is extra-terrestrial or interdimensional technology, but they’re not willing to say so yet, (2) it’s all secret military or aerospace tech that they don’t want to admit to, or (3) it’s a confusing mixture of both.
My own continuing take is that it’s some version of no.3.
I’ve also become more and more inclined towards belief in the ‘Breakaway Civilisation’ theory (which I examined much more in this older article on the UFO phenomenon).
Interestingly, several pages in this batch of files seem to reinforce a longstanding implication that the Nazis had disc shaped flying objects in the 1940s, during the war.
Which, as I’ve argued before, suggests a direct correlation between the Nazi technology and the onset of the modern ‘flying saucer’ wave that seemed to begin in the US in 1947: right after the war, and after select Nazi scientists were brought over to America. I’ve never believed this timeline could be a coincidence.
But I’m not adamantly committed to any specific theory: my position evolves and adapts all the time. There’s a manipulation going on here, yes: but that doesn’t mean there isn’t also a genuine mystery involved.
I guess there are also other prevalent theories out there: such as it being future humans engaged in time shenanigans, or, if we really want to go down the mythological rabbit-hole, then a parallel civilisation from the ‘inner earth’ or Hollow Earth.
But I don’t want to go down those paths here.
It’s worth noting though that Amy Eskridge, who worked in the field of anti gravity research (and is one of the number of missing or killed scientists that Internet conspiracy theorists have been hyper focused on lately), seemed to suggest that ‘ultra-terrestrials‘ were the key: referring to humans from the future.
I don’t want to go into the whole thing of the missing or dead scientists here. I’ve been looking at that subject for a couple of months and I’m not yet sure what to make of it: but I will post something on that here soon.
What I am certain of is that there’s a carefully managed process happening here.
The fact that we’ve got high-profile figures like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku coming out and saying ‘we should be prepared’ is clear evidence of that.
But it’s the performative ambiguity that’s most interesting right now.
Why release files at all – and indeed why go through all the Congressional hearings and this slow-drip ‘disclosure’ process – if you’re going to maintain this vagueness and continue to make a game of it?
Well, some say it’s a distraction tactic from Iran, Epstein and other problems. But I don’t think that’s it: these releases are clearly part of the ongoing, stage-managed ‘disclosure’ programme that’s been playing out for several years now.
And the claim that it was Obama’s recent acknowledgement of alien life that triggered this process by Trump is also blatantly false: Obama’s comment, made during a podcast interview, was clearly an off-hand remark about the statistical probability of alien life existing somewhere in the universe.
And *not* any kind of comment about earth-based UFO phenomena.
No, the releasing of these files was obviously already being planned: again, we have to assume as part of the ongoing disclosure operation – whatever the ultimate purpose of that operation is.
It’s no coincidence that both the Pentagon and the media started talking about UFOs suddenly around seven or eight years ago, and the military started releasing videos of apparently unknown objects.
And that highly publicised official discussions then started to happen in the US Congress on the subject, with all kinds of revelations about ‘non-human intelligences’ and the like getting media coverage.
After decades of distinct non-transparency on the subject, why did everything suddenly change?
Because we’re obviously being steered towards certain conclusions or perceptions: and it’s being done in stages, so as to get us all used to certain ideas – in the hope that the societal shock factor will be mitigated or at least minimised.
The question of course is whether what we’re eventually told is true or not.
For now, there will be a stream of new files being steadily released: every few weeks, we’re told. Let’s see what they’ve got.
I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface here, so I will be covering this subject again, particularly as we approach the release of Spielberg’s Disclosure Day film in June – the timing of which, again, seems more than merely coincidental.
I’ve seen UFOs, by the way. Several times. So I’m not a sceptic.
And I think there’s no single, definitive answer to all these things: but rather a mixture of different explanations, some of them extraordinary and some less interesting.
But I’ve been following this subject since I was a teenager in the 1990s: and one thing I know is that an incredible amount of disinformation has proliferated in this arena: some of it by the military and intelligence community on purpose, and some of it also by so-called researchers, influencers and various bad faith actors.
The entire field of inquiry is so tangled, so infested with disinfo, deception and confusion, as well as cult-ish behaviour, that no kind of clarity even seems possible anymore.
Nothing the military or government is doing – including releasing these files – seems aimed at fixing any of that.
And I suspect it isn’t meant to either. It’s all still a carefully managed programme being slowly played out.
Here’s the official government website housing the newly released files.
