The US Department of War has announced the publication of "never-before-seen files" on a new government website about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and plans to add material on an ongoing basis.
The US Department of War has announced the publication of "never-before-seen files" on a new government website about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), and plans to add material on an ongoing basis.
Some of the Pentagon's UAP footage was declassified during President Donald Trump's first term, but this new page appears to be the result of a February post Trump made on Truth Social, in which he called on the Department of Defense and related agencies to "begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to Engadget.
The war.gov/UFO website features a carousel of images and files from the War Department, the FBI, NASA, and other agencies, all presented in a style that seems to deliberately play on the conspiracy-minded nature of UFO enthusiasts.
However, it doesn't take long to click on images and download a few PDFs and realize: there is little real evidence of aliens out there.
Suspicions that the US government is aware of unidentified anomalous phenomena have existed for decades. However, official confirmation of formal research into the field only emerged in 2017, with the announcement of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).
The AATIP program was created in 2007 to study UAPs and disbanded in 2012, but its work has been continued by other government groups and task forces, most recently the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), an organization now within the Department of War that was directly involved in this new release of files.
Videos of unidentified anomalous phenomena released during the first Trump administration remained unexplained, but a government report concluded that they were not alien spacecraft. It is not yet clear whether the new files released by the department will change anything, but at the very least, they are a rather interesting object to study.
