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Let’s talk about….UFO files released!

The Pentagon has made good on Donald Trump’s promise and published the first instalment of previously classified UFO files.

You can read them all on the Pentagon’s dedicated website.

The cache of 162 files, photos and videos has caused a buzz of conversation…but I’m not sure why.

This article in the Express, for example, picks out a memo for special attention. It discusses a book by American author Frank Edwards, which details allegedly alien figures seen by witnesses:

One of the most startling details referred to humanoid beings described as “three and a half to 4 feet tall” and dressed in “space suits and helmets”. Edwards reportedly insisted those making the claims were trustworthy figures including police officers, military personnel on official duty, airline pilots and civil defence officials.

…but that’s all from the book, not the memo. It was published over sixty years ago, and you can buy it on Amazon.

Hardly classified information.

The FBI’s (heavily redacted) report of [anonymous witnesses] seeing something metallic flying at [unnamed US test site] was, at least, not readable in a public library every day for the last six decades. And the artwork is something else:

…that’s apparently the level of Photoshop ability that a trillion-dollar defence budget buys you.

Buzz Aldrin apparently saw something like “bright sparks” during an Apollo mission, as did other astronauts on later missions, which made me chuckle because of John Glenn’s hilarious cameo in Frasier.

That’s the highlights, but only of this batch!

Remember, we’re just beginning, as the Pentagon’s statement on the release made clear:

“Additional files will be released by the Department of War on a rolling basis,”

What kind of rolling basis? They don’t say. A cynic might suggest “whenever they need a distraction to hit the headlines.”

The only part of this that really interests me personally is what the point of it all is. Whether they really will try an alien-based psy-op or it’s part of the controlled demolition of the US, or it’s just…stuff.

Made up stuff because, in the end, they don’t really care what we say, as long as we’re talking about something they made up.

Which, naturally, leads us to acknowledge the burgeoning disclaimer of our age: In the end, we can’t even trust that these files are genuine in even the loosest meaning of that word.

But what do you think?

  • Do you put any weight in these files at all?
  • Do you believe UFO reports are physical phenomena?
  • If yes, are the extraterrestrial life forms? Or perhaps classified/experimental technology?
  • Did these files even exist last week?
  • What’s the endgame of these releases?
  • Will they “admit” the existence of Aliens?
  • And if they do, should we believe a word they say?

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stooge
stooge
May 9, 2026 10:22 PM

I believe that the UFO thing, just like everything else in the news, is deliberate diversion from the Epstein files. Did you know, for instance, that Epstein wasn’t just procuring little girls for politicians–he was advising the Treasury. Listen to Whitney Webb wishing they could get the Treasury records of Epstein released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxMnMaUCbNU

boxofcrayons
boxofcrayons
May 9, 2026 10:20 PM

a world of billions can’t establish the truth for themselves so rely on the Pestagon to do it for them.

….how very disappointing.

George Mc
George Mc
May 9, 2026 9:21 PM

Pending.

George Mc
George Mc
May 9, 2026 9:21 PM

In an early chapter of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles, a band of earthmen land on Mars to find it populated by Martians … who pay the new arrivals no attention whatsoever. Puzzled, the earthmen keep trying to talk to the Martians until the earthmen are locked away in a building where the Martians therein treat the earthlings with the wonder they expected. But then the earthmen find they are in a Martian lunatic asylum.

The truth dawns on them – that the Martians have the ability to create illusions and so the earthmen were treated like lunatics who could generate their own fantasies.

I wonder if the arrival of actual aliens on Earth would be met in a similar fashion. We are so used to illusions we wouldn’t notice real aliens.

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
May 9, 2026 7:04 PM

Further proof that most “alternative media” blogs and now podcasts simply talk about what our “controllers” want them to talk about. It’s like the old saying, “discuss amongst yourselves”. I mean, really.

Hey, it’s BIG news in the US that there have been Bigfoot sightings in Ohio. Growing up in SW Washington state near Mt. St. Helens, I’m a longtime fan of Bigfoot, man.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 9, 2026 10:24 PM

No problem, we all have our dreams and illusions. Thats why we like comics.

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
May 9, 2026 6:51 PM

Aliens can’t make proper first contact shocker, maybe they are shy?

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 9, 2026 7:09 PM
Reply to  YourPointBeing

Could you imagine the fear and chaos around the globe if aliens made contact or exposed themselves, that they have been on Earth for a while now, every religion would be thrown into turmoil, around, that our wee blue planet isn’t somehow the one and only planet with intelligent life on it.

I’d go as as to say that society as we know might even collapse – as the world broke into two- parties one of the aliens are here as friends – and the other the aliens are here to conquer and destroy us.

Human society – and many human minds are not ready for such an event, and certainly not those who are religiously devout.

Stooge
Stooge
May 9, 2026 7:53 PM

Is there something about Scotland that makes them like you?

All credulous and all?

I heard that in Scotland, you can go to jail for using the wrong pronoun.

Now there’s a country for ya.

Shipinthenight
Shipinthenight
May 9, 2026 8:38 PM

Actually I’m not so sure anymore. The chronic apathy that I witness and the lack of faith in, or rather the suspicion of much that’s online makes me think there may be a shrug of the shoulders and a switch over to Netflix in the majority.
Of course the msm would pump it all up tho..

sandy
sandy
May 9, 2026 6:14 PM

Sci-fi is imaginative fun but in contemporary iterations less believable than Harry Potter. If there are no wormhole shortcuts, the idea of warp, multiples of light speed, is absurd. Light is energy. Matter would have to become energy, then back again when travel stopped. Space travel for biological creatures is deadly in infinite potentialities. Robots are more likely space travelers, eliminating need for food, gravity, air, sunlight and terrestrial biases. Replicators, artificial gravity, transportation, universal speech translators, cloaking, gateways, wormholes, time travel and the seems pure fantasy fun.

My wife’s mother however, did tell of an incident at a nigh time Florida beach.party where they saw a metallic space ship flying slowly without noise parallel to the beach. She was dead serious and I believe sincere, but most likely experimental hardware. A guy on the most recent Antiques Roadshow bought a Rolex 1968 in ‘Nam, during the time when he said he operated remote control top secret drones during the war which had auto destruct devices should they encounter possible capture. I wonder if this clip will remain in the footage.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
May 9, 2026 5:08 PM

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 9, 2026 4:22 PM

First on alien existence – it would be sheer arrogance of anyone to suggest aliens don’t exist when we haven’t even ventured into space, knowing the size of the universe and the amount of galaxies – stars, and planets that orbit around them, that exist.

Why is Trump opening these files now, there could be many reasons, one to put fear into the masses (as if there’s not enough fear already there) – or it could distraction tactics to take minds off the US governments failures. it could that there’s some sort of psy-op in the making around this as well.

Whether the US government announces the existence of aliens – if they do, many, many folk will not believe them, would you actually believe anything Trump tells you?

I don’t know about the legitimacy of these files, but there have been many sighting of unknown objects in the sky – that cannot be identified, that’s not to say that they are UFO’s its just that they cannot pigeon hole such events, with a degree of clarity.

On human-hybrids, I’m pretty confident that governments have done all sorts of illegal experiments using humans and human DNA to create we shall call them non full human creatures – could they be passed-off as aliens in a disclosed encounter, I suppose they could be.

Claret
Claret
May 9, 2026 4:19 PM

Howdy lads and lasses,
Do any of you lovely people remember this?I seem to recall seeing this in the 80’s on VHS and being a bit freaked out about it at the time…
I know it’s fake, but it’s quite well done. 🙂

brianborou
brianborou
May 9, 2026 3:53 PM

” flat Earth, the perception that Earth exists as a flat disk, either circular or square-shaped. This view persisted in the ancient world until empirical observations revealed that Earth’s shape was spherical or ellipsoidal

Flat Earth | Theory, Model, Meaning, & Facts | Britannica

” The Drake equation is a formula used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. It is expressed as: N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L, where each variable represents different factors related to the conditions necessary for life.* “

The Fermi paradox and Drake equation: Where… | The Planetary Society

” There are an estimated billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy. As of May 2026, 6,286 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,700 planetary systems. “

Exoplanets – NASA Science

stooge
stooge
May 9, 2026 10:48 PM
Reply to  brianborou

What if the absolute requirement for life was that a planet have exactly, precisely, absolutely the same conditions as Earth–the same distance from the sun and amount of radiation, the same mixture of constituent elements, the same geological history, the same situation in system and galaxy, etc. etc.” How would your statistics deflate then?

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 9, 2026 1:50 PM

They have death sentence in China. Quite interesting. https://t.me/CerFunhouse/1164

Republicofscotland
Republicofscotland
May 9, 2026 7:02 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

No only do they have the death sentence – they don’t need to declare how many executions they carry out every year.

Of course, roughly 27 US States still execute prisoners, with over 2,000 people at anytime waiting on death row.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 9, 2026 10:36 PM

All right. But I found the related corruption charge for a previous Defense Minister interesting. That China sees corruption on high level that serious.

Imagine what this would mean in our western communities, especially in US and UK if this same law was prevailing.

Its a weak personality that do these things no? I mean they have position, power, dont lack anything to their comfort.
Then anyway they fall in the trap on wanting more.  😕 .

stooge
stooge
May 9, 2026 10:49 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen

Yes, they execute CEOs and rich crooks. It’s wonderful.

judith
judith
May 9, 2026 12:35 PM

It’s impossible to describe the I-don’t-care-ness.

Erik Nielsen
Erik Nielsen
May 9, 2026 1:24 PM
Reply to  judith

A long finger is normally used, enough and without words. 🖕  . Fixed.

Literallynobody
Literallynobody
May 9, 2026 12:31 PM

Do you put any weight in these files at all? Zero

Do you believe UFO reports are physical phenomena?
No

If yes, are the extraterrestrial life forms?
Or perhaps classified/experimental technology?

Did these files even exist last week?
Likely not.

What’s the endgame of these releases?
None, it more of a “rolling bullshit” strategy.

Will they “admit” the existence of Aliens?
Yes. And No.

And if they do, should we believe a word they say.
Never again

Chris_Mr
Chris_Mr
May 9, 2026 9:54 AM

From my own experience I know that occasionally things you dream are stored as real and the opposite, occasionally things that really happen are stored as a dream.

So from my perspective it is possible to find people who are adamant something happened when it could have been a dream.

stiltwalker
stiltwalker
May 9, 2026 8:58 AM

The more we report on this ufo humbug the more we perpetuate this bizarre, orchestrated american subculture alongside the ‘hippie/flower power movement’, which also has its roots in certain goverment agencies across the pond. And don’t get me started on the grifters who jumped on the ufo bandwagon circa 1980s. Xfiles was probably written as a parody of the extraterrestrial scene.

Edwige
Edwige
May 9, 2026 7:54 AM

Getting plenty of coverage in the usual places:
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-drops-new-ufo-files/

The encouraging thing is that by their own admission, and despite the relentless propaganda, the majority don’t believe in aliens.

Jeffrey who?

Ockham's Brain
Ockham's Brain
May 9, 2026 7:27 AM

I would not trust a single word that came from such a source

Antonym
Antonym
May 9, 2026 5:49 AM

A) Why would non Homo sapiens intelligent life forms not exist in this 14+ billion years old Universe? Goes even against any conservative science variant of chance.
B) This Pentagon release is a non event of some rubbish; they didn’t show their good stuff. Of course the timing is gamed.
C) The US MIC tried to copy some of that alien tech and succeeded only very partially, but didn’t want to assist the Chinese, Russians etc in their attempts by showing photos etc.

Ockham's Brain
Ockham's Brain
May 9, 2026 7:24 AM
Reply to  Antonym

In order to make a meaningful assessment of probability we need data – especially comparative data. Unfortunately when it comes to the universe we don’t have much.

We don’t know where it is (in terms of what if anything surrounds it), why it is, or even what it is. And most importantly we have no other universe to compare with so we have zero data on the “normal” frequency or distribution of life forms.

We have no idea why life exists on our planet or how it arose, no idea of whether it was a random biochemical event we don’t understand or some form of design. No idea how probable such a theoretical random event would be or how specific the requirements would be for it to randomly occur.

With so little data speculating about the probability of life elsewhere in the universe is meaningless. Without any parameters we can’t know if life is extremely probable or vanishingly unlikely.

It’s more futile than sitting in a sealed room you have never left inside a house whose size, composition, purpose and construction are unknown to you and guessing how many other rooms have people in them.

YourPointBeing
YourPointBeing
May 9, 2026 6:53 PM
Reply to  Ockham's Brain

NASA and the scientists DO know.
YOU never will.
Thats the point.

john
john
May 9, 2026 5:07 AM

I don’t care where they’re from. If they’ve entered Amerika without proper paperwork they’re illegal aliens. ICE ’em!

Jason
Jason
May 9, 2026 2:46 AM

Total fabrication like the globe space lies

Ockham's Brain
Ockham's Brain
May 9, 2026 7:25 AM
Reply to  Jason

Of course there has to be one.

Pilgrim Shadow
Pilgrim Shadow
May 9, 2026 2:02 AM
les online
les online
May 9, 2026 1:04 AM

I;m usually persuaded by The Facts, but if Israhell is gonna spend $730 million
on a PR ‘The Facts’ campaign, when can i expect Israhell’s Bribe ?

Johnny
Johnny
May 9, 2026 12:40 AM

Alien shmalien.
We are utterly alone in the Universe.
Get used to it.

As Rob (below) has correctly pointed out, aliens, angels, demons and ghosts are all projections of our besieged and baffled brains.

Life is Here and Now, in our bodies. The ONLY place it will ever BE.

Ockham's Brain
Ockham's Brain
May 9, 2026 7:34 AM
Reply to  Johnny

We are no more equipped to make statements of absence than of presence. All claims made about the probability of other life in the universe are scientifically nul since they are made without data. All such claims are irrational expressions of personal faith or belief and/or desire and nothing more

The only rational position is one of neutrality. The universe, our place in it and the reason life of any kind exists are profound mysteries which we as yet have no capacity to explain. We must remain open to all possibilities but slave to none.

Johnny
Johnny
May 9, 2026 8:29 AM
Reply to  Ockham's Brain

Hypotheticals are mere pabulum.

What we do know, with utter certainty, is that we can feel Life in our bodies Now.
The closest we can come to other Lifeforms is through Love, or during the act of Lovemaking.

Everything else is conjecture.

Ockham's Brain
Ockham's Brain
May 9, 2026 9:26 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Hypotheticals are mere pabulum.

That is precisely my point. We have no data about the existence or non-existence of other life, ergo all pronouncements of certitude, either negative or positive are indeed pabulum.

Johnny
Johnny
May 9, 2026 10:22 AM
Reply to  Ockham's Brain

Granted, but other forms of Life are just that: Lifeforms.
The only Life we can experience, feel, know, be aware of, is our own.
And then we die, or at least our form does.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
May 9, 2026 6:43 PM
Reply to  Johnny

So your pet dog or cat isn’t truly alive? Or they just inanimate objects that move around like leaves in the breeze? What are you saying?

Johnny
Johnny
May 9, 2026 11:21 PM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

What I’m saying is, each one of us can only experience Life in ourselves.

George Mc
George Mc
May 9, 2026 2:02 PM
Reply to  Ockham's Brain

The only rational position is one of “meh”. Until some evidence to the contrary turns up, just forget the alien angle. And the evidence must amount to more than an outtake from The X Files. Or another guy with big eyes on an ancient tapestry.

les online
les online
May 8, 2026 11:33 PM

A ‘virus’ on the loose, and ‘UFO’ files released, both in the same week !!
Dont these Surprises come in Threes ?

Johnny
Johnny
May 9, 2026 11:39 AM
Reply to  les online

Yes les.
ASIO are about to kick your door down 🫣

Rob
Rob
May 8, 2026 11:16 PM

UFOs are the later iteration of how people see angels and demons….
If they were real, as I used to think, there would be much better recordings and photos of them. Nope, despite way better cameras it still is either a dot or a blurry mess.
BTW, the video released before of the jet fighter that was chasing the UFO dot was flown by a contractor… Aka CIA.

It’s a psyop

George Mc
George Mc
May 9, 2026 6:54 AM
Reply to  Rob

Yup. C S Lewis said that all H G Wells did with War of the Worlds was to update hobgoblins. He was right. UFOs are as boring as fuck. Close Encounters is Spielberg’s Triumph of the Will.

Stooge
Stooge
May 8, 2026 11:00 PM

Really boring. If they are seeing anything at all, people are probably seeing classified aircraft that can do hovering type things.

On the other hand, I know two twins who I know for a fact are bona fide crooks who got on TV swearing they were anally probed.

DavidF
DavidF
May 8, 2026 10:39 PM

UFO : utterly fucked over