The War Department released more than 160 files Friday related to sightings of UFOs dating back nearly 80 years, two days after President Trump predicted, “I think some of it’s going to be very interesting to people.”
The disclosure of 162 files by the Pentagon follows a presidential order from February calling for transparency around “alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”
Even before Trump’s directive, the Pentagon was years into a process to declassify and release government documents related to UFOs, often referred to by the feds as unexplained anomalous phenomena, or UAP.
Sean Kirkpatrick, a physicist and former career intelligence officer who led the War Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) until 2023, said he has seen the government’s records and believes there are no bombshell revelations to be found.
“Readers should not get their hopes up that there’s going to be some document with photos, interviewing the aliens when they came down,” he told the Associated Press this week. “Because that just doesn’t exist.”
Kirkpatrick went on to explain that videos purporting to show alien technology tend to have mundane explanations. Modern infrared cameras used by the US military often capture jet engines and other hot objects in a long thermal bloom, which explains viral videos of speedy, pill-shaped objects.
That explanation has not deterred Republican elected officials like Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast last year to have seen evidence of “interdimensional beings” and accused the Pentagon of “less than adequate” transparency about the matter.
Even Vice President JD Vance has declared he is “obsessed” with the UFO files, saying in March he has been trying to find time to investigate Area 51 since he took office and believes what most call alien sightings are actually glimpses of demonic figures.
“I’ve still got three more years as vice president,” Vance told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson at the time. “I will get to the bottom of the UFO files.”
AARO’s 2024 debut report revealed hundreds of new UAP incidents but found no evidence that the US government had ever confirmed a sighting of alien technology. A second report covering more recent sightings is expected to come soon.
Trump’s order to release UFO files comes after he mandated the release of records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in the first week of his second term in January 2025.
Those disclosures revealed little beyond what was already known about the trio of murders that defined the turbulent 1960s.
With Post wires
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