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US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

306 pointsby david-gpuyesterday at 12:10 PM452 commentsview on HN

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufos-uap-aliens-pentagon-re...

https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release


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fumeux_fumeyesterday at 2:30 PM

Crackpots,psyops and honeypots, oh my!

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ninjagooyesterday at 8:30 PM

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Will accept a (my) backyard landing as evidence :-)

fudged71yesterday at 2:18 PM

This reminds me of how long it's been since they promised to release all the Epstein files

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spl757yesterday at 2:02 PM

I'm just going to assume this is a bullshit distraction simply because of the source.

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blastroyesterday at 1:55 PM

So "no" to Epstein, but "yes" to "aliens". That tracks.

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realoyesterday at 5:36 PM

Cool... but where are the Trump-Epstein files?

:)

wnevetstoday at 2:20 AM

Release the Epstein files

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bamboozledyesterday at 8:59 PM

"war.gov", so f..in lame

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i_love_retrosyesterday at 5:06 PM

Cost of living is high? Err... Look over there! Aliens!

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mrexcessyesterday at 5:05 PM

Shades of late Soviet distractioneering, of the sort one would see in Pravda back in the day. Really disconcerting tbqh.

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dbg31415today at 5:32 AM

Lame.

Release the Epstein Files.

pugworthyyesterday at 9:26 PM

As someone who had a tattered copy of Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? back when, this would be a lot of fun to read through.

Hate the political implication of my comment all you want but one does at some point seriously have to question the motivations behind any action that's in the realm of, "Wow I'm surprised they did this".

motohagiographyyesterday at 2:27 PM

From what we can see so far, the following are true:

- there exist technologies on our planet that human engineers and physicists do not know the underlying principles of their operation

- there exist unknown physical principles and forces that a party other than the USG has harnessed and implemented for advanced flight capability

- information about the phenomena has in fact been officially secret for several decades

- this concern is both real and existentially meaningful where, to sustain its own democratic legitimacy in its role as a servant to its people, the executive branch of the USG determined it is obligated to inform the public of its knowledge of these phenomena

The second part is the economic forecast of this. People absolutely knew, so we have to ask the question, why bother with SpaceX or even oil drilling if there was going to be an imminent overturning of flight physics? Arguably, just because some people have Bugatti's doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't still need rickshaws. I think commercial space exploration with chemical rockets will be economical presently and foreseeably. Turns out we're the rickshaw people now.

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nubgyesterday at 8:31 PM

That's crazy! Anyways, where are the Epstein files?

lenerdenatoryesterday at 7:26 PM

I'll repost what I said in the other thread since this has more legs as a discussion:

Honestly, what difference does it make?

Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing. I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to $5/gal in Kansas City, and I'll still be wondering if I'll be replaced by AI before I finish up saving for retirement.

And that's to say nothing of Epstein or Iran.

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mlmonkeyyesterday at 7:24 PM

If there's one thing Trump knows how to do well, it is to distract people.

stackedinserteryesterday at 2:10 PM

Gosh, people, are you ever satisfied with anything?

"This sandwich is good, but I can't enjoy it because Epstein files are not released"

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lenerdenatoryesterday at 2:20 PM

Honestly, what difference does it make?

Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing.

I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to $5/gal in Kansas City, and I'll still be wondering if I'll be replaced by AI before I finish up saving for retirement.

And that's to say nothing of Epstein or Iran.

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qwertyuiop_yesterday at 9:34 PM

This is Epstein binders (a) version of UFO release. All the information thats been released has been out there for mutiple decades and is the fodder and fuel for UFO community.

(a) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/right-wing-influencers-get-bind...

kibwenyesterday at 1:59 PM

How about the documents on those Unidentified Affluent Pedophiles, though?

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gekoxyzyesterday at 1:50 PM

This administration is so hilarious. Every day looks like an episode from The Office

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redsocksfan45today at 10:29 AM

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dolphinscorpionyesterday at 1:53 PM

How about fully releasing the

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0xbadcafebeeyesterday at 2:20 PM

Why does the Department of War website look like a "coder template" for a Jekyll blog from 2015?

Also it occurs to me that the ufo conspiracy nutters are like dogs chasing cars. What happens when they find the UFOs? Why does it matter?

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fukinstupidtoday at 4:54 AM

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tw1984yesterday at 2:03 PM

Fox Mulder must be smiling

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jacknewsyesterday at 1:59 PM

This whole UAP thing is just psyops against the people.

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MiinusMiinusyesterday at 2:30 PM

Big thanks for all your comments! I'm been very worried long time of how these masonic/pdf/liars are running the whole world actually, not only in USA. These UFO/UAP files are again new distraction from the real problem.

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serfyesterday at 5:33 PM

it feels right that Trump is the president in office when all of the gov websites turn to LLM generated generic crap.

they weren't better before, they just weren't generic crap.

p.s. : https://www.war.gov/portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/Slideshow...

>Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.

lol finally we can actually know how the FBI imagines the fake aliens, ray-traced 90s Bryce3D art.

Thankfully ive been UFO hunting for some time, so I can corroborate: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1adf348d93e3...

sam1ryesterday at 2:22 PM

Anyone else immediately notice that.. this is so built with angular.

rambojohnsontoday at 1:57 AM

who can trust anything coming out of the US government these days, much less about UAPs lol... seriously guys.

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yaloginyesterday at 5:49 PM

Oh wow did not realize they changed the web site to war too. Wonder how many million they spent on that name change. Just such a bad look for the country

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ksherlockyesterday at 2:15 PM

Somebody had fun with the web page.

Any-who,

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