"The Trump Administration on Friday launched a new website that will house a collection of "new, never-before-seen" files about UFOs, according to the Pentagon. (And yes, we're apparently okay with calling them UFOs again, as the URL to the new website is war.gov/ufo.)"
"In a public announcement by the Defense Department - which, under Trump, rebranded as the Department of War - the initial set of files housed on the site will include those containing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire U.S. government. The materials have been reviewed for security purposes, but many have "not yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies," the Department's statement read."
"The collection will also grow over time as additional files are released on a "rolling basis," it noted. The release of the documents follows the December 2017 news story, broken by The New York Times, Politico, and others, about a $22 million classified Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which had been investigating military encounters with unknown objects."
"Since then, interest in UAPs, now the modern term for UFOs, has grown among the public, fueling increased concerns about what's in our skies, as was the case with the 2024 U.S. drone sightings. Figuring out what's truly unexplained has been complicated by the fact that our skies look much different from in years past, thanks to things like SpaceX launches and satellites. That's why a collection of military intelligence-backed files is interesting."
A new website, war.gov/ufo, was launched to host new, never-before-seen files about unidentified anomalous phenomena. The initial collection includes UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the U.S. government. The materials have been reviewed for security purposes, but many have not yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies. Additional files will be released over time on a rolling basis. The document release follows earlier reporting about a classified Pentagon program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which investigated military encounters with unknown objects. Public interest in UAPs has increased alongside concerns about unexplained sightings, while changing sky conditions from satellites and launches complicate interpretation.
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