Pentagon Unseals UFO Files, Warp Drive Studies
Pentagon Unseals UFO Files, Warp Drive Studies
The News
The Pentagon on Friday released its sixth batch of files on unidentified anomalous phenomena — UAP, or UFOs — in the Trump administration's continuing transparency push.
The drop includes 10 new files added to the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, known as PURSUE, according to The National Desk.
Among them are dozens of documents on a military program that commissioned studies of warp drives, wormholes and injuries that researchers linked to possible encounters with unknown craft, Political Wire reported.
What's In It
CBS News reported the release includes a batch of documents on a secretive military program studying aerospace threats. The National Desk said new videos were published alongside the decades-old paperwork.
The New York Post reported the files describe "floating orbs" clocked at 480 mph by the US military, and that US Air Force Director of Intelligence records detailed "flying disc" incidents between September and December 1952.
The Daily Mail reported the sixth wave includes new footage of orbs and fresh detail on the infamous 1952 "flying saucer" incident.
Timeline
US Air Force Director of Intelligence records document a run of "flying disc" incidents, according to the New York Post's reading of the newly released files.
The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE, begins publishing records.
The Pentagon posts its sixth batch: 10 new files, new video, and documents on the program that studied warp drives, wormholes and reported injuries.
Reactions
Coverage split along predictable lines within hours. The New York Post and the Daily Mail led on the hardware — orbs moving at 480 mph, new footage, the 1952 saucer reports.
CBS News and Political Wire led on the government side of the story: a secretive Defense Department program studying aerospace threats, and what it paid researchers to look into.
The Pentagon has framed the PURSUE releases as a transparency effort. No official comment on this batch appeared in the source reporting available at publication.
What's Next
PURSUE has published records in waves since May, so a seventh batch is the expected next step.
Reporters and UAP researchers will now work through the 10 new files, and the documents on the warp-drive program are the likeliest source of follow-up stories.
More
"UAP" is the government's current term for what most Americans still call UFOs. It is deliberately broad: it covers anything in the air, in space or underwater that officials cannot identify, not only craft.
The detail most likely to drive debate is the reported study of injuries that researchers linked to possible encounters with unknown craft — a claim that sits in the released documents, not in any confirmed finding.
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