Trump first teased the release in a Truth Social post in February. The Pentagon coordinated the release in partnership with the White House, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the Department of Energy, NASA and the FBI. Many of the files in this new drop include documents that are already publicly available. However, some versions of these known documents in the new files contain more pages, or fewer edits, than previously released versions.
According to YouGov, more than 60 percent of Americans believe the government is hiding information about the UAP, while according to Gallup, 40 percent believe the UAP is probably foreign in origin. Congress has held hearings on whether there is a decades-long program to recover “non-human” technologies, yet the evidence remains elusive.
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“If it’s just more blobby photos or edited documents with no details, it’s more of the same,” Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester who studies the search for alien life, says of the new files. “We need the actual scientific results of the investigation that should have been done if the most extraordinary claims being made are true.”
The declassification of the document follows a week of high-profile discussion of aliens, including Stephen Colbert’s interview with former President Barack Obama, released Wednesday. Obama cast doubt on the government’s cover-up about aliens, saying that “somebody guarding the installation might have taken a selfie with an alien and sent it to his girlfriend.”
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Artemis II crew members also speculated on the idea of a vast government-wide conspiracy to conceal the discovery of extraterrestrial life in a discussion the Daily This week.
“Do you realize that if we found alien life out there, and we came back and reported on it, NASA would never have a budget problem for eternity?” said Artemis II Commander Reed Weisman. “So trust me.”
Astronaut Victor Glover, who operated the mission, said: “Why would we hide this from you?”
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