Declassification, file releases, whistleblowers — 13 UFONN reports, 107 sources on file.
The Pentagon's fifth tranche runs to 41 files from five agencies. The account everyone is reading is a pilot describing an equilateral triangle blotting out the stars over Afghanistan in 2002.
AARO's annual report landed months late and resolved every case it could into balloons and birds. The more revealing number is how many it could not touch at all.
The third batch of Pentagon files leaned on eyewitnesses rather than fighter jets — federal agents describing glowing spheres over the northeast, and a whistleblower alleging the money never touched Congress.
After eighty years of refusal, the Department of War began publishing its UAP holdings to a public website — and the first thing the files proved is how little anyone agrees on what they show.
Trump ordered federal agencies to identify and release everything they hold on UAP. The order was the easy part; three months later, almost nothing had moved.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found the Defense Department seeded UFO stories for decades to screen classified aircraft — and that the Air Force stripped the admission out of AARO's own report.