8 UFONN reports, 97 sources logged.
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.
Buried under the triangle story: U.S. government special agents are now filing their own UAP reports — one with thermal video of two slow-moving shapes reading black-hot against the sky.
Four tranches, more than 450 reports, and now a magazine cover. The subject has stopped being a fringe assignment — which is its own kind of test.
Disclosed in a footnote to the annual report: the Navy logged roughly one hundred airborne objects and watercraft operating off the Virginia coast, and the Pentagon still cannot say what they were.
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.