Pentagon releases UFO files on new website

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 . …