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The UFO files: What did we learn from the Pentagon's 1st big release?

  • The Pentagon released 158 UAP files this month at President Donald Trump's direction, including documents, photos, and videos from NASA, the FBI, and other agencies.
  • DoD Secretary Pete Hegseth stated the department is working in lockstep with President Trump to provide transparency, planning to issue additional files 'on a rolling basis' to reveal previously hidden information.
  • Michael Gold of Redwire Space stated agencies have 'acknowledged that there is a real and inexplicable phenomena occurring on a global basis,' while Mark Rodeghier of the Allen Hynek Center noted the release helps researchers reconstruct how agencies filed UFO reports.
  • Florida Republican Luna, who leads Congress's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, has made releasing UAP materials a priority, asserting 'these are things that the US government cannot explain,' and that citizens are free to form their own conclusions.
  • Alejandro Rojas of Enigma Labs argues the release feels unfinished, lacking sensor data and analysis; researchers emphasize true transparency requires complete case files, though 'even a messy dataset reveals patterns over time.
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USA Today broke the news in United States on Monday, May 18, 2026.
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