I Reviewed Every File in the White House UAP Release

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Greetings. Yesterday we saw the third

White House UAP release and I have to

say this one is interesting. Much like

uh the previous one which I also thought

was quite interesting uh as well. I

would say for serious students of the

UFO or UAP subject, it's worth the time.

Uh this release brings together a many

different kinds of material. You've got

historical PDFs. You have modern case

reports. You have FBI interview records,

intelligence memoranda. There's more

NASA debriefings. We've been seeing

those in the last several releases. Uh

some interesting JPEG reconstructions.

I'll be showing you those. Couple of

short videos, audio clips. Uh even

there's some official correspondence. I

would say the value is not in any one of

the single files, but there is an

overall pattern. Uh the first thing I

just want to say here is this may be a

long presentation. I'm I've really tried

to make this a detailed nearly

comprehensive summary of the whole third

tranch because I believe that this

release deserves that. I spent u almost

the entire day yesterday and much of

this morning still going through that

material uh for you. But for those of

you who want the quick version, I'm

going to start with a very short

overview before I go into the details.

Uh so if you're in a hurry once we we

get to the detailed uh descriptions

though I'll be showing a lot of material

directly from the files as document

pages case images

official renderings videos and and

anything else that's interesting. So

I'll start um let me just review some of

the contemporary cases that are

discussed in this tunch. I think one of

the strongest is the Colorado Springs

report from 2022. It's not that long

ago. Uh, in that case you had five army

personnel near Chyenne Mountain

reporting um a strange potatoeshaped

object hovering in daylight. Uh, when I

get into the details of this in a few

minutes, I'll show you the rendering

that they made of it. Uh, what's

interesting is that the later official

assessment suggested a very very

conventional explanation, but admittedly

only with low confidence. Uh, their

conventional explanation was a bit

ridiculous, frankly. I'll also cover the

modern orb cases. There's a bunch of

those. Uh we have FBI and Arrow files

describing basically recurring luminous

objects in the northeastern and western

United States. Uh some of these files

are paper records, others include video.

Uh others include digital renderings and

animations uh based on witness

testimony. Kind of interesting. There's

a lot of historical material in this

tunch as well that shows basically the

same problem recurring across decades.

So there's early air force files. There

are uh early CIA reports. Project Blue

Book is in here. Robertson panel is

discussed. That's a 1953 CIA study. Uh a

reference, I don't know if many people

caught this, but to a very famous

sighting from 1955 by a US Senator

Richard Russell while he was in the

Soviet Union. Uh there's a file that

doesn't deal with Russell directly but

with someone I am certain who was part

of his entourage who saw apparently the

same or very similar phenomena. We'll

discuss that. Uh there's a little bit of

discussion of Soviet material in general

from the 1960s. Kind of interesting. Uh

there's a fascinating Australian defense

assessment. Uh something I had been

familiar with but I don't think was very

widely known. Uh and part of that at

least is in here. All of these show uh

official institutions

trying to determine whether UFOs

represented foreign technology or

misidentification

or you know something a little harder to

explain. Uh there's more NASA material.

There's been some of that for the first

few releases. We got more here. Uh

astronaut debriefing transcripts, some

audio excerpts. One of them's I think 90

minutes long. Another one's about an

hour. Uh there's correspondence. Uh so

we have astronauts, you know, reporting

unusual lights or debris or particles.

Uh visual effects uh effects, excuse me,

in space flight. Most of these I think

were treated conventionally in the uh

material. Although there is a a kind of

interesting fun two-minute interview

from 1962 with Gordon Cooper, the great

astronaut, and Walter Kankite, uh, where

basically Kankai just asks Cooper, "Why

do you believe in UFOs?" And Cooper

gives a pretty good answer. He's like,

"Hey, look, a lot of highly qualified

people have been saying things that just

don't make a lot of sense. I don't know

what they are, but uh, hey, for what

it's worth, uh, Cooper really came, both

of them came across it in a very

dignified way." Um and then there's a

final correspondence file which shows

NASA's public position back in 1998.

Uh kind of a large file too. So

basically their position was we're going

to acknowledge the reports of reports.

We're going to explain them away

conventionally. We're going to cite all

skeptical analysis and we're just going

to shut down the inquiry. That's

basically uh what you read in NASA's

public uh in in this release. Not very

impressive, frankly. Uh but when you

take all of these files together, what

they show is a kind of continuity.

You're talking different agencies,

uh different formats, different decades,

same problem. And I I was trying to

figure out like where do these files all

come from? And if you study the prefixes

uh on the site, I'll I'll link the site

uh the federal site below. Uh they give

you kind of a useful guide. So there's

uh a prefix at CIA UAP that refers

apparently to a CIA source material.

There's FBI UAP, that's FBI source

material. There's NASA UAP, that's NASA.

Uh DOW, Department of War, or Department

of Defense. Uh and then there's some

general stuff. There's USGSP that seems

to be just general government

correspondence. And there is one

category called CA UAP that seems to be

uh an analytic assessment product

although I'm going to treat that label a

little cautiously until we get a formal

definition. So that's a bit of an uh

just a quick overview. Let me go into

the details here. Now I'm going to start

with the Colorado Springs UAP report

from 2022. This case comes from two FBI

files. So, the first is a witness

interview about a 2022 sighting near

Colorado Springs. And the second is the

FBI's digital reconstruction of what the

witness described. So, the witness was a

former US Army intelligence officer.

Four other members of his unit were with

him when they saw the object over

Cheyenne Mountain in clear daylight.

It remained stationary for about 2

minutes. Uh this is the uh

reconstruction of it. The object was

described as potato- shaped. It was

pale. It was slightly translucent and

oolescent. One of the words in there. Uh

its surface appeared to consist of

irregular panels or scales. Uh the

object didn't move, but the panels seem

to shift in slow waves. So that's kind

of an interesting effect. So again, this

image is not a photograph. This is an

FBI reconstruction based on the

interview. Uh so after roughly two

minutes, the object vanished. The

witness described it as cloaking. Uh

basically disappearing in the time it

took for him to turn his head. Uh this

is the official assessment of that case.

And frankly, the assessment is almost as

interesting as the sighting itself. So

the proposed explanation is that

sunlight reflected from the snow covered

terrain onto low clouds over Cheyenne

Mountain uh created the appearance of

the object seen by the five soldiers.

This is the kind of explanation that if

you've ever studied the old project blue

book files from the air force that might

sound familiar to you. Uh kind of kind

of ridiculous frankly. To be fair, the

assessment assigned this only low

confidence. So, okay. Uh, it did

acknowledge uncertainties involving

cloud cover and viewing angles and

environmental conditions and whatever.

Uh, it also did note that there were no

aircraft or balloons identified in the

area. So, we have that. But still,

you're being asked to believe that five

Army personnel

in daylight looking at a stationary

structured object for up to several

minutes

confused reflected sunlight on clouds

for a hovering asymmetrical object with

panels and oh yeah, surface detail.

Is that possible?

Yeah, sure. I'm I'm certain there are

some alternate universes in which that

is the precise answer, but in this one,

not so much. Uh, this universe

presumably maintains a modest level of

common sense still, we hope. So, moving

on. This is one of the most interesting

contemporary cases in the release. Uh,

Arrow describes a 2023 event near a

sensitive national security site in the

western United States. So, we had six

federal law enforcement agents reported

seeing luminous orange uh mother orbs

producing smaller red orbs over a

two-day period.

As of June 2026, that is this month, the

case remains unresolved. That alone, I

think, makes it uh worth some attention.

So, we this is the visual material

relating to that. So, these are not

photographs, okay? These are digital

renderings based on witness testimony.

So you want to make that distinction.

But even so, these are very useful

images uh because they show what the

investigators are trying to preserve. A

large luminous object, smaller red dots,

and a reported relationship between

them. I'm moving on to the separate

images which you can now see. Um

those are the last two. Then this image

kind of changes the perspective a little

bit. We now see the witnesses observing

a bright orb like object over the

mountainous terrain. Again,

you shouldn't treat these as proof of

what was physically there. They're

reconstructions. But I think uh it's

very interesting that we see this level

of effort to recon reconstruct this. Uh

no other case in this release uh got

this degree of visual treatment. Um so

you can just see here

uh it's moving along there. Here

the sequence

uh is a little more interesting. So the

you see the multiple red lights arranged

near or around a larger luminous object.

Uh this matches the central claim in the

arrow summary. The orbs associated with

other orbs changing configuration over

time. So um very very interesting. you

get to see this and just more

perspectives

uh of that kind of neat.

Uh now this is a um video. Let's see if

I can get this video to go.

Here we go. Sorry.

This is a kind of a just a

not a very interesting reproduction, but

there you go. You can kind of see

uh coming in and out

and

expanding over some time.

And here's the um next one.

This is just a short uh little video

reconstruction.

Okay. I think they could have done a

better job with that, but we'll move

right along. So, now we're looking at a

different category of material. Uh these

files

uh document an FBI investigation into

recurring orb reports in the

northeastern United States. So uh a

little different from the western US

case. Here the emphasis they're not

doing digital reconstructions. This is

just more witness reports and interviews

and whatever other evidence they collect

over time.

This particular report uh involves a

luminous orb observed under

circumstances that the investigators

just thought was was worthy to document.

The case is interesting. Um

and uh you know you you're getting this

within a larger pattern of similar

reports that the FBI was tracking. Uh

this is a video that let me just click

this here.

Uh it's interesting. I don't really know

what you can make of it. Um, it at least

provides a kind of a visual uh component

to a case that you know otherwise all

you'd have are reports and interviews.

So,

and not sure what really this thing is.

So, it does it is a bright orb like

object. This goes on for a while. I'm

not going to play this entire video.

Uh, I will click uh this one. Make this

one move ahead. This is a northeastern

orb sighting again. Uh, this is a little

more interesting.

I think this shows some reddish uh or

There we go. Kind of moving together.

This was recorded in July of 2025 around

9:00 p.m. So, just last summer somewhere

in the northeastern United States. Uh

basically two witnesses are seeing um

these very bright uh first of one bright

red sphere they said hovering in their

background about 25 ft above the ground.

Uh one witness described a white

plasma-like center inside the red sphere

and then a second orb appeared above the

first and they moved together above the

tree line. You get to see a little bit

of that here. Uh as if they were either

in formation or maybe tethered and then

they just moved away. Uh and then the

witnesses said as they moved away they

appeared to merge.

um this is a a this video just ended. So

there you go.

Now uh we're going to leave the domestic

orb cases. I want to move to a very

different kind of document. And this got

a little bit of attention. uh I saw in

the news cycle uh currently dealing with

this tranch. This is a CIA intelligence

report from Zimbabwe. Uh this is the

Harari airport incident of July 2nd,

2008. So close to 20 years ago. Uh not

quite ancient history yet. Uh the

reported uh sighting

um involved an unidentified object over

the airport, possibly observed by both

radar and visual means. Uh this is

described as a discshaped object with a

hollow center rotating lights on the

underside and at one point beams uh

supposedly came out of it and then after

a certain period of of observing this

the lights changed color and the object

just rapidly

uh left took off. So uh by the way the

distribution list on this report's quite

interesting. This was circulated to the

White House uh situation room, FBI, NSA,

DIA, FAA, Joint Chiefs, not excuse me,

the Joint Staff and uh multiple uh

military commands. So, I I think that's

quite interesting. You know, clearly

this is being treated as more than just

a casual airport story. That's for sure.

Uh, even more striking, by the way, the

report says that the those discussing

the incident considered whether the

object might be an advanced foreign

reconnaissance platform or something of

extraterrestrial origin. The language is

in the document, so it's not enough

information to reach a conclusion.

Classic UFO report in my opinion. Uh,

files fairly redacted. doesn't give you

a lot of technical detail, but it is a

modern CIA report involving an airport

incident, high level distribution, and

language that openly entertains exotic

possibilities. So, uh, there you go.

Uh, the rest, this is we're moving into

sponsored study of uh UFOs that took

place in January of 1953. That took

place during the very last weekend by

the way of the Harry Truman presidency

just before Dwight Eisenhower was

inaugurated. little bit of final house

cleaning. I always thought uh anyway the

panel was assembled at the direction of

CIA director Walter Beetle Smith

and um

its purpose was to just evaluate the all

the UFO reports and determine whether

this was a national security concern.

Really the the Robertson panel

I think the historical study of this has

shown beyond any reasonable doubt that

this was a done deal even before they

began studying this. the conclusion was

going to have to be a skeptical one and

it was going to have to be to um uh

really help to gut Project Blue Book,

which was I think one of the purposes of

this. But anyway, what stands out here

is isn't the panel's conclusions. We

we've known about that for a long time.

It's the paper trail. So here you see

the CIA distributing the panel's report

to senior officials across the whole

national security establishment. and um

you know it's not really uh all that

fascinating but there's a little bit of

additional uh paperwork relating to the

Roberts panel here if you're interested.

Now this release I'm just going to be

quick here but this is a famous project

blue book special report number 14

originally published in 1955. This has

been available for a long time. So, um,

you know, you could have gotten a copy

of this in any number of ways, but you

can now download the entire copy of it

in this in this release. Uh, basically

what's interesting about this report,

uh, this studied thousands of UFO

reports that were collected by the Air

Force from 1947 up to 1952 and it

applied statistical methods to the data.

Uh,

very interesting report. Stanton

Friedman, late UFO researcher, talked

about this uh report quite a lot. The

Air Force concluded, the official

conclusion was that the unknown cases

were unlikely to represent advanced

technology beyond known science.

However,

the report actually became very

important because the unexplained cases

statistically

were very different from the explained

cases.

Uh and in fact, one of the key uh

distinctions that was made was the

higher qual the quality of the witness,

the more likely the case was to be

unexplained. So if you if you had a

really good witness that actually made

it more difficult to explain these. So

that really spoke against uh the

conclusions that the air force was

trying to promote there. Anyway, you can

download it and read the whole thing.

There's a lot of charts and graphs and

pictures and uh you know it can be a

little dry, but there's also a lot of

gold nuggets in there. Uh this uh so

this is all about the great UFO wave of

1952 when uh reports were arriving so

frequently that formal procedures had to

emerge in order to share information

among all the different agencies that

were interested. The FBI uh the air

force office of special investigations

navy intelligence army intelligence uh

other agencies as well. So, one section

of this file records an August 1952

intelligence conference at McCordfield

devoted in part to handling and

disseminating these flying saucer

reports. So, what the discussion makes

clear is that UFO reports were being

treated as intelligence matters and were

being routed through established

channels. So, I thought that was just

interesting to see that. Um, the report

also contains quite a few uh sightings

from the state of Washington, including

a very detailed 1953 sighting near the

Hanford Atomic Energy Commission

uh reservation. There lots of uh flying

saucer UFOs were being seen at that. Uh

they were manufacturing plutonium there.

It was very important uh place for the

US nuclear industry there. Uh so anyway,

while investigators eventually

associated that case with a

meteorological balloon,

first of all, there were a lot of

reports that came out of there that were

not uh so easily explained that way.

Anyway, the report just shows you the

level of attention being given to very

unusual uh aerial observations uh during

that period. Now, the this particular

document, I don't think that many people

have noted just why this is important.

So, I want to talk about this here. This

is CIA UAP00006.

Um, back in October 4th, 1955, a US

senator who was visiting the Soviet

Union, his name was Richard Russell.

Richard Russell was a very important

senator. He was head of the Senate Armed

Services Committee at the time. So, he

was in the Soviet Union. This is not in

the document that I'm showing you here,

but just let me explain. He saw a

discshaped object actually ascending and

leaving while he was traveling by train

through the Soviet Trans Caucus' region.

Uh he actually said the outer service

seemed to rotate and there was like a

spark or some kind of light or maybe a

flame that came from the bottom and then

a second object uh performed the same

maneuver a couple of minutes later. So

Russell's case, he was interviewed by

the CIA. Uh this is a very

a very good uh kind of UFO report from

that time period. So this file, this is

dated the same day, October 4th, 1955,

and comes from the same region,

American traveling by train near Baku.

That's in Soviet Azeraijan at the time,

the Trans Caucus' region. The witness

was a US national with a political

science background. They said uh in the

USR by invitation of a senior Soviet

official. They don't say that he was

with Richard Russell, but uh I'm just

saying he probably had to be part of the

same uh group as as Senator Russell

because this guy described uh well he

described a triangular object near an

airfield lit by a search light which uh

then launched upward, made several fast

spirals and then climbed at about a 45

degree angle. So, as the Americans

watched,

a Soviet train official

came in and pulled the blinds down. This

is exactly what Richard Russell actually

had reported as well. And in fact, in

the original Russell statement, uh, as I

recall, he was accompanied by a couple

of his aids. I'm going to take a guess

that this is one of those aids. Uh, I

think the age this person in this report

was like 40 41 years old, probably about

the right age. So, you got the same

date, same region, same train setting,

same Soviet reaction. Uh, I'm going to

assume this is the same event. Uh,

so it's interesting because you really

want to uh speculate a little bit. What

was this? I've often wondered, were the

Soviets developing their own flying

saucer program in 1955?

You know, when I first read that case

years ago, many years ago, I thought,

"Nah, impossible." Now, I don't really

know. It's um, you know, you got to

wonder what were the Americans and what

were the Soviets working on in the

mid-50s. Uh, this surely seems to me not

impossible.

What do you think? Write it below. I'll

read. Let's move on. Uh so this is a C

uh CIA information report from 1950

talking early years here. Uh this was

forwarded um uh they forwarded this

article by Dr. Edward Ludvig. He was a

German scientist in Chile. Gee, how did

this German guy get into South America?

Who knows? Uh anyway, Ludvig argued that

uh flying discs might be the result of

advanced German aeronautical research

from the war years, possibly now in

Soviet hands. Uh he discussed uh

rotating systems and uh what was called

boundary layer theory and unconventional

lift. So the value here is definitely

historical. Uh and maybe it's got leads

here. It does show the CIA tracking

early attempts to explain UFOs as

foreign technology.

Uh this is a 1967

CIA report uh which records

conversations that Soviet scientists had

about UFOs

in the USSR.

Uh 1967 was a really interesting time in

Soviet UFO research. It was uh during

that era like UFO research had its ups

and downs and it had recently gone

through a real down phase in the early

and mid60s and in 1967 there was a brief

kind of resurgence of UFO uh study. It

didn't last long but anyway it was

during this period.

Some of the Soviet scientists kind of

dismissed the subject. Others, as

discussed here, admitted hearing of

sightings in a whole bunch of different

places. Uh uh, one Soviet astronomer

said a reddish object seen by several

astronomers was not a satellite and not

a meteorite. So that was another one

said the subject was just very, very

open. We don't really know what it is.

Um, this report had an interesting uh or

useful conclusion which was basically

that official ridicule

had suppressed serious discussion but

interest in the phenomenon was still

very widespread among Soviet scientists.

Uh, and I I think historically that has

turned out to be quite accurate.

This is another CIA report. This focuses

on another Soviet event. This is the

Sari Shagon missile and anti-bballistic

missile testing range. This is from

1973.

Uh most of this document about weapon

systems and uh laser research that was

believed to be taking place. But buried

within it is a little brief UAP report

uh where a witness observed a bright

green circular object in the sky. It

expanded. there were several concentric

green rings that were formed around it

and then the phenomenon faded uh

silently without any explanation. I

think this was partially referred to in

the previous trench as well if I'm not

mistaken.

Um this is there were actually two

documents in the trench that related to

this what I'm about to discuss here a

Budapest Hungary 1955 wave. one of the

documents uh at least my version of it

was unreadably small. You couldn't read

anything. But anyway, you we do have

information here. So, this is a 1956 CIA

report uh describing basically a wave of

unusual aerial sightings during late

1955.

So according to the writer and the

writer was the niece of uh some

important American official at the time

uh the objects had kept people in a

nervous state for weeks

and had attracted the attention of

scientific investigators as well. So

this is something that was getting

attention in the nation of Hungary. Uh

uh the I think this the phrase was

keeping scores of scientists busy was

what it was. And oh the reported speed

was estimated at 12,000 kilometers per

hour. And uh you can see in this there

was a kind of a sketch showing the

reported flight path between Budapest

and Moscow.

Didn't really quite make a lot of sense

of that sketch but there it is. Uh very

interesting. Very interesting. By the

way, in October 1956,

of course, was a famous Hungarian

revolution. Uh I think it was October 20

23rd of 1956 where it was an attempt to

kind of throw off Soviet rule in Hungary

that failed. Uh by November of 1956, the

tanks were in and they had uh crushed

all descent. But kind of interesting and

I often do wonder about the relationship

between uh UFO UAP sightings and

political

uh instability in various places of the

world. I don't really know that there's

a definite relationship but I have often

uh wondered about this and this is yet

just another instance of that

interesting possibility. Now this this

is a 1971 Australian uh Department of

Defense document. This is definitely one

of the more interesting uh historical

papers in this release. Uh really the

reason because it it shows just how a

defense analyst viewed the UFO problem

after nearly 25 years of of official

investigation by this point. So the

author of this document again this is

the Australian Defense uh Ministry here.

He reviewed all the American projects,

project sign, project grudge, project

blue book, the Robertson panel, the

Condan report which was out by then. And

what he argued was that the public

treatment of UFOs did not match the

level of official concern behind the

scenes. No kidding. But it's just kind

of interesting to read that here. uh he

highlighted one of the findings from

project blue book special report number

14 that I have already discussed uh

which is the exact same point which is

that the better quality of the witness

and the better quality of the report

translated to a higher percentage of

unexplained cases. So that that goes

opposite from telling you yeah these are

really not very important at all. But

this paper went much much further than

that. uh he suggested that Australia

should not simply follow the public

American position on UFOs.

Instead, he he's he's saying, "Look, we

should do a scientifically serious

approach to this subject. Australia

should look for a better understanding

of the phenomena for itself, not follow

the US lead." Australians, are you

listening? You could follow that advice

today in your relationship to the United

States. just say might not be the worst

idea. Anyway, whether you agree or not

with all of uh this man's conclusions,

it's beside the point, although I think

it's a very intelligent paper. Uh but

what makes this very noteworthy to me is

here you see by 1971 how questions about

secrecy and intelligence collection and

really the gap between public statements

and private assessments were already

being discussed within um basically

western defense circles. I think it's a

very very interesting release. Uh

there's a bunch of NASA files that were

released as well. Most of these are are

primarily technical astronaut

debriefings. You can see uh this is just

a snippet of one of the pages uh PDFs.

Uh they do include several passages

relevant to the history of UFO

discussion in space flight. So the

strongest material I would say concerns

the astronaut observations of uh they

called sparkles or these luminous

particles of debris, unusual lights uh

during particularly the Mercury and

Gemini missions. The Gemini 4 files are

in here. They're particularly notable

because you had astronauts McDivet and

White discussing

uh the visual sightings from orbit um

including a lot of observations that

were later uh discussed in uh UFO

literature. You can read about that in a

lot of old books. Uh Gemini 5 includes

descriptions of quote snow or debris or

glittering material around the

spacecraft. Uh Gemini 7 has the famous

Borman bogey controversy, although uh

this debriefing definitely leans toward

ordinary um orbital explanations like

booster tracking and debris and meteors

and aurora and whatever.

uh the these files uh do not

prove any extraordinary objects in

space. They do show you though that the

objects were reporting unusual visual

phenomena often enough for NASA to

document all of this and to question and

to analyze it in some detail.

Uh this is one of the pardon me one of

the files that got a lot of attention at

least some in the news is this one right

here. Um this there were a couple of uh

audio clips that were released in this

trunch. This one is a short uh 1962

interview clip between Walter Kankhite

and astronaut Gordon Cooper. It's only

it's it's interesting. You should listen

to it. Um

Kankite basically asks Cooper like why

do you why do you think UFOs are

serious? You're it's known that you

believe in them. And Gordon Cooper was

extremely uh I I think very professional

in his answer. He just said, "Look, many

qualified people, too many qualified

people have seen these objects with no

logical explanation uh in any

conventional sense." And uh he

speculated. He said, "Look, there's got

to be a lot of life out there in this

universe. I have got to think someone

has figured out a way to to uh get a

look at us." Essentially, that's what he

says. And um how do you how do you

dispute that? It's it's interesting to

read. There's a couple of other uh audio

files. One is a a both of them are

fairly long. Apollo 16 uh scientific

debriefings. This is back from 1972.

Uh one of them

uh the relevant item you get uh a flash.

That's right. That was mentioned um I

think around 25 minutes into um

u one of one of those I think the longer

one. Uh

and oh yeah there was the the other one

uh there was the speaker jokingly says

could be an alien star base or

something. Clearly it was a joke while u

in the middle of discussing some other

experimental

things that I I really didn't really

even follow all of that but it was

interesting. Basically kind of a

throwaway line I thought uh not really

serious. Uh this is the last file I'm

going to discuss here. This is really

not anything about UFO evidence. This is

this is all about NASA's official

posture relating to the whole subject.

So in 1998, congressional offices were

still forwarding UFO inquiries to NASA

and to the White House. Uh so one

request was sent through Senator Charles

Grassly asked about alleged UFO

sightings by astronauts.

NASA's answer was pretty standard. Well,

astronauts have seen many unusual

objects, but most were identified as

debris or spacecraft material or water

droplets or whatever. Uh, and then NASA

also stated that it had no UFO

investigation program and had we're not

holding any information back either,

according to NASA. Uh the file did

include James Oberg, famous NASA

skeptic, and his analysis, very

skeptical analysis of a famous astronaut

UFO claims,

including the McDiv and the Gemini

cases. So, what's interesting here is

that this is just you're just seeing

NASA at work, you know, uh by the late

1990s, the public answer was always the

same. You acknowledge your reports, you

explain them conventionally, you you

cite a skeptical analysis, and you just

really clo close the whole thing up.

So, uh there are a couple of other uh

files or folders that I I didn't even

bother to discuss here, but I think I've

discussed nearly everything of the 72

files that were released.

I would just say like if you're looking

for disclosure, okay, this is not

disclosure. There's no document here

that's going to change the world.

There's no final answer or admission.

However,

if we just set aside the word disclosure

for a moment, just forget forget that.

Forget that there's this whole

disclosure debate. This release is still

valuable.

It is a substantial collection of

records. Uh some of these are very

substantial collections of records. uh

intelligence reports, FBI interviews,

military assessments, the NASA

debriefings, you know, ah what are you

gonna they're at least they're in there.

Uh the visual reconstructions, the

videos, some of which were kind of

interesting. Um couple of the files are

weak, some are skeptical, some of these

I found genuinely interesting. So this

is not a trivial uh uh release. What you

really see here is the the UFO or UAP

problem moving through official

institutions across decades. Okay, not

this is not folklore now or

entertainment. This is something that

you can see in these files that agencies

collected and assessed and tried to

explain and debated

and and sometimes could not resolve. So,

you know, I wouldn't call this a holy

grail, but this is documentation. And

look, in this field, documentation is

important. So, I don't want to oversell

this release, but you don't want to

dismiss it either. I know realize

there's a lot of folks out there, they

because if it's not everything all at

once, they're just going to say this is

another nothing burger. I would dispute

that. I think this release adds just

another layer to a historical record

that frankly is already deeper than most

people realize and I think this just

adds to it. So, uh I was pleased to see

this release. I would encourage you if

you are a serious student of the subject

go to the link, go check out download

some of the files. Uh, every one of the

slides I showed you, I I tried to give

the proper file name so you could find

it.

Um, you can do it. They don't make it

super easy, but they don't make it super

difficult either. It's it's not that

difficult. So, I hope this was

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