The Pentagon keeps cracking open the UFO drawer

The Pentagon keeps cracking open the UFO drawer

The Pentagon has begun releasing declassified UAP and UFO material — documents, photos, videos, witness accounts, and military records. The first wave covers unresolved sightings stretching from 1944 and 1945 through recent years, all cases the government says it could not definitively resolve from available evidence. The release followed years of congressional pressure, public hearings, the Pentagon UFO videos, and the creation of AARO — and began on May 8, 2026, after Trump directed federal agencies to identify and declassify UFO and extraterrestrial records in February 2026.

Gobble's Take: Decades of "insufficient evidence" — and the fix was apparently just opening a drawer.

Source: Wikipedia

Fifty-one videos later, one Lake Huron clip steals the show

On May 22, the Pentagon dropped another tranche of UFO files: 64 records in total, split across six PDFs, seven audio files, and 51 videos. The haul includes grainy infrared footage, declassified FBI UFO case pages, reports of strange military encounters, diplomatic cables, and NASA photos. One video appears to show a fighter jet shooting down an unidentified object over Lake Huron in 2023 — an incident later reports suggested may have involved a hobbyist balloon. The Pentagon noted the footage was requested by House lawmakers.

Gobble's Take: Release 51 videos and one Lake Huron shootdown, and you already know which clip gets the red circle.

Source: CBS News

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