The latest UAP file drop is the main event

The latest UAP file drop is the main event

The Department of War’s second batch of UFO/UAP files is out, and the release is built around those 58 video files, plus 7 NASA astronaut mission audio recordings and 6 documents. The file set is described as related to objects that the Pentagon and intelligence agencies have never been able to identify. Some of the footage includes the kind of military-adjacent weirdness that keeps the whole topic alive: anomalous objects near U.S. craft and bases, a four-UAP formation over Iran in 2022, and a U.S. F-16C shooting down an unidentified balloon-shaped object over Lake Huron in 2023.

Gobble's Take: If you wanted tidy answers, this file release politely declines to provide them. Source: Dick Russell's Substack

The archive keeps stretching backward into old-school UFO history

The US Government Disclosure Archive shows how deep the paper trail goes: USAF / AFOSI Project Blue Book files from 1949-1950, a CIA Intelligence Information Report from 1977, and a 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos announcing a meeting with Dr. John Warren on why a scientist should be concerned about UFO's. The archive also points to a Pantex Plant UAP Incident Report with a redacted ground surveillance radar image and two enhanced images of an unidentified object processed by Sandia National Labs.

Gobble's Take: The timeline is doing that classic UFO thing where it gets older, thicker, and somehow still unfinished. Source: The US Government Disclosure Archive

A Christian take says aliens wouldn’t break theology

A Stranger Theology piece from guest contributor Dr. Halsted, PhD, argues there’s no logical problem with combining belief in God with belief in aliens or other non-human intelligences. The article says the existence of NHI would not undermine theism, and it leans on the idea that God is the creator of all things and the ground of being. It also says the cosmos containing several types of intelligent beings would not undermine core Christian doctrine.

Gobble's Take: The debate is less “can theology survive this?” and more “how many categories does the cosmos have room for?” Source: Stranger Theology

In Case You Missed It

Yesterday's top stories:

• PURSUE lands as a big, tidy number — and a very untidy mystery
• The Pentagon's third UFO batch: witnesses, videos, and decades of sightings
• Ryan Graves keeps the spotlight on the silence around pilots
• Disclosure chatter is now officially old enough to have its own history