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Posted by david-gpu 1 day ago

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos(www.war.gov)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufos-uap-aliens-pentagon-re...

https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release

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notepad0x90 13 hours ago|
I cant' believe this propaganda is working even on HNers!!

You know what everyone is talking about? anything but the epstien files!

Here is the google trends over 90 days, you'll see the iran war, and now gimmicks like this work:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=...

One day trend:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=epstein%20files&d...

Look at the related topics, it's this UFO nonsense!

pnw 1 day ago||
Seeing all of the archived documents from the 50s and 60s is very cool. But unfortunately everything else I looked at was a giant nothingburger.

Some of the new videos were already identified as imaging artifacts a while ago.

mark336 9 hours ago||
Trump is trying to fool, he releases data without metadata and doesn't release info about government SAPs on UAPs. Like reverse engineering or biologics. Boring.

It's still funny that it took the President to release these pics and you all are like "its a bird".

kumarharsh 1 day ago||
I was expecting this after few tweets by this account:

https://x.com/i/status/2037559378958766591

""" We can be sure as the war ends, there will be another distraction by the US using "Aliens, UFOs, and UAPs".

If Iran war was a distraction from Epstein files, this will be a distraction from war crimes. We can be sure of some Aliens dot gov site launching distracting the world """

TSiege 22 hours ago|
Released a day after the ceasefire falls apart no less
skinfaxi 1 day ago||
Why is it missing basic metadata in the table like incident data and location?
nomilk 1 day ago||
FBI Photo B7 (fourth to the right on the carousel) looks very helicopter-ish
knubie 1 day ago|
You mean the one that says

> Infrared still image (black hot) captured of unidentified object *below helicopter* over western United States in September of 2025.

nomilk 1 day ago||
Oh.. that tiny dot. I had (mis)interpreted the caption to mean the photograph was of an area below the helicopter the photo was taken from.
techteach00 1 day ago||
I want to believe this is legitimate but since when has the government treated it's citizens as informed adults? This is coming from someone who has seen multiple unidentified orange orbs in his life. Interesting I guess.
Stevvo 1 day ago||
The cynical take would be that releasing the X-Files is only meant to distract from the Epstein files and/or failed war in Iran.
techteach00 1 day ago||
Ya or maybe pandering to what the admin thinks is a small part of the GOP base that is interested in these things.

The UI is awful btw. I want searchable folders.

OutOfHere 23 hours ago||
When and where have you seen the orange orbs? What were they doing? Have you managed to record any?
techteach00 23 hours ago||
I can email if you want. I have video and clear photographs.
macartain 22 hours ago||
Use that internet thing to pop them on a 'website' and we can all take a look, no?
techteach00 22 hours ago||
I'm not even being dense. What's the best non sign up privacy focused photo hosting site? I'm not using Flickr lol
bigyabai 22 hours ago||
This one is a favorite among Mongolian basket weavers: https://catbox.moe/
techteach00 21 hours ago||
Okay here we go.

I think this was two winters ago. They floated, sometimes would briefly hold position. Third time in the past decade I encountered them.

I pulled to the side of the road. Nobody else pulled over or noticed. Encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes. I honestly don't remember.

https://files.catbox.moe/05tysy.jpg

https://files.catbox.moe/g46n6f.jpg

https://files.catbox.moe/xz7bux.jpg

krferriter 20 hours ago|||
What do you mean by "encounter lasted maybe 5 minutes"? Where did the lights go after the 5 minutes? From your description these could potentially be military grade illumination flares, which fall very slowly and can burn for several minutes.

From the photos alone it's also hard to rule out distant airplanes with their bright forward landing lights on. When planes are flying towards you they appear to move very slowly and at a distance they appear as single bright orange/yellow glowing spots. Take this example showing 3 airplanes a few miles away:

https://i.imgur.com/vVB6Cf0.png

They could also be drones or helicopters with bright spotlights on. Hard to say with this.

techteach00 11 hours ago||
"Where did the lights go after the 5 minutes".

They just fell out of my sightline. Whether trees or something else. It's fairly urban where I am, always stuff blocking the view. Not like the great plains, desert etc.

verteu 16 hours ago||||
Neat, thanks for sharing! I suppose drones are the most likely explanation?
techteach00 11 hours ago||
So this is central New Jersey. And yes they could be literally anything except helicopters or airplanes. I know what those are.

I feel thankful whenever I get to see them though. Just bizarre and different. Hope I get to see them again soon.

OutOfHere 11 hours ago||
If you have good zoom binoculars or a zoom monocular, and a bit of practice, you can zoom in if you can hold it very steady, such at a window sill or against the window itself.
OutOfHere 21 hours ago|||
We're seeing two sets of UAPs -- blue on the left and yellow on the right. Were there really two sets when you were looking? Or is one of them a photographic artifact?
techteach00 20 hours ago||
The blue is water on my window. I forgot to mention.
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