The latest cache of once-hidden UFO material has landed—and it's heavy on glowing spheres and light on answers. On Friday, the Trump administration released a broad set of government records and videos showing red and yellow orbs zipping across the sky, sometimes appearing to split and merge, in instances officials say were reported by credible witnesses. The files indicate federal agents have spent years tracking and documenting what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena, Axios reports, including sightings near sensitive government sites.
The release includes memos from agents describing their own encounters, sketches and reenactment videos of what observers say they saw, and illustrations of balloon-like objects over places such as the Colorado Springs area and unspecified locations in the western US. Some records reach back decades, including a 1949 letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about a reported craft not made by humans. What's missing: any government conclusion on whether the sightings involve extraterrestrial life or pose a national security risk. The wave of disclosures, ordered by President Trump in February, comes after renewed public interest stoked by comments from Barack Obama.
The findings of a panel the CIA put together in 1952 are included, per CBS News. The Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects came to the conclusion that flying saucers did not pose a physical threat. Still, it recommended a government policy of "debunking" the reports to reduce the mystery surrounding UFOs. Otherwise, the panel warned, US adversaries might be able to exploit a "morbid national psychology" concerning UFOs.
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