Pentagon Releases New UFO Files as Whistleblowers Urge Trump To Lift Disclosure Restrictions

The Pentagon has released its sixth batch of files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, revealing details of a classified military program that studied warp drives, wormholes, and unexplained injuries linked to possible encounters with unknown craft. Friday’s disclosure included 71 files total: 67 from the Defense Department and four from Colorado law enforcement, comprising 55 PDFs, 15 videos, and one audio recording. Documents span from 1952 to 2025, with 64 containing redactions.The most significant materials relate to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, a Defense Intelligence Agency initiative that ran from 2008 to 2012. Among the 37 “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents” released is a 38-page 2010 study examining “evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems.” Researchers documented three “antennae engineers” who reportedly suffered heat, redness, hair loss, and, in one case, symptoms resembling radiation illness after unexplained aerospace-related encounters.The report concluded: “Sufficient incidents/accidents have been accurately reported, and medical data acquired, as to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed and opaque to full US understanding.”The Pentagon cautioned that these documents are “best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research” and “should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed.”Video evidence included footage from a 2022 Middle East encounter showing a UAP “traveling at various speeds between 80 and 180 miles per hour,” alongside historical audio from Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt’s 1952 briefing on UFO investigations, in which he noted that “about 20 percent are very good reports offered by very reliable people and … just absolutely no conclusions can be drawn.”The release comes as a coalition of prominent UFO whistleblowers publicly petitioned President Trump to waive their nondisclosure agreements. The unprecedented public campaign comes from whistleblowers David Grusch, Matthew Brown, and Dylan Borland, who say binding NDAs prevent them from sharing what they know about extraterrestrial life.Mr. Grusch, who testified before Congress in 2023 about alleged secret UFO crash retrieval programs, said he has seen “photographs and video of the [recovery] operations, including the craft and the non-human occupants,” adding on X, “Mr. President, give us the authorization and we’re ready to go.”Mr. Brown, an independent defense contractor, said his NDA “obligation lasts for life,” while Mr. Borland, who testified to Congress in 2024 about a UFO sighting near a NASA hangar, said, “Disclosure has to come from [President Trump]. He needs to rip the Band-Aid off himself,” the New York Post reports.Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri praised the administration’s transparency, while Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, chairman of the House Task Force on Declassification, said her priority remains protecting whistleblowers from retribution.

Pentagon Releases New UFO Files as Whistleblowers Urge Trump To Lift Disclosure Restrictions

Pentagon Releases New UFO Files as Whistleblowers Urge Trump To Lift Disclosure Restrictions

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