Overview
- - The Defense Department, which opened a new war.gov/ufo portal Friday, posted 162 declassified records for public viewing.
- - The batch includes photos, videos, cables and NASA mission transcripts from Apollo-era archives, with incidents logged in places such as the Aegean Sea, Persian Gulf, East China Sea, Mediterranean, Gulf of Oman, Germany, Greece, Japan and Mexico.
- - Officials warned the entries are unresolved case files and not analytical conclusions, noting many incidents lack sufficient data to determine what was observed.
- - The multi‑agency effort runs under the PURSUE program with the White House, ODNI, DOE, AARO, NASA and the FBI, and the Pentagon says new batches will arrive every few weeks.
- - NASA administrator Jared Isaacman welcomed the transparency, while scientists cautioned the release is unlikely to provide confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial life.