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- Imo the most interesting thing is basically the operational details on Iran. It's efectively a view into into what years of sustained ISR over the Strait of Hormuz looks like. I gave the full dump of pdfs to Codex and asked it to pull out some details on Iran -
"482 ATKS Reapers out of OKAS doing 20-hour orbits, 24-hour pre-coordination with NAVCENT, named Iranian assets being characterized — NASER WAPs, SAFIR KISH PCs, HOUDONG-class boats, IRIN aircraft (IL-76, IL-38, A-50U Mainstay D, SU-27/35) at Abu Musa Island airfield, vessels at Bushehr and the IRIN boatyard. We see the Iranian air-defense response logged in formal categories — "Guardcall Tone: PROFESSIONAL" vs "DIRECTIVE" — meaning U.S. forms have a structured way to grade Iranian threatening behavior, and the public can now see that they were hailed five times in a single 21-hour mission with two of those calls coded "Directive." Several reports disclose just enough operational detail to send a message, d28, for example, gives a surprisingly rich armed-overwatch context, weapon calibration, munitions released, and named sensor systems like MX-25, plus an object detected by MX-20 and MX-25 during an AGM-176 engagement . d74 gives target-development context, including stop-follow activity on a probable vehicle/person of interest before the UAP event later in the mission ."
I wonder if when trump kept saying something to the effect of "Oh, I think some people will find some of it very interesting" - he meant adversaries are about to see how much intelligence has been collected and for how long.
by neom - I took a look at the CIA reading room to see what they got on, well where I live. Pretty crazy to see the stuff they found still being there today :Oby thenthenthen
- In the same vein - the Roswell Museum and Research Center - the library portion is underrepresented in its ads. It is a library about the size of an elementary / middle school library filled with supposed accounts and testimony, academic-style papers and reports. One could spend days admiring this collection. (I’m not shilling for it, just pointing out the best part is not the latex cadavers in the other room.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_UFO_Museum_and_R...
by russfink - I was just randomly going through redacted documents looking for more of those silly redaction mistakes. I didnt find any, but I did find some improperly de-classified documents.
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/dow-uap-d32-miss...
They left the classification labels untouched (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY). They really are supposed to remove those or at least cross them out. To see a document on the public internet with those labels still attached is very odd behavior.
by sandworm101 - This is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.by anigbrowl
- Ah, a commenter claiming something is propaganda .. let's go look through their submissions to HN and see their posting pattern .. Let's see ..
- Trump-related political posts
- China-related political posts
- Iran-related political posts
- DOGE-related political posts
- RFK-Jr-related political posts
- Covid-19 related posts
- Economy-related political posts
- Election-related political posts
- Anti-Russia/anti-"nazi" political posts
My oh my, with that post history, I surely trust you to decide for us what's "propaganda' and what's not. Surely you yourself aren't a huge propaganda account.
by thegrim33 - Probably settles some large polymarket bets as well. "Government will announce UFOs are real" has been a popular one for a long time.by tardedmeme
- > The UFO nut community is being weaponized for political leverage
Always has been, at least since 1947.
by estebank - It's the next distraction. They have a new one queued up every week until November.
- This is so cool. For instance the asset FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - COMPOSITE SKETCH indicated that “Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.”
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/2024-04-30-compo...
I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery.
- I'm confused. Aren't these supposed to be photos, or are we expected to be agog with 3D renderings?by z500
- I think I'm missing the excitement. This is an artist's rendering of a supposed massive orb in the sky? I am more impressed by the actual UAV footage that has been released previously.by aduffy
- > This is so cool.
"cool" is not the word that comes to mind looking at this image.
by ks2048 - >I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery.
The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids).
Tells you something.
by Arodex - We eagerly await release of the second batch of Unpublished American Pedophile (UAP) documents and videos, for justice to be finally served.by rapnie
- It's becoming clear that the true legacy of this administration is peddling files.by ozten
- The US Department of Defense has published a CSV dataset containing UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) observation records. It appears to include structured entries that can be used for independent analysis and research.
Dataset: https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-csv.c...
Mirror: https://gist.github.com/ahmetcadirci25/e4edb7d30109fdb8ff14b...
Could be useful for anyone interested in data analysis, anomaly detection, or open government datasets.
- I'm pretty sure they renamed it the departement of war, for some reasonby nolok
- Thank you for the links. I was able to find the CSV too by taking a look at the network sources from the webpage. I find that the dataset is messy, with missing data. For example, 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153 has a link that doesn't work either in the CSV nor the webpage.
On the other hand, there is no link in the CSV for NASA-UAP-D3A, Gemini 7 Audio Excerpt, 1965 but the link in the webpage does work. It utilizes https://api.dvidshub.net/ to request the content.
Another example are incident dates like with DOW-UAP-PR36, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, May 2020 that are N/A in the CSV but have an incorrect one inside the snippet (5/1/20 as opposed to 5/14/20). It also seems like there are duplicate incidents just with different media. By the way, the video in this incident is compelling.
I look forward to dissecting the dataset but it's far from perfect. There is definitely a massive amount of potential here.
by kittikitti - According to US congresswoman Luna this is the first of several releases that will be coming out in the following weeks.
Edit: I had a look at a bunch of the videos and didn't find anything remarkable, in my opinion. The witness testimonies read like so many others.
by david-gpu - So the US government is, in fact, capable of large drops of files at once? Asking for an Epstein.by cestith
- Talk about nominative determinism!by BobaFloutist
- They may read like so many others, but what I don't understand is why special agents in the FBI would take it upon themselves to report strange phenomena.
This seems like it would be a CLM, as the authority of their testimony is central to their function as federal LE.
For example, see this document: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/western_us_event...
(from series of documents from incident data 9/1/23)
by bredren - We will know when aliens are here when a new Polymarket account bets $10M on "aliens about to be discovered".by ks2048
- I hate how true this is.by kilroy123
- I want a polymarket for "epstein files released"by gosub100
- Payout denied on the grounds of what "about to be" means.by noisy_boy
- by nycdatasci
- So with The War having ground to an unsatisfactory halt, they're now releasing distraction #2. I wonder how many will be needed between now and November?
Convince me I'm wrong.
by andyjohnson0 - Seems like distractions ...I can't convince you there that the administration's focus on what I would consider low hanging and unimportant ways to make the world a better place not a distraction from the Epstein files and the idea that we have people who are actively in power in our Western societies who are child molesters and human traffickers.by ncr100