Trump first teased the release in February in a Truth Social post. The Pentagon coordinated the release in partnership with the White House, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the Energy Department, NASA, and the FBI. Many of the files in this new drop contain documents that are already publicly available. However, some versions of these known documents in the new files contain more pages, or fewer redactions, than previously released versions.<\/p>\n
More than 60 percent of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about UAP, according to YouGov, while 40 percent think UAP are likely alien in origin, according to Gallup. Congress has held hearings into whether there\u2019s been a decades-long program to recover \u201cnon-human\u201d technologies, yet evidence remains elusive.<\/p>\n
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<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\nCourtesy of the US Department of Defense<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIf it’s just more blobby photos or redacted documents that don’t have any details in them, it’s more of the same,\u201d Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester who studies the search for alien life, says of the new files. \u201cWhat we need are actual scientific results from the investigations that should have been done if the most extraordinary claims being made are true.\u201d<\/p>\n The document drop follows a week of high-profile discussions of aliens, including Stephen Colbert\u2019s interview with former President Barack Obama, released on Wednesday. Obama cast doubt on government cover-ups about aliens by joking that \u201csome guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with the alien and sent it to his girlfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n Courtesy of the US Department of Defense<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n Members of the Artemis II crew also second-guessed the idea of a vast government-wide conspiracy to hide the discovery of extraterrestrial life in a discussion with The Daily<\/em> this week.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you realize that if we found alien life out there, and we came back and reported on it, NASA would never have a budget issue for the rest of eternity?\u201d said Reid Weisman, the commander of Artemis II. \u201cSo trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n Victor Glover, the astronaut who piloted the mission, added: \u201cWhy would we hide that from you?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/69fdf414d3badf25979a2bc7\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/FBI-Photo-A5.jpg\"\/)
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