UAP

Attention has focused on famous UFO videos, but official reports themselves concede that the underlying measurements cannot support strong claims about unidentified aerial phenomena. Commenters tracing the data back to its original sources argue the weak metrology, not the footage, is the real story in the government's most-watched UAP files.

The US Department of Defense has published video footage catalogued as DOW-UAP-PR116, documenting an unresolved unidentified anomalous phenomenon report from the Atlantic Ocean in 2020. The release, carried through the military's official DVIDS distribution service, adds to a growing file of cases the Pentagon has acknowledged but not explained. Observers of the UAP debate say each new release fuels calls for greater transparency about what military sensors are recording.

A U.F.O. advisory panel backed by President Trump has released an account of its findings to date, examining unidentified aerial phenomena and related government records. The New York Times reports on what the panel has established so far about what is out there, a topic that continues to draw public and official interest in Washington and beyond.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has published a piece arguing that the incoming Trump administration could 'make history' by investigating the possibility of alien technology, potentially through declassification and scientific study of unidentified anomalous phenomena. Loeb, who leads the Galileo Project, has long pushed for serious research into possible extraterrestrial artifacts, and the piece frames this as an unprecedented opportunity for the administration.