Trump first announced the launch in February in a Truth Social post. Pentagon coordinated the release in cooperation with the White House, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the Department of Energy, NASA and the FBI. Many of the files in this modern folder contain documents that are already publicly available. However, some versions of these known documents in the modern files contain more pages or less redaction than previously published versions.
More than 60 percent of Americans believe the government is hiding information about UAPs according to YouGov, while 40 percent believe UAPs are likely to be of foreign origin, according to Gallup. Congress does hearings took place it is not known whether there has been a decades-long program to recover “non-human” technologies, but the evidence remains elusive.
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“When it comes to blurrier photos or redacted documents that don’t contain any detail, it’s probably the same thing,” says Adam Frank, an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester who works on the search for alien life, of the modern files. “We need the actual scientific results of the research that would have to be done if the most extraordinary claims were true.”
The document’s publication comes after a week of high-profile discussions about aliens, including Stephen Colbert interview with former president Barack Obamareleased on Wednesday. Obama questioned the government’s alien cover-up, joking that “some guy guarding the installation would take a picture with an alien and send it to his girlfriend.”
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Artemis II crew members also rejected the idea of a large-scale, government-wide conspiracy to conceal the discovery of extraterrestrial life in a mysterious discussion with Journal this week.
“Do you realize that if we discovered alien life there and came back and reported on it, NASA would never have budget problems for the rest of eternity?” said Reid Weisman, commander of Artemis II. “Then trust me.”
Victor Glover, the astronaut who piloted the mission, added: “Why would we hide this from you?”