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About 160 files have been made publicly available: videos, photographs, transcripts, military pilot reports, and materials from NASA, FBI, and other agencies. Among the published documents are reports of luminous objects over the Middle East, Japan and the Pacific Ocean, as well as archival materials from the time of the Apollo program.
According to the British The Guardian, the publication was part of a campaign to “maximize transparency” around the topic of UAP. According to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Americans “should draw their own conclusions” from the published materials.
American publications pay attention to the most unusual episodes from the files. For example, the New York Post reported on a document that describes the pursuit by a U.S. military aircraft of a “super-hot balloon”, which then split into several objects and disappeared.
Wired notes that the published materials contain dozens of stories about “balls”, “flashes” and objects of unusual shape, but the U.S. authorities did not provide convincing evidence of extraterrestrial origin of the phenomena.
At the same time, some experts and researchers were skeptical of the publication. Many files have previously appeared in the public domain, and some of the videos can be explained by optical effects, drones or atmospheric phenomena.
Previously, the Pentagon has repeatedly stated that it has no evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life or technology of alien origin.
