The War Department has released another installment of "UFO" or, as we call them now, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) photos, and like most such batches of photos, it's mostly dots, dashes, and flashes. For all our vaunted technology, for all that we live in a time where almost everyone has a high-resolution still and video camera on their person at every moment, this is, it seems, still the best we can do.
The War Department announced the release on X.
— Department of War 🇺🇸 (@DeptofWar) May 22, 2026
The post reads:
DEPARTMENT OF WAR PUBLISHES SECOND RELEASE OF UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA FILES
Statement Attributable to Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman @SeanParnellASW:
Today, the Department of War is publishing the second release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The collection continues to be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO, and additional files will be released on a rolling basis.
Since the site’s launch on May 8, 2026, WAR.GOV/UFO has received over 1 billion hits worldwide, highlighting the unprecedented levels of interest in both this topic and the Trump administration’s historic transparency effort. The Department of War and our agency partners are actively working on the third release of UAP files, which will be announced in the near future.
You can see the latest releases here. And, they are about what we've come to expect: Lots of flying dots, lots of fuzzy flashes, not much in the way of substance.
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As always, color me skeptical. I'm admittedly no expert on UAPs, high-resolution photography, or possible atmospheric phenomena that could produce these images, but the notion that they are alien activity strikes me as highly improbable. Why? Here's why, and I'm going to tell you: Aliens that have somehow harnessed the technology to cross the vast oceans of space, to navigate light-years of nothing to arrive here, wouldn't bother evading our aircraft or dodging our attempts to photograph them, as the dots, orbs, and lens flares in these photos always seem to be doing. In fact, likely, they wouldn't take any notice of us at all. Why would they? This would be an alien technological civilization that is thousands of years more advanced than we are, maybe millions. We would be less than insects beneath their feet. They wouldn't hesitate to land, to send out robot probes, to fly around over our towns and cities. There would be significantly more presence than just a few little flashes in the sky.
Also, just take a quick scan through this latest batch of released photos. There's just not a lot of there, there. As I mentioned, we're in an age when almost everyone has a high-resolution still/video camera on their person all the time, and these are the best images we have?
Bigfoot would like a word.
In closing, I'll say what I always say about any possible alien invasion: If a UFO ever lands in my yard, and a little green man emerges and says, "Take me to your leader," I'm taking him to see Gary Busey.
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