UFO Release 1: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters

https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release

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dtagames•1h ago

The War Department has unlimited access to LLMs and compute, but these are delivered as unlabeled files that one must download individually.

That's ridiculous.

throwawa1•1h ago

yup. I'm not going through this.

moralestapia•50m ago

Fortunately, you don't have to. Competent people will get busy on this.

vehemenz•47m ago

Such people already know it's not aliens, though.

dylan604•36m ago

you mean like Harvard professors claiming that a rock from interstellar space is a probe from an intelligent society?

krapp•28m ago

I'm only aware of Avi Loeb, who AFAIK is generally considered a crackpot and a grifter within academia, and his claims about Oumuamua and aliens aren't taken seriously by the mainstream.

Who are the others?

dylan604•27m ago

sorry, that's a typo that was autocorrected. professor should not have been pluralized

dylan604•47m ago

oh come on! where's that hacker spirit? you can download these and create a site that has them indexed as you'd like using the latest in LLM tech to parse the files and build the site for you. you can then turn around and give us a Show HN

baggachipz•1h ago

You're expecting competence from this administration?

throwawa1•57m ago

Hey! we have some awesome fox news hosts and good looking people in this administration

free_bip•57m ago

It makes more sense when you realize the whole point is to distract from the continued failure to release the Epstein files.

0ckpuppet•47m ago

or distact from the Iran war, or distract from Israel, or distract from corruption... distraction from distractions. We keep buying what they're selling, and then complain the milk is still sour.

dylan604•40m ago

Easy with the use of "we" there buddy. Just look at the polling. There are way more people not buying the bullshit, and the numbers keep getting worse as even the faithful are tiring of it as well. So just tossing "we" around becomes offensive as you've now included me into something I will not be a part of.

mitchell_h•55m ago

I think it's proper. When you release something like this, a raw data dump is the only way to cut out a BUNCH of the "this is modified and falsified" noise.

rustyhancock•51m ago

Yes. Importantly just because they've processed it conveniently doesn't mean they'd ever intend to share that.

My first thought when I saw this is how much will it cost me to kick it up to a HF I stance.

I did a trial run with the Epstein files and it was genuinely fun to catch a few bits before the media caught up.

Not to mention that if they add any metadata thats just increasing their exposure and they will be held to what the LLMs label it.

fidotron•51m ago

It's almost like the whole thing is designed to absorb energy and distract some portion of the population from actually looking into anything real.

actionfromafar•45m ago

Like calling Epstein a democratic hoax?

mellosouls•43m ago

Much better to release the raw stuff; those and derived resources will likely be available in a much more accessible way on public mirrors within a few days.

techteach00•56m ago

I want to believe this is legitimate but since when has the government treated it's citizens as informed adults? This is coming from someone who has seen multiple unidentified orange orbs in his life. Interesting I guess.

Stevvo•52m ago

The cynical take would be that releasing the X-Files is only meant to distract from the Epstein files and/or failed war in Iran.

techteach00•7m ago

Ya or maybe pandering to what the admin thinks is a small part of the GOP base that is interested in these things.

The UI is awful btw. I want searchable folders.

surprisetalk•52m ago

maybe the real UFOs were the Epsteins we made along the way

ksherlock•50m ago

Somebody had fun with the web page.

Any-who,

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thisisauserid•49m ago

Don't those just look like drones?

Aboutplants•33m ago

Yeah nearly all of these are just drones of various sorts

angelgonzales•48m ago

This is so cool. For instance the asset FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - COMPOSITE SKETCH indicated that “Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.”

https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/2024-04-30-compo...

I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery.

aduffy•26m ago

I think I'm missing the excitement. This is an artist's rendering of a supposed massive orb in the sky? I am more impressed by the actual UAV footage that has been released previously.

toolslive•48m ago

https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-8342289+M...

404 ?

chromadon•48m ago

I wonder if Hegseth ever cringes at the amount of glazing he does for Donald

0ckpuppet•46m ago

No one get's ahead in DC without being an expert glazer, but now you want to complain about it?

Arodex•14m ago

He drinks.

fudged71•47m ago

This reminds me of how long it's been since they promised to release all the Epstein files

skinfaxi•46m ago

The difference in quality of releases is pretty shocking.

krapp•41m ago

That's how you can tell there's something in the Epstein files worth hiding and nothing in this worth revealing.

skinfaxi•47m ago

Why is it missing basic metadata in the table like incident data and location?

mentalgear•47m ago

Ah, another great Distraction from the Epstein Files and rampageous inflation due to an utterly unnecessary war the No-War FIFA peace-prize Orange-Man led the world into. Some say the Orange Man is the real proof Aliens exists - at least alien to what is considered human intelligence.

> STATEMENT: "The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency." -United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

If they truly want to 'serve the people' it would be time to release the full Epstein files - or at least stop starting wars and/or supporting warmongers while profiting of the resulting world-wide miseries with their insider trading.

0xbadcafebee•46m ago

Why does the Department of War website look like a "coder template" for a Jekyll blog from 2015?

Also it occurs to me that the ufo conspiracy nutters are like dogs chasing cars. What happens when they find the UFOs? Why does it matter?

lenerdenator•45m ago

Honestly, what difference does it make?

Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing.

I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to $5/gal in Kansas City, and I'll still be wondering if I'll be replaced by AI before I finish up saving for retirement.

And that's to say nothing of Epstein or Iran.

sam1r•44m ago

Anyone else immediately notice that.. this is so built with angular.

fumeux_fume•36m ago

Crackpots,psyops and honeypots, oh my!

kumarharsh•7m ago

I was expecting this after few tweets by this account:

https://x.com/i/status/2037559378958766591

""" We can be sure as the war ends, there will be another distraction by the US using "Aliens, UFOs, and UAPs".

If Iran war was a distraction from Epstein files, this will be a distraction from war crimes. We can be sure of some Aliens dot gov site launching distracting the world """

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