The Pentagon’s release of UFO files showed for the first time unexplained visual phenomena from the Apollo missions to the moon and in footage above the Middle East, but an administration official told The Post that “even cooler information” is coming in future tranches.
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The initial Friday morning release of files, pursuant to President Trump’s recent declassification order, contained no direct evidence of alien life but featured never-before-seen footage of objects seeming to whiz through the air with trajectories unlike common human-made aircraft.
Images released from the Apollo 12 and 17 missions of the last 1960s and early ’70s showed objects above the lunar surface.
Trump previously ordered the declassification of files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. — with those files doing little to fundamentally alter public understanding of history.
The administration’s congressionally mandated release of files on late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, by contrast, started off with few bombshells before setting off a transatlantic firestorm with revelations that forced powerful men from their jobs and in cases yielding prosecutions.
The UFO files will continue to be released by the Department of War in the coming weeks.
