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.”
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.
>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.
The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
"""
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
"""
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.
If we're going to be honest, the economy is pretty hot right now. Jobs report today showed growth about triple what was predicted. Stock market at all-time highs. You don't get that when the economy is doing poorly.
I personally agreed with tariff policy and I didn't believe all the "experts" who said it would cause inflation, and I was right because inflation didn't pick up at all. I think the way he did it was infantile and caused him to lose a lot of bargaining power in the future because no one believed anything he said, but I think as a strategy it was good.
The ending of the wars was the worst thing he went back on, that's for sure. Terrible.
> understanding there's a huge issue with completeness about the Epstein files and largely against his will)
What does this mean? Can't the president declassify things by their own will? Like when Trump revealed extremely high resolution satellite imagery during a presentation? Didn't Trump himself say he can declassify stuff whenever he wants?
> Trump added to the confusion when he said in an interview with Fox personality Sean Hannity, “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. ... If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it.”
yes yes, because the right was completely tolerant of democratic administrations. both sides are blind to their own faults which is natural as nobody likes wallowing in their own issues. it's much easier to whataboutism the topic instead. Trump has blamed his predecessors to the point it seems obsessive. As someone that leans left more than right, I'm willing to accept the faults of the platform. would you be willing to do the same for yours?
You can support your own party, sure. But from time to time, the flag bearer for that party is questionable at best. What ever good that person does is overshadowed by the questionable stuff. The absolute grift and corruption that is going on will overshadow any kept promise to release useless documents while shielding documents promised to be released. This war. You can support notions of smaller government, lower taxes, limiting rights of those that are not white male land owners, preventing those in need from getting healthcare all you want. Blind faith in a criminal is always going to get what you interpret as attacks
If you support Trump in 2026 people will assume you're either dumb or a bad person, and tolerance for stupidity is at an all time low given the stakes. If you can't fathom why this is the case then it's safe to say you're in the first camp.
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.
Berkely Mono (which has been discussed on HN multiple times) is a fine font. The trial version reportedly has swapped / \ and # * glyphs which makes it an odd choice for first place.
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.
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.
>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.
The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids).
Tells you something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Like calling Epstein a democratic hoax?
You're expecting competence from this administration?
Hey! we have some awesome fox news hosts and good looking people in this administration
It makes more sense when you realize the whole point is to distract from the continued failure to release the Epstein files.
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.
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.
yup. I'm not going through this.
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
Fortunately, you don't have to. Competent people will get busy on this.
Such people already know it's not aliens, though.
you mean like Harvard professors claiming that a rock from interstellar space is a probe from an intelligent society?
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?
sorry, that's a typo that was autocorrected. professor should not have been pluralized
Don't those just look like drones?
Yeah nearly all of these are just drones of various sorts
Why is it missing basic metadata in the table like incident data and location?
Crackpots,psyops and honeypots, oh my!
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 """
maybe the real UFOs were the Epsteins we made along the way
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?
I wonder if Hegseth ever cringes at the amount of glazing he does for Donald
No one get's ahead in DC without being an expert glazer, but now you want to complain about it?
He drinks.
This reminds me of how long it's been since they promised to release all the Epstein files
The difference in quality of releases is pretty shocking.
That's how you can tell there's something in the Epstein files worth hiding and nothing in this worth revealing.
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.
[flagged]
He just missed the most important ones: America First, improving the economy and end wars.
If we're going to be honest, the economy is pretty hot right now. Jobs report today showed growth about triple what was predicted. Stock market at all-time highs. You don't get that when the economy is doing poorly.
I personally agreed with tariff policy and I didn't believe all the "experts" who said it would cause inflation, and I was right because inflation didn't pick up at all. I think the way he did it was infantile and caused him to lose a lot of bargaining power in the future because no one believed anything he said, but I think as a strategy it was good.
The ending of the wars was the worst thing he went back on, that's for sure. Terrible.
> understanding there's a huge issue with completeness about the Epstein files and largely against his will)
What does this mean? Can't the president declassify things by their own will? Like when Trump revealed extremely high resolution satellite imagery during a presentation? Didn't Trump himself say he can declassify stuff whenever he wants?
> Trump added to the confusion when he said in an interview with Fox personality Sean Hannity, “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. ... If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it.”
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
I personally like Trump as a president.
Unfortunately, that's not something one can openly say these days.
The fact I got flagged above speaks volumes.
Why unfortunately? You like a racist, mysoginistic conman. Why should you be immune from any negative opinion on your character?
If you hear someone say "I personally like Epstein as a wingman", will you be "oh, fine"?
yes yes, because the right was completely tolerant of democratic administrations. both sides are blind to their own faults which is natural as nobody likes wallowing in their own issues. it's much easier to whataboutism the topic instead. Trump has blamed his predecessors to the point it seems obsessive. As someone that leans left more than right, I'm willing to accept the faults of the platform. would you be willing to do the same for yours?
Too much text. It’s much simpler to me.
Do I have the right to choose a preferred political party? Yes.
Do I have the right to express which political party I prefer? Yes.
Yet people attack me for that ... it seems deranged.
Out of curiosity, what specifically do you think he has done well? And what areas do you disagree with him on?
And how do you balance those?
You can support your own party, sure. But from time to time, the flag bearer for that party is questionable at best. What ever good that person does is overshadowed by the questionable stuff. The absolute grift and corruption that is going on will overshadow any kept promise to release useless documents while shielding documents promised to be released. This war. You can support notions of smaller government, lower taxes, limiting rights of those that are not white male land owners, preventing those in need from getting healthcare all you want. Blind faith in a criminal is always going to get what you interpret as attacks
You didn't have to post that, yet you chose to. I don't see a bunch of people in this thread saying they support Kamala, or Biden, or Bush, or....
So go ahead and say something you know is unpopular, and pretend you're persecuted for it.
If you support Trump in 2026 people will assume you're either dumb or a bad person, and tolerance for stupidity is at an all time low given the stakes. If you can't fathom why this is the case then it's safe to say you're in the first camp.
Lol at releasing all the Epstein files, what are you smoking? Those nothingburger promises were made to distract from supporting a pedophile-rapist.
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.
Anyone else immediately notice that.. this is so built with angular.
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-8342289+M...
404 ?
Somebody had fun with the web page.
Any-who,
--mono: "Berkeley Mono Trial", "Berkeley Mono", "IBM Plex Mono", "SFMono-Regular", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace;
Berkely Mono (which has been discussed on HN multiple times) is a fine font. The trial version reportedly has swapped / \ and # * glyphs which makes it an odd choice for first place.
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.
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.
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.