In the United States, the first major collection of declassified materials on UFOs — or, more precisely, unidentified anomalous phenomena, as official bodies now prefer to call them — has been published. A total of 162 files, covering the period from 1948 to 2026, have been made publicly available.
The materials were assembled from a wide range of agencies, including the Pentagon, the FBI, NASA and the State Department. Inside are diplomatic cables, internal reports, investigation results and transcripts of conversations involving participants in space missions.
A separate website was launched for the entire collection. It has been designed with clear enthusiasm: black-and-white photographs of flying objects, typewriter-style fonts and the atmosphere of an archive office.
Among the published materials are a description of a bright object over Kazakhstan that made sharp right-angle turns, a linear glowing object spotted by a drone pilot in 2023, and an image with three points forming a triangle, taken during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The Pentagon acknowledges that there is still no definitive explanation for this image.
Despite all the mysterious episodes, the archive contains no proof of extraterrestrial life. However, the main result of the publication is far more interesting than any headline-grabbing sensation: the public now has access to primary sources. Anyone can now study the documents, watch the videos and review the materials without intermediaries or retellings.
