The US government has finally pushed the button on decades of classified UFO reports, and the truth is just as strange as fiction. Sources confirm the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released a tranche of documents today detailing encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena that officials describe as ‘orbs swarming in all directions’. I’ve spent the morning digging through the newly declassified files, and what I’ve found smells like a cover-up of a different kind.
The files, numbering over 1,500 pages, cover incidents from 2004 to 2021. The most chilling account comes from a 2015 incident off the coast of Virginia. Navy pilots reported a ‘swarm’ of spherical objects, each about the size of a beach ball, moving in erratic patterns. One pilot, whose name is redacted, said: ‘They were like fireflies. No heat signature, no visible means of propulsion. Just orbs swarming in all directions.’ The official report calls them ‘unexplained aerial phenomena with advanced propulsion characteristics’.
But here’s where it gets murky. Buried in the appendices is a memo from an intelligence analyst, dated 2016, warning that these orbs might not be extraterrestrial at all. ‘The swarm behaviour suggests a non-human intelligence, but the energy signatures are consistent with experimental laser-based communication systems,’ the memo states. It goes on to suggest the orbs could be a ‘foreign advanced technology’ or ‘a US black project that has gone rogue’.
I tracked down a former AARO consultant who spoke on condition of anonymity. ‘Look, everyone wants aliens. But the real story is money,’ he said. ‘Some of these sightings coincide with test ranges for Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. If the government admits these are secret drones, they’d have to disclose billions in black budget spending. It’s easier to let people think little green men.’
Yet the documents reveal more than just orbs. There’s a detailed log of a 2019 encounter off the coast of San Diego where a ‘transmedium craft’ appeared to dive from 30,000 feet into the ocean without slowing. The report notes: ‘No sonic boom. No thermal wake. Object descended vertically into water and disappeared from radar.’ The Pentagon has no explanation.
I called the AARO press office for comment. A spokesperson said: ‘The release is part of our commitment to transparency. We encourage independent analysis.’ Translation: We’re dumping this on the public so you can argue about it while we keep the real secrets locked away.
This is classic. The government releases files when they know the truth is too hot. Follow the money. Who benefits from the UFO buzz? Think about the defence contractors. Think about the news cycle. And think about what they’re not telling you. The orbs are real. The question is: whose are they?
I’ll be digging through these files for weeks. Watch this space.
