For decades, Washington treated UFO chatter like your uncle ranting after three bourbons at Thanksgiving — smile politely, change the subject, move on. Now suddenly? The feds are handing out hard drives.
In a moment straight out of a low-budget sci-fi thriller, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy revealed Friday morning that a White House official quietly dropped a flash drive on his desk overnight containing the first batch of UFO files released under President Trump’s transparency order.
“So a White House official left this hard drive on my desk overnight,” Doocy said on Fox & Friends. “You can see on it, it says ‘AARO files, copy two of three.’ That is the All Domain Resolution Office, copy two of three. This is the first big batch of UFO disclosure ordered by President Trump.”
Washington, naturally, still can’t explain half of what Americans are seeing in the sky — but at least this administration is finally admitting the public deserves a look.
The release stems from Trump’s February directive ordering federal agencies to begin declassifying records tied to UFOs, “alien and extraterrestrial life,” and what the Pentagon now prefers to call “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,” because apparently “UFO” sounded too normal.
Doocy said his team spent hours combing through the files and footage before airing what he called a “world exclusive.”
Among the clips shown was footage captured over the United Arab Emirates in 2024 featuring what officials described as an object resembling “an inverted teardrop” with a “vertically linear trailing mass.” Something bizarre floating around that the government can’t identify without inventing new vocabulary.
“The War Department can’t say for sure what this is,” Doocy admitted.
Another video, filmed in Iraq in December 2022, showed a thin object drifting across military surveillance footage. CENTCOM reportedly classified it merely as “an area of contrast” — which sounds suspiciously like bureaucrat-speak for we have absolutely no idea what we’re looking at.
A third clip over Greece showed what officials labeled a “small and circular UAP.”
Again, no explanation. That’s become the running theme of this entire saga: grainy footage, military reports, nervous analysts — and a whole lot of shrugging from the people running the most advanced defense apparatus on Earth.
The newly released material also includes transcripts from the Apollo 17 mission, where astronaut Ron Evans reportedly spotted “jagged angular fragments” outside his spacecraft window that “looks like the 4th of July.”
The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, has repeatedly insisted there’s still “no evidence of extraterrestrial beings.” But even skeptics admit many incidents remain unexplained, fueling years of speculation that Washington knows far more than it’s willing to admit publicly.
And unlike previous administrations that treated UFO questions like radioactive waste, Trump has leaned directly into the issue, arguing Americans should see the material for themselves.
Critics are already rolling their eyes, claiming the rollout is political theater or another Washington distraction campaign. Online skeptics mocked the release as “blurriest black-and-white videos of balloons, birds and bugs.”
Maybe. But after decades of secrecy, redactions, and government denials, people are understandably curious when military footage keeps surfacing that officials themselves can’t explain.
So are aliens real? Doocy’s answer was refreshingly straightforward: “They don’t know. But in an effort of transparency, they are giving us all of the material that they are working with as they try to answer that question.”
Doocy’s stoked about the UFO files. pic.twitter.com/8mTFWiGx8h
— thedailybs w/ Snerdley (@thedailybs_Bo) May 8, 2026
