Pentagon drops a third batch of UFO Files, still no aliens but CIA memo admits destroying records and giving “evasive” answers on purpose

The Pentagon released 72 more declassified UFO files on Friday dating from the 1940s to this year and if you’re hoping this is the batch that finally confirms extraterrestrial life, I have bad news.

Once again the files contain no definitive proof that we are not alone in the universe and once again the government describes the materials as “unresolved cases” where they are “unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.”

Three batches of files now with hundreds of documents and dozens of videos and billions of eyeballs on war.gov/UFO, and the conclusion remains exactly where it was after the first two releases. “We don’t know what these things are but we’re pretty sure they’re not aliens even though we can’t actually tell you what they are.” The disclosure theater continues and the audience is getting very tired of watching the same act.

That said, there’s one document buried in this batch that is genuinely explosive and I need everyone to pay attention to it because it confirms what the conspiracy community has been saying for decades about the government deliberately covering up what it knows.

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The CIA Admitted It Destroyed Records and Gave “Evasive” Answers on Purpose

A memo dated January 9, 1958, written by a CIA officer named R.P.B. Lohman, contains an admission that should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. Lohman wrote that he informed Dr. Leon Davidson, a scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb and later investigated UFO sightings, that the CIA “cannot resolve his problems concerning the space messages and its transmitter because records on this matter have been destroyed by the evaluating agency.”

A nuclear scientist asked the CIA about something related to possible extraterrestrial communications and the CIA told him the records had been destroyed by whatever agency was responsible for evaluating them. That’s not speculation and it’s not a conspiracy theory.

That’s a government document sitting on a .gov website right now describing the deliberate destruction of records related to “space messages and its transmitter” while a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb was actively requesting information about them.

Then Lohman wrote something even more damning when he acknowledged that “there have been many cooks in the kitchen on this dish” and that “the extraordinarily noncommittal and evasive answer we were instructed to give Davidson was perhaps the only one possible if we were to avoid crossing up previous statements of our own, and other involved agencies, to this man.”

That sentence deserves to be read slowly because what it says in plain English is that a CIA officer admitted in an internal memo that the agency was instructed to give deliberately evasive answers to a nuclear scientist because telling the truth would contradict the lies that the CIA and other agencies had already told him in previous conversations.

They couldn’t give a straight answer because a straight answer would expose the coordinated deception they’d been running across multiple government agencies. In 1958. Sixty-eight years ago the CIA was already operating a cover-up sophisticated enough to require cross-agency coordination of false statements, and this is the same government we’re trusting to give us honest answers about UFOs in 2026.

The CIA Also Recommended an Official “Debunking” Policy in the 1950s

Another file from 1952-1953 reveals that the CIA convened a “Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects” and the panel concluded that flying saucers didn’t pose a direct physical threat to national security. The real threat, according to the panel, was a “sensationalist press” covering the sightings, so their recommendation was an official “policy of debunking” designed to “strip the UFO subject of its mystery.”

An official government policy of debunking, recommended by the CIA seven decades ago. The agency literally created a playbook for discrediting UFO reports and dismissing anyone who took the subject seriously, and that playbook has been running continuously for 70 years.

Every time a credible witness reports a sighting and gets called crazy, every time a military pilot’s account is dismissed as a weather balloon, every time the media treats UFO researchers as tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists, that’s the 1953 debunking policy still doing exactly what it was designed to do.

The government is simultaneously releasing UFO files as part of a “transparency” initiative while the foundational documents within those same files reveal that the CIA has been running a coordinated debunking and cover-up operation on the UFO subject since the Eisenhower administration.

They’re declassifying their own admission that they’ve been lying about this for 70 years and somehow expecting the public to trust that the current disclosure process is genuine, which is the kind of cognitive dissonance that would be funny if it weren’t so insulting.

A Federal Agent Submitted AI-Generated Images of a Harry Potter Flying Car to the Department of Defense

I need to take a detour here because this might be the funniest thing in any of the three file releases. A Defense Department memo dated June 2nd describes a “federal law enforcement agent” working in the western United States who reported seeing an object in the sky in October 2023 that “looked like the flying car from the Harry Potter series.”

The memo includes AI-generated images of what the agent claims to have seen along with the disclaimer that “these are being generated two and a half years after the events.”

A federal law enforcement agent submitted AI-generated images of a Harry Potter flying car to the Department of Defense as part of an official UFO report, two and a half years after the sighting occurred.

That’s a real document housed on a government website as part of the UFO disclosure program that the President of the United States has been personally promoting. AI slop of a flying Ford Anglia on a .gov website. This is what we’re working with in 2026.

The Historical Material Is Genuinely Interesting Despite the Frustration

The 72 files include 29 from the FBI, 18 from the CIA, 12 from the Department of Defense, 11 from NASA, one from the intelligence community, and one from an unspecified agency, covering sighting reports from around the world over eight decades of investigations.

A 2008 incident at Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe had observers debating whether the object was “an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or of extraterrestrial origins” while “beams were observed emanating from the object.” In 1949, a reverend wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reporting “four beams of light converging in the Cascade Mountains” at 10,000 feet with “a great explosion visible at the convergence point for at least ten minutes,” and Hoover forwarded the letter to the Atomic Energy Commission suggesting it might be related to “a military or scientific experiment.”

A 1962 Walter Cronkite interview with astronaut Gordon Cooper captured Cooper saying “a large number of exceptionally well-qualified people have seen objects” without “a logical explanation” and speculating about “some type of human life” on other planets with livable atmospheres.

An evaluation study from 1946 covering roughly 210 incidents found that only 20 percent were explained with “no tangible evidence which would support a theory that any incidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation” while notably not ruling out that the incidents were attributable to beings from a foreign planet.

All of it is interesting and none of it is conclusive, which has been the defining characteristic of every single document release in this disclosure process from day one.

The Pattern Has Not Changed Once Across Three UFO FIles Releases

Dramatic announcement from the administration about unprecedented transparency followed by media coverage treating each drop like a watershed moment followed by hundreds of documents uploaded to a dedicated website followed by the public rushing to read them expecting definitive answers about extraterrestrial life followed by the files containing fascinating historical material and credible witness accounts and tantalizing details that raise more questions than they answer while the official conclusions remain “unresolved” and “no definitive determination.”

That’s been the cycle three times now and it will probably be the cycle a fourth and fifth time because the government has figured out that controlled document releases generate enormous public engagement without ever requiring them to actually confirm or deny anything definitive.

Meanwhile the documents within the files themselves contain CIA memos admitting they destroyed records, coordinated evasive answers across agencies, and implemented an official policy of debunking the UFO subject dating back to the 1950s.

The government is literally releasing proof that it has been lying about UFOs for 70 years as part of a transparency initiative and nobody in a position of authority seems to notice or care about the irony of that.

I’ll keep covering this beat because the historical material is genuinely significant and the Lohman memo alone is a smoking gun for institutional cover-up that validates what researchers have been arguing for decades.

A CIA officer admitting in writing that his agency destroyed records and was instructed to give evasive answers to avoid contradicting previous lies is the kind of document that should trigger a Congressional investigation, not get buried in a batch of 72 files on a Friday afternoon while the World Cup is starting.

But I’m also going to keep saying what I’ve been saying since the first release. Show us the aliens or admit you don’t have them. Stop the controlled drips of historical documents that raise questions without providing answers while government officials go on podcasts claiming four alien species and hybrid breeding programs that never get addressed in the actual files.

The records that were “destroyed by the evaluating agency” in 1958 belonged to the American public and whatever the CIA was hiding from Dr. Leon Davidson about “space messages and its transmitter” belongs to the American public too.

Release everything or stop pretending this is transparency, because releasing proof of your own 70-year cover-up while calling it disclosure is an insult to every American who has been paying attention.

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