The Gazette reports that the Department of Defense finally released a batch of UFO/UAP files, and somehow managed to disappoint the people whose whole hobby is staring into the sky and saying, “Okay, but what the hell was that?”
That’s it. Formally. Everyone is now mad at this administration. Taxpayers, border hawks, climate cultists, student-loan beggars, defense nerds, and now Colorado’s UFO investigators. When even the saucer people are looking at the federal government and saying, “This disclosure rollout is bullshit,” you have achieved full-spectrum incompetence.
Seth Feinstein, Colorado state director and Northwest regional director for the Mutual UFO Network, told The Gazette he didn’t think the public got “a lot of real stuff” from the Pentagon’s file dump. He called the release less than forthright and said he was “very disappointed.”
MUFON, according to Feinstein, has researched about 147,000 cases worldwide. Its field investigators look into sightings, photos, reports of lost time, and alleged abductions. Feinstein said he has worked on 570 cases through the group’s photo analysis team.
So this is not some guy in a basement wearing a Reynolds Wrap crown and yelling at NORAD through a ham radio. This is a UFO researcher saying the government’s big transparency moment looked like a yard sale of maybe-balloons, camera artifacts, and “please clap” leftovers.
The Pentagon even dressed the dedicated release site up with stylized X-Files-looking text, because apparently Washington now thinks disclosure means slapping spooky fonts on bureaucratic leftovers like a middle-school PowerPoint about Area 51.
One of the modern videos, from 2013, showed an object that looked like an eight-pointed star. Former Pentagon anomaly office director Sean Kirkpatrick told the Associated Press it was likely a jet engine producing a diffraction pattern in the camera.
Translation: congratulations, America, after decades of secrecy, congressional pressure, classified briefings, whistleblower drama, and public curiosity, your government has bravely released what may be a blurry engine fart wearing a snowflake costume.
This is classic federal transparency theater. They don’t open the vault. They crack a broom closet, toss out a few dusty binders, cue the “trust us” music, and act like they just handed humanity the keys to the cosmos.
Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican pushing for more disclosure, told NewsNation he expects more files every two weeks and suggested the first batch may just be low-hanging fruit found through obvious search terms. Great. The Pentagon’s first UFO dump may have been powered by Ctrl-F.
And don’t miss the punchline: Feinstein is still trying to be gracious. He said it’s good the DOD released something and maybe they’ll do better next time. That is the civic equivalent of watching a dog drive a forklift into a Chili’s and saying, “Well, at least he attempted transportation.”
MUFON says only about 4% to 5% of cases end up classified as unknown. They do not label objects as alien spacecraft. They rule out planes, balloons, camera quirks, timing, elevation, and normal explanations before saying, “We don’t know.”
In other words, the UFO people are showing more methodological restraint than half the government task forces in Colorado. Imagine that: the folks investigating possible spaceships are more careful with conclusions than the policy goblins who blame every self-inflicted disaster on “equity,” “climate,” or “a lack of funding.”
And this lands especially funny in Colorado, where Colorado Springs, El Paso County, aerospace, military installations, and sky-watching weirdness all live in the same political terrarium. We’ve got Space Command drama, defense contractors, mountain skies, and enough Front Range paranoia to power a small moon base.
Normal Coloradans can handle “we don’t know.” What they’re sick of is government pretending “we don’t know” requires a spooky website, a managed rollout, and another promise that the good stuff is definitely coming later.
If the Pentagon’s UFO transparency can’t even satisfy Colorado’s UFO investigators, maybe the real unidentified anomalous phenomenon is a federal agency telling the whole truth on the first try.
Source: The Gazette
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