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Department of War Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files in Historic Transparency Effort
May 8, 2026
Today, the Department of War announced the initial release of new, never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
This interagency effort includes The White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Energy (DOE), the DOW's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and additional components of U.S. intelligence agencies.
The collection will be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO and additional files will be released by the Department of War on a rolling basis.
This release follows the direction of President Donald J. Trump to begin the process of identifying and declassifying government files related to UAP in the interest of total transparency. No other President or administration in history has followed through on this level of UAP transparency.
The American people can now access the federal government's declassified UAP files instantly. The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place – no clearance required.
While past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files.
The American people have asked for more transparency on these topics, and President Trump is delivering. While all of the files have been reviewed for security purposes, many of the materials have not yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government's understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it's time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration's earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency."
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: "The American people have long sought transparency about the government's knowledge of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Under President Trump's leadership, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is actively coordinating the Intelligence Community's declassification efforts with the Department of War to ensure a careful, comprehensive, and unprecedented review of our holdings to provide the American people with maximum transparency. Today's release is the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort."
FBI Director Kash Patel: "The FBI is proud to stand alongside President Trump and our interagency partners in this landmark release of UAP records.
For the first time in history, the American people have unfettered access to declassified government files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon - a level of transparency that no prior administration has delivered.
The FBI remains committed to supporting this rolling declassification effort with the same rigor and integrity we bring to every national security matter. As these files continue to be reviewed and released, the American people can be confident that their security remains our highest priority."
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman: "I applaud President Trump's whole-of-government effort to bring greater transparency to the American people on unidentified anomalous phenomena.
At NASA, our job is to bring the brightest minds and most advanced scientific instruments to bear, follow the data, and share what we learn. We will remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered.
Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge are core to NASA's mission as we endeavor to unlock the secrets of the universe."
WAR.GOV/UFO is a dedicated Department of War webpage to stay up to date with the latest UAP file releases.
https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4480582/department-of-war-releases-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-files-in-historic-t/
https://www.war.gov/ufo/
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https://x.com/JeremyCorbell/status/2052506051036229651
https://x.com/RepLuna/status/2052723548259504195
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQOHKxTDOc (Jeremy Corbell Drops Bombshell News About TRUMP'S UFO FILES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfIWRPoD_Ls (Night Shift Doomer Friday: Trump’s UFO Disclosure: The Vatican, Jesus, & the Pentagon Leaks // GUEST: Andy McGrillen)
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 8, 2026
Comet R3 PanSTARRS Before Rigel
Which way is Comet R3 PanSTARRS going? Not towards the star at the top of the image, because that is Rigel, which, being far in the background, is unrelated to the comet. Not through the nebula in the image middle, because that is the Witch Head Nebula and it, too, is far in the distance – but not far from Rigel. Not into northern skies because over the past week Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) has moved into southern skies and is now best visible in Earth's Southern Hemisphere toward the west after sunset. Angularly, Comet R3 PanSTARRS is slowly moving toward the upper right, night by night, and will soon be in the constellation Orion. Spatially, the comet is now headed out of our Solar System but should remain visible to cameras in southern skies for about a week. The featured image was captured last week near Cerro Paranal in Chile.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKezVfUeD7g
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Does an Artemis Base Camp on the Moon Represent the “New Wild West” Without Natives?
May 7, 2026
NASA targets early 2028 for the Artemis IV mission to land human astronauts on the South Pole of the Moon.
This will constitute a major milestone towards establishing a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. Is this the beginning of a new Wild West frontier without natives?
A permanent Artemis base camp on the lunar South Pole would serve as a testbed for developing technologies of power supply and resource utilization, needed for future human missions to Mars.
The base camp would offer a fresh start where a new community of astronauts may thrive, pioneering novel ways of living, similar to the American Wild West frontier.
As in the days of the Gold Rush, companies and nations will seek to exploit resources like water ice, helium-3 (a rare isotope on Earth suitable for future fusion reactors), and rare Earth elements like scandium, yttrium, and 15 lanthanides (essential for electronics and advanced technologies). Underground reserves of water ice are precious for producing drinking water, and breaking water molecules by electrolysis into their constituent oxygen (for breathing) and hydrogen (for rocket fuel).
Just as lawlessness prevailed in the American Old West, enforcement of international law will be difficult on the Moon.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (accessible here) provides a framework, but is inadequate for governing private activities or disputes (as discussed here).
Early lunar outposts by separate commercial enterprises will likely be small, isolated, and operate with a high degree of autonomy, leading to an environment where rules are made on the go, akin to early, unorganized mining camps.
Unlike Mars, the Moon never had an atmosphere and liquid water on its surface. Hence, the chemistry of life-as-we-know-it did not give rise to indigenous species of organisms.
The lunar surface may therefore be regarded as a truly virgin land, without a moral obligation to protect native occupants. This does not apply to Mars, which may have hosted a rich ecosystem of life before it lost its atmosphere two billion years ago (as discussed here).
Whereas the American Old West was settled by individuals who could survive on their own, the lethal lunar environment — as described in my recent essay here, requires technological interdependence and a major community effort.
Unlike the old American pioneers who could move West with limited means, lunar exploration is a “billionaire’s game,” accessible only to large organizations.
The hazardous lunar environment is far more dangerous to human health than that encountered by early American settlers, as it is bombarded by energetic cosmic-rays and micrometeorites (as discussed here), exposes shadowed regions to extremely cold temperatures (down to several tens of degrees above absolute zero), possess a low surface -gravity which triggers substantial bone mass loss in the human body over periods of years (as discussed here), and is covered by sharp shards of rock akin to broken glass (as discussed here).
The international legal system must update its agreements for space exploration, beyond the 60-year-old Outer Space Treaty (available here).
A much more major update will be needed once humanity will become ambitious enough to pursue destinations beyond the Solar System. Such ambitions will likely be pursued by space robots with artificial intelligence.
They will represent a completely “new Wild West,” since international law does not apply in interstellar space — which may belong to other technological civilizations.
If we find out that our backyard in the Solar System was invaded by alien technological probes, we will be inspired to visit the backyard of their senders. The Galileo Project under my leadership searches for such probes in its data sets.
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/does-an-artemis-base-camp-on-the-moon-represent-the-new-wild-west-without-natives-9364b9743324
https://x.com/RepLuna/status/2052035051873882214
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasas-artemis-2-astronauts-saw-flashes-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon-that-cameras-struggle-to-capture-heres-why-scientists-are-excited
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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/the-charred-hull-of-artemis-2s-orion-space-photo-of-the-day-for-may-8-2026
https://www.firstpost.com/world/in-photos-beyond-the-cradle-the-artemis-ii-mission-in-pictures-14008876.html
https://kottke.org/26/05/animated-artemis-ii-photos-reveal-satellites-buzzing-around-earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArDi7Y20cto
NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far side of the moon that cameras struggle to capture. Here's why scientists are excited
May 8, 2026
The Artemis 2 astronauts remained vigilant while zipping around the far side of the moon last month, on the ready to record meteoroid impact flashes on the lunar landscape.
Their diligence was rewarded. The four crewmembers reported seeing several impact flashes — flickers of light created when a meteoroid hits the lunar surface and vaporizes.
"These observations were made with the unaided eye.
It's extremely difficult to capture impact flashes with a camera, which is one of the benefits of sending trained crew to observe the moon," Kelsey Young, NASA Artemis 2 lunar science lead, told Space.com.
"Early data indicates that the impact flashes were observed on the far side of the moon."
Citizen scientists help out
Artemis 2, the first crewed moon flight since Apollo 17 in 1972, launched from Florida's Space Coast on April 1 and flew around the far side of the moon on April 6.
As the astronauts scrutinized the moon that day, so did citizen scientists here on Earth. They were also looking for impact hits, although they would likely not have spotted the same ones as the crew.
Those observations were gathered as part of the newly launched Impact Flash citizen science project under the auspices of the Geophysical Exploration of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Solar System (GEODES), a unit within the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute.
The Impact Flash effort is geared to gather more data on the location and brightness of flashes throughout recent and upcoming Artemis moon missions.
"These flashes are vital to scientists who study the moon," notes the Impact Flash website.
"By tracking when and where they happen, scientists can learn how often impacts of different sizes occur, what kinds of craters they create, and how the shock waves travel through the moon's interior."
When combined with data from NASA's moon-circuiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), future lunar surface instruments, and crew observations, the citizen science observations "can provide valuable constraints on the origin and characteristics of impactors, as well as craters that form from the impacts," Young said.
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Observation window
The Artemis 2 astronauts' impact-flash observation window extended out onto the lunar near side in darkness, Benjamin Fernando, of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, told Space.com.
In a paper posted earlier this year on the preprint server EarthArXiv, Fernando and colleagues reported that coordinated impact flash observations seen both from Earth and from lunar flyby/orbit will allow more detailed information to be gathered about the timing, location and dynamics of flashes than is possible from either method alone.
Joint observation campaigns enable researchers to better constrain the impact flux on the moon and also the associated impact hazard on the lunar surface, Fernando and his colleagues concluded.
Moon base implications
Updated knowledge about the meteoroid impact flux also plays into planning for Artemis Base Camp, the outpost NASA plans to build near the moon's south pole.
"To design for longevity, one must account for the myriad environmental hazards that a long-duration outpost will face — among them radiation, extreme thermal cycling, regolith dynamics, seismic shaking, dust, and, of particular importance to this work, impacts," notes a 2025 study led by Daniel Yahalomi, now a Torres Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.
The lunar south pole offers a natural reduction in impact risk relative to equatorial sites, according to the study, "supporting its selection for sustained human presence."
Furthermore, currently available shielding technology "is sufficient to suppress micrometeoroid hazards by nearly five orders of magnitude, reducing the effective risk to a manageable level for current habitat designs," Yahalomi and his research colleagues concluded.
Big science haul
Hunting for impact flashes was one of many science tasks for the astronauts during their historic April 6 flyby.
The Artemis 2 Lunar Science Team remains busy analyzing the mission's science haul — gathered with the aid of 31 cameras aboard the Orion capsule "Integrity" — and archiving it all on NASA's Planetary Data System.
"Within six months, all imagery of the Earth and moon taken by crew and vehicle cameras, audio recordings of the crew's science observations, and accompanying transcripts will be publicly available for the broader science community to analyze," Wasserman said.
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NASA Welcomes Paraguay as 67th Artemis Accords Signatory
May 07, 2026
The Republic of Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday during a ceremony in Asunción, becoming the latest nation to commit to the shared principles guiding civil space exploration.
“Today, I am proud to welcome Paraguay as the 67th signatory to the Artemis Accords,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
“They join an ever-growing coalition of like-minded nations committed to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of space. Established by President Trump in his first term, the Artemis Accords provided the principles for how we explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Now, with his national space policy, we are putting the Artemis Accords into practice with our Moon Base. We are creating opportunities for all Artemis Accords signatories, including Paraguay, to join us on the lunar surface and advance our shared objectives in this next era of exploration.”
U.S. Embassy Asunción Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Aaron Pratt shared Isaacman’s remarks during the ceremony. Minister President of the Paraguayan Space Agency Osvaldo Almirón Riveros signed on behalf of Paraguay.
“The signing of the Artemis Accords represents a historic milestone for Paraguay and reflects our commitment to international cooperation, the peaceful use of outer space, scientific development, and the advancement of national space capabilities,” said Almirón Riveros.
“This step strengthens Paraguay’s position within the global space community and opens new opportunities for research, innovation, and sustainable development.”
The Paraguayan Space Agency was established in 2014 and has worked to develop capabilities in satellite technology and Earth observation, including with international partners. Its first satellite, GuaraníSat‑1, launched from the International Space Station in 2021.
The agency now is preparing to launch its second satellite, GuaraníSat‑2, in October aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission was developed with collaborators from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other partners.
In 2020, the United States, led by NASA and the U.S. State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar activities by both governments and private companies.
The Artemis Accords introduced the first set of practical principles aimed at enhancing the safety and coordination between like-minded nations as they explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Signing the Artemis Accords means committing to explore peaceably and transparently, to render aid to those in need, to enable access to scientific data that all of humanity can learn from, to ensure activities do not interfere with those of others, and to preserve historically significant sites and artifacts by developing best practices for space exploration for the benefit of all.
More countries are expected to sign the Artemis Accords in the months and years ahead, as NASA continues its work to establish a safe, peaceful, and prosperous future in space.
https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/oiir/artemis-accords/nasa-welcomes-paraguay-as-67th-artemis-accords-signatory/
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