NPR's Scott Detrow talks with astrophysicist Adam Frank about the government's release of files related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

UFO belief is not a religion in the traditional sense. There are no centralized leaders: no popes, no universally recognized doctrines, no sacred text and no institution capable o

The new Pentagon website includes 162 declassified files on UFOs, or unidentified aerial phenomena. Some experts wonder if they contain anything new.

Flying discs, metallic orbs, and a mysterious cylinder tumbling past the Apollo spacecraft. Those are just a few of the unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, contained in a batch of government files the Department of Defense released this month.

Some of the visuals include an amoeba-like shape captured by the US Indo-Pacific Command in 2024, a bright round shape filmed by the US Central Command in 2024, and unidentified lights in a picture taken by the Apollo 17 crew from the surface of the Moon.

Perspective: As things stand, the files say implicitly what officials won't explicitly. For now, it's all aboard the intergalactic hype train.

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A newly declassified FBI memo discussing messages from 'aliens' was part of the Trump administration's latest UFO disclosure release on Friday.