UFO Whistleblowers Are Free to Speak. Just Not to You.
New oversight panels and a whistleblower memo raise the stakes, but a still-unreleased helicopter encounter report leaves the biggest question untouched.
Editorial
Editorials take a deeper dive into the stories that interest us, synthesizing the facts into a clear viewpoint.
Roswell Grows Up
The Roswell mythology spent the 2000s losing its key witnesses and its fabricated evidence. Then the government quietly started studying UFOs again. Then it started admitting things. We still don't know what Mac Brazel found.
The Mythology Machine
Between 1978 and 2000, Roswell transformed from a forgotten local incident into the defining UFO event in American history. Some of that transformation was accidental. Some of it was manufactured by people working for the government, who later confessed.
The Long Silence
For 30 years after the 1947 incident, the weather balloon explanation held. Not because it was convincing, but because the government built something to make it hold.
72 Hours in Roswell
On the morning of July 8, 1947, the U.S. Army announced it had captured a flying saucer. By evening, it hadn't. What happened in between, and in the nine days before, is one of the most documented non-explanations in American institutional history.
Viewing the Latest UFO Press Briefing in Context
Editorial background on June 9 press briefing that put pressure on the Trump administration to declassify UAP files that contain more revealing information about bodies and craft of nonhuman origin.
Recovered Non-Human Biologics Include Bipedal Bodies and Sentient Plasma Life
For years the question was whether any of the UAP reports contained evidence of alien life. Now there's a species count, a case count, and a description government officials have never spoken about.