Fifty-one videos. Six PDFs. Seven NASA audio files. The Pentagon dumped batch two of its UAP archive onto WAR.GOV/UFO and the resolution is roughly that of a security camera pointed at my future.
Most of it is FLIR footage, which means black-and-white smudges moving across black-and-white smudges. Sean Parnell calls this "declassified." I'd call it a Rorschach test with a budget.
The standout is a November 2022 clip from near Columbus, Ohio. An indistinct blob tilts sideways and vanishes. According to Dr. Pell Vandermeer of the Midwest Bureau for Inconclusive Aerial Smudges, 83.4% of objects that "tilt and vanish" in infrared are seagulls with depth perception issues. The other 16.6% are also seagulls.
Credit where it's due — one video does finally show the thing shot down over Lake Huron in 2023. Three years to release a clip I could have filmed by sneezing on my phone. Genuinely useful. Genuinely too late for anyone who cared at the time, several of whom are no longer with us.
The standout document covers 209 sightings of "green orbs," "disks" and "fireballs" near a military base between 1948 and 1950. Seventy-six years to confirm someone saw a fireball. France is hosting a conference about all this on June 29. Batch three arrives in two weeks. I'll watch it. Probably more birds.
Based on the original article "2nd batch of Pentagon UAP files: Over 50 videos to watch".
