Pentagon declassifies 12 new UAP incident reports from 2019-2022 period

Just saw this come through the wire - the US Department of Defense has released a new batch of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena reports covering the 2019-2022 period. Nothing mega dramatic in the headlines, but some of the incident details are interesting. Most are military pilot sightings over recognised airspace, a couple involve civilian reports that got picked up by official channels.

The reports are fairly heavily redacted (shocking, I know), but you can still extract some useful information from the incident descriptions. There's a cluster of sightings around a military installation in the southwest US that shows some similar characteristics - speed, manoeuvrability, electromagnetic effects on aircraft systems.

The question is whether the UK government is going to follow suit with their own disclosures. We know we've got documented incidents (Rendlesham, RAF Bentwaters, various pilot reports), but official transparency has been basically non-existent. With the Americans moving toward openness, there's political pressure building. Reckon we'll see UK UAP reports released in the next year or so?

The UK government will never voluntarily release what they actually know. They're ideologically committed to the 'there's nothing to see here' position. Only way we get disclosure is through Freedom of Information Act requests, leaked documents, or if the Americans publish something that makes suppression impossible. Even then, we'll get heavily redacted versions.

The 2022 US UAP report was basically a non-event though - loads of 'we don't know what these are' statements, no smoking gun evidence, mostly just military observations that don't fit standard explanations. The real interesting stuff is probably still classified. The UK government is following the same strategy - release enough to show we're being transparent, but nothing that actually explains anything.

There's a cluster of sightings around a military installation in the southwest US that shows some similar characteristics

That's almost certainly Nellis Air Force Base or one of the Nevada facilities. That's where a lot of black budget testing happens anyway. Could be undisclosed US military tech being tested, could be something else. The electromagnetic effects on aircraft systems are the most interesting detail - suggests some kind of advanced propulsion or energy system we don't have.

I think the US disclosure strategy is about controlling the narrative before something happens they can't control. If there's genuine contact or a sighting becomes public knowledge that they can't suppress, better to have already started releasing information gradually. The UK's probably waiting to see how the US rollout plays out before deciding their own approach.