---
title: "Pentagon Launches Website to Watch Declassified UFO Videos"
description: "The Pentagon's UFO office has launched a website featuring all its declassified UFO videos — but proof of aliens will have to wait."
date: "2023-09-02"
modified: "2023-09-02"
authors:
  - name: "Noor Al-Sibai"
    job_title: "Senior Staff Writer"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-website-declassified-ufo-videos"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "the digest"
  - "the pentagon"
  - "uaps"
  - "ufos"
---

# Pentagon Launches Website to Watch Declassified UFO Videos

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*Alien abduction, conceptual artwork. \<em\>Image: Getty Images\</em\>*

## Military Matters

Thanks to a new website for the Pentagon's UFO office, you won't have to go painstakingly through the [*New York Times'* leak archives](<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html>) to watch all the military's declassified videos of what the government is now calling "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs.

This week, the [Department of Defense announced](<https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3513171/the-department-of-defense-launches-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-web/>) the launch of the [All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office](<https://www.aaro.mil/>) (AARO) homepage, which not only has all eight of the Pentagon's declassified UAP videos but also provides a place for government and military employees to report their own brushes with strange objects in the sky.

"This website will provide information, including photos and videos, on resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and approved for public release," a DOD press release reads.

Of course, the information provided is as sparse as one would expect from a site with a ".mil" address. In one particularly unsettling video, which was shot by a Naval pilot in 2021 and [declassified in 2022](<https://www.dvidshub.net/video/843620/navy-2021-flyby-video>), a strange spherical object zooms past the camera at a seemingly impossible speed — and the description on the AARO site merely reads that it "demonstrates the typical speed at which military aircraft may approach an unknown object."

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## Food Chain

Alongside the AARO site acting as a video and information hub, its capacity as a place for government workers to submit their own sightings to the Pentagon will likely help simplify the [UAP reporting process](<https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/us-navy-guidelines-reporting-ufos-1375290>), which previously required official documentation at multiple stages up the chain of command and basically seemed like a pain.

Of course, there's one caveat so giant that it's almost invisible: all of the Pentagon's UAP intelligence and documentation comes from military or government employees, which means that anyone who's had credible sightings outside the government is not under the AARO's current purview.

"Today, these same UAP are still being seen; we still don't know what they are; and our government has no idea of the scope of the problem," ex-Naval pilot and Congressional UFO whistleblower Ryan Graves [wrote in *Newsweek*](<https://www.newsweek.com/my-testimony-congress-uap-was-tip-iceberg-opinion-1817377>) earlier this summer. "That's because pilots, both commercial and military, are encountering UAP, and the majority of these cases are going unreported."

If you're hoping to see proof of aliens on a military-run website, you're out of luck — but nevertheless, these videos and the information the Pentagon says it will soon release about historical UFO/UAP sightings are intriguing indeed.

**More on UFOs:** [*NASA's JPL Director Weighs in on Those UFO Hearings*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-jpl-director-ufos>)

## Author
At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow.

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