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[Watch (HLS stream): UAPs and Government Secrets: What is Finally being Disclosed?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/zgjZ3ow9.m3u8) (5:27)  _Published 2026-08-11_ --- Aug 11, 2026 9:31 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Salaries of 5 Work-From-Home Jobs](/video/xwo8TQr6/) ### Salaries of 5 Work-From-Home Jobs [How the NBA Salary Cap Works](/video/m2XdNMDn/) ### How the NBA Salary Cap Works [Careerist: Disclosing Salary in an Interview](/video/TC3uueEH/) ### Careerist: Disclosing Salary in an Interview --- ## Transcript What does the US government know about UFOs or life on other planets? For generations, the question has been asked and answered in art, books, film and television, and Washington is prying into the issue with increasing focus. Welcome to the first annual Disclosure Forum. I'm here at an event called the Disclosure Forum. We're hearing from academics, business leaders, religious leaders and politicians who are calling for greater government transparency or disclosure. At the heart of this forum were the hundreds of reports that have been in government storage unavailable to the public for decades. I think reports of civilian and military accounts of flying, hovering, blinking objects that appeared in the daytime or more often, nighttime skies. In May 2026, President Trump began releasing these files, ordering that they be posted directly on a Department of Defense website. We're releasing a lot of information having to do with extraterrestrial terrestrial Things and people are totally fascinated by it. After decades of secrecy, stigma, and sometimes silliness, the government has begun taking things seriously. What used to be called UFOs and now go by UAPs or unidentified anomalous phenomena are being given the full investigatory treatment. Congressional hearings were held in 2022 and 2023. UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported. These sightings are not rare or isolated. They are routine. In 2022, the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office was established to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest, especially on or around military bases and installations. In December 2023, then President Joe Biden signed into law the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act as part of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. The UAP portion of the law requires collection, preservation, review, and public disclosure of all evidence of relevant sightings and encounters. And just this past June, the white House established the UAP Science Advisory Council to study the national security risks posed by UAPs. The real test is that we will come up with a clearer understanding of UAP so everyone would know what we are talking about. Last year, the nonprofit Disclosure Foundation was launched with the aim of encouraging the release of UAP reports and formulating government policy related to UAPs. On June 25th, 2026, the foundation convened the Capitol Hill Forum. The day long event featured political figures from both sides of the aisle throughout the day. Experts discuss the technological, national security, economic, psychological, and even religious implications of UAPs. Today, experts that rarely occupy the same room are gathered here in this room to discuss a subject that was, until very recently, untouchable. The speakers acknowledge that in some respects they were there at their peril. Since publicly discussing the matter of flying saucers still carries some reputational risk. You're black from Indiana, you're Muslim, and now you're talking about UAPs. But it's a measure of the growing public interest in the phenomena and the mounting evidence that something is out there, that more and more serious people are willing to take that risk. One of the most compelling pieces of evidence is the so-called Tic TAC incident, which occurred off the coast of Southern California in 2004 during an otherwise routine deployment that year. Radar personnel belonging to the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group repeatedly noticed the reflection of a skittering airborne object they could not explain to crack the mystery. A team of flyers was scrambled into the sky. Once aloft, they discovered what they estimated to be a 45 foot long flying machine that bore a striking resemblance to a tic tac breath mint. The belief seems to be bipartisan, According to a poll conducted by the Disclosure Foundation just weeks before the Capitol Hill Forum. 84% of respondents want more information from the government on UAPs. 69% believe UAPs are real. 59% support hearings and transparency laws. And just 21% trust the federal government to be telling the complete truth. The responses cut across party lines. A statistically meaningless 1%, separates the whopping 89% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats who say they want more information on UAPs. UAP transparency has a fixed end point. The government will tell all it knows, the sightings will be investigated, and their origins will be determined to be terrestrial, highly advanced military or other assets, or epically extraterrestrial. Whether the stuff of science fiction becomes the stuff of true life, who can say? 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