Trump admin releases highly anticipated files documenting UFOs, 'extraterrestrial life'

By Fox News · Fox News

FIRST ON FOX — The Trump administration on Friday released a batch of "never-before-seen" files and videos on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) as part of an effort to increase transparency on government knowledge of extraterrestrial phenomena. "The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place – no clearance required. While past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files," the White House said in a statement to Fox News. The release is a function of President Donald Trump's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) program. Photos from the initial disclosure, which a White House official told Fox News is the first of a series of releases, show strangely shaped objects captured on film during the Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 space missions. One photo taken from the surface of the moon appears to show a cluster of three tiny dots in the sky. TRUMP SAYS FIRST RELEASES FROM PENTAGON UFO STUDY WILL COME OUT 'VERY, VERY SOON' AFTER PHOENIX RALLY TEASE A transcript of communications between Apollo 17 operators released in the disclosure Friday details the operators' exchange over the unknown phenomenon. "Now we've got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver," an operator told the command center. "Roger. Understand," the center replied. UFO COVER USED BY GOVERNMENT TO ‘HIDE A LOT OF THINGS,’ FORMER NASA AGENT SAYS "There's a whole bunch of big ones on my window down there - just bright. It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window," another operator added. "Yes. Now you can see some of them in shape. They're very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling," the first operator said. Another pair of photos from the rele…