Newly declassified NASA transcripts describing 'bright particles or fragments' drifting past an Apollo spacecraft have resurfaced in the United States this month as part of a fresh Pentagon release on unidentified anomalous phenomena, reigniting speculation over whether the files amount to proof of alien life.
The latest material is the second batch published under a transparency drive ordered by the US Congress in 2022. The programme requires the Pentagon to organise and declassify decades of reports on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, ranging from Cold War radar blips to modern cockpit footage and astronaut logs. Since early May, officials say the online archive has drawn more than a billion visits, even as they stress that none of the files confirms an extraterrestrial origin.
