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OrgThe New York Times is an American newspaper and global digital news organization whose 2017 reporting helped transform UAP into a sustained national-security story.
The New York Times is an American newspaper and global digital news organization whose 2017 reporting helped transform UAP into a sustained national-security story.
The New York Times is an American newspaper founded in 1851 and published by The New York Times Company. Its newsroom reports across politics, international affairs, science, culture, business, and investigations, supported by foreign and domestic bureaus. The Times’s agenda-setting reach means that publication can move a subject from specialist communities into mainstream institutional debate.
Investigative work at the newspaper combines interviews, documents, editorial review, legal scrutiny, and requests for official comment. Its authority is substantial but not self-proving; unnamed sources, compressed explanations, and later corrections still require close reading. Follow-up reporting is particularly important when an initial story reveals a program whose name, purpose, or bureaucratic status remains disputed.
In December 2017 the Times reported on a Pentagon-funded aerospace program, military UFO encounters, and videos later officially released by the Defense Department. The story brought AATIP, Luis Elizondo, Robert Bigelow, and Navy cases to a vast audience, helping establish modern UAP coverage. Later debate showed that AAWSAP and AATIP terminology, leadership, and scope were more complicated than early public accounts suggested.
The Times’s institutional role was not to prove an extraterrestrial explanation but to make official attention, funding, and military testimony newsworthy. Its reporting created pressure for government acknowledgment and opened a beat followed by many outlets. The enduring record includes both that breakthrough and the obligation to refine the story as documents and conflicting institutional histories emerged. The episode also demonstrates how high-impact journalism can create durable terminology before the underlying bureaucracy is fully understood. Later articles, public records, and corrections are part of the same institutional contribution. A responsible history credits the initial reporting while incorporating the distinctions that subsequent evidence made possible.
What Is Out There? The Findings So Far of a Trump-Backed U.F.O. Panel.
[Retweeted] New York Times coverage today of the UAP Science Advisory Council, with @GarryPNolan, Peter Skafish, and @ProfAviLoeb. Thanks to @dannyhakim for his engagement with the Sol Foundation and the council. https://t.co/JCHYUMil0W
New York Times reports that President Trump’s UAP advisory council is examining newly released government UAP records but so far the documents have offered little new information. https://t.co/2MjgCgxsD2 https://t.co/Az4yu5iFYd
[Retweeted] 💥New York Times💥 "Two federal agents were tasked in 2023 with investigating drone activity around sensitive sites in the western United States. On a clear October night, they came across a series of fast-moving lights." #ufotwitter https://t.co/RCwkxEzqPw
[Retweeted] New York Times coverage today of the UAP Science Advisory Council, with @GarryPNolan, Peter Skafish, and @ProfAviLoeb. Thanks to @dannyhakim for his engagement with the Sol Foundation and the council. https://t.co/JCHYUMil0W
Tom DeLonge deserves credit for UAP transparency. His work organizing To The Stars Academy (TTSA) helped bring Navy sensor videos into mainstream debate through the December 2017 New York Times reporting. That achievement does not require accepting the threat-centered lore of Sekret Machines. The question is whether disclosure and a commercial mythology became too closely entangled. AI assistance disclosure: I take notes while watching interviews, then revisit transcripts to extract relevant...
Comparing what @GarryPNolan said to what Grusch claimed? What IF the dead, albino, human-looking beings were avatars and we have yet to see the actual intellig [Quoted] David Grusch on Joe Rogan podcast, 9-30-26, claimed he saw and "confirmed independently" video of very "human-looking" and "very, very beautiful" dead aliens at a UFO crash. The New York Times, 10-2-26: "[Dr. Garry Nolan's] not expecting aliens with two arms and two legs. 'That was just a happenstance of something that happene...
Archive link: https://archive.ph/4r6f8 The alien hunters are in charge now. Or at least President Trump has stocked a new advisory council on U.F.O.s with a number of scientists who embrace the idea that alien technology may be lurking among us. The new panel was created this summer amid the administration’s rollout of government records about “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or U.A.P.s, as they are now officially called. It’s tasked with helping unlock the mysteries of such objects. “Even...
There have been some claims that UFOs are being secretly lured by the U.S. military to specific sites and then forced down by EMP weapons for retrieval and exploitation of their technology. Make of that what you will, what we do know is that 11 years after Roswell there was a clandestine series of three nuclear explosions, conducted on 27 August, 30 August, and 6 September 1958, in space over the South Atlantic Ocean to test the potential to create an EMP-like barrier around the Earth. These...
We have had 6 government releases. Ross Coulthart has had several interviews. Lou Elizondo, David Grusch and Dylan Borland have all piped in. But where do we stand? How far have we come since the 2017 New York Times article? Has disclosure occurred? Or are we still awaiting some fundamental disclosure? I think the government has demonstrated that there are craft that defy explanation but what do we know about the occupants (the NHI)? What are their intentions? We have physical evidence of cra...