So, the Pentagon’s seventh tranche of UFO files has been released today (Oct. 23, 2026). Interestingly, it includes new revelations about a triangular UFO witnessed this year by federal law enforcement agents.

This is a recurring theme, and for good reason: The triangular UFOs are probably top-secret Pentagon weapons using an alternative, or unconventional, propulsion technology. I hesitate to call it an “advanced” propulsion technology because we have likely possessed this capability for decades.

It’s also telling that there are never any decent photos or videos accompanying recent reports of triangular UFOs. Maybe the reason we haven’t seen any photographic or video evidence of these triangular objects is because these are all top-secret Pentagon weapons and revealing them to the public also would be revealing them to our adversaries, constituting a major national security crisis? After all, it is still technically illegal to publicly disclose secret military weapons.

Meanwhile, the people filing the reports and compiling the Pentagon’s UFO web site don’t have a need to know, and neither do Congress, the president and the vast majority of military officials. Some media reports assert that government officials have “ruled out” the possibility that the triangular objects are U.S. military weapons. So, would you expect the Pentagon to admit that it has these top-secret weapons? They wouldn’t be secret then, right?

In the most recent tranche of Pentagon files, FBI agents reported observing, at low altitude, a small triangular craft flying over mountainous terrain in 2026. It was a silent, matte-black triangular craft exhibiting controlled, precise movements and unusual flight dynamics without any conventional propulsion or acoustic signature.

The craft had a nonreflective surface and the following estimated dimensions: 13–15 foot wingspan, 6–9 foot fuselage length, 1–2 foot vertical thickness.

It maintained perfect horizontal alignment during ascent—no tilt, sway, or wobble. The craft ascended vertically about 200–300 feet in roughly 10 seconds, then hovered for around 20 seconds. It transitioned smoothly into high-speed horizontal flight, performing a banking maneuver and terrain-hugging descent at speeds comparable to a fighter jet. During banking, its silhouette appeared flattened and more triangular.

At one point, the object descended into a canyon drainage while following terrain contours. Witnesses observed it from a primary observation post, while another witness was at a secondary observation post. The estimated distance to the object was between 1.4 and 3.2 miles west of the observation post.

There was no detectable sound — no engine noise, rotor hum, air displacement, or friction sounds.

The specific location names, observation-post identifiers, and geographic references are blacked out throughout the report. What can be determined from the visible text is that the event took place in the United States and FBI personnel were conducting observations from an observation post when they detected and visually observed the object.

(Here is a link to that report: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release-07/documents/DOW-UAP-D176-Triangular_UAP_AARO_MFR_2026.pdf )

Let’s get one thing straight: The black triangle UFOs are not illusions. They’ve been seen by too many credible witnesses, from cops to accountants, schoolteachers to military officials.

These things have been observed at low altitude. During a series of encounters in 2000 in rural Illinois, police said the object floated silently across the sky and then darted from place to place, showing instantaneous acceleration.

Again, they observed this at low altitude. One officer attempted to take a photo of it with his crime-scene Polaroid camera. It’s of very poor quality, but it does capture the pattern of lights in the rear of the craft. Something was there.

We have the Hudson Valley sightings in the 1980s, where, again, police officers and many witnesses observed a very similar object: a large, delta-shape craft that glided overhead with no audible sound.

We have the Belgium UFO flap of 1989-1990, where military pilots attempted to intercept some of these UFOs.

We have the Phoenix lights in 1997, an astonishing event in the annals of ufology in which none other than the governor of the state witnessed a huge triangular craft fly directly overhead. He and other observers described the object in detail. They didn’t just see lights; they saw a structured craft.

So, after several decades of such sightings and encounters, it is very likely that our military and intelligence agencies have gathered evidence in the form of photos and videos. Yet we’ve seen none. The only kinds of photos and videos that have been released thus far are nondescript dots and blurry blobs that could be anything.

Meanwhile, we continue to have a steady flow of disinformation from former military and intelligence officials. These stories include allegations that:

1. Extraterrestrials are inhabiting the earth’s oceans.
2. A bunch of space aliens have crash-landed on earth.
3. The U.S. military is reverse-engineering E.T. spacecraft tech.
4. The bodies of space aliens have been recovered.
5. Various species of space aliens are visiting the earth.

Of course, such tall tales are never accompanied by any actual hard evidence. It’s one of those “trust-me” things.

Let’s assume such disinformation is designed to cloud the issue, drawing public scrutiny away from secret Pentagon weapons and the sprawling “black budget” that conceals them. Hey, if it’s space aliens, it couldn’t be the Pentagon, right? Or, maybe it’s China or Russia, some dubious information sources have suggested, leaving aside the fact that the so-called Tic Tac encounter happened in 2004, and you have to assume that if these authoritarian countries possessed such a technology more than twenty years ago we would have seen it in military applications by now.

No, only the Pentagon has the discipline, continuity of purpose, resources and wherewithal to maintain such a military conspiracy of perhaps unprecedented scale and duration.

When Barack Obama recently declared in some talk-show venue that “government” is terrible at keeping secrets, I’m sure he’s right about Congress and the executive branch, which tend to leak like a collective sieve. However, he is NOT correct if by “government” he means to include the Pentagon, an agency well skilled in the art of subterfuge.

The stealth fighter was developed in complete secrecy. The public didn’t even know it existed until its maiden mission.

And space aliens were not responsible for temporarily shutting down U.S. missile facilities in the 1960s. Based on excellent reporting in the Wall Street Journal, we now know this was the Pentagon, employing a classified electromagnetic-pulse technology to test whether the missile systems could withstand a direct hit from a Soviet nuke. This was never revealed to the public, and we still don’t know what kind of platform was used to put this electromagnetic system in place over these missile bases.

The SR-71 and the U-2 were operated covertly for several years, with disinformation and black-budget secrecy shielding them from public view.  Meanwhile, commercial pilots were reporting these planes as UFOs because they outperformed any known aircraft.

So, yes, the Pentagon is fully capable of keeping secrets, especially big ones.

Despite seven tranches of UFO files, there has not been one iota of hard evidence for any of the sensational claims by so-called “whistleblowers” publishing books and giving interviews to the media. There have been no pictures of dead aliens or crashed spacecraft. There is no evidence of reverse-engineered technology and absolutely nothing to indicate that planet earth is being visited by various species of extraterrestrials.

Perhaps this is because the whole extraterrestrial hypothesis is incorrect, at best, and an elaborate, decades-long sham-conspiracy at worst?

Considering everything, it’s time to pause the extraterrestrial hypothesis for UFOs and begin to fully entertain the terrestrial hypothesis. For example, the “Tic Tac” object encountered in 2004 by Navy pilots over a U.S. military training range, is, in fact, a U.S. military platform. That’s why it was observed there. Furthermore, the fact that this encounter took place over a training range would suggest that these are not “experimental aircraft,” but operational platforms.

This terrestrial hypothesis also proposes that the Pentagon has likely developed various top-secret platforms and that these weapons are entirely unknown to Congress, the president, the public and even other military officials who lack a need to know.

Logically, then, the terrestrial hypothesis would suggest that a whole bizarre inventory of encounters involving U.S. military personnel and civilians alike have always been top-secret Pentagon technologies known only to a small circle with an appropriate security clearance.  Everything from those flying saucers over Washington, D.C., in 1952 – possibly a demonstration ordered by President Truman, much as he had ordered a similar demonstration of the flying wing aircraft in 1949  – to the UFOs that disabled nuclear missile launch systems, the huge triangular thing over the Hudson Valley, the Phoenix lights, another huge triangular thing encountered by police officers in rural Illinois, the flying disc over Chicago O’Hare in 2006, the Tic Tacs, etc., etc.

According to this terrestrial hypothesis, then, there simply can’t be UFO transparency because the UFOs are top-secret U.S. weapons, so disclosure would constitute a national security crisis by exposing these weapons. 

As to why the Pentagon would sometimes be flying these weapons over populated areas, perhaps it’s real-world training, a “living lab” to perfect tactics and to study how well they perform against state-of-the-art, white-world technologies like F-16s. There have been examples of military training exercises taking place over populated areas. This excellent article in The War Zone documents one such exercise over Los Angeles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38753/those-mysterious-gray-helicopters-were-landing-on-multiple-downtown-la-rooftops-last-night

Here is a relevant excerpt from the excellent War Zone article:

“There is no substitute for the real thing, though, especially for aviation units. A “live” urban area, especially one as big and bustling as the greater Los Angeles area, is full of real-life potential hazards and bystanders, from power lines to other helicopters, which need to be navigated around. Atmospheric conditions, including the bright lights of the city, can impact what pilots see through their night vision goggles, as well. Buildings like James K. Hahn City Hall East and the towers at California Plaza provide a valuable break from routine training involving landing and taking off from and otherwise flying around better-known structures, no matter how realistic they might be, at established training facilities.”

So, there is precedent for covert military training in real-world environments like U.S. cities.

Moreover, the terrestrial hypothesis proposes that the Pentagon has made a series of technological breakthroughs in propulsion going all the way back to the first important UFO sighting, that of Kenneth Arnold in 1947. These technologies are so unconventional they could easily be mistaken for something from another planet, but they are not necessarily new at all.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), has alluded to this possibility in his writings and statements. He and an official AARO report reviewing sightings and encounters since 1945, have unequivocally stated that witnesses, including members of the military, have unwittingly observed top-secret technologies and have mistaken these systems for extraterrestrial visitation.

Here are some excerpts from the AARO “Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)” published in February 2024:

• AARO assesses that some portion of sightings since the 1940s have represented misidentification of never-before-seen experimental and operational space, rocket, and air systems, including stealth technologies and the proliferation of drone platforms.

• AARO concludes many of these programs represent authentic, current and former sensitive, national security programs, but none of these programs have been involved with capturing, recovering, or reverse-engineering off-world technology or material.

• In many cases, the interviewees named authentic USG (U.S. government) classified programs well-known and understood to those appropriately accessed to them in the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch; however, the interviewees mistakenly associated these authentic USG programs with alien and extraterrestrial activity. 

• AARO assesses that all of the named and described alleged hidden UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by interviewees either do not exist; are misidentified authentic, highly-sensitive national security programs that are not related to extraterrestrial technology exploitation …

• The interviewees and others who have mistakenly associated authentic sensitive national security programs with UAP had incomplete or unauthorized access to these programs; discussion of these programs outside of secure facilities presents a high risk of exposing national security information.]

This terrestrial hypothesis further proposes that UFOs have never been extraterrestrials. Instead, there has been an extraordinary, multi-decade-long conspiracy to keep propulsion advances secret, in part by masking them under the rhetoric of space-alien disinformation. And there’s justification for this extraordinary effort since, hypothetically, these are technologies that can never be used in the “white world” of military defense contracts or NASA programs. They must always exist solely in the black world. Otherwise, soon our adversaries would have them, and that must not happen.

This hypothesis maintains that these are advances conceived, engineered, tested and perfected not by extraterrestrials but entirely by Homo sapiens, the same species that has brought us nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, microchips, fiberoptics, lasers, radar, microwave ovens, jet propulsion, untold medical miracles, the Antikythera mechanism,  the Pantheon, the Mona Lisa, and so on and so forth.

No assist from space aliens needed!