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The UFO Files
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Declassified UFO and UAP records, explained document by document.
The UFO Files is a fact-first investigative podcast built on the 2026 Department of War UFO/UAP release and the official records behind it — Pentagon mission reports, FBI files, National Archives incident summaries, NASA mission transcripts, and State Department cables.
Each episode takes one file, or one cluster of files, and asks the only questions that matter: What does this record actually show? What does it leave unresolved? And what would it take to call it conclusive?
Two hosts walk you through the evidence — one narrates the document, the other presses on what it proves and what it doesn't — keeping documented fact, official interpretation, open questions, and speculation clearly separate.
You get the files, the gaps, and the unanswered questions. You decide what the record is strong enough to support.
Sources for every episode at nbn.fm/ufo-files.
A Neural Broadcast Network production.
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NASA UFO Files: What Apollo and Gemini Crews Reported
May 2200:31:41Tap to summarizeOn July 31, 1969, inside a secure briefing room at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins reviewed the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing. The conversation turned to a sighting of an object of sizeable dimension, described by Armstrong as an open suitcase, observed through a monocular while the crew traveled toward the Moon.This investigation examines how these official records address unexplained phenomena in deep space, from tumbling cylinders to mysterious light flashes. The episode covers accounts from the Apollo 11 mission regarding optical illusions, the physics of cosmic radiation affecting the human eye, and the identification of potential space debris like Mylar or high-gain antenna components shed by the spacecraft.Episode 4 follows the primary source documentation of the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, specifically Section 21 regarding visual sightings, the Lower Equipment Bay optical instrument tests, and the physiological detection of subatomic particles. No hype, no lore, no premature verdict. Just the files, the Evidence, the gaps, and the questions the record leaves open.Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/ufo-files/episode/ep4About The UFO FilesThe UFO Files is an investigative podcast analyzing declassified UFO and UAP records, document by document. Every claim is grounded in primary source records, with sources and transcripts published on the Neural Broadcast Network website for verification.
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Pentagon UFO Files: When a UFO Enters Restricted Airspace
May 2100:39:59Tap to summarizeOn October 27, 2020, at 01:12:21 Zulu time, an aircrew member of the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron encountered two infrared-significant contacts that circled one another before vanishing from sensors in one-thirtieth of a second. This encounter, recorded under document identifier DOW-UAP-D58, featured noise jamming and two red blinking strobes, marking a high-stakes moment in an otherwise routine defensive counter-air mission.This episode examines the standardized, bureaucratic infrastructure the United States military utilizes to manage such encounters, moving beyond folklore into the cold, technical language of the Range Fouler Debrief Form and mission reports. By analyzing records from the Middle East, Japan, and the North Arabian Sea between 2020 and 2024, the series explores how agencies like SPEAR and the Active Anomaly Review Group track incidents involving platforms ranging from helicopters to remotely piloted aircraft.Episode 3 follows the specific documentation of range-Fouler debriefs DOW-UAP-D38, DOW-UAP-D42, DOW-UAP-D56, and DOW-UAP-D58, alongside mission reports DOW-UAP-D23 and DOW-UAP-D27. It details how crews navigate sensor artifacts like thermal-cold signatures, erratic movements, and electromagnetic interference while operating in contested, high-surveillance environments. No hype, no lore, no premature verdict. Just the files, the Evidence, the gaps, and the questions the record leaves open.Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/ufo-files/episode/ep3About The UFO FilesThe UFO Files is an investigative podcast analyzing declassified UFO and UAP records, document by document. Every claim is grounded in primary source records, with sources and transcripts published on the Neural Broadcast Network website for verification.
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Pentagon UFO Files: The Modern UAP Mission Reports
May 2100:35:01Tap to summarizeOver Iraq in May 2022, an American surveillance crew tracked a Russian-built Sukhoi fighter landing near Al Asad airfield and identified it on sight — down to the variant. The same crew, the same sensors, the same night, logged one more object they could only call a possible UAP.That contrast — professionals who can name everything in the airspace, hitting the one entry where their skill ran out — runs through the twenty-nine modern Department of War mission reports in the 2026 release. Filed under Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition campaign against ISIS, they span the Arabian Gulf, Iraq, Syria, and Greece, from 2020 to 2024.Episode 2 opens the Pentagon's modern UAP files: the standardized reporting form that echoes a 1947 checklist seventy-five years later; objects logged with grid coordinates, flight levels, and timestamps while their descriptions stay blank or redacted; full-motion video the military "exploited" but never released; radar jamming logged minutes before three unidentified objects near Shaddadi, Syria; and the single most revealing field in the set — where one crew, with the clearest view anyone had, assessed the object and wrote one word: benign. No hype, no lore, no premature verdict. Just the files, the evidence, the gaps, and the questions the record leaves open.Sources for this episode: https://nbn.fm/ufo-files/episode/ep2About The UFO FilesThe UFO Files is an investigative podcast analyzing declassified UFO and UAP records, document by document. Every claim is grounded in primary source records, with sources and transcripts published on the Neural Broadcast Network website for verification.https://nbn.fm/
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UFO Files Released: The 3,800+ Pages Nobody Has Explained
May 2000:31:15Tap to summarizeIn June 1947, a government office logged a sighting on a standardized form that was already printed with fields for altitude, speed, color, shape, and sound. The witness was an agent of a science fiction magazine, and the government filed the report anyway. That single checklist is one of 111 files the Department of War released in 2026, more than 3,800 pages spanning from 1947 to the present day.Episode 1 follows the paper trail that checklist opens: the Air Materiel Command assessment that called the phenomenon real and not visionary or fictitious, General Curtis LeMay's blunt on the record denial that the discs were an American project, J. Edgar Hoover's fight with the Army over a recovered disc, and a modern military mission report where the same unanswered question reappears in the language of sensors. No hype, no lore, no premature verdict. Just the files, the evidence, the gaps, and the questions the record leaves open.Sources for this episode are available at: https://nbn.fm/ufo-files/episode/ep1About The UFO FilesThe UFO Files is an investigative podcast analyzing declassified UFO and UAP records, document by document. Every claim is grounded in primary source records, with sources and transcripts published on the Neural Broadcast Network website for verification.
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