That Trump UFO Files Release: Richter Scale 10 Fanfare Matched By 'Meh' Output

 I seriously doubt these files, or anything that might follow, will contain a smoking gun.A recovered craft is far too valuable to show, so it's a foregone conclusion that the U.S. government will never fess up to having such a craft in their possession until an alien actually lands on the National Mall on live TV. - WaPo comment

On Friday, the Pentagon released what it called “new, never-before-seen” files related to unidentified flying objects on a webpage with fonts and grapics reminiscent of a 1990s sci-fi thriller. Trump described it as a promise fulfilled, but I saw it as yet another distracting bamboozle like the JFK and MLK files he released last year.  As I noted in my March 19, 2025 post in the case of the former's release:

 JFK Files Released - And Lee Oswald's Innocence Remains Despite Warrenite Disinformationists

 in the case of the JFK assassination, one really doesn't need to bury one's nose in the newly released files.  The evidence Oswald had nothing to do with it has been sitting out in the open for decades. It has been out there for the asking, for those who seek truth rather than fantasy.

Much the same applies to the current release, i.e a lot of volume and 'noise' but virtually no signal. Say like the missing Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared Radar (ATFLIR) tapes reported missing by Ret. Lt. Cmdr. David Fravor in his House UAP testimony in 2023.  As he noted, on encountering an object 46 feet long with  Lt. Jr. Grade Alex Dietrich, in their U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets. (In the Nimitz (2004) incident.):

"What you don't see is the radar tape which was never released and we don't know where it is right now.   But there was active jamming the object put on our AG373 radar. I can get into modes later if you want. What was shocking to us is the incident was never investigated, tapes were never taken."

But what if it was 'never released' for a reason?  To conceal the presence of non-human craft violating our airspace with impunity.That would most certainly disclose a very real non-human intelligence able to make our most advanced fighters look like 3rd rate mock ups from a grade z scifi flick. Release of those radar tapes (and ancillary material described in Fravor's testimony) would have shown a real file release not just more 'shiny stuff' to distract the hoi polloi. Hence, Trump had no basis to boast as he did on his Trash Social post:

“Whereas previous Administrations have failed to be transparent on this subject, with these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?’

Some of the "never before seen" initial files released include documents from the 1960s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union - but again just more distractions not really focusing on the genuine 'meat' - like the missing radar tapes. A couple of the more recent highlight sets and WaPo takes on them in one Friday article :

March 2024

"A Pentagon report found no evidence that the government covered up knowledge of extraterrestrials and no evidence that any U.F.O. sightings actually were aliens visiting Earth. The 63-page report was a sweeping rebuttal to claims that the government had secretly harbored alien spacecraft or alien technology."

Yeah right. But I shattered this bunkum in a blog post soon after this codswallop made its way into the 'legacy' media headlines, i.e.

• Pentagon Brigadier General Doubles Down On Whitewash of UFOs, But The Facts Are Too Compelling To Bury...

Therein I included the actual Sept. 23, 1947  Twining memo, which also would have comprised a real item for release. In addition, the testimony of Ret. Maj. David Grusch, who was asked in 2019 by  the head of a government task force on UAPs to identify all highly classified programs relating to the task force’s mission. Grusch added in his July, 2023 testimony:

“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access,” 

Yeah, so AGAIN, where are the details of the crash retrieval program? THAT would have been something worth looking at, but no indication of it. Nor of any of the high resolution (4k) imagery of the evidence (UFO crash debris)- which Grusch noted could not be divulged in open session. (A SCIF or special compartmentalized intelligence facility was required for congress to access sensitive materials.) 

February 2026

Former President Barack Obama tells a YouTuber that aliens are “real, but I haven’t seen them and they’re not being kept in Area 51.” 

In the wake of Obama's blurtation, Trump directed his administration to begin releasing files related to aliens, extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects to obviously 'one up' him.

He also attacked Mr. Obama for his comments about aliens in the YouTube interview, insisting he “gave classified information; he’s not supposed to be doing that.”

Which is total hogwash. All Obama delivered were his own off the cuff speculations on UFOs and aliens. But Dotard's overreaction to Obama does shed light on why he hasn't delivered anything meaningful in his much ballyhooed UFO file release: He KNOWS that giving us the actual missing AG373 radar tapes - from Ret. Lt. Cmdr. David Fravor's encounter - would violate classified information law under the 1917 Espionage Act.  This is also why he blocked the release of the high resolution (4k) imagery of crashed debris, noted by Ret. Major Grusch. In other words, Trump busted himself with his rash Obama comment.

Cutting to the chase, what does come through when one accesses the material available at  war.gov/ufo, is the sheer volume of murky images that could be anything- govt drones, illuminated kites or blowing detritus. In effect, most of what was released were just irrelevant distractions. But why be surprised? I never expected anything substantive to be provided when the orange freak first bellowed his blarney in February i.e.

A May 1st "Major Speech" By Trump Revealing Alien Craft Are Real? Don't Make Me Laugh!

 Noting:

"Up to now, there is no hard evidence of a planned Trump UFO-alien speech, and no White House announcement has been forthcoming. As I noted earlier, the only reason I can see Dotard suddenly giving such a speech is to one up Obama in his recent podcast. Also, perhaps to try to boost his historically low approval ratings."

And that was confirmed. Trump gave no speech he merely let his pawns and trolls in the Dept. of War release what they felt would keep the hoi polloi happy and occupied and at least with radar off the Epstein files.

Let us also bear in mind, that as previously reported by Newsweek, Trump himself has always expressed skepticism about the existence of UFOs in the past, telling comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan in 2024 he "had never been a believer.”  So why make people think you are? Why not just come out and say:

 "Look I know this stuff is all bullshit but I'm telling my guys in the War Department to release a bunch of never seen stuff. Just make sure to hide the images of the actual alien craft recovered and the bodies".

But that is brute honesty, something Trump has never been capable of and besides would give the game away. He'd rather keep manipulating a captive populace with 'shiny new' distractions than figure out how to pay for gas because of his stupid war.

That this release is not serious at all was proven when Dotard posted on his Trash Social for Americans to "have fun."  So he treats it like a jokey distraction much like his nightly deranged Trash Social posts, i.e.

Trump Has TOTAL PSYCHOTIC BREAK & Threatens To NUKE IRAN ON LIVE TV | The Kyle Kulinski Show

As a humorous counter to all the Trump -"Dept. of War" (sic) huff and puff, Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared on CBS this morning with his own take:

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks UFO files and evidence he needs to see: "Fork up the aliens" - YouTube

                         "Just fork up the aliens!"

In answer to a Matt Gutman's lead question, Neil replied:

"Remember for three years now we've had military and intelligence people testifying under oath about these things are real, and that some might be in a mock shed.  I'm just sayin', though it's a little bit anticlimactic, why not just bring out the aliens. Then we wouldn't have to believe."

Ah, Neil, Neil.  Ret. Major Grusch did actually attempt to do that at his hearing in July, 2023. Well at least to display the 4k high def imagery showing crash debris, recovered nonhuman bodies. But as I noted, he emphasized this required use of a SCIF  for national security - since the material was highly classified. 

 As before, Neil either thinks it's funny that UAP-alien evidence is classified, or somewhat incredible that the Pentagon would actually impose prison sentences on anyone (like Grusch) openly revealing alien presence, existence of re-reengineered craft. However, not if the latter are part of an ongoing re-engineering process - which was Grusch's point. So Neil's facetious insistence:

 "Ya know, just fork up the aliens then we wouldn't have to believe."

Is partly understandable, but totally unrealistic. Especially coming from a claimed astrophysicist most of whose objects of inquiry - like black holes, pulsars, quasars - are not directly accessible.

Or as my now deceased AF brother Jerry said in 1990:

"From '47, the Air Force intended to re-engineer downed saucer parts - such as recovered at Roswell- and develop new, more powerful weapons. Do you really believe if they were at the point of possibly developing the equivalent to a new nuclear weapon they'd advertise the work to the whole fuckin' world?"

Good point.

See Also: 

New UFO Files Raise Huge Questions - YouTube

• • And: 
  • WSJ: Pentagon Disinformation Fueled America's UFO Mythology? More Codswallop for Snookered Journalists...
  And: 
• The government found alien bodies in 1947 - then built a lie | Watch

     And:

   Jerry's Further Revelations About Past UFO Files And The Role of FOIA Releases - In A 1990 Group Discussion In FLA

And:

• Are Laser Plasma Holographs Created By "Foreign Adversaries" Really The UFOs Reported By Navy Pilots?...

And:

Transient Optical Phenomena of the Atmosphere - a Case Study     

and:

Physics Today Book Reviewer Kate Dorsch Is As Clueless About UFOs As Neil DeGrasse Tyson 

And:

• Are Laser Plasma Holographs Created By "Foreign Adveraries" Really The UFOs Reported By Navy Pilots?

• And:
• Holman Jenkins Jr. In Latest WSJ Piece Shows UFO Topics Are Way Beyond His Pay Grade 

And:

Video Navy commander David Fravor gives detailed description of his encounter with a UAP

2073 : A SciFi Movie That's Closer To Reality Than You May Believe Given Today's AI-driven Surveillance State

                     Patriot act protesters march in San Francisco in 2013

    Autonomous AI in 2026  can track, ID strangers in public places

" I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America. And we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return"-  Sen. Frank Church, referencing the NSA in 1975.

 The 2025 movie, 2073, see trailer here:

2073 trailer - Google Search

 just got a whole lot more real after watching it again immediately after reading a front-page Wall Street Journal article, 'America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance, May 2-3, p. A1.  The basis is simple: the evolution (devolution?) of the U.S. and the world to a total surveillance condition, began decades before. The scifi film, which no longer seems so, traces the beginnings back to the 1990s and then takes off in the 2020s under the tech bros and their ilk - from Palantir, Deloitte, NEC and other spyware specialists.

The tremendous benefit of the film is that it presents graphic segments showing how most humans (not the uber rich) reached the downtrodden,  dominated state portrayed finally in the year 2073.  With the spokesperson a former librarian or teacher who must hide herself underground given the nature of the books, teachings she has absorbed and isn't about to give up.

So why did the WSJ piece make such an impact: Well one of the first paragraphs is like a punch to the gut:

"The idea of the government watching you is not just the makings of an Orwell novel or a political thriller. The U.S. has greatly expanded its domestic surveillance system, using a high-tech dragnet to locate, track and deport people residing illegally in the country. But the data and location of American citizens is also being collected.

The newly expanded surveillance system allows thousands of federal agents nationwide to peruse a trove of data belonging to more than 300 million people. The government's tracking system relies on an amalgam of public and private information sifted, sorted and packaged by contractors that include Palantir Technologies, Deloitte, Japanese conglomerate NEC and smaller spyware specialists."

We learn further that an array of surveillance tools have been created, including. facial recognition software, location tracking and social media 'scrapers' once aimed largely at suspected terrorists and drug traffickers. In the hands of federal agents (like ICE) any regular citizen can be tracked by entering a name, license plate, or simply taking a photo.   

We learn in the piece, that Maine resident Liz McLellan, 48, and four others got the shock of their lives when they were singled out and threatened after observing the work of ICE agents. In the case of McClellan, who followed one ICE vehicle and photographed it, she was shocked when some moments later - on pulling up to her door- she found them waiting for her and delivering a stern warning: 'Be careful because we know where you live.'

Two of the Mainers accused ICE of using their license plates and biometric data to track and intimidate them for exercising their first amendment rights. Well, fourth amendment rights may well be included too, and we know - or ought to remember -it was the Patriot Act which opened the door to a lot of attacks on civil liberties.

To be specific, readers unfamiliar with the act's most notorious sections may want to process the following - before asking how ICE got the power it has:

- Section 206: Allows roving wiretaps - allowing surveillance on any target who frequently changes communications devices (i.e. disposable phones).   Search or seizure was permitted without getting a warrant for each device.

- Section 216: Expanded authority to monitor internet traffic, including  email, using 'trap and trace' devices.

Much of the Act's overreach only became known after Edward Snowden disclosed them. And which I had warned and blogged about, i.e.

Brane Space: We Must Get the "Patriot Act" Repealed in 2015!

So much of what's going on isn't totally new, although the extent of it is - supported by Trump's yen for autocracy.

Regarding the current transgressions - which are claimed (by Dept. of Homeland Security) to "operate in full accordance with the law" - a former Justice Dept. lawyer is quoted in the WSJ piece thusly:

"The retaliation we've seen against Americans who chose to lawfully record DHS activities should alarm everyone."  said Rush Atkinson, who is representing two people in a case. Noting: "This is a fundamental First Amendment right and the public has the right to know why the government is collecting data on those who peacefully protest."

Well, Mr. Atkinson might want to go back to examine certain provisions of the Patriot Act, which was passed in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks.  Specifically, how even the Pennsylvania protesters who inveighed against fracking in their state were subject to surveillance, as I wrote in my 2013 post above.

"We are now the enemy, the perceived collective  "enemy of the state", and if we don't get this horrific Act repealed or fully rewritten we will pay for it years to come, as the "good Germans" did after the Reich steamrolled all their Weimar democracy liberties to smithereens."

Back to the WSJ surveillance piece we learn:

"Last year DHS paid Palantir $30 million to put a broad span of information about individuals into an app on agents' smartphones, allowing them to plot the location of people in the U.S.  The app, known as Enhanced Leads Identification and Targeting for Enforcement or ELITE, lets officers research and track individuals based on criminal history, license plate searches, name, date of birth, or location.

The results display on a map or a list according to ICE agents. The app pulls from a variety of government data bases, including information compiled by private investigators known as 'skip tracers' who track the current addresses of individuals.  One ICE agent in court testimony compared it to Google maps - with the targets appearing as 'pins' on the map."

Clearly, if we don't get Trump and his runaway autocrat helpers under control soon, we will all be paying a steep price in loss of liberty. Like the Germans who let Hitler come to power and then impose his 'Enabling Act'.  If you want to see how this would play out in the future, watch the film 2073.

See Also:

Letter to America - From Germany:

https://youtu.be/Q-Z6M-LDXWg?si=iAn_Q64zUypuNDHB

And:

Don't Think NSA's Dragnet Spying Program Matters? Ask Occupy Wall Street's Protestors!

And:

The Main Problems I Have With The Jan. 26 Wall Street Journal Editorial: Failure To Recognize Trump's Police State

And:

Education Policy

The Cult of Civics Education Plagues Us Again

by Pierre Tristam | May 4, 2026 - 4:43am | permalink

— from Flagler Live

In November 1939 there was that odd poll of Princeton University undergrads–as educated an American student bunch as there was at the time–ranking Hitler “the greatest living person,” ahead of Einstein, who’d taken refuge from Hitler at Princeton, and FDR.

Five years later the New York Times’s Benjamin Fine won a Pulitzer Prize for a series detailing how ignorant of their own nation’s history college freshmen across the country were (the same year Ernie Pyle won a Pulitzer for telling the stories of GIs dying in defense of that ignorance). A large majority of the 7,000 students surveyed couldn’t identify Lincoln, Jefferson, Andrew Jackson or Theodore Roosevelt.

» article continues...

And:

Mensa Intermediate Algebra Inequality Problem Solution

 

The Problem:

Given xyz = 1 (x, y and z positive real numbers) prove the following inequality:

Solution:

Multiply the left side by xyz equal to 1);

yz/ x² (y + z)  +  xz/ y² (x + z)  +   xy/ z² (x + y) 

Multiply the left side by xyz again:

y²  z²/ (xy + xz)  +   x²  z²/ (yx +yz)  +    x²  y²/ (zx + zy) 

Apply Titu's Lemma:

y²  z²/ (xy + xz)  +   x²  z²/ (yx +yz)  +    x²  y²/ (zx + zy) >

(yz + xz + xy)² /(xy +xz + yx + yz + zx + zy)

The right side can now be simplified:

(yz + xz + xy)² /(xy +xz + yx + yz + zx + zy) =

(yz + xz + xy)² / 2 (yz + xz + xy) =

(yz + xz + xy)/ 2   

Then:

 

y²  z²/ (xy + xz) +   x²  z²/ (yx +yz)  +    x²  y²/ (zx + zy)  >

(yz + xz + xy)/ 2   

Now apply the AM-GM inequality to the right -side numerator

(yz + xz + xy):

  

(yz + xz + xy)/3 >  

 ³Ö(yz · xz  ·  xy) =    ³Ö(x² y² z²) =   1   

Multiply both sides by 3:

(yz + xz + xy)  > 3

y²  z²/ (xy + xz) +   x²  z²/ (yx +yz)  +    x²  y²/ (zx + zy)  >

(yz + xz + xy)/2  > 3/2

1/ (x³ y + x³ z)  +   1/ (y³ x +y³ z)  +   1/ (z³x + z³ y) > 3/2

Q.E.D.

Looking Again At The Two-Stream Instability Of Plasma Physics

 

Profile for two-stream instability.
 




















In earlier blog posts we examined the two stream instability, which also has significance for solar and space physics.  We saw it can be induced by an energetic particle stream injected in a plasma, or setting a current along the plasma so different species (ions and electrons) can have different drift velocities. The energy from the particles can lead to plasma wave excitation

 Basically, the two stream instability can be thought of as the inverse of Landau damping, where a greater number of particles that move slower than the wave phase velocity v_ph (as compared with those that move faster), leads to an energy transfer from the wave to the particles.  In the case of the two stream instability, when an electron stream is injected into the plasma, the particle's velocity distribution function has a "bump" on its tail as shown in Fig. 1.

In two-stream instability, when an electron flow is suddenly injected into a plasma – say for a coronal loop – the particles’ (Maxwellian) velocity distribution acquires a “bump” on its "tail" (higher velocity end of the distribution), consistent with two streams- an unperturbed one ( f  _ov) and perturbed one ( f  _eb ) applicable to the electron beam (See diagram below ).

In the region where the slope is positive (df  _v  /d v > 0) there is a greater number of faster i.e.  than slower particles so a greater amount of energy is transferred from particles to associated (e.g. Alfven) waves. Since  f _eb contains more fast than slow particles a wave is excited, and there is inverse Landau damping such that plasma oscillations with v_ph (phase velocity) in the positive gradient region are unstable.

Resonant electrons (at v _ph   >  w _e / k) where  w _e  is the electron plasma frequency, i.e.

w _e     =  [n_e e²/ m_e  ε_o] ^½ 

 are the first to be affected by the local wave-particle interactions and have distributions altered by the wave electric field, E1, such that the total energy balance:

E1 (TOT) = ½ E1 _w + ½  E1 _k

referencing the wave and kinetic (particle) contributions respectively.

Thus, for E1(TOT) = const. then as the electron velocity decreases, the particle kinetic energy decreases and the wave energy density increases.

In Landau damping the exact opposite occurs, so the gradient df(v)/d v decreases, and with it the wave amplitude, while the particle kinetic energy increases- i.e. wave energy lost is fed to the particles (electrons) which gain energy.

Development:

The electron plasma frequency can be written:

w _e     =  [n_e e²/ m_e  ε_o] ^½

Where n_e is the electron number density, e  is the electron charge,  m_e  is the electron mass and ε_o  is the permittivity of free space.

For our purposes in looking at the 2-stream instability we will change the above form to read:

w _e²     =   4p n _o e²/ m_e  

Similarly, we can write:

w _i²     =   4p n _o e²/ m _i

For the electron ion frequency.

For our purposes also, the Poisson equation, for charges in a vacuum:

Ñ ·E  =  4p r           

Can be rewritten:

ik E =  4p r  

Now, write   in terms of E such that:

ik (E -  4p r / ik ) = ikε E = 0

For cold plasma waves (T _e =T_i  = 0)  we can write:

ik (1 -     w _e ² / w ²  ) E =  0

So that: ε    = (1 -     w _e ² / w ²  )

The dispersion relation here is equivalent to equating ε ( w)  to 0.

N.B.   A dispersion relation implies that a relationship exists between the plasma frequency w and the wave number k.   Now,  and this is critical, because we have ε ( w)  = 0 this implies:

1 =      w _e ² / w ²  

Or:   w  =   w _e  

Now,  assembling all the preceding results allows us to write:


ik = 4p e [ (ik n _o e)/ m _iw ²    -   ik n _o e/m_e (w  - k V_o ) ²]

Using the earlier equation for the electron and ion plasma frequencies and basic algebra, the energetic reader can satisfy himself that:

ε ( w)  =  1 -  w _i  ² / w ²   -  w _e ² /(w  - k v_o ) ²  =  0

Note that in the limit, m _i    -> oo  and  w _i -> 0  we have:

 w  =   k V_o  +  w _e

We can then look at wave numbers k such that  k V_o  =   w _e
  
and acknowledge that that 2nd term above is much less than unity (to cancel the 1st term the 3rd must be close to unity) whence:

0 =  1 -  w _i  ² / w ²     -    w _e ² /(w  -   w _e ) ²

0 =  1 -  w _i  ² / w ²    -    1/(1  -   w  /  w _e ) ²

0   »   1 -  w _i  ² / w ²    -  (1 +     2w / w _e ) 

And:  0 = -  w _i  ² / w ²   -   2w / w _e  

w ³      =  - ½ ( w _i ) ²  (w _e)   

Finally, we can write:

w /w _e  =   ( -1/2) ^1/3   (m _e / m _i) ^1/3       

which represents instability since one of the three values of  (-1) ^1/3   is (1/2) + iÖ 3/ 2.

Thus, in the frame moving with the electrons, the Doppler shifted frequency (since   k V_o   =  w _e) is:

w’ =   w  - k V_o

Factor into the mix that |  w  |  < <  w _e    and we conclude this is roughly w’ =   w _e  so the electrons are nearly at their natural frequency of oscillation. But there is another way to determine that the dielectric function, i.e.

ε ( w)  =  1 -  w _i  ² / w ²   -  w _e ² /(w  - k v_o ) ²  =  0

yields instability. This can be done via a simple algebraic manipulation, so we transpose the negative terms to the right hand side and let: 

F(k,  w ) =  ε ( w)  -  1  =  w _i  ² / w ²   +   w _e ² /(w  - k v_o ) ² 

We can then plot the resulting function vs. the real frequency (at fixed wave number, k)  as depicted in my 2nd graph above.

Note where the line at unity intersects the graph of  F(k,  w)  at four different points. In other words, there are four real roots and no instability for the selected value of k. But...what happens when the central minimum of  F(k,  w)  occurs at a value greater than unity? Then, there are only two real roots .

To determine when this happens we determine when:   F(k,  w ) >  1, or where the function minimum is determined by ¶ F/ ¶ w  =    0.  We then will find:

w  (min)  = (m _e /m _i) ^1/2  k V_o

Yielding an equation which predicts instability whenever:

| k V_o  |    <   w _e