On May 24, 1950, personnel from the private contractor Land-Air, Incorporated, stationed near Vaughn, New Mexico, logged the sighting of eight to ten unexplained aerial objects. This was not a civilian report, but a coordinated observation by a scientific team operating under a United States Air Force contract as part of Project Twinkle, a twenty-four-hour watch established to monitor mysterious phenomena appearing repeatedly near sensitive military installations.

This episode examines FBI memorandum 62-HQ-83894, a declassified document authored by A.H. Belmont that outlines the government's formal investigation into these objects. The records detail how Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, Director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, analyzed the reports and proposed two startling possibilities: that these were secret United States guided missiles or, more alarmingly, weapons launched from the Ural region of the Soviet Union capable of reaching New Mexico in fifteen minutes.

Episode 5 follows the bureaucratic trail of this investigation, walking through the FBI's role in monitoring Project Twinkle, the specific categorization of these sightings into green fireballs and discs, and correspondence from J. Edgar Hoover regarding these phenomena. 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/ep5

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The 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.

On 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/ep3

About The UFO Files

The 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.

Over 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/ep2

About The UFO Files

The 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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In 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/ep1

About The UFO Files

The 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.