The U.S. government's UFO website received 340 million visits in the first 12 hours after launch

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On May 9, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officially launched the UAP/UFO Document Declassification Platform—a major milestone in U.S. government transparency. The site drew 340 million visits within 12 hours, including from U.S. citizens and global users seeking unfiltered truth about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The Trump administration addressed public demand for clarity on the topic. The administration released 162 total documents via the new site war.gov/UFO: 14 images, 28 videos, and 120 written records, spanning 1947 to 2025. Since launch, internet users have debated several of the images. However, the critical question may not be “what was disclosed,” but “why now.” Undoubtedly, this was a carefully orchestrated political move by Trump—leveraging “Disclosure as a Service” for structured attention management, mirroring the December 2025 Epstein files release. Tactics included an independent website, ongoing updates, no official conclusions, and open public analysis. Goals: redirect public focus, frame the U.S. government as “transparent” ahead of midterm elections, and deflect criticism over the Iran War and Epstein files. Additionally, UFO-related markets on prediction platform Polymarket may act as a cash-out vehicle for insider trading. For more, see the BlockBeats report “Why Did the U.S. Release UFO Files at This Time?” PolyBeats monitoring shows that after the Trump administration launched the UFO site yesterday, the probability of “U.S. confirming alien existence by 2027” on Polymarket briefly surged above 20%.

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