UFOs Again

An intelligently controlled trans-medium swarm of UAPs flying around a submarine.

A massive national security issue if indeed that is our submarine being monitored.

UFO Dump #2 pic.twitter.com/o5XOo4vNEJ

— Brian Gamble (@briangamble_v1) May 22, 2026

So the Trump administration has released a second tranche of alleged UAP files, which do nothing but raise the same questions people have had since the flying saucer craze of the 1940s: Why Are There No High-Quality UFO Photos Despite Frequent Sightings? Or put another way, why are the photos we see such cheesy fakes?

Take the example in the tweet above, a video which the poster claims to be "an intelligently controlled trans-medium swarm of UAPs flying around a submarine." My own reaction was that, at least with my eyes, I couldn't see a swarm of anything. But the comments raise even more questions:

Not a US sub.

U.S. sub? LMAO🤣

Accordoing to Chrome AI mode (which still hasn't tried to flatter me, chat me up, or otherwise seduce me, contra Glenn Reynolds),

A modern U.S. Navy submarine looks like a massive, matte-black steel cigar, ranging from 370 to 560 feet in length. It features a single cylindrical hull, a raised bridge-like structure (the "sail") on top, and an aerodynamic cross-section. Only about 10% of the vessel sits above the water's surface.

The "sub" in the tweet looks like something out of World War II. Other comments say the "swarm" is most likely seagulls, although I can't see anything but the U-boat itself. According to CBS News,

The 51 videos included in the second release include the type of grainy infrared footage captured by military cameras and sensors that has become familiar over the past several years.

In the description accompanying the videos, the Pentagon noted that the footage was requested by House lawmakers in March. The videos were found by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, the military office responsible for investigating UAP encounters. The Pentagon noted that "[m]any of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody," and the descriptions note when and where they were likely taken.

One notable video appears to show the moment a fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron in 2023, a high-profile incident that came after a Chinese spy balloon traversed the U.S., leading to heightened fears of UAPs. Later reports indicated that the object might have been a balloon operated by a hobbyist group.

According to DefenseScoop,

“My initial reactions were positive and pleasantly surprised. I thought some of the videos contained truly anomalous phenomena,” said retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, a former oceanographer of the Navy, pointing to footage of right-angle turns and formation flying craft.

. . . “The fact that this was the first time that an administration openly admitted that UAP files have been shielded from the public was promising. However, the ambiguity of the video content in particular is concerning as no metadata was included,” he said. “Therefore, it is impossible to conclude that any of the objects were truly anomalous.”

The bottom line is that people who were already on the UAP bandwagon see the release of the files as "encouraging" and "promising", but even they are conceding that so far, there's been no big revelation. Among the skeptics, there have been no conversions, but people keep asking why all we ever see is fuzzy, grainy photos that could be anything:

Seriously, I've been following this subject for most of my adult life. One of my biggest gripes about this topic is that literally EVERY single video that might show an alien is just potato quality, and you cant make hardly anything out. How is there not ANY clear, 4k quality pics? Even the videos released by governments and militaries are dog shit. How can this be?

I think this question is rising to the level of Fermi's paradox: if by the Darwinian paradigm, there are X to the 27th Earth-like planets, and thus life could have evolved on a bodacious number of them, why aren't we seeing evidence of alien life all the time? And if in fact there are all these UAPs that carry evidence of alien life, why are there no good pictures?

One possible answer has always been that the government is covering the good evidence up. But now, Trump has ordered the government to release everything, and so far, it's just the usual grainy photos and hokey fakes. One answer, of course, is it's like the Epstein files, Trump will just talk a good game, but the real stuff will still never be released. The people who believe in space aliens will likely keep on thinking that way.