Sept. 28, 2026

Scientists Seek Data After Trump UFO Disclosure Promise — September 28, 2026

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Coverage of scientists pressing for UFO data access, NSA secrecy, and community fallout; listen to learn what's withheld, why sensor metadata matters, and how investigators verify sightings.

This program uses AI to hide our identites and to gather information from sources the government would prefer we didn't contact.

Also check out Space News and Weather Today for some more explainable things in the night skies.

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UFO Daily is brought to you with the help of AI.

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This is UFO Sightings Today. Politico reports that scientists who

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study unidentified aerial phenomena are still waiting for the access

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former President Trump promised. The article says researchers want data,

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sensor logs, and clarity about what, if anything, has been declassified.

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They worry about political pressure, selective release. and the loss

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of proper scientific chains of custody. That matters because without

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open data, hypotheses cannot be tested, standards cannot be enforced,

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and the public conversation about anomalous encounters stays mired in

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suspicion instead of evidence. The Black Vault reports that the

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National Security Agency located a separate three-page document tied to

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a Freedom of Information request and withheld it in full

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as secret. The response, dated March 25, 2026, came after

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a request filed in February 2020. The agency will not

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disclose subject, origin, or contents. The withholding underlines how much

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of the record can remain beyond public view, even after

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years of requests. The community is talking. A YouTube series

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called The Curiosity Project with Bobby Farah has drawn interest.

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Users also report a crash retrieval video suddenly vanishing. Other

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threads revisit claims about three high-altitude nuclear blasts on August 27th,

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August 30th, and September 6th, 1958, and their alleged EMP effects.

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Official investigators keep returning to basics. They say multi-sensor corroboration,

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preserved metadata, and transparent custody are needed. Many sightings resolve

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to aircraft, satellites, balloons, drones, or sensor error. If you

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want to know what's actually in the sky tonight, planets,

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ISS passes, aurora alerts, and yes, the occasional unexplained, check

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out our companion show, Space News and Weather Today. Link

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in the show notes. We'll keep watching the skies. UFO

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sightings today is for informational purposes only. Stories are drawn

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from publicly available sources. All claims are attributed to their

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original sources and have not been independently verified.