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WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense released 14 hours of newly declassified UFO footage late Friday night, dropping it directly to Tubi with no advance notice, no press screening, and a single post on X at 11:47 p.m. that read "here you go."
No press conference. No senior officials. No prepared remarks. The kind of release strategy that, in Hollywood, has a name: a dump.
"Dropping something on Tubi at midnight on a Friday is what you do when you know exactly what's on it," said Marcus Webb, a film distribution consultant who asked to be named because he felt strongly about this. "That's not a release. That's a disposal."
The footage, some of which dates to the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, has been described by the Defense Department only as depicting "unidentified aerial phenomena that resist conventional explanation." A spokesperson elaborated by taking a long drink of water and saying the footage "speaks for itself."
One senior analyst who reviewed the classified material prior to release requested to speak on background, then requested deeper background, then left the building and has not returned.
As of press time the footage had 14,000 views on Tubi, a 4.1 star rating, and one review that read "life changing" and another that read "buffered constantly."
The Pentagon has not ruled out a director's cut.
Aliens couldn't be reached for comment.
