FBI Confirms UFO Files for Public Release ‘Very Soon’
Summary
Two days before the May 8, 2026 pursue portal launch, FBI Director kash-patel used a Sean Hannity podcast appearance (May 6) to pre-confirm that UAP files compiled under donald-trump’s February 19, 2026 directive (src-uap-trump-disclosure-2026) had “already been delivered” and would be “publicly releasing this information very soon.” Patel attributed the interagency lead to the department-of-war under pete-hegseth — corroborated two days later by src-dow-uap-files-release-2026-05 and src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05. The piece is a Yahoo aggregation of original Men’s Journal reporting by Kevin Harrish; it adds no new documentary content but timestamps Patel’s pre-launch framing immediately preceding the rollout. Historical context retold from prior NYT reporting includes the FY2024 NDAA stripping of uap-disclosure-act provisions, with tim-burchett and chuck-schumer quoted from 2023.
Key Claims
- Patel told Hannity: Trump “stood up an interagency process with the department-of-war leading that effort to get out the documentation.”
- Patel: documents “have already been delivered” and will be released “very soon.”
- Trump’s February 2026 directive instructed agencies to release records on UAP and ET life (src-uap-trump-disclosure-2026).
- As of the May 6 podcast taping, no documents had yet been made public — the wait ends May 8 with pursue Release 01.
- Historical: in 2023 House conferees stripped UAP declassification provisions from the FY2024 NDAA; tim-burchett and chuck-schumer quoted decrying the strip-out.
Notable Quotes
“[Trump] stood up an interagency process with the Department of War leading that effort to get out the documentation. … They’re going to be publicly releasing this information very soon. We are all for it.” — kash-patel
“We’ve already delivered the documents, they’re coming out — that’s it.” — kash-patel
“We got totally ripped off. We got completely hosed. They stripped out every part.” — tim-burchett (on FY2024 NDAA, 2023)