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Original excerpt
After seeing the bad redactions in PR071 that @john.phil posted about, I checked the other videos. THis is something you can do in the Sitrec video viewer by setting video/Video Adjustments/Levels Midpoint to 5. https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?sitch=video That's PR-074, where they have redacted whenever the drone with the camera comes into view. In others like PR-076 there's ver minor leackage o…
Key claims
A Metabunk post identifies additional poor redactions in Department of War video releases, particularly in PR-074 and PR-076, where drone camera positions were inadequately obscured.
Alternative explanation
Redaction failures appear to reveal only technical operational details, not evidence of anomalous objects.
Analysis by Claude · may contain errors
Analysis of Western US UAP documents from Release 3 suggests 60% of sightings are identified as flares, with 40% remaining indeterminate; the evidence base is primarily eyewitness accounts with nothing conclusively anomalous.
A Metabunk user analyzed a video initially appearing to show a low-flying craft over water and concluded it was actually four birds, with camera parallax creating the illusion of a structured object.
Reddit discussion of imagery analyst Sarah Gamm's skeptical assessment that recent UFO releases likely depict balloons or mundane objects, with inconclusive cases, differing from what she witnessed during UAPTF work.
Audio from NASA's Mercury-Atlas 7 mission (May 1962) captures astronaut Scott Carpenter observing luminous particles during sunrise, which were subsequently identified as ice crystals from the spacecraft.
A Metabunk analysis documents poor redactions in Department of War video PR-071, which reportedly shows an F-16 intercepting a UAP near Lake Huron, allowing hidden metadata to be read.
Tim Phillips discusses the credibility of reports describing anomalous black triangle UAPs in an interview with Steven Greenstreet.
Avi Loeb announced his appointment to lead a new UAP Science Advisory Council for the White House, citing the need to maintain scientific focus on UAP data despite high public engagement.
The Department of War released the third tranche of UAP files in June 2026, containing 72 new records from multiple agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NASA.
Analysis of Western US UAP documents from Release 3 suggests 60% of sightings are identified as flares, with 40% remaining indeterminate; the evidence base is primarily eyewitness accounts with nothing conclusively anomalous.