Declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon on May 8th look explosive on the surface. Nathan Radke spent the better part of his weekend reading through them and came back with something more complicated.

The 162 files from the FBI, Air Force, and CIA include official memos and genuinely strange material, but also newspaper clippings, letters from cranks, and a flying saucer frisbee advertisement. The release is not curated. Radke’s read: burying real information inside an ocean of noise is one of the oldest tricks in the file-dump playbook.

The files range from a 1953 man who shaved a dead monkey and dyed it green to pass it off as an alien, fined 40 dollars, to the 1964 Lonnie Zamora case near Albuquerque that remains genuinely unexplained. Radke’s conclusion: the more interesting story in these files is what they reveal about human fear during the Cold War.

Topics: declassified UFO files, Pentagon UFO 2026, FBI UFO files, Lonnie Zamora UFO, Aztec UFO hoax

GUEST: Nathan Radke | http://amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873

Originally aired on2026-05-13