UFO clearinghouse launched by US Defense Department

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If you see something, there’s finally a place to say something.

The Defense Department on Thursday unveiled a website that will serve as a clearinghouse for declassified information about unidentified aerial phenomena, NBC News reports.

Billed as a “one-stop shop” for publicly available records about UFOs, the website will work with an office Congress created last year to detect and identify what the Pentagon officially refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs.

“The posting of the website is the next step in this process, in terms of ensuring that the public has information and insight into UAPs,” the Pentagon press secretary, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, said at a news conference Thursday. “And so what you see today is what has been declassified to date.”

Content is spare on the site so far. It includes just a few videos (labeled “unresolved” or “unclassified”) There are a lot of sections labeled “Coming Soon.”

The website will house photos and videos about resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and approved for public release, the Pentagon said in a news release. Links to reports, transcripts and other resources like aircraft, balloon and satellite tracking sites are expected.

The Pentagon also plans to update the website to include a tool allowing current and former U.S. government employees, service members and contractors to “provide reports via a private and secure means,” Ryder said. The update is expected in the fall. A public tool will arrive in the coming months, the release said.

“The department is committed to transparency with the American people on AARO’s work on UAPs,” Ryder said, adding that the office reviews the facts and, “when possible,” declassifies the information to make it publicly available.