Pentagon UFO file trove includes sightings near Japan ⁠74%

By Jesse Johnson⁠75%

5/9/2026, 11:53:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Availability Heuristic, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 98.4% saturation with 123 hits. Analysis detected 567 faulty-reasoning hits from 125 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66% and a BS Rank of ⁠74% (5,606 of 21,175 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.50% of the article peer group.

The U.S. 
Defense Department has released an initial trove of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings — including two videos of what it calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) spotted near Japan. 
The Pentagon said President Donald Trump’s order to release the “new, never-before-seen files” was intended to provide “maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files.” 
In one nearly 2-minute video from 2023 titled DOW-UAP-PR47 and reported by the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command citing the incident location as “Japan,” an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform tracks “three distinct areas of contrast, maintaining … a fixed position and orientation relative to one another.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 24.0%Jesse Johnson: 3.7%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias24.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 2.0%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 38.4%Jesse Johnson: 5.6%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic38.4%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.1%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.6%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 30.4%Jesse Johnson: 22.2%The Japan Times: 14.3%Framing Effect30.4%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.4%The Japan Times: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 29.6%Jesse Johnson: 2.0%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias29.6%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 4.7%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 2.6%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.4%Jesse Johnson: 14.1%The Japan Times: 11.5%Negativity Bias6.4%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.1%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.8%The Japan Times: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.8%The Japan Times: 1.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 3.0%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 3.3%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.8%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.8%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 98.4%Jesse Johnson: 6.9%The Japan Times: 5.6%Appeal to Authority98.4%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 2.3%The Japan Times: 1.6%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 2.7%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 24.0%Jesse Johnson: 4.7%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization24.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.5%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 7.1%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 29.6%Jesse Johnson: 1.9%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question29.6%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 3.0%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.6%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.4%The Japan Times: 1.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 44.8%Jesse Johnson: 4.8%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)44.8%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 29.6%Jesse Johnson: 5.4%The Japan Times: 4.5%Unattributed Quote29.6%This article: 29.6%Jesse Johnson: 3.9%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection29.6%This article: 68.8%Jesse Johnson: 14.8%The Japan Times: 8.9%Biased Writer Voice68.8%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 2.5%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 1.3%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jesse Johnson: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

125 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers92%attributed speech10writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageDefense Department • 30 words • 100.0% coverageThe Pentagon • 37 words • 100.0% coverageU.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command • 48 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

The Pentagon

100%flagged-word coverage
37 attributed words32% of attributed speech80% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%The Pentagon: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%The Pentagon: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-80.0 ptsWriter: 80.0%The Pentagon: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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