The Japan Times66%
Pentagon UFO file trove includes sightings near Japan 73%
By Jesse Johnson0%
5/9/2026, 11:53:00 AM
Topics: Ufo Sightings, Pentagon Files
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 73% (4,582 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.80% 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.”
Confirmation Bias
24%Confirmation Bias
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24%AuthorJesse Johnson
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
38.4%Availability Heuristic
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38.4%AuthorJesse Johnson
5.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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1.1%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
30.4%Framing Effect
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30.4%AuthorJesse Johnson
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
29.6%Status Quo Bias
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29.6%AuthorJesse Johnson
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorJesse Johnson
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Negativity Bias
6.4%Negativity Bias
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6.4%AuthorJesse Johnson
14.3%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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3.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
98.4%Appeal to Authority
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98.4%AuthorJesse Johnson
7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorJesse Johnson
2.3%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
24%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
29.6%Begging the Question
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29.6%AuthorJesse Johnson
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
44.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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44.8%AuthorJesse Johnson
4.8%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
29.6%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
29.6%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
68.8%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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125 words analyzed.
Analysis
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