Editorial

Editorial Standards

Disclosure Files is an archive of the unexplained, built on one principle: show the evidence, name the source, and be honest about how much we actually know. The subjects we cover — UAP, cryptids, declassified programmes, ancient anomalies — attract more noise than almost any other. Our standards exist to cut through it.

Primary sources first

Wherever a primary record exists — a declassified document, an official report, a court record, a government release, peer-reviewed work — we cite it directly and prefer it over secondary reporting. Every factual claim in a case file carries a citation, and the source is listed so you can check it yourself. We would rather omit a striking detail than include one we cannot trace to a source.

Confidence, stated plainly

Not all claims are equal, so we tag them. A claim drawn from a primary document is documented; a firsthand account is witness testimony; a widely-reported but single-sourced claim is flagged as such. We include lower-confidence claims where they matter to the story — but we never dress them up as fact. Where sources conflict, we present both and decline to adjudicate.

Attribution is non-negotiable

Researchers, journalists, witnesses, photographers, and archivists whose work we draw on are credited. Public-domain government material is credited to its agency. We treat the people who do the original work with the respect their effort deserves.

How our files are produced

Disclosure Files uses AI tooling to assist research, drafting, and narration, under human editorial oversight. AI helps us read more, faster; it does not get to decide what is true. Every published case file is checked against its sources and held to the standards on this page before it goes live. Our visuals are clearly labelled where illustrative rather than original, and we use only media we can licence cleanly.

Living documents

A case file is never “finished.” When new primary material emerges, we update the existing file rather than spin up a duplicate, and we note what changed. Our subjects evolve; so do the records.

Independence

Our editorial judgement is not for sale. Where the site carries advertising or affiliate links, those are kept separate from editorial content and marked accordingly. A sponsor cannot buy a verdict.

Getting it wrong

We will make mistakes. When we do, we fix them openly — see our Corrections policy for how to report an error and how we handle it.

Last updated: 2 June 2026 · Disclosure Files (United Kingdom).