Pentagon releases more UFO files: “Speechless after these observations”
Pentagon releases more striking UFO files 03:52
Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of 64 files on UFOs, or UAPs, and disclosed a second tranche of records that includes an intelligence officer’s first-hand account from 2025 of an experience that left him “nearly speechless.”
The files, which President Trump ordered made public in an executive order earlier this year, can be viewed at: Pentagon’s UFO website. Friday’s slice includes six PDF files, seven audio files and 51 video files. The videos show footage of UAPs or unidentified anomalous events from military aircraft, and each clip includes a detailed description.
Statement comes two weeks after the Pentagon I uploaded the first batch Transfer of documents, photos and videos to the new site. These files included declassified pages from the FBI’s UFO case files, reports of strange encounters by military pilots, diplomatic cables about worldwide events, and photographs from NASA missions.
What’s in the new files?
The 51 videos included in the second release include the grainy infrared images captured by military cameras and sensors that have become familiar over the past few years.
In a statement accompanying the videos, the Pentagon noted that the footage was requested by House lawmakers in March. The videos were found by the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, the military office responsible for investigating UAP encounters. The Pentagon noted: “[m]any of these materials lack a proven chain of custody,” and the disclosures indicate when and where they were likely obtained.
One remarkable video It appears to show the moment a fighter jet drops an unidentified object over Lake Huron in 2023. high profile incident This comes after a Chinese spy balloon passed the US, sparking UAP fears. Later reports He stated that the object may have been a balloon operated by a hobbyist group.
Declassified video showing the moment a fighter jet blew up the UAP over Lake Huron in 2023. / Credit: Pentagon
Most of the videos cover encounters that occurred in U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility between 2018 and 2023, including the Persian Gulf.
a video It shows multiple spherical objects from 2022 with no listed location moving in and out of water near a submarine.
Documents include: Historical accounts of UFO sightingsA. report Soviet intelligence activities and Ministry of Energy files About UFO reports One from PANTEXA major nuclear weapons facility.
The most striking document is bill His experience investigating UFO sightings aboard a military helicopter in late 2025 was detailed by a currently serving “senior intelligence officer”. The officer wrote that he and the crew experienced “a number of close UAP encounters lasting more than an hour” while investigating previous sightings.
“In the distance, against the backdrop of the mountain, we saw countless orange orbs streaming in all directions. The display lasted several minutes before disappearing,” the officer wrote. “[T]The pilots and I observed (using the naked eye) two large fixed spheres shining side by side near the helicopter, just above the rotor disk to our right. “They were oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow center, and radiated light in all directions.”
The officer said he and the crew “were almost speechless after these observations.”
The audio files contain recordings of NASA astronauts’ observations in space during the Apollo and Mercury missions and objects identified as “”.fireflies” And “snowflakesThe Pentagon notes that NASA “later determined that the ‘fireflies’ were attributable to frozen condensation separating from the spacecraft body. The white, green-tinged appearance of this phenomenon is due to sunlight reflecting frozen condensation.”
