The Pentagon released a renewed set of documents related to UFOs, also referred to as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), this Friday (10th). This material includes testimonies from a military pilot who described an unknown object as 'different from anything I had ever seen' throughout his 28 years of service.
The release covers a total of 40 items, consisting of 14 documents, 19 videos, four audio recordings, and three photographs. The content comes from multiple entities, such as the Pentagon, NASA, CIA, FBI, and the Department of Energy. The Pentagon placed these new files on its dedicated UFO portal, which centralizes material released under an executive order signed by President Trump earlier this year.
Similar to previous releases, this batch presents a combination of historical records, mostly uncensored, and more recent videos with other attachments detailing current occurrences. A significant record from the Department of Energy narrates the intrusion of an unidentified object into the airspace above a nuclear weapons facility called Pantex, located near Amarillo, Texas, in September 2015.
This document contains the testimony of two officers who were monitoring the object while the nuclear facility was undergoing lockdown. According to the report, although they could not intercept the object, they stopped the vehicle and disembarked. Outside, they noticed that the object emitted no sounds. Furthermore, the officers reported being unable to identify any type of propulsion system when examining it with binoculars. After observing for one or two minutes, the object headed north, moving away from the area.
About half of the files date from 2010 onwards and contain videos showing infrared images captured by military equipment. These grainy images show unexplained objects and encounters in various regions of the planet, covering the western Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic, and the Middle East.
One such event occurred over the Atlantic in 2020. The files include images of an object described in a Navy crew member's report as having 'a darker, reddish color, with approximately 3.6 to 4.5 meters in height,' although this report is heavily censored. The weapons systems officer described its structure as 'looking like a large, somewhat deformed balloon,' but added that this could not be confirmed upon passing the convergence point. Subsequently, the ship returned without incident.
This specific report is named 'range fouler debrief,' a term the Pentagon defines as 'a standardized form used by the US Navy to record the circumstances of an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training.'
Another account documents an object sighted in 2019 over the eastern United States by a pilot along with four other crew members. The pilot reported noticing 'an object with flight characteristics different from anything I had ever seen in my 28 years of service in the Air Force and Navy.' He described a smaller object below them, moving in a straight line in the opposite direction to theirs at high speed. The pilot managed to track it for about 10 to 15 seconds before starting video recording. When trying to zoom in for better resolution, the object's speed took it out of view, making recovery impossible, even with reduced zoom. After post-flight analysis, the object appeared rectangular, and other experienced pilots were unsure of its nature.
The most recent events recorded in this fourth batch of files occurred in 2025, near China, under the jurisdiction of the Indo-Pacific Command of the armed forces. One video shows a military sensor tracking 'an area of contrast similar to a six-pointed star' over the Yellow Sea. Another record appears to follow an object over the East China Sea for several minutes.
Historical records include the transcript of a conference held in 1949 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. In this meeting, prominent physicists and scientists, some linked to the Manhattan Project, attempted to explain sightings of 'green fireballs' over the nuclear laboratory. Although one hypothesis pointed to meteors entering the atmosphere, a notable astronomer observed that such an event 'was never observed in the case of meteorite falls.'
The Pentagon stated that this release will not be the last expected under the president's executive order. A spokesperson, Sean Parnell, declared in a statement that 'the Department of War and our partner agencies are actively working on the next release of UAP files.'
