Pentagon Releases 72 New UFO Documents and Videos

The Pentagon on Friday released 72 new documents, images, and recordings related to unidentified anomalous phenomena. The batch contains 53 documents and 10 images from the CIA, FBI, NASA, and the Department of Defense, plus six videos and three NASA audio recordings.

The videos show orb-like objects in the sky. Four of the videos contain eyewitness footage collected by the FBI rather than military recordings. One video titled "Northeastern Orb Sighting" shows two bright lights moving silently through the sky in July 2025.

Another video, "Orbs Over the Pond," records a hovering light source above a pond in October 2024. The object appeared to change shape and luminosity and remained visible for about 45 minutes.

Documents detail sightings reported by five federal law enforcement agents in the western United States in October 2023. Witnesses described groups of lights moving in formation and smaller orbs appearing to separate from larger ones. The FBI prepared digital renderings of the agents' accounts. One agent recalled a partner asking, "Are you seeing this?" as a glowing orb lit the sky.

The release also includes a 1952-1953 CIA panel report that concluded flying saucers posed no physical threat and recommended an official policy of "debunking" the topic. A 2008 CIA report describes a disc-shaped object observed above an airport in Zimbabwe.

A 2022 sighting near Colorado Springs involved a translucent, potato-shaped object. An intelligence analysis assessed with low confidence that the object may have been sunlight reflecting from snow onto clouds. The releases follow an executive order signed earlier this year directing the Pentagon to disclose additional UFO-related documents.