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Pentagon Releases 162 Declassified UAP Records
The Pentagon on May 8, 2026, made public its first batch of 162 videos, pictures and documents on unidentified aerial phenomena spanning the 1940s to the 2020s. The release, ordered by President Donald Trump in February, includes images from the moon's surface during Apollo missions and unresolved sightings from Greece, Syria, Japan and the southern United States.
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The Pentagon on May 8, 2026 released 162 declassified videos, pictures and documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, the first tranche under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters known as PURSUE. The records, drawn from the U.S. military, the FBI, NASA and the State Department, span from the 1940s to the 2020s and include materials on claimed UAP sightings at home, abroad and on the surface of the moon.
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President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social in February 2026 that he would direct the Secretary of War and other agencies to identify and release government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAP and UFOs.
One released image was taken from the surface of the moon during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969. DOW-UAP-PR28 is an unresolved UAP report from Greece in January 2024 consisting of one minute and five seconds of video footage. One released image is a still from a reported U.S. Air Force sighting of a UAP over the southern United States in 2020.
One released still image from 2025 was submitted by the FBI to AARO; the original imagery was altered with redactions and the date in the image is incorrect due to system date/time not being set.
Many of the released documents are redacted in part to omit names and other privacy-protected information. Some of the records from the FBI and NASA are said to have been released, at least in part, in the past. A War Department official stated on May 8, 2026: “No media engagement is planned at this time.” Investigations into some of the materials released on May 8, 2026 are still ongoing.
