Pentagon Releases Batch of 162 Declassified UAP Records Spanning 1940s–2020s

They include materials related to claimed UAP sightings at home, abroad and on the surface of the moon. President Donald Trump announced in February 2026 on Truth Social 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.

” FBI Director Kash Patel stated on May 8, 2026: “The FBI is proud to stand alongside President Trump and our interagency partners in this landmark release of UAP records.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated on May 8, 2026: “I applaud President Trump’s whole-of-government effort to bring greater transparency to the American people on unidentified anomalous phenomena. S. intelligence agencies.

U.S. military for policies and procedures for tracking, reporting and analyzing UAP incidents. 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 US 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.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. 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.

U.S. military, the FBI, NASA and the State Department. 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.

AARO had previously released multiple tranches of declassified UAP-related records, including imagery of unresolved sightings. S. military has not released any imagery from the shootdowns of three still-unidentified objects over the United States and Canada in 2023, though the Canadian government released materials related to the 2023 shootdowns.

Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard University and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, provided reaction to the release.