Pentagon Releases New Batch of Declassified UAP Documents and Videos

” The files reflect cases that the government deems unresolved. The Pentagon described the files as new and “never-before-seen,” though some had been made public years ago.

A new Pentagon website housing the documents on UAPs was launched featuring black-and-white military imagery and typewriter-like font. The Pentagon has been working on declassifying the documents for years. Congress created an office in 2022 to declassify UAP material.

U.S. government had ever confirmed a sighting of alien technology.

U.S. Government has recovered alien technology or confirmed evidence of alien life. U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan in 1994 details a brightly lit UAP observed by one Tajik pilot and three Americans flying a jet over Kazakhstan that was making 90 degree turns, doing corkscrews and maneuvering in circles at great rates of speed.

A military report from the Aegean Sea in 2023 cited a UAP flying just above the surface of the ocean and making multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 mph (129 km/h). U.S. intelligence official interviewed detailed an incident in 2025 in which he encountered a “super-hot” orb hovering over the ground while searching on a helicopter, traveling about 20 miles (32 kilometers), then spotted four or five more orbs that flared up and down.

In a 1969 debriefing of Apollo 11 crew members, astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalled spotting a “sizeable” object close to the moon and a “fairly bright light source” that the crew felt could be a laser. An FBI interview with a drone pilot who in September 2023 reported seeing a “linear object” with a light bright enough to “see bands within the light” visible for five to ten seconds before the light went out and the object vanished.

A NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 shows three dots in a triangular formation.

The Pentagon stated in a caption accompanying the Apollo 17 photograph that there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly but that a new preliminary analysis indicated it could be a physical object. The released documents include more than 20 video files. A military video from 2022 shows a football-shaped object spotted over the East China Sea.

The most recent video in the release is from January 1, 2026 and appears to show two circular lights flying against an inky black backdrop in North America. Military videos from the past several years showed small ambiguous dots moving above the landscapes of Iraq, Syria and the United Arab Emirates.

One report described an object shaped as a bouncy ball traveling 483 mph (777 km/h) consistently for at least seven minutes over Syria in 2023 that was later determined to be benign.

U.S. airmen in the Netherlands raised concerns about recurring flying saucer sightings. Swedish counterparts in 1948 saw flying saucers and believed they did not come from any presently known culture on earth.

A military video from 2013 in the Middle East appears to show an aircraft shaped like an eight-pointed star weaving through the air. Sean Kirkpatrick stated that the 2013 eight-pointed star video is probably nothing more than a hot jet engine producing a diffraction pattern in the camera.

Sean Kirkpatrick, a former director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, said there’s nothing unexpected in the release and warned that without analysis it will only serve to fuel more speculation, conspiracy and arm-chair pseudoscience.

Rep. , sent a March letter demanding 46 UAP videos identified by whistleblowers. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna stated on Friday that those 46 UAP videos will be released later by the Pentagon. Rep. , thanked Trump for “keeping his word” on transparency and disclosure.

Rep. ” The Sol Foundation pushed for passage of legislation that would force a thorough review of classified UAP records with the aim of providing Americans with the full truth about longstanding government knowledge and programs concerning technologies and vehicles not of human origin. Peter Skafish is the Sol Foundation’s executive director.

Retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet is a former acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. Peter Skafish and retired Rear Adm. ” Trump previously released records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.