Pentagon Releases First Batch of Declassified UFO Files

It includes intelligence assessments, FBI case files with eyewitness accounts, transcripts from NASA astronauts and even news clippings from the 1950s.

The release fulfills a directive President Trump issued in February after renewed public interest in the topic. In a Truth Social post, he ordered the Pentagon and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena and unidentified flying objects.

"The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly," the Pentagon stated on X. " The department added that it will release new materials on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.

“The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly. Indo-Pacific Command near Japan in 2024, an ellipsoid bronze metallic object hovering over a field in September 2023 and several infrared videos captured by military operators. One video from May 2022 shows an object flying across the Middle East. Another from October 2023 depicts an object flying straight above the ocean toward land near Greece. Additional images include lights visible above the lunar terrain during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission and an infrared still from December 2025 over the western United States. The files also contain a note in some FBI records acknowledging that portions of the information had already been partially made public.”

Even before the February directive, the Pentagon had been declassifying and releasing UAP-related documents for years through its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. A 2024 report from that office documented hundreds of new incidents but found no evidence that the U.S. government had ever confirmed a sighting of alien technology.

A physicist and former leader of the office until 2023 reviewed the records and stated there are no documents containing photos or interviews with extraterrestrials. He noted that many viral videos of pill-shaped objects result from thermal blooms captured by modern infrared cameras on jet engines and other hot objects.

NASA's administrator applauded the transparency effort in a post on X, stating the agency would remain candid about what is known, what is not understood and what remains to be discovered.

“We will remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered.”

The disclosure follows a separate Trump administration action in January 2025 that released additional records on the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Those files largely confirmed previously known information.