Trump Administration Releases 162 Previously Classified UAP Documents

The Trump administration released 162 previously classified documents related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena on Friday, fulfilling a disclosure process the president had been hinting at since early February. The cache, now accessible via the Department of Defense website with no clearance required, comprises State Department communications, FBI records and NASA spaceflight transcripts.

It includes hundreds of never-before-seen images and video recordings.

One document in the initial batch is an FBI interview transcript from September 2023 that records a drone operator's sighting of an unexplained aerial phenomenon. The operator observed a linear object emitting light so intense that distinct bands within the light were visible to the naked eye.

The object's brightness allowed the witness to discern structural details within the illumination itself.

According to the unidentified drone pilot, the object was visible for five to 10 seconds and then the light went out and the object vanished. The drone operator's account describes a brief but striking encounter with a luminous phenomenon that disappeared suddenly.

President Trump posted on Truth Social declaring that he had ordered the disclosure of information connected to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Former President Barack Obama dismissed the notion the government was withholding information on extraterrestrial lifeforms on Tuesday. ” Obama added: “I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend to impress her.