Washington — In a significant move to shed light on enigmatic aerial phenomena, the Pentagon has commenced the release of numerous files concerning UFOs and UAPs, adhering to a directive from former President Trump. This initiative aims to make public government documents about these puzzling occurrences.
The newly launched Pentagon “UFO” website now hosts a collection of 162 files sourced from the FBI, Department of Defense, NASA, and the State Department. These documents encompass eyewitness accounts, photographs, and detailed reports of mysterious sightings, chronicling incidents from various parts of the world over several decades.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized the importance of transparency, stating, “These files, which have long been shrouded in classification, have sparked justified curiosity — and it’s high time the American public gets to see them.” The release includes videos of unresolved cases and archival materials from multiple government entities.
The collection comprises 120 PDF documents, 28 videos, and 14 images. Among the images are photographs capturing suspicious aerial objects, some taken by military aircraft, alongside photos from NASA astronauts on the Moon.
One notable image features an FBI photograph enhanced with a graphic of an object described by a witness. This composite sketch portrays an “apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object emerging from a bright light in the sky, measuring between 130 and 195 feet in length, and vanishing instantaneously.”
The Pentagon’s UFO website indicates that additional documents will be made available continuously “as they are discovered and declassified, with new batches released every few weeks.”
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The Pentagon’s UFO site says new documents will be released on a rolling basis “as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.”
The archived materials that are being released are “unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.” The Pentagon says that this may be for reasons including lack of sufficient data, and the department welcomed analysis from the private sector.
Out of the 162 files released Friday, 108 contain redactions. The Pentagon said information was withheld to “protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP.”
“No redactions have been made to any files released under President Trump’s directive concerning information about the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP or related phenomena,” the statement said.
In February, Mr. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, directed the Pentagon and other agency heads to release files on UFOs and any “alien and extraterrestrial life.”
He asked them “to begin the process of identifying and releasing” any relevant files and called for the release of “any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”
The Pentagon has tracked reports of what it calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, for decades. But the military said in a 2024 report there’s no evidence that any government investigation into UAPs has confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Mr. Trump has said he’s not sure whether or not aliens exist.
The Pentagon started releasing images several years ago after it established a website for its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which was tasked with analyzing reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena. The AARO website was established in 2023.
