The US Department of Defense has released a first batch of declassified documents on unidentified flying objects, publishing what it described as “never-before-seen files” following an order earlier this year from President Donald Trump.

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The material outlines decades of investigations into sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) — the term now used by the US government to describe UFOs. Officials said the records include videos, photographs and original documents gathered across multiple federal agencies.

In a statement posted on X, the Pentagon said the public could now access the files without restrictions. “The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly,” the department wrote, adding that the materials bring together evidence from across the US government in a single location.

The Pentagon also said more documents would be released over time. New material will be posted periodically as additional records are discovered and cleared for public release.

Files span decades of reports

Some of the documents had been previously disclosed in part by the FBI, but officials said the newly released versions contain fewer redactions.

One large FBI file, running to hundreds of pages, compiles eyewitness accounts and public reports of UFO sightings recorded between 1947 and 1968. The reports describe a range of unexplained aerial observations documented during the early decades of the Cold War.

Other documents include much more recent military reports. Among them are internal memos describing an encounter with “one possible small UAP” observed in Iraq in 2022.

Another report details “multiple glares or light from an unknown origin” seen in Syria in 2024. US forces were deployed in both Iraq and Syria at the time as part of operations against the militant group Islamic State.

Additional reports come from US personnel stationed in the United Arab Emirates and Greece.

This image, identified as "FBI photo B2" on the Department of Defense website, shows an “infrared still image (black hot) captured of unidentified object over western United States in December of 2025,” per the Defense Department.

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Pentagon urges caution over interpretations

Officials warned that the language used in many of the reports reflects the observations of the individuals who wrote them and should not be treated as definitive explanations.

A disclaimer on the Pentagon website notes that the “descriptive and estimative language” contained in the files represents the “subjective interpretation” of the reporting personnel. It adds that the wording should not be seen as conclusive evidence of what the events actually involved.

Historical sightings included

The documents also contain historical accounts from space missions.

During the Apollo 12 mission in 1969 — the second crewed landing on the Moon — astronaut Alan L. Bean reported seeing flashes of light moving through space. In communications with mission control, Bean described lights appearing to move rapidly away from the Moon.

Three years later, during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts again reported observing bright particles of light outside their spacecraft. Lunar Module Pilot Harrison “Jack” Schmitt likened the display to fireworks.

The astronauts later suggested the lights may have been caused by small particles of ice.

Renewed debate over extraterrestrial life

Interest in extraterrestrial life has grown in recent months after former US president Barack Obama said during a podcast that aliens are “real but I haven’t seen them.” Obama later clarified that he had not seen evidence during his presidency that extraterrestrials had made contact with Earth.

Shortly afterwards, Trump instructed the Pentagon and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government records related to alien life, UFOs and UAP.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman welcomed the initiative, saying greater transparency could help expand public understanding of unexplained phenomena.

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

Trump said the newly released files would allow people to draw their own conclusions.

“Decide for yourselves what the hell is going on,” he wrote on Truth Social.

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

The US Department of Defense has released a first batch of declassified documents on unidentified flying objects, publishing what it described as “never-before-seen files” following an order earlier this year from President Donald Trump.

Get today's headlines by email

The material outlines decades of investigations into sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) — the term now used by the US government to describe UFOs. Officials said the records include videos, photographs and original documents gathered across multiple federal agencies.

In a statement posted on X, the Pentagon said the public could now access the files without restrictions. “The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly,” the department wrote, adding that the materials bring together evidence from across the US government in a single location.

The Pentagon also said more documents would be released over time. New material will be posted periodically as additional records are discovered and cleared for public release.

Files span decades of reports

Some of the documents had been previously disclosed in part by the FBI, but officials said the newly released versions contain fewer redactions.

One large FBI file, running to hundreds of pages, compiles eyewitness accounts and public reports of UFO sightings recorded between 1947 and 1968. The reports describe a range of unexplained aerial observations documented during the early decades of the Cold War.

Other documents include much more recent military reports. Among them are internal memos describing an encounter with “one possible small UAP” observed in Iraq in 2022.

Another report details “multiple glares or light from an unknown origin” seen in Syria in 2024. US forces were deployed in both Iraq and Syria at the time as part of operations against the militant group Islamic State.

Additional reports come from US personnel stationed in the United Arab Emirates and Greece.

This image, identified as "FBI photo B2" on the Department of Defense website, shows an “infrared still image (black hot) captured of unidentified object over western United States in December of 2025,” per the Defense Department.

Department of Defense

Pentagon urges caution over interpretations

Officials warned that the language used in many of the reports reflects the observations of the individuals who wrote them and should not be treated as definitive explanations.

A disclaimer on the Pentagon website notes that the “descriptive and estimative language” contained in the files represents the “subjective interpretation” of the reporting personnel. It adds that the wording should not be seen as conclusive evidence of what the events actually involved.

Historical sightings included

The documents also contain historical accounts from space missions.

During the Apollo 12 mission in 1969 — the second crewed landing on the Moon — astronaut Alan L. Bean reported seeing flashes of light moving through space. In communications with mission control, Bean described lights appearing to move rapidly away from the Moon.

Three years later, during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts again reported observing bright particles of light outside their spacecraft. Lunar Module Pilot Harrison “Jack” Schmitt likened the display to fireworks.

The astronauts later suggested the lights may have been caused by small particles of ice.

Renewed debate over extraterrestrial life

Interest in extraterrestrial life has grown in recent months after former US president Barack Obama said during a podcast that aliens are “real but I haven’t seen them.” Obama later clarified that he had not seen evidence during his presidency that extraterrestrials had made contact with Earth.

Shortly afterwards, Trump instructed the Pentagon and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government records related to alien life, UFOs and UAP.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman welcomed the initiative, saying greater transparency could help expand public understanding of unexplained phenomena.

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

Trump said the newly released files would allow people to draw their own conclusions.

“Decide for yourselves what the hell is going on,” he wrote on Truth Social.

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I guess there are a lot of Aliens watching us. Some got the shape and face of Donald Trump.

Nope. Nothing to see here. Billions of high-Q cameras in the world and the best they can do is blurry photos and sketches? If after 80 years of collection the evidence is still this ambiguous, that is the answer. Stop wasting my money.

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

I guess there are a lot of Aliens watching us. Some got the shape and face of Donald Trump.

Nah, you got it wrong. He's one of the lizard people--they're interdimensional

Just now, Hervey Bay said:

Nah, you got it wrong. He's one of the lizard people--they're interdimensional

He wouldn't agree with you 🤣

But he does live in another dimension....his own 😁

Just now, Hervey Bay said:

But he does live in another dimension....his own 😁

That's the world's problem. No one is able to crawl into his head. He won't even allow it. Someone would find it's empty ❗

No explanation, no nothing. This is fueling conspiracies.

Pentagon Publishes First Set of Declassified UFO Files

Whatever files they've got means nothing.

There's not even one clear picture /evidence that there is Anything out there .

Apparently, the US Defense Department says it will soon release more UFO files in what it calls "unprecedented transparency" to the American people.

Meanwhile, earlier today the Australian ABC was reporting that some critics cast the UFO disclosures as a distraction from Trump's political woes, including the unpopular US military campaign against Iran and public pressure to release further files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

However, it would seem that the maximum transparency regarding the UFO files (even though they don't actually reveal much) contrasts markedly with the selective transparency claimed by critics about the other disclosures!

Maybe it's time to bring back Dana Scully and Fox Mulder?

More fuzzy tic-tac pictures. Nothing to see here.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

publishing what it described as “never-before-seen files”

Epstein was an alien?

Diversion from constant f-ups in Middle East.

Some are suggesting that the release of these files is in order to allow Trump to take executive control as we'll be at war with the Aliens ! at the very least it could attempt to justify the massive spend on NASA,MIC,the new space force and golden dome project.

The photo with the 3 lights in a triangle formation above the moon taken by Apollo crew is new to me and quite interesting considering that they stopped going back even having funding for 3 more flights then unbelievably 'incompetently' 'lost' tons of footage and data as well as the technology to go back for the last 50 years 🤣

Is this another diversion from the MAGA group of morons?

Well I think the fact that over 90% of UFO “sightings” are in the USA, tells you everything you need to know about the authenticity of aliens.

And the overactive imagination/paranoia of Americans.

Edited May 9May 9 by johnnybangkok

29 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

the fact that over 90% of UFO “sightings” are in the USA

Perhaps the Aliens want the bodies and crashed craft back from area 51

or they are mightily impressed that the Americans got to the moon "first"

but need to keep reminding them not to reveal what they discovered there ?

32 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Well I think the fact that over 90% of UFO “sightings” are in the USA, tells you everything you need to know about the authenticity of aliens.

And the overactive imagination/paranoia of Americans.

And mobile phones can take amazing photos of good quality of all sorts of aviation disasters etc but not of a so-called UFO at similarly claimed distances and heights!

Edited May 9May 9 by scottiejohn

24 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

And mobile phones can take amazing photos of good quality

They move too fast and or have light bending capabilities resulting in blurry images 😋

Anyway some of the better quality videos and images have not been released in this publication no idea why not ???

8 minutes ago, johng said:

Anyway some of the better quality videos and images have not been released in this publication no idea why not ???

Save the Best til Last.......Vanessa Williams, lovely singer.

1 hour ago, wil iam not said:

Save the Best til Last.

Well I hope so. just hope it doesn't take many more years to get to the good stuff.

Next thing these MAGA morons will say they have seen a one eyed purple people eater approaching.

The photo in the article shows an example of a UFO.... Unquestionably F-Wit Object

ONCE AND FOR ALL: Intergalactic space travel is impossible for us and everyone else. Even travelling at the speed of light (impossible) we would get nowhere, measured by the vastness of the universe.

Every "space travel" will end at the frontporch. At best. This applies for "everyone" accross the universe.

Please: No "wormhole" hokus pokus. Instead we should familiarize ourselfes with the "Fermi-Paradoxon".

On 5/9/2026 at 8:20 AM, NONG CHOK said:

Next thing these MAGA morons will say they have seen a one eyed purple people eater approaching.

One-eyed one-horned flyin' purple people eater!

It's all a bit meh.

I still want to know what Phil Schneider really saw at Agua Dulce.

Project 'blue beam' false flag alien invasion as a pretense to bring in a totalitarian one world 'government'