The Pentagon has released another batch of declassified UFO-related records, including new videos, images and documents describing unidentified objects seen by US personnel across multiple locations and decades.

The latest release comprises 41 files uploaded as the US defence department continues to publish material following an order from President Donald Trump earlier this year. It is the fifth tranche in a wider, multi-stage programme that has so far produced hundreds of documents.

Pentagon Release and File Details

The department previously uploaded an initial set of 161 files on 8 May, and said more would follow. This fifth drop includes more than a dozen videos, three images and around a score of PDF documents. The documentation spans from 1953, the earliest item, to material dated this year.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the department will continue releasing additional documents on a “rolling basis” as further records are made public.

Gulf of Oman and Middle East Videos

One video described in the new set was recorded over the Gulf of Oman in 2021 and shows what it characterises as a dark “cold orb” moving in irregular patterns. The file says that, at first glance, the movement resembles a housefly crossing the frame, and estimates the object at about 4 feet (1.2 metres) in diameter.

The records use the US government’s terminology “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAP), which is applied to objects that have not been identified. UAP can occur over land and at sea, and are described in airspace as well as underwater contexts, according to the documentation.

Another video, captured by a US military sensor camera at an undisclosed location in the Middle East in 2025, shows a round sphere travelling in a straight line over an area that appears to be residential.

Pilot Account and Pacific Footage

A declassified FBI document included in the release describes an account from a former military pilot of lights seen in the sky in October 2023 during a flight between Boston and Dublin. The pilot said other pilots had reported similar incidents between midnight and 3am.

The document states that the lights began dim and grew brighter before fading out. It adds that some lights remained stationary while others moved along straight lines, at times changing direction. The pilot also reported seeing variations of the lights at least ten times after first spotting them in 2023.

In footage dated 2019 from the Pacific Ocean, a black sphere appears and then disappears from view. When it reappears, the object is described as quivering and then drifting slowly from left to right. The file notes that although the imagery was collected by a sensor, the display was recorded using a handheld device, which may have contributed to flickering in the footage.

Earlier Naval Review and New Renderings

A 1953 PDF in the tranche includes conclusions by the US Naval Photographic Interpretation Center about two videos recorded in the western United States, in Montana in 1950 and in Utah in 1952. The memo states that the apparent objects increased in size as their “luminosity” increased, and it concludes that the videos depict characteristics “inconsistent with those of natural phenomena”.

All three images in the release are described as renderings, meaning they are artistic interpretations based on first-hand descriptions rather than direct photographic capture. One rendering depicts a large dark triangle with round lights at each corner, based on an encounter described by two former US military service members from the summer of 2011.

Interest in extraterrestrial life has increased in the US in recent years, including after Congress held its first UFO hearings in five decades in 2022 and the military pledged to expand transparency.

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Cool stuff will be fun watching the conspiracy theories ect ect …..

The devil muppets' trump card (no pun intended) is a phake UFO invasion to lock you down again.

Will make Convid look like a cakewalk.

You live in closed environment. Outer spACE is phake.

Are you getting it yet or what?

Another thread ruined in the 2nd & beyong post by the looney DJT love groupies. This will be a fast read this morning.

How about the Ukrainians that claim they saw more than 20 giant UFO's racing around the moon.

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all this is well and good.... however having said that... the $64 question to be answered is if they have bodies from one of these crashed spacecraft why haven't we been showing it?

3 hours ago, Tug said:

Cool stuff will be fun watching the conspiracy theories ect ect …..

The cool bit is watching the 'theorists' being proven right again and again,

Viva Alex Jones 😋

I've seen all of this on The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

I think the reason the Pentagon released these is that Trump will soon blame the damage to the Reflecting Pool on UFOs.

I can actually SMELL the weed and booze coming off my screen from some of the posts I've seen here today.

39 minutes ago, wombat said:

all this is well and good.... however having said that... the $64 question to be answered is if they have bodies from one of these crashed spacecraft why haven't we been showing it?

Better to ask if true why hasn’t it been credibly leaked yet?In my opinion something like that would have been exposed years ago.oh and the 64$ question is exactly the amount of money a GI was fined for fraternizing with a German woman shortly after the end of ww2.

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They will always be UFO’s to me and I do believe they are out there somewhere. They just are smart enough to stay away from this planet. They probably just fly over to see what we are screwing up, every once in a while to get an idea of how long this planet will survive.

51 minutes ago, wombat said:

all this is well and good.... however having said that... the $64 question to be answered is if they have bodies from one of these crashed spacecraft why haven't we been showing it?

12 minutes ago, Tug said:

Better to ask if true why hasn’t it been credibly leaked yet?In my opinion something like that would have been exposed years ago.

Can you imagine the rapid crash of the stock market, I seriously don't believe we're able to handle it yet. Just look at the topic about Trump's hair.

No, the public isn't ready.

2 hours ago, Woke to Sounds said:

The devil muppets' trump card (no pun intended) is a phake UFO invasion to lock you down again.

Will make Convid look like a cakewalk.

You live in closed environment. Outer spACE is phake.

Are you getting it yet or what?

Do you speak English??

Well, at some point we might find some proof of alien life. No doubt the universe is chock full of intelligent civilization. Just not here on earth. Considering the vastness of the universe, I consider it sheer hubris, that so many insist we are the only intelligent species in the entire universe. It would not surprise me if there were countless highly evolved populations on distant planets.

How can anyone comprehend the vastness of this universe, and say it is likely we are the only form of intelligent life within it? No. We are alone is infinitely more terrifying. If earthlings are the best this universe has, that would be terrifying. We are an exceedingly unimpressive civilization. There are likely millions of advanced civilizations out there. It would be a most astonishing waste of space, to think otherwise! It is a near impossibility, to a truly open mind.

We are a speck of galactic dust. There are thousands of galaxies within our local Virgo supercluster, spanning 100 million light years, just in this relatively small part of the universe. Our supercluster is but one part of a larger cluster, called Laniakea, consisting of 100,000 large galaxies, spanning 400 million light years. And that is part of an infinite universe, with over 100 billion galaxies. Each galaxy has how many solar systems? How many planets and stars? And what about the possibility of a multiverse? 

And many somehow use their intellects to presume it is nothing but empty space. Why? Because it cannot be proven? That is a weak argument. We are the chosen ones? That is sheer hubris, and a statistical near impossibility.

Not only are we not alone, it is likely we are one of the least evolved civilizations even within our own galaxy, much less the vastness of the universe! I am convinced that there are tens of thousands of very advanced civilizations out there, perhaps millions, however they are either not aware of us, not interested in visiting, or the distances are simply too vast. I truly doubt aliens have visited earth, as there's really nothing here that we could offer them.

Off topic deflection posts and replies trolling about the Epstein files have been removed as this topic is about:

Pentagon Releases More UFO Files With New Footage

It's more interesting not to know! My personal theory is that our planet is a giant alien kid's ant-farm. Our geologic time is normal time for him. He's watched evolution sped-up. He's almost a teenager and has a bet going with his friends about how soon we'll nuke ourselves.

We certainly were created by cosmic 'stuff'. This kinda obviates "God" or even the need for a god.

Have 'outsiders' been messing with us for their own purposes, perhaps as simple as an experiment? Or have they been saving us from our own excesses? If we get too out of control, will they save us?

Why would they even bother?

More chum for the frothing Magas.

25 minutes ago, BusyB said:

More chum for the frothing Magas.

Are you saying only the GOP has inquisitive minds? Maybe you're right.

2 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

It's more interesting not to know! My personal theory is that our planet is a giant alien kid's ant-farm. Our geologic time is normal time for him. He's watched evolution sped-up. He's almost a teenager and has a bet going with his friends about how soon we'll nuke ourselves.

We certainly were created by cosmic 'stuff'. This kinda obviates "God" or even the need for a god.

Have 'outsiders' been messing with us for their own purposes, perhaps as simple as an experiment? Or have they been saving us from our own excesses? If we get too out of control, will they save us?

Why would they even bother?

Yes, some alien scientist’s lab experiment, as you suggest, poking at us like microbes in a Petri dish. (“Let’s make some of them darker skinned, and some lighter skinned, and see what happens!”)

 

I keep hoping that someone will come by to save the planet from us, and save us from ourselves (as in the two versions of the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still); we desperately need some supervision here!

As of now, everything released and disclosed amounts to a big nothing burger.

4 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Are you saying only the GOP has inquisitive minds? Maybe you're right.

Dude the GOP is dead and your boy trump killed it.

1 hour ago, Tug said:

Dude the GOP is dead and your boy trump killed it.

"Dude" please stop. You better be a bit more concerned about the socialists invading the dems.

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

"Dude" please stop. You better be a bit more concerned about the socialists invading the dems.

Why would he be concerned about a group of people who want to eliminate two branches of government, thereby undermining the system of checks and balances? I'm sure the original poster supports ending prisons and allowing rapists and murderers back into society. He probably also supports the government nationalizing all the large corporations.

I will get excited when the releases are of similar quality as shown in the new movie "Disclosure Day".

All I see in that video is some random dot jumping around.

10 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

"Dude" please stop. You better be a bit more concerned about the socialists invading the dems.

We know the playbook trump runs I’m thinking folks are more interested in solutions to problems than fear mongering.3 in 4 Americans want to excise the cancer that is trump from our lives…dude.everyone has the measure of him now and his self serving lies they also resent and are disgusted with the lawmakers who have allowed him to do this to us.anyway on topic it will be fun watching this drip drip distraction game play out.

37 minutes ago, Tug said:

We know the playbook trump runs I’m thinking folks are more interested in solutions to problems than fear mongering.3 in 4 Americans want to excise the cancer that is trump from our lives…dude.everyone has the measure of him now and his self serving lies they also resent and are disgusted with the lawmakers who have allowed him to do this to us.anyway on topic it will be fun watching this drip drip distraction game play out.

Are you aware of this threads content? It's about releasing UFO files.

What fear mongering? Seriously, you should check yourself.

On 8/8/2026 at 9:36 AM, EVENKEEL said:

Can you imagine the rapid crash of the stock market, I seriously don't believe we're able to handle it yet. Just look at the topic about Trump's hair.

No, the public isn't ready.

the rapid crash of religion would be on the cards as well

Well, that’s one way to distract people from the Iran War and the Epstein scandal.

I'm a 100% sure we'll never see or meet aliens, the distance between us and any habitable planet/s is simply too far.

On 8/8/2026 at 8:40 AM, wombat said:

all this is well and good.... however having said that... the $64 question to be answered is if they have bodies from one of these crashed spacecraft why haven't we been showing it?

Because it's not in the Bible ?