The US has released a third set of formerly classified records about reported UFO encounters, featuring accounts of colourful UFO-like orbs mysteriously flying across the sky.
In a statement on Friday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnel announced the third release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of an effort to shed light on the administration of President Donald Trump’s examination of such sightings.
Videos show five separate incidents over the past three years in the United States, including one striking clip of a couple capturing a “brilliant red sphere,” before an identical orb appears and glides across the sky from right to left.
The Pentagon “will release additional files on a rolling basis,” Parnel said, according to the statement shared on US social media platform X, adding that the Defense Department is “actively working on the next release of UAP files.”
“As the unprecedented levels of interest in both this topic and the Trump administration's historic transparency effort continue,” the Pentagon has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since the site's launch on May 8, he said.
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The first batch of files was released on May 8 as part of a broader declassification push by the Trump administration. A second batch was released on May 22.
According to media reports, the latest documents show that government officials were investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents, with some sightings taking place near sensitive government facilities.
The released files include videos showing several yellow, light-emitting orbs moving through the sky.
The videos were taken by witnesses whom the government deemed "credible," according to Axios.
Pentagon's third major UAP file drop advances official transparency by focusing on radar-tracked sensor data and credible federal eyewitness testimonies regarding localised, recurring phenomena.
These reports, spanning Pentagon, FBI, and CIA logs, highlight the physical characteristics of unidentified objects, including instant acceleration and plasma-like compositions.
Inside today’s tranche of UFO files:
Visual recreations and video reconstructions that show exactly how observers reported seeing the objects, including their positions at the time of the sightings.
Videos show red and yellow glowing orbs in flight, with some appearing to split apart before rejoining mid-air. The recordings were made by witnesses the government classified as “credible.”
Internal government memos describe agents’ own encounters with unidentified flying objects (UFOs) during field observations.
One image depicts a grey-white, balloon-like object hovering over an area near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Another set of images details multiple UAP incidents across the western United States in 2023, reported by government officials.
Historic records tracing decades of investigation into UAPs, including a 1949 FBI letter from then-director J. Edgar Hoover responding to non-human flying object sighting.
