The War Department released more than 160 files Friday related to sightings of UFOs dating back nearly 80 years, two days after President Trump predicted, “I think some of it’s going to be very interesting to people.”
The disclosure of 162 files by the Pentagon follows a presidential order from February calling for transparency around “alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”
“The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly. The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place — no clearance required,” the Pentagon said in a post on X broadcasting the file dump.
“While past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files.”
Included in the tranche published Friday were videos of bizarre-looking objects taken in the skies over Greece, Iraq, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and the US across the decades.
Also released were a trove of intelligence reports and FBI case files that included apparent eyewitness testimony and public reports about possible sightings over the years, some of which came with a note admitting that information had already “partially” been made public.
The files also include a transcript of the Apollo 17 astronauts reporting “very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver … It looks like the 4th of July out of [astronaut Ron Evans’] window … They’re very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.”
An accompanying photo shows three dots appearing to hover in a triangular formation above the surface of the moon. The caption states “there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly” but claims that a new, preliminary analysis indicated that it could be a “physical object.”
Other files just included news clippings about apparent UFO sightings dating back to the 1950s.
