Pentagon Releases Fifth Batch of UFO Files, Including Triangle Sightings and Cold War-Era Reports

The Pentagon is deepening the mystery with the publication of its fifth tranche of declassified UFO-related records, releasing 41 files — including videos, photographs, and documents — spanning more than seven decades of unexplained aerial encounters. The release is part of an ongoing government effort following a directive from President Trump, who earlier this year ordered federal agencies to declassify and publish materials related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, — the government’s preferred term for what many still call UFOs. “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media on Friday.Among the most striking materials in this latest release is a series of six videos documenting an encounter over the Gulf of Oman in September 2021, in which U.S. Special Operations Forces aboard an AC-130J gunship reported seeing approximately 25 UAPs during a live fire exercise. An accompanying intelligence report described the objects as “cold orbs flying at lower altitudes between 250 to 1300 MPH in different formations as well as maneuvering aggressively,” adding that the UAPs “appeared to react to the aircraft firing its main cannon.” The incident remains unresolved by the Pentagon’s UAP investigative arm.Also included are FBI interview records — known as 302 forms — paired with artist renderings of the objects described by witnesses. One report details an encounter in Colorado Springs in 2023, in which an FBI informant observed a triangular object with red lights at each corner. The object initially moved at a speed “comparable to a helicopter” before it “almost instantaneously accelerated to possibly Mach 1 or 2.” The informant “called his wife about 60 seconds later to tell her about the event, and she said that his voice sounded robotic, as if there was electronic interference occurring with the call,” the FBI report notes.Another 302 form records an interview with a former military pilot who described witnessing an enormous triangular object while stationed in Afghanistan in 2002. “At approximately 4:30 AM local time, [redacted] noticed that the stars were getting blacked out over Bagram,” the FBI agent wrote. “It appeared as if something huge went overhead, from west to east, and was an equilateral triangle shape. The object was moving silently, at a consistent speed and altitude, possibly 150 knots, with no lights visible.” The same pilot later reported seeing unexplained lights during a transatlantic flight in October 2023, describing white lights that would “start out as dim and get brighter before they eventually faded out,” according to the FBI report.The files also include a 1953 Department of War analysis of two videos from Montana and Utah, which concluded that the objects depicted had characteristics “inconsistent with those of natural phenomena,” as well as a 1963 State Department cable relating to an alleged crash in Brazil, later confirmed to be a hoax.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a statement that the release “demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency.” The Pentagon also said that additional files will be released on a rolling basis.

Pentagon Releases Fifth Batch of UFO Files, Including Triangle Sightings and Cold War-Era Reports

Pentagon Releases Fifth Batch of UFO Files, Including Triangle Sightings and Cold War-Era Reports

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