The Pentagon has released another batch of declassified documents on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), including new videos, documents and materials dating from 1953 to 2026.
In the published materials, several mysterious objects appear, including a dark sphere moving rapidly over a populated area in the Middle East and another sphere-shaped object that appears over the Pacific Ocean and then disappears from view for a few moments.
The latest release contains 41 pieces of material, including over 10 videos, three images, and a large number of PDF documents. It is the fifth such release by the US Department of Defense.
One of the videos, recorded in 2021 over the Gulf of Oman, appears to show a dark object, described in documents as a “cold orb.” The object moves erratically and, according to the official description, may have had a diameter of about 1.2 meters.
Another video, recorded by a US military sensor in an undisclosed location in the Middle East in 2025, shows a sphere moving in a straight line over an area that looks like a residential neighborhood.
A declassified FBI document also includes the testimony of a former military pilot, who said he saw unusual lights during a flight from Boston to Dublin in October 2023. According to him, the lights appeared mainly between midnight and 3:00 a.m., gradually becoming brighter before disappearing.
The pilot stated that some of them remained stationary, while others moved in a straight line and in some cases changed direction. He said that he had seen similar variations of these lights at least ten times.
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Another footage, filmed over the Pacific Ocean in 2019, shows a black sphere that appears to disappear from view and then reappear. The documentation explains that the initial footage was taken by a sensor, while the screen was filmed with a handheld device, which could explain some of the visible jitter and changes in the image.
Documents dating from the 1950s
Among the new materials is a 1953 document prepared by the U.S. Navy Photographic Interpretation Center. The document analyzes two videos recorded in Montana and Utah in 1950 and 1952.
According to the center's findings, the objects in the view appeared to increase in size as the "luminosity" increased. The analysis concluded that their characteristics were "incompatible with those of natural phenomena."
The three images published in this group are not photographs of the objects, but artistic reconstructions, based on the testimonies of people who claim to have experienced encounters with unusual objects.
One of them depicts a large, dark triangular object in the sky, with round lights at each of its three ends. According to the document, the sighting is based on the testimony of two former members of the US military about a 2011 incident.
The release of these materials comes at a time when public and political interest in the United States in unidentified aerial phenomena has grown significantly. In 2022, the US Congress held its first public hearing on UFOs in nearly five decades.
The US Department of Defense has promised that the release of documents will continue. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that more material will be released "on an ongoing basis."
However, the publication of images and documents does not constitute proof that the objects are of extraterrestrial origin. The term UAP is used by US authorities for undiscovered phenomena or objects that have not yet been identified, regardless of whether they are in the air, on the ground or underwater.