Pentagon releases latest batch of UFO files and videos including intelligence officers who saw ‘orbs’

The Pentagon has published a second batch of UFO files, which includes dozens of declassified photos, videos and documents related to alleged sightings.

The documents are housed on the Pentagon’s website, which has garnered more than 1 billion hits since the government released its first trove of files related to “unidentified anomalous phenomena” two weeks ago, agency spokesperson Sean Parnell said Friday.

The Pentagon and other agencies are “actively working” on a third release, which will “be announced in the near future,” he added.

Several images and videos were published in Friday’s release, including a number that were recorded over the last six years. One video, recorded in October 2022 in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, shows a “cigar shaped or fast spherical UAP” flying over a street. Another clip from February 2023 appears to show a U.S. Air Force fighter jet shooting down a UAP over Lake Huron.

The new trove also includes a report from a U.S. intelligence officer who described seeing “two large orbs flare up" while flying in a helicopter in late 2025. The orbs were “oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow center, and emitted light in all directions,” according to the officer’s account.

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The officer and the pilots later saw the orbs appear over fighter jets that were nearby.

“I remarked to the pilots that it seemed the same orbs we had encountered were now ‘chasing’ the fighters,” the officer wrote. “We also observed orange orbs flaring up and down around us for several minutes, forming a distinct triangle before vanishing.”

The officer and pilots were left “virtually speechless” by what they witnessed, the report said.

Another 116-page document details a series of sightings and investigations in Sandia, New Mexico, between 1948 and 1950. The file includes “209 sightings of ‘green orbs,’ ‘discs,’ and ‘fireballs’” reported near a military base.

“Witnesses reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) maneuvering, flying out of sight, disappearing, or exploding. The documents also include the results of contemporary investigations into residual copper powder found in some areas where sightings were reported,” the Pentagon said.

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Some of these investigations helped fuel Project Grudge, a brief U.S. Air Force investigation into UFO sightings that spanned just a few months in 1949.

The new batch also includes audio of the Apollo 12 astronauts, who landed on the moon in 1969, describing “streaks of lights” that they often saw in the dark while trying to sleep. NASA eventually determined the unexplained phenomena was “internal to the astronauts’ vision rather than external light sources,” according to the Pentagon’s website.

The initial trove of UFO files, released May 8, contained several photos of “unidentified phenomena” taken from the moon’s surface by the Apollo 12 crew. It also included a transcript of the Apollo 11 crew’s debriefing, during which astronaut Buzz Aldrin described three “unusual” observations he made during the mission.

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