Pentagon Releases UFO Files for Americans to Decide What’s Real

The Pentagon made good on President Donald Trump’s promise to start releasing hundreds more declassified files linked to decades of UFO sightings, saying Americans can study the “new, never-before-seen” material and decide for themselves if aliens are real.

Among the 162 photos, videos and documents released Friday is an account from US astronauts describing unidentified “particles” seen outside their spacecraft in the 1960s. More recent footage taken by military pilots shows firefly-like orbs zig-zagging across the screen.

Another image features a government rendering of eyewitness accounts from 2023 that described an “ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a ...