The Pentagon on Friday released a new batch of UFO files.
The release includes 40 files — 14 documents, 19 videos, four audio files and three images — drawn from the Pentagon, NASA, CIA, FBI and Energy Department and posted on the Pentagon's UAP website under an executive order President Trump signed earlier this year.
"The Department of War and our agency partners are actively working on the next release of UAP files," spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.
An Energy Department file details an intrusion into the airspace over the Pantex nuclear weapons facility near Amarillo, Texas, in September 2015, noting the facility was placed on lockdown and saying, "Although they were unable to catch up to the object, they stopped their vehicle and got out. Once outside, they noted that the object did not make any sound. Furthermore, the [officers] stated that they were unable to identify any type of propulsion system on the object while using binoculars to assess the object. After viewing it for 1-2 minutes, the object then continued north offsite."
An aviator described a 2019 encounter over the Eastern U.S., writing, "I noticed an object with flight characteristics unlike anything I had seen in my 28 years of performing for the [Air Force] and Navy. A small object was below us and appeared to be traveling in a straight line opposite our direction at high speed. I tracked it for ~10-15 seconds before we turned on the recorder to provide the attached video. When I zoomed in to try and achieve more resolution, the object's speed took out of my FOV and I was unable to reacquire, even at a lower zoom. Upon analysis after the flight, the object appeared to be rectangular. Others with equal or more experience were also unsure as to what this object might be."
Files include a 2020 Atlantic incident in which a Navy crew member wrote an object "was a darker, maroonish color, approximately 12-15ft in height" and added, "Structurally, it appeared as a large, somewhat deformed balloon, but we were unable to verify that as we passed at the merge," the account showing two redacted lines.
The Pentagon described that account as a "range fouler debrief," calling it "a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training."
The most recent events in the release occurred in 2025 near China under Indo-Pacific Command, including one video of a military sensor tracking "an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star" over the Yellow Sea and another that appears to track an object over the East China Sea for several minutes.
The batch also contains historical records, among them a 1949 transcript of a Los Alamos conference attended by physicists who had worked on the Manhattan Project that discussed unexplained "green fireballs," with a prominent astronomer saying, "nothing like this has ever been observed in the case of meteorite drops."
About half the files are dated from 2010 or later and include videos showing infrared footage captured by military cameras.