Overview
- The Defense Department, which launched a dedicated site Friday, posted more than 160 photos, videos, and documents for anyone to review.
- The first batch spans reports from the United States, the Middle East, and waters near Japan, with the Pentagon pledging additional releases as more records are cleared.
- Materials include Apollo-era astronaut accounts and a 2023 U.S. Air Force video off Greece that shows a low-flying object appearing to make repeated right-angle turns at about 80 mph.
- Trump ordered the disclosure and said the new records would let people judge for themselves, casting the effort as a correction to past secrecy.
- News outlets and experts, including Reuters’ sources, say the files deepen the public record on known sightings but do not provide proof of extraterrestrial life.