Overview
- The Department of War published the fifth release of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena records on Friday, adding 41 documents, photos and videos that span more than seven decades from 1950 to 2026.
- One newly posted 2025 military sensor video appears to show a fast, sphere-shaped object moving over a residential area in the Middle East and is labeled by officials as an unresolved UAP.
- The tranche includes multiple recordings and an intelligence report from a September 2021 Gulf of Oman encounter in which AC-130J crew reported dozens of “cold orbs” that maneuvered aggressively and sometimes seemed to react when the aircraft fired its main cannon.
- Declassified FBI interview summaries in the release record dramatic eyewitness claims, including a 2002 sighting of a silent, equilateral triangular object over Bagram Airfield and separate 2023 triangle reports near Colorado Springs, but the files do not independently verify those accounts.
- Whistleblowers and reporting say additional footage remains classified, a gap that watchdogs and lawmakers say limits oversight and raises safety and operational questions for military investigators as more releases are planned.