Pentagon publishes new UFO files: Testimony of orbs and mysterious objects

The Trump administration has promised more transparency and openness regarding the government's and NASA's observations of so-called UFOs and other anomalous phenomena. For the sixth time in just over six months, the Pentagon is therefore publishing new files with documents, videos and images that show various phenomena that lack explanation.

According to the Pentagon, the most notable case among the files now released is from the western United States in 2023.

Police officers, independently of each other, then claim to have seen spherical objects. One of the officers reported "balls sending other balls away".

Another event occurred in the year 2024 in Iraq. The crew on board a US military aircraft then testified to a "mysterious object" traveling at high speed above the plane's surveillance system.

A testimony from Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is also included among the newly released files. In 1969, Aldrin claimed to see what could be a laser light in space.

"I observed what appeared to be a fairly strong light source, which we tentatively believe may have been a laser," he reported after the incident, according to ABC News.

The Pentagon's release of UFO files usually gets a lot of attention in the US. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praises President Donald Trump for the transparency surrounding the Pentagon's UFO files, but there are heavy names who are less positive.

"There is nothing unexpected in the report, and without analysis or context, it will only serve to fuel further speculation, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience from couch potatoes," said Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of the Pentagon's Office of Unidentified Phenomena Investigation, according to ABC News.

The files are on the authority's website.