Trump Administration Releases Fifth Batch of UFO Files, Including New Videos and Reports

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The Pentagon released its fifth batch of declassified UFO files on Friday, according to officials. The tranche is comprised of 41 documents, images and videos drawn from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Office of the President, with records dating as far back as 1950 and as recent as 2026 [1]. The release follows President Donald Trump's executive order directing the Department of War to declassify records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the government's term for UFOs [3].

Among the newly published material are videos showing a mysterious orb passing over a residential area in the Middle East and a black sphere hovering over the Pacific Ocean that appears to vanish for a moment before resurfacing, according to the BBC [2]. The files also include an FBI interview summary describing a military pilot's 2002 account of a silent triangular craft over Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, as well as witness reports of a 1963 incident in Rio de Janeiro involving a metal sphere allegedly containing a human body.

Trump announced the declassification directive on February 19, 2026, in what commentators described as a historic shift in the relationship between the American people and their government, according to NaturalNews.com [6]. Trump directed the Department of War to declassify and release government files on unidentified aerial phenomena and unidentified flying objects, and War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed compliance while cautioning that the review process would be deliberate and thorough [5].

Bagram Airfield Triangle Encounter

According to a three-page FBI interview summary, a military pilot reported observing an equilateral triangle approximately 500 feet across moving silently over Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in 2002. The pilot said he was stargazing with a colleague at approximately 4:30 a.m. when the stars suddenly began disappearing above them. "It appeared as if something huge went overhead," the FBI interview summary states. The pilot described the object as an equilateral triangle that moved silently across the sky at a steady speed and altitude despite displaying no visible lights, according to the summary.

The pilot estimated that the object was traveling at approximately 173 mph. He said it abruptly rolled 90 degrees onto its left side while veering right, the opposite direction in which a conventional aircraft would normally bank, before quickly returning to level flight, the file states. A second pilot reportedly witnessed the event and asked, "Did you see that?" as it passed overhead. The witness said he did not report the encounter at the time and later failed to find anything that explained what they had observed.

The same file states that the pilot subsequently reported unexplained lights during commercial flights beginning in October 2023. He first noticed them while flying from Boston to Dublin at 37,000 feet and believed they were hovering at least 13,000 feet above his aircraft, according to the report. The lights reportedly brightened and faded in cycles lasting between 10 seconds and one minute, with some remaining stationary while others traveled in straight lines or suddenly changed direction. Although they resembled aircraft landing lights, the pilot said their behavior did not match planes, meteors, satellites or Starlink. He said he witnessed the phenomenon approximately 10 times, with individual encounters lasting from 45 minutes to two hours. Military pilot testimony has been a recurring element of official inquiries into such phenomena; Leslie Kean's book documenting UFO reports from generals, pilots and government officials describes a U.K. Ministry of Defense study that examined evidence amassed over decades in an attempt to reach a definitive view [7].

Brazil Sphere and Other Reported Incidents

Another file recounts claims that a large metal sphere crashed in central Rio de Janeiro in 1963, gouging a 13-foot-deep hole, according to witness accounts preserved in the files. The object reportedly had window-shaped openings covered with thick glass and contained a human body dressed in heavy clothing bearing inscriptions that could not be deciphered, the records state.

A separate FBI file describes a Colorado Springs witness's account of a solid-black triangle observed in October 2023. The witness said he was standing outside with a co-worker on a clear night when a stationary, "pixelated or distorted" cloud appeared before a red light emerged from it, according to the report. He described an enormous triangle with a diffuse red light at each of its three corners, estimating that it was as large as the parking lot where he stood and between three and five stories thick. The object initially traveled at a speed comparable to a helicopter before "almost instantaneously" accelerating to what he believed was Mach 1 or Mach 2, the file states. The triangle reportedly generated no noise, displayed no visible propulsion and produced no unusual odor.

The files also include analysis of films recorded over Utah and Montana in the early 1950s. Analysts calculated that disk-shaped, blue-white objects seen in the Utah footage traveled at up to 2,457 mph and endured acceleration reaching 965 times the force of gravity, according to the report. The analysis concluded that birds, balloons and conventional aircraft could not explain the calculated movements. Those figures, however, relied on assumptions about the objects' distance from the camera that analysts acknowledged were arbitrary. The Brazil account is not the first government-recorded report of a craft said to have left physical traces; following a 1981 landing near Trans-en-Provence in France, ground samples were collected by the Gendarmerie within 24 hours and later analyzed in French government laboratories, according to Zecharia Sitchin's book "Of Heaven and Earth" [10].

Official Statements and Limitations

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the release demonstrates the administration's commitment to transparency. "The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government's understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena," Hegseth said in a statement. "These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation, and it's time the American people see it for themselves." Hegseth has said that the long-classified files have historically fueled "justified speculation" and that the American people have a right to see the information for themselves [4].

The records preserve witness statements and media reports rather than verified government findings, officials said, and they offer no evidence that either object was extraterrestrial. FBI reports record witness accounts but do not independently verify estimates of size, speed or altitude, the documents state.

Disclosure Continues Without Conclusions

The fifth tranche adds to a growing body of released material but leaves unresolved questions, officials said. Witnesses reported encounters with triangular craft, orbs and other anomalies across multiple decades, according to the files. The administration's release aligns with previous disclosure efforts, but no official determination about the phenomena has been announced. Further releases may provide additional context, but currently the records stand as unverified accounts, the report stated.

Government investigation of such reports dates to at least 1947, when the Army Air Force and Naval Intelligence, along with the FBI, studied some of the more publicized sightings, according to Michael D. Connors and Wendy A. Hall in their book "Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947" [8]. Robert Hastings, author of "UFOs and Nukes," has documented military deliberations that weighed whether observed objects were of domestic origin, noted the lack of crash-recovered physical evidence, and considered the possibility that a foreign nation possessed a form of propulsion outside domestic knowledge [9].