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The Pentagon released more than 50 previously classified files on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and reiterated on Friday that those included remain \u201cunresolved\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>The formula, which avoids defining with certainty what was observed, brought the topic back onto the agenda: the United States government itself admitted that, with the available information, it cannot definitively determine the nature of the reported phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new batch included reports on luminous spheres<\/strong> observed over an unidentified city in the northeastern United States in 2025 and 2026, as well as an incident recorded in Zimbabwe in 2008, linked to Harare International Airport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>According to the source text, the files did not provide evidence that the videos or testimonies describe anything more than perception, imagination, or conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The package was added to two previous deliveries released last month. The Pentagon maintained once again that the set of documents known so far is limited to \u201cunsolved cases<\/strong>\u201d, despite the fact that the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, stated that the release \u201cdemonstrates the Trump administration’s commitment to unprecedented transparency\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We recommend reading:The Pentagon publishes a second batch of government documents on UFOs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a>In a column last month titled The truth is still out there<\/em>, Adam Kirsch, a senior editor at the American magazine The Atlantic<\/em>, wrote: \u201cThere was a lot of black-and-white darkness,\u201d but nothing that looked like an alien spacecraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FBI interviewed witnesses of red and white lights in the northeastern United States, but the case remained without technical records to confirm their origin (War Department)<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the documents released on Friday reconstructed an episode in which lights appeared to float over a city in the northeastern United States. The case caught the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI<\/strong>, which sent two agents to interview witnesses. According to the report attributed to the agency, those interviewed claimed to have seen red and white objects moving rapidly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The file included elements that, by their nature, underscored the ambiguity surrounding these reports. One of the witnesses said that he \u201chad always been interested in the subject of UAPs\u201d and maintained that as early as 1987 he observed flashing red lights in the sky. To explain the pattern, he compared it to the front of \u201cKITT\u201d in the television show Knight Rider<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the source text, the documentation compiled personal accounts and comparisons, but did not provide technical records that would allow for the corroboration of the origin of what was observed. In that context, the case was included among the \u201cunresolved\u201d ones which, by definition, remain open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another document recalled an incident from the summer of 2008 in Zimbabwe, when the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA<\/strong>, expressed concern over a report about an \u201cunidentified object flying at high altitude over Harare International Airport<\/strong>\u201d. The text described it as a disc-shaped object, with \u201ca series of rotating lights on the bottom\u201d and \u201cbeams\u201d of light emanating from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same report considered two hypotheses: that it was \u201can advanced reconnaissance device belonging to a foreign government\u201d or \u201can unidentified flying object of extraterrestrial origin.\u201d According to the source text, the FBI did not reach a conclusion, so the episode also remained classified as unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The inclusion of alternatives illustrated, according to the specialists cited in the source text, a common difficulty in this type of report: the available information often allows for mutually incompatible readings, with no independent data to confirm or rule out any of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AARO left a 2022 episode in Colorado Springs unresolved and questioned as low-confidence an explanation based on sunlight reflections (Department of War)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The material also incorporated an incident that occurred in 2022. According to the source text, several military personnel in Colorado Springs reported seeing an object in the sky that they described as an \u201cangular and asymmetrical potato.\u201d A preliminary assessment proposed a conventional explanation: \u201cSunlight reflected off mountain snow illuminating the underside of low-altitude clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, AARO<\/strong>, rated that assessment as \u201clow confidence<\/strong>.\u201d It left the incident as unresolved, a label that can encompass both a lack of data and internal discrepancies in the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the source text, that criterion helped explain why the publication of documents does not necessarily reduce uncertainty: dissemination may expand the public inventory, but it does not always incorporate conclusive expertise or sufficient technical context to close a case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Specialists questioned the usefulness of the Pentagon’s files on UAP, while a survey showed that a large part of the public believes that the government is hiding information (Department of War)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Pentagon promised to release more documents on UAPs at dates yet to be specified. According to the source text, that continuity fueled speculation as to whether the directive that Donald Trump issued in February to agencies to release files on the search for extraterrestrial life operated as a distraction tactic in the face of other bad news for his administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the first publication on May 8, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/strong> wrote on X that she was \u201csick of the administration\u2019s \u2018look at the shiny object\u2019 propaganda,\u201d while \u2014according to her post\u2014 they \u201cwage wars abroad, let rapists and pedophiles go free, and ruin the value of our dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other questions pointed to the quality of the testimonies included. The source text mentioned criticisms regarding the presence of ambiguous or unverified accounts from military personnel and even NASA astronauts who claimed to have seen mysterious lights during Apollo program flights in the 1960s and 1970s. According to the experts cited, at least some of those sightings could be explained as sunlight reflections on the capsule windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic Magazine<\/em>, stated this month in a YouTube interview that such \u201caccreditation\u201d gave the subject a credibility it did not deserve. \u201cThat changed the perception that they were weird guys in tin foil hats, and now, you know, it\u2019s a Navy pilot,\u201d he maintained. Shermer also cited a video presented as an alleged extraterrestrial craft that, in reality, showed the deployment of a parachute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also read: U.S. government files on UFOs: what the scientific community says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of AARO, told Scientific American<\/em> magazine that the files were \u201cof no use\u201d and warned: \u201cThere is nothing unexpected in their release. And without any analysis or context, this will only serve to fuel more speculation, conspiracy theories, and armchair pseudoscience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A survey by the American network CBS News<\/em> and the public opinion research firm YouGov published this week, however, showed a different picture among the public. Eight out of ten respondents said that the government knows more than it admits about the existence of extraterrestrial life; 63% claimed to believe<\/strong> that there is life on other planets, and 20% maintained that aliens <\/a>have already visited Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pentagon released more than 50 previously classified files on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and reiterated on Friday that those included remain \u201cunresolved\u201d. The formula, which avoids defining with certainty what was observed, brought the topic back onto the agenda: the United States government itself admitted that, with the available information, it cannot definitively determine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28X7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Red and white spheres: the FBI interviewed witnesses in the Northeast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Harare, 2008: a report mentioned CIA concern<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Colorado Springs: AARO questioned a \u201clow-confidence\u201d explanation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Political criticism and disagreements among specialists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n