Pentagon’s UFO photos: The best declassified images from the new release
President Trump ordered the release of government documents detailing unexplained phenomena related to UAPs so “the people can decide for themselves.”
The Pentagon released its first tranche of 162 files related to UFOs and UAPs on Friday. It will be dropping more every few weeks “as they are discovered and declassified.” The move comes after President Donald Trump ordered that they be made public in February “based on the tremendous interest shown.”
Nearly half of Americans believe that aliens have visited Earth according to a recent YouGov poll. As for UFOs, while 30% believe they are alien ships, the percentage that think they have some other explanation has increased from 35% to 45% over the past couple years.
The documents made public on a Department of War UFO website contain files from the FBI, Department of Defense, NASA and State Department. The include reports from witnesses, photos and videos as well as communications between government agencies seeking guidance on how to put out an official explanation of the phenomena to avoid “hysteria, or panic.”
The majority contain redactions, but they come with the they are there to “protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP.”
“No redactions have been made to any files released under President Trump’s directive concerning information about the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP or related phenomena.”
Trump posted on social media that with the release of these files that “the people can decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?’”
Decide for yourself what’s in the Pentagon’s UFO photos
Below is just a sampling of the material that was released in the first tranche from the Pentagon.
Photo of an unexplained phenomena viewed by the crew of Apollo 12 from the lunar surface in 1969.
Photo of an unexplained phenomena viewed by the crew of Apollo 17 from the lunar surface in 1972.
Photo of the actual sight where the phenomenon was observed in September 2023 with a FBI Lab rendered graphic based on eyewitness reports.
Video of a football-shaped body with three radial projections observed by Indo-Pacific Command in 2024.
Video of an “eight-pointed star” unidentified anomalous phenomenon consisting of one minute and 46 seconds of footage viewed in the Middle East in 2013.
“Among the most compelling”
The caption for this final document states that while there is no technical data, based on contextual factors such as the reporters’ credibility, coming from seven federal employees who separately witnessed the event “combine to make this report among the most compelling within [the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s] current holdings.”
The sightings of this unexplained phenomena took place over the course of two days in the western United States in 2023.
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