The Pentagon released its fourth batch of files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) on Friday. The batch contains 40 files, including an account of a UAP that a military aviator described as “unlike anything I had seen.”
The fourth release, uploaded to the Department of War’s UFO website, contains information from various government agencies. It includes many historical documents from the late 1940s Project Sign era and reports from early U.S. government investigations into “flying objects.” The U.S. Air Force ran Project Sign for most of 1948.
The release also includes a transcript from a 1949 conference of top physicists and scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, some of whom worked on the Manhattan Project.
One file from the U.S. Department of Energy recounts an unidentified, diamond-shaped object that entered the airspace over a nuclear weapons facility near Amarillo, Texas, in September 2015. The facility went into lockdown as two officers pursued the object.
“Although they were unable to catch up to the object, they stopped their vehicle and got out. Once outside, they noted that the object did not make any sound,” according to the report. “Furthermore, the [officers] stated that they were unable to identify any type of propulsion system on the object while using binoculars to assess the object. After viewing it for 1-2 minutes, the object then continued north offsite.”
Another report describes a UAP that an aviator and four other personnel saw over the eastern U.S. in 2019. The aviator described it as “an object with flight characteristics unlike anything I had seen in my 28 years of performing for the [Air Force] and Navy.” He said the small object below them “appeared to be traveling in a straight line opposite our direction at high speed,” but it zoomed out of his field of view when he tried to keep recording it.
Other footage shows a UAP seen over the Atlantic Ocean in 2020. A heavily redacted report describes it as resembling a “large, somewhat deformed balloon” with a “darker, maroonish color, approximately 12-15 feet in height.” The report claimed the object was “travel[ing] with the wind” and did not “maneuver or change direction.”
Other material includes typically grainy military and infrared sensor videos of unresolved UAP sightings worldwide, including over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in 2025, the Gulf of America in 2019 and the western United States in 1996.
One UAP seen over the Yellow Sea via an infrared sensor in 2025 appears as a six-pointed star, similar to an eight-pointed star in a 2013 video released in the Pentagon’s first batch of UFO-related material in May. The eight-pointed star’s resemblance to the Star of Ishtar prompted some on social media to speculate on the potentially spiritual nature of the phenomena at the time.
Prior UAP-related tranches released by the Pentagon also featured grainy military videos and civilian videos of “orbs,” including reports of larger orbs seeming to release smaller ones.
The newest release also contains NASA imagery from space, including three images from the 1996 Space Shuttle STS-80 mission showing an unidentified object flying in low Earth orbit. Earlier releases included NASA-related materials, including Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 transcripts and Gemini 7 audio discussing anomalous sightings.
“Today, the Department of War is publishing the fourth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE),” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Friday.
“The Department of War and our agency partners are actively working on the next release of UAP files,” he added.
The fourth release continues the Pentagon’s transparency effort on unresolved UAP cases. It follows an executive order President Donald Trump signed earlier this year directing the disclosure of UFO-related material.
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