Pentagon releases fifth batch of UFO Files, comprised of 41 records

The Pentagon released its fifth batch of UFO Files on Friday that consists of a mix of documents, images and videos that date back as far as 1950 and as recent as 2026.The release comes after President Donald Trump first teased declassifying the files on UFOs in February and ordered War Secretary Pete Hegseth to declassify them in April. The first batch was released in May.
The latest records come from a mix of the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Office of the President.
“Today, the Department of War is publishing the fifth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “The Department will release additional files on a rolling basis.”
The records were primarily grainy videos of flying objects captured by military sensors and cameras. Six of the videos were from a 2021 incident over the Gulf of Oman that was documented by Special Operation Forces, according to CBS News.
An accompanying report noted that service members on board a gunship spotted “approximately 25 instances of UAPs while conducting a live fire exercise in the Gulf of Oman.” 
“The UAPs were observed as cold orbs flying at lower altitudes between 250 to 1300 MPH in different formations as well as maneuvering aggressively,” the report reads. “UAPs also appeared to react to the aircraft firing its main cannon.”
A former military pilot also told the Pentagon in 2024 about an incident he witnessed in Afghanistan in 2002 that featured a large strange triangle that appeared to block out the stars. 
“At approximately 4:30 AM local time, [redacted] noticed that the stars were getting blacked out over Bagram,” the agent wrote in a report. “It appeared as if something huge went overhead, from west to east, and was an equilateral triangle shape. The object was moving silently, at a consistent speed and altitude, possibly 150 knots, with no lights visible.” 
The full archive of UFO files is now available on WAR.GOV/UFO.
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