Newly released secret government files detail UFO encounter with 13 fighter jets

A trove of previously top secret National Security Agency records have just been released that detail a spate of apparent UFO encounters, including one incident where 13 military fighter jets were sent to chase a mysterious unidentified object.The UFO-related files, made public by the nonprofit Disclosure Foundation earlier this week, are all marked with the codeword “Umbra” — a top security designation used by the NSA.The documents, which are separate from the wave of newly declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon, detail unexplained sightings from witnesses, as well as radar-tracking reports and incidents involving military aircraft.One heavily redacted intelligence report details how more than a dozen military jets once tried to chase down an object spotted in the sky.

In other incidents, Soviet-made fighter jets described pursuing unknown objects.Radar-tracking reports included in the files also described UFO objects as being star-shaped, spheres and “balls of fire.”“The object was going up and down at a fast speed and a very high altitude,” one report noted of an alleged UFO sighting, adding that it had a “white luminous light.”The documents, which were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act appeal from the Disclosure Foundation, are tied to a 1980 lawsuit brought against the NSA that sought to compel the release of UFO-related information in the agency’s possession.

As part of the suit, NSA’s chief policy officer Eugene Yeates submitted affidavits in response to a document request, which later became known as the “Yeates Memo.”The memo was declassified and made publicly available back in 2009 but the information included in the document wasn’t released.“When our legal team requested the underlying supporting material that was used to produce Mr Yeates’ classified memo to the court, the NSA denied the request in its entirety.

We challenged that denial, and after a lengthy appeal, the NSA appeals authority a...