The Pentagon on Friday released a third batch of vintage classified files related to “flying saucers” and other unidentified anomalous phenomena — better known to most Americans as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs — that the government has been hanging onto for decades.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.The 72 newly released files date from the 1940s to this year and showed that government investigators had looked into UFO sightings not just in the United States, but also around the world.And the files contain more reports of sightings from the public and more reports from both the CIA and the FBI.In October 2024, at approximately 1851 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond at an estimated distance of 2,700 feet.U.S.
Defense DepartmentBut just as the two previous times when the government, at the urging of President Donald Trump, released two tranches of “never-before-seen” files on a subject that has intrigued Americans for generations, the new document drop will likely be a disappointment to those seeking definitive proof that we are not alone in the universe.“The official responses consistently state that, circa 1998, the U.S.Government is not aware of evidence supporting the existence of extraterrestrial technology,” one of the documents states.Like the previously released files, the new batch released Friday is housed on a dedicated government site, the Pentagon public affairs office said in a press release.“The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena,” it says.The unearthed files include 29 from FBI, 18 from CIA, 12 from the Department of Defense, 11 from NASA, one from the intelligence community and the last document is from an unspecified U.S.
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