Pentagon Declassifies UFO Files Detailing Lunar Anomalies and Military Sightings
Following a presidential directive from Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Defense has published a comprehensive collection of UFO files to its official website.
The move follows a surge in public fascination with the cosmos, spurred by the first congressional hearings on the subject in half a century back in 2022. The topic gained further traction this February when former President Barack Obama stated in an interview that aliens are «real». He subsequently walked back the comment to clarify that while statistical probability strongly favours extraterrestrial life, he never personally saw any proof while in office.
Citing this massive wave of public interest, Trump ordered the military to declassify relevant intelligence. These newly public UFO files span decades of extraterrestrial inquiries and encompass everything from historical civilian reports to bizarre encounters logged by lunar astronauts.
Anomalies in orbit
The archives shed light on multiple strange occurrences witnessed during America’s mid-century space race.
Audio from the 1965 Gemini 7 mission captures astronaut Frank Borman radioing mission control to report a «bogey» flanked by «trillions of little particles». Four years later Buzz Aldrin observed an inexplicable bright illumination during the historic Apollo 11 journey that the crew tentatively identified as a laser.
Fellow lunar explorer Alan Bean noted similar anomalies during the Apollo 12 mission, describing flashes of light and floating debris that looked as if they were escaping the Moon’s surface. In 1972 Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt compared flashing lights outside his vessel to the Fourth of July, though the crew eventually theorised they might simply be looking at illuminated ice fragments.
Combat footage and civilian encounters
Alongside historical space logs the release features modern military surveillance and civilian testimonies.
Historical domestic reports include a 1957 FBI interview detailing a man’s encounter with a colossal circular craft lifting off the earth. More contemporary civilian accounts from late 2023 describe hovering metallic structures appearing out of blinding light.
Military disclosures include 2022 video clips from the United Arab Emirates, Syria and Iraq. The Pentagon characterises these Middle Eastern sightings as unresolved anomalies. One specific video from an undisclosed location shows a fast-moving oval object streaking across the screen, which analysts flagged in an accompanying report as a potential missile.
A divided political response
The declassification has split political opinion in Washington. Republican representatives Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna both praised the release of the UFO files on social media, describing the document dump as a massive step towards full government transparency.
Conversely, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed the release entirely. The former Trump ally condemned the disclosures as «shiny object propaganda» designed to distract the American public from severe domestic price affordability issues and the ongoing war in Iran.
