Overview
- The Pentagon released 72 previously classified files Friday that include reports from the FBI, CIA and Defense Department with witness interviews, videos, artistic renderings and an infrared image.
- Many documents describe repeated sightings of luminous spheres concentrated in a sparsely populated part of the northeastern United States with one FBI note saying an incident occurred less than 25 miles from earlier reports.
- FBI interview material in the files recounts two witnesses who saw an intense backyard light and a red sphere about one meter wide with a bright central region described as a “white plasma sun.”
- The tranche also contains an infrared image dated September 2025 showing an unidentified object beneath a helicopter in the western United States and an October 2024 report of a light over a pond.
- The release follows two May batches and was framed by Pentagon leadership as declassification for public review, but the documents document observations rather than offer definitive identifications, leaving official analysis unresolved and open to further scrutiny.