{"id":125553,"date":"2026-05-08T21:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=125553"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:21:05","slug":"pentagon-releases-previously-secret-files-on-ufos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/125553\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon releases previously secret files on UFOs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Web desk(National Times)- The Pentagon on Friday released a first batch of previously secret files documenting reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) \u2014 some as far back as the 1940s \u2014 a move sought for decades by some Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation \u2014 and it\u2019s time the American people see it for themselves,\u201d War Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 160 files were released on Friday on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/UFO\/\">website<\/a>&nbsp;of the War Department, which officially refers to UFOs as \u201cUnidentified Anomalous Phenomena,\u201d or UAPs.An image showing an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, or UAP, released by the Pentagon on May 8, 2026. \u2014 Photo courtesy US Department of War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One file \u2014 from December 1947 \u2014 contains a series of reports on \u201cflying discs.\u201d An Air Force intelligence report \u2014 marked \u201ctop secret\u201d \u2014 from November of the following year features information on reported sightings of \u201cunidentified aircraft\u201d and \u201cflying saucers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another file documents a 2023 incident in which three teams of federal law enforcement special agents independently described \u201cseeing orange \u2018orbs\u2019 in the sky emit\/launch smaller red \u2018orbs\u2019\u201d.A screenshot of a file on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, released by the Pentagon on May 8, 2026. \u2014 Screengrab via US Department of War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1974698\">directed<\/a>&nbsp;US federal agencies in February to begin identifying and releasing government files related to UFOs and aliens, saying the move was \u201cbased on the tremendous interest shown\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republican president also claimed the same day he issued the release order that one of his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama, had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1973471\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cclassified\u201d information in viral podcast remarks about the existence of extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re real, but I haven\u2019t seen them, and they\u2019re not being kept in \u2026 Area 51,\u201d Obama told host Brian Tyler Cohen, referring to the top-secret US military facility in Nevada at the heart of many UFO conspiracy theories.An image showing an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, or UAP, released by the Pentagon on May 8, 2026. \u2014 Photo courtesy US Department of War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump told reporters at the time that Obama \u201cgave classified information, he is not supposed to be doing that,\u201d while saying of his own beliefs: \u201cI don\u2019t know if they are real or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No evidence has been produced of intelligent life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interest in UFOs has been renewed in recent years as the US government probed numerous reports of seemingly supernatural aircraft, amid worries that adversaries could be testing highly advanced technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2024, the Pentagon&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1820218\">released<\/a>&nbsp;a report saying it had no proof that UAP were alien technology, with many suspicious sightings turning out to be merely weather balloons, spy planes, satellites and other normal activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk(National Times)- The Pentagon on Friday released a first batch of previously secret files documenting reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) \u2014 some as far back as the 1940s \u2014 a move sought for decades by some Americans. \u201cThese files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation \u2014 and it\u2019s time the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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