Pentagon releases third batch of formerly classified UFO documents

A third tranche of extraterrestrial-related records released by the Department of Defense shows never-before-released accounts and artist renderings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — many of which are depicted like a “potato.”

The Trump administration, perhaps coincidentally, released the new batch of files the same day as the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s new film “Disclosure Day” about a global extraterrestrial revelation.

In one 2024 FBI document, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and four members of his unit observed a UAP over the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado — a potato-shaped object with distinct edges.

They said it appeared to be painted in an opalescent white and was somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer. The officer noted that there was no shadow.

“The object was made up of what can best be described as articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, and irregular shaped,” the report reads. “The object itself was perfectly still but each panel on the object shifted in slow waves starting at different points of origin but at the same time.”

After approximately two minutes, the object “vanished,” having “cloaked” in the time span it took to turn a head.

The files have included dozens of government memos, artistic interpretations of UAPs and FBI investigation reports.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that the host site for the exclusive look at first-hand narrative descriptions of UAPs, war.gov/UFO, has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since the site’s launch on May 8.

“As the unprecedented levels of interest in both this topic and the Trump administration’s historic transparency effort continue,” Mr. Parnell said, the department and its agency partners are actively working on the next release of UAP files.

The UAP files are being released on a rolling basis as part of President Trump’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters to declassify and release decades of U.S. government files on UAPs and unidentified flying objects or UFOs.