By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2026-09-18 18:45:54 | Updated at 2026-09-18 20:22:23
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The Pentagon released its sixth batch of UFO files Friday, and the latest tranche includes military footage, decades-old investigations, reports of mysterious objects moving at hundreds of miles per hour, and documents detailing government-funded research into technologies straight out of science fiction.
The records span more than seven decades, from 1952 to 2025, and include everything from reports of strange objects over active military areas to research into warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, and “negative mass propulsion.”
One 2025 report describes six small spherical objects flying together over the Middle East. The objects were reportedly moving at approximately 480 miles per hour and repeatedly changing direction. The accompanying footage shows the objects moving across what appears to be a desert landscape.
Another video from 2023 shows circular objects over the Yellow Sea, captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform. The new files also include four videos submitted by Colorado law enforcement after an October 2023 incident. One reporting officer described the object as silent, with red, blue, and green flashing lights.
The government’s unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) database specifically describes the materials in the releases as unresolved cases, meaning officials have not been able to make a definitive determination about what was observed. The files also shed more light on one of the stranger government programs associated with the UFO phenomenon: the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP.
The Defense Intelligence Agency established AAWSAP in 2008 to investigate potential future aerospace threats and technologies. The program operated until 2012 and produced 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents examining subjects including warp drives, wormholes, invisibility cloaking, antigravity, and exotic propulsion.
The documents themselves are not new discoveries. Many have been publicly available for years through previous Freedom of Information Act releases. The newly released versions, however, include information that had previously been withheld, including details about the government offices involved.
The Pentagon cautioned that the studies should be viewed as reference and synthesis documents rather than original scientific research and said their inclusion does not mean the concepts examined were validated.
One of the more unusual studies examined possible injuries allegedly suffered by people following encounters with anomalous aerospace phenomena.
The 38-page 2010 document describes three otherwise healthy individuals who reportedly experienced an unexplained aerospace-related event and subsequently developed symptoms including skin redness, heat sensations, and hair loss. One individual was described as developing signs of radiation illness and later experiencing malignant transformations.
The study did not establish what caused the injuries. Its author nevertheless concluded that the incidents supported the possibility that some advanced systems were already deployed and not fully understood by the United States.
The latest tranche also reaches back to the earliest years of the Air Force’s UFO investigations. An hour-long 1952 audio recording features Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt discussing the military’s investigation of hundreds of UFO reports. Ruppelt, who later headed Project Blue Book — the government program meant to study UFOs — said approximately 20% of the roughly 800 cases examined by the Air Force remained unexplained.
“We’ve gone through these reports and come up with the fact that about 20% are very good reports offered by very reliable people and … just absolutely no conclusions can be drawn,” Ruppelt said in the recording.
Another file concerns one of the most famous UFO films of the 1950s: footage shot by Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952.
Newhouse reported seeing a group of bright objects in the sky and filmed them on 16mm Kodachrome film with a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera. His report described roughly 10 to 14 objects with a shiny, metallic appearance moving through the sky.
The film was subsequently examined by Project Blue Book personnel, balloon specialists, and representatives of General Mills. Investigators ultimately concluded that the objects were likely “pillow balloons,” although one General Mills representative expressed doubts about that explanation because the objects appeared unusually bright and seemed to maneuver too quickly.
The newly released footage shows the objects as small, bright shapes moving against the Utah sky.
