The UFO Phenomenon

By T.K. Randall
September 20, 2026

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney)

The latest collection of (mostly) previously unreleased files dates back to between 1952 and 2025.

When US President Donald Trump originally claimed that he was going to publish the government's secretive UFO files, there was a great deal of skepticism over whether it would actually happen.

Despite these doubts, however, the files really did materialize and in fact continue to do so, with the sixth such batch of documents having just been released by the Pentagon.

This time around there are a total of 71 files, the vast majority of which being from the Defense Department and a small selection from Colorado's local law enforcement.

55 of the files are documents, 15 are videos and 1 is an audio file.

It is worth noting, though, that 37 of the files appear to have been available for years. These are the so-called Defense Intelligence Reference Documents which were produced by the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program.

These include research into exotic technologies such as warp drive and anti-gravity.

One document contains a 38-page study into "evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems" pertaining to some 300 incidents.

"Sufficient incidents/accidents have been accurately reported, and medical data acquired, as to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque to full US understanding," the author wrote.

The videos included in the release are similar to those previously published and include footage (often in infra-red) of unidentified objects over the Middle-East.

There are also reports of anomalous objects submitted by law enforcement officials.

As always, the files can be browsed and downloaded at https://www.war.gov/UFO/.

Source: CBS News

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