{"id":1190,"date":"2026-05-23T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:04:33","slug":"pentagon-releases-new-batch-of-ufo-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>(NewsNation) \u2014 The Pentagon on Friday released more UFO files following an initial drop that included never-before-seen documents related to incidents already public.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1188\">Judge throws out author Michael Wolff\u2019s lawsuit against Melania Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second drop includes over 40 videos requested by lawmakers, along with a few files and some audio from NASA missions. <\/p>\n<p>Nexstar\u2019s NewsNation is reviewing the files and providing an analysis on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The files are being released on a rolling basis at war.gov\/UFO following President Donald Trump\u2019s promise to declassify certain government files, including those related to UAPs.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch of files included photos and reports dating back decades, along with archival photos, <span>military video\u00a0and documents related to NASA\u2019s Apollo 12, Apollo 17 and Gemini 7 missions, during which<\/span> astronauts reported strange sightings.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s in the files?<\/h2>\n<p>The files include written statements about an unidentified object incident report by the Department of Energy, a firsthand witness account from a U.S. intelligence official and a CIA information report about a sighting in the Soviet Union in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Another file contains 116 pages of documentation from the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program and the U.S. Air Force relating to a series of sightings and investigations in Sandia, New Mexico, from 1948 to 1950. The AFSWP is the direct, post-World War II successor to the Manhattan Project.<\/p>\n<p>An audio file includes the commander and two pilots of the Apollo 12 mission describing their observations of light flashes, which each astronaut reported occurred in the dark as they tried to sleep. The medical debriefing tape was recorded on Dec. 31, 1969, in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Other audio from Mercury-Atlas missions describes astronauts seeing small particles described as \u201clight shavings\u201d that they cannot identify.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1186\">Knightdale restaurant named one of top 100 BBQ restaurants in U.S. by Yelp Elites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One video appears to show three objects cruising in the water, and then a fourth quickly comes into and exits the frame. The other video tracks a white object that appears to move quickly in a straight line before veering left, then making a sudden change of direction and leaving the field of view.<\/p>\n<h2>Videos requested by lawmakers included in release<\/h2>\n<p>The second release includes more than 40 videos requested by lawmakers, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, said.<\/p>\n<p>That includes a video that Luna and former Rep. Matt Gaetz went to Eglin Air Force Base to request in person in 2023. That video includes infrared sensor footage of a strange object, which the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office previously stated was a commercial lighting balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Another video shows a UAP that was shot down near Lake Huron, an incident that came after a Chinese spy balloon was spotted over the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Other videos include unusually sharp images of a UAP and a shape of a UAP not previously seen in released video footage.<\/p>\n<p>Another video shows the U.S. tracking a foreign sub that surfaces as a UAP becomes visible in the frame.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1184\">Scattered rain and storms likely for Memorial Day weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The files include over 40 videos requested by lawmakers. 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