Mysterious videos of black objects speeding along, representations of flying vessels, and testimonies of unexplained lights—these are some of the previously unpublished documents released by the U.S. Department of Defense at the request of Donald Trump, who is fascinated by this subject.
The files published online on Friday, May 8, concerning unidentified abnormal phenomena, also known as UFOs, will be gradually made public “in the spirit of complete transparency”, as stated by the Pentagon. This publication allows the general public to “form their own opinion about the information contained in these records”, the Pentagon added.
The files include government documents dating back to the 1940s, images taken during lunar missions, transcripts of astronauts, copies of eyewitness testimonies and newspaper clippings, as well as videos and representations of unexplained moving objects. Most of the files date back to before this year, although a video showing unidentified aircraft flying in an undisclosed location is dated January.
Here are some images extracted from these 160 documents published on a dedicated page on the Pentagon’s website.
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This image comes from an infrared sensor on board a U.S. military platform in 2023. It is extracted from a video showing an eight-branched star moving with a visible trail. The video was filmed somewhere in the Middle East.
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This unidentified aerial phenomenon was observed near Japan in 2024 and described as resembling an American football.
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A laboratory-generated illustration depicts a ‘bronze metallic object’ that multiple consistent witnesses claimed to have seen ‘materialize in a bright sky’ and then ‘disappear instantaneously’ in September 2023. The object was said to be between 40 and 60 meters in length.
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This unidentified aerial phenomenon appears in a video taken somewhere in the southern United States in 2020. The video was recorded from an infrared sensor on board a U.S. military platform.
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This unidentified aerial phenomenon was sighted in the sky somewhere in North America in 2026. The video was taken from an infrared sensor on board a U.S. military platform.
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Three ‘lights,’ highlighted in the yellow frame, were reported above the lunar landscape during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Although the nature of these lights is unknown, the astronauts attributed similar phenomena to satellites or space debris.
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This image, showing a black dot under what appears to be a helicopter, was observed through a military system above the western United States in September 2025.
In a statement, Trump described ordering the release of these files as a “privilege,” stating that they are “related to extraterrestrial and alien life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.”
Note: This article is a translation by the editorial staff of The Huffington Post France, based on an article published in May 2026 on The Huffington Post US.
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