The U.S. government did something that seemed impossible for decades. It opened hundreds of classified documents about UFOs to the public. And the files do not disappoint.

This is the most significant declassification in the recent history of unidentified aerial phenomena. The material includes videos recorded in zone war ace, testimonies from FBI agents and even a conversation between astronauts who saw unexplainable things floating near their ship in 1972.

The move was pushed by President Donald Trump in early 2026. Everything is available to anyone in the world, without c redentials nor authorizations, on the official portal war.gov/ufo, where the government promised to continue publishing files on a progressive basis.

Orbs, impossible lights and objects that make 90 degree turns

The first batch includes 162 secret files with photographs, military records, videos and reports from different federal agencies. Among them the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, NASA, the FBI and AARO, the office created in 2022 specifically to track this type of phenomena.

One of the documents that drawn the attention relates the testimony of seven federal agents from different teams that, in a form pending, they reported having seen multiple unidentified aerial phenomena in the western United States for two days in 2023.

The descriptions are disturbing. Several of the agents said having seen “orbs launching other orbs”, a large shining sphere suspended in the-air and a semi-transparent object that one of them compared to a “translucent” comet.

Another file, dated January 1,2026, describes an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) flying at low height over the sea in Greece. The object was making turns scos of 90 degrees at an estimated speed of 130 km/h, something that no conventional aircraft could execute with that accuracy. There's a video that captures that point moving over the Mediterranean Sea.

That cases appear in active war zones completely changes the weight of what is being seen. There are internal military memos that document a possible small UAP. size detected in Iraq in 2022 and multiple flashes of unknown origin observed in Syria in 2024. It's not astronomical curiosity. It's a national security matter.

The 1972 recording that NASA kept silent for decades

One of the most shocking finds in the entire collection is a transcription of a conversation between the astronauts of the Apollo 17 mission during their trip to space in 1972.

In that recording, the crew describe how they saw very bright particles and fragments floating near their ship while they were maneuvering.

“There's a bunch of big lights in my downstairs window, they're really bright. From Ron's window it looks like the 4th of July,” one of the astronauts at mission control said, according to the document.

NASA didn't offer a definitive explanation at the time. For decades that conversation remained in classified files, outside the public's reach. Now it's available for anyone who wants to read it.

The documents also include versions with less censorship than those previously reported by the FBI, with details that were hidden. According to the Pentagon, the material was re endorsed by intelligence agencies, but with a clear premise: “the American people have the right to see for themselves”, as declared by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Trump ordered declassify information about UFOs

This is not the first time that the Pentagon has made public sighting materials. In April 2020, the Department of Defense declassified three short videos recorded by military pilots, one from 2004 and two from 2015. The clips, known as “FLIR1”, “Gimbal” and “GoFast”, showed objects moving at speeds and with maneuvers impossible to replicate with conventional technology. They had circulated without authorization on the internet since 2007.

But 2026 is different in scale and origin. It doesn't respond to a leak nor to media pressure. It's a direct presidential order. The volume The material is much greater, the sources are more diverse and include testimonies from active military personnel, astronauts, and federal field agents.

The political context also matters. Trump's decision came, in part,as a response to statements by former President Barack Obama on a podcast, where he admitted that the phenomena unidentified airplanes “are real”, although he clarified not have evidence of alien contact. Trump accused him of revealing classified information and then ordered the files to be opened.