The administration of the American president Donald Trump released on Friday a series of previously classified government documents relating to UFO sightings, or "unidentified anomalous phenomena," in what the Department of Defense describes as an "unprecedented transparency" operation.
The released files include photographs, videos, and transcripts of incidents involving unidentified objects reported by the U.S. military. Among the documents is an image of an oval object spotted by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in 2024.
The U.S. Department of Defense stated that further details would be released over the next 30 days as new documents were declassified.
According to US authorities, the released archives also include photos from Apollo Program missions as well as military reports on unexplained aerial phenomena observed over the decades.
This initiative was welcomed by several advocates for the release of UFO information, who have been calling for broader access to government files for years. However, some analysts downplayed the significance of these revelations, arguing that a substantial portion of the documents had already circulated previously in various forms.
The publication comes amid a tense political climate for Donald Trump. Several critics, including Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, accuse the White House of using these disclosures to divert attention from other controversies surrounding the American president.
Donald Trump thus becomes the latest American leader to authorize the release of files related to UFOs, a subject that continues to fascinate public opinion in the United States despite the absence of evidence establishing the existence of an extraterrestrial origin.
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