By Tim Binnall
Nearly a month since its last document drop, the Pentagon has released a fourth batch of UFO files that includes a bevy of tantalizing videos of inexplicable objects filmed by the US military in recent years. Posted on Friday morning on the government's new dedicated UAP transparency website, the tranche of materials follows the release of 158 records on May 8th, 64 records on May 22nd, and 53 records on June 2nd. The latest batch features 40 records containing a whopping 19 videos, 14 documents, 4 audio recordings, and 3 images.
One of the more interesting pieces of footage prominently featured in the latest release was captured in 2025 over the Yellow Sea by "an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform" and shows "an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star." Another particularly perplexing video, filmed over the Atlantic Ocean on New Year's Day 2020, shows a baffling blob that a witness described as "darker, maroonish color, approximately 12-15 feet in height." Remarkably, of the 19 newly released clips, all but one were captured between 2019 and 2025, with the lone exception being a 1996 video filmed over the Western United States.
As with the third file release in early June, Friday's fourth batch provides something of a feast for UFO historians in the form of documents from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Among those materials are a transcript of a Department of Energy conference, held at Los Alamos in 1949, which explored cases of "green fireballs" that had been observed around the facility for months. Other documents include a 1955 CIA file on a flying saucer sighting reported by then-U.S. Senator from Georgia, Richard Russell, during a visit to Russia and, weirdly, a 1967 FBI memo regarding an 11-year-old boy's suspected UFO sighting in Chicago. Why such a seemingly innocuous document was included in Friday's release may be as mysterious as the phenomenon itself.
The audio files and images contained in the newly released batch of materials emanate from NASA. The three pictures feature anomalous objects photographed in space during the STS-80 Space Shuttle mission of 1986. Meanwhile, the four audio recordings are from the Apollo 14 and 17 crew debriefings wherein the astronauts mention seeing a "light flash phenomena" that has since been determined to be "a well-documented biological effect where high-energy cosmic rays pass through the eye and strike the retina." Alas, in what is almost certainly not a surprise at this point, the latest tranche of materials resembles the three previous UFO document dumps from the Pentagon in that there is no 'smoking gun' contained in the files.