By Tim Binnall
The Pentagon has released a seventh batch of UFO files concerning a variety of tantalizing topics, including black triangle sightings and the mysterious Skinwalker Ranch. Posted Friday morning on the government's new dedicated UAP transparency website, the latest tranche differs from previous drops in that it consists entirely of written documents, so flying saucer fans will have some reading to do this weekend. The seventh batch is also the smallest to date, with only 28 files being added to the growing collection of released government materials.
One of the more intriguing documents featured in Friday's drop concerns an incident that occurred this past June "at a sensitive national security site in the western United States." According to the file, "two Federal Special agents" told investigators that "a triangular object rose vertically, remained stationary, and then banked and descended into a canyon." Their account was corroborated by a third witness who spotted the strangeness from a different angle. The puzzling UFO returned the following night, but a ground search of the area yielded no insight into what was seen at the location that the government assuredly does not want under observation.
Another remarkable document included in the seventh tranche is a 60-page report produced by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies for the government's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program concerning a pair of investigations conducted in 2010 at the notoriously weird Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. The file features fascinating insights from interviews with individuals claiming to have witnessed a variety of fantastic phenomena around the location, including "three-foot-tall troll-like creatures" and "a prehistoric pterodactyl-like creature." Also included in the document are details on plant studies aimed at determining what environmental factors might be at play at the enigmatic site.
As with previous releases, the latest batch of materials includes several decades-old files on the phenomenon, including a 1957 UFO account from a B-52 aircraft crew that was flying over Saudi Arabia and, interestingly, multiple sighting reports from people on California's Catalina Island between 1949 and 1955. Offering something of an international flavor to Friday's release are files concerning cases in Guam, Italy, Canada, Germany, Morocco, and Sweden. Meanwhile, providing a glimpse into the government's thinking during the space race, the new batch includes a 1963 memo regarding "an interagency policy debate" about how to coordinate the recovery of downed satellites and other objects.
Friday's tranche of files follows six previous releases from the Pentagon over the past few months: 158 records on May 8th, 64 records on May 22nd, 53 records on June 2nd, 40 records on July 10th, 41 records on August 7th, and 72 records on September 18th. The latest batch features 72 records containing 15 videos, 56 documents, and one audio file.and 72 records on September 18th. While the seventh batch may disappoint some UFO enthusiasts yearning for additional videos or photos of unidentified aerial phenomena sitting in the government's coffers, the fact that there continue to be file drops after so many months gives one hope that there is still a considerable amount of such material that could be revealed in subsequent releases.