18/09/26
By AfterPost
Writer Trish Madzvimbo
The Department of Defense on Friday released more than 20 videos and hundreds of pages of reports dating back to the 1940s. The most talked-about file is a *2025 CENTCOM report*.
According to that report, military personnel observed *"six small spherical objects, grouped together"* and *"frequently changing direction" at 480 mph*. The Pentagon released one minute of infrared video showing the objects over what appears to be desert terrain. The objects are described as white-hot orbs that streak, hover, then dart.
A second, similar report from 2023 describes an object *"shaped as a bouncy ball"* traveling *483 mph consistently for at least seven minutes over Syria*. That object was later flagged as benign, but remains unidentified in origin.
*What's in the rest of the drop:*
*1. Yellow Sea Swarm (2023):* Video from a U.S. military platform shows multiple circular objects flying over the Yellow Sea, tracked by an infrared sensor.
*2. Colorado Silent Lights (2023):* A Colorado law enforcement officer recorded a 15-minute cell phone video of a UFO with "red, blue and green flashing lights" that remained completely silent while hovering.
*3. The Sauron Orb:* Five federal law enforcement special agents witnessed orange orbs in October 2023 that would "hatch" smaller red orbs. One agent described it as "grapes being expelled from a basketball" and another said a glowing orange orb perched on a rock pinnacle looked "similar to the Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings, except without the pupil." The FBI created artist renderings in 2026 to reconstruct it. AARO called this report "among the most compelling within AARO's current holdings" because the witnesses were deemed credible.
*4. Cold Orbs & Instant Acceleration:* Several videos show red and yellow glowing orbs that appear to split apart and rejoin mid-air. One report described the flight pattern as "similar to how dolphins playfully swim in a pod."
*5. History Vault:* The release also includes historic files — a 1948 report from U.S. airmen in the Netherlands about recurring flying saucers that Swedish intelligence believed did not come from "any presently known culture on earth," a 1952 Tremonton, Utah incident filmed by Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse on 16mm Kodachrome that became a Project Blue Book case, and even a July 2008 CIA report about an unidentified object near Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe that was sent to the White House Situation Room.
Former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick, who ran the Pentagon's UFO office, said there is "nothing unexpected in the release" and warned that raw video without analysis will "only serve to fuel more speculation, conspiracy and arm-chair pseudoscience." The Pentagon itself says for many videos "there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly" but preliminary analysis indicates some are "physical objects."
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the Department is "actively working on the next release of UAP files."
Sources: New York Post, Times News Network, Scientific American, NDTV, Department of Defense UAP archive