On Friday, the Pentagon released the sixth batch of declassified files regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs. The documents detailed a military research program involving warp engines, wormholes, and injuries to personnel believed to be related to encounters with UFOs, including injuries caused by abnormal radiation.
The latest declassified files also revealed more details about the famous UFO sighting event in Utah in 1952. The documents showed that over ten disc-shaped UFOs were seen flying in formation. Additionally, the files disclosed additional details of UFO sighting events from around the world.
The files released on Friday included a total of 71 documents, with 67 provided by the Pentagon and 4 from local law enforcement in Colorado. These files consisted of 55 PDF files, 15 video files, and 1 audio file. Most of the files (64 out of 71) were redacted. The date range of the documents spanned from 1952 to 2025.
“As part of the President’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Declassification and Reporting System (PURSUE), the Department of War released the sixth declassified batch of ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAP) historical files. These files continue to be hosted on the WAR.GOV/UFO website, and the department will continue to release more files in batches,” said Sean Parnell, Assistant Secretary of War for Public Affairs and Pentagon spokesperson, in a statement.
One of the most notable documents involved a secret military program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). Initiated by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2008, the program aimed to study various aerospace threats that may emerge in the coming decades. The program concluded in 2012.
One document described the program’s goals and requirements for contractors involved: “One aspect of the future threat environment involves the application of advanced aerospace weapon systems. The program’s objective is to understand the physical and engineering principles of these applications and how they address foreign threats through 2050. The primary focus is on breakthrough technologies and applications that disrupt the continuity of current trends in technological development.”
The declassified documents included 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRD) written under the AAWSAP program, covering topics like warp engines, wormholes, anti-gravity, negative mass propulsion, and invisibility cloaks. While these 37 documents had been publicly available for years through the Defense Intelligence Agency under the Freedom of Information Act, the newly released versions on Friday contained previously withheld details such as the organizational department responsible for compiling these documents.
In an accompanying explanation with the documents, the Pentagon stated that these DIRDs should be viewed as “reference and synthesis products, not original research,” and should not be interpreted as current validations of the concepts discussed.
Although most DIRDs discussed ideas typically found in science fiction, one 38-page highly technical research report released in 2010 analyzed “evidence of unintended human injuries caused by anomalous advanced aerospace systems.”
Researchers described how “three originally healthy, active individuals experienced an unexplained (‘irregular, uncoordinated, and unrelated to their area’)” aerospace-related event, resulting in a series of medical symptoms afterward, including skin reddening, hair loss, and one individual showing “signs of radiation sickness” that eventually progressed to malignancy within a few years.
The document did not specify the source of radiation causing these symptoms but noted that the three individuals were “antenna engineers.” The author compared these cases to 42 published and around 300 unpublished conventional radio frequency injury events with known radiation sources.
The authors found that “there have been enough events/incidents accurately reported and enough medical data collected to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems have been deployed with little understanding by the U.S.”
One of the newly released videos from 1952 showed footage captured near Tremonton, Utah, featuring Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, who claimed to have seen a group of shiny flying objects resembling discs.
The Air Force’s Project Blue Book later analyzed the footage but experts noted the lack of detailed visuals and definite reference points prevented definitive conclusions.
In the recently released footage, approximately 10 to 14 objects were visible in the clear sky. According to Newhouse, who was on vacation with his family at the time, these objects appeared as two overlapping circles, resembling a “flying saucer” shape.
In another segment, four videos from local law enforcement in Colorado were submitted to the Pentagon’s office responsible for investigating Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). The Pentagon stated that these partially blurred videos were captured by a cellphone camera in October 2023.
In an accompanying description of one video, officials described the phenomenon as “silent” and accompanied by “flashes of red, blue, and green.”
Most of the videos disclosed on Friday were similar to previously released videos: blurry footage captured by military cameras showing unidentified objects swiftly traversing the screen. One video from 2022 showed a UAP “flying at speeds of 80 to 180 miles per hour.”
A report about a particular encounter indicated that operators on a mission in the Middle East discovered highly unidentified objects. Crew members reported objects ranging in size from 1 to 2 meters, flying sporadically within the target area.
Another video from the Middle East showed around six objects flying in formation side by side.
A report detailed a report from November 1950 in the waters near Okinawa involving unidentified objects. A memorandum from October 1952 suggested that efforts to search for and recover the object were deemed impractical.
A 1953 document (previously public) described instances where objects suddenly changed states and directions, with calculated acceleration reaching 965 times the force of gravity.
These historical files included a one-hour recording and its written transcript capturing U.S. Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt’s speech from 1952, outlining the Air Force’s investigations into UFO events. Ruppelt revealed that among the 800 UFO reports investigated by the Air Force, approximately 20% remain unresolved mysteries.
Ruppelt stated, “We carefully reviewed these reports and found that about 20% of the reports are of extremely high quality and come from very reliable sources… but for these cases, we simply cannot come to any conclusion.”
Ruppelt later led the Blue Book Project, a UFO investigation operation conducted by the Air Force from 1952 to 1969. The newly released data on Friday also contained other documents related to the Blue Book Project.
On Monday, the Pentagon announced the establishment of a legal immunity mechanism allowing current and former employees previously bound by confidentiality agreements to disclose information related to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) to the government.