Pentagon releases another batch of UFO files, including documents from secretive government program

(Gray News) - The Pentagon released another batch of UFO files on Friday.

The new disclosure includes a total of 71 files, dated from 1952 to 2025.

Among them are documents from a military program that studied warp drives and wormholes. The documents, called “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents,” were produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, according to CBS News.

The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) was a secretive military operation started in 2008 that studied future aerospace threats. According to files released about the program, its objective was to “understand the physics and engineering of these applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from now through the year 2050.”

The program was shut down in 2012.

The 37 “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents” released during Friday’s batch discussed matters such as warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative mass propulsion and invisibility cloaking.

One of the documents included a “highly technical” study from 2010 that analyzed “evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems.”

According to CBS News, the study’s researchers observed three individuals who suffered from a slew of medical symptoms after an “anomalous aerospace-related event.” The researchers said the previously “fit and active” individuals suffered from hair loss as well as heat and redness on their skin. One individual also showed signs of “signs of radiation illness.”

Along with the “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents,” the batch included videos from military cameras capturing unexplained objects moving at fast speeds. Many of the videos appear similar to those released in previous batches: grainy footage of an unusual object moving quickly across the screen.

Four of the videos were submitted by a police department in Colorado. The videos, captured on cellphone cameras in October 2023, featured unexplained “red, blue, and green flashing lights.”

Since Congress ordered their release in 2022, the Pentagon has been working to declassify records on “unidentified anomalous phenomena” and UFO sightings.

This is the sixth release under the Trump administration’s effort to declassify those records.

Experts urge caution regarding the released files, saying videos of unidentified anomalous phenomena can be misinterpreted or mischaracterized by people who lack an understanding of advanced military technology.

In 2024, the Pentagon released a report that refuted claims that the U.S. government had confirmed the existence of alien life or recovered alien technology.