On Friday, May 8, 2026, nearly three months after President Trump ordered agencies to release their UFO files, the Pentagon launched a new website, war.gov/UFO, and posted its first batch. It included more than 20 videos and hundreds of pages of sighting reports going back to the 1940s, from the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI and NASA. The administration said the public could draw its own conclusions.

Some highlights:
– A 1969 Apollo 11 debriefing in which Buzz Aldrin described a fairly bright light source near the moon that the crew thought might be a laser.
– A 1972 Apollo 17 photo of three dots in a triangle. The Pentagon said there was no consensus, though a preliminary analysis suggested a physical object.
– A 1994 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan describing a brightly lit object over Kazakhstan making “90 degree turns.”
– A 2023 report of an object skimming the Aegean Sea and making sharp turns.
– A video dated Jan. 1, 2026, showing two circular lights over North America.

Not all of it was mysterious. A 2013 video of an eight-pointed star was likely a hot jet engine’s diffraction pattern, said former Pentagon UAP chief Sean Kirkpatrick, who warned that releasing files without analysis would only feed speculation. Some files had been public for years.

Trump posted, “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said the 46 whistleblower-identified videos she had demanded would come later.