On Friday, June 12, 2026, the Pentagon posted its third batch of UFO files to war.gov/UFO: 72 files from the Pentagon, FBI and CIA, including 53 documents, 10 images, six videos and three NASA audio recordings. It happened to land the same day Steven Spielberg’s new alien-disclosure film, Disclosure Day, opened in theaters.

The most memorable file was a 2024 FBI interview with a former Army intelligence officer. On a February morning in 2022, he said, he and four members of his unit walked out of an office building at Fort Carson, Colorado, and saw something hovering over Cheyenne Mountain, the site of NORAD’s famous bunker. He described it as potato-shaped, translucent and opalescent white, with no shadow, and covered in irregular, non-overlapping panels like “articulating fish scales.” The FBI made a digital rendering. The case remains unresolved.

Other files described five federal agents who watched lights near a “sensitive national security site” in the western U.S. over two days in October 2023, one of them stationary for about 45 minutes, and a family in the Northeast who filmed glowing red and white orbs in their backyard in 2025. There was also a CIA report from Zimbabwe in 2008 labeled “never before released.”

The Pentagon said war.gov/UFO had received more than 1.7 billion hits since it launched on May 8. As AP put it, there was still no evidence of alien life or a government cover-up.