On Friday, July 10, 2026, the Pentagon posted its fourth batch of UFO files to war.gov/UFO: 40 files, including 14 documents, 19 videos, four audio files and three images from the Pentagon, NASA, the CIA, the FBI and the Energy Department. That brought the public archive to 334 records.

The clip that got the most attention was an 18-second infrared video submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, recorded in 2025 over the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean Peninsula. It shows what looks like a six-pointed star, similar to an eight-pointed object in a 2013 video from the first release, which former Pentagon UAP chief Sean Kirkpatrick said was likely the glare pattern of a hot jet engine. Another Yellow Sea video, nearly five minutes long, gets progressively blurrier, as if something is degrading the sensors.

A military aviator’s report described an object “unlike anything I had seen” in 28 years of service, which moved out of frame when he tried to zoom in. Other footage came from the East China Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the western U.S., including a 1996 Navy video of a circular object zig-zagging over mountains, plus an object over the Atlantic that Fox News described as looking like a deformed balloon.

The historical highlight was a 1949 transcript of an Atomic Energy Commission conference at Los Alamos, where scientists, some of them Manhattan Project veterans, discussed the green fireballs repeatedly seen near the lab. They reached no firm explanation.