Fighter jet ‘shoots down UFO’ in newly declassified Pentagon video | News US

The Pentagon has released a fresh batch of previously classified UFO files and videos.

Among the 222 newly disclosed files is a clip in which a jet shoots down a suspected Unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) over Lake Huron in February 2023.

Other documents declassified by Donald Trump’s administration relate to a series of sightings in a secret facility in Sandia, New Mexico, between 1948 and 1950.

The files contain 209 sightings of UAPs, including ‘green orbs’, ‘discs’, and ‘fireballs’ reported near the military base.

They also detail findings of residual copper powder in areas where the suspected UFOs were sighted.

Some of the reports became part of Project Grudge, a short-lived investigation into UFOS between February and December 1949.

A newly-released CIA file details a sighting at the Saray Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR, now Kazakhstan.

Section 14 outlines an ‘airborne, luminous, bright green, unidentified object’ which was spotted in the summer of 1973.

It described ‘concentric circles forming around the phenomenon over a period of several minutes’ before dissipating.

Another video, likely recorded on a mobile phone, shows a luminous phenomenon near Karaganda International Airport in Kazakhstan in March 2022.

Other files include recordings of astronauts flagging potential UAPs.

In one clip, Scott Carpenter, the Aurora 7 pilot, described white particles in view that appear to move at ;random and ‘look exactly like snowflakes’ during the fourth manned spaceflight in 1962.

He said the particles were ‘reflective’ and flying faster than his spacecraft.

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said: ‘The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

‘These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency.’

Two weeks ago, the Pentagon released the first tranche of documents relating to alleged sightings of unidentified objects, including a chilling FBI report about ‘aliens’ and wild claims that Nazis built a UFO.

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