Pentagon UFO leaks returned to the centre of the story in Washington on Friday after the Trump administration released a second batch of declassified files, including 51 videos, seven audio recordings and six PDF documents, with one account coming from a senior US intelligence officer who said he witnessed strange aerial phenomena from a military helicopter in the western United States in 2025.
The Pentagon had already published an initial collection of 161 files on 8 May and said further material would follow, so this latest release was always likely to be judged less on what it settled than on what it hinted might still be held back.
