The Pentagon has released 72 new UFO case files in Washington, including a bizarre 'potato-shaped' craft seen by five US Army soldiers over Colorado Springs in 2022, which officials later suggested might simply have been sunlight reflecting off clouds. The latest batch of documents, published under Donald Trump's transparency drive on unidentified anomalous phenomena, also details glowing red spheres, orange orbs that appear to spawn smaller lights, and a disc sending out beams above an African airport.
These Pentagon UFO papers form the third tranche of material ordered into the open after Mr Trump told his administration to declassify what it could about mysterious objects in the sky and any potential links to extraterrestrial life. Around 300 files from the 1940s onwards have now been made public, according to the releases. They stop well short of confirming alien visitors or a long-running government cover‑up, but they do reveal how seriously US agencies are documenting sightings that often leave seasoned investigators shrugging.
