Pentagon unveils startling new UFO footage showing orbs being hatched as CIA goes on high alert

The Pentagon has published another set of UFO materials, and several of the newly released items are still not easy to account for.

This is the third disclosure package issued since the US government began releasing more records on May 8, 2026, under a new transparency effort known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE. According to the Pentagon, the latest batch contains 53 documents, 10 images, six videos, and three NASA audio recordings sourced from the CIA, FBI, NASA, the Department of Defense and other agencies.

Among the material are videos showing orb-like objects in the sky, along with illustration-based images created from witness descriptions of reported sightings.

Every file has been added to the Pentagon’s official UFO website, which officials say will continue to receive rolling releases of declassified and historical records.

Where earlier batches leaned heavily on military footage, this release includes several videos gathered by the FBI from civilian witnesses, together with detailed statements from those who recorded them.

One of the videos, Northeastern Orb Sighting, contains footage from July 2025 that appears to show two bright lights travelling across the sky.

In FBI interviews, witnesses said the objects moved quietly and steadily, seeming to stay together as if they were flying in formation or somehow linked.

Another clip, Orbs Over the Pond, records an October 2024 incident that happened within 25 miles of the first case.

That footage shows a light hovering over a pond from an estimated distance of 2,700 feet.

The Pentagon said it looked like a plasma-like sphere that periodically shifted in shape and brightness, sometimes seeming to split into smaller glowing points.

A second light remained just above the surface of the water and did not appear to be a reflection. According to the report, the object stayed in place for around 45 minutes before disappearing.

One of the more unusual sets of testimony comes from a series of incidents across the western United States during two days in October 2023. Five federal law enforcement special agents later gave accounts to the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.

One witness reported seeing unusual lights moving in groups from miles away. Another described red lights that accelerated instantly and then shifted into a horizontal formation with smooth, precise movement.

The most notable statement came from the witness identified as Witness 4, who said smaller orbs appeared to emerge from a larger, intensely bright orange light multiple times, with the witness losing count after the fifth occurrence.

Witness 3 said the smaller objects looked like grapes being expelled from a basketball, and recalled their partner turning and asking:

“Are you seeing this?”

The release also features older documents that bring their own questions. One is a report connected to a CIA panel assembled in 1952 and 1953 known as the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, better known as the Robertson Panel.

That panel found that flying saucers did not represent a direct physical threat. However, it also recommended an official effort to debunk UFO reports in order to remove the subject’s mystique, arguing that mass public interest could be exploited by hostile foreign powers and could also clog military communications channels during a real emergency.

Other files include a 2008 CIA report about a UFO seen over Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe, which was sent directly to the White House Situation Room.

The object was described as disc-shaped with a hollow centre and rotating lights underneath, and its appearance placed the surrounding area on high alert. At the time, analysts were unable to determine whether it was a foreign surveillance device or something else.

A separate case from 2022 near Colorado Springs, Colorado, describes a potato-shaped object with a creamy, whitish opalescent appearance that seemed slightly translucent and faintly shimmering.

An intelligence review said with low confidence that sunlight reflecting off snow on Cheyenne Mountain may have caused the sighting, but the case has not been formally resolved.

The latest disclosures follow President Donald Trump’s direction to begin identifying, declassifying and publicly releasing unresolved UAP-related records. The Pentagon announced the first tranche on May 8, 2026, a second release on May 22, 2026, and said more files would follow on a rolling basis.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the document drops reflect the administration’s push for what he described as unprecedented transparency. In announcing the broader release effort, the Pentagon also said many of the newly posted materials had been cleared for public release but had not yet been fully analysed for resolution of any anomalies.

The disclosure campaign arrives as the government’s main UAP office continues to stress that most cases ultimately turn out to have ordinary explanations. In its fiscal year 2024 consolidated annual report, AARO said it had received 757 reports in the covered period, while adding that only a very small percentage appeared potentially anomalous after initial review.

That report also said AARO has successfully resolved hundreds of cases as balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft, and that it has found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology to date. Even so, officials say unresolved cases can remain open when the available imagery, sensor data or witness reporting are too limited to support a firm conclusion.

The same tension runs through the newly published archive: some files are plainly historical curiosities, some point toward likely misidentifications, and some remain unexplained simply because the record is incomplete. For UFO believers, that will keep interest high. For the Pentagon, the stated goal is narrower: release more material, reduce speculation where possible, and let the public see more of what the government actually has.