The Pentagon released its fourth batch of UFO documents on Friday, posting the materials to the government’s dedicated UAP transparency website. This latest drop follows three earlier releases this year: 158 records on May 8, 64 records on May 22, and 53 records on June 2. Friday’s batch adds 40 more records to the pile, including 19 videos, 14 documents, four audio recordings, and three images.

The standout clip shows infrared footage captured by a US military platform over the Yellow Sea in 2025, revealing a strange six-pointed pattern in the heat signature that investigators still can’t explain. Another video, filmed over the Atlantic Ocean on New Year’s Day 2020, shows a dark, maroon-toned object roughly 12 to 15 feet tall. Most of the footage in this release dates from 2019 to 2025, with one exception: a video from 1996 shot over the western US.

As with June’s release, this batch also includes older material for history buffs. A 1949 transcript from a Department of Energy conference at Los Alamos documents months of “green fireball” sightings near the facility. A 1955 CIA file describes a flying saucer report from Georgia Senator Richard Russell during a trip to Russia. And in an odd addition, a 1967 FBI memo details an 11-year-old boy’s UFO sighting in Chicago, a document whose inclusion raises as many questions as the sighting itself.

The three photos came from NASA’s 1986 STS-80 Space Shuttle mission and show unexplained objects captured in orbit. The four audio recordings are Apollo 14 and 17 crew debriefings, where astronauts describe a “light flash phenomenon” now attributed to cosmic rays striking the retina.

As with the three prior releases, there’s no smoking gun here. What we get instead is another data point in a decades-long pattern: official acknowledgment without official explanation. That gap between admission and answer is the space Disclosure: They Are Not Extraterrestrials was written to fill, tracing the documented history of these encounters and building the case for what’s actually behind them.

That same gap widens even further once you look past the last century and into the deeper history these phenomena share with humanity. My forthcoming book, The Watchers Fallen, picks up that thread, arguing that what we’re calling “UAP” today has ancient roots, and that the beings behind these sightings have been interacting with us far longer than any government file could capture.

Sources: Pentagon UAP transparency website document releases, May 8, May 22, June 2, and July 10, 2026.

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