Third batch of ‘Alien Files’ released by Department of War

Americans were treated to a third tranche of declassified files from the Department of War on Friday detailing accounts of mysterious UAPs and UFOs in the skies.

by Summer Lane | June 12, 2026

The U.S. Department of War on Friday released a third tranche of files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

“As the unprecedented levels of interest in both this topic and the Trump administration’s historic transparency effort continue, WAR.GOV/UFO has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since the site’s launch on May 8, 2026,” said Chief Pentagon Spox Sean Parnell on Friday.

The statement continued, “The Department of War and our agency partners are actively working on the next release of UAP files.”

This newest batch included 72 files, ranging from documents to videos, with reports dating back decades.

In one file from 1949, for example, a collection of documents reveals correspondence between the former Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and Rev. Charles Barnes, regarding a UFO incident.

Another file from October 2024 shows a video, submitted by an eyewitness, of a “light source below the horizon” that hovers over a body of water at around 2,700 feet. “The luminous object resembled a ‘plasma-like sphere’ intermittently changing shape and luminosity,” the DOW description reads. “At times, the primary light source appeared to separate into smaller luminous points.”

An additional report, dated to 2025, records a U.S. military servicemember identifying UAPs in the sky, describing them as being “matte white” and polygon-shaped.

The files are hardly shocking – it doesn’t prove, one way or the other, what these UAPs and UFOs are, where they came from, or whether they pose a real threat to the national security of the United States. If nothing else, it has sparked further debate on the subject, but no concrete answers.

The rollout of these files traces to a directive issued by President Donald Trump, who ordered his administration to declassify pertinent government files related to the UAP and UFO phenomena in the United States and around the world.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, upon the initial publication of the first tranche of files, said this action proved the Trump administration’s “earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency.”

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