The Pentagon's first release of declassified UFO files drew more than a billion visitors to its new website, but the most striking details in the 162-document tranche were buried in military reports that officials still can't explain.

Now a second batch is on the way.

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnellconfirmed on 19 Maythat additional unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) files are 'actively being processed for publication,' with 'more to come very soon.' The Department of War has said new tranches will be posted 'every few weeks' on its PURSUE website atwar.gov/ufo, meaning the next drop could arrive today.

The initial release on 8 May included 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 images from the FBI, Department of War, NASA, and the State Department. The records span eight decades of encounters dating back to the 1940s, but the most unusual material sat in recent military footage.

A 2024 report from the US Indo-Pacific Command described a football-shaped object with three fin-like projections hovering near Japan. Detected by short-wave infrared sensors, it remained visible for nine seconds before vanishing. A2023 video from US Central Commandshowed an object near the ocean surface off Greece executing multiple 90-degree turns at roughly 80 miles per hour before a targeting system lost track of it.

The Pentagon has not attributed these encounters to any known aircraft, drones, or weather phenomena.

The Department of War chose its language carefully. Its official statement described the files as 'unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.'

That is not a confirmation of extraterrestrial life. It is the US military formally stating that these objects behaved in ways its analysts cannot explain. The files carry no editorial commentary from government officials, leaving interpretation entirely to the public.

'While all of the files have been reviewed for security purposes, many of the materials have not yet been analysed for resolution of any anomalies,' theDepartment of War stated.

The PURSUE programme, short for the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, spans multiple agencies, including the White House, NASA, the FBI, and the Department of War's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The Pentagon has described the effort as requiring the review of 'tens of millions of records, many existing only on paper.'

Source: International Business Times UK