The Trump administration just released its fourth batch of declassified UFO files — and this one includes military infrared footage of objects that officials can’t explain.
Among the newly released records: an 18-second infrared video from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command showing an object that officials described as resembling a six-pointed star.
The footage, captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform over the Yellow Sea, shows the sensor tracking what the government called an “area of contrast.”
Officials cautioned the video’s description should not be interpreted as an official conclusion about the object’s identity or significance.
But the administration isn’t stopping at mysterious objects over foreign waters.
Friday’s release also includes a newly declassified Department of Energy report detailing a 2015 incident involving an unidentified object over the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas — the nation’s primary facility for assembling, maintaining and dismantling nuclear weapons.
Portions of that report had previously been released in heavily redacted form. The new tranche includes additional details and imagery.
Another infrared video, submitted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in 2024, shows a military sensor tracking an elongated area of contrast. As the sensor zooms in, the object appears as a line of several points moving across the field of view before fading into the distance.
A newly released Navy “Range Fouler Debrief” — a standardized report documenting unauthorized intrusions into military training airspace — describes a military operator observing a “quite small” object with a metallic appearance and reflective underside that continued traveling in a constant direction.
The report cautions the descriptions reflect the observer’s impressions at the time and are not definitive assessments of the object’s characteristics.
The release also features additional infrared videos from U.S. Central Command, the Air Force and Indo-Pacific Command. One 2024 video shows what appears to be an elongated area of contrast that later resembles a line of multiple bright points as the military sensor tracks it. Another 2023 video captures two areas of contrast crossing the sensor’s field of view in opposite directions.
In at least one case, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office included technical context alongside the footage, noting that apparent flickering in a 2019 Air Force infrared video could result from the sensor’s automatic contrast adjustments when tracking an object whose temperature closely matched its background.
Congress established the office in 2022 to investigate reports of unidentified objects across air, sea, space and other domains — with a focus on determining whether incidents could pose flight safety or national security risks.
The latest release is the fourth tranche in a series that follows President Donald Trump’s directive to expand public access to UFO records. Officials said redactions were limited to protecting eyewitness identities, sensitive military locations and unrelated government facilities.
The administration has made clear: the public deserves transparency on what’s flying over American soil — and over critical national security sites.
