The U.S. Defense Department has released an initial trove of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings — including two videos of what it calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) spotted near Japan.
The Pentagon said President Donald Trump’s order to release the “new, never-before-seen files” was intended to provide “maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files.”
In one nearly 2-minute video from 2023 titled DOW-UAP-PR47 and reported by the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command citing the incident location as “Japan,” an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform tracks “three distinct areas of contrast, maintaining … a fixed position and orientation relative to one another.”