(NewsNation) — The latest Pentagon release of UFO files contains several eyewitness accounts and video images that document the sighting of spherical objects or orbs, which is no surprise to whistleblower Jeremy Corbell and others who study “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”
Floating orbs, sometimes exuding a glowing quality, have been regularly spotted “since the beginning of the UFO phenomenon,” Corbell, the co-host of the “Weaponized” podcast, told “CUOMO” on Friday.
“What are they exactly? Who knows? They could be scouts or something like that,” he said.
Pentagon UFO files include video recreations of UFO sightings
And yet characteristics have emerged about these types of UAP over the years, Corbell notes. For instance, he said, orbs are thought to be made of plasma and harmful to humans.
The plasma idea “aligns with the main theory of Ufology,” says Miguel Sancho, author of “Evidence of the Extraordinary.”
“Plasma-based technology … would enable a UFO, an extraterrestrial craft, to travel either faster than the speed of light or interdimensionally,” he told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.”
Although spherical UAP appear to be round, there could be much more than meets the eye, Corbell said.
“There is some understanding of the physics involved that it could be ‘cloaking’ … a much larger craft and all you’re seeing is a pinpoint of light,” he said. “You’re going to have to ask an egg-headed physicist about that.”
One of the files unveiled Friday is July 2025 cellphone video of two red-colored orbs passing over a wooded area in the Northeastern U.S., where similar accounts emanated in recent years. Witnesses told investigators that one of the spheres contained a “white plasma ‘sun’ about the size of a basketball.”
In a separate document from 2024, FBI agents operating in the same region recounted seeing UAP they described as pulsations of light. Agents took photographs, but the images reportedly were blurry.
Sancho said the FBI agents’ account lends “a higher degree of credibility” to the sighting.
“These FBI agents are dead serious,” added UAP whistleblower Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon insider.
In addition to the incidents in the Northeast, the latest tranche of UFO documents includes information about a 2023 sighting of round aerial objects in the western U.S. in which one shape appeared to release smaller ones — what one witness described as a “hatching” of lights.
Drones, ‘baby drones’ could be source of mysterious orbs: Avi Loeb
Harvard University’s Avi Loeb joined a panel of UAP experts on “Jesse Weber Live” to discuss the latest government release of UFO files, which he called “intriguing.”
But Loeb said there could be a prosaic, if unsettling, explanation for some of the witness accounts: “My main concern, frankly, is that perhaps we’re dealing with very sophisticated Chinese drones that are being deposited throughout the U.S. and we just don’t recognize that.”
He added: “The simplest interpretation is that there might be drones that are, for example, releasing baby drones out of them, smaller ones. I’m not sure how feasible that is.”