Two senior military observers told the Department of Defense they watched a black triangular object tear across the sky at 1,800mph over a sensitive site in the western United States. The report, released by the Trump administration on Friday, describes the object as a delta-wing shape with a wingspan between nine and 15 feet. It vanished without an exhaust trail or sound.
The observers, described as having extensive operational experience, filed the account under the government’s new classification of “unidentified anomalous phenomenon” (UAP). The specific location remains redacted. The document offers little in the way of hard visual proof, containing only nine identical images of a canyon with small silhouettes superimposed to track the object’s path.
This release fits into a broader push by President Donald Trump to declassify UFO files, following his February order to release previously hidden information. He cited years of public scrutiny and allegations of a government cover-up. In 2023, a former intelligence official told Congress that the government possessed crashed alien spacecraft, though those claims remain unverified.
The pace of these disclosures has picked up since May but is now slowing. Friday’s batch included fewer than 25 text documents and no videos or photographs. Previous releases often included footage or photos of alleged sightings, making this report stand out for its reliance on witness testimony rather than visual data.
The report does not confirm the object’s identity or provide independent evidence to back the observers' claims. The Pentagon continues to process and release documents under the new directive, but the lack of concrete evidence in this latest filing may temper expectations for future revelations.