Pentagon unveils trove of declassfied 'UFO' videos. How to see them all, from 'a football-shaped body' to 'a misshapen and uneven ball of white light'

UFO enthusiasts just got a big old bone to sink their teeth into. The Pentagon released its first tranche of declassified "UFO files" on Friday (May 8), responding to a directive that President Trump issued in February . The new release consists of 161 files, most of which are PDFs recounting investigative reports and eyewitness testimonials (including from a few Apollo astronauts, who saw some strange things near the moon ). But there's also quite a bit of imagery, including nearly 30 videos, which feature a range of intriguing unidentified flying objects — or unidentified anomalous phenomena ( UAP ), as they were recently rebranded. A "football-shaped" UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomenon) observed by an infrared sensor on a U.S. military platform in 2024. The Pentagon released this observation on May 8, 2026. (Image credit: U.S. Deparment of War) Space.com combined all of those newly declassified videos into a supercut, which you can see above or via Space.com's YouTube channel . And the new footage is definitely worth a look. For example, one submission from U.S. Central Command features five seconds of imagery captured in Syria by a full-motion video (FMV) camera in October 2024. "An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D32, described the UAP as consisting of a 'misshapen and uneven ball of white light,' and reported that a 'light/glare halo effect' occurred at the top of the FMV feed," Pentagon officials wrote in a description of the video . …