Long-discussed UAP-related files including Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968 were released on Friday.
Archival imagery from NASA’s Apollo 17 mission to the moon in 1972, released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026, as part of the first release of government files on unidentified anomalous phenomena. The yellow box shows an enlarged section of the original photograph in which three lights are visible above the lunar terrain. Department of War/NASA
The Department of War released its first batch of UFO-related documents that had been slated for public release.
In a May 8 post on X, the department said that the initial release of “new, never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)” was “part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).”
