Politics · United States · 2 hrs ago
US releases new UFO files describing silent black triangle sighting
The US government has released 10 more files on unidentified aerial phenomena, marking the seventh batch under a transparency initiative launched this year.
FBI and Defense Department records describe federal agents seeing a silent, black triangle near a secure US facility.
The date and location are redacted, and accounts say the object rose above a ridgeline, hovered and then travelled about 1.5 miles in three seconds before vanishing.
Investigators classified the sighting as unresolved because they could not identify the object, not because they had evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
The new files also include records from the 1940s, a report about Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch and documents on handling suspected fragments from space vehicles.
The release matters because sightings near secure facilities can raise questions about possible security risks and unexplained technology.
More files may be released, but officials have not said when.
The US Defense Department released 10 declassified UAP records on Friday, including reports of federal agents seeing a silent, matte-black triangular object near a secure US facility.
The reports say the object rose above a ridgeline, hovered and then traveled about 1.5 miles in three seconds before disappearing.
The date and location of the sighting were redacted.
The release was the seventh batch published through the government’s PURSUE records system.
Officials said “unresolved” means investigators lacked enough information to identify the phenomena, not that they were linked to extraterrestrial activity.
- Who
- Federal agents reported seeing the object. The reports were from the FBI and Defense Department.
- What
- A large, silent, matte-black triangular object was reported near a secure US facility.
- When
- The reports describe a recent sighting from this year, but the date was redacted. The records were released Friday, October 23, 2026.
- Where
- Near a secure US facility, according to the reports. The specific location was redacted.
- Why
- The records were released as part of the Trump administration’s transparency initiative for UAP records. The reason for the sighting is not stated.
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The PURSUE system began publishing UAP records.
The previous batch of records was released.
US officials released the seventh batch, containing 10 documents, including reports about the triangular object.
- Documents released
- 10
- Release number
- Seventh batch
- Object description
- Matte-black triangle
- Reported travel
- About 1.5 miles in three seconds
- Sighting date and location
- Redacted
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made no sound
The exterior presented as a continuous (seamless), featureless surface lacking any discernible structural discontinuities, propulsive apertures, intake structures, aerodynamic control effectors, or cockpit features.
Now I don't know exactly what to think; but it did seem to me that we had seen a robot of some kind.