US military operators observed floating orbs flying at nearly 500 miles per hour over the Middle East last year, according to the latest release Friday of declassified UFO files by the Pentagon. A 2025 report from US Central Command (CENTCOM) details a sighting of “six small spherical objects, grouped together” and “frequently changing direction” at 480 mph. Accompanying the report was one minute of video footage showing the objects as they flew over what appeared to be a desert region. Another video, from 2023, captured circular objects flying over the Yellow Sea that were spotted by an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform. That same year, a Colorado law enforcement officer recorded a 15-minute cell phone video showing a UFO with “red, blue and green flashing lights” that remained “silent” as it hovered in the sky. More than seven decades earlier, records from the office of the US Air Force Director of Intelligence discussed “flying disc” incidents recorded between September and December 1952. A Navy warrant officer also saw what looked like flying discs near Tremonton, Utah, that July, an incident that he caught on camera only for an official investigation to assess they “were likely seabirds.” The 16mm Kodachrome color motion-picture footage was captured with a Bell and Howell auto master camera on July 2, 1952, by chief warrant officer Delbert Newhouse, who was traveling ... and ended up “filming a group of bright airborne objects.”
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