[iNews24 reporter Kim Hyo-jin] The U.S. government’s public site for materials on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) has surpassed one billion views. Officials released additional documents on the 22nd (local time).
Under an executive order from President Donald Trump, the U.S. government launched an official site called PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) on the 8th and posted an initial batch of materials.
The second release includes files ranging from decades-old historical records to recent eyewitness reports and visual evidence collected by the military and other government agencies across the air, space, land and sea domains.
Reuters reported that the second batch contains a 116-page document detailing sightings and investigation records reported around a top‑secret facility in Sandia, New Mexico, between 1948 and 1950.
The U.S. Department of Defense said the file includes 209 reported sightings of green spheres, discs and fireballs around that base.
The government also released numerous flight videos showing unidentified objects captured in recent war zones.
The Guardian reported that a 2019 video—likely recorded by an infrared sensor within U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility in the Middle East—shows three UAPs flying over the Persian Gulf.
A 2022 clip shows four unidentified objects flying in formation past ships off the coast of Iran.
In 2021, observers recorded an object over Syria that accelerated so suddenly it vanished; an October 2022 video shows a cigar-shaped craft racing at high speed above a residential area.
The most notable item is an account from a senior, active-duty intelligence officer who was aboard a military helicopter at the end of 2025. He and other passengers reported seeing, over roughly an hour, dozens of orange spheres swarming in all directions against a mountain backdrop.
He said he was left virtually speechless after visually observing two oval objects—orange with white or yellow centers—hovering just above and to the right of the helicopter’s rotor and emitting light in all directions.
An audio file from a past NASA mission also drew attention. In October 1962, Mercury‑Atlas 8 astronaut Wally Schirra told mission control that small white objects appeared to separate from the capsule and drift away.
NASA concluded those objects were ice fragments that had broken off the spacecraft and were reflecting sunlight.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Pannell said the releases demonstrate the Trump administration’s historic transparency effort and reflect strong public interest. He added officials plan a third release but did not provide a timeline.
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