(The Epoch Times)—Americans living in the northeastern United States witnessed “brilliant and beautiful” glowing red and white orbs in their backyard, which they caught on video, the Pentagon’s third release of declassified UFO files on June 12 showed.
The new documents contained encounters from around the world, such as reports of a “disc-like” object in Zimbabwe, a “potato shaped” craft in Colorado, and “heavenly” phenomena moving at speeds of 12,000 kilometers per hour in Hungary.
The third batch adds to the previous two document dumps of UFO and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files released by the Pentagon on May 8 and May 22.
Those batches also detailed stunning encounters, including Apollo 11 astronauts seeing a “sizable” object near the moon and a UAP being shot down over the Great Lakes.
Here are some key highlights from a partial review of the newly released files.
‘Brilliant Red Sphere’
The FBI interviewed U.S. citizens in February about their firsthand accounts of potential UAPs in their backyard. The documents were partially redacted and did not disclose when or where these encounters occurred—only that it was in the northeastern United States.
Upon returning home one night, one of these individuals witnessed an “intense bright light” hovering just below the tree line in their backyard. Another person in the home came outside and also saw the phenomenon, describing it as a red sphere about a meter in diameter with what appeared to be a “white plasma sun” the size of a basketball in the center.
One of the individuals described the red color as “brilliant and beautiful” and a tint they had never seen before.
The pair watched this orb move and noticed another identical orb directly above it, floating together in a silent and smooth manner as if they were tethered.
The two orbs moved above the tree line and merged into one before they floated out of sight.
One individual captured video of the phenomenon, which was included in the Pentagon’s release of files. The recording is 50 seconds long and shows two bright red orbs with white centers floating slowly together.
A few weeks after this event, one of the individuals also saw several white orbs in the same area traveling at a much higher altitude than the red ones.
More newly released video from this same area in the northeastern United States showed bright red orbs hovering at about 2,500 feet.
Cheyenne Mountains Sighting
Former U.S. Army intelligence officers witnessed a UAP over the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado as they left their office building, according to the files.
FBI agents interviewed one of the individuals in June 2024 about their experience during a February morning of an unspecified year. This person described the day as perfect conditions, no clouds, little humidity, and about 50 degrees outside.
The object this group of former Army personnel witnessed was “potato shaped” with distinct edges and a “creamy/whitish opalescent color.” The object was slightly translucent and shimmery, the documents showed.
Its texture was described as “fish scales” or non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, irregularly shaped panels. Although the UAP itself was motionless, each panel “shifted in slow waves starting at different points of origin but at the same time.”
After about two minutes, the object vanished or “cloaked” itself in the time it takes to turn one’s head. There was also no shadow, according to the files.
The new files also included an artist’s rendering of the craft.
UAP in Zimbabwe
A July 2008 report of an unexplained craft above the Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe stoked debate on whether the sighting was an advanced device from a foreign government or had extraterrestrial origins.
The craft was observed at an undetermined high altitude.
Witnesses described this UAP as “disc-like” with a hollow center and a series of rotating lights on its underside. At one point, “beams” emanated from the craft, according to the documents.
The object eventually ascended rapidly out of sight. A “high alert” was implemented.
There was no video, photo, or artist’s rendering of the Zimbabwe UAP provided in the Pentagon’s files.
Flying Saucers in Hungary
A report on sightings in Hungary came about from letters of correspondence in 1955 between relatives living in the United States and Budapest.
The CIA released a report on this encounter with a sketch showing the formation and suspected flight path of several objects traveling between Budapest and Moscow.
A man living in the United States received a letter from his niece in Budapest mentioning “flying saucers.” Much of the letter was casual conversation, with one paragraph detailing the UAPs.
The niece wrote to her uncle that “everyone has been excited” over the mysterious crafts “for the past few weeks.”
“These fast-rushing heavenly [phenomena] have been and still are keeping scores of scientists busy,” the letter reads. “These amazing fliers moved at a speed of 12,000 kilometers per hour.”
Five Feds Witness UAPs
Part of the Pentagon’s release of files on Friday included multiple statements from “federal law enforcement special agents” who witnessed UAPs near a sensitive national security site in the western United States over the course of two days in October 2023.
A map of four sightings was included in the documents in addition to detailed witness statements of each encounter and several digital renderings.
The federal officers reported “orbs launching other orbs.” This happened multiple times, according to the files, where an orange “mother orb” appeared to produce smaller red ones multiple times over a period of several hours.
These red orbs’ behavior was described as “anomalous” with “varied kinematic profiles including seemingly coordinated horizontal motion” and changes in altitude.
According to the documents, the red orbs only persisted for several seconds before disappearing, but at least once, the witnesses said one of the red UAPs hovered above a ridgeline for hours.
In this same area, the federal agents also witnessed a “dark kite” and a “translucent kite” at close estimated ranges.
All of the crafts were silent, the documents said, and the sightings remain unresolved.
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