Latest US release of UFO files reveals strange lights but few hard facts

New batch of government documents takes no position on origin of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) A possible UFO sighting over a busy southern African airport, and yet more mysterious glowing orbs in the sky above the US, feature in the latest batch of previously classified documents released by the Pentagon on Friday in its stated quest for “transparency” amid the irrepressible debate about the chances of extraterrestrial life. In keeping with the first two document drops of government papers last month, Friday’s tranche of more than 50 files contains no proof that the tantalizing videos and written accounts of possible alien encounters are anything other than perception, vivid imagination or conspiracy theories. Despite the assurance by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, that the release “demonstrates the Trump administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency”, the Pentagon repeats the disclaimer that everything contained in the hundreds of files released so far are “unresolved cases”. The government “is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena”, it states. The releases feature “plenty of black-and-white murk but