51 videos: the Pentagon's fresh UFO file dump includes a half dozen documents and 51 videos — among them, one of an Unidentified Flying Object being shot to bits.
Orbs, discs, fireballs, and 80 years of paperwork to prove it
The Pentagon has released scores of UFO files spanning 80 years, with witnesses describing "green orbs, discs and fireballs" dating back to 1948. More recently, a senior US intelligence officer reported seeing "countless orange orbs swarming in all directions" and was left "speechless." He did not take photos — too focused on assessing whether it posed a threat. The batch also includes audio recordings and a video purportedly showing the shooting-down of a blurry object by a US fighter jet over Lake Huron in February 2023 — around the time a Chinese surveillance balloon traversed the US, which spurred increased scrutiny of UFOs.
Gobble's Take: Eighty years of orbs, discs, and fireballs — and the files still draw no definitive conclusions about extraterrestrial life or alien technology.
Source: BBC News
The Pentagon's third release goes all-in on orbs
On June 12, 2026, the Pentagon released a third batch of UAP files — 53 documents and 10 images from the CIA, FBI, NASA, the Department of Defense, and other agencies, along with six videos and three NASA audio recordings. Four of the videos show eyewitness footage collected by the FBI, including witness interviews. One video, "Northeastern Orb Sighting," shows two bright lights moving through the sky in July 2025, described by witnesses as silent, smooth, and moving in tandem. Another video, "Orbs Over the Pond," captures an encounter from October 2024 that occurred within 25 miles of the Northeastern Orb Sighting.
Gobble's Take: Two orb sightings, 25 miles apart, both collected by the FBI — the Pentagon's third release leans heavily on eyewitness footage.
Source: CBS News
Most UFOs are boring. That's actually the point.
A proposed rating scale would rank sightings by evidence quality — number of observers, supporting photos or video, and whether witnesses (or a third party) have made some kind of effort to find an ordinary explanation for what they saw or experienced. It's a tool worth having: more than half of sightings reviewed by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office lack sufficient data for any rigorous analysis. Meanwhile, balloons and drones accounted for 91% of resolved sightings between 1996 and 2024. The scale doesn't rule out extraterrestrial explanations — it just insists the evidence earn the theory.
Gobble's Take: Ninety-one percent balloons and drones. The sky is less a cosmic mystery than a very cluttered attic — but that last nine percent is why nobody looks away.
Source: Big Think
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