The Pentagon released a third tranche of previously classified files, opens new tab on alleged UFO sightings on Friday, which include reports of glowing, sometimes red, orbs seen by ​people in the northeastern United States.

The first two batches were made public on ‌May 8 and May 22. President Donald Trump is the latest president to release US government reports on unidentified flying objects, a disclosure process that began in the late 1970s.

Friday’s release of what ​the Pentagon calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP) involved 72 files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency ​and Pentagon and includes testimony, videos and artistic depictions. Reports from several ⁠entries refer to sphere or orb sightings in the same general US Northeast location.

One ​file from February cites FBI interviews with two people who reported seeing an intense ​bright light in the middle of their backyard one evening. The identities of those interviewed and their precise location were blacked out.

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One person “described the red colour as being brilliant and beautiful, and that (redacted) ​had never seen anything that colour of red before”, according to the FBI report.

The ​red sphere, about one metre wide, contained a “white plasma sun” the size of a basketball ‌in ⁠its centre, it said.

The people noticed a second orb, and the two appeared tethered together as they moved away. They reported seeing several white orbs a few weeks later flying over the house at a much higher altitude, the FBI report said.

A similar ​interview in July 2025 ​referred to previous ⁠reports of orbs.

“This observation occurred within 25 miles of the ‘Triangle Orbs’, ‘Red Orb Rotation’ and ‘Orbs Over the Pond’ sightings at a location well ​known to them, which is sparsely populated,” the FBI report ​said.

An October ⁠2024 incident describes a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond.

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“The luminous object resembled a ‘plasma-like sphere’ intermittently changing shape and luminosity. At times, the primary light source appeared ⁠to separate ​into smaller luminous points,” according to the report.

“These ​files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves,” ​Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said in a statement.