The Aporia · ‘Floating orbs’ zooming at 480 mph among UFOs spotted by US military, latest file drop reveals

The US Central Command has released reports and videos of recent UFO sightings, including six small spherical objects flying at 480 mph over a desert area in 2025. Another report from 2023 describes circular objects spotted over the Yellow Sea by an infrared sensor. Additionally, a Colorado law enforcement officer recorded a 15-minute video of a silent, multicolored UFO hovering in the sky. Older files from 1952 include footage captured by Navy warrant officer Delbert Newhouse showing “flying discs” that were later determined to likely be seagulls or pillow balloons. These releases follow President Trump’s executive order declassifying most UFO information.

Written by AI on 2026-09-18, from this article's own text only (the story summary below draws on all the coverage).

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The Pentagon released its sixth batch of UFO files on September 15, 2026, including 71 documents, with most being redacted and spanning from 1952 to 2025. Notably, these files detail a secretive military program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, established in 2008 by the Defense Intelligence Agency to study future aerospace threats. Among the released materials is a 38-page technical study from 2010 that examines injuries linked to encounters with unknown craft. Additionally, the release includes several videos showing UFO sightings, such as six small spherical objects flying at 480 mph and another video of circular objects over the Yellow Sea.

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The 16mm Kodachrome color motion-picture footage was captured with a Bell and Howell auto master camera on July 2, 1952, by chief warrant officer Delbert Newhouse, who was traveling from Washington, DC, to Portland, Ore., and ended up “filming a group of bright airborne objects.”

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🔮 Investigators also tried to determine whether the officer had recorded “pillow balloons” and contacted General Mills, “the only known manufacturer of pillow balloons at the time, to determine whether a balloon release could account for the incident.

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‘Floating orbs’ zooming at 480 mph among UFOs spotted by US military, latest file drop reveals · assertive framing

A 2025 report from US Central Command (CENTCOM) details a sighting of “six small spherical objects, grouped together” and “frequently changing direction” at 480 mph. asserted

report → detail → mph

Accompanying the report was one minute of video footage showing the objects as they flew over what appeared to be a desert region. asserted

what → accompany → objects

Another video, from 2023, captured circular objects flying over the Yellow Sea that were spotted by an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform. asserted

that → capture → platform

That same year, a Colorado law enforcement officer recorded a 15-minute cell phone video showing a UFO with “red, blue and green flashing lights” that remained “silent” as it hovered in the sky. asserted

it → record → sky

More than seven decades earlier, records from the office of the US Air Force Director of Intelligence discussed “flying disc” incidents recorded between September and December 1952. asserted

records → discuss → September

A Navy warrant officer also saw what looked like flying discs near Tremonton, Utah, that July, an incident that he caught on camera only for an official investigation to assess they “were likely seabirds.” asserted

they → see → investigation

who → capture → objects

“The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” the declassified document webpage stated. asserted

webpage → become → objects

Investigators also tried to determine whether the officer had recorded “pillow balloons” and contacted General Mills, “the only known manufacturer of pillow balloons at the time, to determine whether a balloon release could account for the incident. uncertain

release → try → incident

The Air Force Photo Reconnaissance Lab concluded in 1956 that the light in the film “was caused by seagulls soaring in thermal air currents.” asserted

light → conclude → currents

Another analysis said that it is “believed to be reasonably certain that the reflection brightness of these objects exceeds that of any natural diffusing type of reflecting object, such as white birds against the sky.” asserted

brightness → say → sky

The day before Newhouse shot his video, an unidentified correspondent reported seeing a “white object, shaped like an “elongated oval” but “fatter than a cigar,” about 100 feet in length. asserted

correspondent → shoot → length

The files have been released after President Trump signed an executive order this past February declassifying most information about the strange sightings. asserted

Trump → release → sightings

‘Floating orbs’ zooming at 480 mph among UFOs spotted by US military, latest file drop reveals

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