# Pentagon releases sixth batch of UFO files

> The Defense Department releases 71 documents on unidentified phenomena, including studies of warp drives and injuries linked to unknown craft.
- Title: Pentagon releases sixth batch of UFO files · CBS News
- Summary: The Defense Department releases 71 documents on unidentified phenomena, including studies of warp drives and injuries linked to unknown craft. The Pentagon…
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- Source: CBS News — https://cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-uap-pentagon-6th-release
- Author: Stefan  Becket
- Published: 2026-09-18T22:25:00+00:00
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- Topics: pentagon, ufo, uap, defense department, advanced aerospace weapon system applica, unidentified anomalous phenomena, news
## Pentagon releases sixth UFO batch
The Pentagon on Friday released seventy-one files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, including documents on a secretive military program that studied warp drives, wormholes and injuries linked to unknown craft.
## What the release contains
The Pentagon released sixty-seven files from the Defense Department and four from Colorado law enforcement. The collection includes fifty-five PDF files, fifteen video files and one audio file. Sixty-four of the seventy-one files contain redactions. Documents date from nineteen fifty-two to twenty twenty-five.
## Secret aerospace program studied exotic physics
The Defense Intelligence Agency established the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program in two thousand eight to study aerospace threats decades into the future. The program ended in two thousand twelve. It commissioned studies of warp drives, wormholes, antigravity and invisibility cloaking.
## Pentagon clarifies nature of studies
The Pentagon says the thirty-seven Defense Intelligence Reference Documents produced under the program are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than original research. They should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed.

> should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed
## Study documents injuries from unknown craft
A thirty-eight-page two thousand ten study analyzed evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems. Three antennae engineers experienced aerospace-related events and suffered heat, redness on skin, hair loss and signs of radiation illness. One developed signs of malignant transformations.
## Videos show unexplained military encounters
The release includes videos of unexplained objects captured by military cameras. One two thousand twenty-two incident shows a U A P traveling at various speeds between eighty and one hundred eighty miles per hour. Another shows six small spherical objects flying in tandem over the Middle East, frequently changing direction.
## Historical Air Force records included
The release includes an hour-long audio recording and transcript from nineteen fifty-two of Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt explaining the service's investigation into U F O incidents. Ruppelt revealed that roughly twenty percent of the eight hundred U F O reports the Air Force investigated remained a mystery.

> about 20% are very good reports offered by very reliable people and just absolutely no conclusions can be drawn
## Pentagon removes secrecy barrier
On Monday, the Pentagon announced creation of a legal waiver allowing current and former employees previously bound by nondisclosure agreements to share U A P-related information with the government.
## Key takeaway

The Pentagon released its sixth batch of seventy-one files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, including documents on a secretive military program that studied warp drives and injuries possibly caused by unknown aircraft.