Trump Order Unleashes Baffling UFO Cache

June 13, 2026

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Washington just admitted, again, that strange “orbs” keep showing up in our skies—and the government still claims it cannot explain them.

Story Snapshot

The Trump administration’s transparency order drove a third release of UFO files, adding 72 unresolved cases to the public record.^[3]^[6]
New videos show glowing orb-like objects over U.S. airspace, based on “highly credible” eyewitness reports from trained officials and civilians.^[1]^[2]
The Department of War says these cases remain unexplained and stresses the files do not confirm extraterrestrial life, keeping the public in the dark.^[1]^[6]
The same government that often fails on basic issues now asks Americans to accept mystery on matters of national security and air safety.^[3]^[6]

What exactly did the Trump administration just release?

On June 12, the Pentagon posted a third batch of declassified files on what NASA calls Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, better known as UFOs.^[1] The release is part of President Donald Trump’s order that the government dig up, declassify, and share unresolved UFO material through a new system called the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE.^[6] Officials say this third “tranche” adds 72 new files, with records stretching from the 1940s all the way to 2026.^[3]

The new files live on a public portal at WAR.GOV/UFO and include documents, still images, videos, audio recordings, and written witness statements from several agencies.^[1]^[6] The Department of War says these materials come from places like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.^[3] This wave follows earlier drops in May and late May, and officials promise more releases “on a rolling basis” as old records are found and declassified.^[5]

Inside the orb videos and witness accounts

News coverage highlights six new videos that center on glowing, orb-like objects captured over different parts of the United States in the last three years.^[1]^[2] One clip, taken by a husband and wife, shows a “brilliant red sphere” crossing the sky, then followed by a second matching orb moving in the same path.^[1] Other files describe incidents near “sensitive national security sites” in the American West, where lights reportedly hovered, maneuvered, and even appeared over restricted areas for two days in October 2023.^[1]

Some of the most dramatic visuals in the archive are not raw footage but “artistic interpretations” based on federal law enforcement and intelligence reports.^[1] These re‑created videos and images are built from first-hand accounts by a special agent and other trained observers who reported silent, smooth-moving orbs with no visible wings or engines.^[1]^[2] Supporters say these cases echo older “foo fighter” reports from World War II pilots and Cold War-era sightings, suggesting a long pattern of strange aerial events that defy easy explanation.^[1]

Historic audio and the lure of the space age

The third release is not just modern cellphone clips and recent reports. It also pulls in historical material from the early space age.^[1] More than two hours of audio from a 1972 mission debrief for Apollo 16 are now public, including a moment where a speaker casually refers to an “alien starbase” while reviewing experiment data.^[1] Another audio file features journalist Walter Cronkite interviewing astronaut Gordon Cooper in 1962 about his views and experiences with unidentified flying objects.^[1]

These recordings matter because they show that questions about odd things in the sky are not new, and they have reached into the highest levels of the space program.^[1] Yet even here, the new files do not offer firm answers. They show curiosity, unease, and a sense that some events did not fit normal explanations, but they stop short of proving contact with anything non-human. That gap between what was seen and what can be proved is where public doubt continues to grow.

Government says “unresolved” – and that is the problem

The Department of War is clear on one point that frustrates both believers and skeptics: officials say these files are “unresolved cases.”^[6] The PURSUE portal flatly states that the government is “unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena” in the records it is releasing.^[6] A summary of the new batch adds that the documents “do not offer confirmation of extraterrestrial life,” even as they show events no one in authority can fully explain.^[1]

This 1948 memo shows that the Air Force Director of Intelligence believed enough prior “flying disc” reports had accumulated to infer a recurring pattern, warned the Navy that a new interval of sightings was imminent, and triggered an inter-service reporting chain that required… https://t.co/qiuwiTJLhg

— shinyufoguy2222 (@ollobrains) June 13, 2026

This mix of openness and uncertainty feeds public distrust that already runs deep on the left and the right. Many Americans watch Washington struggle with border control, inflation, health care, and crime. Now the same system expects people to accept a growing pile of mystery files on objects in restricted airspace. Officials blame “a lack of sufficient data” in many cases, yet the government also holds the sensors, the radar, and the classified tools that could, in theory, clear up at least some of the confusion.^[5]^[6]

Why these UFO files tap into shared anger at the “deep state”

The Trump administration frames PURSUE as a historic transparency push, pointing to more than a billion visits to the UFO website as proof that people demanded answers.^[5] Many conservatives see the release as a rare win against secrecy inside what they call the deep state. Many liberals, who distrust the national security world for different reasons, still welcome sunlight on programs long kept behind closed doors.^[3]^[5] On paper, this looks like a step toward the accountable government most Americans say they want.

Yet the way the program works can feel like classic Washington: a big portal, dramatic language, and still no clear truth. The files admit that trained agents, pilots, and citizens are seeing things our systems cannot identify, sometimes near key military sites.^[1]^[3]^[6] At the same time, agencies refuse to say what they think these objects are, or to release the deeper radar, tracking, and forensic data that could confirm or debunk the wildest theories.^[4]^[6] That pattern—partial disclosure without resolution—only reinforces the sense that a powerful few control the real story, while ordinary Americans are left guessing about what flies above their own country.