Those and other reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in a trove of documents released by the Department of Defense on Friday.

The Pentagon’s newly released UFO files reveal decades of unexplained sightings, from glowing orbs and star-shaped objects to Apollo astronauts reporting mysterious lights, though officials say there ...

Through the new “PURSUE” initiative, Washington released declassified U.A.P. videos, photographs and raw case files to the public without security clearance.