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## Transcript

On May 8th, President Donald Trump ordered the release of more than 170 files on a Department of War website, some dating back to the 1940s. The release is an effort to make good on a promise the president made on April 17th, 2026. Here are just some of the reports made available to the public. Perhaps most sensational of all were the fresh details about a one minute and 46 second appearance in 2013 of an eight pointed, star like body swerving and maneuvering in front of a naval jet, leaving a fine contrail of exhaust behind. There was two the never before reported January 1st, 2020 encounter of a bright dancing point, moving similarly erratically.

Spotted by the pilot of an aircraft patrolling the skies over the Middle East. The object was picked up by infrared sensors and lingered in sight for more than one minute and three seconds before it disappeared. More striking was the newly revealed sighting exactly four years later, on New Year's Day, of a football shaped body with three fin like projections, that hovering object remained visible for just nine seconds before disappearing. A report was even filed by the Gemini seven mission on December 4th, 1965. After the two man spacecraft had reached orbit, separated from its upper stage booster and turned around to face that spent segment of rocket, the astronauts commander Frank Borman and pilot Jim Lovell, saw not just the upper stage, but a spangle of debris particles around it and another larger object they could not explain.

Go ahead. Above you at 10:00 high. This is Houston. Say again. Seven bogey at 10:00. Roger. We have, uh. Uh, looks like hundreds of little particles going by the left out about 3 to 4 miles. In a scribbled note. That was also part of the recent document dump, a NASA official wrote the words UFO sighting by Borman. More accounts from more eyewitnesses are sure to come. The Pentagon has announced that it will release additional reports on a rolling basis into the indefinite future.

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