JAKARTA – The United States Department of Defense released a number of recordings of unidentified or UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) anomalous phenomena. This term is now used by the US government to refer to mysterious objects or events in the air that have not been explained. Previously, the public was more familiar with the term UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) or unidentified flying object.
Kyodo News quoted Saturday, May 9, reported that one of the recordings showed a ball-like object in the sky of the East China Sea, near Japan.
The footage was released on Friday via the US Department of Defense website. This is the first wave of unsolved cases and is open to the public.
In addition to the near-Earth object, the release also includes reports of sightings in the United States and the Middle East.
The file that caught attention was titled DOW-UAP-PR46. Its contents show an unidentified anomaly phenomenon reported by the US Indo-Pacific Command.
In an official statement, the object was said to “resemble a football-shaped object near Japan”.
The report contains a nine-second video. The recording was taken in 2024 through an infrared sensor from a US military platform.
This release was made at the direction of President Donald Trump. The US government called the move part of an effort to open up information that the government has had about UAP.
The US Department of Defense said it would release more files gradually every few weeks.
“While the previous administration failed to be transparent about this issue, with these new documents and videos, the public can judge for themselves,” Trump wrote on social media.
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