‘Floating orbs’ zooming at 480 mph among UFOs spotted by US military, latest file drop reveals

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New York Post · collected 2026-09-18 · by Josh Christenson, Ally Goelz

Quick Summary

The US Central Command has released reports and videos of recent UFO sightings, including six small spherical objects flying at 480 mph over a desert area in 2025. Another report from 2023 describes circular objects spotted over the Yellow Sea by an infrared sensor. Additionally, a Colorado law enforcement officer recorded a 15-minute video of a silent, multicolored UFO hovering in the sky. Older files from 1952 include footage captured by Navy warrant officer Delbert Newhouse showing “flying discs” that were later determined to likely be seagulls or pillow balloons. These releases follow President Trump’s executive order declassifying most UFO information.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-18, using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the same event (that is the story summary below).

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Story summary

The Pentagon released its sixth batch of UFO files on Friday, including over 70 documents and 15 videos dating from 1952 to 2025. Among them is a highly secretive military program called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, established in 2008 by the Defense Intelligence Agency to study future aerospace threats until it ended in 2012. Notably, one document from 2010 details injuries purportedly caused by encounters with anomalous advanced systems. The release also includes footage captured near Tremonton, Utah, by US Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse in July 1952, showing bright objects that could not be conclusively identified despite being reviewed under Project Blue Book. Additionally, a recent report from US Central Command (CENTCOM) details sightings of spherical objects moving at speeds up to 480 mph over what appears to be a desert region.

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Claims extracted
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claim-shaped sentences
Uncertain
8%
1 of 13 hedged
Leaning
not political
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Correction & hedging signals
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Outlets on this story
4
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📰 UFO Files Release Pentagon
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“The articles describe different sightings reported in different years and locations.”
CBS News
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“Article A describes specific sightings and reports from different dates, while Article B mentions a general release of UFO files including multiple videos.”

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Josh Christenson
30 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
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🔮 “While the government wishes to hold open the possibility of the development of evidence that would support a future prosecution, its own representations make plain that such a possibility is theoretical at best, and more likely, is simply fanciful,” wrote Edelman.
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Ally Goelz
14 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
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🔮 He said more than 1 million could ultimately participate.
🔮 Investigators also tried to determine whether the officer had recorded “pillow balloons” and contacted General Mills, “the only known manufacturer of pillow balloons at the time, to determine whether a balloon release could account for the incident.
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Topics

Air Force CENTCOM Colorado Navy US Central Command

Subjects

Air Force ORG · 1× Bell and Howell ORG · 1× CENTCOM ORG · 1× Colorado GPE · 1× Delbert Newhouse PERSON · 1× Kodachrome ORG · 1× Navy ORG · 1× Tremonton GPE · 1× US Central Command ORG · 1× Utah ORG · 1×

Narrative

The 16mm Kodachrome color motion-picture footage was captured with a Bell and Howell auto master camera on July 2, 1952, by chief warrant officer Delbert Newhouse, who was traveling from Washington, DC, to Portland, Ore., and ended up “filming a group of bright airborne objects.”
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-18
🔮 Investigators also tried to determine whether the officer had recorded “pillow balloons” and contacted General Mills, “the only known manufacturer of pillow balloons at the time, to determine whether a balloon release could account for the incident.

Claims (13 extracted, 1 hedged)

A 2025 report from US Central Command (CENTCOM) details a sighting of “six small spherical objects, grouped together” and “frequently changing direction” at 480 mph. asserted
report → detail → mph
Accompanying the report was one minute of video footage showing the objects as they flew over what appeared to be a desert region. asserted
what → accompany → objects
Another video, from 2023, captured circular objects flying over the Yellow Sea that were spotted by an infrared sensor aboard a US military platform. asserted
that → capture → platform
That same year, a Colorado law enforcement officer recorded a 15-minute cell phone video showing a UFO with “red, blue and green flashing lights” that remained “silent” as it hovered in the sky. asserted
it → record → sky
More than seven decades earlier, records from the office of the US Air Force Director of Intelligence discussed “flying disc” incidents recorded between September and December 1952. asserted
records → discuss → September
A Navy warrant officer also saw what looked like flying discs near Tremonton, Utah, that July, an incident that he caught on camera only for an official investigation to assess they “were likely seabirds.” asserted
they → see → investigation
The 16mm Kodachrome color motion-picture footage was captured with a Bell and Howell auto master camera on July 2, 1952, by chief warrant officer Delbert Newhouse, who was traveling from Washington, DC, to Portland, Ore., and ended up “filming a group of bright airborne objects.” asserted
who → capture → objects
“The film later became one of the visual cases reviewed by Project Blue Book, the 1952–1969 U.S. Air Force program that investigated the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs),” the declassified document webpage stated. asserted
webpage → become → objects
Investigators also tried to determine whether the officer had recorded “pillow balloons” and contacted General Mills, “the only known manufacturer of pillow balloons at the time, to determine whether a balloon release could account for the incident. uncertain
release → try → incident
The Air Force Photo Reconnaissance Lab concluded in 1956 that the light in the film “was caused by seagulls soaring in thermal air currents.” asserted
light → conclude → currents
Another analysis said that it is “believed to be reasonably certain that the reflection brightness of these objects exceeds that of any natural diffusing type of reflecting object, such as white birds against the sky.” asserted
brightness → say → sky
The day before Newhouse shot his video, an unidentified correspondent reported seeing a “white object, shaped like an “elongated oval” but “fatter than a cigar,” about 100 feet in length. asserted
correspondent → shoot → length
The files have been released after President Trump signed an executive order this past February declassifying most information about the strange sightings. asserted
Trump → release → sightings
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