WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) – The Pentagon released a third tranche of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings on Friday, which include reports of glowing, sometimes red, orbs seen by people in the northeastern United States.The first two batches were made public on May 8 and May 22. President Donald Trump is the latest president to release U.S. government reports on unidentified flying objects, a disclosure process that began in the late 1970s.Friday’s release of what the Pentagon calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP) involved 72 files from the FBI, CIA and Pentagon and includes testimony, videos and artistic depictions. Reports from several entries refer to sphere or orb sightings in the same general U.S. Northeast location.AdvertisementAdvertisementOne file from February cites FBI interviews with two people who reported seeing an intense bright light in the middle of their backyard one evening. The identities of those interviewed and their precise location were blacked out.One person “described the red color as being brilliant and beautiful, and that (redacted) had never seen anything that color of red before,” according to the FBI report.The red sphere, about three feet (one meter) wide, contained a “white plasma sun” the size of a basketball in its center, it said.The people noticed a second orb and the two appeared tethered together as they moved away. They reported seeing several white orbs a few weeks later flying over the house at a much higher altitude, the FBI report said.AdvertisementAdvertisementA similar interview in July 2025 referred …
