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UFO files spanning decades are released by Defense Department

NPR News · May 8, 2026, 7:39 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

Why this matters: a developing story that could shape the day's news cycle.

Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentifiable anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.

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