The latest batch of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon files contains no bombs so far. However, they indicate that the CIA was hiding its involvement.
Veteran talks about UFO encounter
During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Transparency on Tuesday (September 9), U.S. Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuseteri described an encounter with what is commonly referred to as a UFO.
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WASHINGTON – They’re there! It’s the latest batch of newly declassified Pentagon documents regarding possible contact with aliens.
The Trump administration released the third batch of previously secret UFO files from military and civilian intelligence agencies on June 12, the same day that Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster about alien visitors was released.
The new documents, photos, drawings and videos will be added to the government’s rapidly expanding archive of unconfirmed sightings. This archive is known in official parlance as a UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon).
So far, there have been no bombshell statements, based on USA TODAY’s review of documents and early social media posts by other media outlets and numerous ufologists. However, the file, like previous releases, contains documentation of several sightings and other observations that investigators have been unable to explain, leaving the true details of the phenomenon unresolved.
This release is the latest chapter in a resurgence of public interest in UFOs, spurred by recent high-profile Congressional hearings on the subject. And this time, whether intentionally or not, it will coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day.” The film, from a director acclaimed for other alien-themed films, is a sci-fi thriller that explores how humans would react if they found out they weren’t alone in the universe.
Declassified materials uploaded to the Pentagon’s website Friday morning provided no immediate evidence of alien visitors to Earth. But they included some interesting reports and correspondence dating back to the 1950s about the possibility that life exists outside of our floating blue sphere.
In one case, CIA officials hid their affiliation with the spy agency from Dr. Leon Davidson, a scientist who was seeking answers about an alleged “cosmic message and its transmitter.”
CIA’s ‘very informal and evasive response’
“We contacted Dr. Davidson by telephone and advised him that the matter could not be resolved because the records relating to the space message and its transmitter had been destroyed by the evaluation agency,” RPB Roman wrote in a “confidential” letter to the CIA’s “director of liaison” on January 9, 1958.
According to Columbia University archives, Leon Davidson was a chemical engineer who worked for the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos and conducted “research and collection of materials related to UFOs” from 1949 to the 1960s. Columbia University Libraries holds the “Leon Davidson Flying Saucer Collection” as part of its Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, according to its website.
“Mr. Davidson accepted this statement with the comment that he had been told something like this before,” he said, adding that he was trying to water down a pending paper on “the Air Force’s handling of space sightings” so it could be approved by the Pentagon’s national security review team.
“We appreciate the work of many cooks in the kitchen on this dish, and as a result, the very non-committal and evasive response we were directed to give Mr. Davidson was probably the only possibility possible to avoid confusion with our own and other agencies’ past statements about this man,” Roman wrote. “But that answer was not fair to Davidson and was unlikely to be fully accepted.”
Mr. Roman also noted that two officials who were dealing with Mr. Davidson “attempted to hide their CIA identities from him,” but were “reasonably confident that they were well aware of who he was dealing with.”
“I’m sure we’ll hear more from Mr. Davidson,” Roman wrote when signing the deal.
“Unprecedented level of interest”
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X that the files were released as part of President Donald Trump’s Presidential Opening and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
“There is an unprecedented level of interest in both this topic and the release of the files stored at WAR.GOV/UFO for study by the public and a large number of UFO researchers,” Parnell said. The site has received more than 1.7 billion visits worldwide since its launch on May 8, 2026.
Parnell said the Department of Defense and our agency partners are actively working on the next release of UAP files. These agencies include the White House, various U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, the Department of Energy, and NASA.
Questions remain. At least the new document is available for viewing.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
