So, the Pentagon released the fifth group of UFO files on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, and it should be no news flash that it’s more of the same: ambiguous videos of nebulous dots in the distance and largely redacted, unverifiable stories that lack supporting evidence.

However, there were some really cool Cold War items that I will get to.

It’s all here: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+05&release=05

I found this New York Post article mildly intriguing. The piece contains very scant details about an account from anonymous sources claiming that a U.S. military service member took cellphone videos of a large triangular UFO in 2023 in the skies over Colorado.

According to the article, the videos can’t be released because they are classified.

Here is a link to the article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/08/us-news/ufo-over-colorado-base-in-video-air-force-wont-share-sources/

Amazingly, although the article is very light on details, it states that information provided by sources includes the actual “file numbers” of the videos. Not that there’s anything the general reading public can do with such obscure information, even if it is valid, which we have no way of confirming.

But the file numbers? WTF?!

Anyway, maybe denying public access to these videos makes perfect sense if these triangular objects are top-secret U.S. weapons. Then, the Pentagon simply would be unable to issue said videos because that would be revealing to our adversaries the existence of these weapons.

In such a hypothetical scenario, full UFO “transparency” would be literally impossible, since it is still technically illegal to share military secrets with the public.

Meanwhile, other notable content in the Aug. 7 release is perfect for the Cold War reading room. This stuff is great!

Among these items is a series of documents and reports circa 1947-1948. One prominent report from Air Materiel Command informs that the UFOs fell into four categories: discs, torpedo or cigar shaped, spherical and balls of light.

Interestingly, there’s a suggestion that UFOs could have some sort of connection to the “German flying wings designed by (the) Horten brothers.”  

At the request of U.S. officials, the British military apparently interviewed one of the Horten brothers, Reimar Horten. However, the results of this interview were evidently not included in the material.

One fun distraction within the cache of documents, images and videos, is the now-famous Sept. 23, 1947, summary from Nathan F. Twining, commanding general of Air Materiel Command, which says, among other things:

“It is the opinion that: a. the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious … b. There are objects probably approximating the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft … c. There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors … and d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.”

Later, the document includes this incredible comment from Gen. Twining:

“It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge – provided extensive detailed development is undertaken – to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object … which would be capable of an approximate range of 7000 miles at subsonic speeds.”

Whaaaat?!

Other cool details describe the following UFO characteristics and encounters:

… “In shape the objects are a thin disc, rounded on top and flat on the bottom, perhaps approximating a C-54 in size. The front half of the disc is often circular, sweeping back to a square tail across the full width.”

… “Extreme maneuverability, coupled with high lateral stability, is noted. Speed is high, with a snaking motion or a lateral oscillation.  A few reports indicate ability to hover; to appear suddenly as if from a dive; to disintegrate or to disappear, perhaps by increasing speed; to group quickly in a tight formation and to take evasive action. Good control of flight is indicated.”

… “On 7 July, 1947, five Portland, Oregon, police officers saw varying numbers of discs flying over different parts of Portland. … On 7 July, 1947, William Rhoads of Phoenix, Ariz., saw a disc in the glow of sunset and took two photographs. The resulting picture showed a round front and square tail in plan form … On 29 July, 1947, Kenneth Arnold, while flying near Tacoma, Washington, saw a formation of flying objects. His sketch of their shape corresponds closely to that shown in the photographs made by Mr. Rhoads. On the same day, two United States Air Force pilots at Hamilton Field, Calif., saw two flying discs trailing (an aircraft), following it toward Oakland, Calif.”

I also found this paragraph interesting:

“Analyzed the possibility that the flying objects were operated or controlled by representatives of a foreign nation—perhaps for photo reconnaissance purposes, or to ferret out our defensive capabilities, or to test the American psychological reaction … it is difficult to conceive why any foreign nation, if it possessed such an unconventional aircraft or missile, would risk sending it near or over the United States for anything short of an attack. Even if the disc contained a self-destroying device, any crash landing would disclose a certain amount of information which the nation possessing such an aircraft or missile would desire to keep secret. This would be particularly true if the form of propulsion was one outside American knowledge. The final answer still has not been obtained from this line of inquiry.”

Well, there you have it, the Pentagon’s newly released fifth group of UFO files.

There is still no evidence of E.T. here, but plenty of evidence for something else. Maybe that something else has nothing to do with extraterrestrials and everything to do with a type of alternative propulsion technology conceived, designed, built, tested and perfected entirely by human beings. Maybe that technology has evolved over the decades and still exists in the black world of top-secret Pentagon weaponry, a shadow air and space program that runs parallel to NASA and the Space Force but is far more capable.