{"id":24581,"date":"2026-05-22T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/pentagon-releases-wild-footage-of-fighter-jet-taking-down-ufo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:03:14","slug":"pentagon-releases-wild-footage-of-fighter-jet-taking-down-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/pentagon-releases-wild-footage-of-fighter-jet-taking-down-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Releases Wild Footage Of Fighter Jet Taking Down UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pentagon released new UFO footage on Friday that includes dozens of videos as part of a scheduled declassification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friday\u2019s release marked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/UFO\/\">second tranche<\/a> of records that Trump<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0ordered declassified in his push for transparency on U.S. government information regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the new videos shows a U.S. fighter jet shooting down a UAP over Lake Huron in February 2023. The U.S. military shot down the object shortly after a Chinese spy balloon crossed over the entire continental United States in an embarrassing moment for former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the time, then-NORAD Commander Gen. Glen VanHerck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-military-shot-unidentified-object-lake-huron-rcna70289\">said<\/a> officials did not know how the object was able to &#8220;stay aloft&#8221; over Lake Huron.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other videos released on Friday show aerial views of UFOs in the atmosphere, including two strange objects near a U.S. submarine and another object near Columbus, Ohio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 728px;margin: 0 auto\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 728px;margin: 0 auto\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is overseeing the process of finding, reviewing, identifying, and publicly releasing unresolved UAP-related records that are in the federal government\u2019s possession. Releasing the files is a difficult process as it requires cross-agency coordination and reviewing tens of millions of records with many existing only on paper from decades ago. Due to the quantity of records under review, the White House developed a plan to release records in phases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Department of War said it remains unable to make a &#8220;definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena\u201d due to not having sufficient data. The department added that it welcomes private-sector analysis, information, and expertise to help identify objects released. Along with a desire for private sector analysis, President Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/UFO\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the files were declassified based on &#8220;tremendous public interest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pentagon-releases-wild-footage-of-fighter-jet-taking-down-ufo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon released new UFO footage on Friday that includes dozens of videos as part of a scheduled declassification.\u00a0 Friday\u2019s release marked the second tranche of records that Trump\u00a0ordered declassified in his push for transparency on U.S. government information regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).\u00a0 One of the new videos shows a U.S. fighter jet shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}