Trump UFO files reveal drone pilot’s encounter with ‘linear object’

In the UFO files released on Friday by the Trump administration, one document detailed an FBI interview with an unidentified drone pilot who recalled seeing a bright ‘linear object’ in the sky sometime in 2023.

‘The object was visible for five to ten seconds and then the light went out and the object vanished,’ according to the interview transcripts.

President Trump, who had teased the release of the files since early February, unsealed 162 documents to the general public today.

‘While all of the files have been reviewed for security purposes, many of the materials have not yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies,’ the Department of War statement read.

In an interview conducted with the FBI, a US senior intelligence official recollected his first hand account with a UAP at a US military facility.

The official relayed to FBI agents that he and other federal and state personnel conducted searches to where orbs had been previously seen at the time.

After searching the area with a helicopter, the team found a ‘super-hot’ orb hovering over the ground. The orb is reported to have travelled for 20 miles at a speed too fast for the helicopter in pursuit.

An additional ‘swarm’ of lights were seen moving in several directions before four to five additional orbs appeared to ‘flare up and down’ for thirty minutes across the area.

An FBI memo found in the UFO files released Friday details a witnesses experience with ‘three and a half to 4 feet tall’ aliens wearing ‘space suits and helmets.’

The sighting was detailed in a book titled Flying Saucers – Serious Business authored by Frank Edwards in June 1966 and recounts several global UFO sightings from Russia to Scandinavia.

It claimed that 1965 was ‘the year of the greatest number of UFO sightings and that these were observed by multiple people’, describing UFOs as polished metal objects radiating heat and light that burned witnesses who were too near.

Edwards said that those named in the book who had the encounters were reliable individuals including law enforcement officers, military personnel on official duty, commercial and military airline pilots and civil defense officials.

Many of the sightings were reported from ‘atomic and missile research areas.’

It was noted in the memo that the author concluded his book with a prediction that UFOs will make an ‘overt landing’ or deliberate contact with Earth in the near future.

In a post to X on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said that the agency was committed ‘to supporting this rolling declassification effort’ of the UFO files by the Trump administration.

He went on to say that the FBI ‘will continue working 24/7 with this administration and our interagency partners to give Americans the transparency they deserve.’

Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett warned that this cache of UFO files will be a ‘drop in the bucket’ compared to what else will be released.

‘Remember the Feds told us these files didn’t exist and @realDonaldTrump stood up to the deep state,’ Burchett wrote on X.

‘The 1st drop will be big but in comparison to what is coming they will be a drop in the bucket. I would say “Holy Crap” is coming.’

Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin described several ‘unusual’ observations during the mission in 1969.

‘The first unusual thing that we saw I guess was 1 day out or something pretty close to the moon. It had a sizeable dimension to it, so we put the monocular on it,’ Aldrin said.

‘The other observation that I made accumulated gradually. I don’t know whether I saw it the first night, but I’m sure I saw it the second night. I was trying to go to sleep with all the lights out. I observed what I thought were little flashes inside the cabin, spaced a couple of minutes apart.’

He also said, ‘I observed what appeared to be a fairly bright light source which we tentatively ascribed to a possible laser.’

Gemini VII astronaut Frank Borman reported seeing an unidentified object while in space in 1965.

‘We have very, very many a – it looks like hundreds of little particles going by to the left out about three or four miles,’ Borman told mission control.

‘It looks like a path of the vehicle at 90 degrees,’ he added.

Representative Anna Paulina Luna said there will be additional UFO files released after the Trump administration dropped a trove of long-awaited documents.

‘There will be more files released. To include our request of the 40+ files. I talked to the Pentagon last night,’ Luna wrote on X.

Several members of Congress praised the Trump administration for releasing the UFO files.

‘This is a great first step. Additional releases are expected in the coming weeks. A second tranche of documents, including additional requested video footage, is anticipated within approximately 30 days. Further records, videos, imagery, and investigative materials will continue to be released on a rolling basis,’ Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna wrote on X.

‘Thank you @realDonaldTrump for keeping your word to me on #UFO #UAP transparency. This is a great start,’ Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett wrote.

‘I’m grateful to the bipartisan group of members that have been pushing for this for the last several years. The American people have a right to know. New photos, videos and documents. We need #disclosure and we need it now,’ Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz wrote.

‘Thank you @realDonaldTrump for doing what no other president has been willing or capable of doing. This is a historic first step in what I trust will be just one of many. Thank you for taking on the swamp to make this release happen. You are the president of the people,’ Missouri Representative Eric Burlison wrote.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard praised the release of the UFO files.

‘The American people have long sought transparency about the government’s knowledge of unidentified aerial phenomena,’ she wrote on X.

‘Under President Trump’s leadership, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is actively coordinating the Intelligence Community’s declassification efforts with the Department of War to ensure a careful, comprehensive, and unprecedented review of our holdings to provide the American people with maximum transparency.

‘Today’s release is the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort.’

The Department of War released a statement on Friday after unsealing hundreds of photo and video evidence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to the general public.

‘While past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Trump is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files,’ the agency’s press release said.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth added that:

‘The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.’

‘These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration’s earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency,’ he said.