According to high-ranking military observers, they reported seeing a mysterious black triangular object flying at extremely high speed over a sensitive area in the western United States earlier this year. The report is part of the latest batch of unidentified flying object (UFO) files released on Friday by the Trump administration. According to their report to the Department of Defense, the unidentified object did not display any of the characteristics of a conventional military aircraft. It disappeared suddenly and silently within a few seconds, leaving no discharge trace or other evidence of its existence.
The alleged sighting, made by anonymous sources with “extensive operational experience working alongside government agencies”, took place at a location that had been redacted in the released file. The “unidentified anomalous phenomenon” (UAP), a term that has replaced UFO in military, governmental and scientific circles, resembled a delta-winged drone with a wingspan between 2.75 and 4.5 metres, the observers recalled. They calculated its speed at 1,800 miles per hour (about 2,900 km/h).
Similar to hundreds of other reports published by the Pentagon since May, as part of Donald Trump’s promise to bring transparency to decades of classified or secret documents related to UFOs, many other details are unclear, inconclusive or completely erased. While many earlier stories were accompanied by real photographs or video footage of the observed events, the “black triangles” report contains nine identical images of the same unidentified canyon with small, crudely added trilateral silhouettes meant to reproduce the movement the observers said they saw. Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Penn State University, noted that this appears to be “little more than a black triangle shape superimposed on a landscape background to illustrate the report” and adds nothing substantive.
After an early wave, Pentagon releases under the second Trump administration have become less frequent in recent months and noticeably sparser since the American president declared in February that he was ordering full disclosure of government knowledge about UFOs and the search for alien life beyond our planet. This move followed allegations made in Congress in 2023 by a former intelligence official that successive administrations had been involved in a cover-up and that the government possessed crashed alien spacecraft. Friday’s release contained fewer than 25 text documents and no videos or images.
Taken from The Guardian