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Video. Fighter jet tracks UFO in newly released Pentagon footage

EuroNews · · 55 words
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The Pentagon released another batch of previously classified UFO files”
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Multiple independent news sources (The Guardian, CBC News, and another web search result) confirm that the Pentagon released batches of declassified UFO/UAP files.
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web search NEUTRAL — The War Department released more than 160 files Friday related to sightings of UFOs dating back nearly 80 years, two days after President Trump predicted “I think some of it’s going to …
https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/pentagon-releases-doze…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pentagon has released decades of declassified UFO files, including decades of unexplained sightings reported by astronauts, pilots and civilians, fueling fresh speculation about extraterrestrial l…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ufo-files-released-unidentifie…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pentagon on Friday released a second tranche of videos and documents of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – or UFOs – answering few questions about the existence of alien life but fueling what h…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/pentagon-ufo-v…
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“including military videos of unidentified aerial phenomena”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources explicitly confirm that the released materials include visual recordings/videos from Navy fighter jets (FLIR cameras) of unidentified aerial phenomena.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Pentagon UFO videos are selected visual recordings of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting cameras from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, also known as the UAP Report and colloquially named the Pentagon UFO Report, is a United States federally mandated assessment, prepared and publi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Report_(U.S._Intelligence)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States UFO files, also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of declassified United States government records concerning UFOs, also called unidentified anomalous p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files
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“saying the material is intended to provide “unprecedented transparency””
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While the release of files is confirmed, the provided evidence does not contain the specific quote 'unprecedented transparency' or a statement from the Pentagon using that phrasing. The provided Wikipedia and Britannica results describe the building, not the specific communication regarding this release.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Pentagon UFO videos are selected visual recordings of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting cameras from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, also known as the UAP Report and colloquially named the Pentagon UFO Report, is a United States federally mandated assessment, prepared and publi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Report_(U.S._Intelligence)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States UFO files, also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of declassified United States government records concerning UFOs, also called unidentified anomalous p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files
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“offering no evidence of alien life”
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The Guardian reports that the released videos 'answer few questions about the existence of alien life,' and other sources describe them as unexplained sightings without mentioning evidence of extraterrestrial life, supporting the claim that no such evidence was offered.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Pentagon UFO videos are selected visual recordings of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting cameras from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, also known as the UAP Report and colloquially named the Pentagon UFO Report, is a United States federally mandated assessment, prepared and publi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Report_(U.S._Intelligence)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States UFO files, also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of declassified United States government records concerning UFOs, also called unidentified anomalous p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files
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