Two high-ranking military observers said they observed a mysterious black triangular object flying at an extraordinarily high speed over a sensitive site in the western United States earlier this year, in the latest round of UFO sightings released Friday by the Trump administration.
The unidentified object showed none of the characteristics of a conventional military aircraft, according to their report to the Department of Defense, and it disappeared suddenly and silently within seconds, leaving no trace of exhaust or other evidence of its existence.
The claimed sighting, by anonymous sources with “extensive operational experience working alongside government agencies,” took place at a location that was redacted in the filing released Friday.
The “unidentified anomalous phenomenon” (UAP), the term that has replaced UFO in military, government and scientific circles, resembled a delta-winged drone with a wingspan of between 9 and 15 feet (2.75 to 4.5 m), observers recalled. They calculated his speed at 1,800 mph.
Like hundreds of other reports released by the Pentagon since May as part of Donald Trump’s promise to bring transparency to decades of previously classified or secret UFO-related documents, many other details are vague, inconclusive or completely obscured.
While many previous accounts were accompanied by actual photographs or video footage of apparent sightings, the “black triangles” report presents nine identical images of the same unidentified canyon with tiny trilateral silhouettes crudely added to replicate the movement of the object the observers reported seeing.
“It indeed just looks like a black triangle superimposed on a landscape background to illustrate the report. I don’t think it really adds anything substantial to the report itself,” said Greg Eghigian, professor of history and bioethics at Penn State University and author of the 2024 book After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon.
After an initial surge, Pentagon releases under the second Trump administration have become less frequent in recent months, and noticeably thinner since the US president said in February he was ordering the full disclosure of the government’s knowledge about UFOs and the search for extraterrestrial life beyond our planet.
The move followed allegations broadcast to Congress in 2023 by a former intelligence official that successive administrations engaged in a cover-up and that the government was in possession of a crashed alien spacecraft.
Friday’s release contained fewer than 25 text documents, and no videos or images.
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