See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR Updated: 16:24 BST, 12 June 2026
The Pentagon released a third batch of UFO files today, including documents that claim the CIA destroyed a 'message from space.'Among the tranche is a 1958 CIA memorandum discussing a phone conversation with a scientist regarding concerns about a destroyed 'space message and its transmitter.'The scientist, Dr. Leon Davidson, was a chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project and at Los Alamos, and studied UFOs.The memo stated that Davidson was told by the CIA that the agency 'cannot resolve his problem concerning the space message and its transmitter because records on the matter have been destroyed by the evaluating agency.'The third set of documents was quietly uploaded to the Department of War's website on Friday morning.According to the Pentagon, there have been 'unprecedented levels of interest' in the UFO files, and the Department of War's website has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since its launch in May.The latest trove of files includes dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.Follow along for the latest updates. A one-page memo in the third tranche of UFO files released on Friday revealed a 1958 phone conversation between the CIA and a scientist about an alleged 'space message' which had been destroyed after its reception on Earth.The scientist, Dr Leon Davidson, was a chemical engineer and UFO researcher who worked on the Manhattan Project, the mission to create the world's first atomic bomb in World War II.The memo stated that Davidson was told by the CIA that the agency 'cannot resolve his problem concerning the space message and its transmitter because records on the matter have been destroyed by the evaluating agency.'The memo then acknowledged that two agents from the CIA had been in contact with Davidson before the scientist reached out to the agency regarding the mysterious transmission.The memo admitted that agents 'Walker and Skakich' attempted to conceal their identity from Davidson while speaking to him about the message from space.'Referenced telephone conversation disclosed that there is nothing in the record to show that Davidson knew he was dealing with the Agency in his contacts with Walker and Skakich, that in fact, an effort had been made to to conceal their CIA identity from him.''But the answer was hardly fair to Davidson, and one not likely to be fully accepted by him,' the memo continued, noting that Davidson was given no answers on how or why the transmission was destroyed.It is unclear when and where Davidson allegedly received his message from space.US law enforcement officers have shocking encounter with UFO orbsA group of trained federal agents described encountering glowing orbs that 'hatched' red lights, silent hovering objects that mimicked vehicles and intelligent light formations seen flying over a remote portion of the western US over two nights in October 2023.The special agents reported seeing glowing orange orbs near hills or ridgelines. They hovered motionless, pulsed between bright orange and clear and sometimes moved quickly across the sky.Some orbs suddenly released three to four smaller red lights that flew out in straight lines, in vertical or clustered formations or downward like flares.The agents also saw rows or clusters of red lights, sometimes in groups of nine or more, hovering in perfect patterns like squares over airfields or ridgelines.The officers also described the UFOs imitating car headlights or taillights on the road ahead. When approached, the 'vehicles' hovered silently 15 to 20 feet off the ground without touching the dirt or kicking up dust, then drifted away over rough terrain.While the reports submitted to the Pentagon did not reveal if pictures or videos of the incidents were taken, artist recreations were attached to the latest files.'Potato' shaped UFO seen over key military facilityA witness interview in Friday's UFO files revealed an encounter with a 'potato' shaped craft over one of America's more highly secure underground military facilities.The 2024 FBI report documented the sighting by a US Army intelligence officer and four other members of his unit.In February 2022, as they left their office building in Colorado Springs, they saw the strange UFO hovering over the Cheyenne Mountains.The object was described as creamy or whitish, somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer and made of irregular, non-overlapping panels like 'articulating fish scales.'The UFO stayed perfectly still, but the panels on its surface shifted slowly in waves. After about two minutes, the object suddenly vanished as if it cloaked itself in mid air.Cheyenne Mountain is a heavily protected underground military complex in Colorado. It is famous for being the former home of NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command.Built deep inside the mountain during the Cold War, it was designed to survive a nuclear attack and continuously monitor North American airspace for missiles, aircraft and space threats.The report included an artist's impression of the incident.'Plasma-like sphere' spotted hovering above a pond in the USOne video released on Friday shows what officials described as a 'plasma-like sphere' hovering above a pond at an undisclosed location in the US, appearing to shift shape and brightness as it moved. Trump releases THIRD bombshell tranche of UFO filesThe Trump administration has released a third tranche of previously classified UAP files, adding dozens of new documents, photographs and videos to the government's rapidly expanding archive of unexplained sightings.The materials were quietly uploaded to the Department of War's website on Friday morning and include a series of cases that investigators were unable to definitively explain, leaving the nature of the phenomena unresolved.
