BOMBSHELL: Newly Uncovered FBI Memo Found in UFO Files Reveal…

The Trump administration’s first tranche of declassified UAP files, released Friday, May 8, 2026, through a dedicated public archive at war.gov/UFO, contains two revelations that have dominated public conversation since the release: an internal FBI memo from 1966 documenting eyewitness accounts of small humanoid figures approximately three and a half to four feet tall wearing what witnesses described as space suits and helmets near unidentified craft, and a separate set of documents describing a claimed Nazi flying saucer project that allegedly produced a disc-shaped aircraft capable of hovering motionless and reaching speeds of 1,500 miles per hour.

These documents were classified by the federal government, preserved for decades, and released to the public at the direction of President Donald Trump as part of his administration’s unprecedented UAP transparency initiative.

The initial release comprises 162 declassified files spanning 1948 to 2026, including 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 images from agencies including the Department of Defense, the FBI, NASA, and the State Department.

The Department of War announced the files under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, designated PURSUE, and stated that additional materials would be released on a rolling basis every few weeks as records are discovered and declassified.

The scope of the effort spans dozens of agencies and tens of millions of records, the department said, with many existing only in paper form requiring physical review before they can be digitized and assessed for declassification.

The alien space suit account is drawn from an internal FBI memo dated October 19, 1966, with the subject line Unidentified Flying Objects.

The memo documented eyewitness claims about encounters with small humanoid figures approximately three and a half to four feet tall reportedly wearing space suits and helmets near unidentified crafts. The memo stated that 1965 had seen the greatest number of UFO sightings on record and that numerous incidents defied straightforward explanation through conventional means.

The memo was part of the FBI’s institutional record on UAPs and had been classified and held from public view since it was drafted.

Experts consulted by multiple news organizations following the release were careful to characterize the accounts in the 1966 memo as anecdotal and unverified.

The documents include witness accounts and sightings that remain unresolved but contain no confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial life, as one analysis summarized. That characterization accurately reflects the nature of the material. The documents do not prove the existence of alien life.

They document what witnesses reported, preserve the FBI’s institutional record of those reports, and place that record in the public domain for the first time after more than half a century of classification.

The Nazi flying saucer documentation is drawn from FBI files describing interviews with a man identified as Paul Peyerl, who alleged he had observed a disc-shaped craft approximately 50 feet in diameter with a dome above it while working on a classified project in the Black Forest region of Germany in 1943.

According to the declassified files, Peyerl described the object as radio-controlled and equipped with multiple jet engines mounted around the exterior of the craft. He claimed it was capable of rising vertically, maneuvering sideways, hovering motionless, reaching speeds of 1,500 miles per hour, and achieving altitudes in excess of 40,000 feet.

The FBI explicitly noted in the released documents that they contain neither recommendations nor conclusions from the agency regarding the credibility of the claims. The bureau is not asserting that the Nazi flying saucer existed. It is making public its documented record of testimony that it received, preserved, and classified.

Whether the claims have historical merit is a question for researchers, historians, and engineers who can now examine the actual documents rather than speculating about their contents. The release enables that examination for the first time.

The context of Nazi Germany’s advanced weapons programs is relevant background for understanding why the FBI preserved these specific claims. The Third Reich invested heavily in its Wunderwaffen programs, which produced the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 ballistic missile, and the Me 262 jet fighter.

After the war, Operation Paperclip brought over 1,600 German scientists to the United States, including Wernher von Braun and other rocket program veterans whose knowledge became foundational to American space exploration. The federal government had institutional familiarity with the scope of German weapons ambitions and had direct access to the scientists who worked on them.

The preservation of testimony about advanced German aviation projects is consistent with that institutional context.

The Apollo mission materials in the first tranche have also generated significant attention. Photographs from the Apollo 12 mission include an image recorded on the Moon that, according to the Defense Department’s own caption, shows an area above the horizon with what the department describes as unidentified phenomena.

Apollo 17 transcripts are also included in the release. The inclusion of those materials in a UAP declassification initiative has prompted questions about what observations were made during the Apollo program that produced classified documentation separate from the publicly released mission records.

President Trump directed the Pentagon and relevant agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life and unidentified aerial phenomena through a February 19, 2026, Truth Social post. He described the release on Truth Social, saying the documents allow people to “decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?'”

The White House issued a formal statement saying that 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.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, in a formal statement accompanying the release, described the files as documents that have long fueled justified speculation and called the disclosure evidence of the administration’s commitment to unprecedented transparency.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated that 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 and comprehensive disclosure. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman praised the initiative and pledged that NASA would remain candid about what it knows, what it does not understand, and what remains to be discovered.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on May 6, two days before the public release, that the bureau had handed over its first batch of classified UAP documents to the Pentagon-led interagency committee organizing the disclosure. The FBI’s involvement encompasses its historical role in investigating UAP incidents at domestic locations, including cases near sensitive military installations.

The bureau’s materials in the disclosure represent a category of investigation distinct from military observational reports and potentially encompass domestic incidents that were never part of prior publicly known disclosure efforts.

The PURSUE initiative is modeled in part on the DOJ’s approach to the Epstein Files disclosure, which began in December 2025 and has been producing documents on a rolling basis since then. Both efforts involve the declassification and public release of materials that prior administrations kept from public view. Both create centralized public archives accessible without security clearance or FOIA process.

And both operate on a rolling disclosure schedule designed to sustain transparency over time rather than front-load all available material in a single release.

Cold War-era reports in the first tranche include descriptions of mysterious rotating saucer-shaped objects observed by military personnel, as well as more recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air documented by military radar and flight logs.

The breadth of the institutional sources across the released materials, spanning Defense, FBI, NASA, State, and other agencies, demonstrates that UAP documentation was not confined to a single agency’s records but was collected across the full spectrum of the federal government’s observation and intelligence apparatus.

Senator Chuck Schumer, who had been one of the Senate’s most vocal proponents of UAP disclosure legislation and co-authored the UAP Disclosure Act with Republican Senator Mike Rounds in prior congressional sessions, found bipartisan common ground with the Trump administration’s release effort. The cross-partisan nature of the UAP transparency coalition reflects the broad public interest in the question that transcends standard ideological divisions.

Both Democratic and Republican members of Congress have pressed for disclosure for years, and Friday’s release represents the most comprehensive response to that bipartisan pressure that any administration has yet produced.