Could Mysterious Glowing Orb In Trump’s New UFO Drop Be A Breakthrough?

WASHINGTON — The United States government is investigating inexplicable “glowing orbs” that move at high speeds and have repeatedly appeared around the country over the past few years, newly released Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) documents show.

The Daily Wire was briefed on these Unidentified Aerial Phenomena documents by senior administration officials ahead of the documents’ Friday release. This is the third tranche of documents released as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to be transparent with the country on UAP activity.

In the latest drop, numerous documents detail FBI interviews with people describing activity in the northeastern United States. Videos and interviews detail glowing orbs in the sky, both red and white, that move across the landscape.

FBI agents also interviewed a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and four other members of his unit in June 2024 who described seeing a “potato” shaped, translucent but shimmering object in the sky that vanished after about two minutes. That incident took place near the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado.

In another account, which took place in the west, a currently serving senior U.S. intelligence officer describes how he and two pilots saw “glowing orbs” from up close and far away as they sought to investigate the orbs from a helicopter. He also says they saw a high-speed object moving low to the ground, which seemed to split in two and speed off in different directions.

That official’s account, which was originally released in the first tranche of the UFO files on May 8, includes infrared imagery taken by federal officials from the ground.

The North East UAP Sightings

The FBI conducted interviews in February 2026 with two individuals who reported seeing bright orbs outside their home in the north east in 2025. As one of these individuals was returning to his home around 9pm at night and pulled into the driveway, that person noticed an “intense bright light hovering below the tree line in the middle of their backyard.”

That person got out of the car and “stared at the strange light for a few moments before reaching back” into their car to get their phone and take a video of what they were seeing.

Inside the house, their spouse was waiting for them to arrive home. When the second individual saw on the security camera that their spouse had arrived and was standing next to their car looking into the sky, the second person went outside to join them and see what they were looking at.

NEW: According to the newly released UAP files, in July 2025, an eyewitness was returning home from work and “observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they parked their car.”

“The light was hovering approximately 25 feet off the ground, below a tree line near the… pic.twitter.com/KhCKnV2DeN

— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) June 12, 2026

“[Redacted] described the light as a red sphere that was about one meter in diameter,” the FBI report states. “[Redacted] described the red color as being brilliant and beautiful, and that [redacted] had never seen anything that color of red before.”

Inside the sphere, according to the viewers, “there appeared to be what [he/she] described as a ‘white plasmas sun’ about the size of a basketball.”

As they watched, the orb moved up and to their left, they told the FBI. Then they noticed that there was a “second, identical orb, hovering above the first one.”

“The orbs then moved together towards the west above the tree line. [Redacted] stated that from the start of the observation to when the orbs traveled out of sight, they exhibited both a change in altitude and a change in direction. The orbs were silent and moved in a smooth motion. They moved in tandem as if they were flying in formation or were tethered together.”

As the orbs moved out of sight, the two individuals saw them either merge together or just become so close that they looked like one orb.

The Department of War also released video footage that they captured of the orbs “beginning at the point when they were above the trees and moving away from their backyard.”

Several weeks later, they said they saw several white orbs moving over the house from the west to the east, according to the FBI report, at a much higher altitude than the previous red orbs. They described these new ones “as appearing the size of a dime held at arm’s length.”

In another incident, one of the two individuals who spoke to the FBI said they had witnessed something strange near power lines in 1987, describing a “red light circling around itself at night” that hovered and then landed near the power station.

“Since then,” the report stated, “[redacted] has always been interested in the topic of UAP.”

Footage released by the department captured by a private citizen on an iPhone shows an incident in October 2024 in the northeastern United States where an eyewitness said that he or she observed “a light source below the horizon, hovering above a pond at an estimated distance of 2,700 feet.”

“The luminous object resembled a ‘plasma-like sphere’ intermittently changing shape and luminosity,” the department says. “At times, the primary light source appeared to separate into smaller luminous points. A luminous point below the primary source hovered just above the water and did not appear consistent with a surface reflection.”

“The object remained generally stationary for approximately 45 minutes before disappearing,” the description adds. “The eyewitness did not hear any sound from the objects.”

The FBI found that individual to be “highly credible,” the War Department website notes.

The Western UAP Sightings

A senior U.S. intelligence officer documented how he and two pilots observed alarming UAP activity in the western United States in 2025. Aboard a helicopter, he was investigating “loud thuds heard in the mountains on the test range, which coincided with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings reported over the previous several nights.” They were looking for possible debris or objects that could explain recent “orb-like sightings.”

Towards the end of their search, the senior intelligence officer says that he received a message from their Joint Operations Center (JOC) that radar had detected hits a few miles away from their position, where UAP activity had been noticed on previous nights.

“I relayed this to the pilots, and we altered course to intercept,” he wrote. “What followed was a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour.”

Ground teams were reporting that they had seen something “super-hot,” low to the ground, and moving at a high speed first east then south, then splitting in two and changing direction.

When the helicopter arrived, they scanned the area, and then the ground team “suddenly radioed that the object had risen from the ground, approached within ten feet of the helicopter, dropped below us, and then sped away.” The pilots watched the object split into two, as a smaller object emerged from it, “before it accelerated out of sight.”

“We briefly pursued but broke off, unable to match its speed,” the senior intelligence officer wrote. The Joint Operations Center informed them that several fighter jets that were already on a training mission in their area were headed their way to help identify the UAP.

The JOC then directed the helicopter towards more nearby radar detections — and here the senior intelligence officer described something even more alarming.

“We took up a hovering position at approximately 700 feet above ground level (AGL). In the distance, we saw countless orange orbs swarming in all directions against the backdrop of the mountain.”

The officer and pilots could see the swarming orbs for about several minutes before they faded, he wrote. Then they were redirected to their previous position based on fresh radar hits.

“I provided the coordinates to the pilots, and we moved to intercept, hovering again at 700 feet AGL. Through NVGx, the pilots and I (using the naked eye) observed two large orbs flare up side-by-side, close to the helicopter — stationary and just above the rotor disk to our right. They were oval-shaped, orange with a white or yellow center, and emitted light in all directions.”

“After a few seconds,” he wrote, ” a third orb flared up below the pair, followed by a fourth below that, forming a total of four or five in a ‘T’ formation under the original view. The entire event lasted 10-15 seconds. I didn’t take photos, as I was focused on assessing what it was and whether it posed a threat.”

As the pilots considered landing due the objects’ proximity, they could see the fighter jets approaching by their blinking navigation lights. Just then, the helicopter occupants spotted the orbs appearing again, “directly above the fighters.”

“They flared up one at a time in a horizontal formation, matching the jets’ speed and flight path. After 10-15 seconds, they dimmed sequentially and disappeared. This repeated several times as the jets transited the airspace and eventually landed.”

“I remarked to the pilots that it seemed the same orbs flaring up and down around us for several minutes, forming a distinct triangle before vanishing.”

At this point, low on fuel, the helicopter decided to return to the JOC.

“After landing, I briefly spoke with them — mostly to express thanks,” he said. “We were virtually speechless after these observations. I then entered the JOC for a quick debrief before driving home.”

The Cheyenne Mountain Sighting

Near the Cheyenne Mountains in Colorado in 2022, a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer and four other members of his unit said they observed a UAP as they exited their office building on a 50 degree day when there were no clouds and very little humidity.

“The object was ‘potato’ shaped with distinct edges and appeared to look painted in a creamy/whitish opalescent color,” says an FBI forensic sketch interview dated June 2024. “It was somewhat translucent with a slight shimmer.”

“The object was made up of what can best be described as articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, and irregular shaped,” the report continues. “The object itself was perfectly still but each panel on the object shifted in slow waves starting at different points of origin but at the same time.”

The object vanished after about two minutes, according to the observers. They told the FBI that in the space of time it took to turn their heads, the object had vanished without a shadow.

SCREENSHOT, war.gov/UFO: “This image is an artistic interpretation of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) reported near Colorado Springs, Colorado.”