Silent ‘Black Triangle’ Seen by Federal Agents Headlines Pentagon’s Latest UFO File Release

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (TodayViralUSA) — Three federal agents watched a silent, matte-black triangle climb above a mountain ridgeline, hover and then streak away at fighter-jet speed near a secure U.S. facility this year, according to government reports released Friday in the Pentagon’s latest batch of declassified UFO records.

The FBI and Defense Department accounts lead the seventh release under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE, the program President Donald Trump ordered to make public unresolved records on unidentified anomalous phenomena. The files are posted at the department’s WAR.GOV/UFO site, which has published new tranches every few weeks since May.

The 2026 triangle

The agents, two of whom had extensive operational experience and familiarity with drones, described an object with a wingspan of roughly 13 to 15 feet, according to the reports as summarized by Axios and the independent archive UAP Browser. It rose vertically as much as 300 feet without tilting, hovered for about 20 seconds, then flew about 1.5 miles in three seconds without a sound.

One agent tracking it with a thermal monocular could not detect any heat source associated with an engine, Axios reported. A ground search the next morning turned up no debris. The date and location of the sighting are redacted. The government’s description of the memo says the case warrants further investigation because it resembles other incidents reported in the region.

From Skinwalker Ranch to the 1950s

The batch also includes a 2010 report on Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch, which catalogs witness claims of balls of light and strange creatures but offers no hard evidence; DNA from a hair sample attributed to a “skinwalker” came back as raccoon. Other files include a 1954 account from a Swedish airline captain, a 1957 report from a B-52 pilot over Saudi Arabia, early sightings from California’s Catalina Island and 1960s guidance on how NASA and the Pentagon would handle suspected fragments of space vehicles.

No conclusions

Officials stress that the records are labeled unresolved because investigators lacked the data to identify what was seen, not because anything has been linked to extraterrestrial activity. The documents draw no conclusion on whether the phenomena pose a national security threat, and the department said more releases are in preparation.