A senior U.S. intelligence official described a close-range encounter with fast-moving, “super-hot” unidentified objects that came within roughly 10 feet of a helicopter during an aerial search, according to newly released Pentagon UFO files.

The account is detailed in an FBI Form 302 interview report, which documents interactions between federal agents and witnesses, and is part of a broader tranche of previously classified unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) records made public Friday as part of the Trump administration’s push to declassify government files on them. 

The objects were detected as “super-hot” on infrared systems and traveled roughly 20 miles at speeds the helicopter could not match, according to the report, before abruptly changing direction and accelerating away.

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The release has drawn significant attention, as it includes previously unseen reports involving military personnel, sensor data and firsthand accounts from government officials — though many of the incidents remain unexplained.

The official was among multiple federal and state personnel involved in an aerial search after earlier sightings of unexplained lights, according to the report. The object was detected as “super-hot” on infrared systems, indicating it emitted a strong heat signature detectable by thermal imaging equipment. 

The report does not offer an explanation for the source of that heat, and was observed traveling roughly 20 miles at a speed too fast for the helicopter to match. 

The report does not identify the specific military facility or location of the encounter, and it is unclear from the document whether the helicopter involved was operated by U.S. military personnel or a partner agency. 

The FBI summary describes a joint operation involving federal and state personnel, but does not provide additional detail about the units involved.

A senior U.S. intelligence official told the FBI about a close-range encounter with fast-moving, “super-hot” unidentified objects near a military facility, according to newly released Pentagon UFO files. (Guvendemir/Getty Images)

At one point, one of the objects reportedly came within roughly 10 feet of the helicopter before abruptly changing direction. Observers, including the intelligence official and helicopter crew, also reported the object splitting into multiple lights, followed by additional orbs appearing in sequence and forming repeated patterns across the sky.

Witnesses described groups of four or five glowing objects flaring into view and then disappearing, a cycle that continued for roughly 30 minutes.

Pilots involved in the search indicated they were recording, but many of the sightings occurred above the helicopter and outside the camera’s field of view.

The documents are part of a sweeping public release of UAP files that has drawn intense interest and skepticism.

Officials and analysts say that while some incidents were treated as credible and investigated using military assets, the material does not offer definitive explanations for what the objects are.

While many of the newly released files contain brief or heavily redacted accounts, the FBI interview stands out for its detailed timeline, multiple trained observers and the use of infrared systems, night-vision equipment and aircraft during an active search operation.

The report also includes a first-hand account from a senior intelligence official, which is uncommon among the largely anecdotal or historical records in the broader release.

Skeptics say many UAP sightings can be attributed to misidentified aircraft, drones, atmospheric phenomena or sensor artifacts, particularly in complex environments where infrared and night-vision systems can distort how objects appear.

Physicist and former director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Sean Kirkpatrick said he didn’t find anything “unexpected” in the files.

“There’s nothing unexpected in their release. And without any analysis or context, [it] will only serve to fuel more speculation, conspiracy and armchair pseudoscience, particularly from the playhouse politics theater company,” he said, according to the Scientific American. 

An FBI photo containing two black dots that appear to be UAPs (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

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The release also comes amid growing concern inside the Pentagon over unexplained aerial activity near sensitive military installations, including suspected foreign surveillance operations and unauthorized drone incursions linked to China and Russia.

Defense officials repeatedly warned in recent years that some incidents initially categorized as UAP could ultimately involve foreign intelligence collection platforms, advanced drones or other surveillance systems operating near U.S. military sites.

The issue drew renewed attention after a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon crossed the continental United States in 2023 before being shot down by the U.S. military, exposing gaps in detection and monitoring around sensitive defense infrastructure.

Lawmakers and defense officials also have raised alarms about repeated drone incursions near military bases, training ranges and nuclear facilities, warning that some unidentified aerial activity may reflect increasingly sophisticated foreign surveillance efforts rather than extraterrestrial phenomena.

“The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place — no clearance required,” the White House said in a statement announcing the release.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the records had “long fueled justified speculation” and argued “it’s time the American people see it for themselves,” while cautioning that many of the documents contain unresolved incidents rather than confirmed explanations.

A photo from the Apollo 17 moon landing that highlights three dots in the sky as seen from the moon’s surface. (Department of War)

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Other files released by the Department of War include reports of a “football-shaped” object observed over the East China Sea, erratic lights tracked over Iraq and Syria, and Apollo-era astronaut communications describing strange objects and bright fragments visible near the moon.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for more details. 

Two Miami police sergeants behind a historic $22 million drug bust have filed a federal lawsuit over the 2026 movie “The Rip,” saying the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck film falsely portrays them as corrupt cops based on their real case.

The lawsuit names Artists Equity, a production company founded by the two stars, as well as Falco Pictures, which was also involved in producing the movie. Netflix, which distributed the movie, is not named in the lawsuit.

“The Rip” was advertised as “inspired by true events,” including how the Miami-Dade narcotics unit found $21.9 million hidden behind a false wall in orange buckets. However, according to the lawsuit, the core plot about their criminal misconduct is fabricated.

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on set as Miami narcotics investigators in “The Rip,” a 2026 movie partly inspired by the historic seizure of $22 million in alleged marijuana proceeds. (Claire Folger/Netflix © 2024)

In real life, investigators made the seizure at the home of a gardening supply store owner suspected of taking part in a marijuana trafficking ring in 2016, according to the lawsuit. It was the largest cash seizure in the history of the Miami-Dade Police Department, now the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

In the movie, members of the narcotics unit face suspicion for allegedly stealing some of the money under false pretenses and for their own benefit. It also depicts a fictional DEA agent implicated in the murder of a Miami police lieutenant, who himself is killed by Affleck’s character later, without due process.

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on set as Miami narcotics investigators in “The Rip,” a 2026 movie partly inspired by the historic seizure of $22 million in alleged marijuana proceeds. (Claire Folger/Netflix © 2024)

While the film had a fictionalized twist, the lawsuit contends that it included enough real-world facts to damage the reputations of Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, including location settings, details about the false wall, the cash being found in orange buckets, and a loaded Tech 9 firearm stashed with the cash.

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Smith was the sergeant supervising the real investigation. Santana was the lead detective and has since been promoted to sergeant as well. Their names are not used in the movie, but the lawsuit alleges they were the basis for the characters Damon and Affleck play on screen.

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According to the lawsuit, after the movie trailer’s release, a county prosecutor contacted one of them asking, “whether any allegations of theft had ever been made in connection with the case, and further stated that his office would be looking into it.”

They allege they have also faced questions about “how many buckets they kept,” whether they used stolen money to pay for home improvements, and the lieutenant’s murder.

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Matt Damon attends Netflix’s “The Rip” New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, on Jan. 13, 2026, in New York City.

“I can’t believe you killed another cop,” a county prosecutor allegedly told one of the plaintiffs after the movie came out, according to the lawsuit.

On top of that, the film allegedly credited a department member who had no connection to the investigation and was paid for his consulting.

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Smith and Santana are seeking damages exceeding $75,000 for allegations of defamation and emotional distress. The lawsuit also accuses Hollywood as a whole of negatively depicting police on screen, noting that police departments around the country are struggling with hiring and officer retention.

Damon and Affleck themselves have publicly said police are “underappreciated” and “underfunded” in an interview with Howard Stern promoting the movie.

Prior to the lawsuit, they had asked for a public retraction and correction and either a prominent disclaimer attached to the film or an end to its distribution.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend the premiere of “The Rip” at Alice Tully Hall in New York City on Jan. 13, 2026. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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The film’s producers countered that it was a fictionalized movie that carried a disclaimer already and that the characters are not real people.

Lawyers for Smith and Santana have until tomorrow to file an amended complaint to satisfy the judge’s jurisdiction concerns, according to court documents. If they fail to meet the deadline, the case would be dismissed.

Political temperature has risen regarding women’s reservation in Mahoba district. In Charkhari, hundreds of women under the leadership of BJP block chief Seema Kushwaha protested fiercely against the opposition and SP MP Ajendra Singh Lodhi. Accusing them of creating hurdles in the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, women raised slogans against SP-Congress.

Today, the anger of half the population was seen at its peak in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Udyan located in Charkhari Nagar of Mahoba district. Women gathered on the occasion of women’s public protest protest raised the demand for immediate implementation of the Women’s Reservation Bill. During this time, the opposition again insulted the self-respect of women power and women’s reservation Slogans like ‘Implement’ were echoed.

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Charkhari block chief attacked opposition parties

Block chief Seema Kushwaha, who was leading the protest, launched a scathing attack on the opposition parties. He said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi They want to give women their rights through the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, but the opposition parties are hindering it due to their narrow mindset.

Seema Kushwaha said in blunt words that this fight is not going to stop now. This anger started from Charkhari Lucknow And will go till Delhi, until women get half their share in Parliament. The maximum anger of the protesting women was seen against SP MP Ajendra Rajput from Hamirpur-Mahoba seat.

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The women put up the photo of the MP and raised slogans against him and the SP-Congress alliance. The protesters demand that the MPs should raise the voice of the women of the area in the Parliament and express their consent to this bill, and not oppose it. Councilor Yashoda Kushwaha and other women leaders also expressed their views.

She says that women’s participation in politics should not be limited to papers only. Nearly half a hundred women, including Draupadi Sen, Neetu Khatik and Ramkumari Srivas, united and took a pledge that the public will give a befitting reply to any party that has anti-women sentiments in the times to come.

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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has introduced a resolution aimed at reversing the two impeachments of President Donald Trump in the House of Representatives in a move he says will rectify a situation where Democrats used “knowingly false” claims in a partisan attempt to destroy the president’s reputation. 

The resolution, H.Res.1211, referred to the House Judiciary Committee, declares that both of Donald Trump’s impeachments, approved by the House in 2019 and 2021, should be formally “expunged as if such Article had never passed the full House of Representatives.”

“The fact is that the Constitution doesn’t spell out what to do when you’ve wrongfully indicted somebody, an impeachment is basically an indictment and it’s an indictment that you can’t really be acquitted from, if you are impeached by the House, famously where do you where do you go to get your reputation back is the question,” Issa told Fox News Digital.

“And that’s sort of a problem that we’re dealing with, which is that the President was wrongfully accused, the evidence is now out that there was withheld information and false information, but where do we go to unring this bell? And the answer is we go back to Congress and we go to the House floor and we have a vote.”

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President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on May 8, 2026. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

“More importantly,” Issa explained, is that he hopes his process will “make sure that the facts and the reality that there was misconduct in the process gets a hearing” because that’s “really where this becomes a big deal is that we really have to make our case in front of Congress and in front of the American people.” 

The resolution makes the case that the 2019 impeachment was based on unreliable and politically biased information, pointing to newly declassified material that it says undermines the credibility of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint triggered the inquiry. 

It contends the whistleblower lacked firsthand knowledge, was assisted by other officials with alleged political bias, and that House investigators mishandled or misrepresented evidence while denying Trump the opportunity to confront his accusers.

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Rep. Darrell Issa listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In a press release earlier this year, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the declassification of documents she says revealed a “coordinated effort” within the intelligence community “to manufacture a conspiracy that was used as the basis to impeach President Trump in 2019.”

Issa says the Democrats “broke every House rule” in their impeachment quests and a source close to Issa’s office told Fox News Digital that prominent Democrats have admitted in private that information revealed since the impeachments “reflects so poorly on the House” and “represents an example of what’s gone wrong in the Capitol and in Washington.”

The resolution argues that the 2021 impeachment was rushed and procedurally flawed, noting that the House moved from introduction to passage in two days and did not conduct a full evidentiary process. While lawmakers held a brief committee hearing with constitutional experts, the measure advanced without fact witnesses or extended investigation, which the resolution says denied Trump basic due process.

“They impeached him for essentially an insurrection, a true high crime, and it’s false,” Issa said.

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Rep. Jim Jordan said Republicans are “the party of common sense,” and Democrats are “the party that takes these crazy positions.” (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Previous attempts have been made to reverse the impeachments, including resolutions in 2022 and 2023, but never received hearings, markups, or floor votes, and died at the end of the 118th Congress. 

Issa told Fox News Digital that the previous resolutions were not written as strongly as this one and “didn’t have what we have” which is “the compelling case to say the misconduct of the accusation is now what we’re going to have on trial rather than the President because he was impeached with information that the very people who brought it knew was wrong.”

Additionally, Issa’s effort has the backing of one of the top Republicans in Congress, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan.

“Democrats weaponized impeachment against President Trump with politically motivated charges,” Jordan told Fox News Digital. “We applaud Chairman Issa for leading the fight to expunge this sham from the record.” 

The effort also has strong support from other House Republicans, including a list of over 20 cosponsors that includes: Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., Russell Fry, R-S.C., Mark Alford, R-Mo., Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., Tom McClintock, R-Calif., David J. Taylor, R-Ohio, Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., Rick Allen, R-Ga., Rich McCormick, R-Ga., Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, Mary Miller, R-Ill., Mike Collins, R-Ga., Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla., Tracey Mann, R-Kan., Tim Walberg, R-Mich., John Rose, R-Tenn., Joe Wilson, R-S.C., David Rouzer, R-N.C., Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., and Ronny Jackson, R-Texas.

Issa’s resolution reignites a constitutional argument as to whether the House can retroactively nullify an impeachment it has already adopted. Supporters contend that because the Constitution gives the House the “sole Power of Impeachment,” it also has authority over its own records and can vote to expunge prior actions.

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Darrell Issa attends the annual MPA Awards Ceremony and Reception in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 8, 2025. (Getty Images)

Critics, including some legal scholars, argue that while the House can express disapproval or annotate its records, it cannot erase the historical fact of an impeachment or undo the constitutional process once it has occurred, making such efforts largely symbolic. 

“Our goal is to show that it’s false and it was maliciously false and as a result it should no longer stand as as a legitimate accusation to then be played upon when people are saying, ‘No Kings,’” Issa said.

“When you’ve been falsely accused, whether it’s days, weeks, months or years later, somebody should be just as interested in printing that retraction on the front page as they were in putting the original charge on the front page,” Issa explained. “And that’s what we’re trying to achieve, is to have the legitimate retraction receive at least some semblance of the same attention as the false accusations did.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.

The U.S. Coast Guard has reportedly seized Brian Hooker’s sailboat as the federal agency continues its investigation into the disappearance of his wife, who he claims fell off a dinghy in the Bahamas.

Brian Hooker told Bahamian officials that his wife fell off a dinghy after leaving shore at Hope Town at around 7:30 p.m. on April 4, saying that Lynette fell off with the ignition key. Local authorities said that he arrived at a marina at Marsh Harbour at around 4 a.m. on April 5 after paddling to shore, roughly eight hours after his wife went overboard.

The couple’s sailboat, named “Soulmate,” was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard, two sources told CBS News. Brian and Lynette Hooker’s sailboat was en route to the U.S. when it was seized by the Coast Guard on Saturday, the outlet reported.

In recent days, according to the report, the Coast Guard Investigative Service’s probe into Lynette Hooker’s disappearance has intensified. Brian Hooker hasn’t been charged with a crime.

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Brian Hooker leaves his hotel with lawyer Terell A. Butler in Freeport, The Bahamas, on April 14, 2026. Hooker was released from police custody the previous night after being questioned in connection to the disappearance of his wife, Lynette Hooker. (Matthew Symons for Fox News Digital)

The Coast Guard declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital, citing the active investigation.

The development comes about a week after the Coast Guard sought the public’s help in finding the owner of a sailboat that was moored near Brian and Lynette Hooker’s “Soulmate” in the Bahamas.

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Brian Hooker was detained for five days by Bahamian police after his wife disappeared, but wasn’t charged. His Michigan-based attorney previously asked Americans to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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“I would ask those watching to treat him the way you would want to be treated, to give him the benefit of the doubt, and to consider that not all of us, nor you, considering your own relationships, the way you speak to one another, we all handle things in different ways,” Crystal Marie Hauser said.

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The sailboat Soulmate, owned by Brian and Lynette Hooker, floats in calm water in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on April 16, 2025. (Matthew Symons/NY Post)

While Hauser said she imagines Brian Hooker’s “heart” is in the Bahamas, she didn’t reveal if he has plans to return.

Brian Hooker left the island for the U.S. to tend to his “very ill” mother, his Bahamian attorney previously said.

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Lynette Hooker and Brian Hooker seen in a picture taken in 2023 on a small boat. (John Waters)

After Lynette Hooker went missing, Brian said in a Facebook post that he was “heartbroken.”

“I am heartbroken over the recent boat accident in unpredictable seas and high winds that caused my beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas,” he wrote. “Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Brian’s attorneys.

Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report.