Newly released Pentagon video shows a US fighter jet downing an unidentified aerial object over Lake Huron, Michigan in February 2023, part of the latest batch of previously classified UFO-related files made public by the US government.Infrared footage included in the second tranche of declassified records released Friday shows an F-16 fighter jet locking onto an unidentified object in what the Pentagon described as a “kinetic interaction,” causing it to disintegrate in mid-air.According to a description released by the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the footage “depicts a kinetic interaction between two separate regions of the anomaly”, after which the object “fragments in a radial displacement pattern that suggests a high-energy event”.The video was among 222 files released by the Pentagon on Friday following an initial release of 161 files on May 8 under an order issued by US President Donald Trump. The material includes documents, photographs, audio recordings, and 51 videos of what the US government officially calls “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon” (UAP).AARO said the video was uploaded to a classified network in February 2023, with the title: “USAF ANG F-16C… shoots down UAP over Lake Huron”.However, the Pentagon also warned that many of the materials released “lack a solid chain of custody”, meaning officials cannot fully verify how the files were handled before being stored.Most of the newly released videos consist of grainy infrared footage captured by US military systems between 2018 and 2023.The revelations also included reports of “green spheres”, “disks”, and “fireballs” seen near military facilities in the late 1940s, as well as a description of a senior US intelligence officer who reported seeing “countless orange spheres in all directions” during a helicopter mission in 2025.US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the files had long fueled public speculation. “Now is the time for the American people to see this for themselves,” he said.