NSA Releases 300+ Pages of Formerly Top Secret UMBRA UAP Records via FOIA

The National Security Agency released hundreds of pages of formerly Top Secret UMBRA-classified UAP records on May 18, following a Freedom of Information Act appeal by the Disclosure Foundation. Many documents carried the UMBRA code word — among the most sensitive signals-intelligence classification designations in the US system, indicating content derived from highly sensitive technical collection systems. The released materials dated back to the 1960s and showed that UAPs were tracked within America's most sensitive SIGINT collection infrastructure for decades. Key contents included heavily redacted accounts of military aircraft scrambles, multi-witness incidents, and objects exhibiting controlled or unexplained behavior detected by NSA collection systems. The Disclosure Foundation and NewsNation covered the release prominently. The NSA materials are distinct from the Pentagon's PURSUE portal (war.gov/UFO) — they represent a parallel intelligence-community stream accessed via FOIA rather than the executive order release framework. One document describes 13 fighter jets scrambled to intercept an object described as 'impossible to be an aircraft,' moving in rapid vertical motions at high altitude with white luminous light and a slightly bluish color. A separately described encounter involved a 'star-shaped entity.' The UMBRA materials reinforce that UAP tracking was not limited to DoD; the intelligence community's signals collection apparatus also documented unexplained aerial phenomena across multiple decades.