46 Named UFO Videos. A Congressional Deadline The Pentagon Missed.

Congress didn't ask for "relevant footage" or "files related to UAP activity." They asked for 46 specific clips — named by title, date, location and in several cases the military callsign of the platform that recorded them. Footage of spherical objects, cigar-shaped craft and Tic Tac-like objects recorded by U.S. military platforms over Iran, the Persian Gulf, the East China Sea, Afghanistan and near domestic U.S. airports. One clip is labeled "Spherical UAP over AFG in and out of clouds, 11/23/20." Another involves the 2023 Lake Huron shootdown, where the object was reportedly octagonal.

Congress knew exactly what to ask for. That specificity implies someone told them.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, set an April 14 deadline for delivery. The Pentagon let it pass without responding — until Luna's staff followed up, at which point the Department sent what she described as "a cute response" saying it would brief the task force at a future date of its choosing. Luna rejected this as not the Pentagon's call to make. She contacted the White House directly. The Pentagon confirmed receipt. Their position on the actual footage has not changed.

This sits alongside a February presidential order directing the release of UAP files, a Pentagon statement confirming active coordination toward releasing never-before-seen UAP information, and Luna's stated willingness to pursue subpoena authority. Three separate institutional forces are pointing in the same direction. Someone in the building is pointing the other way.

The videos exist. The inventory exists. The question at this point isn't whether Congress will get them. It's what's on them that made someone decide not to just send them.

Read the full story at Newsweek, April 16, 2026

Hot Take: The Pentagon sat on a presidential order, a congressional deadline and its own public statement for two months before someone decided to respond — and when they finally did, they sent a form letter. Whatever is on those 46 videos, the institutional instinct to stall is apparently stronger than the instruction to release.