The Pentagon released the third batch of its declassified UFO files Friday, which showed the federal government investigated UFO sightings that were reported around the world.

The 72 latest unearthed files consist of 29 reports from the FBI, 18 from the CIA, 12 from the Department of Defense, 11 from NASA, one from the intelligence community and one document from an unspecified U.S. government agency.

The batch included a July 2008 sighting of a suspected UFO at Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe, where spectators debated whether the object was from a foreign government, according to NBC News. It did not include the verdict.

“Individuals debated if the sighting was an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or of extraterrestrial origins,” the file on the incident reads. “At one point during observation, ‘beams’ were observed emanating from object."

A Defense Department file from 1946 detailed an “Evaluation Study of the Phenomenon (Flying Saucers)."

“Of some 210 incidents, 20 percent have been explained,” it says. “No tangible evidence which would support a theory that any incidents are attributable to activity of a foreign nation.”

Some of the reported sightings in the files were speculated to be military or scientific experiments, including in a 1949 file about an explosion in the Cascade Mountains, which officials said could be from the Atomic Energy Commission.

All declassified UFO files can be viewed on a special portal on the War Department's website and can be found here.

“The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena,” the department said.

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