No, the Pentagon didn’t release footage of a gigantic UFO

The Defense Department recently debuted a website to share publicly available information on "unidentified anomalous phenomena," better known as UFOs.

But a recent Facebook post treads in science fiction territory. 

"Pentagon releases NASA footage of 2,000 mile long UFO near Saturn," the Sept. 23 post says.

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A spokesperson for the Office of the Secretary of Defense told PolitiFact that the post’s claim is false — the Pentagon released no such footage. We also didn’t find anything the post described on the Defense Department’s new website, which includes videos of unidentified objects. 

About halfway through a 22-minute video in the Facebook post, there’s an admission that the possibility of spaceships in Saturn’s shadow is conjecture.

"Some speculate that these shadows might be alien spaceships but this remains unproven," the video’s narrator says. 

We rate this post False.