China and Russia have retrieved downed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) and tried to reverse-engineer them, an expert claimed, citing newly released documents.

Jordan Flowers, executive director of the UAP Disclosure Foundation, said one of the most significant takeaways from the third tranche of UFO files made public on June 12 was that the US’s foreign adversaries also appear to be engaged in research that could threaten national security.

“We also have reason to believe that the Chinese and the Russians may have retrieved their own objects related to this and may have tried to reverse engineer them,” Flowers told “NewsNation Prime.”

Flowers also mentioned that UAP whistleblower and former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch sounded the alarm at a press conference that the US is allegedly aware of surveillance being committed by the Russians and Chinese of its UAP programs.

“This is a global phenomenon, and it’s really a race to see who can reverse engineer this first, and it has extreme national security implications that we really need to get our hands around,” he said.

Flowers added that the release of the recent batch of files shows that making this information on UAPs available to the public is a “high-priority topic” for President Trump’s administration.

The UAP Disclosure Foundation is hosting a forum in Washington, DC on June 25 to tackle the national security, technological and even religious implications of UAP disclosure.

“We really want to understand the impact of this across all of these disciplines,” he said.

The suggestion that Russia and China may have retrieved downed UAPs and are surveilling the US’s research wasn’t the only mention of a foreign nation in the newly released files.

A cable from the Central Intelligence Agency placed its assets in the African nation of Zimbabwe on high alert on July 2, 2008, after a UFO was spotted hovering directly over the country’s main airport.

The cable — circulated throughout the US government and military in the final months of the George W. Bush administration — described a craft that “hovered at an undetermined altitude directly over the Harare airport.”

“At one point during observation, ‘beams’ were observed emanating from the object,” read the cable, which also quoted observers describing the UFO as “disc-like in shape with a hollow center, [with] a series of rotating lights on the underside of the airframe.”

Soon after it was spotted, “the rotating lights under the object shifted colors and the object quickly ascended to higher altitudes and out of visual range.”

The cable indicates the sighting led to vigorous internal debate about whether the aircraft was “an advanced reconnaissance device belonging to a foreign government, or whether the object was an unidentified flying object of extraterrestrial origins.”

Without concluding, the cable related, “this incident [redacted] had resulted in the decision to place the Zimbabwe [redacted] on high alert.”