PURSUE TRANCHE 01
On May 8, 2026, the Department of War published Release 01 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — 162 records (120 PDFs, 28 videos, 14 images) at war.gov/UFO/. The catalog spans CENTCOM, INDOPACOM, AFRICOM, and NORTHCOM sensor footage from 2013-2026, NASA Apollo and Gemini archival material, and FBI files going back to August 1947.
FULL RELEASE SUPERCUT · 30:22 · SOURCE FILES: war.gov/UFO/ · COMPILATION: @MyLordBebo
HIGHLIGHTS
11 STANDOUT ITEMS'Range Fouler' debrief: solid white object with erratic movements above water. 2m17s IR footage.
UAP performing multiple 90-degree turns near the ocean surface at ~80 mph. 2m57s IR footage.
↳ Sensor-tracking analysis suggests camera-panning artifact.
'Chandelier UFO' — eight-pointed star with alternating arm lengths. 1m46s IR footage.
↳ Long-analyzed in the open-source community before official release.
'Football-shaped body with three radial projections.' 9-second IR clip.
↳ Post-release analysis tentatively matches an offshore wind turbine.
Infrared encounter — area of contrast that remained stationary relative to the background while the sensor panned.
Astronaut Frank Borman's 'bogey' callout and 'hundreds of particles' debris-field observation, with handwritten notes from the mission.
Photograph with three dots in triangular formation in the lower-right quadrant of the lunar sky, paired with the Ron Evans / Cernan / Schmitt 'Fourth of July' fragments transcript.
↳ DoW + NASA fresh analysis pending future release.
Five 'Areas of Interest' annotated on lunar-surface photographs — 'potentially the result of a physical object' rather than the lens-flare/dust artifacts NASA had assigned for half a century.
FBI/War Department investigation file on a local UAP sighting from the height of the 1947 wave.
21-year FBI Headquarters file covering UAP correspondence and photographic evidence from the Project Sign / Blue Book era.
Eyewitness-corroborated sketch of a 130-195-foot bronze ellipsoid — described as 'materializing out of a bright light' and 'disappearing instantaneously.'
SENSOR ARCHIVE BY COMMAND
CENTCOM
Bulk of the video tranche — infrared and SWIR sensor clips ranging from 5 seconds to 5 minutes.
INDOPACOM
Three IR clips — football-shaped body with radial projections, three areas in fixed formation, and multiple small brightness features.
NORTHCOM / AFRICOM / ARMY
Object with 'vertical pole attached', 21 seconds.
Barely-distinguishable area moving left-to-right; 2 seconds, looped for viewing.
Two areas of contrast with sensor zoom cycles; 1m49s. Most recent incident in the release.
ALREADY ATTRIBUTED
MUNDANE EXPLANATIONS WITHIN THE RELEASE OR FROM POST-RELEASE ANALYSISMission report itself describes it as a 'probable SU-27/35' Russian fighter.
Diamond shape only visible in SWIR; mission report compares it to a balloon.
'Vertical pole' likely a water reflection per the operator's own narrative.
Apparent 90-degree turns consistent with camera-panning sensor motion artifacts.
Likely lens contamination or particles on the optical surface.
April 1, 1950 Wiesbaden newspaper April Fools hoax by journalist Wilhelm Sprunkel — collaged image.
Photograph is publicly available via NASA Flickr from the original Command Module landing-site documentation set.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and DNI Tulsi Gabbard framed Release 01 as the first of many rolling tranches expected every few weeks. Former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick has cautioned that records reviewed during his tenure contained no evidence of recovered extraterrestrial technology.