PURSUE TRANCHE 03
On June 12, 2026, the Department of War published Release 03 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters - 72 records (53 documents, 10 images, 6 videos, 3 audio recordings) at war.gov/UFO/, drawing on the CIA, FBI, NASA, and the Pentagon and bringing the running archive to nearly 300 records. The headline document is a June 5, 2026 AARO memo from director Dr. Jon Kosloski describing a luminous orange 'mother orb' that produced smaller red orbs over a sensitive national-security site - and conceding that roughly 40% of the reviewed phenomena remain unresolved. Four of the six videos are eyewitness footage rather than military sensor clips, a notable shift from Releases 01-02. Since launch the war.gov/UFO portal has logged over 1.7 billion visits.
RELEASE 03 SUPERCUT · ALL 6 VIDEOS · SOURCE FILES: war.gov/UFO/ · VIA NewsNation
We plot the 3 most significant cases from this release on the globe and break down 6 highlights below. The full release is 72 files — videos, audio, and documents.
HIGHLIGHTS
6 STANDOUT ITEMSOver two days near a sensitive national-security site in the western United States, six federal agents observed an orange orb that appeared for a second or two, released several smaller red orbs one after another, and vanished — repeating multiple times over several hours.
↳ AARO director Dr. Jon Kosloski's signed memo states roughly 40% of the reviewed phenomena lack a reasonable explanation and remain unresolved.
Five Fort Carson soldiers watched a white, potato-shaped object — fish-scaled, opalescent, somewhat translucent and shimmering — hovering near Cheyenne Mountain in full daylight.
↳ Daylight visual report with no instrument corroboration; remains a visual-only unresolved case.
Five federal law-enforcement officers reported strange orbs on the horizon; one recounted a partner asking 'Are you seeing this?' as a glowing orb lit up the sky. The FBI assessed the witnesses as 'highly credible.'
A CIA report describing an object 'disc-like in shape with a hollow center' and 'a series of rotating lights on the underside of the airframe' — part of the worldwide, foreign-sighting files in this release.
Audio of astronaut Gordon Cooper telling Walter Cronkite that 'a large number of exceptionally well-qualified people have seen objects' with no logical explanation, and speculating on life on worlds with Earth-like atmospheres.
Four of the six videos are eyewitness footage of orbs moving through the sky — a deliberate shift away from the military infrared sensor clips that dominated Releases 01 and 02 — shown alongside 'artistic interpretation' recreations of described sightings.
↳ The Pentagon flagged the recreations as illustrative reconstructions, not original capture.
SENSOR ARCHIVE BY COMMAND
AARO / DOMESTIC
Orange 'mother orb' launching smaller red orbs, observed by six federal agents over two days.
White, fish-scaled, opalescent potato-shaped object hovering in daylight near Cheyenne Mountain.
Five officers report glowing orbs on the horizon — 'Are you seeing this?' — rated highly credible by the FBI.
CIA / WORLDWIDE FILES
Disc with a hollow center and rotating underside lights, reported above Harare International Airport.
Historical CIA paper files showing UAP sightings around the world were investigated, not just U.S. incidents.
NASA AUDIO
Three audio debriefs, including the November 1962 Gordon Cooper / Walter Cronkite UFO exchange.
VIDEO TRANCHE
Six clips — four eyewitness orb videos plus 'artistic interpretation' recreations of described encounters.
ALREADY ATTRIBUTED
MUNDANE EXPLANATIONS WITHIN THE RELEASE OR FROM POST-RELEASE ANALYSISAARO attributes the majority of the release to drones, balloons, birds, or sensor artifacts; Kosloski's memo puts the unresolved share at roughly 40%, and the office maintains there is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial technology — 'still no aliens.'
Several images and clips in the release are recreations/illustrations of reported sightings, not original sensor or eyewitness capture, and should not be read as primary evidence.
Daylight naked-eye observation with no radar, infrared, or photographic corroboration; classed as an unresolved visual-only report rather than confirmed anomalous craft.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and DNI Tulsi Gabbard framed the PURSUE releases 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.