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Congressional hearings, Pentagon-released footage, the Schumer language, whistleblower testimony, and the slow, irreversible drift of the Overton window.
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PURSUE Release 07: The Black Triangle, Read Against the FBI's Own Version
The seventh PURSUE tranche is 28 documents and no video. The headline is a silent black triangle seen by federal agents at a western U.S. national security site in 2026. We read the AARO memo and the FBI interview side by side, and they do not tell the same story. Also inside: Skinwalker Ranch hair that DNA-tested as raccoon and dog, a contractor plan to store crash debris in an underground vault, and a 1949 letter to Kenneth Arnold that the Air Force never answered.
Orbs Launching Orbs: We Read the Whole AARO File. One Agent Says There Is Video.
A viral headline says the Pentagon released 155,000 pages of UFO documents. It did not. That number is a New York Times compilation from seven countries. The Pentagon file the story leans on is real, though, and nobody has read it in full: a signed AARO memo and five first-hand statements from federal agents who chased lights near a sensitive site in October 2023. AARO pins about 60 percent on military flares and carries 'unrecognized technology' as a pending hypothesis for the rest. It also says the agents collected no video. One agent's own statement, released in the same batch, refers to video footage twice.
The Turner Report in the Pentagon Files: What Australia's 1971 UFO Memo Gets Right, and What the CIA's Own Records Say
PURSUE Release 03 filed a 1971 Australian intelligence memo under the CIA, three days after David Grusch told a Capitol Hill press conference to read it. The memo accuses the CIA of running a public 'debunking' campaign as cover for a secret anti-gravity program. We checked it line by line against the records released alongside it. Turner was right about the debunking and wrong about the motive he could see, and one of the best answers to him sits in the same release: the CIA's own admission that its spy planes caused more than half of the UFO reports of the era.
Jay Stratton's 'Out of the Shadows': The Biggest Claims in the Memoir, and What Would Prove Them
The man who ran the Pentagon's UAP Task Force now says, in a HarperCollins memoir and on Fox News, that he has seen non-human craft and non-human beings with his own eyes. That puts him a step past David Grusch, who has only ever relayed what others told him. Here are the book's most striking claims, a black triangle over a missile silo, a nuclear submarine used as bait, admirals talked out of a report, Roswell in two pieces, orbs at his own house, and the one thing missing from all of them.
Greys vs. Reptilians: What David Grusch Actually Told Joe Rogan, and What He Didn't
On Joe Rogan Experience #2560, David Grusch described a crashed tic tac with dead greys aboard, living seven-foot reptilians that US troops shot, and Americans hurt and killed in the fight. He also said, more than once, that he never saw any of it. Here is the exchange line by line, who said what, and the other claims from a two-and-a-half-hour interview that deserve more attention than the lizards are getting.
All Fifteen Videos in PURSUE Release 06, Playable and Annotated
The sixth PURSUE tranche shipped 15 videos alongside its 56 documents, and the coverage spent itself on the warp-drive papers. This is the footage itself: every clip mirrored and playable here, with what the government says each one shows, what it leaves out, and the three places where the release's own paperwork contradicts itself.
PURSUE Release 06: The Pentagon Re-Released the AAWSAP Papers. The Best File Is From 1952.
The sixth PURSUE tranche landed on September 18 with 72 records, 15 videos and an hour of 1952 audio. The headlines went to 37 warp-drive and wormhole studies and a paper on 'injury to human observers.' Those studies have been public since a FOIA release in March 2022. What is actually new is the contract paperwork behind them, a set of mission reports that grade their own objects as having 'no advanced capabilities,' and the complete Air Force file on the 1952 Tremonton film, dissent included.
M.M.T.U. and the Writing on the Wall
Asked on camera what M.M.T.U. stands for, Matthew Brown refused to say. Two hours into the interview, at 2:00:23, the answer appears on screen instead, as an editor's caption pointing at a single Bible verse. What that verse says, why it had to be shown rather than spoken, and why a riddle is not evidence.
The UAP NDA Waiver Has a Text Now. It Is Three Paragraphs, and It Is Narrower Than the Law.
On July 27 we asked whether the reported NDA waiver would ever leave paper. It did. A two-page unclassified ODNI memorandum, ES 2026-00818, signed July 31 and addressed to eighteen named intelligence officials, gives them thirty days to appoint a PURSUE designee and tell their workforces the NDAs are off. Those thirty days end on August 30. The memo is also narrower than the statute it implements, and the only public copy is hosted by a congressman. Updated September 17: on September 14 the Department of War announced its own, separate waiver for its service members, civilians and contractors.
PURSUE Release 05: A Gunship Crew Watched 'Cold Orbs' Dodge Its Cannon, and the Recorder Failed
The fifth PURSUE tranche landed on August 7 with 41 files and 16 new videos. The headline is not the Middle East clip the networks played on loop. It is a declassified intelligence report describing an AC-130J crew over the Gulf of Oman watching roughly 25 instances of four-foot 'cold orbs' during a live-fire exercise, and the aircraft's video recorder failing at exactly the wrong moment.
Trump Waived UAP Whistleblower NDAs. Congress Already Did That in 2022.
The directive is real and the headlines are close to accurate. The part almost nobody is reporting is that the specific legal barrier it removes was already removed by statute more than three years ago, and the barrier that actually keeps witnesses quiet is untouched.
AARO Report Finds No Exotic Tech
The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office released its FY 2025 report on UAP, finding no evidence of exotic technology, according to The Debrief.
The Government Put Avi Loeb in Charge of UAP Science. Other Scientists Aren't Thrilled.
The man who argued an interstellar object might be alien technology now chairs the White House's UAP Science Advisory Council. The Associated Press got the reactions on the record, and the sharpest ones come from scientists, not skeptics.
A Congressman Just Asked the CIA and FBI What They Have on Varginha
Rep. Eric Burlison sent letters to the CIA and FBI asking whether they hold records on Brazil's 1996 Varginha UAP case. The careful part: he isn't asking them to confirm a UFO crashed. He's asking whether a 30-year-old 'neither confirm nor deny' on a FOIA request is still legally justified, which is a much harder thing to dodge.
PURSUE Release 04: A UFO Put a Nuclear-Weapons Plant on Lockdown
The fourth PURSUE tranche landed on July 10 with 40 files from five agencies. The one that matters isn't the 1949 physics conference or the shuttle images. It's a 2015 Department of Energy report describing an unidentified object over the Pantex nuclear-weapons facility that put the site on lockdown, and that two officers chased without ever identifying what it was.
The House Froze Out the UAP Disclosure Act. Three Weeks Later It Adopted It, in a Voice Vote.
In late June the House Rules Committee left the UAP Disclosure Act off the list of amendments it would even allow a vote on. Then Burlison refiled a revised version on July 20, Rules made it in order, and on July 22 the House adopted it inside an en bloc package agreed to by voice vote. The eminent domain clause survived. The Senate has not moved. This piece has been corrected and updated.
What Rep. Luna Actually Said About the 'Next' UFO Disclosure, and What X Turned It Into
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told Glenn Beck 'without a doubt, the phenomenon's real' and teased an announcement 'soon.' Within 48 hours that became Pandora's box, crash retrievals, EBE remains, and a viral claim that Trump gives a disclosure speech on July 8. Here's what she said, on the record, and what didn't come from her at all.
PURSUE Release 03: The FBI's Orb Tapes Land, and the Internet Is Still Replaying May's
The third PURSUE tranche dropped on June 12 with 72 new files, and for the first time every video comes from the FBI, civilian witnesses filming orbs in their backyards. Here's what the new clips actually show, which two are recreations rather than footage, and which videos from the May releases are still dominating the conversation.
Saw 'Disclosure Day'? Here's the Real Disclosure Timeline Spielberg's Film Is Riding
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' (Universal, June 12) is fiction: a cybersecurity expert turns whistleblower to reveal the government's alien secret. The strange part is that three days before it opened, a version of that scene played out for real on the Capitol steps. Here is the actual, checkable disclosure timeline the movie is built on top of, what's documented, what's only claimed, and where the film quietly rewrites the record.
Is 'Disclosure Day' Based on a True Story? Every Real UFO Claim in Spielberg's Movie, Graded
Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' opens June 12 at 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, and almost every beat in it, the insider who steals the files, the psychic contactee, the aliens disguised as animals, the broadcast that tells the world, is borrowed from a real claim someone has actually made. None of those claims is proven. Here is the full plot, element by element, matched against the actual record: what's documented, what's only alleged, and what the movie invented outright. Spoilers throughout.
The Reported-NHI Field Guide: Every Claimed Non-Human Type, Graded by Provenance
Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, Insectoids, Tridactyls, and, as of June 2026, 'sentient plasmoid life.' Pop catalogs list a dozen alien races as if they were equally real. They are not equally evidenced. This is a field guide that logs each reported non-human type, ties it to the specific cases it actually comes from, and sorts the whole gallery into three honest tiers of provenance, from investigated physical encounters down to channeled starseed lore.
Grusch's 'Sentient Plasmoid' Line: What Was Actually Said at the June 9 Capitol Presser
On June 9, 2026, David Grusch and four members of the House declassification task force stood on the Capitol steps to demand whistleblower immunity and the release of UFO files. The most-quoted moment, Grusch describing a 'continuum from corporeal bipedal type life to sentient plasmoid life', came in a Q&A and was printed verbatim by one outlet while the wires kept it vague. Here is exactly what was said, who said it, and how it grades against the three tests we set beforehand.
How to Watch the June 9 UAP Press Conference, and How to Tell If It Actually Matters
Tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET, David Grusch and four bipartisan members of Congress will stand on the Capitol steps to demand UAP disclosure. Here's the confirmed cast, the three things they're asking for, and a plain scorecard for separating a real legislative turn from a well-staged photo op.
The Coulthart Brief: Grading Three Years of the Disclosure Beat's Loudest Voice
Ross Coulthart broke the Grusch story, runs the most-watched UAP show on American cable, and is quoted in nearly every disclosure headline since 2023. That makes him the single most load-bearing journalist on the beat, which is exactly why his reporting deserves the same rubric we apply to the cases.
Grays, Nordics, Reptilians, Insectoids: The 'Four Types' Claim, Explained
In May 2026, physicist Hal Puthoff said people involved in alleged UFO recoveries described 'at least four separate types' of beings, and his colleague Eric Davis has named them. Here is exactly who said what, what each type is supposed to be, and what the public evidence does and does not show. No verdict, just the record.
What AARO Has Actually Published, and the Caveats Buried in the Data
The Pentagon's UAP office has now released annual reports, a historical-record volume, and a working definition of 'anomalous.' Read past the headline 'no evidence of aliens' and the office's own numbers tell a more careful story, one that hinges on a single archived word: unresolved.
Whistleblowers Want a Law, Not a File Drop: What June 9 on the Capitol Steps Is Really About
On Tuesday, June 9, 2026, members of the UAP Caucus and whistleblower David Grusch will stand on the Capitol steps to demand statutory protection for people who come forward. After a year of headline-grabbing file releases, the ask has quietly shifted from 'show us the videos' to 'pass a law', and that shift is the actual news.
The Nazca Mummies: Three Fingers, Real Bones, and a Question Nobody Has Closed
The tridactyl 'María' is the most famous alien corpse in the world: three fingers, three toes, a radiocarbon date near 1,700 years, and DNA its researchers say doesn't fully match anything known. Skeptics say it's a doll built from looted human bones. Believers say the imaging shows otherwise. The honest position, even now, is that nobody has actually closed the case, because the one study that could has never been run.
Non-Human Biologics: When a Scientist Stood Up and Described the Bodies
Two events, fourteen months apart, put the same impossible noun in front of legislators: bodies. A U.S. intelligence officer told Congress the government holds 'non-human biologics.' A Mexican forensic scientist laid two small mummified figures on a table and walked lawmakers through the anatomy. One claim survived scrutiny better than the other. Here is what was actually said, and what the scientists said back.
"Escaping the Moon": The Apollo UFO Transcripts the Pentagon Just Unsealed
The PURSUE files reportedly include NASA transcripts of Apollo crews discussing objects in cislunar space, and a magnified Apollo 17 photograph of three lights in formation. Astronaut sighting lore has circulated for decades, but the documents are now in an official release, which changes what we can say about it.
The Lake Huron Shoot-Down: What the F-16 Infrared Footage Actually Shows
In February 2023, an American fighter shot something down over Lake Huron and the official description kept changing. Three years later, a PURSUE release includes the infrared footage, now embedded below from the official release. Here is what is established, what is claimed, and what is still missing.
Inside PURSUE: The Five Strangest Things in Trump's UAP File Drop
Two tranches of declassified UAP records landed in May 2026 under a presidential disclosure system. Most coverage ran the headline. Here are the five buried items in the releases that actually move the needle, and the one line everyone skipped.
Why The Schumer Amendment Still Matters Two Years On
The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 lost most of its teeth in conference, but the language it set, and the precedent it set, still defines the floor of every disclosure conversation that has happened since.
Declassified & leaked footage
Syrian UAP 'Instant Acceleration', PURSUE Release 02
MQ-9 infrared track of an object AARO says shows near-instantaneous acceleration, the most-shared clip of the May 22 drop.
F-16 Shoots Down UAP Over Lake Huron (12 Feb 2023)
Declassified targeting-pod video of the February 2023 Lake Huron engagement, the only public footage of a U.S. fighter destroying a UAP.
Four UAP in Formation Over Water, Iran (26 Aug 2022)
Ten seconds of sensor footage showing four objects in formation over water in the CENTCOM area of responsibility.
East Coast UAP, December 2019
Crosshair-locked sensor view of an unidentified object off the U.S. East Coast, December 2019.
FBI Witness Video: 'Orbs Over the Pond' (October 2024)
Civilian cellphone video from an FBI witness report: a 'plasma-like sphere' hovering over a pond in the northeastern U.S. PURSUE Release 03, featured clip.
FBI Witness Video: Northeastern Orb Sighting (July 2025)
An intense light hovering about 25 feet off the ground below a tree line, civilian footage from PURSUE Release 03.
AC-130J Gunship Films 'Cold Orbs' Over the Gulf of Oman (8 Sep 2021)
A phone pointed at an AC-130J's infrared display during a night live-fire exercise. The accompanying intelligence report calls the objects 'cold orbs' about four feet across. PURSUE Release 05.
Middle East UAP Tracked on EO/IR Sensor (2025), PURSUE Release 05
The clip the networks led with: 99 seconds of electro-optical and infrared sensor video from a U.S. military platform, tracking an unidentified object left to right.
Infrared Track of an Unidentified Object, Middle East (2023)
CENTCOM infrared footage of an object crossing the frame, then held in the crosshairs for 46 seconds. PURSUE Release 05.
Handheld Video of Multiple Lights, Pacific Ocean (2019)
A service member films several light sources in low light in 2019. The Navy UAP Task Force passed it to AARO in 2022; the government notes the media was digitally altered before it was reported.
FBI Thermal Video: Two Slow-Moving 'Black-Hot' Objects (2026)
A federal agent's handheld thermal imager catches two slow-moving 'black-hot' shapes over the western United States in 2026.
Six Small Spheres on Infrared, Middle East (2025), PURSUE Release 06
CENTCOM infrared video of a tight cluster of small bright points crossing open water. The mission report calls them 'six small spherical objects' and estimates 480 mph. PURSUE Release 06.
The Tremonton Film (Utah, 2 July 1952), PURSUE Release 06
A Navy photographer's 16mm Kodachrome of bright objects over Utah, reviewed by Project Blue Book. After 55 seconds the reel cuts to unrelated footage of sewing equipment. PURSUE Release 06.
Colorado Officer's Phone Video of a Silent Flashing Light (Oct 2023)
A local police officer's phone tracks a light the officer called 'silent' with 'red, blue, and green flashing lights.' AARO blurred the lower half for privacy. PURSUE Release 06.
Infrared Track of a 'White Round Orbit', Middle East (2024), PURSUE Release 06
Nearly five minutes of CENTCOM infrared video. The paired mission report, DOW-UAP-D107, quotes the crew describing 'a white round orbit' moving as fast as 500 mph. The sensor's auto-track reticle tries to lock on and fails. PURSUE Release 06.
Fast Transit on Electro-Optical and Infrared, Middle East (2022), PURSUE Release 06
An object crosses the frame top to bottom in about two seconds, then is reacquired and tracked. The mission report puts it between 80 and 180 mph. Electro-optical colour, not thermal. PURSUE Release 06.
Dual-Sensor Track, Infrared and Electro-Optical, Middle East (2022), PURSUE Release 06
The same 2022 CENTCOM encounter as PR140, from a platform that switches between infrared and electro-optical mid-clip. Large black rectangles cover the sensor telemetry throughout. PURSUE Release 06.
Infrared Track, Yellow Sea (2023), PURSUE Release 06 [PR143]
Nineteen seconds of INDOPACOM infrared video of a dark point against cloud. No mission report was released with it. PURSUE Release 06.
Infrared Track, Yellow Sea (2023), PURSUE Release 06 [PR144]
Twenty-seven seconds of INDOPACOM infrared video; the sensor zooms in on a point above a cloud deck and holds it. No paired document. PURSUE Release 06.
Infrared Track, East China Sea (2023), PURSUE Release 06 [PR148]
A minute of INDOPACOM infrared video over the East China Sea, ending on a magnified track. The only East China Sea file in the tranche. PURSUE Release 06.
Focus Box and Platform Occlusion, Yellow Sea (2023), PURSUE Release 06 [PR150]
The clip AARO annotated most heavily: a 'focus box' overlay it warns is a display element, and a final six seconds where the aircraft's own structure blocks the sensor. PURSUE Release 06.
Infrared Track, Yellow Sea (2023), PURSUE Release 06 [PR151]
Forty-nine seconds of INDOPACOM infrared video over sunlit water, the sensor zooming once and then holding. PURSUE Release 06.
Ninety-Eight Seconds of Unbroken Track, Yellow Sea (2023), PURSUE Release 06 [PR152]
The longest of the five Yellow Sea clips, and the only one AARO describes in a single line: the sensor tracks one area of contrast for the entire runtime. PURSUE Release 06.
Fifteen Minutes of a Colorado Officer's Phone Video (Oct 2023), PURSUE Release 06
The longest video in the PURSUE archive to date: a local police officer films a light for a quarter of an hour on a phone. AARO blurred the bottom half of the frame for privacy. PURSUE Release 06.
Colorado Officer's Phone Video, 27 Seconds (Oct 2023), PURSUE Release 06
A short phone clip from the same Colorado officer, shot at high zoom. AARO's own note warns that phone autofocus can distort how a distant light looks and moves. PURSUE Release 06.
Colorado Officer's Phone Video, January 2024 Clip, PURSUE Release 06
Filed under the October 2023 Colorado report, but the government's own description dates this footage to January 2024 and pairs it with document LLE-UAP-D001. PURSUE Release 06.
The Full Declassified Gimbal UFO Video
The Pentagon-released Gimbal clip in full.
USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO Caught On Camera
The 2004 Nimitz incident, F/A-18 ATFLIR footage.
Jellyfish UFO FULL Video, Immaculate Constellation
The leaked 'Jellyfish' UAP attributed to the Immaculate Constellation program.
Drones Over New Jersey Compilation
The 2024 New Jersey drone wave compilation.
UAP Recovery, Egg-Shaped Object (NewsNation Exclusive)
NewsNation's Reality Check segment on a purported egg-shaped craft retrieval.
UAP Over the Clouds From an Airplane
Brief passenger-window UAP capture above cloud cover.
UFO Firing Four Beams of Light at a Nuclear Missile
Four-second clip referenced in the nuclear-incident testimony.
UAP at Nellis Air Force Base (1994)
The Nellis tracking-radar footage that resurfaced after disclosure hearings.
Beyond, UFOs and the Unknown (Trailer)
Trailer for the 2024 UFO mini-series.