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The Pentagon's fifth PURSUE release, posted August 7, adds 41 files from the widest set of agencies yet - and a new kind of evidence: FBI witness forms, including federal agents describing objects they could not identify over the western U.S. this year.
AARO's annual report on unidentified phenomena, missing for months, arrived this week. Of 319 new sightings, the office resolved 114 - balloons, satellites, birds, one rocket and a single jetpack - while a shortage of sensor data left most cases open.
It is the only maritime case in the Pentagon's newest UAP report, which logged 319 sightings in a year and could resolve only about a third. AARO says the Virginia encounter is still unexplained.
The Pentagon's fourth PURSUE release dropped July 10 - 40 newly declassified files including a lockdown at America's nuclear warhead factory, a star-shaped object tracked over the Yellow Sea, and a 1949 meeting of atomic scientists stumped by mystery lights.
Rep. Eric Burlison arranged White House-level access to classified UAP material, toured a key naval test facility, and says the intelligence officials who briefed him cannot identify the glowing, plasma-like objects he consistently sees on restricted footage.
America's first public UFO file portal logged 1.7 billion views in six weeks. But Congress has a separate list of 46 specific military videos - including F-16 footage of a UAP shootdown - that it says the Pentagon is withholding.
The first PURSUE release included official NASA post-mission debriefs from Apollo 11, 12, and 17 in which trained astronauts logged unexplained sightings - from an object near the Moon to three lights photographed in triangular formation above the lunar surface.
The Pentagon's UAP investigation office has 2,000+ active case files - and its own director says 40% remain without a conventional explanation. But AARO has not published its legally required 2025 annual report, raising questions about what the office is finding.
A committee including a former NASA senior official and the first Chief Scientist of the Pentagon's UAP unit will use AI to mine NASA's public archive - acting on a 2023 NASA recommendation no government agency had yet implemented.
Three years after a U.S. Air National Guard F-16 shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron, declassified footage and Canadian debris analysis now give the clearest picture yet of what it was.
