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Declassified in 2006, Project Condign examined thousands of sightings over UK airspace and reached an unusual conclusion - the unexplained cases were probably rare 'buoyant plasma', a poorly understood natural phenomenon, and offered no defence value worth chasing.
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.
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.
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.
For 17 years, a CIA cable marked 'Secret' documented a disc-shaped object hovering over Harare International Airport - and the American intelligence community's response: put everything on high alert and debate what it was.
From a rancher's debris field to two official government investigations, the paper trail behind the most famous UFO story in history is detailed - and more complicated than either side of the debate usually admits.
