PURSUE Batch 3: Pentagon Releases Third Wave of UAP Files

Full Breakdown

On June 12, 2026, the Department of War published the third release of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files through the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) at war.gov/ufo. The batch — 53 documents, 10 images, 6 videos, and 3 NASA audio recordings from the CIA, FBI, NASA, the Department of Defense, and other agencies — is the largest and most substantive release to date. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, appearing on CBS News the same morning, called it “the most intriguing release thus far.” The PURSUE website has drawn more than 1.7 billion hits since its May 8 launch.

The Kosloski Report: 40% Unresolved

The centerpiece of Batch 3 is a new report dated June 5, 2026, signed by Dr. Jon Kosloski, director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). This is not a historical document — it is a current assessment by the sitting head of the Pentagon’s UAP investigation unit. Kosloski describes an orange “mother” orb observed launching smaller red orbs and states that 40% of reported UAP phenomena lack any reasonable conventional explanation. That number — four in ten, after filtering — represents the clearest quantitative admission from inside the Pentagon that a substantial fraction of UAP cases resist all known explanations.

Key Sightings in Batch 3

Fort Carson, Colorado Springs — 2022

Five U.S. Army intelligence officers at Fort Carson observed a white, opalescent, potato-shaped object hovering near Cheyenne Mountain — the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) facility — in broad daylight. The object’s surface was composed of “articulating fish scales or panels” that shifted in slow waves. After approximately two minutes, the object vanished instantaneously — “cloaked in the space of time it took to turn a head.” No shadow was observed. The FBI filed a formal report and the Pentagon released an artist’s rendering. Five trained military intelligence personnel watching an object disappear next to the most heavily monitored airspace in the continental United States is not a peripheral anecdote.

Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe — July 2008

A previously classified CIA report, originally marked “Secret,” documents a UAP sighting above Harare International Airport observed both visually and on radar. The object was disc-like with a hollow center, had rotating lights on its underside, and at one point emitted beams. The lights changed color and the object ascended out of view at high speed. The report was transmitted to the White House Situation Room. Observers debated whether the object represented foreign adversary technology or something extraterrestrial. This is the first PURSUE release to include a UAP incident from the African continent.

FBI Red Orb Report — February 2026

An FBI FaceTime interview documented a witness in the northeastern United States who observed a one-meter red sphere hovering below the tree line in their backyard with a “white plasma sun” at its center. A second identical sphere materialized, and both departed silently. The FBI filed a formal FD-302 report.

Federal Law Enforcement Orb Sightings — October 2023

Five federal law enforcement agents reported observing glowing orbs near sensitive national security sites in the western United States. One agent reported their partner asking, “Are you seeing this?” as an orb illuminated the sky. The FBI produced digital renderings (prepared in 2026) recreating the agents’ accounts. These renderings were included in the batch.

Historical Documents

CIA U-2/OXCART Confession

A CIA internal history document from 1992 includes a direct admission: “U-2 and later OXCART flights accounted for more than one-half of all UFO reports during the late 1950s and most of the 1960s.” Project Blue Book knowingly provided false cover explanations to protect classified reconnaissance programs. This is the CIA’s own internal admission, in its own words, now released to the public. As Avi Loeb noted, this raises the question of whether U-2 test flights — or their Soviet equivalents — might account for other unexplained photographic anomalies from the 1950s as well.

1952–1953 CIA “Debunking” Panel

The batch includes a CIA panel report from the early 1950s on “flying saucers” that found no physical threat from the objects but recommended a “policy of debunking” to reduce public concern and prevent potential exploitation by Cold War adversaries. This document provides institutional context for the U.S. government’s decades-long dismissal of UAP reports — a dismissal now being reversed by PURSUE.

1955 Hungary Correspondence

CIA files include letters between a Hungarian relative in Budapest and a family member in the United States describing “flying saucers” seen over Hungary. A sketch shows the formation and suspected flight path of several objects traveling between Budapest and Moscow. The correspondent wrote that “everyone has been excited” over the crafts “for the past few weeks” and that the objects moved at an estimated 12,000 kilometers per hour.

Roswell-Era Documents

Historical reports dating to the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, incident are included, though detailed analysis of these materials awaits closer review.

The PURSUE Program in Context

The three PURSUE batches released since May 8 represent the largest coordinated UAP disclosure effort in U.S. history. The program was initiated by President Trump in February 2026 after he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other agencies to begin identifying and declassifying UAP-related records. Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that additional files will be released “on a rolling basis.” The 1.7 billion hits to war.gov/ufo in its first month signal a public appetite that the government can no longer dismiss.

The combined weight of three batches now includes: a sitting AARO director acknowledging 40% of cases are unexplained; the CIA admitting it lied about UFOs for decades to protect spy-plane programs; radar-corroborated disc sightings transmitted to the White House Situation Room; objects exhibiting cloaking, beam emission, carrier-subordinate deployment, and surface articulation observed by military intelligence personnel near critical nuclear facilities; and FBI-documented civilian encounters with orb phenomena.

As Avi Loeb wrote: “Either we are dealing with a serious breach of national security or with the biggest discovery ever made in human history.”

The files are at war.gov/ufo.

For analysis focused on the non-human intelligence implications of Batch 3, see our companion article at

thinkaboutit-aliens.com.

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