A preprint study by Jacob Haqq-Misra of Blue Marble Space and Ravi Kopparapu of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, published in August 2026, analyzed all 112 UAP videos released by the U.S. Department of War under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) since May 8, 2026. The researchers, both members of the UAP Science Advisory Council to the U.S. government, concluded that pervasive redaction of sensor data — particularly the range (distance) between observing platform and object — makes it impossible for civilian scientists to determine whether objects depicted in the footage display genuinely anomalous velocities.
The study, titled "Limits on Velocity Recovery from the PURSUE Sensor Videos" and posted to the arXiv preprint server, represents one of the first systematic scientific examinations of the PURSUE release corpus. It carries significance both for the UAP transparency debate and for the methodology of UAP science more broadly: the authors argue that apparent pixel-per-frame motion in infrared targeting-pod footage is not a reliable proxy for real-world object velocity without accompanying range data, platform trajectory, and camera field-of-view specifications. The researchers explicitly declined to draw extraordinary conclusions from the footage while also declining to dismiss the objects as mundane, and called for future releases to include unredacted or separately certified range measurements.
The United States Department of War (DOW) published its fourth official release of declassified UAP imagery and historical files on July 10, 2026, under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The release, announced by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell, includes several previously unseen U.S. military videos of unidentified aerial objects collected by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), as well as historical documents dating to as early as the 1940s, all hosted at WAR.GOV/UFO.
The fourth PURSUE tranche is notable for the range of incidents represented, spanning imagery from the 1996 NASA STS-80 Space Shuttle Columbia mission, a 2019 Eastern United States sighting described by an observer with 28 years of combined U.S. Air Force and Navy experience, and multiple unresolved reports from 2020 over the Western United States and the Atlantic Ocean. Reporting by The Debrief's Micah Hanks notes that none of the released videos provide clear evidence of objects attributable to unknown aircraft or advanced technology, and that several are assessed as consistent with balloons or sensor artifacts. The DOW stated that additional file releases are being prepared on a rolling basis.
A new tranche of up to 46 UAP videos held by the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is expected to be released imminently under the Department of War's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) initiative. The release follows a March 31, 2026, letter from Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth formally requesting the footage, which was originally due no later than April 14, 2026. On May 15, 2026, Luna confirmed she and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) had completed a review of the videos alongside AARO director Jon Kosloski.
The forthcoming batch — anticipated to be designated "Release 02" — includes footage of spherical objects, cigar-shaped UAP, fast-moving objects, and at least two videos depicting what the military characterizes as "transmedium" or unidentified submerged objects (USOs). The collection also appears to include additional footage related to the January 26, 2023, Eglin Air Force Base diamond-formation incident and the February 12, 2023, Lake Huron shootdown event. The article, published by The Debrief on May 21, 2026, represents the most detailed public accounting of the expected contents of the release prior to its official publication.