For the first time PURSUE pairs U.S. Central Command Mission Reports systematically with their sensor imagery: four MISREPs, two infrared stills and four videos from Iraq and the Middle East. A 2022 operator reported UAP 'flying sporadically within the target area… at various speeds between 80 and 180 miles per hour,' one to two metres across. A 2025 operator described 'a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour.' Another reported 'six small spherical objects grouped together,' agile and frequently changing direction, at an estimated 480 mph.
Released May 8, 2026 in PURSUE Release 01, the 65-second AARO video designated DOW-UAP-PR028 (PR-028) records a UAP over Greece that the mission report describes as diamond-shaped and moving at roughly 434 knots — detectable only on short-wave infrared. When the operator switched to the visible spectrum, it was gone.
A 2-minute-57-second AARO video from a U.S. military sensor records an unidentified object over Greece performing multiple sharp 90-degree turns at speed — flight characteristics that exceed publicly disclosed performance of known aircraft. Released as DOW-UAP-PR34 in PURSUE Release 01.
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's contribution to PURSUE Release 06: six infrared sensor videos recorded aboard U.S. military platforms in 2023 — five over the Yellow Sea, one over the East China Sea — between 19 seconds and one minute 38 seconds long, each tracking a single area of contrast over open water. No mission reports accompany them, and the Department's descriptions are confined to what the sensor does. The shortest, DOW-UAP-PR143, supplies the iconic frame of the release: one black-hot object under the reticle.
Six videos from September 8, 2021 show an unidentified object over the Gulf of Oman — every clip a cell-phone recording of the infrared display aboard a Special Operations AC-130J gunship, a limitation the Department of War states plainly for each file. An accompanying Intelligence Information Report, itself unevaluated raw reporting, documents the incident that produced them.
A never-before-released July 2008 CIA report — featured by the Department of War in PURSUE Release 03 — documents a UFO sighting at Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe, and an internal debate over whether the object was an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or 'of extraterrestrial origins.' The report's routing context: perceived aggressive foreign posturing had placed personnel on high alert.
A former U.S. military pilot, interviewed by the FBI in March 2024, described an enormous dark triangle passing directly overhead while he was deployed as a reservist at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan, in June 2002. The Bureau commissioned a digital rendering from his account in 2026: a solid black delta large enough to blot out the stars, now the iconic image of PURSUE Release 05. The same interview also covers incidents the witness reported in 2023 and 2024.
Three young women in Varginha, Brazil report encountering a small creature with brown skin and large red eyes in a vacant lot. Claims of a military capture operation follow, the Brazilian Army attributes the reports to a misidentified local man, and the case becomes the most prominent — and most contested — UAP event in Brazilian history.
Approximately sixty-two children at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, report observing a silvery craft and small humanoid figures during morning recess. The case is documented by Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John E. Mack and remains one of the most-cited mass-witness child reports.
A 1994 U.S. State Department diplomatic cable from Kazakhstan, declassified in PURSUE Release 01, records a Tajik Air 747 captain plus three U.S. citizens on board observing what the cable describes as a 'bright light of enormous intensity' at 41,000 feet over Kazakh airspace.
Hundreds of witnesses across Belgium, including dozens of national and federal police officers, report large, silent, triangular craft moving at low altitude over the country. The Belgian Air Force scrambles F-16s on 30–31 March 1990 and obtains a brief radar lock that is later attributed to anomalous propagation.
U.S. Air Force security personnel stationed at the twin Royal Air Force bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge report a triangular, metallic craft on the ground in adjacent Rendlesham Forest, followed by aerial light phenomena two nights later. The deputy base commander signs a memorandum to the U.K. Ministry of Defence summarizing the events.
Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms intercept an unidentified object over Tehran. Both pilots report electronic-system failures, and one reports temporary loss of weapons control. A four-page Defense Intelligence Agency report on the case is later released under FOIA.
A previously-classified CIA intelligence report from 1973 documenting a Soviet citizen's observation of a luminous, bright-green airborne object in the summer of 1973. One of the few PURSUE entries with an explicitly Cold-War-era USSR provenance; reproduced in full as part of Release 02.
More than two hundred students and staff at Westall High School in suburban Melbourne report observing a low, disc-shaped object descend behind a stand of pine trees, then ascend rapidly. The case is widely cited as Australia's most-witnessed UAP event.
A November 9, 1963 Rio de Janeiro radio broadcast claimed a 'large metal sphere' carrying a dead occupant had crashed near Conde, Bahia, Brazil. The CIA's wire service flagged the report the same day; by November 20, the U.S. consulate's scientific attaché in Salvador had traced it to a fabrication with no basis in local reporting. The paper trail — a CIA wire summary preserved in the files of the White House's space council, plus two State Department cables — marks the first appearance of the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State in the PURSUE corpus.
In October 1955, four Americans travelling by train through the Soviet Union — among them U.S. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, then chairman-in-waiting of the Senate Armed Services Committee — watched a luminescent, greenish-yellow object climb and pass above their train between Baku and Tiflis, now Tbilisi. PURSUE Release 04 declassifies the CIA's debriefing memo and its companion analysis, which concluded the sighting could 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles.' The analysis also weighs the 1953 Robertson Panel's findings and Project 'Y,' the real U.S.-Canadian program then trying to build a saucer-shaped aircraft.
A U.S. Army General Staff intelligence review, dated January 9, 1947, assesses the wave of 'ghost rocket' sightings reported across Sweden and its neighbors beginning in May 1946. Drawing on Swedish government statements and reporting from the U.S. military attaché in Stockholm, the review reaches no conclusion either way — the earliest document in PURSUE Release 05, and a companion piece to the Swedish military's own Lake Kölmjärv investigation from the same wave.