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PURSUE Release 02: Department of War declassifies 64 more UAP files

Exactly 14 days after PURSUE Release 01, the U.S. Department of War publishes a second tranche of declassified UAP records through war.gov/UFO: 51 sensor videos (the DOW-UAP-PR050–PR099 series), 7 NASA crew audio files, and 6 documents. The centerpiece is a first-person USPER narrative from a currently-serving senior U.S. intelligence officer describing a one-hour, multi-witness UAP encounter from a U.S. military helicopter in late 2025.

The Pentagon, Virginia — United States#AARO#Multiple Witnesses#Video Evidence#Department of War
Witness Testimony
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Senior U.S. intelligence officer: an hour of orange orbs from a military helicopter

A first-person USPER narrative published as the centerpiece of PURSUE Release 02 by a currently-serving senior U.S. intelligence officer who describes 'a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour' from a U.S. military helicopter in late 2025: two oval orange-with-white-center orbs stationary just above the rotor disk, a swarm of smaller orbs forming a triangular pattern, and a fighter scramble in which the same orbs trailed the responding jets.

U.S. East Coast (Atlantic), Atlantic seaboard — United States#Multiple Witnesses#Whistleblower#Department of War#PURSUE Release 02
Sighting
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Lake Huron: F-16C engages and downs an unidentified object

Cockpit/sensor footage from the February 12, 2023 U.S. Air National Guard F-16C engagement over Lake Huron, Michigan — the third of four shootdowns that month in the wake of the Chinese surveillance-balloon incident. AARO has characterized the underlying object as 'a benign hobbyist or research balloon' but the engagement footage itself is published for the first time in PURSUE Release 02.

Lake Huron, Michigan — United States#U.S. Air Force#AARO#Video Evidence#Department of War
Sighting

DOW-UAP-PR050: four-UAP formation over water near Iran, August 26, 2022

A 20-second infrared sensor recording from a U.S. military platform over CENTCOM waters near Iran, August 26, 2022, showing four areas of contrast moving together — and then a fifth object entering the frame from the top-left. The opening video of the new PR050-PR099 series released in PURSUE Release 02.

Persian Gulf, Middle East — International waters#AARO#Multiple Witnesses#Video Evidence#Department of War
Sighting
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Multiple orbs near a U.S. submarine: spheres move 'in and out of water', March 2022

A sensor video from a U.S. Navy platform in March 2022 showing multiple spherical objects moving in and out of the water in close proximity to a surfaced U.S. submarine — the cleanest transmedium/USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) footage AARO has released to date, and the iconic image of PURSUE Release 02.

U.S. Navy submarine operating area (undisclosed), Undisclosed — International waters#U.S. Navy#AARO#Video Evidence#Department of War
Sighting
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DOW-UAP-PR051: 'Syrian UAP instant acceleration', MQ-9 Reaper weapons-quality lock

Released as the kinematic standout of PURSUE Release 02, DOW-UAP-PR051 records a 2021 encounter on the Jordan-Syria border in which a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone achieves a weapons-quality lock on an unidentified object before that object exhibits instantaneous acceleration and abrupt directional changes that, per AARO's mission report, exceed the publicly disclosed performance envelope of any known crewed or uncrewed aerial system.

Syria — Syria#AARO#Video Evidence#Department of War#PURSUE Release 02
Sighting

DOW-UAP-PR055: spherical object slips in and out of clouds over Afghanistan

An infrared sensor video from November 23, 2020 over Afghanistan — captured by a U.S. military platform in CENTCOM's area of responsibility — showing a single spherical object moving in and out of cloud cover. The footage was uploaded to a U.S. classified network in June 2024 and declassified in PURSUE Release 02.

Afghanistan airspace, Central Asia — Afghanistan#AARO#Video Evidence#Department of War#PURSUE Release 02
Sighting

East Coast 'Dec 2019' UAP: NORTHCOM infrared sensor footage

Infrared sensor footage from a U.S. military platform in U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility in December 2019, showing a single unidentified object off the U.S. East Coast. Uploaded to a U.S. classified network in September 2020 and declassified in PURSUE Release 02 — a rare NORTHCOM (continental U.S.) entry in the PR-series corpus.

U.S. East Coast (Atlantic), Atlantic seaboard — United States#U.S. Navy#AARO#Video Evidence#Department of War
Document Release

Apollo 12 medical debriefing: Conrad, Gordon, and Bean describe light flashes in cislunar space

PURSUE Release 02 publishes the audio of the Apollo 12 medical crew debriefing in which Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Al Bean describe seeing brief 'light flashes' and 'streaks of light' during quiet rest periods on the cislunar coast. NASA's contemporary medical assessment attributed the phenomenon to cosmic-ray-induced retinal events.

Lunar surface, Moon — Moon#Multiple Witnesses#Department of War#NASA#PURSUE Release 02
Document Release
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Sandia, New Mexico: 209 'green orbs, discs, and fireballs' over a nuclear-weapons facility

A 116-page joint file from the U.S. Air Force and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program — the Manhattan Project's nuclear-weapons custodial successor — documenting 209 sightings of 'green orbs,' discs, and fireballs maneuvering near the Sandia, New Mexico custodial nuclear-weapons installation between 1948 and 1950. Released in full as part of PURSUE Release 02; some sighting locations contained recovered copper powder.

Sandia Base, New Mexico — United States#U.S. Air Force#Cold War#Multiple Witnesses#Department of War