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The Department of War added Release 05 to its PURSUE/UFO archive on August 7. It contains 41 files: 22 documents, 16 videos and three images.

Disclosure up front: I run Probed. The goal of our UFO Files section is to make it the most complete way to explore the PURSUE UFO files. Release 05 is fully indexed and searchable in the Probed UFO Files Tracker, with page-level citations and links back to every original file on War.gov. If anything is missing or would make it more useful, please tell us. We genuinely want the feedback.

We’ve gone through the release, and these are the records we’d open first.

The 2021 Gulf of Oman report

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The report says an AC-130 crew observed approximately 25 UAP instances during a live-fire exercise. It describes “cold orbs” close to the water and says two of them rapidly left the sensor view immediately after the trigger was pulled.

The crew calculated speeds between 250 and 1,300 mph. Those are the crew’s calculations as reported in the document, not an independent analysis of the sensor data.

The report also says the aircraft’s digital video recorder failed and much of the footage became corrupted. Six short clips were released, but they do not show the complete reported encounter.

Report and released media:
https://probed.space/ufo-files/files/dow-uap-d101-intelligence-information-report-unresolved-uap-report-gulf-of-oman-2021

The CIA’s Puerto Rico analysis

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The CIA analysis pushes back on the most dramatic interpretation of this case.

The document concludes that the radar photography did not support a high-altitude, ultra-high-speed object north of Puerto Rico during November 18–24, 1964. At the same time, it says there were apparently valid tracks or observations of unidentified aircraft on several days.

A pilot described a delta-shaped object about the size of a jet fighter and estimated its speed above Mach 3. Analysts thought at least one contact was probably a high-performance delta-wing aircraft and considered whether foreign aircraft could have been involved.

The record includes both the unusual report and the agency’s attempt to explain it conventionally.

https://probed.space/ufo-files/files/cia-uap-d022-unidentified-flying-object-reported-near-puerto-rico-1965

The FBI triangle reports

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Release 05 includes several FBI FD-302 witness interviews involving large triangular objects, along with digital renderings based on those accounts.

One witness described a huge, silent equilateral triangle passing over Bagram in 2002. Another described a dark triangle with three white lights and a low pulsing hum in 2011. A Colorado Springs witness reported a large triangle with red corner lights that accelerated rapidly without visible propulsion.

One important distinction: the accompanying images are digital renderings, not photographs or FBI sensor captures. The underlying evidence here is witness testimony recorded in the interview reports.

One of the reports:
https://probed.space/ufo-files/files/fbi-uap-d028-fd-302-dark-triangle-with-lights-2011

The 245-page Air Materiel Command file

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This is a large collection of early Air Force material from 1947 and 1948. It includes the directive establishing Project SIGN, internal correspondence, sighting reports and planning documents about how the Air Force intended to collect and evaluate “flying disc” reports.

One section says that some reports still had no reasonable everyday explanation. Another says there was no conclusive proof that the unidentified objects were anything other than known phenomena such as balloons.

It isn’t one continuous report or a new government assessment. It’s a historical collection made up of many different records, but there is quite a bit in it.

https://probed.space/ufo-files/files/dow-uap-d100-air-materiel-command-report-on-unidentified-flying-objects-1947-1948

The 2019 Pacific videos

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The release also contains five short videos identified as unresolved UAP reports over the Pacific Ocean in 2019. The clips are brief and silent. They add official versions of the footage to the archive, but the videos alone do not establish what the objects were.

Example:
https://probed.space/ufo-files/files/dow-uap-pr123-unresolved-uap-report-pacific-ocean-2019

Full Release 05 index:
https://probed.space/ufo-files?release=release-05

If you’re interested in future release updates and the latest UFO coverage, we’re pretty active on X: https://x.com/ProbedSpace

The CIA record is probably where we’d start because it includes both the reported anomaly and the government’s attempted explanation. People haven’t been thrilled with this release, and there’s certainly no holy-grail file in it, but some disclosure > no disclosure. Curious what others found interesting in Release 05.

War.gov dropped PURSUE Release 04 today. We’ve finished downloading, indexing and processing the full tranche on Probed.

Disclosure: I run Probed. The original files remain linked throughout, and the goal here is to make the release searchable and easier to evaluate—not to replace the primary sources.

Release 04 contains:

• 14 documents
• 19 videos
• 4 NASA audio debriefings
• 3 NASA STS-80 images
• 40 records total
• 558 searchable document pages
• More than 5,500 caption segments from the NASA audio

A few of the most interesting items:

1. The 2015 Pantex incident

A newly released report describes an unidentified object entering the airspace around the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas—the primary U.S. facility for assembling, disassembling and maintaining nuclear weapons.

According to the report, ground-surveillance radar tracked the object moving approximately 10–15 mph. Security officers estimated it was 100–200 feet above the ground and roughly four feet tall by two feet wide at the bottom.

The report says officers observed it through binoculars, could not identify a propulsion system and heard no sound. It also notes that the object did not approach sensitive assets or behave in a threatening manner.

2. A 1955 KC-97 radar and visual case

One USAF memorandum evaluates a KC-97 crew sighting near Newfoundland that coincided with ground-radar returns.

The committee wrote that it was “unable to explain the simultaneous ground radar returns and aircrew visual sightings.”

There is an important caveat: the committee tentatively accepted an explanation involving an electrical phenomenon combined with aircrew misinterpretation. Even so, it retained the case under the UFOB classification and recommended immediate fighter scrambles if similar incidents occurred again.

3. The 1949 Los Alamos green-fireball conference

This is a transcript of a conference involving scientists at Los Alamos, including Edward Teller and meteorics specialist Lincoln LaPaz.

LaPaz argued that the Starvation Peak green fireball he observed was not a conventional meteorite fall. He described its instant full intensity, yellow-green color, nearly horizontal trajectory and green fragmentation.

Later in the meeting, LaPaz told Teller:

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The conference did not reach a consensus. Participants discussed meteoric, material-body, electron-phenomenon and chemical-light explanations.

4. Project Sign’s initial 1948 report

The release includes an early Project Sign progress report summarizing 100 UFO sightings.

Its tabulation records:

• 31 descriptions using oval, disc or saucer-shaped terminology
• 11 reports involving sound
• 23 reports involving exhaust trails
• Estimated speeds ranging from hovering or very slow movement to supersonic
• 77 reports involving a single object

These are historical witness and investigator estimates, not independently validated performance measurements. The underlying cases also varied considerably in quality.

5. Three NASA STS-80 photographs

Release 04 includes three photographs taken aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 in 1996.

The images show an unidentified object near Earth’s limb across three frames. War.gov’s descriptions say it appears to rotate or tumble about its major axis and then continue along a trajectory between Columbia and Earth.

The photographs do not establish the object’s size, distance or physical characteristics, but having the three-image sequence available at full resolution is useful.

6. A Project Blue Book radar reality check

One of the more valuable sections comes from the 1966–67 review of Project Blue Book.

The committee discussed how pulses from one radar station could appear on another station’s display as a high-speed track or series of dots. It said this mutual-interference problem had “probably caused a number of UFO reports.”

The committee recommended radar-scope cameras to document unusual echoes and help distinguish interference from genuinely unidentified returns.

That kind of methodological discussion is important. The release contains unresolved cases, but it also documents how investigators identified possible conventional explanations and tried to improve future data collection.

7. NASA astronaut medical debriefings

The four long NASA audio files include Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 medical debriefings discussing astronauts’ reports of brief light flashes.

The astronauts describe sharp, instantaneous streaks and flashes apparently perceived inside the eye. In one Apollo 17 discussion, the crew reported an experimental blindfolded period without flashes, followed by the flashes returning later.

These recordings now have more than 5,500 searchable caption segments, so individual passages can be located without manually scrubbing through several hours of audio.

We ran the documents through page extraction and an OCR quality comparison. OCR replacements were only accepted when they improved the source text without discarding large portions of the existing extraction. For the videos, no usable spoken-caption tracks were available, so we indexed War.gov’s official timecoded descriptions rather than inventing transcripts.

The full Release 04 tracker is here:

https://probed.space/ufo-files

The source-grounded findings view is here:

https://probed.space/ufo-files/findings

Official War.gov release page:

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

If people want, I can also do a follow-up focused on one category—the Pantex report, historical Air Force documents, NASA material or the 19 new videos—and pull together the most relevant pages and timecodes.

We built a searchable research layer for the War.gov/ufo / PURSUE UFO files

We’ve had this up for a little while, but wanted to finally share it here because it has become a genuinely useful way to explore the official PURSUE UFO file releases:

https://probed.space/ufo-files

The official War.gov page is still the source of truth, and we link back to the original files. But the official interface is mainly built around access: releases, file types, agencies, downloads, and basic browsing.

Probed adds a research layer on top of that.

The biggest difference is OCR/search depth. You’re not limited to filenames or metadata. You can search inside the document text, plus extracted claims, excerpts, timeline references, linked entities, and media transcript text.

Right now the tracker covers all three PURSUE releases: 294 official assets across documents, images, videos, and audio. We’ve also structured the material into searchable findings, source excerpts, entity links, media context, timeline references, and research-focused filters.

A few things it supports:

• Search across OCR’d document text, file titles, descriptions, extracted claims, excerpts, timelines, linked entities, and media transcripts
• Filter by release, agency, asset type, location, year, shape, sensor, platform, USO tag, and other facets
• Browse documents, photos, videos, and audio from one place
• Jump from a release asset into the linked Probed document, sighting, item, or official source
• See which files have structured findings, excerpts, page references, media context, or linked entities

There’s also a dedicated findings view here:

https://probed.space/ufo-files/findings

The goal is not to hype every file as proof of something. A lot of the archive is messy, incomplete, mundane, or heavily caveated. That’s exactly why structure matters.

The useful part is being able to move from “here’s a government file” to “what does this file actually claim, what source text supports it, which agencies/entities are involved, what other records connect to it, and what context is missing?”

Basically: War.gov gives you the release. We try to make it researchable.

Would love feedback from people here, especially on what filters, views, or cross-links would make this more useful.

How would a UAP legacy program actually stay hidden? UAP Gerb’s new video is basically a 3+ hour theory of the security architecture

UAP Gerb’s latest deep dive, Special Access Required - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.2], is not really about a single crash case, witness, or sighting.

It’s an attempt to map the alleged machinery that would make long-term secrecy possible: SAPs, waived/unacknowledged compartments, DOE classification channels, Atomic Energy Act authorities, NSC-linked programs, contractor infrastructure, program-protection offices, and narrative-management efforts.

Whether you buy Gerb’s full theory or not, I think the episode is useful because it focuses on a question that comes up constantly in this subject:

If crash retrieval / reverse-engineering programs exist, what would the hiding mechanism actually look like?

Some of the major threads he gets into:

- why SAPs and “need to know” access matter
- how content-only SAPs are alleged to reduce the normal budget/reporting footprint
- why DOE and Atomic Energy Act secrecy come up so often in legacy-program discussions
- how SAPOC / Senior Review Group structures are alleged to gatekeep access
- how contractors, IRAD, FFRDCs, and national labs fit into the theory
- why AARO and ATIP are framed in the video as competing narrative-control layers
- how whistleblower retaliation and administrative pressure are alleged to preserve secrecy

We pulled the episode apart into entities, source-attributed claims, and timeline entries here:

https://probed.space/items/8209ebfc-4b26-487d-931e-155a84de7514

Sharing this as a structured discussion prompt around Jordan Jozak’s recent American Alchemy interview with Jesse Michels.

Jozak discusses source-attributed claims involving Skywatcher, psionic operations, consciousness-based interaction with UAP-like systems, the Prometheus system, directed-energy retrieval allegations, and the idea that disclosure may involve consciousness as much as physical craft.

The episode also covers his broader account involving gifted-and-talented education, childhood psychological testing, resurfaced memories, alleged ESP-style training, and a Baker Victory Services-associated placement.

We’re not presenting this as proof of the claims. The value, from a mapping/research perspective, is that the interview brings together several recurring threads in current UAP discourse:

- Skywatcher and psionic operations
- consciousness-centered UAP interaction
- neural-interface / Prometheus-style control claims
- directed-energy retrieval allegations
- gifted-program selection narratives
- recovered-memory and experiencer testimony
- the overlap between psi, trauma, and disclosure

We structured the episode into entities, source-attributed claims, and timeline entries here:

https://probed.space/items/5cf6ed44-9c74-412a-be9a-5107b403ec40

Sharing this as a structured discussion prompt around one of the stranger recent American Alchemy interviews.

Jordan Jozak joins Jesse Michels to discuss his source-attributed account that gifted education, childhood psychological testing, and a Baker Victory Services-associated placement became, in his account, part of a concealed psi and UAP-related research pipeline.

The episode covers:

- resurfaced childhood memories and alleged dissociation
- gifted-and-talented testing / GATE as a possible selection pool
- alleged ESP-style training and remote-awareness exercises
- a Baker Victory Services-associated placement
- the “Sylvia” relic account
- the Prometheus system
- Skywatcher and psionic operations
- directed-energy retrieval claims
- consciousness-centered disclosure

We’re not presenting this as proof of the claims. The value, from a mapping/research perspective, is that the episode brings together a lot of recurring threads in current UAP discourse: gifted programs, psi, consciousness, recovered-memory accounts, Skywatcher, neural-interface ideas, and the “woo” side of disclosure.

We structured the episode into entities, claims, and timeline entries here:

https://probed.space/items/5cf6ed44-9c74-412a-be9a-5107b403ec40