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The Disclosure Foundation won the FOIA appeal forcing release of NSA's UFO communications intelligence corpus, originally classified Top Secret UMBRA. Records span 1969-1979 and document foreign military aircraft responding to unidentified objects in their own airspace.

Page 333 of the production describes an elongated ball of fire splitting into three balls of fire — the exact phenomenon NSA's Yeates cited to a federal judge in 1980 to argue the file should stay classified. Page 236 documents 13 MiG fighters chasing one UFO.

We OCR'd the full 334-page production for grep-ability and published it free with the chain of custody.

Update on Monday's piece. We surfaced the pseudonymous Reddit account of Kevin Patrick Childress, ATTRITION #15.

u/popncaps551 was created November 16, 2017. He started commenting December 18, 2017, two days after the NYT broke AATIP. Sixteen comments in thirteen days. He self-identifies as a federal agent in the first sentence of his first comment, names M&O contracting at America's nuclear weapons sites as deliberate FOIA evasion, names SETI as a CIA/NASA suppression front.

He went silent. Three and a half years. One single r/ufo comment on March 7, 2021. Sixty days after that, his Debrief quote. Four months after that, his death.

Full piece.

Youtube link.

Kevin Patrick Childress was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the DOE OIG covering the Savannah River Site, the only U.S. facility that produces tritium for thermonuclear weapons. He held a Q clearance. He had two Secretary of Energy commendations. He spent thirty years inside the federal investigative apparatus.

On May 6, 2021, he was named and quoted by Micah Hanks at The Debrief in a column about the new DoD Inspector General UAP evaluation:

"Being a retired OIG Special Agent for the Dept of Energy, the beginning of an OIG investigation is way more significant than an internal task force."

117 days later he was dead. He was 56.

His family obituary at the Thomas L. King Funeral Home in Evans, Georgia explicitly names UAP investigation as his life's work. The Department of Energy issued no public statement. The OIG issued no memorial. The Columbia County coroner's office issued no press release.

We added him to the Sentinel ATTRITION roster as name #15. Full primary-source briefing here.

Youtube link here.

Independent reproduction of the BL SETI pipeline on 5.2 TB of public data from the Green Bank Telescope.

Three findings: turboSETI has a structural blind spot at zero drift that no parameter can change, the on-source/off-source cadence filter crashed in every stage of the pipeline, and 111,985 hits at the resolution floor near zero drift have never been verified.

The cadence filter is the step that separates real candidates from radio interference. Without it, a Breakthrough Listen observation is just a list of every signal the telescope picked up.

We are running their software on their data and the most important step in the process is silently failing.

Full breakdown.

Quick update for everyone following the Japan thread. At the regular cabinet press conference on Monday May 11, NicoNico News reporter Kou Nanao asked Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara three questions about the U.S. Department of War's May 8 release of 161 UAP records.

Kihara confirmed personal viewing. He named Japan's coordination posture toward Washington. On Japan's own disclosure he chose case-by-case discretion calibrated to protect intelligence-gathering capabilities, the same language structure the U.S. release used to justify what was withheld.

What didn't make Japan Times: this is not the first time Kihara has been on the record about UAP. Back in December 2023, then-Defense Minister Kihara was questioned about UAP at the Diet by Yoshiharu Asakawa and stated UAP was a personal concern because of his Japan Airlines background.

The MP asking the questions in 2023 was Asakawa. Asakawa chaired the questioning portion of the March 31 Parliamentary Federation 4th General Meeting (where six names from the ATTRITION roster were referenced). Asakawa translated the May 11 exchange and pushed it onto English-language social.

Same MP. Same broadcaster. Same reporter. Three-year arc.

Full briefing.

Forensic analysis of the full 161-record PURSUE Release 01 archive from war.gov/UFO.

The institutional timeline:

• March 10, 2026: UAP files internally cleared "For Open Publication" by DoD Office of Prepublication and Security Review. Same day the US filed the Article 51 letter at the UN justifying Operation Epic Fury.
• March 10 to May 5: 59-day administrative hold. Same window as Operation Epic Fury, the US/Israel kinetic campaign against Iran.
• May 5, 2026: Sec. Rubio formally announces Operation Epic Fury is over.
• May 8, 2026: PURSUE Release 01 launches at war.gov/UFO. Three days later.

The institutional chain:

Two USCENTCOM Chiefs of Staff personally signed the declassification authority on 20 Department of War mission reports.

• MG Richard A. Harrison (current). Air Defense Artillery branch. Formerly Commanding General of 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command. Cleared at least 18 reports.
• MG Brandon R. Tegtmeier (former, now CG 82nd Airborne Division). Infantry/Ranger branch. Formerly Commander of 75th Ranger Regiment. Cleared 2 reports.

Same office. Different branches. No independent review point in the chain. USCENTCOM produced the operational data. USCENTCOM declassified it. USCENTCOM personnel cleared documents about USCENTCOM's own area of responsibility.

The geographic overlap:

PURSUE mission reports D12, D18, D28, D61, D62, D64 all show ISR aircraft taking off from OKAS (Al Asad Airbase, Iraq) to observe UAPs across Iraq, Iran, the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the East China Sea between 2020 and 2024.

In February 2026, Iran struck Al Asad with ballistic missiles during Operation Epic Fury. At least 64 US service members at Al Asad sustained concussive injuries.

The same airbase that hosted the aircraft that captured the UAP encounters was struck by Iranian missiles two months before the public saw the encounter records.

The forensic attributes:

• 66% of the 115 unique PDFs were rasterized in the 4 days before launch
• 95.7% (110 of 115) are AES-256 encrypted with copy/edit/modify disabled
• 32 of 73 Department of War sequence numbers are withheld (longest run: D66-D73, eight consecutive files)
• 242 active (b)(1) national-security redactions remain visible in the released material

A release with these attributes is not an unsealed archive. It is a wartime command product, declassified by the command that produced it, held through the active conflict, and published in the strategic communications window that opened when the operation formally ended.

Full forensic analysis with all primary-source links and citations.

YouTube mirror of every PURSUE video in one playlist.

The War Dot Gov UFO Release 01 is not 17 files. It is 173.

We hashed every artifact. We ran the geographic analysis.

48% of the geo-tagged subset came from CENTCOM AOR.

Syria. Iraq. The Persian Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz.

The active war zone.

A UAP transparency release weighted toward the war zone is structurally a war-zone intelligence release.

The disclosure framing is the wrapper. The contents are theater intelligence reformatted as historical declassification. Our full report.

The Department of War launched its UAP records portal at war.gov/UFO today, releasing 17 pages as the first tranche of a multi-agency disclosure program coordinated across the White House, Pentagon, NASA, FBI, and ODNI.

Within hours of launch, Rep. Burchett (on Rogan), Rep. Massie ("ultimate weapon of mass distraction"), and former AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick ("shiny object") had independently framed the rollout as a distraction operation. Convergence across the political and institutional spectrum is itself a finding.

Full forensic file-level analysis publishes after the weekend.

The original Tic Tac UFO video official Pentagon FLIR1 footage from the November 14, 2004 USS Nimitz encounter.

CASE BRIEF

On November 14, 2004, a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet attached to the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, operating off the coast of Baja California, captured this Forward-Looking Infrared (FLIR) recording. The aircraft was vectored to investigate radar contacts that USS Princeton's SPY-1 system had been tracking for several days objects observed descending from above 80,000 feet to roughly 20,000 feet in seconds.

The footage was captured by Lt. Cmdr. Chad Underwood (Weapons Systems Officer) using the F/A-18's ATFLIR (Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared) pod. The object described by Cmdr. David Fravor in an earlier, separate visual encounter as a roughly 40-foot white oblong shape resembling a Tic Tac mint appears as a small dark thermal contrast in the IR sensor view. At the end of the clip, the object accelerates off-frame at a rate the aircrew later described as exceeding any known aircraft performance.

PUBLICATION HISTORY

– December 2017: Leaked to the New York Times alongside the AATIP disclosure article by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean.
– April 27, 2020: Officially declassified by the U.S. Department of Defense via the Office of Naval Intelligence.
– Currently catalogued on the AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) Official UAP Imagery page.

AARO ASSESSMENT
Status: Unresolved.

Luna's House Oversight Task Force gave the Pentagon a 14-day deadline to deliver 46 specific UAP videos. The list was indexed by aircraft platform, callsign, theater, and date, not generic. The deadline lapsed in silence on April 14, 2026.

On April 17:

• Trump tells a Turning Point USA crowd in Phoenix that UAP files are "coming out very soon"
• Luna sits with Avi Loeb at the Harvard College Observatory, in front of the Galileo Project's all-sky camera arrays
• Jeremy Corbell on NewsNation says the Trump release will cover "46 military-held videos"

The number traveled three lanes intact while the institution controlling the records refused to release them.

Add to that:

• Vance's theological "demons" framing pre-loading the audience
• Kirkpatrick's wire-syndicated debunk channel running in lockstep
• The JFK declassification template from January 2025 following the same script

Full investigation.

We built this over the past several months from the published observational record. It is not an artist's impression. Every parameter in the model traces to a specific peer-reviewed paper or public dataset.

Features:

• Volumetric raymarched jet plumes with Bessel-function cross-section profiles
• Procedural hull surface with 3-band noise normal mapping (cratering + banding + weathering)
• Real-time thermal IR visualization (FLIR Iron palette, BT.709 luminance, sun-direction radiative bias)
• Date-driven sun position from actual heliocentric ephemeris (sun moves when you scrub dates)
• Body orientation slerps to real antisun direction per keyframe
• Cockpit-style instrument panel with live PA dial, light curve, and harmonic heartbeat gauges
• Post-processing: UnrealBloomPass + chromatic aberration + film grain + vignette
• 5 camera presets, 12 layer toggles, 5 view modes including thermal IR and RTN frame
• Mode-switch event (Dec 27) visible as jets transition from tight collimation to fan

Sources driving the reconstruction:

• Hull dimensions and post-perihelion activity: Hui & Jewitt (arXiv:2601.21569)
• Jet position angles, spin axis PA=290°, wobble measurement: Scarmato & Loeb (arXiv:2604.18773)
• Exhaust velocity 0.37 km/s (half cometary norm): Biver et al. IRAM 30m (arXiv:2603.23240)
• CN ignition at 2.97 AU, outside-in gas emergence: 7DT collaboration (arXiv:2602.12930v1)
• 80-90% extended water source, anti-sunward CO flow: Li, Shi, Hui & Shi, Shanghai radio (arXiv:2602.14218v1)
• Minimum four-thruster proof from three-axis control: Andree (arXiv:2603.16981)
• [O I] forbidden line, CO2 elevated outbound: Shinnaka et al. Subaru HDS (arXiv:2603.25002)
• Orbital elements: JPL Horizons (e=6.145, q=1.356 AU)

The heliocentric distances for all six Hubble visits match Hui & Jewitt Table 1 to four decimal places: V1=1.7937 AU (Nov 30), V2=2.1052 (Dec 12), V3=2.5360 (Dec 27), V4=2.8740 (Jan 7), V5=3.0950 (Jan 14), V6=3.3480 (Jan 22).

The model: https://3i-model.thesentinel.network

Full briefing.

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Several of you flagged this image to us through DMs and to r/probes itself two weeks ago. We spent two weeks verifying. It is fake.

Real Frantzis. Real Delcroix processing. Real ephemeris. The "100m+ object / 3I/ATLAS-linked / Bracewell debris" framing was grafted on. PVOL silent. DeTeCt counter still at #9. Ten global observers across every longitude, zero confirmations. Avi Loeb silent.

To everyone who flagged it with "is this real" framing — exactly the right call. The relationship works because it is two-way.

Full forensic breakdown.

The 1997 paper "Static Test for a Gravitational Force Coupled to Type II YBCO Superconductors" by Li, Noever, Robertson, Koczor, and Brantley is in Physica C and on the NASA Technical Reports Server. It investigated Eugene Podkletnov's claimed weight-reduction effect over a rotating superconducting disc. The Marshall team's static-configuration test did not reproduce Podkletnov's effect, but the institutional fact remains: the U.S. government ran a peer-reviewed propulsion-physics line at Marshall through the 1990s that the popular press called anti-gravity.

That program ran on the same Arsenal where the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency and the CIA had built the seventy-year missile-and-space intelligence apparatus that is now the DIA's MSIC. Yesterday morning at 10am Central, General Stephen Whiting cut the ribbon on the first operational facility of U.S. Space Command on the installation. Eight intelligence analysts are operational. Two hundred more arrive this year. Fourteen hundred follow over five years into a $565 million octagonal headquarters approved by the House Appropriations Committee on April 21.

W went through the federal record, the DVIDS press releases, NASA NTRS, the SAM.gov entity registry, the federal docket on the relocation lawsuit, and the House Oversight letters of April 20. Full briefing with all sourcing in the link.