Pentagon releases more UAP videos, still no breakthrough
The U.S. Department of War released the fourth batch of UAP material from the PURSUE program on July 10. According to an analysis by The Debrief, most of the new military footage is blurry, and several of the objects are very likely ordinary balloons.
The Department of War on Friday released the fourth batch of material from the program called PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters). The collection includes several previously unseen military videos gathered by AARO, the Pentagon's office handling UAP matters, as well as historical documents going back as far as the 1940s. Most of the documents, however, had already been public through releases by other government agencies.
Sean Parnell, the department's spokesperson, indicated in a statement that the materials remain available at war.gov/UFO and that the next batch is already in preparation and is expected to be published within weeks.
According to Micah Hanks, editor-in-chief of The Debrief, the new footage, like the earlier releases, offers little to go on: it was mostly recorded by the targeting systems of fighter jets or drones, in a few cases by cameras on civilian aircraft, and it shows tiny, blurred spots.
Some of the more interesting items in the batch:
- Space shuttle photos from 1996: During Columbia's STS-80 mission, the astronauts took three images of a triangular or cone-shaped object seen in low Earth orbit. Experts generally explain similar images from the mission as highly reflective ice particles shed by the spacecraft.
- Middle East, 2023: The video shows two objects passing through the field of view. According to the article, the unusual shape may also result from a sensor error, just as in earlier footage star-shaped spikes caused by light diffraction were mistaken for the object's actual form.
- Western United States, 2020: This footage is notable mainly because it resembles the famous 2004 "Tic Tac" video in appearance, but it contains no meaningful additional information.
- Eastern United States, 2019: The observer, who served 28 years in the Air Force and the Navy, claimed to have never seen similar flight characteristics.
- Atlantic Ocean, 2020: A dark, maroon object estimated at 4–5 meters, which drifted with the wind and which the witnesses themselves likened to a large, deformed balloon. The Debrief agrees and notes that in other videos the payload hanging beneath balloons can also be made out.
According to the outlet's summary, the four PURSUE batches released so far contain not a single piece of footage that clearly points to an unknown aircraft or unusual, advanced technology. The original footage: https://www.war.gov/UFO/