• May 24, 2026

    It Was Never the Shootdown.

    48 hours with Pentagon UFO Release 02. The viral file is a feint. The signal is the geometry — and the geometry hasn't changed in 78 years.

    5 min read

  • May 22, 2026

    They Shot It Down on Camera. And That's Not Even the Weirdest File.

    The Pentagon's second UFO drop is 51 videos deep — including F-16 gun-camera infrared of a UAP being blown out of the sky over Lake Huron. Here's everything in PURSUE Release 02.

    5 min read

  • May 13, 2026

    What's still classified

    PURSUE Release 01 was 162 records. Here are the categories of UAP-related material it didn't release — by holding agency, by classification mechanism, by what it would take to pry each one loose. A reader's reference.

    7 min read

  • May 12, 2026

    AARO, explained

    What the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is, who runs it, what it has authority over, and how it relates to the PURSUE disclosure system. A primer for the next few weeks of coverage — and the years after.

    6 min read

  • May 11, 2026

    Five things you'll hear about PURSUE that aren't true

    Five misreadings of PURSUE Release 01 are already setting into the coverage cycle. Each is correctable from the source documents. A field guide for the next few weeks — and for every release that follows.

    5 min read

  • May 9, 2026

    What's actually in the files

    A close read of PURSUE Release 01 — 162 records, four agencies, three records that actually move the conversation, and a redaction pattern that tells you what's still being held.

    4 min read

  • May 8, 2026

    The Files: First Read

    162 declassified records dropped at war.gov/UFO. An open case on an Apollo 17 photograph, a 1963 White House memo on extraterrestrial diplomacy, and seven federal witnesses describing 'orbs launching other orbs.' First read.

    4 min read

  • May 8, 2026

    We're watching

    Short note before the file drop window opens. What we're looking for today — and what we're not.

    1 min read