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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 ·The Editor

The first batch was paper. Memos. Faded photos. Stuff your skeptic uncle could wave off over Thanksgiving.

This one is the tape.

At dawn on May 22, the Department of War quietly slid the second tranche of its UFO archive onto war.gov/ufo — and then went back to bed like they hadn’t just dropped a bomb. 64 brand-new records. FIFTY-ONE of them video. Plus astronaut audio. Plus Cold War files that have been buried since Truman was in office.

And here’s the kicker nobody’s saying out loud: the Pentagon is releasing footage it openly admits it can’t fully account for. Almost every clip carries the same chilling fine print — “many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody.” They found this stuff sitting on a classified network after eight members of Congress kicked down the door on March 6 demanding 51 specific files. The government went looking, found a vault of footage somebody had quietly stockpiled, and is now dumping it on the public.

Buckle up.

🔥 #1: An F-16 shoots a UAP down over Lake Huron — and you can watch

This is the one. DOW-UAP-PR071. Forty-six seconds of infrared from an Air National Guard F-16C, February 12, 2023 — the date the news told you was “just a balloon.”

Read the Pentagon’s own words:

“At the 20 second mark, the footage appears to depict a kinetic interaction between two distinct areas of contrast, with the initial subject of the footage fragmenting in a radial displacement pattern that suggests a high-energy event.”

Strip out the lab coat and that sentence says: a jet locked on, a missile flew, and the object SHATTERED. We’ve argued about this for three years with nothing but press-conference soundbites. Now the gun camera is on a government website. Let that sink in.

🛸 #2: The Coast Guard filmed a Tic Tac

The shape that started it all is BACK. DOW-UAP-PR065 and PR066 — two infrared clips from a U.S. Coast Guard C-144 near Tyndall AFB, April 24, 2024. The person who filed them didn’t mince words. They named the files “TIC TAC IR hot.”

For thirty-plus seconds a hot, smooth, lozenge-shaped contact glides across the sensor while the operator scrambles to keep it in frame. If “Tic Tac” rings a bell, it should — it’s the exact descriptor Navy pilots used off the USS Nimitz. Now the Coast Guard’s got one too.

🌊 #3: The ocean isn’t safe either — USOs next to a submarine

Here’s where it gets genuinely strange. DOW-UAP-PR067: “Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub… 2022/03/25 in and out of water.” Nearly five minutes of spherical objects darting through an infrared field — diving below the surface and popping back out — while a sensor frantically tracks them, right next to a U.S. submarine.

It’s not a one-off. PR052 shows a four-object “UAP USO Formation.” PR050 shows “4 UAP Formation Iran, over water.” Across this entire release one theme screams off the page: spheres. Formations. Water. Whatever these are, they don’t care if it’s sky or sea.

👁️ #4: The file that should terrify you — because it’s from last year

Everything above could be dismissed as “old news, finally on video.” ODNI-UAP-D001 cannot.

It’s a first-hand written statement from a senior U.S. intelligence official who is STILL SERVING right now, in 2026. In late 2025, riding in a helicopter near a sensitive U.S. military facility, this official describes:

  • “Glowing orbs” — up close and far away
  • A low, high-speed object that SPLIT IN TWO and rocketed off in two directions at once
  • Multiple orbs at altitude, some close enough to the chopper to set off alarm bells

This isn’t a yellowed memo from the Eisenhower years. This is a sitting intelligence official telling you it happened to him last year. The account even comes paired with ground-based infrared shot by other federal officials during the same incident.

🟢 #5: The green orbs of 1948 (and the nuclear connection nobody will touch)

Now for the deep history. DOW-UAP-D017 is 116 pages from the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program — the direct successor to the Manhattan Project — cataloging 209 sightings of “green orbs,” “discs,” and “fireballs” around Sandia Base, New Mexico, 1948–1950.

Witnesses watched them maneuver. Vanish. Explode. Investigators got so spooked they went hunting for “residual copper powder” at the sighting sites. These reports literally helped birth Project Grudge, the Air Force’s early UFO program.

And it’s not isolated. This same drop hands us:

  • CIA, USSR, 1973: a spy’s report of a silent, luminous bright-green object over the Soviet Union, surrounded by concentric circles that formed and faded over several minutes.
  • The Los Alamos files (Dept. of Energy): personal letters from physicist James Tuck chasing UFOs in the '70s, a 1986 lecture invite titled “Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?”, and an enhanced radar-tower image from Pantex — the plant where America assembles its nukes.

Notice the pattern? Every decade. Same files. UAP and nuclear weapons, hand in hand. They keep showing up wherever we keep the bombs. Make of that what you will. We have.

🚀 #6: And the astronauts heard it too

Seven NASA audio clips drop you straight into the cockpit of the space race:

  • Apollo 17 (Dec 1972): Cernan, Schmitt and Evans describe bright “particles” — “jagged,” “angular” — drifting outside the ship and the spent rocket stage, “twinkling” as they move.
  • Apollo 12 (1969) medical debrief, plus Mercury Atlas 7, 8, 9 (1962–63) and Mercury-Redstone 4 (1961).

Real talk: the astronauts themselves figure it’s paint flakes and ice. We’re not going to pretend otherwise. But it’s raw, unedited audio from the only humans who’ve ever left the planet — and now you get to listen and decide.

🧾 The part the debunkers won’t tell you

Here’s what makes this more credible, not less:

  • The Pentagon never says the word “alien.” It says “area of contrast.” It refuses to call them objects.
  • It admits the chain-of-custody is shaky on the videos.
  • It files every one of these under “unresolved” — meaning the most powerful military on Earth looked at this footage and could not explain it.

They’re not selling you a story. They’re handing you the evidence and saying “we give up — you try.” That’s not a cover-up. That’s a dare.

📥 Get the files before they’re gone

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, on the record: “These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves.”

And he’s not done. The DoW says new tranches will keep dropping “every few weeks,” with lawmakers teasing a backlog of up to 46 more videos. The dam didn’t crack today. It broke.

We’re covering every single drop. Don’t blink.