Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said publicly that expectations would be high for UAP file releases, acknowledging the public interest while warning against over-promising. Three months later PURSUE went live with 161 files.
Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger reported on an alleged unacknowledged special access program called Immaculate Constellation — a government operation secretly collecting data, imagery and evidence on UAP encounters. If real, it would be the most significant UAP program revelation since Grusch.
In 1952, during the famous Washington DC UFO wave, a Navy officer reportedly recovered a fragment from a downed UAP near the capital. The fragment was sent to Canadian engineer Wilbert Smith, analyzed by the Bureau of Standards, and found to be of unknown composition. AARO’s own historical report references the incident.
The U.S. Department of Energy has UAP files documenting puzzling aerial incursions near American nuclear facilities. The DOE is now formally part of the PURSUE release program — and its files may be the most significant tranche yet to come.
The FBI confirmed it operates a secretive internal UAP Working Group. Agents involved now worry their positions could be eliminated amid broader federal agency restructuring. The Bureau also handed its first batch of classified UAP documents to the Pentagon days before the PURSUE release.
The U.S. Navy denied a FOIA appeal for 78 classified UAP photographs on February 24 2026 — five days after Trump directed all agencies to begin releasing UAP files. The Office of the Judge Advocate General ruled the photos remain classified under national security exemptions with no possibility of segregation.
Declassified documents show AARO convened a Space Tiger Team in late 2023 to build a detection and reporting framework for spaceborne and transmedium UAP. USSPACECOM, NORAD, NSA, NRO and Space Force all participated.
FOIA documents obtained by The Black Vault reveal NASA held internal meetings in June 2025 to plan communications strategy for announcing confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial life. Key sections remain redacted.
The U.S. Army entered a formal agreement with Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy to test materials allegedly recovered from UAP. They confirmed the testing. Then the secrecy apparatus closed around the results — classified for years.
Retired USAF Major General Neil McCasland — former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, former head of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee, and the man Tom DeLonge told Podesta was in charge of all of the stuff — vanished from Albuquerque on February 27, 2026. The FBI is involved. He has not been found.
AARO director Dr. Jon Kosloski says UAP cases exist that he cannot explain with his physics and engineering background. His predecessor confirmed AARO encountered craft performing maneuvers no known human system could replicate — and proved it was not US or adversary technology.
A complete chronological record of US government UAP disclosure events — from the 1947 Roswell recovery and MJ-12 establishment through Project Blue Book, the 1994 GAO investigation, AATIP, the 2017 video releases, the NDAA UAP provisions, the Grusch testimony, and the May 8, 2026 file release.
Col. Matthew McCasland commanded AFRL at Wright-Patterson and Kirtland. Monica Reza invented the Mondaloy super-alloy under programmes McCasland supervised 2001-2004. Both are missing. This is the strongest documented connection between any two cases in the investigation.
Mark Sullivan worked at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB. He requested a Congressional interview about UAP. The Intelligence Community Inspector General assessed his subsequent death as ‘urgent and credible.’ He never testified.
Phil Schneider was a government geological engineer who claimed involvement in building underground military bases and a violent encounter with non-human entities at Dulce, New Mexico. He gave public lectures in 1995-96 stating he expected to be killed. He was found dead January 17, 1996, with a catheter cord around his neck. Ruled suicide.
Jacques Vallée — the astrophysicist who served as the model for the French scientist in Close Encounters — has argued for 50 years that UAP are not extraterrestrial vehicles but manifestations of an interdimensional control system that has been manipulating human consciousness and culture throughout history. The Collins Elite may have reached the same conclusion through classified channels.
On February 19, 2026, President Trump posted on Truth Social that he was directing agencies to begin identifying and releasing UAP files. The key word is ‘begin.’ Nothing was declassified by the post. Here is a plain-language breakdown of what the directive does and doesn’t do.
DIA official James Lacatski visited Skinwalker Ranch after reading a book about it. He had an anomalous experience. He told Senator Harry Reid. The result was AAWSAP — a $22 million classified programme. The ranch is now under DoD-funded active research. One property directly produced the modern US UAP disclosure movement.
Dr. Ning Li published peer-reviewed papers on anti-gravity via superconductor disc in the early 1990s. NASA and the US Army funded her. She formed AC Gravity LLC in 1999 with further Army funding. Then she disappeared from public view entirely. She died in 2021. No results from AC Gravity LLC have ever been published.
Dr. Salvatore Pais filed patents at the Naval Air Warfare Center describing inertial mass reduction via electromagnetic fields, a compact fusion reactor, and a room-temperature superconductor. When the USPTO said the claims were not credible, the Navy submitted a letter defending them. The Navy’s institutional endorsement of exotic propulsion physics is now in the public record.
