The war.gov/UFO documents page hosts a slideshow of 17 images drawn from PURSUE Release 01. These are not historical illustrations or simulations. They are operational government imagery — infrared sensor captures, military operator footage, archival mission photography — that the US government has reviewed and designated as unresolved. No definitive determination of the nature of the observed phenomena has been made for any of them.
The FBI Infrared Images
The slideshow opens with four FBI infrared images from the western United States, captured in December 2025 and September 2025. All are designated “black hot” infrared — a presentation mode where hotter objects appear darker. One image shows an object below a helicopter. One shows multiple objects simultaneously. These images are recent — within six months of the release date. The FBI case 62-HQ-83894, whose documents dominate Release 01, is the national headquarters case from which these images originate.
Apollo 17: Three Lights Above the Lunar Terrain
The eighth image in the slideshow is archival: “Archival imagery from the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. The yellow box contains an enlarged area of the original photo in which three lights are visible above the lunar terrain.” Apollo 17 launched December 7, 1972. This is 1972 NASA mission photography, now included in a 2026 Department of War UAP declassification release, with a yellow annotation box highlighting three unexplained lights above the Moon’s surface. The US government is formally designating a 1972 lunar photograph as an unresolved UAP case.
The PR-Series Military Cases
The remaining slideshow images are drawn from the AARO PR-series of unresolved military UAP reports:
- PR-19: Middle East, May 2022 — US military operator reported UAP flying across their screen
- PR-26: United Arab Emirates, October 2023 — inverted teardrop with vertical pole, fast-moving over water
- PR-34: Greece, October 2023 — scope lines over grey background, black geometric shapes
- PR-35: Greece, October 2023 — UAP flying straight above ocean toward land
- PR-38: Middle East, 2013 — “eight-pointed area of contrast captured via infrared sensor”
- PR-43: Africa, 2025 — military operator reported UAP within African airspace
- PR-45: Middle East, 2020 — US Air Force reported UAP in southern United States (note: listed as Middle East designation but described as southern US)
- PR-46: INDOPACOM, 2024 — “resembles a football-shaped body” near Japan
- PR-49: Department of Army, North America, 2026
What PR-38 Suggests About DEW
PR-38 — Middle East 2013 — is described as “an eight-pointed area of contrast captured via infrared sensor.” Infrared sensors detect heat differentials. Conventional aircraft produce thermal signatures characteristic of jet engine exhaust — elongated, directional, heat gradient. An “eight-pointed area of contrast” is a radially symmetric infrared pattern. That is not a propulsion exhaust signature. It is consistent with an object emitting or radiating electromagnetic energy outward in a symmetric pattern — the thermal signature of a directed energy emitter, not a combustion-based propulsion system.
Source: war.gov/UFO/Documents/. PURSUE Release 01. war.gov slideshow imagery, May 8, 2026.