On August 7, 2026, the Pentagon posted its fifth batch of UAP files under PURSUE, the administration’s disclosure program: 41 documents, images and videos from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and the Executive Office of the President, dating from 1950 to this year.

The oldest item is a Naval Photographic Interpretation Center memo on two films from Montana and Utah in 1950 and 1952. It called the objects inconsistent with natural phenomena or known aircraft. The most striking new account came from a former military pilot who told the Pentagon in 2024 about a night at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan in 2002: an object shaped like an equilateral triangle that blotted out the stars at about 4:30 a.m. and moved silently at a steady speed and height.

Six videos document a 2021 incident in the Gulf of Oman. A gunship crew on a live-fire exercise reported about 25 objects described as cold orbs moving between 250 and 1,300 mph. Newer material includes a 2025 clip of a sphere crossing a residential area, a federal special agent’s infrared recording of two slow-moving cold spots in the western U.S. this year, and an FBI interview about red, orb-like lights moving along a mountain ridge.

Defense officials called the files unresolved cases of undetermined origin. Many images in the batch are artists’ renderings of witness accounts, not recordings. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said more files would follow on a rolling basis.