PURSUE
Serves as the formal federal mechanism releasing historic defense and intelligence UAP/plasma files.
01 Definition
02 Detailed_Analysis
PURSUE (Presidential UAP Unsealing System) is an interagency federal declassification initiative activated in May 2026 under the Trump administration, coordinating across the ODNI, DoD (AARO), DOE, NASA, FBI, and White House. Mandated to systematically review and release historical government documentation on unresolved aerospace phenomena, its public releases have included official FBI FD-302 and FD-1057 records detailing corroborated multi-sensor and visual observations of high-velocity atmospheric 'plasma orbs.'
03 Key_Facts
- ▸ Interagency effort coordinating ODNI, DoD/AARO, DOE, FBI, and NASA declassification
- ▸ Activated on May 8, 2026, releasing hundreds of historical declassified UAP documents
- ▸ Declassified FBI field reports detailing multiple corroborated 'plasma orb' observations
04 Deep_Dive_Intelligence
PURSUE was activated May 8, 2026 by the Trump administration as an interagency effort involving the White House, ODNI, DOE, DoD/AARO, NASA, and FBI. It publishes declassified UAP records in tranches. Release 1 (May 8, 2026) included 159-161 declassified UAP files — the largest government release in history. Release 3 (June 12, 2026) included 53 documents, 10 digital renderings, 6 videos, and 3 NASA audio recordings. Among the Release 3 documents are FBI files (FD-1057s and FD-302s) describing 'plasma orbs' — repeated observations of UAS/UAP appearing as plasma orbs in the northeastern United States. FBI special agents corroborated the observations with 'full line of sight.' Witnesses described 'an intense, bright light' hovering, 'a red sphere that was about one meter in diameter' with 'a white plasma sun approximately the size of a basketball' at its center. Multiple orbs were observed: 'two orbs then moved together.' The descriptions are consistent with ESTS plasma physics — a spinning plasma toroid that appears as a luminous sphere with a bright core.
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DOW-UAP-PR067. 4 minute 50 second infrared video from March 25 2022. Multiple spherical UAP near a surfaced US submarine moving in and out of water. First PURSUE entry to capture multiple transmedium
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