The Pursue Files

The PURSUE Files — Stories With Diwakar
Stories With Diwakar
The Unsolved Series · No. 06
May 8, 2026 · Verified & Sourced · Pentagon Release

THE
PURSUE
FILES

The U.S. government just unlocked 78 years of UFO secrets. 162 files. Astronaut testimonies. Combat zone sightings. Infrared footage. Here is every verified fact — in the order that will make you question the sky.

10 MAY 2026· DIWAKAR KUMAR THAKUR· ~2,100 WORDS
BREAKING: 162 DECLASSIFIED UAP FILES RELEASED MAY 8, 2026/// SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR · WAR.GOV/UFO/// PURSUE · 120 PDFs · 28 VIDEOS · 14 IMAGES · 41 MINS/// RECORDS DATE BACK TO 1947 · NO CLEARANCE REQUIRED/// NEW TRANCHES EVERY FEW WEEKS · WAR.GOV/UFO/// BREAKING: 162 DECLASSIFIED UAP FILES RELEASED MAY 8, 2026/// SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR · WAR.GOV/UFO/// PURSUE · 120 PDFs · 28 VIDEOS · 14 IMAGES · 41 MINS/// RECORDS DATE BACK TO 1947 · NO CLEARANCE REQUIRED/// NEW TRANCHES EVERY FEW WEEKS · WAR.GOV/UFO///
Chapter 01

May 8, 2026. 9:16 AM.
The door opens.

The Pentagon pressed a button. A government website went live. And 78 years of classified records on unidentified objects in Earth's skies became available to anyone with an internet connection — no password, no clearance, no press conference. Just a URL: war.gov/UFO.

The site crashed within hours. Tens of millions of people tried to open the same door at once. The government had spent nearly eight decades locking these files away. The public consumed them in minutes.

What follows is every verified fact from the first release. Every claim is sourced directly from the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, the State Department, and Pentagon press materials. Nothing here is speculation. Nothing is embellished. The facts are unsettling enough on their own.

Deep space
DEEP SPACE · THOUSANDS OF GALAXIES · EACH ONE A SUN SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE NAMED
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Files Released
Day One
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Years of
Records
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Videos
Released
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Mins of UAP
Footage
Chapter 02

How the Lock
Was Finally Broken

In February 2026, Barack Obama appeared on a podcast and said aliens were "real." His team clarified within hours. But the quote had already gone everywhere. Days later, President Trump directed the Pentagon to "begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."

The program: PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. First tranche: 120 PDFs, 28 videos, 14 image files, 41 minutes of footage. Most show infrared — a white object tracked by military sensors, moving through air or space, never identified.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: "These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — and it's time the American people see it for themselves."

Whereas previous Administrations have failed to be transparent on this subject, with these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, 'WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?'

— PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP · TRUTH SOCIAL · MAY 8, 2026
Lunar surface
APOLLO 12 · LUNAR SURFACE · NOV 1969
Military radar
RADAR · UNIDENTIFIED CONTACT · ACTIVE TRACKING
Chapter 03

The Astronauts
Who Said Something

In December 1965, four and a half hours into Gemini 7, Frank Borman radioed Houston: "Bogey at 10 o'clock high." He described "hundreds of little particles going by to the left, out about three or four miles." Classified for 61 years. No explanation ever provided.

During Apollo 12, Alan L. Bean stood on the Moon and told mission control about "flashes of light" "sailing off in space." Then: "It looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon." Verbatim in the released files. Never explained.

The Apollo 17 files contain a NASA photograph from December 1972 described as showing "three 'dots' in a triangular formation" in the lunar sky. Astronaut Jack Schmitt also reported "a flash on the lunar surface north of Grimaldi crater." Both remain unresolved.

The Cases.
Verified. Still Open.
DRAG
Space
1965 · Gemini 7 · Classified 61 Years
Bogey at 10 O'Clock High
Frank Borman reported "hundreds of little particles" alongside the capsule, "out about three or four miles." Transcript now public. No explanation exists.
UNRESOLVED
Moon
1969 · Apollo 12 · Lunar Surface
Things Escaping the Moon
Alan Bean reported "flashes of light" "sailing off in space" — then told Houston: "It looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon."
UNRESOLVED
Document
1947 · Roswell, New Mexico · FBI Memo
The Hexagonal Disc
FBI Dallas memo now less redacted than any prior version. Air Force major reported "a flying disc" recovered near Roswell: hexagonal, suspended from a balloon by cable.
NEWLY UNREDACTED
Radar
2022–2024 · Iraq · Syria
UAP Over Active Operations
"One possible small UAP" Iraq 2022. "Multiple glares or light from unknown origin" Syria 2024. A craft crossed surveillance screens at high speed during an active strike mission.
UNDER REVIEW
Night sky
2023 · Western US · Federal Agents
Orbs Launching Orbs
Pentagon calls this "among the most compelling" reports. One orb described "similar to the Eye of Sauron." Another watched one "launch other orbs."
MOST COMPELLING — PENTAGON
Infrared
2023 · Greece · Infrared Video
90-Degree Turns at 80 MPH
Released video shows an object making multiple "90-degree turns at approximately 80 miles per hour." Such a manoeuvre would destroy any known aircraft and kill any pilot.
UNRESOLVED
Night sky

"Many of the materials have not yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies." — Pentagon, May 8, 2026

The Files Nobody
Told You About
TAP EACH FILE TO UNLOCK THE VERIFIED DETAIL
01The FBI's 21-Year Secret File — 1947 to 1968
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Spans 18 separate documents — Cold War era reports. Includes incidents at nuclear facility Oak Ridge, Tennessee, letters to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. A regional office warned: "continued appearance of such objects without official explanation may result in hysteria, or panic."
02The Football-Shaped Object Near Japan
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U.S. Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report and photograph of a UAP officially described as "resembling a football-shaped body" near Japan. Released May 8, 2026. Not identified as any known aircraft, drone, or natural phenomenon.
03The Bronze Ellipsoid — 195 Feet Long, Vanished Instantly
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FBI photo with eyewitness sketch. Witness described "an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light, 130 to 195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously." Larger than a Boeing 737. No conclusion in the released file.
04Drone Operator at a Classified U.S. Test Site — 2023
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FBI FaceTime interview with drone operator who observed "a linear object with a super bright light on the east side." Location redacted to protect "military sites not related to UAP." The UAP appeared above it regardless.
05State Department Cables — 40 Years, 6 Countries
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Cables from Papua New Guinea, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Mexico, and Tajikistan — 1985 to 2025. A 1994 Tajikistan cable relays a commercial pilot's encounter at 41,000 feet. None ever publicly acknowledged — until now.
Slide to Unlock
Official Positions
← DRAG RIGHT TO DECLASSIFY →
Pentagon · Official Position
No Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life
The files show "no indication that the U.S. government has had any interaction with beings from other planets." Official position, May 8, 2026. Simultaneously: 162 documents of encounters no one can explain.
NASA · Administrator Isaacman
"All That Remains to Be Discovered"
"We will remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered." The universe's secrets, as he put it, are not yet unlocked.
Intelligence · Director Gabbard
"First in an Ongoing Effort"
"Friday's action is the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort." More files every few weeks. What hasn't been released covers the same period as what has.
Infrared UAP
MILITARY INFRARED FOOTAGE · UAP TRACKED · OBJECT UNIDENTIFIED · WESTERN UNITED STATES · 2025
The 78-Year
Silence Breaks
JULY 1947
Roswell, New Mexico. A U.S. Air Force major calls FBI Dallas. Reports a hexagonal flying disc. File sealed for 79 years.
1947 – 1968
The FBI collects hundreds of flying disc reports across 18 documents. None made public. A regional office warns Hoover: unexplained sightings risk national panic.
DECEMBER 1965
Frank Borman, aboard Gemini 7, radios a bogey at 10 o'clock high. Transcript classified for 61 years.
NOVEMBER 1969
Alan Bean, on the Moon during Apollo 12, watches objects escape the lunar surface. Tells mission control. Never explained.
2021
Pentagon's first public UAP report: 144 sightings. Explains one. The remaining 143: unresolved.
FEBRUARY 2026
Obama says aliens are "real" on a podcast. He clarifies. The internet doesn't. Trump orders full disclosure.
MAY 8, 2026 — 9:16 AM
162 documents. 28 videos. 14 images. The site goes live. Website crashes within hours. Every classified transcript above — now readable by anyone on Earth.
FINAL CHAPTER

The files are open.
The answers are not.

The Pentagon released 162 documents on May 8, 2026. They span 78 years, six continents, dozens of trained military observers. Astronaut reports from the lunar surface. FBI memos to J. Edgar Hoover. Combat zone sightings. Diplomat cables from six countries. Federal agent encounters the Pentagon calls "among the most compelling" reports it holds.

At the end of almost every document: the same word. Unresolved.

The government did not release these files to tell you what the objects were. It released them to show you what was seen. Frank Borman saw something at 10 o'clock high in 1965. Alan Bean watched things escape the Moon in 1969. A drone operator at a classified test site saw a blinding linear object in 2023. Federal agents watched an orb launch other orbs. An object made 90-degree turns at 80 mph over Greece.

None of it has been explained. All of it is now public record. Additional files arrive every few weeks at war.gov/UFO. This declassification has barely begun.

The sky has always looked the same. What changed on May 8, 2026, is that the government stopped pretending the questions didn't exist.

While all of the files have been reviewed for security purposes, many of the materials have not yet been analyzed for resolution of any anomalies.

— U.S. DEPARTMENT OF WAR · OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE · MAY 8, 2026

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