On August 7, 2026 , the U.S. Department of War released PURSUE Release 05 , the fifth tranche of government UFO/UAP records made public under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The government describes the archive as a rolling effort to identify, review, declassify and release unresolved UAP records from across federal agencies. Release 05 follows earlier drops on May 8, May 22, June 12 and July 10. You'd think I'd learned my lesson by now, but I haven't. The immediate online reaction has centered on the new video material. A rapidly growing r/UFOs discussion highlighting four of the newly released clips accumulated hundreds of upvotes within hours, while another community compilation identified 16 videos in the tranche, including multiple recordings associated with a September 2021 Gulf of Oman incident, five Pacific Ocean clips from 2019, Middle East infrared footage and a recent FBI thermal recording from the western United States. N...