THE UFO STORY HAS LEFT THE BASEMENT — NOW ABC NEWS IS SERVING THE ORBS
Something changed in the last 24 hours, and it wasn’t the UFO. It was the audience. The Pentagon’s fifth PURSUE release, originally posted on August 7, 2026, has now broken decisively out of the usual UFO/UAP ecosystem and into broader mainstream circulation. EarthSky published a fresh breakdown on August 12, while ABC World News Tonight amplified the new Pentagon material across its national platforms. � EarthSky +2 That matters because Release 05 contains 41 files: 16 videos, 22 documents and three images drawn from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department and Executive Office of the President. The government says the archive contains unresolved cases and explicitly cautions that unresolved can simply mean insufficient data—not extraterrestrials arriving late for dinner. � EarthSky +1 But one case is proving especially sticky. During a September 8, 2021 live-fire exercise over the Gulf of Oman, an intelligence report says personnel observed roughly 25 UAP incidents. The o...