PURSUE Release 3 Is Here
The U.S. Department of War's third declassified UAP release has been processed, researched, and added to the archive, led by AARO's "Orbs Launching Orbs" case: six federal law enforcement agents, a sensitive western US site, and roughly 40 percent of the activity still unexplained.
Release 3 is the largest yet: 53 new bilingual research articles drawn directly from the documents, plus new videos, FBI digital renderings, and NASA astronaut audio. We read every page, wrote original English research and translated it into Hebrew, and folded all of it into the existing archive. Here is what was added.
What's New in Release 3
- ▪53 new bilingual research articles, written directly from the documents.
- ▪Two new categories: the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and U.S. Government (Congress & White House).
- ▪The Western US Event: a signed AARO case file, a notional map, five first-hand witness narratives, and ten FBI digital renderings.
- ▪New media: 6 videos, 10 FBI renderings, and 3 NASA astronaut audio debriefings.
The Headline Finding: The Western US Event
AARO Unresolved Case Analysis: "Orbs Launching Orbs"
The signed AARO memorandum on the Western US Event. After cross-correlating flight logs, radar and ADS-B data, AARO ruled out aircraft exhaust, found drones and natural phenomena unlikely, attributed ~60 percent to military flares, and left ~40 percent unresolved, with "unrecognized technology" carried as a pending hypothesis.
→Witness 2: The Most Detailed Narrative
A federal agent describes a bright orb that "expelled three or four red lights" maneuvering "with perfect, smooth coordination," objects that "toyed" with the agents and moved "inconsistent with physics," a comparison to the 1990s Phoenix Lights, and an analogy to "the opening and closing of a portal."
→The Western US Event: All Seven Documents
AARO Case Analysis Update
The signed, unresolved-case determination for the Western US Event.
Notional Map of the Event
Names and locates all four incidents: "Orbs Launching Orbs," "Fiery Orb," "Dark Kite," "Translucent Kite."
Witness 1 Narrative
A "bright lava" circle of light and a partly transparent object: "I could see a star through the object."
Witness 2 Narrative
The longest account: the "portal" analogy, the "box truck" of lights, and a Phoenix Lights comparison.
Witness 3 Narrative
Red orbs expelled "like grapes from a basketball"; a vehicle that floated off-road leaving no tracks.
Witness 4 Narrative
Orbs that "hatched" smaller lights, formations of diamonds and hexagons, an object "using the terrain to stay hidden."
Witness 5 Narrative
The redacted, timestamped account: a red-and-white "light pair" that became "a very thin line," with hand-drawn sketches.
Two New Categories
For the first time the archive includes a formal Intelligence Community Assessment and records from Congress and the White House.
Across the Rest of Release 3
Beyond the Western US Event, the release expanded several existing categories with both historical and modern documents.
New Media
Six new videos, ten FBI digital renderings of the Western US Event, and three NASA astronaut audio debriefings have been added to the archive.
Why It Matters
- ▪The Western US Event is a signed AARO admission that a specific, multi-witness incident near a sensitive national security site remains unresolved, and that "unrecognized technology" cannot be excluded for roughly 40 percent of it.
- ▪The witnesses are not civilians but six federal law enforcement special agents, whose first-hand narratives are released here in full.
- ▪Release 3 stretches the archive from 1960s astronaut debriefings to a formal Intelligence Community Assessment, deepening the through-line connecting the FBI, CIA, NASA and AARO.