Project file
PURSUE-RELEASE-01
Summary
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Related records in BlueBook
6 linked records
2001-10-28 / Kodori Gorge, Georgia
A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian planes flew over or bombed positions in the Kodori Gorge on October 28 and 29, despite Georgian accusations. MFA Georgia Desk Chief Tereoken echoed the denial but added that "any side" could have sent planes over Kodori, prompting the embassy to comment that "to posit that they could be UFOs would be humorous if it were not for the seriousness of the violations.
1945-09-18 / 3 miles SW of SEATTLE-FORT, Louisiana
Headquarters Air Material Command, Dayton, Ohio transmitted Incident Summary Sheets 173 through 233 on March 9, 1949, covering sightings from September 1945 through October 1948. Observers in Louisiana, New Mexico, and California reported objects described variously as aluminum-colored and metallic, cone-shaped and encased in flame, perfectly circular and flat, bright silvery and egg-shaped, and amoeba-like with oscillating appendages. The summary sheets record no determination of what the objects were.
2025-01-01 / United States
An FBI 302 interview, classified SECRET//NOFORN, documents a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour aerial search at a US military facility in 2025. Personnel aboard a state partner helicopter observed a "super-hot" orb that came within ten feet of the aircraft before traveling an estimated 20 miles southeast at a speed the helicopter could not match. Over the following thirty minutes, crews observed a swarm of lights too many to count, and repeated formations of four to six oval orange orbs with white or yellow centers that flared up and down in sequence.
2023-01-01 / Western United States
Seven federal law enforcement special agents working in the western United States reported four categories of sightings over two days in 2023. The reported events included orange orbs launching smaller red orbs at dusk, a large glowing orange orb hovering near a rock pinnacle, a kite-shaped object with lights pursued after being mistaken for a car, and a transparent kite-shaped object roughly 6 meters off the ground through which stars were faintly visible. The Department of War summary was released by AARO on May 8, 2026.
2022-07-31 / Syria
A U.S. Air Force operator assigned to the 89th Attack Squadron observed a UAP over Syria at 02:39Z on 31 July 2022, during an armed reconnaissance mission flown from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan. The GENTEXT section of the MISREP states the UAP occurred in KP 9 near grid 37SFU27, moved from north to south, and lasted less than one minute. The observing aircraft was at 19,359 feet and 116 knots; no UAP signatures were detected. Physical description fields are redacted under FOIA Exemption (b)(6).
2024-07-14 / Gulf of Aden