On June 12, 2026, the Department of War published the third tranche of PURSUE files – over 70 documents and six videos. The White House tweeted it with a UFO emoji. The portal has now received 1.7 billion hits worldwide since its May 8 launch.

But buried in the bureaucratic language of mid-century military memos is something more significant than the orb footage that dominated cable news coverage. The Pentagon’s own files – released by the Pentagon itself – now directly contradict the Pentagon’s official position on UAP.

”A Cycle of Reappearance Is Becoming Apparent”

The most explosive document in Tranche 3 isn’t a video. It’s a 1948 Navy memorandum in which the Director of Intelligence, U.S. Air Force informed the Navy Department that:

“A cycle of reappearance of ‘Flying Discs’ is becoming apparent, and that the beginning of a new interval is imminent.”

Read that again. In 1948 – one year after Roswell – Air Force intelligence was telling the Navy that disc appearances followed predictable cycles. Not random sightings. Not weather balloons. Cyclical phenomena with patterns regular enough to forecast. The word “imminent” means they were tracking the intervals closely enough to predict the next wave.

Chris Sharp (Liberation Times) highlighted the document’s implications: “Flying Discs in 1948! Not Chinese drones. Not balloons. Discs.” He noted that the Department of War is now in a “messaging crisis” – releasing files that describe recurring disc phenomena in the 1940s while its own AARO office maintains there is “no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.”

Both positions cannot be true. The Pentagon’s left hand is now publicly contradicting its right.

AARO’s Own Director: 40% “Cannot Be Explained”

The second bombshell is a letter written by the current director of AARO (the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office), John Koslosski, detailing an event that occurred over two days in October 2023 in the western United States.

As Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb explained in his CBS News analysis, the letter describes six federal law enforcement agents who independently observed orbs launching other orbs over a two-day period. Koslosski’s office evaluated the data and concluded that while approximately 60% of what was observed can be attributed to flares or known equipment (U.S. or foreign), 40% of the details cannot be explained – “not because of lack of data,” Loeb emphasized, but because the available data itself defies conventional explanation.

This is the office created specifically to explain UAP. Its own director is now on record saying a significant portion of a well-documented, multi-witness federal law enforcement encounter has no explanation.

The Colorado Springs Object: Five Soldiers, Broad Daylight, Cheyenne Mountain

Among the most credible individual sightings in the release is a 2022 incident at Fort Carson, Colorado, near Cheyenne Mountain – the underground complex that houses NORAD and USNORTHCOM.

Five soldiers independently observed a white, “potato-shaped” object hovering in broad daylight near one of the most heavily defended military installations in the world. The Intelligence Community produced its own analysis of the event (file ICA-UAP-D001). A digital rendering was created based on the witnesses’ descriptions.

Loeb called it “a very reliable report” given the number of trained military observers, daylight conditions, and proximity to a strategic asset.

The CIA Destroyed a “Message From Space”

The Daily Mail reported that among the Tranche 3 documents is evidence that the CIA destroyed what was described as a “message from space.” The details of what the message contained, when it was received, and why it was destroyed remain unclear – but the implication is staggering. An intelligence agency received something it categorized as an extraterrestrial communication and chose to destroy rather than preserve or disclose it.

Zimbabwe 2008: CIA on “High Alert”

A previously classified cable reveals that a UFO event in Harare, Zimbabwe in the summer of 2008 placed the CIA on “high alert.” The cable indicates the sighting triggered “vigorous internal debate about whether the aircraft was an advanced reconnaissance device belonging to a foreign government, or whether the object was an unidentified flying object.”

The document demonstrates that as recently as 2008, senior intelligence officials were seriously entertaining the non-terrestrial hypothesis in classified communications – even as the public line remained denial.

Orbs Launching Orbs – Again

The Tranche 3 videos are dominated by orb sightings from the northeastern United States, spanning 2021 to 2025. While Mick West noted these appear to come from a single repeat witness (whose videos were partially released previously, with one attributed to Chinese lanterns), the AARO director’s own letter confirms that the multi-agent western US encounter – involving identical behavior of orbs deploying smaller orbs – remains partially unexplained.

This connects directly to documents Burlison flagged in Release 01: the “USPER STATEMENT ABOUT UAP SIGHTING” and “WESTERN US EVENT” files describing federal officials reporting the same orbs-launching-orbs behavior. The pattern is now documented across multiple releases, multiple years, and multiple independent witness groups.

1.7 Billion Hits and a Messaging Crisis

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that war.gov/UFO has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since May 8. The administration and its agency partners are “actively working on the next release.”

But as Sharp observed, the Department of War now faces an impossible rhetorical position. Its AARO office says there’s no evidence. Its own declassified files describe predictable cycles of disc activity, objects that defy explanation by the office built to explain them, and intelligence agencies destroying extraterrestrial communications. The messaging crisis isn’t coming. It’s here.

What’s Still Missing

Three tranches in, the PURSUE releases remain heavy on orbs, historical memos, and witness statements – and conspicuously light on:

  • The 46 classified UAP videos Congress demanded
  • CIA material – as Burlison noted this week, the agency remains “noticeably absent”
  • NRO or space-based platform data
  • Material related to crash retrievals or biological evidence
  • Anything from the contractor programs that Burchett says hold the real secrets

The door is open wider than it’s ever been. But the most important rooms are still locked – and the CIA still has the key.

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