A tranche-by-tranche review of the Pentagon's 2026 PURSUE releases and the National Archives' parallel UAP collection finds most material was previously known, some is newly official confirmation of long-suspected Cold War doctrine, and a meaningful slice — including congressionally demanded videos — simply isn't there.
Read full report →A single outlet, The Debrief, has seeded claims that propagated across dozens of documents in the UAP news ecosystem — raising questions about how a handful of interconnected journalists and researchers are shaping what the public believes it knows about UFO disclosure.
Emery Smith has spent years describing classified underground labs, non-human autopsies, and advanced alien technology in extraordinary detail — all without a single corroborating document, official response, or verifiable record. The gap between the specificity of his claims and the absence of any paper trail is the story.
A chain of researchers — Bill Chalker, George Pedley, Shane Ryan — has quietly assembled a picture of the 1966 Tully UFO incident that Australia's official investigators never completed. At its center is a newly surfaced letter from a credible friend of the Prime Minister, raising a pointed question about why the RAAF never spoke to the man who started everything.
While Ross Coulthart reports on secret American bases in Antarctica, the actual gap NASA's own independent study team identified is simpler and more verifiable: the agency's Earth-observing satellites typically lack the resolution to detect relatively small UAP at all. That bureaucratic admission — sitting in a primary government document — may matter more than any of the Antarctica claims.
John Greenewald's Black Vault has begun publishing a curated collection of Stanton Friedman's writings, raising questions about what the archive preserves, what it omits, and how the claims inside those documents hold up against the record.
The leading prosaic explanation for what crashed near Roswell in 1947 rests partly on a balloon flight that its own documentation shows never completed. A close reading of the Randle-Gilles exchange reveals how thin — and how contested — that foundation actually is.
The parents of Chandra Levy, the Washington intern murdered in 2001, have told media outlets they believe their daughter's death may be connected to UFOs and that she may have known too much. No evidence supporting that theory has been made public.
Steven Spielberg's new UFO film is drawing early critical praise, but the conversation around its release has surfaced a parallel story: Australian UFO researcher Bill Chalker's long-standing, unpublished verdict that a celebrated alien abduction case was a hoax — with a possible Scientology connection no one has fully traced.
Cardinal Robert McElroy has removed Monsignor Stephen Rossetti from the Archdiocese of Washington's exorcism ministry after Rossetti publicly claimed that many UFO sightings are best explained as demonic activity — a decision that sits at the collision point between the Church's cautious institutional posture on extraterrestrial life and a growing internal debate within Catholic circles about what, exactly, is flying in our skies.