Section · Named entities
People, places, and programs.
40 named entities that recur across the PURSUE corpus and adjacent UAP literature. Each entity page carries a short disambiguation note plus every case in the archive that mentions the entity by name.
This is a curated list, not an extraction from PDF text. Additions arrive as new entities become load-bearing to the record.
Person (21)
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Founding director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), December 2022 to December 2023.
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Former National Reconnaissance Office and NGA official, prime whistleblower witness in the July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing.
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Former Pentagon official, ran the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) 2010-2017.
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Chair of the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets.
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Missouri Republican, sponsor of the FY2027 NDAA UAP Disclosure Amendment adopted by the House on July 23, 2026.
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US Navy F/A-18F pilot, commanding officer of VFA-41 Black Aces at the time of the November 14, 2004 USS Nimitz tic-tac encounter.
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Former US Navy F/A-18F pilot (VFA-11 Red Rippers), sworn witness at the July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA).
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Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, principal architect of the hydrogen bomb.
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Former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships (2020-2021) and NASA Advisory Council member.
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Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence at the time of the May 17, 2022 House Intelligence UAP hearing, the first open congressional UAP hearing since 1966.
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Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security at the time of the May 17, 2022 House Intelligence UAP hearing.
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Wisconsin Republican, chair of the House Oversight National Security Subcommittee.
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South Carolina Republican, chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation.
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Indiana Democrat, chair of the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee at the time of the May 17, 2022 UAP hearing.
Place (7)
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US Air Force air-defense complex housing NORAD command elements, near Colorado Springs.
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Department of Energy nuclear-weapons assembly and disassembly facility near Amarillo, Texas.
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US nuclear-weapons engineering laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Site of the February 12, 2023 NORAD F-16 engagement in which a Selfridge ANGB F-16 fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at an unidentified object.
Sensor / instrument (3)
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Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared pod (Raytheon AN/ASQ-228), the primary targeting sensor on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
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Short-range infrared air-to-air missile carried by USAF, USN, and USMC fighter aircraft.
Military unit (2)
Program (4)
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US Air Force UAP investigation program, 1952-1969, succeeding Project Grudge (1949-1951) and Project Sign (1947-1949).
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The first US Air Force UAP investigation program, established December 30, 1947 by Gen.