PURSUE Release 05, fifth tranche
Fifth tranche of declassified UAP records released through the PURSUE portal on August 7, 2026. At least 16 confirmed videos: DoW Gulf of Oman 2021 cluster (6), DoW Pacific Ocean 2019 cluster (5), CENTCOM Middle East 2023/2025 additions (4), and FBI-UAP-PR007 slow-moving objects Northeastern US 2026 (1). Documents and images not yet enumerated.
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FBI-UAP-PR007 · video · Release 05
Provenance metadataFields marked “not disclosed” are transparent gaps in the release, not omissions on our end.
- Coordinates
- Not disclosed in this release
- Altitude
- Not disclosed in this release
- Sensor detail
- Not disclosed in this release
- Encounter duration
- Not disclosed in this release
- Witness count
- Not disclosed in this release
- Operational context
- Not disclosed in this release
- Weather / visibility
- Not disclosed in this release
- Chain of custody
- Not disclosed in this release
- Classification
- Not disclosed in this release
Official description
On August 7, 2026 the Department of War added a fifth batch of files through PURSUE. DVIDS enumeration confirms sixteen new videos; a corresponding war.gov news-release announcement URL has not been located in publicly indexable sources at the time of this cataloging.
Editor's context
R05 continues the multi-agency PURSUE cadence established from R01 through R04. Unlike prior tranches, we have not been able to identify a widely mirrored press-release cycle for R05, and secondary coverage (CBS News, Disclosure Foundation, GlobalSecurity) does not yet reference the tranche as of our discovery pass. The most substantive new content is the two clusters (Gulf of Oman 2021, Pacific Ocean 2019), each providing multiple sensor captures of a common mission window in a theatre with limited prior PURSUE representation.
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- Stampp. release headerDEPARTMENT OF WAR, PURSUE RELEASE 05
- AnnotationFile breakdown (confirmed): 16 videos (11 DoW, 4 CENTCOM Middle East, 1 FBI). Documents and images not yet confirmed.
- AnnotationWar.gov news-release announcement URL not yet located in indexable sources as of 2026-08-10.
- AnnotationFirst substantive PURSUE addition from the Gulf of Oman AOR (6 videos, PR117-PR122).
- AnnotationFirst substantive PURSUE Pacific Ocean cluster outside the Nimitz 2004 canon (5 videos, PR123-PR127).
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U.S. Department of Defense. "PURSUE Release 05, fifth tranche." Released via PURSUE program, 2026-08-07. File ID: PURSUE Release 05. https://socialmediaforaliens.com/releases/05. Accessed 2026-08-12 via Social Media for Aliens archive, https://socialmediaforaliens.com/files/pursue-release-05-2026.
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