China
China features in UAP-disclosure discussion primarily through claims of a national UFO-tracking effort and through framing of a US–China disclosure race.
Claimed UAP program
Per lue-elizondo in a June 3 2026 Liberation Times interview (src-elizondo-no-going-back-disclosure-2026-06):
- “They’ve already admitted they have their own UFO program. That’s not speculation. China already admitted that.” Elizondo appears to reference 2021 reports that China’s military used artificial intelligence to track and analyze UAP after human analysts were overwhelmed by the volume of military and civilian sightings.
- Five Continents Initiative — a Chinese-backed 2018 effort, centered on international UAP conferences in China and Moscow, aimed at building a worldwide UAP research organization that could ultimately bring the issue to the United Nations. Note: there is no public evidence of direct Chinese national-government involvement.
Disclosure race
Elizondo frames foreign-first disclosure not as a danger but as a US “missed opportunity”: “I think politically, it’s a mistake to allow somebody else to make that announcement.” He adds he is “concerned we might be losing ground to our adversaries,” while declining to claim China has made a specific breakthrough. This race framing parallels US momentum under PURSUE and the disclosure push.
PURSUE Release 04 sensor footage (July 2026)
PURSUE Release 04 (July 10, 2026) includes the tranche’s most recent-dated incidents: 2025 INDOPACOM sensor footage over the Yellow Sea (an “area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star”) and a separately tracked East China Sea object — the first vault-documented PURSUE cases geographically sited near China itself, as opposed to general disclosure-race commentary (src-cbs-pursue-release-04-2026-07).
Related
Sources
- src-elizondo-no-going-back-disclosure-2026-06
- src-cbs-pursue-release-04-2026-07 — Jul 10 2026 Release 04 Yellow Sea/East China Sea footage