Kash Patel
Kash Patel is the FBI Director in donald-trump’s second administration. He is on-record on the May 8, 2026 pursue launch as a co-principal of the interagency UAP declassification effort.
UAP Disclosure Role
- 2026-05-06: Pre-launch confirmation on Sean Hannity’s podcast: “Trump stood up an interagency process with the department-of-war leading that effort to get out the documentation”; documents “have already been delivered” and would be released “very soon” (src-yahoo-fbi-confirms-files-2026-05). Two days before PURSUE Release 01 dropped.
- 2026-05-08: signed onto the pursue Release 01 framing the rollout as the first time “in history” the public will have “unfettered access to declassified government files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon” (src-dow-uap-files-release-2026-05, src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05).
- Per CBS reporting (src-uap-files-rollout-interagency-2026-05), Patel separately stated he personally has no information that the U.S. ever recovered alien bodies.
- The fbi is the document-source for Release 01 page 1, which is entirely FBI PDFs from fbi-case-file-62-hq-83894 (1947–1968 unidentified-objects/“flying discs” file, 18 sub-documents including Oak Ridge reports, plus a New Year’s Eve 1999 photo set).
Sources
- src-yahoo-fbi-confirms-files-2026-05 — May 6 Hannity pre-launch confirmation.
- src-dow-uap-files-release-2026-05 — DoW PURSUE release statement.
- src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05 — PURSUE portal page.
- src-trump-uap-apollo-photos-2026-05 — Fox News.
- src-uap-files-rollout-interagency-2026-05 — CBS interagency framing.
- src-war-department-uap-declassification-2026-05 — Washington Examiner.