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DoW: Department of War Publishes Second Release of UAP Files on WAR.GOV/UFO

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Summary

Primary-source department-of-war press release for PURSUE Release 02 (May 22, 2026), attributed to Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs / Chief Pentagon Spokesman sean-parnell. Released on a rolling basis at UFO — DoW confirms >1 billion hits since the May 8 launch and previews a Release 03 in the near future. Critically, the release identifies a March 6, 2026 letter from eight House Reps requesting 51 UAP-related records — a distinct congressional pressure track from anna-paulina-luna’s March 31 46-video letter. aaro is named as the entity that identified responsive materials “held on a classified network.” The release includes a specific record-level walkthrough of the “4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022” video (CENTCOM AOR, IR sensor, classified-network upload June 2024) with Pentagon-authored sensor-faithful “areas of contrast” descriptions. Notable: redactions protect only eyewitnesses / facility locations / non-UAP-relevant military-site info — no redactions on UAP-nature content per Trump directive.

Key Claims

  • Release 02 is published on May 22, 2026 under PURSUE; additional files will be released on a rolling basis.
  • UFO has received >1 billion hits worldwide since launch on May 8, 2026 (DoW figure — corroborates src-pentagon-second-batch-ufo-release-2026-05 and src-newsweek-pursue-release-02-2026-05).
  • DoW and “agency partners” are actively working on Release 03, “announced in the near future.”
  • March 6, 2026 — eight U.S. House Reps formally requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by DoW and the Intelligence Community.
  • aaro identified responsive materials “held on a classified network.” DoW caveat: “Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody.”
  • AARO assesses the video titled “4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN]” as likely derived from an IR sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the CENTCOM area of responsibility in 2022. A user uploaded the video to a classified network in June 2024.
  • Video description (DoW-authored, sensor-faithful “areas of contrast” register matching Mick West / Metabunk terminology):
    • 00:01–00:04: Four areas of contrast transit the sensor FOV, entering lower-third left, exiting bottom-center.
    • 00:05–00:06: An area of contrast enters the FOV from the top-left corner.
  • DoW explicit caveat: descriptions are “for informational purposes only” and should not be read as “an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination.”
  • Redaction policy: protects only eyewitness identities, government-facility locations, and non-UAP-relevant military-site info. No redactions are made to information about “the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP” per Trump’s directive — formalizing the non-redaction-on-UAP-content posture as government policy.

Notable Quotes

“Today, the Department of War is publishing the second release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).” — Sean Parnell

“Since the site’s launch on May 8, 2026, WAR.GOV/UFO has received over 1 billion hits worldwide, highlighting the unprecedented levels of interest in both this topic and the Trump administration’s historic transparency effort.” — Sean Parnell

“No redactions have been made to any files released under President Trump’s directive concerning information about the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP or related phenomena.” — DoW

Fetch provenance

The original war.gov URL returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch and an Akamai “Access Denied” block to Playwright (referenced in src-dow-pursue-release-02-2026-05 body). Verbatim text reproduced from two independent mirrors that match word-for-word in their overlapping sections: JD Rucker (lede) and MilitarySpot (fuller text). Per /ufo-news skill: verbatim mirrors only, no paraphrases.

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