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Washington Times: Pentagon releases second batch of once-classified UFO sightings

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Summary

The washington-times reports on the second tranche of PURSUE UAP records released by the department-of-war on Friday May 22, 2026 — the first rolling-release follow-on to Release 01 (src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05). The lead anecdote is a Form 302-style account of a senior U.S. intelligence officer pursuing “glowing orbs” near a sensitive U.S. military facility, with the object rising from the ground, approaching within 10 feet of the helicopter under night-vision, splitting in two, and outrunning the chase. New historical material includes 200+ Sandia, New Mexico sightings (1948–1950) by the U.S. Air Force and the armed-forces-special-weapons-project, and a 1973 cia document on a Soviet source’s observation at the sary-shagan weapons-testing range in Kazakhstan. The Pentagon emphasizes “unresolved cases,” chain-of-custody caveats, and invites private-sector analysis. pete-hegseth is quoted; war.gov/ufo has received more than 1 billion hits since the May 8 launch.

Key Claims

  • Pentagon released a second batch of formerly classified UAP records on Friday May 22, 2026 (attributed to Pentagon officials).
  • A senior U.S. intelligence officer reported pursuing “glowing orbs” investigating “loud thuds” at an undisclosed sensitive U.S. military test range “last year”; the object split in two and outpaced the helicopter (Form 302-style report quoted; relates to the late-2025 western U.S. orb-pursuit imagery already cataloged via src-fox-helicopter-near-miss-orbs-2026-05).
  • Newly released earliest files include 200+ sightings of “green orbs,” “discs,” and “fireballs” reported in Sandia, New Mexico from 1948 to 1950 by the U.S. Air Force and the armed-forces-special-weapons-project, post-WWII successor to the Manhattan Project.
  • war.gov/ufo has received more than 1 billion hits since launch on May 8 at President Trump’s direction (Pentagon officials).
  • Materials come from “several government agencies, including the military, the State Department and NASA” — same interagency footprint as Release 01.
  • Pentagon: “Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody.”
  • 1973 cia document: a Soviet intelligence source at the sary-shagan weapons-testing range in Kazakhstan reported a “luminous, bright-green unidentified object” forming “concentric circles” over several minutes before dissipating, with no accompanying sound.
  • DoW will continue releasing tranches “every few weeks” (rolling-release-cadence), coordinating “dozens of federal agencies” and reviewing “tens of millions of records, some existing only on paper.”
  • DoD “welcome[s] the application of private sector analysis, information, and expertise.”

Notable Quotes

“We briefly pursued but broke off, unable to match its speed.” — intelligence officer, quoted from Form 302-style report

“These files, hidden by classifications, have long fueled justified speculation, and it’s time the American people see it for themselves.” — pete-hegseth, SecWar

“The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sufficient data.” — Pentagon officials

“The source described concentric circles forming around the phenomenon over a period of several minutes, before it dissipated. The source also stated that no sound attended the observation.” — 1973 CIA document on Sary Shagan

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