The Hill: Pentagon Releases Fourth Batch of UFO Files
Summary
The Hill’s launch-day wire on pursue Release 04 (July 10, 2026) reports 40 new files, including 19 videos — the fourth rolling department-of-war tranche since the May 8, 2026 launch. Distinct from CBS’s and The Debrief’s Release 04 coverage, The Hill’s piece leans heavily on two historical-document threads: a 1949 conference on green fireballs near Los Alamos attended by Manhattan Project scientists, and a 1948 Project Sign report compiling 100 sightings from 1947–48, tying the tranche explicitly back to wartime “foo fighter” reports and the roswell-incident. It also highlights a 2015 Pantex nuclear-plant sighting, a 2019 “range-fouler” report of an object that outran a surveillance plane’s tracking system, a sensor-degrading 2023 Yellow Sea video, a 2020 Atlantic “jellyfish”/“floating brain” video, and additional apollo-14/apollo-17 NASA debriefing material.
Key Claims
- Release 04 contains 40 new files, 19 of them videos (The Hill’s count; other outlets cite a similar total — see src-cbs-pursue-release-04-2026-07).
- A September 1, 2015 sighting near the Pantex nuclear-weapons plant in Texas described a slow-moving (10-15 mph), four-foot-tall “diamond-shaped object,” rounded at top; witnesses disagreed on color (black vs. silver/red/blue). DoW analysis called it non-threatening and not close to sensitive assets.
- A 2019 “range-fouler” report (a designation used for unauthorized airspace intrusions during military operations) describes a small rectangular object with “flight characteristics never before seen” that outran a surveillance plane’s tracking system.
- Additional NASA material includes new images of unidentified objects and debriefings from apollo-14 and apollo-17.
- A 2023 Yellow Sea video shows a UAP that appears to progressively degrade a U.S. military platform’s electro-optical/infrared sensor footage over 4 minutes 57 seconds.
- A 2020 Atlantic Ocean video allegedly matches the long-rumored “floating brain” footage — a blob-shaped object with narrower dangling appendages.
- Historical files include a 1949 document on a conference addressing green-fireball sightings near Los Alamos, attended by prominent scientists including Manhattan Project alumni.
- A 1948 Project Sign document — one of the government’s earliest UFO-study efforts — compiles 100 reports from 1947–48, tying the sighting increase to WWII “foo fighter” reports and the 1947 Roswell incident.
Notable Quotes
“Diamond-shaped object” — witness description of the 2015 Pantex sighting, per The Hill.
“Flight characteristics never before seen” — military witness description of the 2019 range-fouler object.