July 11, 2026
Fourth tranche
The fourth PURSUE release, integrated
The Department of War's fourth release is folded in: 36 new files, bringing the corpus to 330, comprising 189 documents, 27 images, 103 videos, and 11 audio records. The headline additions reach back to the origins of the phenomenon and forward to its present. Tranche 4 supplies the verbatim transcript of the 16 February 1949 Los Alamos conference, with Teller, Bradbury, Reines, and LaPaz debating the green fireballs over the nuclear complex, and the full Pantex Plant incident report from 2015, the primary source behind the image already in the collection. It fills in the spine of official US study, Project Sign (1948), the Air Intelligence "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents" (1948 and 1949), Blue Book correspondence, and the 1966 committee that spawned the Condon report, and adds three Navy Range Fouler reports from the U.S. East Coast and Atlantic (2019 to 2020) plus three STS-80 shuttle photographs (1996). Three of the new documents, the Los Alamos transcript, the Pantex report, and the 2019 Range Fouler, are strong enough to join The Standout Cases, now 28. The full analysis is in the PURSUE Corpus and the Evidence Database.
July 5, 2026
Shareability
Every record gets a face: share pages, quote cards, and the five-minute version
Every one of the 199 corpus records now has its own share page with its own social-preview card, built from the document's most notable quote, so linking a single memo into a feed shows that memo, not a generic banner. The "copy link" button on every corpus card now hands out these share links. Records with quotable material also offer a Quote card download: the verbatim quote rendered as a shareable image, generated in your browser. The Verdict Engine's results can be downloaded as an image card too. And for whoever those shares bring in, The Five-Minute Version is a new front door: what was released, the three things that survive scrutiny, what doesn't, and the three documents to read first.
July 4, 2026
Major update
The flagship case gets its page, the record becomes addressable, and you can render your own verdict
Three new pages. Case File: The Western U.S. Event assembles the release's strongest story end-to-end: the four sightings, the five agent narratives, AARO's hypothesis ladder with its 60/40 split, the skeptic's reading, and all 18 documents. Render Your Verdict puts ten exhibits in front of you, sensor reports, sworn witnesses, Cold War files, official assessments, and scores your reading against the site's analysis and the classic UAP frameworks, entirely in your browser. Reading the Artifacts teaches document forensics: the 24 FBI photo files stamped Dec 31 1999 by unset camera clocks, scanner generations, analyst annotations, and what each artifact certifies. The infrastructure grew too: every one of the 199 corpus records now has a permanent link and a copy-link button, a sitewide search box lives in the navigation, flagship pages carry their own social-preview cards, and a full consistency pass corrected stale counts and naming across the site.
July 1, 2026
Reconciliation & new features
Official counts locked, the audio record surfaced, and the corpus becomes a case-file browser
Every count on the site is now reconciled against the official war.gov/ufo database: 294 records, comprising 175 documents, 24 images, 84 videos, and 11 audio recordings. The Video Record now carries the complete audiovisual release, including the Tranche 3 NASA audio: a 1962 Walter Cronkite interview in which astronaut Gordon Cooper discusses UFOs on the record, and two Apollo 16 scientific debriefings (an unreported "flash," and an investigator's off-hand "could be an alien starbase" remark). The Corpus gained a Case / Cluster facet, 19 case-file groupings covering all 199 documents, with a chip on every card that pulls up the rest of its cluster. And the morphology timeline now opens where the record opens, 1944, with a corrected 2020s bar and a new through-line strip: the dominant shape changed era to era, but the luminous orb never left the record.
June 13, 2026
New tools
The Strong 25 and the full PURSUE Corpus, now explorable
Two new pages built from the PURSUE Master Document Analysis. The Strong 25 presents the steelman case: the twenty-five highest-rated documents, grouped by pattern, with every field of the analysis visible in expandable cards. The PURSUE Corpus opens the full 199-document archive, filterable by agency, evidence quality rating, and tranche, searchable across all nineteen analysis fields, with a second tab that embeds the complete working spreadsheet in a sortable, paginated grid. The nav Evidence menu was updated to surface both pages sitewide.
June 13, 2026
Full re-analysis
The whole corpus re-read, and the findings folded back in
Every document across all three tranches was read end-to-end against the source files, and several refinements followed. The Anomaly Record gained a new rigid-appendage signature, a fixed probe, pole, or spindle that recurs on otherwise simple bodies across four independent reports, and its modern Department of War file numbers (D7, D23, D25, D27, D28, D33) were reconciled to match the released filenames, correcting several mislabeled incidents and their locations. The System's "machinery of explanation" is now anchored in primary text: the 1953 CIA Robertson Panel's debunking-and-surveillance recommendation, the Agency's subsequent monitoring posture, and the FBI's filing of civilian UFO groups under Internal Security. The Nuclear Proximity Map notes the Cold War symmetry, the same weapons-range association turns up at the Soviet Union's own Sary Shagan range in CIA reporting, where US reporting bias cannot account for it. And the Continuity Timeline now scrolls vertically, so the Places and Media lanes are finally reachable, with its banner collapsed so the timeline itself leads.
June 12, 2026
Third tranche
The third PURSUE release, integrated
The Department of War's third release is folded in: 72 new files, bringing the corpus to 294. The headline additions deepen the flagship Western U.S. “orbs launching orbs” case, AARO's own case analysis (which leaves roughly 40 percent of the reported phenomena unresolved), five first-person narratives from the federal agents who witnessed it, and ten FBI reconstructions of the event now in the Archive. The release also adds a large historical corpus: the 1953 CIA Robertson Panel, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, the CIA's U-2 and OXCART reconnaissance history, NASA's Gemini astronaut debriefings, and Cold War sighting reports from inside the USSR. The Archive gained twelve official reconstructions; the video catalogue update follows.
May 30, 2026
Accuracy
Every claim checked against the PURSUE record
A full fact-check against the source documents. The Syria / PR051 entry was recalibrated to reflect only what the released record supports, a video the submitting command titled "Syrian UAP — Instant Acceleration", with the speculative "weapons-quality lock" framing and unverifiable attributions removed and its rating moved to Contested. Record counts, date ranges, and document tallies were reconciled and explicitly sourced to war.gov. The principle holds: no conclusions are asserted; the documents speak.
May 29, 2026
New tools
Sharper filtering on the Database and Anomaly Record
The Database "By Signal Strength" view gained Strong / Circumstantial / Contested filters and a short primer on what those ratings mean. Behaviour filters are now combinable, select two and the list narrows to findings that match both. The Anomaly Record gained colour-coded type icons beside each heading, and the Archive lightbox now opens imagery at full scale.
May 22, 2026
Second tranche
The second PURSUE release, integrated
The Department of War's second release is folded in — roughly 64 new records, bringing the corpus to 224. Three new agencies appear: the CIA, the Department of Energy, and ODNI. Among the additions are the TOP SECRET Sandia correspondence and a senior intelligence officer's first-person helicopter account. New videos were catalogued, and the timeline and physics pages updated.
May 8, 2026
Launch
The investigation goes live
The Perimeter of the Secret launches alongside the first PURSUE tranche: 160 declassified records read, cross-referenced, and stress-tested across five independent analyses. The premise is verified — PURSUE, war.gov/ufo, and the tranche releases are real — and the editorial posture is set: present the documents, assert nothing.