IC Technology & Surveillance — 2026-06-13

Pentagon Releases Third Tranche of UAP Files With AARO Director Reporting 40 Percent of Cases Remain Unexplained

BLUFAARO's 40 percent unexplained baseline converts UAP oversight from a political transparency exercise into a measurable analytic program that will now face pressure to close or explain its residual.

The Department of War on Friday published its third UAP tranche under PURSUE, comprising 53 documents, 10 digital renderings, six videos, and three NASA audio recordings from the CIA, FBI, NASA, and Pentagon 12. AARO Director Dr. Jon Kosloski, in a June 5 report included in the release, states that 40 percent of UAP cases remain unexplained and describes a witnessed sequence of an orange orb launching smaller red orbs 23. The tranche also includes a February 2022 Fort Carson report in which a former Army intelligence officer and four unit members described a white, scale-patterned object near Cheyenne Mountain that witnesses stated "cloaked" and vanished within seconds 23. The Pentagon reports its public UAP archive has surpassed 1.7 billion hits since the first release in May 2.

Analysis
The PURSUE third tranche converts UAP oversight from a disclosure exercise into a measurable analytic baseline: AARO now formally certifies a 40 percent unexplained residual against which future resolution rates will be tracked. The February 2022 Fort Carson incident, in which a former Army intelligence officer and four unit members described a cloaking object near Cheyenne Mountain, merits separate force-protection review outside the disclosure framing. The CIA's internal acknowledgment that classified aerospace programs accounted for more than half of all UAP reports in the 1950s and 1960s sets the hard interpretive ceiling: the current residual reflects what cleared assessors can acknowledge, not the full classified inventory. A substantial fraction will resolve to program attribution once access opens.

4 sources

Department of War Publishes Third Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files on WAR.GOV/UFO - U.S. Department of War
UFO Files: 5 Key Revelations as Pentagon Drops Third Batch of Records - Newsweek
UAP Disclosure #3 is the Most Intriguing Release Thus Far - Medium (Avi Loeb)
Third batch of declassified UFO files reveals sightings around the world were investigated - NBC News