Events
PURSUE Releases 02–04 (22 May, 12 Jun, 10 Jul 2026): what matters for the vault
Documented · occurred What these labels mean →Three tranches (~176 records). Highlights for our threads: - the 1949 Los Alamos green-fireball conference transcript (Teller, Bradbury, Reines, LaPaz); - 116 pages of AFSWP/USAF files on 209 Sandia Base sightings (1948–50) with copper-dust sampling; - the Turner memo (resolved); - the USAF Scientific Advisory Board's Avro Project Y2 report (1954); - a CIA report on the Sary Shagan ABM range including a UAP (1973); - Sen. Richard Russell's 1955 USSR sighting debrief; - the O'Brien committee that led to the Condon study (1966–67); - a Pantex nuclear-weapons plant intrusion report (2015); - the full 2023 Western US Event file (AARO update, FBI renderings); - a first-hand account by a serving senior intelligence official of late-2025 'glowing orbs' at a sensitive military facility.
Ties
| To | Role | Years | Verdict | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluegill Triple Prime UFO | nuclear-site pattern: Pantex 2015, Los Alamos/Sandia 1948–50 | Documented · occurred | ||
| Sandia National Laboratories | DOW-UAP-D017: 209 'green orbs/discs/fireballs' near Sandia Base; AFSWP (the Manhattan Project successor) investigated | 1948–1950 | Documented · occurred | github.com |
| Hidden Wing (UAP Gerb) | Gerb's AFSWP → DTRA / Sandia lineage has documents here | 1948–1950 | Documented · occurred | |
| Operation Paperclip | CIA 1950 report: German scientist explains 'flying discs' as boundary-layer aircraft from German research | 1950 | Documented · occurred | |
| Report 01 - UAP program records | Robertson Panel report (CIA-UAP-002) and its 1953 transmittal (DOW-D085) now complete | 1953 | Documented · occurred | |
| Wilbert Smith memo | same Canadian context: the USAF SAB report on Avro Project Y2 (1954) | 1954 | Documented · occurred | |
| J. Allen Hynek | O'Brien committee (1966–67) → the Condon contract | 1966–1967 | Documented · occurred | |
| The 1971 Australian defence memo on the UFO problem is an official record, released by the National Archives of Australia and re-released as PURSUE CIA-UAP-019 | CIA-UAP-019 (R03): the 1971 Australian memo; authorship attribution to Turner is held (see the Turner memo page) | 1971 | Documented · occurred | github.com |
| Ramirez - hybrids and the orb working group (Debriefed 42) | Sary Shagan ABM range report (1973) includes a UAP; fits his 'Soviet ABM radar saw anomalies' story in kind | 1973 | Unproven | |
| Plasma orbs | Western US Event full file; senior-official 2025 orb narrative (ODNI-UAP-D001) | 2023–2025 | Documented · occurred | |
| PURSUE Release 01 | first tranche | 2026 | Documented · occurred |
Tied from
| From | Role | Years | Verdict | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report 03 - UAP at nuclear facilities | Los Alamos conference (Feb 1949); Sandia Base 209 sightings (1948–50); Pantex (2015); ODNI senior-official orbs (2025) | 1948–2025 | Documented · occurred | |
| PURSUE Release 05 | previous tranches | 2026 | Documented · occurred | |
| U-2 and OXCART cover statements | CIA-UAP-003 U-2/OXCART history | 2026 | Documented · occurred |
Links
Notes
| Record | Content | Relevance |
|---|---|---|
| DOE-UAP-D004: Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena (16 Feb 1949) | Classified SECRET. Present: 4th Army, AFOSI (Capt. Reef), Lincoln LaPaz, FBI, AEC, and LASL's Bradbury, Teller, Reines, Holloway, Manley. Airline-pilot reports since Dec 1948; LaPaz describes constant-brightness, horizontal, 2-sec green fireballs; no consensus | Top Manhattan Project physicists treated the phenomenon as a security question. Teller appears here and on Turner's list |
| DOW-UAP-D017: Sandia Base 1948–50 (116 pp) | 209 sightings; copper-bearing particle sampling along highways (unfamiliar granular material ~30 µm) | Primary documents for the green-fireball/copper story (Project Twinkle precursor) |
| DOW-UAP-D095: USAF SAB, Avro Project Y2 (Nov–Dec 1954) | Circular VTOL. SAB: 'no intelligence… to support or deny' comparable Soviet craft; radar + visual case unexplained; recommends penetrating Soviet R&D and immediate fighter scrambles | Shows USAF itself suspected circular-craft UFO reports could be our own or Soviet VTOL programs |
| CIA-UAP-011: Sary Shagan (Dec 1973) | Soviet ABM test range (SA-2, System-300/Aldan warheads, rumored lasers) and 'an unidentified aerial phenomenon' | Documented UAP report at a Soviet ABM range |
| CIA-UAP-D020/D021 (1955) | Sen. Richard Russell and party see a greenish-yellow craft from a train, Baku–Tbilisi; CIA: 'probably… steep climbing aircraft or missiles' | Famous case; debrief now public |
| CIA-UAP-017 (Jul 2008) | Harare airport sighting triggers a high alert: foreign reconnaissance vs. ET debated | New; not previously released |
| CIA-UAP-004 (1958) | Leon Davidson (who argued the CIA staged UFO/contactee events) | Early 'the CIA is the UFO' theory in the CIA's own file |
| CIA-UAP-008 (1972) | Kardashev and Sakharov paper on charged mass in space | Soviet frontier-physics interest (ties Zero-point energy tier 2) |
| DOW-UAP-D092 (1966–67) | USAF SAB ad hoc committee to review Blue Book → recommends a university team → Condon | Hynek's context; the Condon origin |
| DOE-UAP-D005: Pantex (2 Sep 2015) | Unidentified object over the US nuclear-weapons assembly plant, with radar-tower imagery (UCNI) | Modern nuclear-site incursion |
| ODNI-UAP-D001 (2025, R02) | A serving senior intelligence official, as a helicopter passenger: glowing orbs; an object 'split in two' and accelerated away | Same event family as the R01 FBI 302 |
| DOE-UAP-D002 | James Tuck (LANL fusion pioneer) UFO correspondence, 1970s | A Los Alamos insider's personal interest |
Takeaways
- The nuclear-site pattern (Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Pantex) is now documented in primary records from 1947 to 2015. What they were remains open: the 1949 files leaned 'natural or our own experiments.'
- The Avro Y2 SAB report is the strongest documentary support for the 'some saucers were ours' strand (see Hidden Wing (UAP Gerb)).
- Nothing in R01–R04 names crash retrieval, biologics or reverse-engineering programs.