PURSUETHE UNSEALED SKYA Complete Analysis of the United States Government'sHistoric UAP/UFO Declassification — Release 1, May 8, 2026ByIsaac, Khor Eng Gian© EGK Microelectronic Solutions Group Sdn. Bhd.Company No. 202501002992Diamond Valley Industrial Park, Bukit Mertajam, Penang, MalaysiaEGK Publishing HouseeISBN: 978-629-94949-x-xFirst Edition 2026All government documents referenced herein are public-domain U.S. federal works (17 U.S.C. § 105). Analysis, commentary, and original text © 2026 EGK Microelectronic Solutions Group Sdn. Bhd. All rights reserved.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 2ForewordOn 8 May 2026, the United States Department of War published the first tranche of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) records under an executive programme called PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. In a single morning, 162 documents, videos, and photographs that had rested behind government classification stamps for as long as eight decades became available to every person on Earth with an internet connection.This book is written the day that history was made. It is a complete analytical record of Release 1: what the files contain, what they do not contain, what they mean for science and national security, and what they reveal about the long political road that led to their declassification. It is written for the curious engineer, the policy analyst, the aerospace enthusiast, and the ordinary citizen who deserves to know what their governments have been watching in the skies.I have drawn entirely on official, publicly available source material — the war.gov/UFO portal, AARO.mil, NASA archives, FBI case file 62-HQ-83894, and credible news reporting from CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News. Every factual claim is grounded in that record. Where the record is silent, I say so plainly.The title of this book — PURSUE: The Unsealed Sky — is borrowed from the very acronym the U.S. government chose for this programme. The sky, long sealed by classification, has begun to open.Isaac, Khor Eng GianPenang, Malaysia — May 2026
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 3Pursue: The Unsealed SkyA Complete Analysis of the United States Government'sHistoric UAP/UFO Declassification — Release 1, May 8, 2026Published by:EGK Microelectronic Solutions Group Sdn. Bhd.8, Lintang Beringin 8, Diamond Valley Industrial Park,11960 Batu Maung, Penang, MalaysiaTel: +604-505 9700 | www.egkhor.com.myAuthor: Isaac, Khor Eng GianFounder & Chief Executive OfficerEGK Microelectronic Solutions Group Sdn. Bhd.eISBN: 978-629-94949-X-XFirst Published: 2026© 2026 EGK Microelectronic Solutions Group Sdn. Bhd.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and other non-commercial usespermitted under applicable copyright law.The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of any agency or organisation.!\"#\"ABCD()C*()*+DIA(-\"#(B).L\"#\"+MN2DP#\"4\"\").5MC\"N\".S\"A\"7P(\"M89:5.;<=*>?;*;@;@;*A*BC.-\"#\"ABCDM.NM-BNa.bBN.#c(P.IBB4.(P.\"d\"(A\"IAMbNBe.#cM.5\"#(B)\"A.f(IN\"N7.Bb.S\"A\"7P(\"
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 4ContentsTable of Contents Foreword................................................................................................................................ 2Pursue: The Unsealed Sky ....................................................................................................... 3Chapter 1: The Seventy-Nine-Year Secret................................................................................ 71.1 The Roswell Telegram and What Came After ............................................................................. 71.2 The Modern UAP Era: AARO and the 2022 NDAA....................................................................... 71.3 The Political Trigger: Trump's Truth Social Directive................................................................... 71.4 The PURSUE Architecture .......................................................................................................... 8Chapter 2: What the Files Are — and What They Are Not........................................................ 92.1 The Scope of Release 1 .............................................................................................................. 92.2 What Is Absent: Confirmed Extraterrestrial Contact................................................................. 102.3 Document Types in the Release ............................................................................................... 10Chapter 3: The Historical Archive — 1947 to 1972................................................................. 133.1 Roswell, 1947 — The Memorandum That Started Everything................................................... 133.2 The FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894: Two Decades of Sightings ....................................................... 133.3 Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 — Anomalies at the Moon ................................................................. 13Chapter 4: The Modern Combat Zone Files — 2013 to 2024................................................... 154.1 The Middle East Cluster........................................................................................................... 154.2 Iraq, December 2022 — PR-23 and DOW-UAP-D18 .................................................................. 154.3 The FBI's September 2023 Drone Operator Interview .............................................................. 154.4 Greece, October 2023 — PR-34 and PR-35 ............................................................................... 164.5 United Arab Emirates — June 2024.......................................................................................... 164.6 The Football-Shaped Object near Japan — INDOPACOM 2024 ................................................. 164.7 Syria, 2024 — Multiple Glares of Unknown Origin ................................................................... 17Chapter 5: The 2025–2026 Files — Near Real-Time Disclosure............................................... 185.1 The FBI's Western United States Infrared Series — December 2025 ......................................... 185.2 Africa, 2025 — PR-43 ............................................................................................................... 185.3 North America, 2026 — PR-49 ................................................................................................. 18Chapter 6: Scientific Analysis of the Sensor Record................................................................ 206.1 Infrared Sensor Physics and the Limits of the Evidence ............................................................ 20
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 56.2 Objects That Defy Conventional Explanation ........................................................................... 206.3 What NASA's Involvement Adds.............................................................................................. 21Chapter 7: National Security Implications ............................................................................. 227.1 Adversarial Drone Technology and the UAP Problem............................................................... 227.2 The Domestic Airspace Problem — Western US 2025............................................................... 227.3 Geopolitical Implications of the INDOPACOM Disclosure ......................................................... 22Chapter 8: The Politics of Transparency ................................................................................ 238.1 Why Now? The Political Economy of Disclosure ....................................................................... 238.2 What Remains Classified.......................................................................................................... 238.3 The Role of Private Sector Analysis.......................................................................................... 23Chapter 9: What Release 2 and Beyond May Contain............................................................ 259.1 The Rolling Release Schedule................................................................................................... 259.2 The Question of Recovered Materials...................................................................................... 259.3 International Dimensions ........................................................................................................ 25Chapter 10: Conclusion — The Unsealed Sky ......................................................................... 26Appendix A: PURSUE Release 1 — Complete Document Index............................................... 27Appendix B: Glossary of Key Terms....................................................................................... 29Appendix C: Official Statements from Release 1.................................................................... 30U.S. Department of War — Secretary Pete Hegseth........................................................................ 30Office of the Director of National Intelligence ................................................................................ 30FBI Director Kash Patel................................................................................................................... 30NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman .............................................................................................. 30President Donald J. Trump — Truth Social, 8 May 2026.................................................................. 30About the Author.................................................................................................................. 31
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 6PART ITHE LONG ROAD TO THE UNSEALED SKY
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 7Chapter 1: The Seventy-Nine-Year Secret1.1 The Roswell Telegram and What Came AfterThe story begins in the summer of 1947. Near Roswell, New Mexico, debris of unidentified origin was recovered by personnel of the United States Army Air Forces. An agent in the FBI's Dallas field office sent a memorandum to FBI headquarters reporting that a major in the Air Force had called to tell the office that an object purporting to be a flying disc had been recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. That memorandum — now declassified as part of case file 62-HQ-83894 — is one of the oldest items in Release 1 and one of its most historically consequential.For the next seventy-nine years, government handling of unidentified aerial phenomena was characterised by a cycle that researchers came to recognise: initial alarm, official denial, partial disclosure, reclassification. The 1948 Project Sign, the 1952 Project Blue Book, the 1969 Condon Report, and the 2007 Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) each represented a moment when institutional interest surfaced, only to be buried again under layers of bureaucratic caution.KEY DOCUMENTFBI case file 62-HQ-83894 spans UFO reports from 1947 to 1968. The version released 8 May 2026 contains fewer redactions than earlier releases, including several newly declassified pages not previously available to the public.1.2 The Modern UAP Era: AARO and the 2022 NDAAThe modern era of institutional UAP accountability began with the 2020 release of three Navy sensor videos — FLIR1, Gimbal, and GoFast — that showed unexplained aerial objects manoeuvring in ways that challenged conventional aerodynamic explanation. Congress, responding to bipartisan pressure, embedded UAP reporting requirements in the 2022 National Defense Authorisation Act and subsequently established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022. AARO was tasked with analysing reports across all domains — air, sea, land, space, and the transmedium boundary between them.In its 2024 statutory report, AARO concluded that no government investigation into UAPs had confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life, nor had any evidence emerged that the U.S. government had made contact with non-human intelligence. That finding stands as the official position heading into the PURSUE era.1.3 The Political Trigger: Trump's Truth Social DirectiveOn 19 February 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he would direct the Secretary of War and other relevant departments to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects, and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important matters. The post ended with GOD BLESS AMERICA.This directive was unusual in several respects. It was issued via social media rather than a formal executive order. It named no specific agencies, set no declassification deadlines, and defined no
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 8scope. Yet its political weight was sufficient to set in motion an interagency process involving the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Energy (DOE), AARO, NASA, and the FBI, among other intelligence community components.Spokesperson Anna Kelly characterised the initiative as evidence that Trump is the most transparent president in history. In a statement accompanying the Release 1 publication, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that these files, hidden behind classifications, have long fuelled justified speculation — and it is time the American people see it for themselves.POLITICAL NOTEFormer President Barack Obama complicated the pre-release political environment in early 2026 when he told a podcaster that aliens are 'real but I haven't seen them.' Trump responded that Obama gave classified information he was not supposed to share. Obama later clarified his remarks, stating he had seen no evidence of extraterrestrials during his presidency.1.4 The PURSUE ArchitecturePURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — is modelled administratively on the Department of Justice's December 2025 Epstein Files release, using a rolling-batch portal approach hosted on a dedicated government URL. The DOW website war.gov/UFO functions as the canonical public archive. Files are released in numbered tranches, with Release 1 published on 8 May 2026.The Department of War has stated that releases will continue on a rolling basis, with new materials posted every few weeks as they are discovered and declassified. The scope of the review is described as spanning tens of millions of records, many of which exist only on paper, across decades of government activity. Given this scale, PURSUE is expected to generate multiple tranches over months or years.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 9Chapter 2: What the Files Are — and What They Are Not2.1 The Scope of Release 1Release 1 comprises 162 files. This count includes approximately 118 PDFs, 8 PNG images, and 6 JPG sensor frames, totalling approximately 4,157 PDF pages and 2.4 gigabytes of data. A separate collection of roughly 24 videos — running a combined 41 minutes — accompanies the documents; these are hosted on the DVIDS military media platform and linked from the war.gov portal.The files span an extraordinary temporal range: from a 1947 memorandum about a recovered flying disc in New Mexico, through Cold War eyewitness reports, to a U.S. Army UAP report filed in 2026. The geographic range is equally broad: the continental United States, the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Aden, Iraq, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Greece, Africa, Japan, and the lunar surface.Ref Date / Location Agency / Platform Description1947–1968United States (multiple)FBI / Air Force FBI case file 62-HQ-83894: eyewitness testimonies, public reports; Roswell memo includedDec 1969Earth orbit / Moon NASA Apollo 12 Archival mission photography; anomalous object visible in frameDec 1972Lunar surface NASA Apollo 17 Three dot triangular formation photographed; crew verbal exchange transcribed1972 Lunar surface Apollo 17 crew Jack Schmitt reports flash on lunar surface north of Grimaldi crater2013 Middle East AARO / CENTCOMIR sensor; eight-pointed star contrast anomaly (PR38)May 2020Middle East AARO / CENTCOMSolid white object, erratic movements above water (PR-36); Range Fouler report2020 Middle East AARO / CENTCOMObject tracking 5m11s; blue reticle fails to acquire lock (PR-44)2020 Arabian Gulf DOW/Air Force Object described as resembling balloon; tracked at ~31,000 ft (DOW-UAP-D7)May 2022Middle East AARO Military operator reports UAP flying across screen (PR-19)Dec 2022Iraq AARO / CENTCOMOne possible UAP flying west to east; IR 10s clip (PR23; DOW-UAP-D18)Sep 2023Southeast US FBI FaceTime interview; drone operator saw bright light over horizon at U.S. test siteSep 2023Southeast US (composite)FBI / AARO 2024 composite sketch of potential anomalous sightingOct 2023United Arab Emirates AARO / CENTCOMObject with vertical pole or bar; possible water reflection (PR-26; DOW-UAP-D23)
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 10Ref Date / Location Agency / Platform DescriptionOct 2023Greece AARO / NORTHCOMCircular UAP flying low near ocean surface toward land (PR-34, PR-35)Jun 2024United Arab Emirates AARO / NORTHCOM21-second IR clip; bar-attached UAP (PR-29)2024 Syria U.S. Forces Multiple glares or light from unknown origin2024 INDOPACOM / near JapanU.S. Indo-Pacific CmdFootball-shaped body; one of most visually distinctive objects in Release 1 (PR-46)2025 Western US (Dec) FBI FBI infrared photos; object in black-hot IR (FBI-Photo1, A5, B2, B7, B18, B20)Sep 2025Western US FBI Multiple unidentified objects in IR (B-series FBI photos)2025 Africa U.S. Army / AARO UAP in African airspace; few details publicly catalogued (PR-43)2020 Middle East (CENTCOM)AARO Air Force MISREP identifying potential UAP; object solid white, erratic (PR-45)2026 North America U.S. Army Most recent case in Release 1; army UAP report 2026 (PR-49)2.2 What Is Absent: Confirmed Extraterrestrial ContactReaders who approach Release 1 hoping for confirmation of extraterrestrial life will be disappointed. The documents do not suggest any wide-ranging government cover-up of extraterrestrial encounters. The files show no indication that the U.S. government has had any interaction with beings from other planets, or that it has any reason to believe such beings have visited Earth. The Pentagon website where the documents are hosted contains an explicit disclaimer: the descriptive and estimative language in these military memos reflects the subjective interpretation of the person who wrote the report and should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of what actually happened.All 162 files fall into the category of unresolved cases — instances where the government was unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. Reasons for non-resolution vary: insufficient sensor data, a single-source witness report, redacted location information, or sensor artefacts that preclude conclusive analysis.IMPORTANT CAVEATCongress member Rep. Burchett, a long-time transparency advocate, noted before the release that 'transparency won't happen all at once.' Rep. Anna Luna had previously requested 46 specific videos; none of these appear to have been included in Release 1, and analysts expect them in future tranches.2.3 Document Types in the ReleaseThe 162 files comprise several distinct categories.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 11Military Mission Reports (MISREPs): The largest single category, these are standardised narrative reports filed by U.S. military operators after observing a potential UAP. They include the reporting operator's unit, sensor type, date, location (sometimes redacted), and a textual description of what was observed. Sensor platform details, such as infrared versus visiblespectrum, are typically included.AARO Unresolved UAP Reports (DOW-UAP-PR series): A structured series of Pentagon UAP incident summaries, running from PR-19 through at least PR-49. These are keyed to specific video releases and include a standardised per-frame video description alongside a summary document.Range Fouler Debriefs: A smaller category, Range Fouler reports document UAP sightings at or near military test and training ranges. The description of a solid white object making erratic movements above water in the Middle East (PR-36 / DOW-UAP-D38) is the clearest example in Release 1.FBI 62-HQ-83894 and associated materials: A large, multi-hundred-page file spanning 1947 to 1968, containing eyewitness testimonies and public reports of UFO sightings submitted to the FBI. The 2026 release includes fewer redactions than prior public versions.NASA archival imagery and transcripts: Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 mission photographs flagged for anomalous content, plus verbatim crew communication transcripts.FBI 302 interview reports: Standardised FBI witness interview records, including the September 2023 FaceTime interview with a drone operator who observed a bright linear object at a U.S. test site.State Department cables: Multiple State Department diplomatic cables are confirmed to be present in the 162-file release, though individual cable content had not been fully catalogued in public reporting by the time of this writing.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 12PART IITHE CASES: AN ANALYTICAL RECORD
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 13Chapter 3: The Historical Archive — 1947 to 19723.1 Roswell, 1947 — The Memorandum That Started EverythingThe Roswell memorandum is one of the oldest items in Release 1 and perhaps the most historically loaded. Filed by an FBI Dallas agent to FBI headquarters, it records that a major in the Air Force called to report that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, New Mexico. The major noted that the recovered object was hexagonal in shape, suspended from a balloon by a cable, and that it was found approximately 75 miles north of Roswell Army Air Field. The major's view was that the object did not pose a national security concern.What makes this document significant in the 2026 release context is not its content — it has been publicly available in partial form before — but the reduced redaction level. The newly declassified pages that accompany the version released on 8 May 2026 had not been seen publicly prior to PURSUE, and their specific content was still being analysed by researchers as this book went to press.3.2 The FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894: Two Decades of SightingsRunning from 1947 to 1968, FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a compendium of hundreds of pages describing eyewitness testimonies and public reports of UFO sightings submitted to the Bureau over a twenty-one-year period. The FBI had previously released portions of this file; the version made public on 8 May 2026 is notable for containing fewer redactions and includes several newly declassified pages.The file reflects the extraordinary volume of public reporting that followed the Roswell incident and the rise of popular UFO culture in the late 1940s and 1950s. Reports came from private citizens, military personnel, police officers, and commercial pilots. The quality and evidential weight of individual reports varies enormously. Some are detailed, corroborated accounts from trained observers; others are brief notes from civilians with no technical background.What the FBI's case file reveals most clearly is the institutional ambivalence with which the government approached the phenomenon. Reports were logged, investigated in varying degrees, and largely filed without resolution. There is no indication in the released materials that the FBI reached any definitive conclusion about the nature of the objects reported.3.3 Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 — Anomalies at the MoonAmong the most visually striking documents in Release 1 are NASA archival photographs from the Apollo 12 (1969) and Apollo 17 (1972) lunar missions. These are not new images — they have circulated among researchers for years — but the U.S. government's formal acknowledgement of their anomalous content, and the accompanying analysis noting the potential presence of a physical object in the scene, is unprecedented.The Apollo 17 image shows three lights in a triangular formation visible above the lunar terrain in a photograph taken from the surface of the Moon in December 1972. The Pentagon caption accompanying the release states: while this photo has been previously released and discussed by keen observers, there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly. New preliminary U.S.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 14government analysis suggests the image feature is potentially the result of a physical object in the scene.The Apollo 17 crew transcript included in Release 1 records Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Jack Schmitt reporting a flash on the lunar surface north of Grimaldi crater. Earlier in the mission, crew members noted that very bright particles of light were visible outside the spacecraft. One crew member described the scene as like the Fourth of July out there. Another stated: it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars. The crew theorised the lights might have come from chunks of ice, but no definitive explanation is provided in the released materials.SCIENTIFIC NOTEThe Apollo 17 anomaly photograph is significant not because it proves extraterrestrial presence, but because it represents the first time a U.S. government agency has issued formal preliminary analysis suggesting a physical object may be present in an archival lunar image. The statement 'potentially the result of a physical object in the scene' is measured, but it is an official departure from previous noncommittal treatment of this image.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 15Chapter 4: The Modern Combat Zone Files — 2013 to 20244.1 The Middle East ClusterThe largest single geographic cluster in Release 1 covers UAP incidents observed by U.S. military operators in the Middle East and the broader CENTCOM area of responsibility, spanning 2013 to 2024. These are operationally significant cases: they were observed by trained military personnel using high-quality infrared sensors during active operations, and they were formally reported through military channels.The 2013 Middle East case (PR-38) shows an eight-pointed area of contrast captured via an infrared sensor. The geometry of the object — a distinctive star-like pattern — is unusual and does not correspond to known balloon, drone, or aircraft signatures. No official explanation is provided.The May 2020 case (PR-36 / DOW-UAP-D38) is one of the better-documented incidents in the release. An accompanying Range Fouler Debrief report describes the UAP as a solid white object making erratic movements above the water. The video shows an area of contrast entering the sensor field-of-view, the sensor losing and re-acquiring the object, and a brief attempt by the sensor operator to acquire a targeting lock with a blue reticle at the 2:10 mark — an attempt that fails. The object's erratic movement is the defining characteristic, and it is this behaviour, not merely its shape, that placed the incident in the unresolved category.PR-44, a five-minute-eleven-second clip from 2020, is the longest video in Release 1. It shows an operator tracking an area of contrast for over three minutes, with the sensor cycling through contrast and zoom levels. Between 3:25 and 4:23, the sensor cycles through reticles of various sizes. At 4:24, the sensor widens its field-of-view to maintain tracking. The extended duration of the tracking event and the sensor operator's sustained attention suggest this was not a transient artefact.DOW-UAP-D7, a Mission Report from the Arabian Gulf in 2020, describes an object that looked like a balloon and was travelling with the winds at approximately 31,000 feet. This case sits closer to the resolved end of the spectrum — wind-borne objects at high altitude are a known phenomenon — but the file remains classified as unresolved because the operator could not confirm the object's origin, identity, or intent.4.2 Iraq, December 2022 — PR-23 and DOW-UAP-D18The Iraq case from December 2022 (PR-23) is notable for its simplicity and its clarity. A U.S. military operator filed a Mission Report describing the observation of one possible UAP flying from west to east. The accompanying ten-second infrared video shows an area of contrast moving from the bottom left to the top right of the sensor field-of-view. At approximately six seconds, the object leaves the frame at the top right corner. The operator did not pursue.The brevity of the video and the single-source report limit analytical conclusions. What the document demonstrates is the consistency of the MISREP format and the way in which even minimal contact events are now formally logged in a manner that permits future analysis.4.3 The FBI's September 2023 Drone Operator Interview
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 16A partially redacted FBI 302 interview report from September 2023 records a FaceTime interview conducted with a drone operator and colleagues who witnessed a bright light over the horizon at a U.S. test site. The document describes the object as a linear object with a super bright light on the east side of the object. The redaction notice in the document explains that redactions have been made to protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP.The redaction of the facility location means this case cannot be geographically placed. What is notable is the method of the FBI's witness contact — a FaceTime call rather than an in-person interview — and the formal documentation of a test-site UAP observation. Test facilities are among the most sensor-rich environments in the U.S. military complex, and a bright linear object observed there by trained drone operators carries more evidential weight than a comparable civilian report.4.4 Greece, October 2023 — PR-34 and PR-35Two back-to-back incident reports from Greek airspace in October 2023 (PR-34 and PR-35) show a circular UAP flying low near the ocean surface and moving toward land. The accompanying video descriptions note aqua-coloured scope lines on a grey background with a scattering of clouds and black squares and rectangles in the sensor display.The Greece cases are geopolitically interesting because they involve a NATO operating environment. U.S. military sensor platforms operating in or near Greek airspace in October 2023 were doing so as part of standard EUCOM surveillance and maritime patrol activity. The fact that these cases remain unresolved after more than two years in the AARO system suggests that neither the sensor data nor subsequent analysis was sufficient to identify the object definitively.4.5 United Arab Emirates — June 2024PR-29, a 21-second infrared clip from near the United Arab Emirates in June 2024 (NORTHCOM/CENTCOM), shows an object described in the accompanying Mission Report as consisting of an object with a vertical pole or bar attached to the bottom of the object. The observer noted that the UAP may instead be a reflection from an object in the water. This is one of the few cases in Release 1 where the observing operator explicitly raised a conventional explanatory hypothesis within the formal report — a detail that illustrates the self-critical rigour that good MISREP practice requires.4.6 The Football-Shaped Object near Japan — INDOPACOM 2024PR-46 is visually one of the most distinctive documents in Release 1. The still image associated with the report shows a UAP that resembles a football-shaped body photographed by U.S. IndoPacific Command near Japan in 2024. The object's elongated ellipsoid profile, visible against the sensor background, differs markedly from the featureless areas of contrast that characterise most IR sensor reports in the release.The INDOPACOM geographic setting adds strategic weight. The Western Pacific is among the most contested surveillance environments on Earth, with U.S., Chinese, Japanese, and Russian military platforms operating in close proximity. A clearly shaped, unidentified airborne object in this theatre warrants particular attention, and its presence in Release 1 — rather than in a classified annex — signals a deliberate choice to prioritise transparency in a sensitive region.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 174.7 Syria, 2024 — Multiple Glares of Unknown OriginThe Syria 2024 entry in the release is brief: U.S. forces reported multiple glares or lights from an unknown origin. Syria remained a zone of active U.S. military presence in 2024, with small contingents deployed in connection with counter-ISIS operations. The observation of unexplained lights in an active combat environment — where friendly fire identification and drone threat assessment are constant concerns — gives this report operational as well as scientific significance.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 18Chapter 5: The 2025–2026 Files — Near Real-Time Disclosure5.1 The FBI's Western United States Infrared Series — December 2025Six FBI infrared photographs from December 2025 (FBI-Photo-1, A5, B2, B7, B18, B20) document unidentified objects over the western United States. These black-hot infrared frames show objects of varying shapes, including one image showing an unidentified object below a helicopter. The Bseries photographs from September 2025 show what appear to be multiple unidentified objects in the same airspace.The FBI's possession and formal submission of these photographs to the PURSUE process is itself significant. The FBI is not a conventional aerospace surveillance organisation; its involvement suggests that UAP activity over domestic U.S. territory in late 2025 was substantial enough to trigger formal Bureau documentation. The proximity of these photographs to the PURSUE release date — less than six months between the December 2025 incidents and the May 2026 disclosure — represents a dramatic compression of the government's historical classification-to-release timeline.5.2 Africa, 2025 — PR-43PR-43 is one of the more opaque entries in Release 1. The image and accompanying document record that a U.S. military operator reported UAP while operating within African airspace in 2025. Beyond this attribution, few details have been catalogued in public reporting. The African continent covers a vast operational footprint for U.S. AFRICOM activity, and the lack of location specificity prevents geographic analysis. This entry is expected to receive more detailed treatment in future PURSUE releases as additional related documents are declassified.5.3 North America, 2026 — PR-49PR-49 is the most temporally recent document in Release 1. A U.S. Army report covering a UAP sighting within North American airspace in 2026 — the same year as the disclosure itself —demonstrates that PURSUE is functioning as a near-real-time disclosure mechanism, not merely as an archive of legacy secrets. The content of the 2026 report has not been fully described in public reporting, but its inclusion signals that the Department of War intends this portal to reflect current as well as historical UAP activity.SIGNIFICANCEThe inclusion of a 2026 Army UAP report in Release 1 is historically unprecedented. For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged an active, current UAP observation in near-real time, within months of its occurrence and in the same document tranche as reports from seventy-nine years earlier.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 19PART IIIWHAT IT MEANS: SCIENCE, SECURITY, AND SOVEREIGNTY
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 20Chapter 6: Scientific Analysis of the Sensor Record6.1 Infrared Sensor Physics and the Limits of the EvidenceThe dominant sensor modality in Release 1 is infrared — specifically the medium-wave infrared (MWIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) systems carried by U.S. military surveillance aircraft and drones. Understanding what these systems can and cannot measure is essential to interpreting the documents.Infrared sensors detect thermal contrast between an object and its background. In the black-hot display mode used in several of the FBI photographs, a thermally distinct object appears darker than the ambient background. In the white-hot mode typical of the military MISREP videos, the inverse is true. The objects in these videos are characterised uniformly as areas of contrast — a deliberate term of art that avoids attributing physical properties to the object that the sensor data does not support.Three key sensor artefacts can produce anomalous-looking areas of contrast in MWIR/SWIR footage. Optical glare occurs when a bright reflective surface — a water body, a metallic structure, the Sun — reflects into the sensor aperture. Frame synchronisation artefacts occur when the sensor's readout electronics produce brief bright or dark pulses unrelated to any scene content. Compression artefacts in video encoding can introduce block-shaped anomalies, particularly at the boundaries of high-contrast regions.The AARO video descriptions in Release 1 are careful to note these possibilities. The observer in the United Arab Emirates case (PR-29) explicitly recorded that the UAP may instead be a reflection from an object in the water. The Syria report uses the term glares. The DOW website states explicitly that the materials archived are unresolved cases and that private-sector analysis, information, and expertise is welcomed.6.2 Objects That Defy Conventional ExplanationAgainst this background of evidential caution, several cases in Release 1 present characteristics that resist conventional explanation even under generous assumptions about sensor artefacts.The erratic movement of the white solid object in PR-36 is the most compelling such characteristic. Erratic movement — rapid, non-linear, without apparent propulsive exhaust — is not consistent with balloons, conventional aircraft, or standard drone behaviour in the wind conditions that would have been present at that time and location. The Range Fouler Debrief records this movement as a defining observation, and it is the primary reason the case remained unresolved after years in the AARO system.The football-shaped object photographed by INDOPACOM near Japan (PR-46) is unusual because it has a clearly defined geometric shape in an infrared image where most objects appear as featureless blobs of contrast. Geometric regularity in a thermal image suggests a solid, manufactured object of consistent thermal profile — which is consistent with an engineered vehicle but does not exclude a conventional human-made drone.The Apollo 17 lunar observation is in a category of its own. If the new U.S. government preliminary analysis — suggesting the three-dot triangular formation is potentially the result of a physical object in the scene — is substantiated by independent analysis, then the implication is that in
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 211972 a structured object was photographed above the lunar surface from a range at which random debris or ice fragments would be too small to resolve on film.6.3 What NASA's Involvement AddsNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman's statement that at NASA, our job is to bring the brightest minds and most advanced scientific instruments to bear, follow the data, and share what we learn positions NASA not merely as a contributor of archival imagery but as an active analytical partner in the ongoing PURSUE process. The inclusion of Apollo imagery in a Department of War release — rather than a standalone NASA release — suggests that PURSUE is genuinely inter-agency in its analytical scope, not merely a DoD document dump.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 22Chapter 7: National Security Implications7.1 Adversarial Drone Technology and the UAP ProblemThe most immediate national security context for the PURSUE files is the proliferation of sophisticated unmanned aerial systems by near-peer adversaries, particularly China and Russia. AARO has consistently noted that its primary analytical challenge is distinguishing between genuine anomalous phenomena and classified adversarial technology that U.S. operators have not been briefed on.Several of the MISREP cases in Release 1 — particularly those in CENTCOM and INDOPACOM areas of responsibility — are plausibly explainable as observation of adversarial unmanned systems. A vertical-bar-attached object near the UAE, a circular UAP flying toward land near Greece, a football-shaped body near Japan: each of these morphologies is consistent with prototype drone designs that foreign military and commercial programmes have been known to test. The fact that AARO has not resolved these cases does not mean they are not human-made — it means they are not identifiable from available data.The operational implication is significant. If U.S. military operators routinely encounter unidentified aerial objects near sensitive installations and in contested airspace, and if those objects are either foreign technology or genuinely unexplained, then the national security apparatus has a structural problem: it cannot distinguish between an adversarial intelligence collection platform and something else.7.2 The Domestic Airspace Problem — Western US 2025The FBI's infrared photography of unidentified objects over the western United States in late 2025 raises a distinct set of concerns. Domestic UAP activity over U.S. territory, including one image showing an unidentified object below a helicopter, suggests that whatever these phenomena are, they are operating in American national airspace, not merely in distant combat zones.The FAA, which controls civil airspace, is not mentioned in any of the Release 1 documents. The absence of FAA data — flight tracks, radar contacts, pilot reports — from a domestic UAP event is a notable gap. It suggests either that the objects were not visible to conventional radar (which has significant technical implications), or that the FAA data has not yet been declassified and included in PURSUE's rolling release. Either possibility warrants further disclosure.7.3 Geopolitical Implications of the INDOPACOM DisclosureThe decision to include an INDOPACOM case from near Japan in Release 1 is a geopolitically significant choice. The Western Pacific is a theatre of active strategic competition between the United States and China. Japan is a treaty ally. Disclosing that U.S. forces observed an unidentified object of distinctive geometric shape in this theatre — without attributing it to China, Japan, or any other state — is a message to all parties. It says: we see things in your airspace that we cannot explain, and we are now saying so publicly.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 23Chapter 8: The Politics of Transparency8.1 Why Now? The Political Economy of DisclosureThe timing of PURSUE Release 1 is not accidental. Several converging political currents made May 2026 the moment for this disclosure. The bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act provisions in the 2022 NDAA created legal machinery for disclosure. Congressional champions in both parties —including figures like Rep. Burchett and the late Rep. Luna — had sustained political pressure for years. The public appetite for UAP information had been primed by the 2020 Navy video releases, the AARO annual reports, and the 2023 David Grusch whistleblower testimony.Trump's February 2026 Truth Social post added executive political will to an already-active institutional process. The post gave PURSUE political legitimacy and — critically — gave agency heads the cover to expedite a process that might otherwise have moved at bureaucratic pace through classification review.8.2 What Remains ClassifiedRelease 1 is explicitly incomplete. The DOW website states that the materials archived are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This is a carefully drawn boundary: it excludes resolved cases, classified analytical conclusions, and any materials the government considers too sensitive to release even in redacted form.Rep. Luna's 46 requested videos are not present in Release 1. David Grusch, the former AARO official who testified before Congress in 2023 that the U.S. has a secret programme to recover and reverse-engineer non-human craft, told reporters before the release that expectations for the videos should be modest. The most sensitive materials — if they exist — are unlikely to appear in early PURSUE tranches.State Department cables confirmed to be present in the 162-file release had not been individually catalogued in public reporting at the time of writing. Their content — potentially including diplomatic reports of UAP incidents at foreign locations going back decades — may prove significant in future analysis.8.3 The Role of Private Sector AnalysisThe DOW's explicit invitation for private-sector analysis, information, and expertise is a novel feature of the PURSUE architecture. Unlike historical classification regimes, which treated UAP data as information to be protected, PURSUE treats the released data as a problem set to be solved — and acknowledges that the government does not possess all the analytical tools required.This creates an interesting dynamic. Researchers at universities, aerospace companies, and independent analytical organisations now have access to the same sensor data, mission reports, and archival imagery as government scientists. The competitive advantage of government access has been partially eroded. Over time, this could produce a richer and more diverse analytical literature than any single agency could generate internally.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 24PART IVWHAT COMES NEXT
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 25Chapter 9: What Release 2 and Beyond May Contain9.1 The Rolling Release ScheduleThe DOW has committed to releasing new materials every few weeks as they are discovered and declassified. The scope of the review — tens of millions of records, many on paper — means that the PURSUE archive is likely to grow substantially over months or years. Release 1's 162 files are, in this context, a starting point rather than a comprehensive disclosure.Several categories of material are expected to appear in subsequent tranches. Rep. Luna's 46 specific videos, requested formally from the Pentagon, are the most publicly anticipated. Additional State Department cables may provide diplomatic context for foreign UAP incidents. DOE records — the Department of Energy is one of the named PURSUE partners — could include materials from nuclear test sites and energy research facilities, where anomalous observations have historically been reported.9.2 The Question of Recovered MaterialsThe most consequential potential disclosure in future PURSUE releases concerns claims about physical recovered materials. David Grusch's 2023 congressional testimony alleged that the U.S. government has for decades been conducting a secret programme to recover and reverseengineer non-human craft. This claim, which Grusch made under oath, has neither been confirmed nor definitively refuted by any publicly available official document.Release 1 contains no physical evidence materials, no references to recovered objects or their analysis, and no documents that corroborate the Grusch claims. If such materials exist and are eventually included in PURSUE releases, they would represent the most significant single disclosure in human history. The DOW's framing of Release 1 as unresolved cases —phenomena that cannot be explained — is carefully calibrated to avoid either confirming or denying this possibility.9.3 International DimensionsThe United States is not the only government with a UAP disclosure programme. France's GEIPAN, the UK's former UFO programme, and Brazil's Sistema de Investigacao de Fenomenos Aeroespaciais Nao Identificados (SIFANI) have all released varying degrees of historical data. Japan's Self-Defense Forces have recently upgraded their UAP reporting protocols. Canada, Australia, and Germany have similarly active research communities.PURSUE Release 1 includes U.S. observations over Greece (a NATO ally), the UAE, and Japan. If these incidents involved observations that were shared with allied intelligence services — as is standard practice under Five Eyes and broader alliance agreements — then allied governments may hold complementary data that, if released, would provide multi-source corroboration for some of the unresolved cases in the U.S. release.A coordinated multilateral UAP disclosure framework does not yet exist, but the political momentum created by PURSUE may accelerate its development. An international UAP datasharing agreement — perhaps modelled on existing frameworks for space debris tracking or civil aviation incident reporting — could transform UAP research from a collection of national disclosure exercises into a genuinely global scientific programme.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 26Chapter 10: Conclusion — The Unsealed SkyThe 162 files released on 8 May 2026 under the PURSUE programme do not resolve the UAP question. They do not confirm that extraterrestrial life has visited Earth. They do not prove that the government has been concealing contact with non-human intelligence. They do not explain the erratic movements of solid white objects over Middle Eastern waters, or the three lights photographed above the lunar terrain in December 1972, or the football-shaped body observed by Indo-Pacific Command near Japan in 2024.What they do is more modest, and in some ways more important. They establish a public evidentiary record. They demonstrate that trained military operators, in multiple theatres and on multiple sensor platforms, have been routinely observing phenomena they cannot identify. They show that these observations span nearly eight decades of continuous documentation. And they create, for the first time, a mechanism by which that documentation is available to every analyst, scientist, journalist, and citizen who wants to engage with it.The sky is not fully unsealed. The most sensitive materials — if they exist — remain classified. Future tranches will be shaped by the same political forces, institutional inertia, and classification calculus that have governed UAP disclosure since 1947. Rep. Burchett is right that transparency will not happen all at once.But the first tranche is real, and it is significant. The infrared images of objects over the western United States, filed by the FBI in late 2025 and released to the public less than six months later, represent a compression of the historical classification-to-disclosure cycle that would have been unimaginable even five years ago. The U.S. Army's 2026 North America UAP report — included in the same release as a 1947 Roswell memorandum — signals that the government is, at last, treating the subject as a continuing scientific and national security question rather than a historical embarrassment to be managed.The sky has begun to open. The questions it poses remain unanswered. The work of answering them — through rigorous sensor analysis, historical archival research, diplomatic engagement with allied governments, and unflinching public discourse — belongs now to everyone.\"Whereas previous Administrations have failed to be transparent on this subject,with these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves,WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?\"— President Donald J. Trump, Truth Social, May 8, 2026
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 27Appendix A: PURSUE Release 1 — Complete Document IndexThe following is an index of confirmed document and video references from PURSUE Release 1 (8 May 2026), drawn from official DOW portal data, DVIDS, and verified open-source cataloguing. Government reference codes are given where established.Ref Date / Location Agency / Platform DescriptionFBI 62-HQ838941947–1968 / USA FBI Multi-hundred-page UFO eyewitness and public report file; fewer redactions than prior releaseRoswell MemoJul 1947 / Roswell NM FBI/USAAF Agent memo: flying disc recovered; hexagonal, balloon-suspended; newly declassified pagesNASAUAP-VM6Dec 1972 / Lunar surfaceNASA Apollo 17 Three-dot triangular formation photo; crew transcript; Schmitt crater flash reportApollo 12 photoNov 1969 / Lunar orbit NASA Apollo 12 Anomalous object visible in archival mission framePR-19 / DOWUAPMay 2022 / Middle EastAARO / CENTCOMUAP flying across military operator screen; IR sensorPR-23 / DOWUAP-D18Dec 2022 / Iraq AARO / CENTCOMOne possible UAP W to E; IR 10s; operator did not pursue2023 composite sketchSep 2023 / SE United StatesFBI / AARO Recreation of anomalous sighting; southeastern USFBI 302 FaceTimeSep 2023 / US test siteFBI 62-HQ-83894 Drone operator interview; bright linear object; facility location redactedPR-26 / DOWUAP-D23Oct 2023 / UAE AARO / CENTCOMObject with vertical bar; potential water reflection; IR 43sPR-34 Oct 2023 / Greece AARO / NORTHCOMCircular UAP near ocean surface toward land; aquascope displayPR-35 Oct 2023 / Greece AARO / NORTHCOMFollow-on Greece incident; operator W to E ocean egressPR-38 2013 / Middle East AARO / CENTCOMEight-pointed star contrast anomaly; IR sensorPR-36 / DOWUAP-D38May 2020 / Middle EastAARO / CENTCOMSolid white object; erratic movement; Range Fouler debrief; reticle fails lock at 2:10DOWUAP-D72020 / Arabian Gulf DOW/Air Force MISREPBalloon-like object; ~31,000 ft; wind-borne characteristicsPR-44 2020 / Middle East AARO / CENTCOM5m11s tracking video; 3 min sustained tracking; blue reticle attempt 4:20
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 28Ref Date / Location Agency / Platform DescriptionPR-45 2020 / Middle East AARO / CENTCOMAir Force MISREP; solid white object erratic; DOWUAP-D seriesPR-29 / DOWUAP-DJun 2024 / UAE AARO / NORTHCOMVertical bar object; 21s IR clip; water reflection hypothesis raisedPR-46 2024 / near Japan AARO / INDOPACOMFootball-shaped body; one of most geometrically distinct objects in release2024 Syria2024 / Syria U.S. Forces MISREPMultiple glares/lights of unknown origin; active counter-ISIS theatreFBIPhoto-1Dec 2025 / Western USFBI Black-hot IR; unidentified object; one of 6 FBI IR photosFBIPhoto-A5Dec 2025 / Western USFBI Black-hot IR series; anomalous profileFBIPhoto-B2Sep 2025 / Western USFBI Black-hot IR; object proximate to helicopterFBIPhoto-B7Sep 2025 / Western USFBI IR; object below helicopter; operationally proximateFBIPhotoB18Sep 2025 / Western USFBI Multiple objects IR; B-seriesFBIPhotoB20Sep 2025 / Western USFBI Multiple objects IR; B-seriesPR-43 2025 / Africa AARO / AFRICOM UAP in African airspace; US Army operator; few details cataloguedPR-49 2026 / North America U.S. Army Most recent case; Army UAP report 2026; near-realtime disclosureState Dept cablesVarious U.S. State Dept Multiple cables confirmed present; individual content not yet catalogued publicly
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 29Appendix B: Glossary of Key TermsAARO All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The U.S. Pentagon office established in 2022 to analyse UAP reports across air, sea, land, space, and transmedium domains.AFRICOM United States Africa Command. The combatant command responsible for U.S. military operations across Africa.Black-Hot IR An infrared imaging mode in which thermally hotter objects appear darker than their cooler backgrounds.CENTCOM United States Central Command. Responsible for U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia.DVIDS Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. The U.S. military's official media platform, used to host PURSUE video releases.EUCOM United States European Command.FBI 302 A standardised FBI form used to record witness interviews.INDOPACOM United States Indo-Pacific Command. Responsible for U.S. military operations in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.MISREP Mission Report. A standardised military narrative document filed after an operational event.MWIR Medium-Wave Infrared. A sensor modality sensitive to thermal emissions in the 3–5 micrometre wavelength range.NORTHCOM United States Northern Command. Responsible for homeland defence and northern approaches to U.S. territory.ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Coordinates the U.S. Intelligence Community.PURSUE Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The interagency programme established under President Trump's February 2026 directive to declassify and release UAP-related government records.Range Fouler Military term for an aircraft or object that enters a restricted range airspace without authorisation. A Range Fouler Debrief is the formal report filed when such an event involves an unidentified or anomalous object.SWIR Short-Wave Infrared. A sensor modality sensitive to the 1–3 micrometre wavelength range.UAP Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. The current official U.S. government term, replacing UFO. The term is intentionally broader, covering air, sea, space, and transmedium observations.UFO Unidentified Flying Object. The historical colloquial and official term, now formally replaced by UAP in most government usage.White-Hot IR An infrared imaging mode in which thermally hotter objects appear brighter than their cooler backgrounds.
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 30Appendix C: Official Statements from Release 1U.S. Department of War — Secretary Pete HegsethThe Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government's understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fuelled justified speculation — and it's time the American people see it for themselves. This release of declassified documents demonstrates the Trump Administration's earnest commitment to unprecedented transparency.Office of the Director of National IntelligenceUnder President Trump's leadership, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is actively coordinating the Intelligence Community's declassification efforts with the Department of War to ensure a careful, comprehensive, and unprecedented review of our holdings to provide the American people with maximum transparency. Today's release is the first in what will be an ongoing joint declassification and release effort.FBI Director Kash PatelThe FBI is proud to stand alongside President Trump and our interagency partners in this landmark release of UAP records. The FBI remains committed to supporting this rolling declassification effort with the same rigorous integrity we bring to every national security matter. As these files continue to be reviewed and released, the American people can be confident that their security remains our highest priority.NASA Administrator Jared IsaacmanI applaud President Trump's whole-of-government effort to bring greater transparency to the American people on unidentified anomalous phenomena. At NASA, our job is to bring the brightest minds and most advanced scientific instruments to bear, follow the data, and share what we learn. We will remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered. Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge are core to NASA's mission as we endeavour to unlock the secrets of the universe.President Donald J. Trump — Truth Social, 8 May 2026Whereas previous Administrations have failed to be transparent on this subject, with these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
PURSUE: THE UNSEALED SKY Isaac, Khor Eng Gian © EGK Publishing House 2026eISBN 978-629-94949-x-x 31About the AuthorIsaac, Khor Eng Gian is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EGK Microelectronic Solutions Group Sdn. Bhd. (Company No. 202501002992), headquartered at Diamond Valley Industrial Park, Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia.EGK operates across semiconductor ESD protection and yield services, precision hardware fabrication, proprietary coatings, iOS and Android software development through the IsaacLab division, UAV aerodynamic engineering, and publishing through EGK Publishing House. Isaac personally leads software development, authors technical and analytical books under the EGK Publishing House imprint, and manages government-facing business development.His published works include Hybrid AI Acceleration (eISBN 978-629-94581-7-3), The AGIQuantum Divide (eISBN 978-629-94949-3-5), and more than a dozen additional titles in the fields of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductor technology, and strategic analysis.PURSUE: The Unsealed Sky is his first work in the field of government transparency and unidentified aerial phenomena. It was written in response to the historic U.S. Department of War declassification of UAP records on 8 May 2026 — the day history was made.
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