DROP 03 · 2026-06-12
Drop 03 - CIA History, Apollo 16, and the FBI Orb Files
PURSUE Release 03 added 72 files to the archive - 53 documents, 9 videos, and 10 images - bringing the total to 294. It introduced the first large batch of CIA records (18 files spanning Project Blue Book analysis, Cold War sightings, and foreign UFO programs), 29 FBI files including modern orb and triangle sightings and the 2022 Colorado Springs investigation, 11 NASA crew debriefings and astronaut interviews from the Gemini and Apollo programs (including the two Apollo 16 scientific debriefings and a Gordon Cooper interview - three of the four files tied for the archive's top score), 12 Pentagon files, and the first Intelligence Community analysis and U.S. Government correspondence records in the disclosure.
Headline files
NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”
NASA mission record from a crewed lunar mission showing footage of a UAP encounter over Houston, Texas.
NASA-UAP-D023, Interview Excerpt with Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 1962
NASA mission record showing footage of a UAP encounter (November, 1962).
FBI-UAP-PR003, “Orbs Over the Pond,” 2024
FBI investigative document from a Bureau case file showing footage of a UAP encounter (October, 2024) over Northeastern United States.
CIA-UAP-017, Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing
Federal record documenting a UAP encounter (July, 2008) over Harare, Zimbabwe.
FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022
FBI investigative document from a Bureau case file documenting a UAP encounter (2022) over Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S..