PURSUE Batch 3, June 12, 2026 — AARO director Kosloski describes a "mother orb" launching smaller red orbs. 40% of UAP cases remain unexplained. What the behavioral evidence means for the NHI question.
PURSUE Batch 3: What the Latest UAP Files Tell Us About Non-Human Intelligence
On June 12, 2026, the Pentagon released the third batch of declassified UAP files through the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) at war.gov/ufo. While no batch has yet contained direct evidence of extraterrestrial beings — no recovered bodies, no confirmed communication, no biological samples — the behavioral characteristics described in the newly released documents push harder than any previous government disclosure against the boundaries of conventional explanation. The question these files raise is not whether aliens exist but whether something with apparent intelligence is operating in our airspace and, if so, what it is.
The “Mother Orb” and Its Children
The most significant document in Batch 3 is a new report dated June 5, 2026, signed by Dr. Jon Kosloski, director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) — the Pentagon’s dedicated UAP investigation unit. Kosloski describes an orange “mother” orb that was observed launching smaller red orbs. This is not the language of a weather balloon or a misidentified aircraft. The term “mother” implies a hierarchical relationship — a larger object producing, deploying, or commanding smaller ones. That behavioral pattern — a carrier deploying subordinate vehicles — is a hallmark of engineered systems, whether human or otherwise. Kosloski further states that 40% of the phenomena reported to AARO lack any reasonable explanation and remain unresolved. Four in ten. After filtering out drones, aircraft, satellites, balloons, and sensor artifacts, four in ten remain.
The Potato That Cloaked Near Cheyenne Mountain
A 2022 FBI report describes an incident at Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, in which five U.S. Army intelligence officers — trained observers with security clearances — watched a white, opalescent, potato-shaped object hover motionless near Cheyenne Mountain, one of the most critical national security installations in the United States. The object’s surface was described as composed of “articulating fish scales or panels” — non-symmetrical, non-overlapping, irregularly shaped — that shifted in slow waves from different points of origin simultaneously. After approximately two minutes, the object “cloaked” — vanishing in the time it took an observer to turn their head. No shadow was visible during the observation. The Pentagon released an artist’s rendering of the object alongside the report.
The behavioral characteristics described — surface articulation, instantaneous visual disappearance (“cloaking”), and proximity to a defended nuclear command facility — suggest either an extraordinarily advanced adversary technology or something outside the known human engineering envelope entirely.
The Red Sphere with a “Plasma Sun” Core
An FBI report from February 2026 describes a witness in the northeastern United States who came home to find an intense bright light hovering below the tree line in their backyard. The object was a red sphere approximately one meter in diameter, of a color the witness described as unlike anything they had ever seen — “brilliant and beautiful.” At the center of the red sphere was what the witness described as a “white plasma sun” about the size of a basketball. A second identical sphere then appeared, and both departed silently. The FBI conducted a FaceTime interview and filed a formal report.
The Harare Disc — “Secret” CIA Report from 2008
A previously classified CIA report from July 2008 documents a sighting above Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe. The object was observed both visually and on radar, hovering at an undetermined high altitude. Observers described it as “disc-like in shape with a hollow center, and had a series of rotating lights on the underside of the airframe.” Beams were observed emanating from the object at one point. The lights changed colors, and the object eventually ascended out of view. The report was transmitted to the White House Situation Room and the broader intelligence community. Observers at the time debated whether the object was an advanced foreign reconnaissance device or extraterrestrial in origin. The report was marked “Secret” until this batch.
The CIA’s Own Confession — And What It Doesn’t Cover
The batch also includes a CIA internal history document from 1992 containing a remarkable admission: “U-2 and later OXCART flights accounted for more than one-half of all UFO reports during the late 1950s and most of the 1960s.” The CIA acknowledges that Project Blue Book provided false cover explanations to protect the spy-plane programs. This is significant not for what it explains but for what it doesn’t — it accounts for reports of high-altitude glints during specific decades. It does not address the low-altitude structured craft, the orbs, the cloaking objects, or the disc-shaped craft with beams observed on radar at international airports in 2008.
What This Means for the NHI Question
The thinkaboutit-aliens.com archive tracks reported encounters with non-human entities and the evidence chain surrounding them. Batch 3 of the PURSUE files does not contain entity descriptions, recovered biological material, or confirmed communication. What it contains is arguably more important at this stage: official U.S. government documentation of objects exhibiting behavioral characteristics — carrier-subordinate deployment, surface articulation, instantaneous cloaking, beam emission, radar-corroborated hovering — that cannot be attributed to any known human technology and that 40% of the time cannot be explained at all, by the Pentagon’s own assessment.
The question is not settled. But the question is now officially open, in government documents, with government signatures, on a government website that has drawn 1.7 billion hits in its first month. The files are at war.gov/ufo. Read them yourself.
For the full UAP/UFO policy and technical analysis of PURSUE Batch 3, see our companion article at
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