Pentagon Posts Second PURSUE Tranche: ODNI USPER Narrative, CIA Sary Shagan, Sandia 1949 Green Fireballs File

The Department of War posted PURSUE Release 02 to war.gov/UFO on 22 May 2026, the second tranche under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Six documents and 57 video files spanning 1949 to 2025. Headline material includes a senior US intelligence officer's USPER narrative of a multi-hour helicopter encounter with orange orb formations and fighter-jet interaction; the 1973 CIA report covering the Soviet Sary Shagan weapons testing range with a paragraph documenting a defector's UAP observation; a PANTEX nuclear facility incident report (with UCNI redactions); two letters from Manhattan Project physicist James L. Tuck on UFO-related atmospheric vortices; a 1986 Pajarito Astronomers bulletin announcing a UFO lecture by a Los Alamos AT-6 division scientist; and the 116-page Sandia Base 1949 Green Fireballs correspondence file with Dr. Lincoln La Paz.