TIME Magazine Publishes Detailed Walkthrough of PURSUE 162-File Corpus

TIME magazine published a detailed walkthrough of the Pentagon's first Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) tranche on 11 May 2026, three days after the 8 May 2026 release. The piece catalogued the corpus as 120 PDFs, 28 videos and 14 images spanning 1944 to late 2025, sourced from the Department of War, the FBI, NASA and the Department of State. TIME's reporting highlighted Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 transcripts in which astronauts including Buzz Aldrin described unexplained luminous objects observed during the lunar missions, an internal military memo describing a possible small UAP in Iraq in 2022, a Syria 2024 multiple-glare incident, witness reports of a cigar-shaped object at a restricted government test facility, and law enforcement reports describing 'orbs launching other orbs'. The piece is one of the earliest comprehensive mainstream walkthroughs of the corpus and is widely cited in subsequent coverage.