Mother Orbs, Whistleblower Immunity, and a Fresh PURSUE Drop: This Week's UAP Roundup

It has been a loud few weeks in the disclosure world, and this week alone gave us a fresh document dump straight off the presses. Here is everything on the U.S. Phenomenon radar right now.

The Mother Orb Report

Back in June, AARO director Jon Kosloski signed off on a report describing a strange two-day event from October 2023: law enforcement officials watched an orange orb release a series of smaller red orbs, silent and moving in ways that do not match flares, drones, or known aircraft. One of the red orbs reportedly hovered in place for hours. AARO says roughly 40 percent of the cases it reviewed remain genuinely unresolved, meaning they cannot yet be pinned on balloons, birds, or Starlink flares. That is still the backbone of the current disclosure conversation, and it is worth revisiting as new files keep landing.

Christopher Mellon Keeps Raising the Volume

Former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon has been everywhere lately. His nonprofit, the Disclosure Foundation, hosted a Capitol Hill forum in late June that brought together physicists, historians, and former officials to talk about a topic Mellon says was untouchable until recently. He has also gone public about repeated UAP incursions over American military bases, describing one stretch where objects violated the airspace over Langley Air Force Base for seventeen straight days, forcing officials to reposition a squadron of jets. Mellon frames the national security angle as separate from the possible non-human origin angle, and says both deserve serious attention regardless of which turns out to be true.

Whistleblowers Just Got Cover

On July 31st, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a memo that changes the legal landscape for anyone sitting on classified UAP knowledge. Every intelligence community agency now has to appoint a PURSUE liaison within 30 days, and current or former employees are being told outright that old non-disclosure agreements no longer block them from talking to AARO or PURSUE. In plain terms, the legal shield that has historically kept insiders quiet just got a lot thinner.

Breaking: PURSUE Batch Five Just Dropped

As of yesterday, August 7th, the Department of War posted its fifth PURSUE batch: 41 new documents, images, and videos pulled from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department, and the Executive Office of the President, spanning incidents from 1950 all the way to this year. Highlights include infrared footage of a hovering black sphere, enhanced imagery over rugged terrain, a 2025 clip of an orb moving fast over a populated Middle Eastern city, and a pilot account of a silent, roughly 500-foot triangle that blotted out the stars over Bagram Airfield back in 2002. A noticeable cluster of these reports comes out of the Middle East, which tracks with how heavily instrumented conflict zones are compared to the rest of the world, not necessarily where phenomena prefer to show up.

What We're Watching Next

PURSUE releases have landed on a roughly monthly cadence since May, so expect batch six sometime in September. MITRE and MIT Lincoln Laboratory are also facing separate deadlines to respond to congressional records requests, including one for a 1952 briefing film. We will keep tracking it all right here and on air. Got a theory about the mother orb or the Bagram triangle? Call the U.S. Phenomenon hotline at 775-990-5151, we want to hear it.