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An iPhone 14 video from July (2025), showing two bright orbs moving in tandem over the northeastern US, is one of six videos in today's PURSUE release and is treated by the FBI as credible.

Two bright orbs appearing to move in tandem in the northeast sky. It is one of six videos in this new file dump today.

A separate video from the northeast, also from an iPhone, shows a plasma-like orb hovering above a pond for about 45 minutes before disappearing; the government later authenticated the video.

Another from the northeast shows a plasma-like orb hovering above a pond... It stays there for about 45 minutes before disappearing.

A CGI-animated recreation released today depicts a October 2023 western-US incident in which federal agents described seeing orbs land and then launch other orbs; the original reports first came out in an earlier release.

October 2023 in the western United States. Federal agents described seeing orbs landing and then launching other orbs.

In a November 1962 interview, Gordon Cooper told Walter Cronkite that a large number of well-qualified people had seen objects with no logical explanation.

There have been a large number of fairly well qualified or exceptionally well qualified... people who have seen objects that have not had any really logical explanation.

Today's Pentagon file dump is the third PURSUE release of declassified and historical UAP files, including agency documents and civilian-submitted video.

This is the third release of declassified and historical UAP files under... Pursue. This latest release contains declassified documents from different intelligence agencies as well as video submitted... by everyday Americans.

A witness in the northeastern US reported, in March 2022, an intense bright light hovering about 2,500 feet above the ground, describing it as a brilliant red sphere.

A witness who says that they saw an intense bright light hovering about 2,500 ft above ground. They describe this as a brilliant red sphere.

A witness in the same northeastern area reported, in July (2025), two bright red luminous light sources about 2,500 feet above the ground, and described the incident to the FBI.

In the same area in July last year, a witness described seeing two bright red luminous light sources... also about 2,500 ft above the ground. And the witness described that incident to the FBI.

A 2008 document describes a sighting at an airport in Zimbabwe that went to the situation room and top national security officials; the government could not conclude whether the object was extraterrestrial or foreign-adversary technology, and the airport was placed on high alert.

This document from 2008 describes a sighting at an airport in Zimbabwe. The intelligence report went to everyone in the situation room... unable to conclude if the flying object was in fact the result of extraterrestrial life or advanced technology from a foreign adversary.

The PURSUE site has received almost 2 billion hits since it launched on May 8th, per the Pentagon's chief spokesman.

The site getting almost 2 billion hits since it launched on May 8th.

Officials say the released files do not prove extraterrestrial life exists, and frame the release as part of a broader transparency effort around UAP encounters.

Officials are not saying that these files actually prove extraterrestrial life exists, but they say it's part of a larger transparency effort surrounding UAP encounters.

Orbs are among the most common, if not the single most common, type of UAP cited and reported, and are widely found on consumer smartphone video across the internet.

It turns out that orbs are among the most common, if not the most common type of UAP cited and reported... you can find orb UAP videos from consumer smartphones all over the internet.

In at least one of the northeastern-orb incidents, FBI agents who went to interview eyewitnesses themselves witnessed a UAP (possibly more than one) and took photographs.

In at least one of the videos, one of the incidents, it appears the FBI agents went out, interviewed some of these eyewitnesses, and themselves witnessed a UAP if not more than one, and took some photos.

A main theory of ufology holds that UAPs use plasma-based technology to travel faster than light or interdimensionally.

It aligns with kind of a main theory of ufology, which is that it would be some sort of plasma-based technology that would enable... an extraterrestrial craft, to travel either faster than the speed of light or interdimensionally.

The US government has investigated plasma-orb phenomena since the 1940s, when Allied WWII pilots reported them and coined the term 'Foo Fighters'.

It really started back in the 1940s during the height of World War II where Allied pilots often reported the phenomenon and gave them a name. They called them Foo Fighters.

In the tranche released before this one, a senior Director of National Intelligence (USIC) official and a helicopter pilot witnessed, for nearly 20 minutes, orbs interacting with their helicopter at a sensitive military installation.

A senior member of the Director of National Intelligence himself was sent on an investigation to a sensitive military installation. And he himself, along with the helicopter pilot, witnessed for nearly 20 minutes these orbs interacting with their helicopter.

There is an ongoing pattern of well-documented UAP sightings in the western US, including dozens of reports filed by Army and Air Force pilots and documented by the FAA near the Arizona border.

There are literally dozens of reports that have been filed by Army and Air Force pilots, documented by the FAA, out there near the Arizona border.

While AARO was publicly telling Congress there was 'nothing to see here,' the CIA, FBI and Department of Defense were internally conducting their own UAP investigations with 'very interesting results.'

From the 2023 [AARO] was allegedly in charge of investigating UAP... while they were telling Congress nothing to see here, folks. Now we find out that the CIA, and particularly the FBI and the Department of Defense, did indeed conduct their own investigations and were actually fi

A poll shows more than half of Americans now believe in UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

There's a poll out that shows more than half of Americans now believe in UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

There are three real classifications of UFO observation: at a distance; contact leaving physical damage or an impression on the ground; and an observed incident involving seeing the object along with some form of intelligent life -- the third being what David Grusch talks about.

There are three real classifications of types of observations of UFOs... the third one is what Dave Grusch is talking about, which is where there's an observable incident involving seeing it and observing some kind of intelligent life along with it.