Scientific American is now covering one of the most interesting cases in PURSUE Release 05: the Gulf of Oman “cold orbs” incident. According to the associated government report, U.S. Special Operations personnel aboard an AC-130J observed multiple anomalous objects on infrared sensors during a 2021 exercise. The report describes them as “cold orbs,” moving in formation at speeds ranging from roughly 250 to 1,300 mph, with no detected means of propulsion. But the key issue remains the same. Th...

Disclosure: I work on VRAI's UAP source-control / evidence-literacy project. This is a public-records/source-control post, not event validation, object identity, origin, performance, authenticity, suppression, completeness, or agency endorsement. I am posting this here because PURSUE Release 01/02 is a useful test case for evidence classes: release availability, catalog provenance, custody, native/source-file status, public renditions, correction history, and event interpretation are differen...