Case Files

PURSUE vs. The Witnesses

Edited by Obadiah Fitch

Every other file in the Codex tests witnesses against each other. This one tests them against the government's own paper. We ran all 188 documents from the Pentagon's four PURSUE UAP releases (war.gov/ufo — May 8, May 22, June 12 and July 10, 2026) against the Codex — 4,121 attributed podcast claims. The machine returned 19 confirmations, 2 outright contradictions, and a long tail of near-misses that neither confirm nor refute. The headline: the strongest signal in the entire corpus is a single event, told six times, that two public figures described on podcasts before most of the paperwork was public.

Over two days in October 2023, near a sensitive national security site in the western United States, six federal law enforcement special agents reported orange orbs that launched, expelled or “hatched” smaller red orbs at dusk. The June 12 release contains five separate AARO memoranda for record, dated June 2, 2026, presenting each witness’s free-form narrative (DoW-UAP-D079 through D083), plus a June 5 analysis update (DOW-UAP-D077). The May 8 release had already included a slide deck on the same incidents (Western_US_Event_Slides). Rep. Eric Burlison had claimed on podcast that a released document reports officials “witnessing an orange orb producing or disseminating red orbs during an incursion.” That distinctive detail — an orb giving birth to orbs — appears across all six documents. Avi Loeb described the same two-day October 2023 event, and D077 delivers the statistic he attached to it: AARO attributes roughly 60 percent of the activity to military flares and exercises, leaving about 40 percent without a plausible explanation.

The tensions matter as much as the match. Burlison said high-level intelligence officers at a military base; the six narrative memos identify the witnesses as federal law enforcement special agents, and one narrative places the sighting in what reads as a wildlife area, not a base. His account fits a different document better — the redacted USPER statement from the May releases, a senior US intelligence officer’s firsthand narrative of a late-2025 helicopter mission on a military test range, with an object that approached within ten feet and split in two, and swarms of orange orbs. Burlison appears to have fused two genuine events, both now documented, into one anecdote. Both survive contact with the paper. The seams show. Loeb shows a seam of his own: he named the AARO director “Dr. John Kozlowski,” while the memos are signed by Director Jon T. Kosloski. Garbled name, correct man, correct number.

The June 12 release also includes the January 1953 CIA Scientific Advisory Panel report itself (CIA-UAP-002), convened under DCI Walter B. Smith — one document returning two opposite verdicts. It confirms James Fox, who has long said the Robertson Panel adopted a policy of systematically downplaying UFOs through media and public messaging: the report recommends stripping UFOs of their “special status” through a public education and debunking program. The document says “education,” not “ridicule”; the substance holds, the word choice is his. The same document contradicts Jesse Michels≠, who claimed the CIA under Smith planned to play up UFO phenomena for psychological warfare. The panel recommended the opposite — downplay and debunk, precisely because the phenomenon could be exploited by hostile propaganda. It cannot support both readings, and it supports Fox’s. Michels takes a second hit in the July 10 release: DOW-UAP-D092 places Carl Sagan on the USAF Scientific Advisory Board committee reviewing Project Blue Book in February 1966, early in his career, against his claim that Sagan’s UFO interest came late.

Three older confirmations deserve their own line. Release one’s Wright Field correspondence file contains the September 23, 1947 AMC opinion letter — the phenomenon is “real and not visionary or fictitious,” with extreme rate of climb and maneuverability — which is Nathan Twining’s claim nearly verbatim, though the anti-gravity propulsion detail attached to it in podcast retellings is not in the document. The released Apollo 17 air-to-ground transcript records Cernan’s crew experiencing light flashes and observing a distant, rhythmically flashing object, matching Michels’s account — but the transcript attributes the flashes to cosmic rays and the object to the discarded S-IVB stage. The experience is confirmed; the mystery is not. And an FBI file section contains F. M. (Fred) Johnson’s 1947 letter claiming he watched, through a telescope near Mt. Adams, the same objects Kenneth Arnold reported on June 24, 1947 — EJ Thornton’s account of “a geologist named Fred” checks out in its core, though Johnson was a prospector, and the compass-spinning and Blue Book details aren’t in this document.

What we did not find matters too. No document in 188 confirms crash retrieval, recovered craft or reverse engineering. David Grusch’s claimed 1948 CNO “flying disc pandemic” memo does not appear; several documents show the era’s Navy–Air Force intelligence collaboration he describes, but the memo itself is absent. Robert Hastings’s 167 nuclear-site witnesses get atmosphere from the Pantex incident report, not confirmation. Jim Segala’s simultaneous instrument spikes are not in the FBI’s northeastern-US file that may cover the same property.

FILED 2026-07-11 · RUN AGAINST THE CODEX AS IT STOOD AT 4,121 CLAIMS · EVERY MATCH REVIEWED BY A HUMAN BEFORE PUBLICATION

Anti-Gravity

Edited by Obadiah Fitch

Anti-gravity is not a single claim in the Codex. Witnesses, engineers, and physicists describe a decades-long research program from different angles. The throughline starts with Thomas Townsend Brown: Jesse Michels, Paul Schatzkin, and Linda Brown (via biographer accounts) all place Brown at the center of early electrogravitic experiments, with Edward Teller reportedly witnessing a demonstration and saying "I don't know how this works" — a claim corroborated from two independent angles×2. An Australian Joint Intelligence Organization memo×2 adds a second corroborated thread that Teller kept working anti-gravity research through the 1950s, and Harry Turner's claim that Teller, Freeman Dyson, and Oppenheimer were all involved pulls the postwar physics establishment into the same story.

The strongest corroboration cluster, though, is Ning Li's superconductor work: Jesse Michels×2 and a separate claim attributed to Ning Li herself agree that cooled YBCO superconductors produce measurable gravitomagnetic effects — Dave Rossi pushes this further, saying Li actually generated gravitational waves and discovered "AC and DC gravity" before vanishing into classified work, a dramatic but less corroborated extension. Alien-technology claims also converge: Lyn Buchanan×2's channeled account that ETs achieved anti-gravity via magnetism is corroborated by Steve Coburn's independent description of a homopolar generator circulating molten magnetic material — two very different sourcing methods landing on the same magnetism-based mechanism.

Contradictions are notable and unresolved. Eric Davis≠ says spacetime torsion has been experimentally falsified, which sits uneasily against the Codex's many torsion-adjacent and scalar-field claims. John Alexander≠'s account that Hutchinson's anti-gravity apparatus failed under lab conditions but "worked" off-camera reads as a quiet rebuttal to the entire evidentiary structure the other claims depend on — effects that vanish exactly when scrutiny arrives.

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The Nuclear–UFO Connection

Edited by Obadiah Fitch

The nuclear-UFO connection clusters around one recurring shape: unidentified craft appear at nuclear test sites and missile facilities, and something about our weapons draws attention that outlasts any single witness's credibility.

The strongest-attested strand is Bluegill Triple Prime, the October 26, 1962 high-altitude nuclear test. Kirk McConnell×2 says a UFO was downed during the test and recovered by the Navy. Jesse Michels×2 says EG&G film crews documented a "tagalong" object falling out of the blast plume, and Harald Malmgren×2 goes further still, saying the test was intentionally designed to shoot the tagalong down using X-ray emissions. Three independent lines converging on the same test date is, by the Codex's own math, the load-bearing pillar of this topic. McConnell adds a second data point two months earlier: an unknown object tracked an AVCO Mark V re-entry vehicle on September 19, 1962.

The second major cluster is Malmstrom AFB, March 24, 1967. Robert Salas says a red-orange pulsating UFO hovered over Oscar Flight and all ten missiles dropped from green to red simultaneously; he says Boeing investigators×1 could not explain how an external signal breached triply shielded cables. Salas also says AFOSI agents forced NDAs on witnesses at nuclear facilities×2 — a suppression pattern that recurs with Mario Woods and Richard Barth, both of whom separately describe being made to sign NDAs after their own encounters. Joel Shechman≠ offers a rival account of the same 1967 incident: a secret EMP experiment testing whether the US could shut down its own nukes, not a UFO at all. Salas's version and Shechman's version cannot both be the full story, and the Codex doesn't yet adjudicate between them — though Salas says Lt. Col. Lewis Chase later denied to a Condon investigator any knowledge of shutdowns, despite having written reports on the activity, which at minimum suggests something was being hidden.

Third-party validation, if you take it as such: Herman Oberth×2's statement that UFOs monitor Earth's nuclear sites carries two corroborations, and Robert Hastings×2' broader claim that UFOs systematically tamper with nuclear stockpiles worldwide carries two more, with Hastings adding that Senator Harry Reid pursued AATIP funding after reading his book — a rare thread with an institutional paper trail attached.

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