On September 14 the Defense Department issued a waiver that lets past and present civilian personnel, service members and contractors share UAP-related information with PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, without triggering breach-of-agreement penalties. PURSUE is the White House initiative directing federal agencies and the military services to gather their internal UAP records for possible declassification and public release.
In the Pentagon's own words, the step "establishes an authorized pipeline for systematic review, security evaluation, and potential declassification of historical and ongoing UAP data." The Disclosure Foundation's executive director called it "a meaningful step toward establishing the facts."
A private archive the Pentagon wants to read
Two weeks earlier, DefenseScoop reported that the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, AARO, is pursuing a sole-source contract for access to the National UFO Historical Records Center, the New Mexico nonprofit led by David Marler. A Pentagon official described it as holding "the world's largest private collection of UAP-related historical records, including hundreds of thousands of unique case files." AARO is particularly interested in pre-1990 material, to meet Congress's requirement that it review government involvement with UAP since 1945. The archive includes files once belonging to Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Project Blue Book.
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DefenseScoop: Pentagon seeks access to vast private UFO records collection





