PURSUE Release 03 — Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing (CIA-UAP-017)
Source: U.S. Department of War, PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) — Release 03 (third tranche), published 12 June 2026. Document CIA-UAP-017.
URL: release portal https://www.war.gov/UFO/release/03/ · bundle https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/061226/release_03/release_03_documents.zip (file: CIA-UAP-017_Placement_on_High_Alert_Due_to_Perceived_Aggressive_Foreign_Posturing.pdf)
Captured: 2026-06-12. Text below is the clean born-digital / OCR text extracted from the released PDF (3 pages).
What this is: Placement on High Alert Due to Perceived Aggressive Foreign Posturing. Index/analysis: pursue-release-03-uap-records.
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PASS: DrA FOR TERRORISM . CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE WARNING: SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED. ANY TRANSMISSION OR REVELATION OF THIS INFORMATION IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTIIORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED. VIOLATORS MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, INCLUDING UNDER 11-IE ESPIONAGE LAWS OF TH E UNITED STATES. REPORT CLASS S EC RE T —NOFORN DIST: 3 JULY 2008 COUNTRY: ZIMBABWE TOPIC: DEPS/FMCC__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ SUBJ: PLACEMEN’Ij’-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _pN HIGH ALERT DUE TO PERCEIVED AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POSTURING DOI· EARLY JULY 2008
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government, or whether the object was an unidentified
flying object of extraterrestrial origins. According to
observers ~----~the object was disc-like in shape with
a hollow center, and had a series of rotating lights on
the underside of the airframe. After a period under
observation from the ground, the rotating lights under
the object shifted colors and the object quickly ascended
to higher altitudes and out of visual ranue. Reuardless
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