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VERDICTCase #00482 — 3I/Atlas anomalous brightening event marked WatchingDISCLOSUREAARO Annual Report to Congress — FY2025 released 20 July 20263I/ATLASLive position 06h 54m 22s · +20° 16′ 24″ · magnitude 25.4 · 2.39 AUHEARINGCase #00499 PURSUE R6 predicted window at the stable 28-day cadence (~2026-09-04); Case #00499 PURSUE-designee naming clock closes between 2026-08-29 (T+29 from the 2026-07-31 memorandum date) and 2026-09-07 (30 days from the 2026-08-08 publication day) — 4 September 2026EDITIONEdition #207 published 18 August 2026 — daily Brief queued for 07:00 UTCVERDICTCase #00482 — 3I/Atlas anomalous brightening event marked WatchingDISCLOSUREAARO Annual Report to Congress — FY2025 released 20 July 20263I/ATLASLive position 06h 54m 22s · +20° 16′ 24″ · magnitude 25.4 · 2.39 AUHEARINGCase #00499 PURSUE R6 predicted window at the stable 28-day cadence (~2026-09-04); Case #00499 PURSUE-designee naming clock closes between 2026-08-29 (T+29 from the 2026-07-31 memorandum date) and 2026-09-07 (30 days from the 2026-08-08 publication day) — 4 September 2026EDITIONEdition #207 published 18 August 2026 — daily Brief queued for 07:00 UTC
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2026-07-31 Presidential Memorandum — UAP-Disclosure NDA Abrogation and PURSUE-Designee Naming Window

A measured account of the day's principal case under Council review, with citation, location, and verdict status.

By The Council·31 July 2026·Washington, D.C., USAWatching

On 31 July 2026 the White House issued a presidential memorandum abrogating UAP-disclosure non-disclosure agreements and directing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to name a PURSUE designee within 30 days. The document was made public on 8 August 2026. It is the first on-the-record presidential-level executive action specifically targeting the NDA infrastructure that has kept classified UAP witnesses from testifying publicly, and opens a named accountability clock on the PURSUE program. As of 13 August 2026 the designee-naming window stands at T+13 from the memorandum date, with the earlier bound at 29 August 2026 and the later bound at 7 September 2026.

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Latest verdicts of record

Adjudicated cases ordered by date observed. Each entry is cited; verdicts revise when the evidence revises.

CASE #00471Inconclusive

AARO FY2025 Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

20 July 2026 · Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, USA

The AARO FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP, published 20 July 2026 on aaro.mil — months past the 180-day statutory window — reports 319 new cases for the period covering June 2024 through May 2025. Of those, 114 were resolved to prosaic causes; 9 warrant continued analysis due to insufficient data; and the office found no evidence of exotic technology or advanced foreign capabilities. The report is the third mandated under the FY2023 NDAA and the most data-rich in operational domain breakdown.

CASE #00506Confirmed

3I/ATLAS: FAST Reports a Periodic-Signal Radio Null — The Second Independent SETI-Style Test Comes Back Empty

15 July 2026 · Space — 3I/ATLAS outbound trajectory; FAST radio observatory, Pingtang County, Guizhou, China

A preprint posted to arXiv on 2026-07-15 (arXiv:2607.01666) reports the first search for periodic radio emission from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou, China. Across the observing campaign, no statistically significant periodic signal was detected in any of the searched frequency bands, timing folds, or duty-cycle windows. The Council files the finding as Confirmed at the null-result level: FAST is the world's most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, and its non-detection is the second independent SETI-style test on 3I/ATLAS to come back empty, following the Allen Telescope Array survey summarised in Case #00494. The result further softens the technosignature hypothesis on the Loeb branch while updating no verdict on the natural-origin branch — the object continues to look like a natural interstellar comet on every evidentiary channel the Council has to hand.

CASE #00504Inconclusive

Burlison Testifies Before House Rules Committee for UAP Disclosure Act Amendment to FY27 NDAA — Floor Vote Window Open

29 June 2026 · U.S. House of Representatives, Rules Committee, Washington, D.C.

On 2026-06-29, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO, House Oversight UAP Task Force) testified before the House Rules Committee in support of his UAP Disclosure Act amendment to the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act. On 2026-06-30 the Rules Committee voted 8-4 along party lines to adopt a structured rule on H.R. 8800 that did not make Burlison's amendment in order — the amendment cannot receive an independent floor vote under this rule. Case verdict rolls up to Inconclusive (from Watching): testimony Confirmed; amendment ruled in order Debunked-for-this-cycle; amendment becomes law Inconclusive. The Council's UAPDA-2025 tracker resolves post-event as: Track A (standalone HR-bill) not introduced; Track B (Burlison FY27 NDAA amendment) killed at Rules; Track C (Senate FY27 vehicle) dormant. The multi-cycle pattern — Senate FY25 (watered down) → House FY26 (excluded) → House FY27 (killed at Rules) — is itself the load-bearing finding.

CASE #00505Inconclusive

3I/ATLAS: JWST/MIRI Returns First Mid-Infrared Dust Spectrum of an Interstellar Object — Amorphous Silicates Dominate the 10-Micron Feature

29 June 2026 · Space — 3I/ATLAS outbound trajectory, post-perihelion

A JWST/MIRI mid-infrared spectroscopy paper posted to arXiv overnight on 2026-06-28/29 (arXiv:2606.27535) presents the first spectroscopic mineralogical analysis of an interstellar object's dust coma. The spectrum of 3I/ATLAS shows a strong 10-micron emissivity feature dominated by amorphous silicates, with a composition the authors describe as 'unlike Solar System comets.' The Council files the result as Inconclusive at the case level: the mineralogical fingerprint is genuinely novel — no prior interstellar object had any dust spectrum on record — and at the same time entirely natural, since amorphous-silicate dominance is the ordinary state of pristine cometary dust before inner-disk thermal processing. The result enriches Cases #00494 and #00501 and softens the technosignature hypothesis on the Loeb branch without confirming it on the natural-origin branch.

Disclosure Tracker

The official record, in chronological order

Government statements, hearings, and document releases — the public-record events that bound what we can adjudicate.

  1. 2026-06-29US · hearing

    Rep. Burlison testifies before House Rules Committee in support of his UAP Disclosure Act amendment to the FY27 NDAA, opening a floor-vote window this week

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  2. 2026-06-24US · statement

    MIT Lincoln Laboratory (FFRDC) acknowledges custody of named 1952 UAP film — AF-ATIC-FILM, 03/52, titled 'Flying Saucer Talk,' briefed by former Project Blue Book chief Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, tied to the July 1952 Washington flap — and agrees to transfer it, per Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) official House press release; reiterated at Disclosure Forum 2026 panel on 2026-06-25. Council split verdict: custody = Confirmed, contents = Inconclusive, transfer completion = Watching (60-day window).

    Confirmed
  3. 2026-06-25US · hearing

    Disclosure Forum 2026 — Kennedy Caucus Room (Russell Senate Office Building): first all-day on-the-record institutional UAP forum to seat sitting senators (Gillibrand, Rounds), House members (Luna, Burchett, Burlison, Subramanyam, Carson), Mellon, and UAP Science Advisory Council chair Loeb; Luna states White House negotiating whistleblower amnesty (possibly via EO); Rounds confirms FY2027 NDAA UAPDA amendment with Schumer (fourth attempt); Mellon cites ~90% bipartisan polling for greater UAP transparency (methodology pending); Loeb reframes Advisory Council as 'orbs not the audience' calibrated-data discipline

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  4. 2026-06-15US · statement

    UAP Governance Board first meeting (ODNI, FBI, Department of War) — interagency coordination layer for UAP investigation and declassification under Executive Order 13526; Loeb-chaired 14-member UAP Science Advisory Council announced same week, restricted to unclassified data by chair's own statement

    Watching
  5. 2026-06-12US · release

    PURSUE Release 3 — third DoW UAP files tranche (72 files: 6 videos, 53 documents, 10 images, 3 audio; FBI, CIA, NASA, DoD; AARO Kosloski 2026-06-05 statement included — 40% of recent cases unresolved)

    Confirmed

Source: Council disclosure-tracker · last verified 2026-06-30

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