46 Videos the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See – and the Congresswoman Who Just Set a Deadline

Update (May 22): PURSUE Release 02 is live. The videos Luna and Burlison fought for are now public – including an F-16 shootdown over Lake Huron, submarine UAP footage, spherical UAPs across multiple theaters, DOE material, and Apollo 12 audio. War.gov has passed 1 billion hits. A third release is already being prepared. Luna announced: “Second UAP drop is up!” Full Release 02 breakdown →

Update (May 21): Burlison said he has reviewed 52 unreleased UAP videos with Luna ahead of the next drop – more than the 46 Luna has been pushing through declassification – and called some “very interesting” while noting others are balloons and birds. This week’s roundup →

Update (May 18): Coulthart reports AARO showed Burlison 30 additional UAP videos that “made everyone in the room gasp” – separate from the 46 Luna is pushing through declassification. The second PURSUE release is confirmed “actively being processed.” Meanwhile, Coulthart reports Trump has been briefed on the crash retrieval program. This week’s roundup →

Update (May 15): Luna announced she has finished reviewing the 40+ videos set for declassification from the Department of War “in coming weeks.” She gave the new AARO director her “full support,” saying he has “proven through action that he is working in good faith on declass efforts.” Corbell reported that Luna told him directly: “The new director of AARO is actually fully complying with us now and working at the direction of the White House. We are in process of reviewing part of the videos set to be released next.” Separately, Luna revealed that CIA Director John Ratcliffe told her where the UFO files are located and who has authority over them – meaning the administration has known exactly where the strongest material sits. This week’s roundup →

Update (May 12): Luna gave a wider timeline: “In the next thirty days or so in talking with the Pentagon this Thursday, we will obtain these 40 plus documents that we have been specifically requesting.” This softens the “next week” reporting from May 10. The videos are still in the pipeline, but the window is now roughly through mid-June. Luna also said Congress has been obstructed from investigating crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs and that whistleblowers continue facing retaliation. This week’s roundup →

Update (May 10): NewsNation reports the 46 videos will be released next week. Luna confirmed: “The UFO files that were released were classified – there’s more to come.” Eight of the 46 videos have already appeared in an advance document, per the New York Post. Meanwhile, Liberation Times named Aaron Lukas, Principal Deputy DNI and former CIA station chief, as a key figure blocking the administration from accessing stronger material. This week’s roundup →

Update (May 8): The White House launched PURSUE and released the first batch of UAP files at war.gov/UFO. Luna confirmed the 46 videos are not in this first tranche but are coming: “There will be more files released. To include our request of the 40+ files. I talked to the Pentagon last night.” She said the requested docs and videos will be in the “second drop.” Full PURSUE article →

Update (April 29): Trump made his strongest disclosure statement yet during an Oval Office event with Artemis II astronauts: “They saw things you wouldn’t believe! You’re gonna be reading about it.” He confirmed the administration will release “a lot of things.” Luna gave her most direct personal testimony: “I have seen evidence in a SCIF that leads me to believe there are things we cannot explain.” Burchett said he saw “miraculous” things in the SCIF. Full article → · This week’s roundup →

Update (April 27): Chris Sharp reports the Pentagon is “unable to confirm whether new UFO information being prepared with the White House will be released through AARO’s website.” Sharp has also asked NARA if it will be the release mechanism. The gap between presidential rhetoric and Pentagon action continues to widen. This week’s roundup →

Update (April 26): The aliens.gov domain registered by the White House in March is now showing activity. Mick West observed updates to the site. Burlison confirmed the Pentagon is actively preparing the 46 videos for Congress and the public. This week’s roundup →

Update (April 21): Rep. Burlison has provided the most detailed public description yet of the classified videos – a “metallic silver orb” with “immediate acceleration that defies normal propulsion or physics that we know of” and “a ball of plasma” that appears and disappears. He’s calling on Trump to demand files from the CIA and DOE as well. This week’s roundup →

Update (April 18): Luna visited Harvard’s Kennedy School, where she received a personal briefing from Avi Loeb on the Galileo Project and toured the observatory. She made her most direct public statement yet – “The Phenomena is Real” – and said Secretary Hegseth has been “great on this issue.” On the 46 videos: “All of the files are getting declassified, but I am very focused on the 46.”

Update (April 16): The White House broke its silence on the missing scientists pattern the same day a separate confirmation emerged: a War Department official told Liberation Times that AARO is “working in close coordination with the White House and across federal agencies to consolidate existing UAP records collections and facilitate the expeditious release of never-before-seen UAP information.” Jeremy Corbell confirmed he and George Knapp personally gave Congress the file names and locations – including Air Force materials not on the public list.

Update (April 14): The deadline has passed. Luna revealed on X that no one from the Pentagon responded until her office reached out – and that someone inside the building never forwarded her letter to the appropriate authorities. “Whoever is trying to be cute at the Pentagon can take a hike,” she wrote, adding that she considers Defense Secretary Hegseth an ally and that the President has authorized the release. She vowed to get the 46 videos regardless.

On March 31, 2026, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that was unlike anything Congress has ever put on paper about UFOs.

It wasn’t a vague request for “more transparency.” It wasn’t a resolution expressing concern. It was a four-page demand for 46 specific classified military videos – each identified by date, location, platform, and in many cases, operational callsign. The kind of detail you only get from someone who has seen the inventory.

The deadline: April 14, 2026.

Luna chairs the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets – a body created in February 2025 with a six-month mandate that has now stretched well past its original term. The task force’s jurisdiction spans JFK assassination records, MLK files, and Epstein documents. But its most contentious work has been on UAP.

The letter invokes House Rule X – the Oversight Committee’s authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time.” It is not a subpoena. But it is a shot across the bow.

The List

Here is what Congress is asking for. These are not paraphrases – they are the descriptions as they appear in the official House Oversight PDF.

Middle East and Central Asia

The largest cluster of requested videos comes from military operations across the Persian Gulf, Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan. Most appear to have been captured by MQ-9 Reaper drones – identifiable by the recurring callsigns Toxic 6, Hackney 6, and their variants.

#	Description	Date
1	4 UAP formation – Iran	8/26/22
2	Syrian UAP instant acceleration	2021
6	Spherical UAP over AFG in and out of clouds	11/23/20
12	AFSOC Kabul UAP	2017
25	Lightning (Lavender) observes UAP	1/3/21
26	Hackney 6 (Toxic 6) observes and tracks UAP (2 videos)	11/2/20
27	Toxic 6 (Mercury) observes 3 fast-moving UAPs	10/29/20
28	Toxic 6 (Hackney 6) observes UAPs	10/20/20
29	Greed observes UAP	10/18/20
30	Greed observes UAP	10/16/20
31	Mad Dog 31 observes UAP	10/17/20
32	Regulator 73 observes UAP	10/17/20
33	Toxic 6 (Hackney 6) observes UAP	9/16/20
35	Toxic 6 UAP	9/5/20
36	Toxic 6 UAP (Hackney 6) observes UAP (2 videos)	8/31/20
37	Hellhound 1X (Coffee) observes UAP	8/24/20
38	Toxic 6 observes UAP in Persian Gulf	8/21/20
39	Hackney 6 (Toxic 6) UAP observation	8/8/20
40	Hackney 6 (MQ-9) Gulf of Arabia dual UAP	5/5/20
41	Hackney 5X (Mint) HD 2020-02-13	2/13/20
42	Hackney 6 (MQ-9) UAP in Persian Gulf	5/20/20
43	HH-11 UAPs	7/3/18
44	Hi-Res: Hackney 4X observes UAP at 2135Z	9/25/19
45	UFOs in formation over Persian Gulf	—
46	Hi-Res: Hackney 4X observes UAPs at 1715Z	9/23/19

That’s 25 videos from a single theater – spanning four years of drone surveillance. The callsign “Toxic 6” alone appears in at least ten entries. The pattern suggests a persistent phenomenon: the same platforms, flying the same corridors, encountering the same objects, over and over.

Item #6 – the spherical UAP weaving through clouds over Afghanistan – was partially leaked by journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp and became one of the most widely viewed UAP clips online. Luna is now asking for the full, unedited version.

Item #2 – the “Syrian UAP instant acceleration” from 2021 – matches descriptions of the footage captured by an MQ-9 Reaper along the Syria-Jordan border that was reported by Liberation Times in early 2026, showing a mushroom-shaped object exhibiting apparent instantaneous acceleration.

East Asia and the Pacific

#	Description	Date
22	MQ-9 observer UAP in East China Sea	1/5/23
23	Assault 1X (Steel) HD_20220613	6/13/22
24	EP-3 observed UAP in the ECS	6/9/21

The EP-3 is a signals intelligence aircraft. Whatever it observed in the East China Sea in June 2021, the sensor data was classified.

United States Domestic

#	Description	Date
19	USAF ANG F-16C (callsign AESIR11) shoots down UAP over Lake Huron with AIM-9X	2/12/23
21	IIR 1 655 S0053 23 / Several UAP in vicinity of Columbus OH airport	2023
34	UAP on East Coast	12/1/19
18	IIR 1 665 SO301 23 / Eglin AFB	2023

Item #19 is the Lake Huron shootdown – one of the most dramatic UAP events in recent memory. On February 12, 2023, during the heightened alert that followed the Chinese surveillance balloon incident, an Air National Guard F-16C using the callsign AESIR11 engaged an unidentified object over Lake Huron with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. The first shot missed. The second destroyed the object. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley confirmed the miss publicly. The object was described as octagonal with strings hanging beneath it.

No debris was recovered. No definitive identification was ever announced. Later FOIA-based reporting suggested the object may have been commercial weather-monitoring equipment – but no confirmed public DoD statement settled the matter. Luna wants the full video.

Item #18 references Eglin Air Force Base – the same installation where Luna, Burchett, and former Rep. Matt Gaetz were turned away at the door in 2023 until Gaetz called the Pentagon.

Underwater and Unidentified Submerged Objects

#	Description	Date
3	UAP USO formation Wiley 2X Zinc	—
7	Spherical UAP pulsing over water Jacker 2X	—
15	Multiple spherical UAP USO near Sub. Cactus 1X in and out of water	3/25/22

Item #15 describes multiple spherical objects moving in and out of water near a U.S. submarine. The callsign “Cactus 1X” identifies the observing platform. This aligns directly with what Rep. Tim Burchett described in his recent interviews – a high-ranking admiral telling him about an underwater craft “big as a football field moving at over 200 miles an hour.”

Coast Guard, Fifth-Gen Aircraft, and Other

#	Description	Date
13–14	USCG C-144 UAP 2 Tic Tac IR hot (duplicated in PDF)	4/24/24
16	IIR 1 666 SO151 23 video footage of UAP captured by fifth generation aircraft	1/20/23
17	F-18 FLIR UAP	—
4	Cigar-shaped or fat spherical UAP	10/15/22
5	Spherical UAP erratic movement remix (RUST)	2022
8	Spherical UAP in clouds	—
9	Voodoo 4X (Cranberry) UAP	—
10	NGA UAP	6/1/10
11	Spherical UAP Warlock 4X (3 videos)	4/12/21
20	Administrative revision: IIR 1777 J0032 22 Kazakhstan – UAP in vicinity of Karaganda International Airport	2022

Item #16 is particularly notable: video of a UAP captured by a fifth-generation aircraft – meaning an F-22 Raptor or F-35 Lightning II – in January 2023. These are the most advanced sensor platforms the U.S. military operates.

Item #10 – dated June 1, 2010 – is the oldest entry on the list, predating AARO’s existence by over a decade. The “NGA” designation suggests the footage came from or through the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Item #20 places a UAP near Karaganda International Airport in Kazakhstan – a rare non-US-theater entry that suggests the scope of these encounters extends well beyond American airspace.

Where This Came From

The letter didn’t materialize from news reports. It came from a hearing.

On September 9, 2025, the task force held a session titled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection.” Witnesses included active-duty military personnel and civilian contractors. One of them, Alexandro Wiggins, provided written testimony describing encounters. Another, Jonathan Borland, detailed allegations of career harm after reporting UAP sightings through official channels.

The critical revelation: whistleblowers told the task force that AARO possesses additional video records of potential UAP sightings beyond what it has disclosed to Congress or the public.

Luna wrote it plainly in her letter:

“Whistleblowers informed the Task Force that AARO possesses additional video records of potential UAP sightings.”

The specificity of the 46-item list – operational callsigns, Zulu timestamps, IIR intelligence report numbers, internal file strings – is consistent with someone inside the system handing Congress an inventory. These are not descriptions a journalist or researcher could assemble from public sources. They read like an internal database export.

AARO’s Track Record

Why the aggressive tone? Because the task force has been through this before.

AARO – the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office – was established in July 2022 as the Pentagon’s designated UAP investigation body. Its first director, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, served roughly 18 months before departing in December 2023. An acting director, Timothy Phillips, held the seat until Dr. Jon Kosloski took over in August 2024.

During that time, AARO produced a Historical Record Report in February 2024 that was widely criticized by researchers, journalists, and members of Congress for methodological problems, selective sourcing, and a pre-determined conclusion that no UAP represented off-world technology. The Debrief called it “a tale of factual errors and old mistakes repeated.”

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Chris Mellon testified before Congress in November 2024 that AARO had failed to account for satellite imagery and other records relevant to UAP cases. Whistleblowers have described AARO as a “flypaper” operation – a mechanism that attracts reporting but fails to act on it, or worse, exposes sources to retaliation.

Luna’s assessment in the March 31 letter is blunt:

“The Task Force has found responses from AARO, when questioned about UAP sightings and provided data, less than adequate.”

AARO maintains a public imagery page with a handful of declassified clips. The task force is now asking for 46 more. The gap between what AARO has released and what it is believed to hold is the entire point of Luna’s demand.

The Task Force

The task force is not a fringe operation. Its members include several of the most active UAP voices in Congress:

Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) – Chair
Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) – Ranking Member
Tim Burchett (R-TN) – who has described classified briefings about underwater UAP bases and alien-human contact
Nancy Mace (R-SC) – who led the November 2024 UAP hearing
Eric Burlison (R-MO) – who is currently touring classified UAP facilities with Pentagon permission
Eli Crane (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Brandon Gill (R-TX)
Democrats Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL), Summer Lee (PA), Dave Min (CA)

Luna has been in the middle of UAP oversight since the July 2023 hearing that featured testimony from David Grusch, Ryan Graves, and David Fravor. She was among the members who traveled to Eglin Air Force Base and were initially denied entry – an episode she recounted in her September 2025 opening statement, noting that it took a phone call from then-Rep. Matt Gaetz to the Pentagon before “all of a sudden they opened the doors.”

What Happens April 14

The letter sets a deadline of April 14, 2026 for delivery of all 46 videos. As of this writing, five days remain. There has been no public indication of compliance or refusal from the Department of War.

Secretary Hegseth’s most detailed public comment on the UAP file release came after President Trump’s February 19 directive ordering agencies to identify and release UAP-related records:

“I did not have that on my bingo card at all. … We’ve got our people working on it right now. We’re digging in. We’re going to be in full compliance with that executive order.”

The letter itself carries no automatic penalty. It is a request backed by the Oversight Committee’s investigative authority, not a subpoena. But the committee can issue subpoenas under House rules, and several task force members have publicly advocated for exactly that – including the creation of a select committee with compulsory power.

If April 14 passes without delivery, the task force faces three options:

Subpoena – compel production through formal legal process
Floor vote – bring the matter before the full House
Accept the delay – and add it to the growing record of Pentagon non-compliance

The precedent is not encouraging. Congress has been asking for UAP materials with increasing specificity since the FY2022 NDAA created AARO. Annual reporting requirements have been met late or incompletely. The FY2026 NDAA added requirements for NORAD and NORTHCOM to brief Congress on UAP intercepts – a provision that only exists because voluntary disclosure failed.

But this time is different in one respect: the demand is not for a report or a briefing. It is for specific, named files that the Pentagon knows exist. There is no ambiguity about what is being asked for. The only question is whether the answer will be delivery, refusal, or silence.