The PURSUE portal is live. Hundreds of millions of people have visited. The White House is calling it “unprecedented transparency.”
But intelligence and defense sources who spoke to Liberation Times for a detailed investigation published this week offered a blunt assessment: what the government has released so far is not disclosure. Not even close.
For the first time, those sources publicly defined what disclosure actually requires. Their definition is the clearest statement yet of what insiders believe the government possesses – and what they expect the public to eventually see.
The Definition
Sources with knowledge of classified UAP programs told Liberation Times that genuine disclosure means an official acknowledgement of three things:
- Recovered vehicles and bodies of non-human origin – potentially including living beings
- Cooperative agreements with non-human entities
- Material collected by national systems – specifically the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and CIA – not tactical military footage
Each of these claims deserves scrutiny. Together, they form the most explicit public articulation of the disclosure endgame that intelligence-connected sources have offered.
Recovered Vehicles and Bodies
The existence of a government crash-retrieval program has been the central claim of the UAP disclosure movement since David Grusch testified before Congress in July 2023.
Grusch told Congress under oath that the U.S. government possesses “intact and partially intact” vehicles of non-human origin, and that “biologics” – non-human biological material – had been recovered. He said these programs had been hidden from congressional oversight for decades.
The Liberation Times sources go further. They are not just claiming recovered wreckage. They are saying that disclosure requires acknowledging bodies – and that some of those bodies may have been from living beings. The word “potentially” in their framing leaves room for ambiguity, but the implication is direct: the government has recovered non-human entities, not just hardware.
None of the PURSUE files released so far address this claim. The first tranche contains videos, photos, documents, and audio – but nothing related to material recovery or biological evidence.
Cooperative Agreements
The second element of the definition – cooperative agreements with non-human entities – is the most extraordinary claim in the Liberation Times reporting.
It implies not only that non-human intelligence exists and has interacted with humanity, but that the relationship has been formalized in some way. “Cooperative agreements” suggests structured interaction – terms, conditions, exchanges, or understandings between human institutions and non-human actors.
This claim has surfaced before in fragments. Grusch hinted at intergovernmental secrecy involving “agreements.” Ross Coulthart has reported on sources describing bilateral arrangements. Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer claimed publicly that governments had been in contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. But this is the first time the claim has been framed as part of an explicit definition of what disclosure means – stated not as rumor, but as a benchmark.
If true, it changes the nature of the conversation entirely. The question is no longer “are we alone?” or even “has the government recovered something?” It becomes: what are the terms, who agreed to them, and who authorized it?
National Collection Systems
The third element is the most technically grounded and the most immediately actionable.
Sources told Liberation Times that the material released through PURSUE so far – military infrared video, historical NASA imagery, FBI documents – came from tactical military systems with lower security classifications. The strongest evidence, they said, was collected by national systems: the NRO’s space-based electro-optical reconnaissance platforms and the CIA’s clandestine collection capabilities.
This distinction matters because it explains the quality gap. Tactical systems – the FLIR pods on fighter jets, shipboard radar, ground-based cameras – produce the kind of grainy infrared footage the public has seen since the Nimitz videos went public. National systems are a different category entirely. NRO satellites carry some of the most advanced optical sensors ever built. CIA collection platforms operate in locations where no U.S. presence is publicly acknowledged.
An intelligence source specifically suggested that the CIA’s clandestine collection capabilities may have captured scientific data related to UFOs – not just visual confirmation, but measurements and analysis.
If this material exists and enters the PURSUE pipeline, it would represent a qualitative leap from what has been released so far. The difference between a grainy FLIR clip and a high-resolution NRO satellite image – or between raw footage and finished CIA analytical products – is the difference between ambiguity and evidence.
The Analytical Gap
Alongside the collection gap, sources pointed to an analytical gap.
The PURSUE files contain raw material – video, photos, audio – but no finished intelligence analyses. Those are the classified documents where analysts draw conclusions: what an object’s trajectory implies about propulsion, what sensor data rules out conventional explanations, what pattern analysis reveals about frequency, location, and behavior.
“These files do not include the finished intelligence analyses produced by various departments and agencies. Those finished analyses would be classified and require review by the original classification authority before release.”
In other words: the government has already analyzed much of this material internally. Those analyses are not being released. The public is being asked to evaluate raw data without the benefit of the government’s own conclusions – conclusions that may confirm the anomalous nature of what the sensors recorded.
This matters because it creates a built-in deflection mechanism. Without the analyses, every video can be debated endlessly. With them, the government’s own assessment would be on the record.
What’s Blocking It
The sources’ definition of disclosure is not an abstract wishlist. It’s a description of what they believe exists within classified holdings – and what is being actively withheld.
Liberation Times named Aaron Lukas, the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, as a central figure in the resistance. Sources allege Lukas is protecting CIA interests – specifically the Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center and the Directorate of Science and Technology – and undermining DNI Gabbard’s transparency efforts from within ODNI.
Grusch said on May 8 that the CIA and DIA are actively blocking the President’s team from accessing files. The Liberation Times investigation corroborated that claim and gave it a name.
If the sources are right, the PURSUE portal is not a transparency mechanism that will gradually reveal everything. It is a channel controlled at the input end by the same agencies that have guarded this material for decades. What the public sees depends on what those agencies allow through.
The Gap Between PURSUE and Disclosure
The first PURSUE release is real. It contains genuine government UAP material. Some of it – the bronze ellipsoid composite, the FBI 302, the 2025 infrared stills – is genuinely new and interesting.
But by the sources’ own definition, none of it constitutes disclosure. Disclosure requires recovered material, acknowledgement of non-human intelligence, and data from national collection systems. PURSUE has delivered tactical footage and historical documents.
The gap between what has been released and what sources say exists is the story of the next phase of this process. Whether the gap closes depends on Congress, the President, and whether figures like Burlison – who has threatened to use the Speech or Debate Clause to force releases – follow through.
The sources have now defined the finish line. The question is whether anyone in power is willing to cross it.
Sources: Liberation Times investigation · Aaron Lukas article · PURSUE article · PURSUE files guide · Grusch article · Burlison article · Luna 46 videos · This week’s roundup