The Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters | MHP 05.11.26.
The Micah Hanks Program
Micah Hanks
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
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Summary
Recently, the Department of War's newly launched Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) initiative has begun releasing long-classified UAP files as part of what officials describe as a historic transparency effort. However, early reactions suggest that the disclosures may raise more questions than answers. While the release includes a mix of newly available material and previously known documents—now with fewer redactions—critics argue that the lack of context or analysis limits their value.
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we examine the latest trove of U.S. government UFO files, which document unresolved cases, military imagery, NASA-era observations, and reports, including sightings of unusual "orb" phenomena and infrared footage of objects exhibiting unconventional movement. With additional tranches expected in the coming weeks, is the new initiative poised to function as a centralized archive of UAP records, and what will it offer in terms of solving the broader mystery surrounding UAP?
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Show Notes
Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:
- MIGUEL SANCHO: Evidence of the Extraordinary: Discoveries from the Series The Proof is Out ThereÂ
- DOW'S UAP FILES: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)
- Department of War Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files in Historic Transparency Effort
- BACKGROUND: Trump drops hints of what's  coming in new batch of UFO files set for release | PBS
- RESPONSES: The Pentagon just started releasing UFO files, but skeptics say they're not impressedÂ
- BACKGROUND: The FBI and UFOs
- PURSUE Audio: Gemini UFO "Bogie" Sighting
- PURSUE Report: Apollo 11's UFO Sightings
- PURSUE Report: "Orbs Launching Orbs"Â
- PURSUE Video: The Greek "Transmedium" UFO
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| 0:00.0 | Reports of unidentified flying objects. |
| 0:07.0 | Unidentified aerial phenomena. |
| 0:10.0 | Are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments? |
| 0:13.0 | The American people are becoming most interested and, in many instances, very alarmed by the UFO stories. |
| 0:19.0 | So why do you suppose that all of this has been kept from the world? |
| 0:23.6 | Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe. |
| 0:27.6 | Where do they come from? |
| 0:28.6 | Why can't you explain it? |
| 0:29.6 | Everybody in mythology is screaming for disclosure. |
| 0:32.6 | The future is now. |
| 0:34.6 | This is Micahanks. |
| 0:36.6 | From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground. Welcome |
| 0:40.9 | one and all. It is the Micahanks program. Glad as always to be getting into gear and going in pursuit |
| 0:47.2 | of the anomalous like we do every week. Listen on demand via podcasting apps everywhere and courtesy of our |
| 0:52.9 | friends at the UnX Radio Network. |
| 0:55.8 | And this week, of course, we have a lot to discuss because just on Friday of last week, |
| 1:01.9 | the Pentagon released the latest installment of ongoing disclosures involving the phenomenon |
| 1:09.0 | known as UFOs, and this in the form of a new presidential |
| 1:12.8 | initiative known as the presidential unsealing and reporting system for UAP encounters, |
| 1:19.3 | otherwise called, pursue. |
| 1:21.5 | This made available at the website of the Department of War. |
| 1:25.0 | We're going to have a full breakdown of everything we have learned, |
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