Short Note / Jul 27, 2026
Congress asked for 46 UAP videos. The April deadline came and went
The House task force set an April 14 deadline for 46 numbered UAP video entries. No videos were produced by then. Thirty-eight days later, several matching titles appeared in PURSUE Release 02.
Two days after her deadline for 46 UAP video entries expired, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said she was prepared to use a subpoena.
“I requested documents and so if we have to subpoena the documents, we will,” Luna told Ask a Pol UAP on April 16. The deadline had been set in a March 31 letter from the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Associated Press later reported that the deadline had come and gone without videos being produced. Then, on May 22 — 38 days after the deadline — the Department of War published PURSUE Release 02. Several unusual titles in the House list had close matches in that release.
The overlap is real. It is not a receipt showing that the Department delivered the requested records to Congress.
What the House letter requested
The four-page letter lists 46 numbered entries. Some contain separate sub-videos. It names the 2023 Lake Huron shootdown, videos from the Persian Gulf and East China Sea, objects near airports, and a run of military-platform observations identified only by call signs and dates.
It also names files that were easy to recognize once PURSUE began publishing material: “Syrian UAP instant acceleration, 2021”; “Spherical UAP over AFG in and out of clouds, 11/23/20”; “AFSOC Kabul UAP, 2017”; and “Multiple Spherical UAP USO near Sub.”
The task force said whistleblowers had told it that AARO held additional video records. That is the reason given in the letter for seeking the files. It is not evidence of the identity, performance or origin of any object in a video.
The deadline passed
The letter asked for delivery by April 14. There is no public Department of War document confirming that the task force received the requested material by that date. AP reported in early May that Luna’s deadline had passed and no videos had been produced.
Luna’s April 16 remarks add a contemporaneous account from the requester. She said she had asked for documents rather than a briefing and that she would pursue a subpoena if necessary. Her remarks are not a Department of War explanation for the missed deadline. They show that the request was still unresolved from the task force’s side.
Titles that later appeared in PURSUE
On May 22, the Department of War announced its second PURSUE release of declassified and historical UAP files. The release included DOW-UAP-PR051, “Syrian UAP instant acceleration”; PR055, “Spherical UAP over AFG in and out of clouds”; PR064, “AFSOC Kabul UAP”; PR067, the file whose uploader-defined title includes “USO near Sub”; and PR071, the Lake Huron shootdown video.
The House letter also contains Persian Gulf and Gulf of Arabia entries resembling later titles in PR091, PR093 and PR095. The date, place and wording overlaps are specific enough to matter. They do not provide a line-by-line map from the House list to the public release, and they do not show whether Congress received the underlying records.
What the public clips can establish
The videos make parts of the record inspectable. They do not turn their titles into findings.
PR051 carries the phrase “instant acceleration,” but AARO’s public description says the examination video had been digitally altered before upload and describes a loss of sensor track at the central moment. The title is part of the record. It is not a measured conclusion about an object’s speed.
PR071 is equally limited in a different way. AARO says the Lake Huron footage is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating in the Northern Command area in 2023. The released clip shows the intercept of a small airborne target. It does not contain the radar data, telemetry, recovered debris or identification analysis that would settle what the target was.
That is why the missing response still matters. A letter proves that lawmakers asked for specific files. A later release proves that the government made some recognizably matching material public. The record available here does not show a formal handover to the task force, a complete public version of each requested file, or a resolved identification for the cases.
The document to watch for
A Department of War response to the April 14 request, or a House account of what it received, would answer the administrative question. Until then, the evidence points to two overlapping tracks: a congressional request that missed its deadline, and a public release that followed weeks later with several of the same case names.
Related UAP Logbook notes
- What is PURSUE? The UAP records release program explained
- Syrian “instant acceleration” UAP video: the catch in Release 02
- The cloud clip people keep calling PR057A
- The Lake Huron shootdown video raises a basic question
- PR067 and the “USO near submarine” title problem
Sources
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: letter to Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 31, 2026. Primary source for the request, deadline and numbered entries.
- Associated Press: Trump hints at new revelations in UFO files, May 3, 2026. Reports that Luna’s deadline passed without videos being produced.
- Ask a Pol UAP: Luna threatens Pentagon subpoena over UFO records, April 16, 2026. Luna’s post-deadline remarks about the request and a possible subpoena.
- Department of War: second PURSUE release announcement, May 22, 2026.
- DVIDS: DOW-UAP-PR071, Lake Huron UAP shootdown video. Official public record for the video and AARO’s source description.
