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// PURSUE INCIDENT · PURSUE-020 //

Southeastern United States (undisclosed) — 2023

Two government contractors observed large stationary metallic cylinder, ~commercial-airplane sized.

“Large metallic cylinder, approximately commercial-airplane sized.”

Incident summary

Around 0900 local, two government contractors in separate vehicles independently observed a large metallic cylinder estimated to be the size of a commercial airliner. Object remained stationary for 15-20 seconds before disappearing. Case remains unresolved by AARO.

Why this case matters

This incident is logged in the Pentagon's PURSUE catalog — the U.S. Department of War's rolling declassified UAP file release (Release 01 on 2026-05-08, Release 02 on 2026-05-22) — under identifier PURSUE-020. The originating agency is the Department of War (DoD); the case is currently classified DECLASSIFIED and rated UNRESOLVED by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). UAP.WATCH mirrors the original record, adds a geographic and temporal index, and links every claim back to the canonical war.gov source.

Primary-source evidence

Declassified documents

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