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Jordan Flowers on CBS News: Pentagon Releases More UAP Files

May 22, 2026

Executive Director Jordan Flowers discusses the second tranche of government UAP files, the intelligence officer firsthand narrative, and why the declassified documents matter as much as the videos.

Jordan Flowers

Jordan Flowers

Executive Director

This interview originally aired on CBS News on May 22, 2026. View original on CBS News.

Executive Director Jordan Flowers joined CBS News to discuss the second release of government UAP files under the PURSUE program. The conversation covered the scope of the new material, including a senior intelligence officer's firsthand account of an hour-long UAP encounter, fifty military videos that Congress had specifically requested by name, and newly declassified Department of Energy documents linking UAP activity to nuclear weapons facilities dating back to 1948.

Flowers highlighted that while the videos have drawn the most public attention, the declassified PDF documents contain significant revelations, including evidence that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the FBI, and the Atomic Energy Commission were convening classified meetings in the late 1940s to discuss the "green fireball phenomena" observed over nuclear weapons storage sites.

On the broader significance, Flowers noted that regardless of the ultimate explanation, the phenomenon represents either breakthrough U.S. technology, foreign adversary technology, an undiscovered natural phenomenon, or some form of non-human intelligence. "Whatever the truth is, is sensational," Flowers said. "It's either the story of the decade, the century, or all of human history."

The Disclosure Foundation called for a national intelligence estimate on the subject and committed to providing additional context and analysis that the government has not yet offered alongside these releases.