Retired F-16 Pilot Reacts
On May 8, the government released a new batch of UFO/UAP material through the official PURSUE archive at war.gov/ufo.
The full release includes 161 files, but in this video I focus on the 28 videos.
I’m Chris Lehto — a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and former F-16 pilot with 18 years flying the Viper. I’ve spent thousands of hours working with targeting pod and infrared footage, so I wanted to go through these videos carefully and give you my honest take.
Most of what I saw looks mundane: balloons, aircraft, camera artifacts, parallax, and the confusing motion that happens when a drone like an MQ-9/Reaper is orbiting while the sensor operator is moving the camera.
But one file stood out.
It wasn’t a video.
It was the 1965 NASA Gemini 7 audio/transcript, where Frank Borman and Jim Lovell discuss a “bogey” in low Earth orbit after separation from the Titan II booster. As a pilot, that word matters. “Bogey” means unidentified — not confirmed hostile, not confirmed friendly.
That does not prove aliens.
But it is interesting.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/-mrLGBcWR04?si=sT6plYw-3bJPQyiY