The White House is posting UFO files to social media now, and the latest one is genuinely strange. On Saturday, the official White House X account pushed out a file labeled DOW-UAP-PR38, an unresolved UAP report from the Middle East dating back to 2013. The footage, captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, runs one minute and forty-six seconds and shows an area of contrast that the government describes as resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length. The government still cannot explain what it is. https://t.co/kWE5tvdY9H DOW-UAP-PR38 UNRESOLVED UAP REPORT | 2013 pic.twitter.com/x9PzTHuUha — The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 10, 2026 The file is part of PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, which the Department of War launched on May 8 as the first-ever centralized public release of government UAP material. The effort was directed by President Donald Trump, who ordered agencies to identify and declassify UAP-related files in the interest of transparency. Here is how the Department of War described the program: The Department of War announced the initial release of new, never-before-seen Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files on May 8, 2026, as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE. The department said the effort includes the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, NASA, the FBI, and additional components of the intelligence community. The collection is housed at WAR.GOV/UFO, with more files scheduled for rolling release. The department said the release followed President Donald J. Trump direction to identify and declassify UAP files in the interest of total transparency. Americans can now access declassified UAP videos, photos, and original source documents in one place, with no clearance required. The department noted that many materials have not yet been analyzed for final resolution of anomalies. That last line matters. The government is not claiming to know what these objects are. It is releasing what it has and letting the public see it, which is exactly the kind of transparency Americans have been demanding on this topic for decades. The DOW-UAP-PR38 file itself is one of the more unusual entries in the initial batch. According to the public listing on DVIDS, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, here is what we know about the footage: DVIDS identifies the file as DOW-UAP-PR38, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2013. United States Central Command submitted the report to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. The report consisted of 1 minute and 46 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2013. The reporter did not provide any oral or written description of the observation. DVIDS describes the video as showing an area of contrast resembling an eight-pointed star with arms of alternating length. The sensor field of view narrows at the 10-second mark, the area of contrast moves within the field of view and leaves the screen by about 30 seconds, then after an apparent cut generally remains in the field of view before exiting again. DVIDS cautions that the description is informational only and should not be treated as an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination about the event’s validity, nature, or significance. So the military platform captured something on infrared in 2013. It looks like an eight-pointed star. The person who filed the report did not write down what they saw or offer any verbal account. CENTCOM sent it to AARO. Over a decade later, the case is still marked unresolved. We have gone through all 162 files in the Pentagon’s UFO release. Here are six the headlines missed.

The American economy added 115,000 jobs in April, roughly double what forecasters expected, and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3 percent. For the second consecutive month, the official numbers came in well above Wall Street consensus, and the White House is making sure nobody misses the trend. The administration posted a graphic to X over the weekend collecting the headlines under a simple banner: The Trump Effect. The Trump Effect

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is building the machinery to make things right for service members who were forced out of the military under the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Hegseth announced the creation of a new Department of War COVID-19 Reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force on May 8, along with new directives to military review boards that dramatically expand the path for discharged service members to get their careers, their records, and their pay restored. The message from the Secretary of War was blunt. The Biden administration’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine mandate was wrongfully forced onto our warfighters. It was unjust, and we are doing EVERYTHING we can to make it right. pic.twitter.com/xLWpYd0sMc — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) May 8, 2026 The scope of the Biden-era mandate was enormous. Approximately 8,700 service members were involuntarily separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, and roughly 53,000 sought medical, administrative, or religious exemptions from the mandate. Many of those who were not formally discharged still saw their careers damaged through letters of reprimand, withdrawn assignments, canceled professional military education, and other adverse actions that effectively ended any path to advancement. The U.S. Department of War laid out the full scope of the new effort in its official release: The Department of War continues to take decisive action in support of the many Service members adversely impacted by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Today, Secretary Hegseth established the Department of War COVID-19 Reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force to ensure return-to-service efforts for these warriors are optimized across the force. He also directed the Secretaries of the Military Departments to ensure their Review Boards evaluate the records of any former Service member who voluntarily left service, and who now requests to return to service through the COVID-19 reinstatement program, to determine whether they were ‘unjustly discharged.’ While the Boards will evaluate each case individually based on documented evidence, the Secretary noted that it is appropriate to consider members as unjustly discharged based on evidence showing that adverse actions effectively ended their careers, including letters of reprimand, active or denied vaccine exemption requests, withdrawn assignments, unsatisfactory participation in a Reserve Component, or cancelled enrollments in mandatory Professional Military Education. The Department continues to welcome back former Service members who were separated solely for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. As of April 2026, nearly 170 warfighters have been reinstated or re-accessed, and the Military Departments are actively tracking more than 800 additional warriors who have expressed interest in returning to service. Individuals now have until April 1, 2027, to take advantage of Department policies on reinstatement with a two-year service commitment. The Department continues to right the wrongs of the past and to restore confidence in, and honor to, our fighting force. That last line captures the spirit of what President Donald Trump set in motion when he signed Executive Order 14184 back in January 2025, just days after returning to office. Biden’s Pentagon had mandated the vaccine in August 2021 and did not rescind the mandate until January 2023, after thousands of careers had already been destroyed or derailed. Trump’s order called the mandate what it was and opened the door to reinstatement. President Trump’s executive order pulled no punches: On August 24, 2021, the Secretary of Defense mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Secretary of Defense later rescinded the mandate on January 10, 2023. The vaccine mandate was an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members. Further, the military unjustly discharged those who refused the vaccine, regardless of the years of service given to our Nation, after failing to grant many of them an exemption that they should have received. Federal Government redress of any wrongful dismissals is overdue. The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all necessary action permitted by law to make reinstatement available to all members of the military, active and reserve, who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request to be reinstated. Those service members shall be enabled to revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation. Service members who voluntarily left the service or allowed their service to lapse rather than be vaccinated under the mandate may return to service with no impact on their service status, rank, or pay. Now Hegseth is putting real operational teeth behind that executive order. His task force memorandum makes clear that the work so far, while meaningful, is not finished. Hegseth’s task-force memorandum spells out exactly what the new body will do: The Department remains committed to honoring Service members unjustly discharged under the rescinded coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine mandate. While the Military Services have initiated rapid return-to-service efforts, additional coordinated action is required to ensure these efforts are optimized across the force. Effective immediately, I am establishing the Department of War COVID-19 Reinstatement and Reconciliation Task Force (C19 R2TF) under the guidance and authority of the Under Secretary of War for Personnel and Readiness. The mission includes identifying roadblocks across the Military Services and support organizations, recommending the removal of impediments to reinstatement and reconciliation, identifying variations in service procedures, recommending changes to ensure consistent and uniform return to service, identifying best practices and lessons learned, developing a proactive communication strategy to reach negatively impacted Service members through individualized contact, social media outreach, and public information, and advising on key performance indicators and reporting metrics. We must continue to ensure there is a clear path for these Service members to return to service. We will continue to make this right. The task force is one half of the announcement. The other half is a separate memorandum directing military review boards to use a broader, more generous standard when evaluating whether service members were unjustly discharged. Hegseth’s reinstatement memorandum confronts the reality of how the Biden-era mandate actually played out for troops on the ground: The Department of War continues to implement Executive Order 14184, inviting Service members unjustly discharged under the coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine mandate to return to service. While many have rejoined the fight, our work remains unfinished. We must not penalize those who separated under coercive conditions rather than await formal administrative or criminal action. Adverse actions such as letters of reprimand, terminated assignments, and canceled mandatory educational opportunities effectively ended the careers of Service members who would have otherwise continued to faithfully serve. We must recognize these specific circumstances for what they were: unjust discharges. The Secretaries of the Military Departments must ensure that the Boards for Correction of Military or Naval Records evaluate service members petitioning for reinstatement to determine whether they were unjustly discharged. When evaluating corrections for unjustly discharged members, the Boards should strongly consider EO 14184’s intent, which was to return these warriors to the Force. For those choosing not to return, the Department remains committed to providing relief through proactive review of discharge characterizations, reentry codes, separation program designators, and narrative reason, which has almost universally resulted in upgrades, in many cases restoring lost eligibility for GI Bill educational benefits, as well as repayment of recouped bonuses, where appropriate. For affected veterans and service members who do not want to re-enlist, the Department is committing to proactive relief. That includes discharge-characterization reviews, corrections to reentry codes, separation program designators, and narrative reasons. In many cases, it also means restoring lost eligibility for GI Bill benefits and repaying bonuses the government recouped. The financial relief available to affected service members is significant. According to the War Department’s COVID-19 reinstatement page: Approximately 8,700 service members were involuntarily separated from military service under the previous administration for failing to comply with the now-rescinded COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Approximately 53,000 service members sought a medical or administrative exemption, including a religious accommodation, from the mandate. For those returning under the policy, back pay can include lost basic pay, housing and subsistence allowances, and health care benefits between the date of discharge and the date of reinstatement, less offsets for civilian wages, medical benefits received, VA disability compensation, separation payments, and lump-sum leave payments received during the period. A service member who received a bonus contingent on completing a service obligation, and who previously had all or a portion of that bonus recouped due to being discharged, can recoup any portion of the bonus previously repaid. Eligible service members may also receive non-monetary benefits that would have otherwise accrued, including credit toward military retirement and annual leave accrual for active-duty members. Reinstated service members will have records corrected to reflect that they were never discharged from active service, including removal of all discharge documentation and any prior service characterization associated with the discharge. Read that last sentence again. Reinstated service members will have records corrected to reflect that they were never discharged. That is as close to a full erasure of the Biden mandate’s damage as the federal government can offer. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Says Biden Pentagon “Wrongfully” Forced COVID Vaccine on Troops, Announces Task Force to Reinstate Service Membershttps://t.co/HI09CHazQe — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) May 10, 2026 Under the Biden administration, troops who had served honorably for years were given a stark choice: take a shot many of them did not want or lose everything they had built. Some were separated outright. Others saw their careers effectively gutted through adverse actions that left them with no viable path forward. Many who held deeply sincere religious convictions watched their exemption requests get denied. President Trump promised to fix it. Hegseth is now building the institutional structure to make sure every branch of the military follows through, consistently and completely, before the April 2027 deadline. For the men and women who stood on principle and paid the price, this is long overdue.

A congressional map model making the rounds on social media this weekend is turning heads for one very simple reason: it shows Republicans winning 280 House seats. The map, shared by conservative commentator Eric Daugherty on May 10, applies compact, population-based district boundaries across the country without partisan gerrymandering. The result is a staggering 124-seat gap between Republicans and Democrats. Under the model, Democrats hold just 156 seats, with zero tossups. That is the kind of map that would give Republicans a governing majority so large it would reshape what is possible in Congress.

The Trump administration is done talking. It is now hauling New Mexico and Albuquerque into federal court. The Justice Department announced Thursday that the United States has filed a complaint and a motion for preliminary injunction against the State of New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Attorney General Raul Torrez, the City of Albuquerque, and Mayor Timothy Keller. The case, United States v. State of New Mexico et al., No. 1:26-cv-01471, is now before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. At the center of the dispute are two measures the DOJ says are designed to sabotage federal immigration enforcement: New Mexico’s HB9, branded the “Immigrant Safety Act,” and Albuquerque’s ordinance O-26-15, known as the “Safer Community Places Ordinance.” The Justice Department alleges both laws violate federal supremacy and infringe on authority that belongs exclusively to the federal government under the Constitution. Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against State of New Mexico and City of Albuquerque for Obstructing Federal Immigration Enforcement. https://t.co/kzuJb4Iq0r — Cord.