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.