PURSUE Release 01: DOW-UAP-D51, Email Correspondence, Pacific Time Zone, March 2023

DOW-UAP-D51 is a Department of War PDF released in PURSUE Release 01 on May 8, 2026.¹ The catalog identifies it as email correspondence about a Pacific Time Zone UAP matter and links the record to a remotely hosted PDF release asset.²

The public PDF is a six-page email chain with redactions under (b) (6) and 1.4(a).² Its text layer shows an Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security information disclosure analyst asking for confirmation that a summarized UAP account could be used at the UNCLASSIFIED level, while the email thread is marked SECRET//NOFORN.²

  Classification Review Path

The correspondence shows the administrative route for turning information from a classified intelligence-information report into an unclassified summary. An OSI Collections and Operations program manager first explains that formal declassification of IIRs is lengthy and requires AFOSI commander signature, then explores treating the request as a security review of the unclassified summary instead.²

In the final response, OSI says headquarters personnel confirmed they had authority to process the matter as a derivative classification review rather than a declassification request. Based on the submitted summary, OSI concurred with use at the UNCLASSIFIED level and approved the request.²

The release metadata lists an incident date of March 23, 2026, but the document title and the event summary embedded in the PDF identify the described event as March 2023.¹²

  March 2023 Triangle Report

The unclassified summary describes a civilian report from the Pacific Time Zone at night in March 2023. The reporter said they observed a large, blue, featureless triangular object near or above a national security facility for approximately eight minutes, and that the observation was obtained by personal cellular device.²

According to the summary, the object had a solid silhouette and emitted powerful whitish-blue light from multiple points along its perimeter. The reporter described it as hovering for about three minutes before moving higher in the field of view, with a backing-up motion characterized as jerking or jumping rather than smooth jet propulsion.²

The summary also records limits on the observation. Altitude, speed, material, and means of propulsion were not reported; the reporter could not determine whether the object had a front or rear and said they did not think it was a drone.² Several statements in the summary describe capabilities the reporter did not directly observe, including whether the object followed a defined flight path, carried data-collection equipment, left a vapor trail, or demonstrated cloaking capability.²

  Approval Chain, Not Sighting File

This record matters less as a complete sighting file than as evidence of the review path behind an unclassified UAP summary. The released pages do not include the underlying IIR, sensor data, imagery, or the full draft report referenced in the email; instead, they preserve a redacted approval chain showing how officials evaluated whether a classified-source summary could be used in an unclassified product.²

It also shows why the catalog caution is important. The release description says descriptive and estimative language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation and should not be read as conclusive evidence of object features or performance.¹ For DOW-UAP-D51, the public evidence is a summarized civilian observation filtered through classification review, not an independent technical assessment.¹²

The release does not list a paired DVIDS video, video pairing, or PDF pairing for this record. D51 therefore stands as a document-only entry in PURSUE Release 01 rather than a public-release media package with separate motion imagery.¹

  Released D51 PDF

DOW-UAP-D51, Email Correspondence, Pacific Time Zone, March 2023 remote release asset

  References

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1. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. war.gov ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²