Pentagon Confirms Phase 2 UAP Release Coming Soon
- Cristina Gomez
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The UFO disclosure conversation moved on multiple fronts in a single news cycle. Steven Spielberg gave his most direct statement yet on extraterrestrial life during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Investigative reporter Jeremy Corbell told Newsmax the President has been briefed on the legacy UAP crash retrieval program. Congressman Eric Burlison confirmed MIT Lincoln Labs is cooperating on the release of a 1952 Project Blue Book video, and that lawmakers have already watched 52 classified UAP videos. Congressman Tim Burchett warned on Real America’s Voice that the next file batch may include deliberate misinformation. And Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirmed she sat in bipartisan classified disclosure briefings. Here is what each voice contributed.
Steven Spielberg sat down with Stephen Colbert and gave a very interesting statement. According to the interview on The Late Show, Spielberg told Colbert that with everything that has happened in the disclosure conversation between 1977 and today, he can finally release a film called Disclosure Day and tell the audience that everything in the movie is true and has been true. He framed the 49 years between Close Encounters and Disclosure Day as the time it took for the public to catch up to the premise. When Colbert asked whether Spielberg himself knows something the public does not, the director answered that he has spent a career playing an ambassadorial role through ET, Men in Black, War of the Worlds, and Close Encounters, and that despite all of it, the beings have never shown themselves to him personally.
On the political side, investigative reporter Jeremy Corbell reported on Newsmax that the President of the United States has now been briefed on the legacy UAP crash retrieval program, and that the President knows far more than he did during his first term. As noted in the same Newsmax interview, Corbell tied that briefing directly to the 46 video files he and journalist George Knapp have been pushing Congress to release. According to Corbell, Representatives Anna Paulina Luna, Eric Burlison, and Tim Burchett have committed to him personally that those 46 files are coming out, in his words, come hell or high water.
Congressman Eric Burlison appeared on Fox News stating that his team has been pulling records from federally funded research centers including MIT Lincoln Labs, RAND Corporation, and others. According to Burlison, MIT Lincoln Labs responded to his letter immediately and the legal team agreed to cooperate. The National Archives is now coordinating with MIT and the Department of War on the public release of a 1952 video featuring Edward J. Ruppelt, the first head of Project Blue Book, briefing scientists on UFO incursions over the United States. Burlison further confirmed that he, Representative Luna, Representative Burchett, and others have sat in a classified screening room and watched 52 UAP videos that have not been released to the public. He described himself as a skeptic, said some of the videos clearly resolve into balloons or birds, and stated that others remain unexplained and very interesting.
Congressman Tim Burchett, speaking on Real America’s Voice, offered a warning that lands directly on top of what Burlison disclosed. According to Burchett, the next batch of UAP files may include deliberate misinformation designed to throw researchers off course, and the public should expect some footage in Phase Two that will not hold up to scrutiny. He cautioned the disclosure community to slow down before reacting to any single video in the release.
Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed that the next batch of declassified records is actively being processed for publication and that more is coming soon. As noted across statements from the Pentagon, the National Archives, MIT Lincoln Labs, and at least three sitting members of Congress, the message to the public is consistent. More material is on the way, and not all of it will be anomalous.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked why the public is receiving a trickle of disclosure instead of a single full release. She previously sat on the Oversight Committee and was part of certain classified briefings on UAP and disclosure, which she described as a bipartisan effort that included her Republican colleagues. AOC further explained that the more specific Congress can get about which areas, departments, and records to demand, the easier it becomes to obtain that information, because broad requests give agencies discretion over what is included and what is not.
Five voices, one news cycle. Spielberg, Corbell, Burlison, Burchett, and AOC have all stepped into the disclosure conversation in the same window, and Phase Two of the PURSUE file release is now in active processing.
Sources
Fox News. (2026, May 21). UFO FILES: Video of reported ‘flying saucer’ could soon be released [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_vJHN-fPCw
Newsmax. (2026, May 20). Reality of UFO files release explained by UFO expert Jeremy Corbell | Rob Schmitt Tonight [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB7ynibNUdM
Powe, A. (2026, May). Trump delivers 160+ UFO files — Burchett calls out deep state slow-walk as Congress reacts. The Gateway Pundit. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/i-dont-know-shocked-congress-admits-total-ignorance/
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (2026, May 20a). Empathy is the ultimate superpower in Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdDYbevgMTk
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (2026, May 20b). Step aside, Obama. Steven Spielberg wants to be humanity’s ambassador to the aliens [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRefuYXXZLQ
