News · 16 October 2026
Loeb's council: more than 8% of PURSUE sensor videos may show birds
research · arXiv 2610.08692 (v4) and Avi Loeb on Medium · Original source
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council extended its analysis of PURSUE video PR135, where six fast infrared dots turned out to flicker at bird wingbeat rates, to every sensor video released so far. They found likely birds in about 8% of them. The method measures how fast an object's brightness varies, which works without knowing its distance. It is the council's analysis in a preprint, not an official reclassification by AARO or the Department of War.
Facts and claims
- claimed The paper by Jacob Haqq-Misra and co-authors, including Loeb, found that the six infrared dots in PURSUE video DOW-UAP-PR135 flicker about 7–8 times per second, consistent with bird wingbeats recorded by the Galileo Project. A supplement added in version 4 (16 October 2026) applies the same test to all six PURSUE tranches and finds 10 videos with 25 bird candidates, about 8% of the sensor videos released: PR41, PR44, PR077, PR079, PR085, PR088, PR097, PR099 and PR141, besides PR135. — Avi Loeb Source: avi-loeb.medium.com (archived)
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People
- Avi Loeb (features)
Organizations
- UAP Science Advisory Council (about)
- Galileo Project (Harvard) (about)
Programs
Official records (PURSUE)
- DOW-UAP-PR135 — Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025 (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR041 — Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020 (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR044 — Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2020 (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR077 — 2 November 2020 [CALLSIGN] [CALLSIGN] Observes and tracks UAP 1 of 2 (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR079 — 29 October 2020 [CALLSIGN] (Mission) observes 3 fast moving UAP's (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR085 — 16 Sept 2020 [CALLSIGN] [CALLSIGN] observes UAP (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR088 — 31 AUG [CALLSIGN] [CALLSIGN] Observes UAP (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR097 — Hi-Res: [CALLSIGN] Observes UAP on 25SEP19 at 2135Z (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR099 — Hi-Res: [CALLSIGN] Observes UAP on 25SEP19 at 1715Z (about)
- DOW-UAP-PR141 — Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2022 (about)
Mentioned in this file
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)
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