Two scientists analysed 112 released Pentagon UAP videos and found the footage cannot establish speed

Jacob Haqq-Misra of Blue Marble Space and Ravi Kopparapu of NASA Goddard, both on the UAP Science Advisory Council, examined 112 videos released through the PURSUE programme — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, which began publishing declassified footage on 8 May 2026. Apparent motion in the videos can be measured in pixels per frame, but converting that to real velocity needs range, camera field of view and platform motion, and most of that is redacted; without it a nearby slow object and a distant fast one are indistinguishable. Their preprint, 'Limits on Velocity Recovery from the PURSUE Sensor Videos', concludes the footage as released cannot resolve the unidentified cases or show anomalous speed. It was posted to arXiv on 20 August and is not yet peer-reviewed.

What it means A worked example of a release that looks like disclosure and is not usable as evidence: the metadata that makes the measurement possible is exactly what was withheld.