August 16, 2026

Good morning, investigators. The most important change on today's board is procedural but real: the Department of War says it is now looking for the two alleged Colorado triangle videos and will publish what it finds through PURSUE. That confirms an official review of a specific claim—not the videos, their contents, or the reported object's identity—so the next meaningful milestone is an actual record. Fresh reporting from Texas shows why that distinction matters: one release can contain a nuclear-site lockdown, decades-old unexplained lights, an identified hoax, and testimony that remains unresolved. The research shelf gives us four places to work rather than merely wonder: Canada's 9,500-document federal collection, NUFORC's living civilian report bank, AARO's case-resolution library, and Australia's primary record of a 1960 weapons-range investigation. Today is less about choosing a theory than following each claim to the document, database, or analysis that can sharpen it. I have opened all the tabs and, in accordance with Mission Control protocol, forgotten which one is making noise.