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Department of War PURSUE File

DOE-UAP-D003, Pajarito Astronomers Invitation, 1986

New Mexico·5/20/86

Declassified

Editorial summary

On May 20, 1986, the Pajarito Astronomers club in Los Alamos, New Mexico, sent out an invitation to its members announcing an upcoming meeting. The group invited members to attend a presentation on May 29, 1986, at Fuller Lodge.

The featured speaker was Dr. John Warren, a physicist affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory. His talk was titled "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?" According to the file, the event was not officially hosted by Los Alamos, and the laboratory has no record of the subject matter discussed at the meeting.

Editorial summary written by govweird from the declassified document text. The official government description follows below.

Government description

A letter to the members of the Pajarito Astronomers club regarding an upcoming meeting featuring a presentation from a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, Dr. John Warren, titled “Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?” The referenced event was not officially hosted by Los Alamos. The laboratory has no record of the subject matter discussed at the meeting.

Caption issued by the U.S. Department of War on war.gov/ufo. Verbatim, unedited.

Originating agency

Department of Energy

Record type

PDF

Incident date

5/20/86

Incident location

New Mexico

Release tranche

Release 02 (May 8, 2026)

Distribution

Cleared for public release

Original document

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Source: war.gov/ufo · PURSUE Release 02

PURSUE = Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Records released by the U.S. Department of War on May 8, 2026 are unresolved cases for which the government cannot make a definitive determination, and the Department has invited private-sector analysis.