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ECHO-7 · RELEASE 01 · MAY 8 2026

We weren’t there.
Our job is to ask sharper questions than anyone has asked before.

ECHO-7 is a serialized investigation of the U.S. Department of War’s PURSUE archive. Every newly declassified file is mapped against centuries of historical record. Evidence cartography, not sensationalism.

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THE DECK · 14 COVERS

Every cover plate, in flow.

  • Apollo 17 archival imagery with yellow box enclosing three lights above the lunar terrain
  • ECHO-7 Episode 02 cover — Apollo 12: The Flashing Object That Followed Them. Honest editorial cover (no Apollo 12 imagery exists in the war.gov Release 01 manifest).
  • Infrared still (black hot) of unidentified object over western United States, December 2025.
  • Infrared still of unidentified object, western United States, December 2025.
  • Infrared still of unidentified object, western United States, September 2025.
  • Infrared still: unidentified object below helicopter, western United States, September 2025.
  • Infrared still of multiple unidentified objects, western United States, September 2025.
  • Infrared still of unidentified objects, western United States, September 2025.
  • Witness composite sketch of potential anomalous sighting, southeastern United States, September 2023.
  • Archival Apollo 17 imagery. Yellow box encloses three lights visible above the lunar terrain.
  • Still from video reported by U.S. military operator featuring UAP.
  • Still from video captured near the United Arab Emirates featuring reported UAP.
  • Aqua scope lines over a gray background with cloud scatter and rectangular contrast features.
  • U.S. operator-reported UAP near Greece flying straight above ocean toward land.

EP·01 · 19 MIN · MAY 2026

Apollo 17: Three Lights on the Moon

Why the Department of War led, on day one, with a fifty-three-year-old photograph.

Apollo 17 archival imagery with yellow box enclosing three lights above the lunar terrain

EPISODES · EP·01 · NEW

Apollo 17: Three Lights on the Moon

Why the Department of War led, on day one, with a fifty-three-year-old photograph.

by David T Phung · May 22, 2026 · 19 min

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THE HISTORICAL RECORD

579 transient lunar phenomena, catalogued by NASA in Technical Report R-277, the year before Apollo 11.

Four hundred years of professional observations — from Galileo’s contemporaries to Apollo’s eve. We map every new declassified file against this record. Evidence cartography, not sensationalism.

METHODOLOGY

Six phases, in order.

No phase is skipped. No phase is reordered. If a phase fails, the episode does not ship. A blank week is better than a sloppy one.

Read the manifesto
  1. 00

    Manifest

    Every file accounted for.

  2. 01

    Ingestion

    Raw evidence, surfaced.

  3. 02

    Vertex Matrix

    Evidence becomes a map.

  4. 03

    Gap analysis

    What we still don't know.

  5. 04

    Echo Lines

    New file in conversation with the record.

  6. 05

    Synthesis & render

    Episode ships.

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