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Pentagon Releases First Declassified UFO Files — And Solana Meme Coins Immediately Pumped
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The US Department of War launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, known as PURSUE, on Friday, publishing its first declassified UAP file release to a public portal at WAR.GOV/UFO with plans for rolling tranches of additional disclosures every few weeks. Within hours, UFO-themed Solana meme coins were posting double-digit gains as the disclosure narrative spread across social media and retail traders rushed into any token with vaguely relevant branding. UFOPEPE, a Solana token blending Pepe imagery with UFO themes, led the pack with a gain of approximately 44.68%. A separate UFO Token climbed 30.79%, while UFO Gaming added 5.98%. The moves illustrate the speed at which event-driven narratives translate into speculative trading activity on Solana, where Pump.fun's DEX volume has been hitting all-time records in 2026 on retail-driven momentum and low-cap narrative trades can move dramatically within hours of a triggering event.
The gains were not uniform across the UFO-themed token landscape, which itself reveals something important about how these narrative trades work in practice. The original UFO Token actually fell nearly 5% during the same period that competing tokens with similar branding were surging, demonstrating how speculative flows fragment across multiple tickers sharing a theme rather than concentrating in any single asset. This kind of fragmentation is a defining characteristic of meme coin narrative cycles: when a catalyst hits, capital flows into whichever token is capturing the most social media attention at that moment, which is not always the largest, oldest, or most established project in the thematic category. President Trump reinforced the narrative on Truth Social, directing the Secretary of War and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life and unidentified phenomena — a statement that signals the UAP disclosure cycle has political momentum and is unlikely to end with a single file release.
