r/TFE

Accompanied by Musk and Jensen Huang as he walks to the motorcade.
Brat Eric with his wife (in white)
Performers (cheerleaders) on the tarmac waving American and Chinese flags - he stopped for a moment to admire.🥲
Early evening in Beijng - they're heading to the hotel.

根据多家媒体报道（包括香港《星岛日报》、南华早报SCMP等）和航空爱好者/社交媒体目击：

• 5月1-2日：已有至少两架美军C-17运输机（包括尾号088204等）降落北京首都国际机场。

• 5月3日：又有两架C-17抵达，使总数达到4架。

这些运输机被广泛认为是为特朗普计划于5月14-15日访华做先遣准备，可能运载总统专车（The Beast）、安保设备、通讯器材等物资。这是美国总统出访的标准后勤程序，目前中方尚未正式确认具体细节，但相关报道一致。

消息来源包括航空追踪、现场视频和照片，真实性较高。

NBC News reported this, tonight.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon, the officials said, angering leadership in Saudi Arabia. In response, the Kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort, the officials said.

A call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not resolve the issue, the two U.S. officials said, forcing the president to pause Project Freedom in order to restore U.S. military access to the critical airspace.

This is significant, since US doesn't seem to have a plan C, therefore Trump is it's floatingg now the "one-page" memorandum of understanding as a "deal"🫤

The gist: the Pentagon / “Department of War” has started a public UAP/UFO file-release portal called PURSUE, apparently in response to Trump’s February directive to identify, declassify, and release government records about UFOs, UAPs, “alien and extraterrestrial life,” etc. The first release went live today, May 8, 2026.

What’s actually in it: not alien bodies, not flying saucers, not a smoking gun. It is a mixed tranche of unresolved UAP material from agencies like DoD/DOW, FBI, NASA, State, etc. Axios highlights witness accounts from federal employees who saw orange “orbs” launching smaller red “orbs” over the Western U.S., plus Apollo 12/17 imagery with marked “anomalies.”

The most interesting bit is the Western U.S. “orbs launching orbs” case: multiple teams of federal law-enforcement special agents reportedly saw orange orbs appear briefly, emit smaller red orbs, then vanish, over two dusk sightings. A related account describes a large glowing orb near a rock pinnacle, later estimated by AARO at roughly 12–18 meters in diameter and about 1,050 meters away from observers.

Official release page

The official framing is careful: these are “unresolved cases,” not proof of extraterrestrials. The portal says unresolved can simply mean there is not enough data to identify the phenomenon, and that many materials have not yet been fully analyzed. More releases are expected every few weeks.

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/08/ufo-files-trump-department-of-defense

My read: high-symbolic disclosure, low-hard-evidence so far. Politically, it lets Trump/Hegseth say “we are opening the files.” Substantively, the first batch is more like: “Here are strange, under-analyzed reports and imagery, public can inspect them.” The edge signal is not “aliens confirmed,” but a new rolling public archive of unresolved cases, which could become interesting if later tranches include sensor data, full-motion video, metadata, chain-of-custody, or interagency disagreement.