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Latest: Release 07 — October 23, 2026.

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PURSUE  •  Release 07  •  October 23, 2026  •  28 files

The seventh tranche — 478 files in the public record

On October 23, 2026, the Department of War published the seventh release of declassified and historical UAP files under PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The release adds 28 files and brings the portal’s public total to 478.

  • The lead files: an AARO memorandum for record (DOW-UAP-D176) and an FBI FD-302 (FBI-UAP-D043) document two federal special agents’ observations of a triangular object at a sensitive national security site in the western United States over two days in 2026, with a corroborating account from a third official at a separate observation post. AARO says the case warrants further investigation.
  • The AAWSAP record continues: nine files from the contractor’s side — Bigelow Aerospace’s December 2008 project management plan, its Project Capella database proposal, a November 2008 set of MUFON papers, four monthly reports from 2009, a November 2010 self-assessment, and an April 2010 investigation report on a Utah ranch and surrounding communities.
  • Early Cold War: ten Air Intelligence Information Reports and Flying Object Reports from 1952 to 1957 — Saudi Arabia, Guam, Italy, British Columbia, the Berlin air corridor, French Morocco, two from Alaska, Sweden, and Indiana.

The Department says it is “actively working on the next release.” Releases arrive every few weeks, as files are found, reviewed, and declassified. No date has been announced for Release 08.

Official source: war.gov/UFO — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters

All seven releases

Seven batches between May 8 and October 23, 2026 — every one on a Friday. The table is updated by hand when a new release drops.

ReleaseDateFilesWhat it holdsAgencies
01 May 8, 2026 158 The first tranche: Apollo-era astronaut accounts, military infrared footage, and sensor videos and photos — the opening of the multi-agency release. Multi-agency
02 May 22, 2026 64 F-16 gun-camera footage of the February 2023 Lake Huron shootdown; formation-flying UAPs recorded over the Persian Gulf in October 2019. Dept. of War
03 June 12, 2026 72 Four FBI eyewitness orb videos from the northeastern United States (2021–2025), plus CIA and NASA files. FBI, CIA, NASA, DoW
04 July 10, 2026 40 Unresolved sensor reports. Dept. of War
05 Aug 7, 2026 41 The Gulf of Oman AC-130J gunship “cold orbs” encounter (2021); FBI witness interviews with paired renderings, including a 500-ft silent triangle over Bagram, Afghanistan, in 2002. DoW, FBI, CIA, State, EOP
06 Sep 18, 2026 75 The AAWSAP batch: the DIA contract file, 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, the 1952 Tremonton film, a 1952 Ruppelt audio briefing, and Colorado police reports. (72 on release day; three records added later.) DoW, DIA, Colorado law enforcement
07 Oct 23, 2026 28 The latest: an AARO memorandum and an FBI FD-302 on a 2026 triangle over a western U.S. site; nine more AAWSAP files; ten early Cold War Air Intelligence reports, 1952–1957. DoW, AARO, FBI
Total May–Oct 2026 478 298 documents, 134 videos, 30 images, and 16 audio recordings, covering 1944 to 2026. —

Where the numbers come from: the dates are the Department of War’s own announcements. The Department’s announcements do not give file counts; the counts above come from the Department’s own downloadable file list, tallied row by row — 158 + 64 + 72 + 40 + 41 + 75 + 28 = 478. The 28 files in Release 07 and the 478 total match the Department’s own portal text.

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