On September 18, 2026, the Department of War published PURSUE Release 06 – the sixth tranche under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the files are live on WAR.GOV/UFO and that the Department and agency partners are already working the next drop.
“Today, the Department of War is publishing the sixth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The collection continues to be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO, and the Department will release additional files on a rolling basis.” – Sean Parnell, September 18, 2026 (DefSec Wire transcription of the Department statement)
CBS News and UAP Ledger count 71 new files: 55 PDFs, 15 videos, and 1 audio recording. 67 come from the Department of War; 4 from Colorado local law enforcement. 64 of 71 are redacted. The dates run from 1952 through 2025. UAP Ledger puts the page count at about 2,595. Across six tranches the public catalog is now 449 files.
This is not a thin housekeeping drop. It puts a 2025 CENTCOM infrared clip of six spherical objects – reported at 480 mph – next to the Navy’s 1952 Tremonton Kodachrome, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt’s March 1952 Blue Book briefing, and the Defense Intelligence Agency’s AAWSAP paper trail.
Middle East, 2025: Six Spherical Objects at 480 mph
DOW-UAP-PR135 is a one-minute infrared clip from a U.S. military platform in 2025. CENTCOM submitted it to AARO as unresolved. The accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D108, describes six small spherical objects grouped together, “seem[ingly] agile,” and “frequently changing direction.” The reporter estimated 480 miles per hour – about 63 percent of the speed of sound at sea level.
Avi Loeb, chair of the UAP Science Advisory Council, wrote in a Medium essay the same day that the reported speed rules out a flock of birds. A coordinated drone swarm is the other candidate he names. Ordinary multi-rotors cruise far slower; even racing quadcopters at peak do not hold tight formation at that speed for long. He asks whether the clip implies advanced drone technology or something else. The report gives the video what most PURSUE sensor clips still lack: a stated speed and a formation description, not just a moving contrast blob.
A second 2025 Middle East clip, PR133, is in the same batch. Two 2022 Middle East clips (PR140, PR141) and Iraq mission reports (D106, D109, PR130, PR131) sit alongside them. D106 describes unidentified objects over Iraq in May 2022 at 80–180 mph.
Yellow Sea: A Sphere Through Clouds
INDOPACOM submitted several 2023 infrared clips from the Yellow Sea and one from the East China Sea. DOW-UAP-PR144 is the 27-second clip Loeb flags: a white sphere moving through clouds and leaving a faint trail. That interaction, he writes, shows a physical object, not a camera artifact.
PR143 is a 19-second companion still in the same theater – a dark spherical contrast against cloud texture, tracked in the sensor reticle.
Yellow Sea / East China Sea clips in this drop:
| ID | Watch |
|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-PR143 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR144 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR148 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR150 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR151 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR152 | DVIDS |
Tremonton, 1952: The Newhouse Kodachrome
DOW-UAP-PR159 is a 1:10 digitization of 16mm Kodachrome shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse filmed a group of bright airborne objects and turned the footage over to the Air Force. Project Blue Book reviewed it. DVIDS says limited detail and no fixed reference points left the case unresolved.
The surviving print is incomplete. After about 55 seconds it cuts to unrelated sewing-equipment footage. DVIDS notes the original pairing with Idaho mountain scenery is not in this digitization.
Three Blue Book files travel with the film: D102 (156-page case file), D103 (photo file), and D104 (Newhouse’s 585-page 1957 personnel record).
Ruppelt, March 1952: Twenty Percent Unexplained
DOW-UAP-PR160 is a 1:05:13 audio recording of Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt briefing scientists in the Boston area on March 26, 1952 – months before he took over the reorganized UFO investigation that became Project Blue Book, and four months before the Washington, D.C. radar-visual wave. The transcript is DOW-UAP-D154 (19 pages).
Loeb notes this is the “flying saucer talk” recording Rep. Eric Burlison had asked to see released.
Ruppelt told the room that of about 800 historical cases the Air Force had reviewed, roughly 20 percent remained unexplained after technical analysis. The unresolved reports, he said, came from military personnel, commercial pilots, and other qualified observers. He pointed to concentrations around nuclear sites – Los Alamos, Albuquerque, Oak Ridge – and to radar speeds between 1,000 and 3,500 mph, with silent high-speed flight in the visual reports. He said the Air Force had no conclusive answer on origin and wanted systematic physical data, including diffraction-grating photography and radar-scope synchronization.
D105 is a separate 253-page U.S. Air Force Director of Intelligence “flying discs” file from 1952.
AAWSAP: $22 Million and 37 DIRDs
The bulk of the PDF stack is the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program – the DIA effort that ran from 2008 to 2012 and contracted Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies. D110 is the July 2008 statement of objectives; D111 the solicitation and original order; D112–D116 contract modifications. Loeb cites a 2008 expense record putting the federal budget at $22 million.
D117 through D153 are 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs). Topics include warp drives and extra dimensions (D138), traversable wormholes (D139), antigravity (D135), negative-mass propulsion (D152), invisibility cloaking (D122), spintronics (D129), vacuum / spacetime-metric engineering (D132), and D128, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues. Loeb writes that this is the first PURSUE tranche to put physiological injury next to UAP encounters in the released paper trail.
CBS News makes a necessary distinction: all 37 DIRDs have been public for years through FOIA releases by DIA. Friday’s versions add details the agency had withheld, including names of the DIA offices that produced the papers. The science content is not new. The official PURSUE stamp, the office names, and the placement beside 2025 sensor video are.
AARO’s public line, Loeb notes, is unchanged: the files are labeled unresolved for lack of data; AARO has not found verifiable evidence linking these incidents to alien technology. The Science Advisory Council, he writes, will analyze whatever evidence it can reach.
Colorado Law Enforcement
Four local law enforcement clips – LLE-UAP-PR001 through PR004 – are the first LLE videos in the PURSUE catalog. All are Colorado, 2023; three are dated October. They are redacted on DVIDS the same way the military clips are.
| ID | Watch |
|---|---|
| LLE-UAP-PR001 | DVIDS |
| LLE-UAP-PR002 | DVIDS |
| LLE-UAP-PR003 | DVIDS |
| LLE-UAP-PR004 | DVIDS |
The Rest of the Video Stack
| ID | Theater / year | Watch |
|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-PR133 | Middle East, 2025 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR135 | Middle East, 2025 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR140 | Middle East, 2022 | DVIDS |
| DOW-UAP-PR141 | Middle East, 2022 | DVIDS |
The files are on WAR.GOV/UFO. Release 05 dropped on August 7. Parnell says more is coming.
Sources
- WAR.GOV/UFO – PURSUE portal
- DefSec Wire – Parnell sixth-release statement
- UAP Ledger – Release 6 catalog
- CBS News – sixth batch, AAWSAP DIRDs, Ruppelt
- Anadolu Agency – page count and file mix
- Avi Loeb, Medium – Insights from the Sixth UAP Tranche
- DVIDS – DOW-UAP-PR135 Middle East 2025
- DVIDS – DOW-UAP-PR159 Tremonton 1952
- DVIDS – DOW-UAP-PR160 Ruppelt 1952
- DVIDS – DOW-UAP-PR144 Yellow Sea 2023
