The Department of War posted PURSUE Release 07 on October 23, 2026. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the files are on WAR.GOV/UFO and that the next tranche is already in work. The White House marked the drop the same day.
An independent catalog of the portal, UAP Browser, counts 28 new PDFs and a public archive of 478 files. There is no video in this batch. The newest pages are from this year. Several of the oldest end with ordinary explanations.
The department’s own description of the lead memo says the words in it are what the witnesses thought they saw. They are not a finding about what the object was.
A matte-black triangle, western United States, 2026
DOW-UAP-D176 is an AARO memorandum for record. It debriefs two federal special agents and a third official at a separate post, at a sensitive national security site in the western United States. The date is redacted. The time given is 8:23 p.m. local.
The agents described a matte-black triangle, nonreflective, with a very low profile: a wingspan of about 13 to 15 feet, a body about 6 to 9 feet long, and a thickness of about 1 to 2 feet. They said it climbed for about ten seconds without tilting or wobbling, stopped at an estimated 200 to 300 feet above the ridge, and hovered for about twenty seconds. They said it then went from a dead stop into high-speed horizontal flight, banked, and dropped into a canyon in about two to three seconds, “as fast as a fighter jet,” with no sound. AARO says the case lines up with other reports from the same region and should be investigated further. The memo does not say what the object was. A search of the ground the next day found no debris in the area the team could reach. The memo also notes a second sighting the following evening.
FBI-UAP-D043 is the FBI’s FD-302 on the same observation. UAP Browser says it records the triangular shape, a uniform thermal signature, and nine dusk photographs. Neither file closes the case.
BAASS, again
Nine files are from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, the contractor on the DIA’s AAWSAP program, from 2008 to 2010. Release 06 already put 37 DIRDs and the contract file online. This batch is the contractor’s own paperwork: the December 2008 project plan (D168), monthly reports from March, April, June, and November 2009 (D169, D170, D171, D173), a database proposal called Project Capella (D167), MUFON papers prepared for BAASS (D166), and a November 2010 self-assessment that includes simulations of the 2004 Tic Tac (D175).
D174, the April 2010 Utah ranch report, collects what residents told the contractor: dog-like animals that walked on two legs, orbs, and “little people.” A lab test of hair from a fence matched a canine sequence common in domestic dogs. Those are witness statements and one lab result. They are not a finding that an unknown animal was on the property.
George Knapp said last week that the larger DIA archive Bigelow described is still not public. These nine files do not change that. They are more of the BAASS paper already in the contract record.
What the 1950s pages actually conclude
Ten Air Force intelligence reports run from 1952 to 1957. A B-52 radar return over Saudi Arabia in 1957 is D155. An F-86D pilot chased a light over Guam in 1956 (D156); the investigation tied it to a lighted weather balloon launched that night. Returns over French Morocco (D160) were put down to anomalous propagation, jamming, or birds. Two Alaska lights (D161, D162) were treated as possible human sources. In Canada (D158), two airmen guarding a B-29 saw a light come down to about 150 feet. The officer who wrote the report left the cause unknown.
Four Catalina Island files, 1949 to 1955, include Boy Scouts who reported a silver object in 1952 (D179), a light Griffith Observatory astronomers thought might be a planet (D178), a probable meteor in 1955 (D177), and a 1949 letter to Kenneth Arnold (D181) that the Air Force filed as insufficient data.
Three files are not sightings. Correspondence from 1962 to 1964 covers how to recover space-vehicle debris (USG-UAP-D002, EOP-UAP-D002). D180 is the personnel record of Col. Howard M. McCoy, linked in the catalog note to Projects SIGN and GRUDGE. The record itself does not mention UFOs.
