On September 18, 2026, the Department of War published its sixth tranche of declassified UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, known as PURSUE. The release adds 72 new files to the public archive, including 56 documents and images and 16 media recordings: 15 videos and 1 audio recording. The batch includes the research files of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, the Project Blue Book file behind the famous Tremonton, Utah film, a rare 1952 recording of Project Blue Book's first director, and the program's first records contributed by local law enforcement. It brings the total PURSUE archive to 447 records.
PURSUE is the government's rolling public release program for unresolved UAP records, launched May 8 under an executive order signed by President Trump. The Department of War publishes new tranches every few weeks as materials are discovered and declassified. Release 06 arrived 42 days after Release 05 on August 7. The new files are publicly available at WAR.GOV/UFO under the Release 06 tab.
The AAWSAP File Dump Goes Public
The centerpiece of Release 06 is the largest single document cache published under PURSUE to date: 44 files from the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP, the research program run by the Defense Intelligence Agency between 2008 and 2012. The set opens with DOW-UAP-D110, the program's Statement of Objectives dated July 2008, and DOW-UAP-D111, the Solicitation and Original Order of September 2008. Five contract modifications, DOW-UAP-D112 through DOW-UAP-D116, dated September 2009 to September 2010, document the program's administration.
The bulk of the material consists of 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, or DIRDs, dated December 2009 through January 2011. The DIRDs are technical research deliverables covering a sweeping range of subjects, from established materials science to speculative physics. Titles include Metallic Glasses for Aerospace Applications, Antigravity for Aerospace Applications, Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy, Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum, and Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion. A separate DIRD, An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation, applies formal methods to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The AAWSAP material, long discussed by researchers but rarely seen, now sits in the public archive nearly in full, alongside mission reporting that anchors several of the new sensor videos, described below.
First Local Law Enforcement Records
Release 06 marks another institutional first: four video records and a transcript contributed by a local law enforcement agency, the first time the PURSUE archive has included records from state or local police. LLE-UAP-PR001 through LLE-UAP-PR004 document an incident or series of incidents in Colorado in October 2023, each captured on the rear-facing camera of a commercially available cellular device by a reporting officer.
The recordings show an apparent light source that the reporting officer described as silent and featuring red, blue, and green flashing lights. Video descriptions note that AARO digitally altered part of the footage by blurring the bottom half of each recording to obscure information whose release could reasonably be expected to affect the privacy or other protected interest of a U.S. person or commercial entity. All four cases are accompanied by LLE-UAP-D001, a transcript of an unresolved UAP report. Every LLE case was assessed by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, as unresolved.
The Tremonton Film and Its Blue Book File
Release 06 also reaches back to the first broad wave of American UFO reporting. DOW-UAP-PR159 is the historical Tremonton, Utah film of July 2, 1952, shot on a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera by U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse, who recorded a group of bright airborne objects in 16mm Kodachrome motion-picture film near the town. Newhouse submitted the film to the U.S. Air Force, where it was reviewed as part of Project Blue Book.
The release pairs the film with its underlying record file. DOW-UAP-D102 is the Project Blue Book file on the Tremonton film, and DOW-UAP-D103 is the Project Blue Book photo file relating to it. DOW-UAP-D104 is the final personnel record for Newhouse himself, and DOW-UAP-D105 is the U.S. Air Force Flying Discs File covering September through December 1952. Together the documents preserve the full analytical trail of one of the best-known film cases of the era. The general sensitivity of this case is underscored by DOW-UAP-D098, released in Release 05, a 1953 assessment by the Naval Photographic Interpretation Center that concluded the filmed objects displayed characteristics inconsistent with natural phenomena or commonly known aerospace technologies.
A Rare Recording of Project Blue Book's First Director
Paired with the Tremonton material is DOW-UAP-PR160, an audio recording of a presentation delivered in Boston, Massachusetts on March 26, 1952 by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of Project Blue Book and its predecessor Aerial Phenomena Group. Ruppelt is widely credited with professionalizing the military's UFO investigation effort, and the recording preserves a rare public account of the program's early months given by its chief officer.
In the recording, preserved on a consumer audio tape recorder, Ruppelt discusses the classification of reports and the general state of investigation, describing the majority of reports as conventionally identifiable objects and a meaningful remainder as unresolved. A full print transcript released alongside the recording, DOW-UAP-D154, documents the briefing in detail.
New Military Sensor Videos
Ten new Department of War sensor videos join the archive in Release 06. Two cover infrared and electro-optical contacts over the Middle East in 2025. DOW-UAP-PR133, four minutes and 58 seconds long, shows a phenomenon described in the accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D107, as a white round orb moving as fast as 500 miles per hour. DOW-UAP-PR135 captures six small spherical objects grouped together and frequently changing direction at speeds the reporter estimated at 480 miles per hour, per the mission report DOW-UAP-D108.
Two further clips, DOW-UAP-PR140 and DOW-UAP-PR141, date to 2022 and are tied to mission report DOW-UAP-D109, which described the UAP as traveling at speeds between 80 and 180 miles per hour. The United States Indo-Pacific Command contributed six recordings from 2023 covering the Yellow Sea and East China Sea: DOW-UAP-PR143, PR144, PR148, PR150, PR151, and PR152. Two additional unresolved reports from Iraq in 2022, DOW-UAP-PR130 and DOW-UAP-PR131, are released as documents alongside the mission report DOW-UAP-D106. AARO assessed all of the new military video cases as unresolved.
What Release 06 Means for the PURSUE Program
Release 06 extends the program's cadence to 42 days and, at 72 records, is its largest single tranche. The archive now holds 447 records across six releases, and the AAWSAP research file and the full Tremonton record file represent a major expansion of the program's historical material. With this tranche, PURSUE has now drawn records from the Department of War, the FBI, the CIA, NASA, the Department of Energy, the Department of State, the Executive Office of the President, and, for the first time, local law enforcement.
As with every prior tranche, the released cases remain unresolved. AARO's determination, repeated across the video files, is that the available evidence is insufficient to identify the phenomena or to rule out conventional explanations. The Department of War has confirmed that additional releases are forthcoming, and the materials continue to be posted at WAR.GOV/UFO.