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A February 1953 memo in the newly released Project Blue Book file shows officers planning what to tell reporters about the Tremonton film while the Air Force and Navy lab analyses still pointed away from the gulls-or-balloons answer it planned to give, and weighing candour against the risk of another big 'flap'.
Read briefing →The full AARO transcript of Edward J. Ruppelt's March 1952 talk, released on September 18, catches the Air Force's new UFO chief before the summer wave: 800 cases, a 20 percent residue he could not explain, radar tracks he would not trust, and a plan to put cameras on the problem.
Among the AAWSAP papers released on September 18 is a 2010 study arguing that people have been burned and sickened by 'anomalous vehicles', and that the injuries look like microwave exposure. Read closely, it starts from its conclusion and rests on data no reader can check.
Six PURSUE releases, 450 records, counted from the government's own manifest. More than half date from the 2020s, the median video runs about a minute and a half, radar appears in eight summaries, and nearly one record in ten is contract paperwork from a 2008 DIA program.
In late August 2026 the Air Force added 30 records to Record Group 615, the National Archives UAP collection. Most are Cold War unit histories that mention UFOs in passing. The two histories of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron are the exception: they show how the Air Force ran its UFO field investigations and how it counted the results.
Away from the PURSUE releases, the intelligence community and the Department of War both waived non-disclosure agreements for people who want to talk to PURSUE, the National Archives added Air Force and Border Protection series, AARO's closed-case count reached 943, and AARO moved to subscribe to a private UFO archive in New Mexico.
The sixth PURSUE tranche lands 75 records, the largest since May, and most of them are the paper trail of the Pentagon's Bigelow contract: the statement of work, the contract changes, and 37 reference papers on warp drives, wormholes and metallic glass. Plus Captain Ruppelt's 1952 briefing on tape, the Tremonton film with sewing-machine footage spliced on the end, and the first police officers in the archive.
Of 41 records in the fifth PURSUE tranche, war.gov flags nine as featured. Eight are digital renderings the FBI commissioned this year from witness descriptions — pictures of accounts rather than pictures of objects, and the least evidential artefacts in the release.
The fifth PURSUE tranche lands 41 records and brings in the State Department and the White House for the first time — three agencies chasing a metal sphere reported in Bahia, Brazil in 1963, which the Brazilian air ministry denied outright. Plus the Navy's 1953 analysis of the Montana and Utah films, the Scandinavian ghost rockets, and seventeen FBI interviews illustrated by drawings the Bureau made this year.
The fourth PURSUE tranche lands 40 records and turns to the founding era — the 1948 Project Sign progress report, the Air Force committee that ended Project Blue Book, and the Los Alamos conference where Manhattan Project physicists could not agree on the green fireballs. It also un-redacts a document it released seven weeks ago.
Between November 2025 and June 2026, a UAP documentary broke Prime Video's all-time record and Spielberg's Disclosure Day posted the biggest original opening of his career — a cultural datapoint as measurable as any declassified file, and worth reading as carefully.
The third PURSUE tranche lands 72 records — the FBI's modern case files for the first time, including a five-agent 'orbs launching orbs' event at a sensitive Western site, the Cheyenne Mountain object of 2022, and eighteen CIA documents reaching back to the Robertson Panel.
Strip away the drone clips and the astronaut tapes, and the documents the government chose to declassify keep returning to the same places: Sandia, Pantex, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge. Four decades of UAP records from the nuclear weapons complex, read as one file.
Read as data rather than spectacle, the May 22 UAP tranche splits cleanly in two: 51 operational videos that exist only because Congress named them — each carrying an AARO chain-of-custody warning — and 13 historical items the office chose to add. The structure says as much as the footage.
Two weeks after the first PURSUE drop, the Department of War released a second tranche — more than 50 videos and documents, pushing the running total past 200 files. This batch is video-heavy, recent, and operational. An assessment of what is actually in it.
An infrared image showing an unidentified object below a US helicopter over the western United States was disclosed in the May 8 2026 Pentagon release. What the image shows and why it matters.
On May 8 the Department of War released its first tranche of declassified UAP records — 160-plus files, 400-plus incidents, two dozen videos spanning 2020 to 2026. An initial assessment of what is actually in the archive.
It has been three years since David Grusch's sworn Congressional testimony reshaped what was officially conceivable about non-human intelligence programmes. A measured look at what has moved and what has stalled.
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office's active caseload now exceeds 2,000 reports — the highest since the office stood up in 2022. The structural read on what the number is telling us.
An executive order with a deadline, an enforcement mechanism, and structural authority to override agency-level classification preferences. The legislative-and-executive context for the most consequential UAP transparency action of the modern era.
On October 4 2025 a sighting in central Pennsylvania was assessed as credible by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization — the third such incident in the county in six years, all within twenty-five miles of the Penn State University campus.