UAP Release
What government UAP file releases are, what types exist, how declassification works, and where to find the latest officially released records.
UAP stands for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena(also now “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” in broader usage). It is the current official U.S. government terminology for what was historically called a UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). The term was adopted to move beyond the cultural stigma of “UFO” and to allow more precise scientific and national security investigation.
AARO and other agencies publish annual reports to Congress summarizing case intake, resolutions, and ongoing investigation.
Official military sensor recordings (FLIR, radar) released after classification review. Examples: Gimbal, GoFast, FLIR1.
Transcripts from public and classified hearings where military, intelligence, and scientific officials testify about UAP.
Records released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, often partially redacted.
Declassified historical records such as Project Blue Book case files, now available at the National Archives.
Directives, memoranda, and policy records related to UAP reporting, investigation, and inter-agency coordination.
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
Release 07 combines several distinct archives. The contemporary centerpiece is a pair of records from AARO and the FBI concerning federal agents' report of a matte-black triangular object at a…
AARO / Federal Bureau of Investigation
DOW-UAP-D176 records an AARO witness debrief concerning a matte-black triangular object reportedly seen at a sensitive western U.S. site. The account describes vertical ascent, hovering, rapid…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
The Release 07 AAWSAP group documents contractor activity rather than a government endorsement of every claim in the files. D166 contains MUFON reports prepared for BAASS. D167 proposes Project…
The U.S. Department of War published its fourth PURSUE UAP release on July 10, 2026. Release 04 includes three declassified photographs of unidentified objects in low-Earth orbit from Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission (November 1996), two 2025 infrared video cases from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, a 1996 Western U.S. dual-object infrared video with HUD elements, a 2019 Gulf of America infrared video, the 1948 Project Sign Progress Report, the 1949 Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S., and the 1949 Atomic Energy Commission transmittal letter regarding a Los Alamos conference on aerial phenomena.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its fifth PURSUE UAP release on August 7, 2026. The portal lists 41 records, led by FBI reports and digital renderings of triangular objects and multiple red-light observations, a 1953 analysis of films from Montana and Utah, a 2021 Gulf of Oman intelligence report with six associated videos, CIA records concerning the Caribbean, and two 1963 State Department cables from Bahia, Brazil.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its sixth PURSUE UAP release on September 18, 2026. Release 06 introduces documents from the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) — its Statement of Objectives, contracting paperwork, and two Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on metallic glasses and metallic spintronics — alongside a Project Blue Book file and archival film of the 1952 Tremonton UFO case in Utah, a 1952 presentation transcript from Project Blue Book's first director Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, and two new LLE-prefixed unresolved reports from Colorado in October 2023.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its seventh PURSUE UAP release on October 23, 2026. The 28-document tranche includes linked AARO and FBI records about a triangular object reported in the western United States in 2026, nine AAWSAP and BAASS contractor records including the Utah Ranch Investigation Report, ten 1950s Air Force intelligence reports, four Catalina Island cases from 1949–1955, and two executive-branch records about responsibility for recovered space debris.
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