WHEN IS THE NEXT UAP FILE RELEASE?

THE RELEASES SO FAR

PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, is the program under which the Department of War and its agency partners publish declassified UAP records at war.gov. Six tranches have gone public:

Release 01 — May 8, 2026. The launch tranche, opening war.gov/UFO with the first batch of documents, images, and sensor clips from across the government.
Release 02 — May 22, 2026. The second tranche, a large drop of documents, audio, and video.
Release 03 — June 12, 2026. The third tranche, reported at 53 documents and six videos, with the FBI as the largest single contributor and older CIA and NASA material — including the 1953 Robertson Panel report and Apollo-era crew audio.
Release 04 — July 10, 2026. The fourth tranche, reported at 40 files (14 documents, 19 videos, four audio, three images) from NASA, the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, and — for the first time — the Department of Energy. It reaches back to Project Sign, Project Blue Book, and a 1949 Los Alamos conference, and forward to a 2015 Pantex Plant incident and a 2019 Range Fouler debrief.
Release 05, August 7, 2026. The fifth tranche, 41 files (22 documents, 16 videos, three images) from the Department of War, FBI, CIA, State Department, and, for the first time, the Executive Office of the President, via National Aeronautics and Space Council records. It includes a three-agency paper trail on a 1963 Brazil incident, a November 1964 Puerto Rico radar intercept, and 15 Department of War video clips across three incidents.
Release 06, September 18, 2026. The sixth tranche, 72 files (56 documents, 15 videos, one audio file), almost entirely from the Department of War, plus the first files ever credited to Local Law Enforcement. Headlined by 37 AAWSAP Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, previously known only through partial leaks, the actual 1952 Tremonton UFO film and its Project Blue Book case file, and Captain Edward Ruppelt's own 1952 presentation on the reorganized Air Force UFO investigation.

Each release is additive: nothing is removed, and every prior tranche stays public. As always with PURSUE, the files document what was observed, reported, and assessed; they do not assert what any object was.

THE CADENCE: WHEN RELEASE 07 IS DUE

Measured drop-to-drop, the interval between releases has grown, held, then grown again: fourteen days between Release 01 and 02, twenty-one between 02 and 03, twenty-eight between 03 and 04, twenty-eight again between 04 and 05, then forty-two days between 05 and 06, the longest gap yet. Two four-week gaps in a row once looked like a settled rhythm; Release 06 broke it. That confirms what officials have said from the start: this is a rolling basis, not a published schedule, and the interval can lengthen or shorten again without notice.

Status as of October 2, 2026: Release 06, published September 18, is still the most recent tranche at war.gov, fourteen days on, and no date has been announced for Release 07. No pattern has held for more than two releases running, so this page will not project a specific date for Release 07. It is checked weekly and will be rewritten as a Release 07 recap the moment one lands.

WHAT THE PENTAGON HAS SAID

Announcing Release 04, Sean Parnell, Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs, framed it as one of an ongoing series of "declassified and historical" UAP files under PURSUE, with more to follow on a rolling basis; that framing has held through every release since. Officials have also pointed to public interest as a driver: by the time of the third drop, war.gov reported more than 1.7 billion hits since its May launch, a measure of attention, not of what the files establish. What officials have not done is pre-announce specific dates, so the honest answer to "when" is that a further release is expected and being prepared, without a confirmed date.

WHAT RELEASE 07 MIGHT ADD

There is no reliable way to preview an unpublished tranche, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What the first six releases show is a pattern rather than a theme: each mixes agencies (the FBI, CIA, NASA, the military services, the Department of Energy, the State Department, the Executive Office of the President, and now Local Law Enforcement have all contributed) and eras, with 1950s Project Blue Book paper sitting alongside a 2010-era Pentagon research program and this year's own case files. A seventh tranche can reasonably be expected to continue that mix, and Release 06 shows the list of contributor types is still growing. When it lands, its actual contents, not the speculation before it, are what matter.

NEVER MISS A TRANCHE

War.gov hosts the raw files but sends no alerts, and a new tranche arrives as a wall of cryptically named PDFs, video, and images. Umbra is an independent, unofficial reader of the public PURSUE record: it pushes a notification the moment a new release goes public, then indexes the whole tranche by agency, type, date, and location so it is readable and searchable from the first minute. When Release 07 drops, it will be in the app alongside 01 through 06, with each file's source assessment intact.