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. Five 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 1965 Puerto Rico radar intercept, and 15 Department of War video clips across three incidents.

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 06 IS DUE

Measured drop-to-drop, the interval between releases has grown and then held: fourteen days between Release 01 and 02, twenty-one between 02 and 03, twenty-eight between 03 and 04, and twenty-eight again between 04 and 05. Two four-week gaps in a row is the first repeat interval PURSUE has shown. That is still a rhythm, not a schedule; officials have never published a fixed calendar, and have consistently described the releases as arriving on a rolling basis. If the four-week pace holds a third time, Release 06 would be expected around September 4, 2026, likely, but not confirmed.

Status as of September 4, 2026: Release 05, published August 7, is still the most recent tranche at war.gov. Today is exactly twenty-eight days on from it, which puts the release squarely inside the window the last two intervals would predict rather than past it. Nothing has appeared so far today. The twenty-eight-day figure is an observed pattern across two consecutive gaps, not a published schedule, so it is a reasonable expectation and nothing stronger. This page is checked weekly and will be rewritten as a Release 06 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 Release 05. 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 06 MIGHT ADD

There is no reliable way to preview an unpublished tranche, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What the first five 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, and now the Executive Office of the President have all contributed) and eras, with Cold War paper sitting alongside modern targeting-pod footage and, in Release 05, first-hand accounts from earlier this year. A sixth tranche can reasonably be expected to continue that mix. 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 06 drops, it will be in the app alongside 01 through 05, with each file's source assessment intact.