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. Three 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, reported at roughly 64 files.
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 — reaching back decades.

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 — AND WHY RELEASE 04 IS OVERDUE

Measured drop-to-drop, the first three releases fell about two weeks apart: May 8 to May 22 is fourteen days, and May 22 to June 12 is twenty-one. That is a rhythm, not a schedule — officials have never published a fixed calendar, and have consistently described the releases as arriving on a rolling basis. Taken at the two-to-three-week pace of the first three, a fourth tranche would have been expected in late June or early July 2026. As of early July, none has been published, which puts Release 04 at or past the point the early cadence would predict — imminent by that logic, but not confirmed.

WORLD UFO DAY CAME AND WENT

July 2 is World UFO Day, the annual observance tied to the 1947 Roswell reports, and it drew widespread speculation that a new tranche might be timed to it. It passed without a release — a reminder that the PURSUE cadence has tracked the government's own preparation timeline, not the calendar of UFO culture. Anniversaries and observances are not release triggers.

WHAT THE PENTAGON HAS SAID

Department spokesperson Sean Parnell has framed the releases as ongoing, saying files would be published "on a rolling basis" and that the Department of War and its agency partners are actively preparing the next release. 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 04 MIGHT ADD

There is no reliable way to preview an unpublished tranche, and this page will not pretend otherwise. What the first three releases show is a pattern rather than a theme: each mixes agencies (the FBI, CIA, NASA, and the military services have all contributed) and eras (Cold War paper alongside modern targeting-pod footage). A fourth 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, audio, and clips. 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 04 drops, it will be in the app alongside 01, 02, and 03 — with each file's source assessment intact.