PURSUE TRANCHE 6

THE SIXTH RELEASE

PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, publishes the government's UAP holdings in numbered tranches at war.gov. Release 01 went public on May 8, 2026, Release 02 on May 22, Release 03 on June 12, Release 04 on July 10, Release 05 on August 7, and Release 06 on September 18, six weeks after the one before it, longer than any prior gap. As before, the tranche is additive: nothing from the earlier releases is removed, and each file carries its own agency, date, and location metadata rather than a single blanket assessment.

THE AAWSAP FILES

The headline of Release 06 is 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, or DIRDs, produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, a Defense Intelligence Agency program that ran from 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP is the direct ancestor of AATIP and, later, AARO itself, and its DIRD series, 38 documents in total by the government's own count, had previously reached the public only in pieces, through partial leaks and reporting beginning around 2017. Release 06 makes nearly the entire series official at once.

By design the DIRDs are reference and synthesis products, not original research, and the program's scope was deliberately broad: alongside genuinely applied topics like hypersonic-vehicle tracking, high-energy lasers, and biosensors sit papers on antigravity, invisibility cloaking, traversable wormholes and stargates, warp drive and the manipulation of extra dimensions, negative mass propulsion, and extracting energy from the quantum vacuum. Reading them as a set is less a UFO story than a record of what a Pentagon-funded research program was willing to commission a literature review on, in the name of a forty-year threat horizon.

THE TREMONTON FILM, OFFICIALLY

Release 05 published the 1953 Naval Photographic Interpretation Center memo analyzing the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film without the film itself. Release 06 completes the file: the actual digitized 16mm Kodachrome footage, the Project Blue Book case file, the accompanying photo file, and Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse's own personnel record. Alongside it sits a March 1952 presentation, both transcript and the original audio, by Captain Edward Ruppelt, the officer who led the Air Force's newly reorganized UFO investigation and later gave Project Blue Book its name. Ruppelt previews the technical methods, diffraction-grating photography and radar-scope synchronization, that Blue Book would go on to use, and states that roughly 20 percent of the roughly 800 cases the Air Force had reviewed by that point remained unexplained.

A NEW KIND OF CONTRIBUTOR: LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

Every prior tranche credited a federal agency. Release 06 adds five files from a different source entirely: four cellphone videos, shot on the rear-facing camera of a commercially available device by a local police officer in Colorado, of an incident in October 2023 the officer described as silent and featuring red, blue, and green flashing lights, plus a written transcript of the report. The report reached AARO through the same reporting pipeline as a military mission report, but the witness this time wears a municipal badge, not a federal one, the first time PURSUE has published anything from that vantage point.

THE FLEET'S VIDEOS

Most of the tranche's other footage is familiar in kind if not in specifics: infrared sensor clips from U.S. Central Command and Indo-Pacific Command, covering incidents over the Middle East, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea between 2022 and 2025, each paired with a Mission Report, the standardized form the military uses to log the circumstances, describing what the sensor showed in the crews' own words. Two additional 2022 Iraq reports round out the set. As with every PURSUE video, the accompanying descriptions stay flatly descriptive, an area of contrast, its position in frame, with no judgment about origin attached.

READING RELEASE 06 IN UMBRA

War.gov hosts the raw files but does not organize them for reading: a tranche arrives as a wall of cryptically named PDFs, video, and audio. Umbra indexes every release by agency, type, date, and location, makes the whole archive searchable, and pushes a notification the moment a new tranche goes public. Release 06 is in the app alongside 01 through 05, with each file's source assessment intact.