PURSUE TRANCHE 7

THE SEVENTH 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, Release 06 on September 18, and Release 07 on October 23, five weeks after the one before and the seventh Friday drop in a row. 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. At 28 files it is the smallest tranche yet, and the first with no video, audio, or images in it.

A JUNE 2026 INCIDENT AT A NATIONAL SECURITY SITE

The newest material in Release 07 is also its most unusual. An AARO memorandum for record (DOW-UAP-D176) documents a witness debrief about unidentified anomalous phenomena observed at a sensitive national security site in the western United States over two days in June 2026. AARO interviewed two Federal Special Agents and added a corroborating account from a third official at a separate observation post. In the primary event, the witnesses said a triangular object rose vertically, stayed stationary, then banked and descended into a canyon; the memorandum records their descriptions of its shape, color, apparent thermal signature, apparent lack of conventional propulsion features, and the absence of any audible signature. A second observation followed the next evening, and a later ground search found no visible debris or evidence of an impact in the accessible survey area.

AARO says the incident warrants further investigation because the reported shape and movement closely match other incidents in the western United States. The memorandum is explicit about what it is: an investigative record of witness accounts, not a finding on the object's nature or origin, with every description reflecting the witnesses' own interpretation at the time. Alongside it, the release includes an FBI FD-302 interview form (FBI-UAP-D043) from the same year, recording an interview with two Federal Special Agents about an incident at a national security site. The three earlier 2026 western United States incidents, published in Release 05.

THE AAWSAP CONTRACTOR'S OWN PAPER TRAIL

Release 06 published 44 files from AAWSAP, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, mostly the reference papers the program produced. Release 07 adds nine more, and these are the contractor's own paperwork: records of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, or BAASS, the company that carried out the program, bringing the AAWSAP total across PURSUE to 53. They run in order through the contract's life. November 2008 brings topical papers that the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) prepared for BAASS under a separate supporting contract, framed around AAWSAP's research areas and including a paper on "Lift." December 2008 brings Project Capella, a proposed data warehouse for capturing, classifying, and retrieving information on "unusual" aerial phenomena, and BAASS's project management plan. Monthly reports follow for March, April, June, and November 2009, and a November 2010 self-assessment rates BAASS's own personnel, software, field sensors, and data holdings as suited to analyzing UAP and unidentified submerged objects; by war.gov's description, it appears intended to reinforce the case for continuing the program.

THE UTAH RANCH REPORT

One of the nine stands apart. The April 2010 Utah Ranch Investigation Report (DOW-UAP-D174) documents BAASS field deployments to a Utah property and the surrounding communities during March and April 2010. By war.gov's description, investigators interviewed local residents, law enforcement officers, ranchers, business owners, and tribal community members about reported anomalous events, took environmental readings with handheld sensors, planned plant-based biosensor experiments, and sought photographic, acoustic, and chemical evidence. The report records extensive reported accounts of "dog-like bipedal creatures," orbs of light, "little people," and "prehistoric-looking" birds, among other phenomena, and says BAASS intended to use interactive methods to try to communicate with the presumed source of the activity. War.gov's description does not name the property, though reporting on AAWSAP has long tied its Utah field work to Skinwalker Ranch.

ELEVEN AIR FORCE REPORTS FROM THE EARLY COLD WAR

Eleven files are Air Force field reports from 1952 to 1957. Nine are Air Intelligence Information Reports, a standardized form the Air Force used to record raw field intelligence for later analysis; two are Flying Objects Reports, prepared under Air Force Regulation 200-2, which set the rules for reporting unidentified flying objects. They cover Saudi Arabia, Guam, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, British Columbia, Indiana, Catalina Island, and, twice, Alaska. In the January 1957 Saudi Arabia report, the crew of a B-52 reported an unidentified return on the gunnery scope for five to seven minutes, smaller than the return from another B-52 in the area. In the November 1953 British Columbia report, three airmen described a round, blinking white light with a blue hue that dropped to an estimated 150 feet, held stationary for about 30 seconds, climbed, and left toward the west. The Indiana report, from near Seymour, comes from two civilians in a car who described two large white, cloudy objects with four bright points of light in each and a bluish-white trail.

CATALINA ISLAND, 1949 TO 1955

Four files concern sightings over Catalina Island, California, across six years. The earliest is a 1949 letter from an Avalon resident to Kenneth Arnold, the pilot usually credited with launching the flying saucer era in 1947, relaying that his wife and another person saw six objects over the island on the night of April 28, 1949; a handwritten annotation indicates the Air Force concluded there was insufficient data to evaluate it. In June 1952, three Boy Scouts at a summer camp reported silver "flying saucers" faster than a jet that climbed and appeared to disintegrate, and the preparing officer noted that no attempt was made to establish their reliability. A November 1953 report describes a round, purplish-white object that held still and then moved toward Los Angeles over about ten minutes, with local astronomers suggesting Jupiter. A March 1955 report of a bright orange object about the size of a nickel at arm's length drew the comment that it was possibly astronomical and did not warrant further investigation.

A COLONEL'S SERVICE RECORD

Release 07 also includes the final personnel record of Colonel Howard M. McCoy (DOW-UAP-D180). From December 1946 to August 1949 he was a senior intelligence officer at Air Materiel Command, first as Deputy Commanding General for Intelligence and then as Chief of the Intelligence Department, at what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The Air Force began Project SIGN and Project GRUDGE, its earliest formal UFO studies and the predecessors of Project Blue Book, during that tenure, and the file says he was among the senior intelligence officers involved in designing, administering, and running them.

SPACE DEBRIS AND DIPLOMACY, 1962 TO 1964

The last two files are a different kind of record: a Cold War argument over who retrieves fallen space hardware. A May 1963 memo from the National Aeronautics and Space Council, a space-policy body within the Executive Office of the President (EOP-UAP-D002), reports a meeting with NASA's director of international programs about a coordinated policy for recovering U.S. and Soviet satellite fragments that land on foreign soil. It says the Departments of State and Defense wanted to use NASA's civilian standing to help quietly recover sensitive hardware while publicly returning harmless pieces, and it records the NASA official's reaction to the idea as "very negative." A larger file (USG-UAP-D002) collects the memoranda behind the debate, from October 1962 to May 1964: drafts that assigned recovered material by origin, with the Atomic Energy Commission responsible for radioactive pieces, and a public line naming NASA the holding authority while private correspondence described a plan to study what was recovered. The talks never produced a settled policy. War.gov's descriptions of both files concern recovery policy rather than any sighting; Release 05's first White House record, also from the Council's files, was the inquiry into a reported 1963 crash in Bahia, Brazil.

READING RELEASE 07 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. 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 07 is in the app alongside 01 through 06, with each file's source assessment intact.