PURSUE Release 07: Department of War declassifies 28 more UAP files — a black triangle seen by federal agents, AAWSAP's Utah ranch report, and the early Cold War

On 23 October 2026, the Department of War published the seventh release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) at war.gov/UFO, 35 days after Release 06. Per the portal's live database, the tranche comprises 28 files, all documents — the first PURSUE release without a video — catalogued under the Department of War (25), the FBI (1), the Executive Office of the President (1) and the U.S. Government (1). Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell's statement said the Department and its agency partners 'are actively working on the next release.'

The lead material is current. An AARO memorandum for record (DOW-UAP-D176) and an FBI FD-302 (FBI-UAP-D043) document two Federal Special Agents' observations of a triangular object at 'a sensitive national security site in the western United States over two days in 2026,' with a corroborating account from a third official at a separate observation post. The FD-302 attaches the agents' co-signed statement and nine digitally rendered FBI forensic sketches. AARO 'considers this incident to warrant further investigation due to the close alignment of the phenomena's reported morphological features and kinematic profiles with those of other reported incidents in the western United States region.'

Nine files continue the AAWSAP record begun in Release 06, this time from the contractor's side: Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies' December 2008 project management plan, its Project Capella database proposal, a November 2008 set of MUFON papers, four monthly reports from 2009, a November 2010 self-assessment, and an April 2010 investigation report on a Utah ranch and surrounding communities.

The historical material is early Cold War: ten Air Intelligence Information Reports and Flying Object Reports from 1952 to 1957 (Saudi Arabia, Guam, Italy, British Columbia, the Berlin air corridor, French Morocco, two from Alaska, Sweden and Indiana); four reports from Catalina Island, California, 1949 to 1955; the final personnel record of Colonel Howard M. McCoy, Air Materiel Command's intelligence chief when Project SIGN and Project GRUDGE began; and a 1962-1964 body of interagency correspondence, with a 1963 National Aeronautics and Space Council memorandum, on recovering U.S. and foreign space hardware that fell to earth.