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Release 04
July 10, 2026 · U.S. Department of War · 28 days after Release 03

PURSUE Release 04: a U.S. Senator's 1955 sighting, the Los Alamos green fireballs, and three frames from Columbia

Four weeks after Release 03, the U.S. Department of War published a fourth tranche through the PURSUE portal: 14 documents, 3 images, 19 videos, and 4 audio files. Where Release 03 was the FBI's, this one belongs to the archives — the deepest cut into 1940s–60s program records the program has made, and the first time PURSUE has published a transcript of Manhattan Project physicists trying, and failing, to explain something in the sky.

"Nothing like this, to my knowledge, has ever been observed in the case of meteorite drops."
— Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, meteoriticist, at the Los Alamos conference on aerial phenomena — March 22, 1949 (DOE-UAP-D004)
Official source: war.gov/UFO DoW press release Read Release 05 (41 files) →
NASA-UAP-D030 — a photograph taken from Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 in 1996. The cloud-covered limb of the Earth curves across the left of the frame; the orbiter's window frame and payload-bay structure fill the right. A small, bright, elongated white object is visible in the dark space between them. Released by the Department of War in PURSUE Release 04.

NASA-UAP-D030 · 1996 — the first of three frames astronauts aboard Columbia shot of an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit during STS-80. Across the sequence the object appears to rotate and move against the Earth below. → Read the case

Documents (PDF)
14
Images
3
Videos
19
Audio files
4
Total in this release
40

Cumulative across the first four PURSUE tranches: 334 files in 63 days, per the live war.gov/UFO database. A fifth tranche followed on August 7 — read Release 05 — and a sixth on September 18 — read Release 06.

Why this release matters

Release 01 was a corpus play, Release 02 a narrative one, Release 03 institutional. Release 04 is archival — and its value is in who was doing the reporting. In 1955 the CIA sat down with four Americans who had watched a luminescent 'greenish-yellow' object from a train inside the Soviet Union. One of them was Senator Richard Russell, the most consequential voice on military affairs in the U.S. Senate. The Agency's own analysis concluded the sighting could 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles,' and that the evidence was 'not sufficiently firm' to conclude the Soviets had built something new.

The document to actually read, though, is DOE-UAP-D004 — a verbatim transcript, not a summary, of a March 1949 conference at Los Alamos convened to explain months of 'green fireball' reports over the laboratory. The attendees include physicists who had built the first nuclear weapons. Edward Teller proposed an 'electron phenomenon' if the objects were not material bodies. Lincoln LaPaz, the meteoriticist brought in precisely because meteors were the leading hypothesis, said that nothing like this had ever been observed in a meteorite fall. The conference adjourned without agreement. It is a rare thing to watch that calibre of scientist run out of explanations on the record.

Two files reward comparison rather than reading. The Pantex incident report from September 2015 — an object over the plant where the United States assembles and disassembles its nuclear weapons — appeared in Release 02 as DOE-UAP-D001 with pages 5 and 6 heavily redacted. Release 04 publishes the fuller version. Set the two side by side and you can see exactly what the Department decided it no longer needed to withhold in the space of seven weeks.

On the modern side: 19 AARO sensor videos from four combatant commands spanning 1996 to 2025, three of them tied to Range Fouler Debriefs in which the observers speak for themselves. One is a 28-year Air Force and Navy veteran reporting flight characteristics 'unlike anything' he had seen. Another, refreshingly, describes a 'large, somewhat deformed balloon.' Both are in the same release, which is roughly the point.

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The 6 headline cases

Curated for newcomers — the cases that explain why Release 04 lands the way it does.

Forty files on top of the 294 already public. These are the ones that change what the record contains rather than adding to its volume.

1October 1955

A U.S. Senator watched something over the Soviet Union in 1955 — and the CIA wrote it off

Senator Richard Russell, chairman-in-waiting of Senate Armed Services, was one of four Americans who reported a luminescent 'greenish-yellow' object from a train between Baku and Tbilisi. The CIA's own analysis concluded the sighting could 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles' — and that the evidence was not firm enough to indicate a radically new Soviet aircraft.

Read the case
2March 22, 1949

Los Alamos, 1949: the men who built the bomb spent a day arguing about green fireballs

A full conference transcript. Manhattan Project physicists — Edward Teller among them — met to explain months of green fireball reports over the laboratory. Teller suggested an 'electron phenomenon' if not a material body. Meteoriticist Lincoln LaPaz said nothing like it had ever been seen in a meteorite fall. They adjourned without a consensus.

Read the case
3September 1, 2015

The nuclear-weapons plant intrusion, released again — this time with the redactions lifted

Pantex, near Amarillo, is where the United States assembles and disassembles its nuclear weapons. Pages 5 and 6 of this 2015 incident report went out in Release 02 in heavily redacted form. Release 04 publishes the fuller version, alongside ground-surveillance-radar imagery of the object.

Read the case
4November–December 1996

Three frames from Columbia: NASA's 1996 photographs of an object in low-Earth orbit

Astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Columbia photographed an unidentified object three times during STS-80. Across the sequence it appears to rotate or tumble, then move along a trajectory that carries it against the face of the Earth.

Read the case
51971–1972

The Apollo tapes: crews describing the flashes they saw with their eyes closed

Four audio segments from the Apollo 14 post-mission debriefing and the Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing, in which astronauts and their debriefers work through the 'light flash phenomena' — then unexplained, now understood as high-energy cosmic rays passing through the eye.

Read the case
61948–1949

Project Sign's first report, and the study the Air Force revised twice

The Air Materiel Command's initial Project Sign report details 100 sightings from 1947-48. Alongside it, both drafts of Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203 reach the same uncomfortable finding: 'some object has been seen; however, the identification of that object cannot be readily accomplished.'

Read the case

In the live archive

These entries are individually browsable in the Disclosure Archives database, cross-tagged with pursue-release-04 and department-of-war.

Document Release
Featured

PURSUE Release 04: Department of War declassifies 40 more UAP files — the historical tranche

The fourth tranche of the Trump administration's PURSUE program: 40 files — 14 documents, 3 images, 19 videos, 4 audio files — bringing the public corpus to 334 files. Where Release 03 was the FBI's tranche, Release 04 is the historical one: a 1955 CIA debrief of four observers (one a sitting U.S. Senator) watching an object over the Soviet Union, the 1949 Los Alamos conference on 'green fireballs' attended by Manhattan Project physicists, Project Sign's founding 1948 progress report, and three NASA photographs of an unidentified object shot from Space Shuttle Columbia in 1996. Nineteen AARO sensor videos and four Apollo-era 'light flash' audio segments round out the release.

The Pentagon, Virginia — United States#AARO#Cold War#Department of War#NASA
Sighting
Featured

The nuclear-weapons plant intrusion, released again — this time with the redactions lifted

On September 1, 2015, an unidentified object intruded the restricted airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas — the facility where the United States assembles and disassembles its nuclear weapons. Ground-surveillance-radar imagery and an incident report were first released, heavily redacted, as part of PURSUE Release 02 in May 2026. PURSUE Release 04 republishes the same file, DOE-UAP-D005, with far fewer redactions.

PANTEX nuclear-weapons facility, Texas — United States#Radar Confirmed#Department of War#Nuclear Facility#PURSUE Release 04
Sighting
Featured

Three frames from Columbia: NASA's 1996 photographs of an object in low-Earth orbit

Three photographs taken from Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission (November 19 – December 7, 1996) show an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit near the Earth's limb. Across the sequence the object appears to rotate or tumble, then continues along a trajectory that carries it against the face of the Earth. The Department's release includes no NASA disposition for the object, unlike two earlier Shuttle-era anomalies — STS-48 (1991) and STS-75 (1996) — already on the public record.

Low Earth orbit — NASA Space Shuttle, LEO — Earth orbit#Department of War#NASA#PURSUE Release 04
Document Release
Featured

The Apollo tapes: crews describing the flashes they saw with their eyes closed

PURSUE Release 04 publishes four audio segments — two from the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing (February 18, 1971) and two from the Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing (December 21, 1972) — in which astronauts and their debriefers discuss the 'light flash phenomena': brief flashes of light some Apollo crews reported seeing with their eyes closed in flight. The phenomenon was unexplained at the time; it is now understood as high-energy cosmic rays passing through the retina or optic nerve. PURSUE Release 02 previously published the related November 1969 Apollo 12 medical debrief on the same subject.

Lunar surface, Moon — Moon#Department of War#NASA#PURSUE Release 04
Sighting
Featured

A U.S. Senator watched something over the Soviet Union in 1955 — and the CIA wrote it off

In October 1955, four Americans travelling by train through the Soviet Union — among them U.S. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, then chairman-in-waiting of the Senate Armed Services Committee — watched a luminescent, greenish-yellow object climb and pass above their train between Baku and Tiflis, now Tbilisi. PURSUE Release 04 declassifies the CIA's debriefing memo and its companion analysis, which concluded the sighting could 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles.' The analysis also weighs the 1953 Robertson Panel's findings and Project 'Y,' the real U.S.-Canadian program then trying to build a saucer-shaped aircraft.

Former USSR (interior), Soviet Union — USSR (former)#Cold War#Multiple Witnesses#International#Department of War
Document Release
Featured

Los Alamos, 1949: the men who built the bomb spent a day arguing about green fireballs

PURSUE Release 04 publishes the verbatim transcript of a March 22, 1949 conference at Los Alamos, called after months of unexplained 'green fireball' sightings over the laboratory that built the first atomic bombs. Manhattan Project physicists — Edward Teller among them — argued over explanations ranging from shallow-angle meteors to an 'electron phenomenon'; meteoriticist Lincoln LaPaz told the room nothing like it had ever been seen in a meteorite fall. The conference adjourned without a consensus.

Los Alamos, New Mexico — United States#Cold War#Multiple Witnesses#Department of War#Nuclear Facility
Document Release
Featured

Project Sign's first report, and the study the Air Force revised twice

PURSUE Release 04 publishes six U.S. Air Force files tracing the government's institutional handling of UFO reports from 1948 to 1967. The centerpiece is Project Sign's first progress report on 100 sightings from 1947-48, alongside both surviving drafts of Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203. Rounding out the file: records of the Avro 'Project Y2' saucer-shaped-aircraft assessments, 1955 correspondence relating to Project Blue Book, and the 1966-67 Scientific Advisory Board review that led directly to the Condon Committee and, eventually, Blue Book's closure.

The Pentagon, Virginia — United States#U.S. Air Force#Cold War#Project Blue Book#Department of War

Every file in PURSUE Release 04

The complete file catalogue, grouped by topical cluster and reconstructed from the war.gov/UFO database. All 40 files are works of the U.S. Federal Government (17 U.S.C. § 105) and are in the public domain. Document links resolve on the official war.gov medialink portal (Akamai protects the back end from programmatic fetches but resolves in the browser); videos and audio play on DVIDS.

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CIA: the Senator, the train, and the Soviet sighting (1955)
Two memoranda covering the same 1955 incident. Four Americans travelling by train inside the Soviet Union — U.S. Senator Richard Russell, a military service member, and two U.S. Government officials — reported a luminescent 'greenish-yellow' phenomenon between Baku and Tiflis (now Tbilisi). The debriefing memo records what they described; the analysis memo records what the CIA decided to make of it, and cites both Dr. Robertson of the 1953 panel and Project 'Y,' a joint U.S.-Canadian programme then developing a saucer-shaped aircraft.
2 files
  • CIA-UAP-D020 — Memorandum on unconventional aircraft sightings (1955)
    CIA· 1955· Azerbaijan, USSR

    The debriefing itself. Four observers, one of them a sitting U.S. Senator, describe two lights rising vertically and passing above their train. The memo concludes the observation can 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles.'

    war.gov
  • CIA-UAP-D021 — Analysis of unconventional aircraft sightings (1955)
    CIA· 1955

    The companion analysis. Section 3 cites Dr. Robertson's finding that 'almost all the sightings […] represented no threat to the U.S.' Section 4 turns to Project 'Y' — the U.S.-Canadian effort to actually build a saucer-like aircraft.

    war.gov
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Department of Energy: green fireballs (1949) and Pantex (2015)
Two Department of Energy files, 66 years apart, both concerning unexplained objects over nuclear facilities. The first is a verbatim conference transcript from Los Alamos. The second is an incident report from the plant where America assembles its warheads — republished here with far less redaction than the version released in May.
2 files
  • DOE-UAP-D004 — Los Alamos conference on aerial phenomena (March 22, 1949)
    DOE· March 22, 1949· Los Alamos, New Mexico

    A transcript, not a summary. Eminent physicists — many of them Manhattan Project veterans — gathered to account for months of 'green fireball' reports near the laboratory. The leading hypothesis was shallow-angle, high-altitude meteors. Edward Teller offered an 'electron phenomenon' as an alternative. Lincoln LaPaz, the meteoriticist in the room, said nothing like it had ever been observed in a meteorite drop. No consensus.

    war.gov
  • DOE-UAP-D005 — Pantex unidentified-object incident report (2015)
    DOE· September 1, 2015· Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas

    Imagery and a report on an object intruding the airspace above the primary U.S. facility for assembling, disassembling, maintaining and life-extending nuclear weapons. Pages 5-6 were previously released on May 22, 2026 in a more redacted form as DOE-UAP-D001.

    war.gov
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Project Sign, Project Blue Book, and the studies behind them
Six Department of War files tracing the U.S. Air Force's institutional handling of the subject from 1948 to 1967 — the first Project Sign progress report, both drafts of Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203, the Avro saucer-aircraft correspondence, Blue Book letters, and the advisory-board review that led directly to the university study now remembered as the Condon Committee.
6 files
  • DOW-UAP-D097 — Project Sign progress report (1948)
    DoW· 1948

    Air Materiel Command's initial report on Project Sign, detailing 100 sightings from 1947-48. Bound in with it: an article from the aviation magazine The Aeroplane titled 'The Biology of the Flying Saucer.'

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D093 — Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, Study No. 203 (December 10, 1948)
    DoW· December 10, 1948· Virginia

    The earlier draft. 'It appears that some object has been seen; however, the identification of that object cannot be readily accomplished.' The study offers two 'reasonable' origins — domestic or foreign technology — and argues that if foreign, the prudent assumption is Soviet.

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D094 — Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, Study No. 203 (April 28, 1949)
    DoW· April 28, 1949· Virginia

    The later revision of the same study, substantively similar per AARO's own comment. Includes selected contemporary reports and 'flying wing' planforms offered as candidate explanations.

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D095 — Joint U.S.-Canadian aviation projects and UFO sighting reports (1954-1955)
    DoW· 1954-1955

    Assessments of the Avro 'Project Y2' near-circular VTOL aircraft, with a 1954 memo noting that a circular planform could be mistaken for a UFO by an unfamiliar observer. Also a July 1955 USAF KC-97 incident near Newfoundland where a committee was 'unable to explain the simultaneous ground radar returns and aircrew visual sightings.'

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D096 — Correspondence relating to Project Blue Book (1955)
    DoW· 1955

    Letters and memoranda between government departments, the Legislative Branch, and private citizens about sightings and about what Blue Book was finding.

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D092 — USAF Scientific Advisory Board ad hoc committee to review Project Blue Book (1966-1967)
    DoW· 1966-1967

    The committee recommended the Air Force contract a university-affiliated scientific team to investigate selected sightings. The Air Force adopted the recommendation — the decision that produced the Condon Committee and, ultimately, Blue Book's closure.

    war.gov
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Range Fouler Debriefs: three military observers, in their own words
A Range Fouler Debrief is the standard Navy form for recording an unauthorised intrusion into controlled airspace during operations or training. Three of them appear in Release 04, each tied to a specific video in the sensor corpus below. The Department attaches a standing caveat to all three: the language reflects the reporter's subjective interpretation at the time, and should not be read as a conclusion about what was actually there.
3 files
  • DOW-UAP-D089 — Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States (2020) · pairs with DOW-UAP-PR106
    DoW· 2020· Eastern United States

    The operator described an object as 'quite small,' 'continu[ing] in a constant direction,' with an 'indistinguishable' shape, a metallic appearance and a reflective underside.

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D090 — Range Fouler Debrief, Eastern United States (2019) · pairs with DOW-UAP-PR112
    DoW· 2019· Eastern United States

    Five military-affiliated personnel observed it. The reporting observer described flight characteristics 'unlike anything [they] had seen in 28 years' of U.S. Air Force and Navy service, and added that 'others with equal or more experience were also unsure as to what the object might be.'

    war.gov
  • DOW-UAP-D091 — Range Fouler Debrief, Atlantic Ocean (2020) · pairs with DOW-UAP-PR116
    DoW· 2020· Atlantic Ocean

    The most prosaic of the three, and worth reading for that reason: 'darker, maroonish color, approximately 12-15 feet in height,' travelling with the wind without manoeuvring — described by the observer as resembling a 'large, somewhat deformed balloon.'

    war.gov
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The AARO sensor corpus: 19 videos, four commands, three decades
Nineteen videos submitted to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Central Command, Northern Command and the Air Force, plus two legacy captures transferred from the Navy's UAP Task Force in 2022. Each carries a frame-by-frame Department description and the same standing caveat: the description is informational and is not an analytical judgment about what the footage shows.
19 files
  • DOW-UAP-PR024 — Middle East (2023) · 18s, infrared
    AARO· 2023· Middle East

    CENTCOM. Two bright areas of contrast transit the frame while the sensor holds on a third, dark contrast at the centre.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR030 — Middle East (2023) · 10s, infrared
    AARO· 2023· Middle East

    CENTCOM. Two areas of contrast cross the field of view in opposite directions inside two seconds.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR100 — Yellow Sea (2023) · 4m 57s, electro-optical and infrared
    AARO· 2023· Yellow Sea

    INDOPACOM, and the longest video in the release. The sensor tracks the object across nearly five minutes and switches between infrared and daytime television modes; image quality degrades progressively.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR101 — South China Sea (2024) · 1m 46s, infrared
    AARO· 2024· South China Sea

    INDOPACOM. An elongated contrast resolves into a 'line' of several separate contrasts moving together across the field of view.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR102 — East China Sea (2024) · 36s, infrared
    AARO· 2024· East China Sea
    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR103 — East China Sea (2024) · 1m 16s, infrared
    AARO· 2024· East China Sea

    An auto-tracking reticle acquires the object twelve seconds in and holds it for the remainder of the clip.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR104 — Yellow Sea (2025) · 18s, infrared
    AARO· 2025· Yellow Sea

    The Department's own description notes an area of contrast 'resembling a six-pointed star.'

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR105 — East China Sea (2025) · 5m, infrared
    AARO· 2025· East China Sea
    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR106 — Eastern United States (2020) · 11s, infrared
    AARO· 2020· Eastern United States

    NORTHCOM. The video behind Range Fouler Debrief DOW-UAP-D089 — the 'quite small,' metallic object with a reflective underside.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR107 — Eastern United States (2020) · 28s, infrared
    AARO· 2020· Eastern United States
    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR108 — Western United States (2020) · 2m 16s, infrared
    AARO· 2020· Western United States
    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR109 — Eastern United States (2015) · 21s, infrared
    AARO· 2015· Eastern United States

    A legacy Navy UAP Task Force capture transferred to AARO in 2022. The Department notes no formal data-handling practices applied at the time of collection.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR110 — Eastern United States (2020) · 27s, infrared
    AARO· 2020· Eastern United States
    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR111 — Eastern United States (2020) · 1m, infrared
    AARO· 2020· Eastern United States

    Several small areas of contrast enter and leave the field of view rather than a single tracked object.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR112 — Eastern United States (2019) · 20s, infrared
    AARO· 2019· Eastern United States

    Captured from a civilian aircraft. The video behind Range Fouler Debrief DOW-UAP-D090 — the object five personnel could not account for.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR113 — Western United States (1996) · 2m 57s, infrared
    AARO· 1996· Western United States

    The oldest footage in the release. A legacy Navy UAP Task Force transfer, likely from an infrared sensor aboard a military platform, with no formal data-handling practices applied at the time.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR114 — Atlantic Ocean (2016) · 39s, infrared
    AARO· 2016· Atlantic Ocean
    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR115 — Gulf of America (2019) · 8s, infrared
    AARO· 2019· Gulf of America

    The only Air Force submission in the release.

    dvids
  • DOW-UAP-PR116 — Atlantic Ocean (2020) · 32s, infrared
    AARO· 2020· Atlantic Ocean

    The video behind Range Fouler Debrief DOW-UAP-D091 — the object the observer likened to a 'large, somewhat deformed balloon.'

    dvids
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NASA: the Apollo light-flash tapes and three frames from Columbia
Seven NASA files. Four audio segments capture Apollo 14 and Apollo 17 crews and their debriefers working through the 'light flash phenomena' — flashes astronauts saw with their eyes closed, unexplained at the time and now understood as high-energy cosmic rays passing through the eye. Three photographs from STS-80 show an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit across a sequence in which it appears to rotate and then move against the face of the Earth.
7 files
  • NASA-UAP-D030 — STS-80 unidentified object, image 1 of 3 (1996)
    NASA· November 19 – December 7, 1996· Low-Earth orbit

    The object sits near the centre of the frame, to the right of the Earth's limb. The iconic image of this release.

    war.gov
  • NASA-UAP-D031 — STS-80 unidentified object, image 2 of 3 (1996)
    NASA· November 19 – December 7, 1996· Low-Earth orbit

    In the second frame the object appears to have rotated or tumbled.

    war.gov
  • NASA-UAP-D032 — STS-80 unidentified object, image 3 of 3 (1996)
    NASA· November 19 – December 7, 1996· Low-Earth orbit

    By the third frame it is superimposed against the Earth, having continued along its trajectory.

    war.gov
  • NASA-UAP-D026 — Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing, segment 1 of 2 (audio, 1971)
    NASA· February 18, 1971· Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston
    dvids
  • NASA-UAP-D027 — Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing, segment 2 of 2 (audio, 1971)
    NASA· February 18, 1971· Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston
    dvids
  • NASA-UAP-D028 — Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing, segment 1 of 2 (audio, 1972)
    NASA· December 21, 1972· Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston
    dvids
  • NASA-UAP-D029 — Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing, segment 2 of 2 (audio, 1972)
    NASA· December 21, 1972· Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston
    dvids
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FBI: two pieces of correspondence, seven years apart
A single file holding two unrelated items — a 1967 account relayed from an eleven-year-old child, and a 1974 exchange of letters involving the Bureau. Small, but a reminder of how much of the historical record consists of ordinary people writing to the government about something they could not explain.
1 file
  • FBI-UAP-D014 — Correspondence relating to UFO sightings (1967, 1974)
    FBI· September 1967; September–October 1974

    The first item, dated 22 September 1967, relays a description from an eleven-year-old child who heard a 'weird' noise and saw a 'flash of light.' The second is an exchange of letters dated 30 September and 10 October 1974.

    war.gov
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Release 03: the FBI's tranche

72 files from June 12, 2026: four authenticated orb videos from the northeastern U.S., the file documenting two FBI special agents' own sighting, the first-person record of the Western US Event, and the less-redacted Robertson Panel report.

Open Release 03
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Release 05: the triangle tranche

41 files from August 7, 2026: four FBI triangle reports each paired with a Bureau rendering, the first FBI-captured video in the program, and the first State Department and White House files PURSUE has published.

Open Release 05

Earlier tranches: Release 01 (May 8, 2026) and Release 02 (64 files, May 22, 2026).

About this release

On July 10, 2026 — 28 days after PURSUE Release 03 — the U.S. Department of War published a fourth tranche of declassified UAP records through the PURSUE portal at war.gov/UFO. The statement was attributed to Secretary of War for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell.

The 40 files break down as 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio recordings and 3 images, contributed by the Department of War (28), NASA (7), the CIA (2), the Department of Energy (2), and the FBI (1). Disclosure Archives reconstructed the complete catalogue from the portal's live database (uap-data.csv) and links every entry to its canonical war.gov medialink or DVIDS URL.

All files are public-domain works of the U.S. Federal Government under 17 U.S.C. § 105. We cite the agency of origin on every file for provenance.

Wikipedia maintains a concurrent summary of the releases at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files.