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PURSUE Release 06: Department of War declassifies 72 more UAP files — the AAWSAP papers, the Tremonton film, and local law enforcement's first videos

The sixth tranche of the Trump administration's PURSUE program: 72 files — 56 documents, 15 videos, 1 audio recording — bringing the public corpus to 447 files. Forty-four are the paper trail of AAWSAP, the DIA program behind the 'warp drive and wormhole' studies: 37 of its 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, the 2008 Statement of Objectives, the solicitation and five contract modifications, each published with the Department's own assessment. Also new: the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film and its Project Blue Book case file, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's March 1952 presentation on tape, the first local law enforcement files in the program, and ten CENTCOM and INDOPACOM sensor videos and stills.

The Pentagon, Virginia — United States#AARO#Video Evidence#Law Enforcement#Project Blue Book
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A federal agent filmed it himself: the first FBI-captured video in PURSUE

FBI-UAP-PR007 is hand-held thermal footage a U.S. Government Special Agent shot himself during a 2026 incident in the western United States — two slow-moving 'black-hot' areas of contrast — making it the first video in the PURSUE program captured by the Bureau rather than submitted to it. A second agent separately reported a thermally elevated aerial object the same year, and two more witnesses to a third sequence of incidents within five hours were interviewed and rendered independently.

Western United States (undisclosed test site), Western United States — United States#Multiple Witnesses#Video Evidence#Law Enforcement#Department of War
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The New Jersey drone wave: thousands of reports, a federal 'no threat' verdict, and an unclosed file

Beginning in mid-November 2024, residents across northern New Jersey report waves of large, slow, often car-sized 'drones' at night, with early clusters near Picatinny Arsenal. The FBI logs thousands of tips, the FAA restricts airspace, and a December 12 joint DHS/FBI statement finds no threat and attributes many sightings to misidentified manned aircraft. A January 2025 White House statement calling the flights 'authorized' closes the news cycle without reconciling the record.

Northern New Jersey, New Jersey — United States#Multiple Witnesses#Civilian Aviation#Law Enforcement#Drone Wave
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The FBI's orb files: four years of phenomena in one corner of the northeastern U.S. — witnessed by the Bureau's own agents

PURSUE Release 03 declassifies the FBI's investigation of recurring orb phenomena in one sparsely populated area of the northeastern United States: four authenticated eyewitness videos spanning November 2021 to July 2025 — 'Triangle Orbs,' 'Red Orb Rotation,' 'Orbs Over the Pond,' and the 'Northeastern Orb Sighting' — plus seven investigative records. The standout: an FD-1057 documenting two FBI special agents' own first-hand UAP observation during a November 2024 site survey. The Bureau assesses the civilian witnesses as 'highly credible.'

Northeastern United States, Undisclosed — United States#Multiple Witnesses#Video Evidence#Law Enforcement#Department of War
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A Colorado officer's four phone videos: local law enforcement's first files in PURSUE

A local law enforcement officer in Colorado submitted four cell-phone videos to AARO — three from October 2023 and one from January 2024 — describing a 'silent' phenomenon 'featuring red, blue, and green flashing lights,' along with a transcript of his own narration as he recorded. The five files are the first from a local law enforcement agency in the PURSUE program. One clip runs a full fifteen minutes on a single light source. AARO blurred the lower half of each frame, edited the transcript to remove identifying detail, and attached its standing caveat about what phone autofocus does to distant subjects.

Colorado (location withheld), Colorado — United States#AARO#Video Evidence#Law Enforcement#Department of War
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Western US Event: seven federal employees report orbs and a 'translucent kite'

Over two days in 2023, seven separate U.S. federal government employees reported close-range encounters with multiple unidentified phenomena at a site in the western United States — including orbs launching other orbs, a large stationary glowing orb at close range, and a large semi-transparent object described as a 'translucent kite.' AARO calls it 'among the most compelling within AARO's current holdings.'

Western United States (undisclosed test site), Western United States — United States#AARO#Multiple Witnesses#Law Enforcement#PURSUE Release 01
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The Varginha incident: creature reports, an alleged military response, and Brazil's most famous case

Three young women in Varginha, Brazil report encountering a small creature with brown skin and large red eyes in a vacant lot. Claims of a military capture operation follow, the Brazilian Army attributes the reports to a misidentified local man, and the case becomes the most prominent — and most contested — UAP event in Brazilian history.

Varginha, Minas Gerais — Brazil#Multiple Witnesses#International#Law Enforcement
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Belgian UAP wave begins

Hundreds of witnesses across Belgium, including dozens of national and federal police officers, report large, silent, triangular craft moving at low altitude over the country. The Belgian Air Force scrambles F-16s on 30–31 March 1990 and obtains a brief radar lock that is later attributed to anomalous propagation.

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Cash–Landrum incident in East Texas

Three Texas residents report a close-range encounter with a diamond-shaped object emitting intense heat, escorted overhead by approximately twenty-three twin-rotor military helicopters. All three subsequently report serious medical injuries.

Stephenville, Texas — United States#Multiple Witnesses#Law Enforcement