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.
Four days before Release 06, the Department of War announces a targeted legal waiver: all current and former service members, civilian personnel and contractors who hold or once held UAP-related National Defense Information may disclose it directly to designated PURSUE representatives. The waiver supersedes the civil and administrative enforcement provisions of their non-disclosure agreements and Special Access Program indoctrination agreements — for communications to the PURSUE team only.
For the first time PURSUE pairs U.S. Central Command Mission Reports systematically with their sensor imagery: four MISREPs, two infrared stills and four videos from Iraq and the Middle East. A 2022 operator reported UAP 'flying sporadically within the target area… at various speeds between 80 and 180 miles per hour,' one to two metres across. A 2025 operator described 'a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour.' Another reported 'six small spherical objects grouped together,' agile and frequently changing direction, at an estimated 480 mph.
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.
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's contribution to PURSUE Release 06: six infrared sensor videos recorded aboard U.S. military platforms in 2023 — five over the Yellow Sea, one over the East China Sea — between 19 seconds and one minute 38 seconds long, each tracking a single area of contrast over open water. No mission reports accompany them, and the Department's descriptions are confined to what the sensor does. The shortest, DOW-UAP-PR143, supplies the iconic frame of the release: one black-hot object under the reticle.
PURSUE Release 06 publishes 44 records of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program: the July 2008 Statement of Objectives, the September 2008 solicitation and original order, five contract modifications, and 37 of the 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents the DIA-administered program commissioned between December 2009 and January 2011. The famous titles are all here — Warp Drive, Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; Traversable Wormholes, Stargates and Negative Energy; Antigravity for Aerospace Applications; Negative Mass Propulsion; Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum — each with a Department of War summary that grades it, often harshly.
On July 2, 1952, Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse — a Photographer's Mate with more than 1,000 hours of aerial-photography experience — filmed 12 to 14 bright, reflective objects near Tremonton, Utah, on 16mm Kodachrome. The Air Force assessed him as honest, reliable and expert, and never conclusively identified the objects: birds, balloons and mirage early on; 'pillow balloons' after a December 1952 review with General Mills; seabirds reflecting sunlight in later assessments. PURSUE Release 06 publishes the National Archives digitization of the film, the Blue Book case file, the balloon photo file, Newhouse's personnel record, and the Air Force's late-1952 'Flying Discs' compilation.
Three months before the Washington, D.C. flap, the head of the Air Force's reorganised UFO investigation told a Boston audience that roughly 20 percent of about 800 historical cases remained unexplained after technical analysis, that reports concentrated around Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Oak Ridge, and that radar had logged unconfirmed speeds between 1,000 and 3,500 miles per hour. PURSUE Release 06 publishes the transcript and a 65-minute audio recording of the presentation.