The Department of War released the seventh tranche of declassified UAP files on October 23, 2026, continuing the PURSUE disclosure effort hosted at WAR.GOV/UFO.

The release is the smallest to date: seven cases and no videos. Records are from the Pentagon and FBI covering 1949 to 2026. Unlike earlier releases spread across many agencies, this batch is tightly clustered: four Cold War era Air Force reports from Santa Catalina Island, one B-52 radar contact, one Bigelow Aerospace field report, and one 2026 incident documented separately by AARO and the FBI.

Historical files include a 1949 letter to Kenneth Arnold describing six objects over Avalon, a 1952 Air Intelligence report of three Boy Scouts watching a silver saucer climb and disintegrate over Catalina, a 1953 pre-dawn sighting of a purplish-white object that astronomers attributed to Jupiter, a 1955 orange object that fell straight down and was logged as a probable meteor, and a 1957 report of a B-52 crew tracking an unidentified radar return over Saudi Arabia during a Strategic Air Command mission.

The 2010 file is a 60-page BAASS report produced under the DIA-funded AAWSAP program, documenting field deployments to a Utah ranch near Fort Duchesne. It records interviews with more than 25 residents, police officers, ranchers and tribal members describing balls of light, bipedal dog-like creatures and “little people,” along with hair samples, game camera placements and an unexplained 1.2 GHz radio signal on the property.

The most recent case is a June 2026 encounter at a sensitive national security site in the western United States. Two federal agents watched a silent matte black triangle, 13 to 15 feet across, rise vertically over a ridge, hover for 20 seconds, then bank and dive into a canyon at fighter-jet speed. Thermal optics showed a uniform heat signature with no exhaust.

Like previous PURSUE releases, the seventh tranche focuses on firsthand accounts from military personnel, investigators and witnesses, showing how U.S. agencies have documented unexplained aerial events across eight decades.