PURSUE Release 04: 40 Unresolved UAP Files (10 Jul 2026)

OFFICIAL FILES · Released 10 Jul 2026. These are U.S. government records published at war.gov/ufo. Incident years: 1948 to 2025. Redacted Weekly archives them as public-domain government works.

On 10 Jul 2026, the Department of War posted Release 04 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) at https://www.war.gov/ufo/. The release page lists 40 records: 19 VID, 14 PDF, 4 AUD, 3 IMG (PDF = document, VID = video, IMG = image, AUD = audio). The bulk downloads offered on the page were documents (227 MB) and videos (1.4 GB).

What PURSUE says these are: the program page says “The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sufficient data.” So no record in this release is an official finding of anything extraordinary. The government simply could not explain them with the data it had.

Who supplied the files: Department of War (28), NASA (7), CIA (2), Department of Energy (2), FBI (1).

Where they happened: the most common listed locations are Eastern United States (8), Texas (5), Various (5), Atlantic Ocean (3), East China Sea (3), Low-Earth Orbit (3).

Highlights picked by the Department of War

The database marks some records as “Featured.” Where fewer than three are flagged, we added the earliest incident, a video and a non-DoW record. Here are up to four from this release, with the official description quoted rather than paraphrased:

DOW-UAP-D093, Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, 1948

Incident: 12/10/1948, Virginia · Department of War

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This file contains a U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Intelligence Division study, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” Study No. 203, dated 12/10/1948.”

DOW-UAP-PR024, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2023

Incident: 2023, Middle East · Department of War

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 18 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. Video Description: 00:01: The sensor focuses on a dark area of contrast, narrowing the field of view to zoom in.”

CIA-UAP-D020, Memorandum on Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955

Incident: 1955, Azerbaijan · CIA

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This memorandum summarizes a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) debriefing of a group of four individuals who reported observing a “flying saucer” or “unconventional aircraft” in 1955. The group, which included U.S. Senator Richard Russell, a U.S.”

CIA-UAP-D021, Analysis of Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955

Incident: 1955, n/a · CIA

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “Sections 1 and 2 of this memorandum document a 1955 analysis of reports of “flying saucers” or “unconventional aircraft,” referencing the incident described in observer debriefings contained within CIA-UAP-D020. The memo summarizes the incident as consisting of two lights rising vertically, then passing above the observers. The memo contains caveating language that suggests the author concluded that the reports, as described, did not indicate the presence of an “unconventional aircraft.” Section 3 cites a previous finding by Dr.”

CASE FILE · PURSUE-R04
Publisher: U.S. Department of War (with ODNI support), war.gov/ufo
Released: 10 Jul 2026
Records: 40 (19 VID, 14 PDF, 4 AUD, 3 IMG)
Incident years: 1948 to 2025
Status: all listed as unresolved by the publisher

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