PURSUE Release 06: 75 Unresolved UAP Files (18 Sep 2026)

OFFICIAL FILES · Released 18 Sep 2026. These are U.S. government records published at war.gov/ufo. Incident years: 1952 to 2025. Redacted Weekly archives them as public-domain government works.

On 18 Sep 2026, the Department of War posted Release 06 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) at https://www.war.gov/ufo/. The release page lists 75 records: 59 PDF, 15 VID, 1 AUD (PDF = document, VID = video, IMG = image, AUD = audio). The bulk downloads offered on the page were documents (2.23 GB) 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 (67), Local Law Enforcement (8).

Where they happened: the most common listed locations are Las Vegas, Nevada (37), Colorado (8), Washington, D.C. (7), Middle East (5), Yellow Sea (5), Iraq (4).

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-D102, Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952

Incident: 7/2/1952, Tremonton, Utah · Department of War

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This document records the Project Blue Book investigation and subsequent assessments of an incident near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952. Project Blue Book was a 1952-1969 U.S. Air Force program to investigate the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”

DOW-UAP-PR133, Unresolved UAP Report, Middle East, 2025

Incident: 2025, 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 4 minutes and 58 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024. An accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D107, described the UAP as “look[ing] like a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour.” Video Description: 00:00-00:04: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast, keeping it generally centered within the frame.”

LLE-UAP-D001, Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023

Incident: October, 2023, Colorado · Local Law Enforcement

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This document is a transcript of a 1-minute, 19-second video recording contained in this collection under the title LLE-UAP-PR001, captured by a law enforcement officer in Colorado in October 2023. AARO removed the audio from the original recording to protect information whose release could reasonably be expected to affect the privacy or other protected interests of a U.S. person or commercial entity.”

LLE-UAP-D002, Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023

Incident: October, 2023, Colorado · Local Law Enforcement

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This document is a transcript of a 15-minute video recording contained in this collection under the title LLE-UAP-PR002, captured by a law enforcement officer in Colorado in October 2023. AARO removed the audio from the original recording to protect information whose release could reasonably be expected to affect the privacy or other protected interests of a U.S. person or commercial entity.”

CASE FILE · PURSUE-R06
Publisher: U.S. Department of War (with ODNI support), war.gov/ufo
Released: 18 Sep 2026
Records: 75 (59 PDF, 15 VID, 1 AUD)
Incident years: 1952 to 2025
Status: all listed as unresolved by the publisher

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