PURSUE Release 6 Is Here
The U.S. Department of War's sixth declassified UAP release, published on 18 September 2026, has been processed, researched and added to the archive. It opens two entirely new chapters: the Defense Intelligence Agency program that studied future aerospace technologies, and the first UAP report from a local police officer.
Release 6 adds 50 new bilingual research articles written directly from its 56 documents, plus 15 videos, an hour-long audio recording and two infrared stills. We read every document, wrote original research and translated it, and folded all of it into the archive. Here is what was added.
What's New in Release 6
- ▪50 new bilingual research articles, and two new categories: AAWSAP and Local Law Enforcement.
- ▪The Project Blue Book file on the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film, the photo file on the "pillow balloon" hypothesis, photographer Delbert Newhouse's Navy personnel record, and Air Force intelligence's late-1952 flying-discs file, alongside the film itself.
- ▪The transcript and full recording of Capt. Edward Ruppelt's March 1952 presentation: "about 20% of the 800 or 900 reports" unexplained, and clusters of sightings around Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Oak Ridge.
- ▪The founding records of the DIA's AAWSAP program (2008-2012): the Statement of Objectives with its 12 research areas, the contract award to BAASS, and all five contract modifications.
- ▪All 37 AAWSAP Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs), from metallic glasses to warp drives, traversable wormholes and anomalous field effects on human tissue.
- ▪Four military mission reports (MISREPs) from Iraq and the Middle East (2022-2025), and the first UAP report from a local police department, in Colorado (2023).
The Headline Findings
The Blue Book File on the Tremonton Film (1952)
In October 1952 Air Force headquarters called the film "possibly the best documentary evidence yet obtained on unidentified flying objects." Its own lab found the objects brighter than any white bird. By 1956 the Air Force told the press there was "little reasonable doubt" they were seagulls. The 156-page file shows how the verdict moved, and why distance, size and speed were never fixed.
→Edward Ruppelt's 1952 Presentation
"I'd say about 20% of the 800 or 900 reports that we now have just cannot be explained." Ruppelt walks an audience through the reorganized Air Force investigation: clusters of sightings around Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Oak Ridge, silent high-speed objects, and plans for diffraction-grating cameras and radar-scope photography.
→The Complete Tremonton File
On 2 July 1952, Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse filmed 12 to 14 bright objects over Tremonton, Utah. Release 5 published the Navy's 1953 analysis of the film; Release 6 completes the picture: the Air Force investigation, the pillow-balloon review with General Mills, the photographer's service record, and the film itself.
The Pillow-Balloon Photo File (1952)
Five pages: an index card reading "Explanation -- Pillow balloons or Birds" and the General Mills photographs of the balloons Blue Book compared with the film.
Delbert Newhouse's Navy Record
A 585-page career from 1933 to 1960. It never mentions the film, but places him on authorized leave from 19 June to 7 July 1952, and holds his own 1943 claim of "approximately one thousand hours" of aerial photography.
The USAF Flying Discs File, Sept-Dec 1952
Tremonton, the Flatwoods "monster", a scoutmaster's scorched cap examined by the FBI, an 18-foot circle on an Arlington lawn, and a warning that floods of reports could mask an air attack.
The Navy's 1953 Film Analysis
Published in Release 5: velocities to 2,457 mph and accelerations to 965 g.
AAWSAP: The DIA's Program
The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) was run by the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2008 to 2012 and performed under contract by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). Its stated aim: to assess foreign aerospace threats out to 2050 by understanding the physics and engineering of breakthrough technologies. These are its founding records.
DOW-UAP-D110: Statement of Objectives (July 2008)
The founding scope: 12 technical areas and a threat horizon out to 2050.
DOW-UAP-D111: Solicitation and Original Order (September 2008)
Contract HHM402-08-C-0072 to BAASS: a $10 million base year, the 12 technical tasks priced one by one, and the deliverables schedule.
DOW-UAP-D112 to D116: Contract Modifications (2009-2010)
Option Year 1 funded at $11.9 million, for a total obligation of $21,948,810, a new COR, and a final no-cost extension to 21 December 2010.
The 37 Reference Documents (DIRDs)
A DIRD is the DIA's technical reference format: a survey and synthesis of what is known on a topic, not original research. Author names are redacted. The complete list, in document order:
- DOW-UAP-D117Metallic Glasses for Aerospace Applications - Record Strength, Poor Fatigue and a 20-50 Year Horizon4/10
- DOW-UAP-D118Aerospace Applications of Programmable Matter - Artificial Atoms, Smart Windows and a Self-Reconfiguring Space Station5/10
- DOW-UAP-D119Biomaterials - A Medical Survey from Silicone Implants to Dialysis Membranes3/10
- DOW-UAP-D120Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms - Why Material Choice Cannot Be Separated from Vehicle Design6/10
- DOW-UAP-D121Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology - Insulation, Switches, Cathodes and Antennas for Directed-Energy Weapons5/10
- DOW-UAP-D122Invisibility Cloaking, Theory and Experiments - Why Perfect Cloaking Is Impossible and What Remains Within Reach6/10
- DOW-UAP-D123Positron Aerospace Propulsion - From a Round-the-World Drone to a Crewed Mars Ship5/10
- DOW-UAP-D124Space Access: Where We've Been and Where We Could Go - Hypersonic Gliders, Air-Breathing Rockets and a "Railroad to Space"5/10
- DOW-UAP-D125Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion - Neutron Sources, Space Thrusters and the Road to Hydrogen-Boron Fuel5/10
- DOW-UAP-D126Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space Missions - Pure-Deuterium Fusion Charges, a Magnetic Mirror and a 1.5-km "Super Marx" Generator5/10
- DOW-UAP-D127An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation - How Many Communicating Civilizations the Galaxy Might Hold, and How Far Away6/10
- DOW-UAP-D128Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues - Injuries from Close Encounters and a Medical "Reverse Engineering" Argument8/10
- DOW-UAP-D129Metallic Spintronics - Giant Magnetoresistance, Spin-Transfer Torque and the Promise of Radiation-Resistant Electronics4/10
- DOW-UAP-D130Controlling External Devices Without Limb-Operated Interfaces - A Brain-Machine Interface Survey5/10
- DOW-UAP-D131The Role of Superconductors in Gravity Research - From Podkletnov's Spinning Disk to the "Gravitomagnetic London Moment"6/10
- DOW-UAP-D132Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (Spacetime Metric) Engineering - A Table of Metric Effects and the Alcubierre Warp Drive7/10
- DOW-UAP-D133The Space-Communication Implications of Quantum Entanglement and Nonlocality - Ghost Interference, Retrocausal Signals and a Real-Time Mars Rover5/10
- DOW-UAP-D134Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor - Five Inventor Types and Who Will Deliver the Next Energy and Propulsion Breakthroughs3/10
- DOW-UAP-D135Antigravity for Aerospace Applications - From a Ball of Dwarf-Star Matter to a Stack of Casimir Cavities6/10
- DOW-UAP-D136Biosensors and BioMEMS - Insulin Pumps, Brain-Machine Interfaces and Labs on a Chip4/10
- DOW-UAP-D137State of the Art and Evolution of High-Energy Lasers - Chemical Fuels, Waste Heat and the Road to Electric Laser Weapons5/10
- DOW-UAP-D138Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions7/10
- DOW-UAP-D139Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy7/10
- DOW-UAP-D140High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications - Transmitters, the Li-Baker Detector and a Roadmap to 20505/10
- DOW-UAP-D141Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications - Super-Lenses, Slow Light, Perfect Absorbers and One-Way Optics5/10
- DOW-UAP-D142Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum6/10
- DOW-UAP-D143Laser Lightcraft Nanosatellites4/10
- DOW-UAP-D144Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight - Six Degrees of Freedom, a Double Hull and a Virtual Surround Display6/10
- DOW-UAP-D145Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion, Part I - Rocket Physics, Proton-Boron Fuel and a 127-Year Trip to Proxima Centauri4/10
- DOW-UAP-D146Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion, Part II - Confinement Schemes, Satellite Thrusters and a Roadmap to 20604/10
- DOW-UAP-D147Ultracapacitors as Energy and Power Storage Devices3/10
- DOW-UAP-D148Detection and High-Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities6/10
- DOW-UAP-D149MHD Air Breathing Propulsion and Power for Aerospace Applications5/10
- DOW-UAP-D150Quantum Computing and Utilizing Organic Molecules in Automation Technology - Qubits and DNA Computers for Future Spacecraft4/10
- DOW-UAP-D151Cognitive Limits on Simultaneous Control of Multiple Unmanned Spacecraft - How Many Craft Can One Operator Handle?4/10
- DOW-UAP-D152Negative Mass Propulsion - The Mass Dipole, a "Planck Aether" and a Thermonuclear Tunnel Through the Moon6/10
- DOW-UAP-D153Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the Vacuum - Homodyne Detectors, Squeezed Light and the Casimir Cavity6/10
Modern Reports and Law Enforcement
A Colorado Officer Narrates a UAP (2023)
The first local-law-enforcement report in PURSUE: a "silent" object with "red, blue, and green flashing lights", with four videos.
Six Spherical Objects, Middle East (2025)
A mission report of six small spheres, "agile" and "frequently changing direction", at an estimated 480 mph.
A White Round "Orbit" at up to 500 mph (October 2025)
A mission report from 29 October 2025, paired with nearly five minutes of infrared tracking video.
Mission Report and Infrared Stills, Iraq (2022)
UAP "flying sporadically" at 80 to 180 mph, with two infrared still images.
Mission Report, 5 May 2022: A Near-Twin of D106
Filed the same day as D106 by a different squadron, in almost the same words: UAP at 80 to 180 mph, collection hampered by dust storms. Its official summary was copied from D108 by mistake.
New Media
Fifteen new videos: the historic Tremonton film, four smartphone videos from the Colorado officer, four CENTCOM infrared videos from the Middle East linked to the mission reports, and six INDOPACOM videos from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea (2023). Alongside them: the full audio recording of the Ruppelt presentation, and two infrared stills from Iraq.
Why It Matters
- ▪For the first time the Tremonton case can be read from every side: the witness, the film, the Navy analysis, and an Air Force assessment that moved from "Unknown" in 1952 to "little reasonable doubt" of seagulls in 1956, while one internal memo worried it "would be rather poor policy to state that the Navy had made an error."
- ▪The Ruppelt presentation captures the Air Force in 1952, on the eve of Project Blue Book, saying aloud that roughly a fifth of its cases remained unexplained, and planning instruments to collect physical data.
- ▪The AAWSAP records show exactly what the DIA asked for and paid for, and let each DIRD be judged on what it actually says rather than on the rumours around it.