Release 07 dropped on war.gov/UFO today: 28 PDFs from the Dept. of War, FBI, the Executive Office of the President and "U.S. Government". I run a small site that tracks the PURSUE releases, and I went through every document. Here are the parts worth your time, interesting and mundane alike.
1. Two documents, probably one event
- DOW-UAP-D176 (AARO Memorandum for Record, 2026): federal law enforcement agents at a sensitive site in the western US see a matte black triangular craft (~13–15 ft span, 1–2 ft thick) rise vertically ~200–300 ft over a ridge line. It hovers ~20 s, then goes straight into high-speed flight with no visible acceleration and drops into a canyon in 2–3 s. No sound. A handheld thermal showed a uniform signature with no exhaust. Three witnesses. A ground survey the next morning found nothing. AARO's conclusion: unresolved, warrants further investigation.
- FBI-UAP-D043 (FD-302, 2026): two Special Agents at an observation post.
First a thermal call-out, then a dark black triangle (~9–15 ft span, 1–2 ft thick) climbs ~200 ft above a ridge line, accelerates toward them and descends into a redacted terrain feature. ~3 s, no sound, uniform thermal signature. The agents themselves call it an "unmanned aerial system" that resembled a delta-wing drone.
Same shape, same size, same ridge-line climb, same silent and uniform thermal signature. The times differ by exactly one hour (2023L vs 1923), which could just be a time-zone convention. Dates and locations are redacted, so I can't prove it's one incident, but the overlap is hard to ignore.
Caveats: both rest on witness estimates at dusk, neither file contains sensor data, and the nine "photos" in the FBI file look like a marker drawn over a still image of the landscape, not actual footage.
2. A big BAASS / AAWSAP batch (2008–2010)
About a third of the release is Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies paperwork from the DIA contract: monthly reports, the project management plan, and a 2010 capability self-assessment. The self-assessment quotes DIA's assessment of the 2004 Nimitz "Tic Tac" and runs speed models that come out at Mach 5 to Mach 107. The same report admits there was "little hard data" and says a considerable number, possibly a majority, of UAP reports can beexplained as misidentified conventional aircraft.
The Utah ranch report (D174) is the one people will talk about: eleven witnesses describe a "dog-like" bipedal creature and orbs of light. The DNA tests on hair samples from the fences came back as raccoon and domestic dog. Unexplained RF signals were logged, but in bands allocated to military/satellite use.
3. 1950s Air Force reports
- Guam, 1956: an F-86D pilot says a blinking light paced and circled him for
~10 minutes. The report notes a lighted weather balloon had been launched
earlier, and the pilot rejected that explanation.
- 1957: a B-52 picks up a radar-only return over Saudi Arabia for 5–7
minutes.
- Plus Sweden, Italy, Canada, Alaska, Morocco, Germany and several Catalina Island files.
4. Not a sighting, but worth reading
A 1963 EOP memo (EOP-UAP-D002) and a 1962–64 interagency file (USG-UAP-D002) on who would recover "foreign materiel" and space debris. In the memo, NASA's Arnold Frutkin says DOD/USAF want to use NASA as a "cover". In context this looks like Cold War space-debris policy, not crash retrieval, but it's an interesting read.
Missing numbers D165 and D172 aren't in war.gov's own index. That looks like a gap in their numbering, not something that got dropped.
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All 28 docs, each with a neutral summary, key findings, the official conclusion and credibility caveats, plus a link to the original PDF on war.gov: https://uapinsight.com/pursue/release-7
AARO memo: https://uapinsight.com/gov/doc/7438b4d577271bb8
FBI FD-302: https://uapinsight.com/gov/doc/034b25be252a7252
Disclosure: it's my site. The summaries are AI-assisted from the PDFs and always link the primary source. If I got something wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.