On October 23, 2026, the Department of War published a seventh tranche of records under PURSUE. According to the official database on war.gov, Release 07 contains 28 documents — all PDFs, with no new videos. This guide walks through what is in it, using the Department's own descriptions of each file.
The PURSUE database lists 28 files dated October 23, 2026: 25 from the Department of War, one from the FBI, one from the Executive Office of the President and one labelled U.S. Government. With this tranche the database holds 478 files across seven releases.
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Ten files relate to AAWSAP, the Defense Intelligence Agency program that ran from 2008 to 2012, and its contractor, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). They include a project management plan (December 2008), monthly reports from 2009, papers prepared for BAASS by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in November 2008, a proposed UAP data-warehouse framework called Project Capella (December 2008), and a BAASS self-assessment from November 2010 that the Department describes as presenting the contractor's analysis as "technically rigorous and strategically valuable."
The most-discussed file is the April 2010 Utah Ranch Investigation Report (DOW-UAP-D174). According to the Department's description, it documents BAASS field deployments to a Utah property in March and April 2010: interviews with residents, law enforcement, ranchers, business owners and tribal community members; handheld sensor measurements; and planned plant-based biosensor experiments. The Department notes that it records reported accounts of "dog-like bipedal creatures," orbs of light and "little people," and that BAASS intended to try to communicate with the presumed source of the activity. These are accounts recorded by the contractor, not findings. For the program's history — including AARO's 2024 assessment that this work was not specifically authorized by DIA — see our AAWSAP guide.
Two files concern a 2026 event at a sensitive national security site in the western United States. An AARO memorandum for record (DOW-UAP-D176) documents a debrief of two federal special agents, with a corroborating account from a third official at a separate observation post. They described a triangular object that rose vertically, remained stationary, then banked and descended into a canyon; a second observation the next evening; and a ground search that found no debris or sign of impact. AARO says the incident warrants further investigation because it closely matches other reports from the region, and stresses that the file "does not present a conclusive finding." An FBI FD-302 (FBI-UAP-D043) records the interview with the two agents.
Most of the rest are early-1950s Air Force intelligence and "flying object" reports, from Saudi Arabia, Guam, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, Alaska, Canada and Indiana. Four come from Catalina Island, California, between 1949 and 1955. In one, a 1955 witness in Avalon reported a bright orange object; the preparing officer noted it was possibly astronomical and did not warrant further investigation. The release also includes the final Air Force personnel record of Howard M. McCoy (1954).
Two files show the government working out who would handle fragments of spacecraft that fell to Earth. A May 1963 National Aeronautics and Space Council memo (EOP-UAP-D002) records a meeting about an interagency policy for recovering re-entering U.S. and Soviet space debris that might land on foreign soil, and a set of 1962–1964 memos (USG-UAP-D002) shows the framework: material from Department of Defense missions would go to the Department, and foreign space material to the Department of Defense or NASA.
Open the PURSUE database at war.gov/UFO and filter by Release 07, or browse the release on our PURSUE archive, where each file shows the Department's official description. As with every PURSUE release, these are unresolved cases or program records — not evidence of anything extraordinary.
On October 23, 2026. It contains 28 documents, bringing the PURSUE database to 478 files across seven releases.
DOW-UAP-D174 is an April 2010 report by the AAWSAP contractor BAASS on field deployments to a Utah property. The Department of War says it records interviews, sensor measurements and reported accounts of unusual phenomena — accounts, not findings.
Facts on this page were checked against the sources below on October 24, 2026 by Himanshu Singh. Spot an error? Email hello@nowdeclassified.com.
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