Event · 23 October 2026

PURSUE Release 07: federal agents' triangle sighting and AAWSAP's working files

Also known as PURSUE Release 07

From the FBI's file: the triangle drawn onto a photograph of the site, in its hover position above the ridge (FBI-UAP-D043, page 7). An illustration, not a photograph of the object.

Release 07 of PURSUE, the U.S. government's public catalogue of declassified UAP records hosted by the Department of War, was published on 23 October 2026. It added 28 documents.

Its headline is a 2026 incident at a sensitive national security site in the western United States: an AARO memorandum and an FBI interview report in which federal special agents, with a third official at a separate post, describe a silent, matte black triangular craft that climbed over a ridge, hovered and dived into a canyon. AARO links it to other incidents in the region. The release also adds AAWSAP's working files, from the DIA program described in the Skinwalkers at the Pentagon series, to the contract records released in September: BAASS's monthly reports, its database plan and its report on its Skinwalker Ranch fieldwork; Cold War correspondence on recovering space material; the personnel record of Howard McCoy, the Wright Field intelligence chief behind Projects Sign and Grudge; and Air Force intelligence reports from the 1950s, including four from Catalina Island.

Every record is listed in this archive's Index under Official records, with the agency's own description and a link to the official file.

Sources: war.gov/UFO

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documented PURSUE release 07, published on 23 October 2026, added 28 records, all documents: 25 from the Department of War, one from the FBI, one from the Executive Office of the President and one from the wider U.S. Government, covering events from 1949 to 2026. Source: war.gov (archived)
documented Its two newest records describe a 2026 sighting by federal agents of a silent, matte black triangular craft at a national security site in the western United States, which AARO says warrants further investigation because it matches other incidents in the region. Source: DOW-UAP-D176 — Triangular UAP AARO Memorandum for Record, 2026
documented Ten records add AAWSAP's working files, from the DIA program run through Bigelow's BAASS (2008–2010), to the contract records and technical papers released in release 06: BAASS's project management plan, the Project Capella database plan, MUFON reports prepared for BAASS, monthly reports from 2009, a self-assessment, and an April 2010 investigation report on the Utah ranch, describing accounts of “dog-like bipedal creatures,” orbs of light and “little people.” Source: DOW-UAP-D174 — Utah Ranch Investigation Report, April 2010
documented A 1962–64 file of Executive Branch correspondence on recovering U.S. and Soviet space material shows public messaging that named NASA as the holder of foreign materials, “while private correspondence described a parallel plan to exploit such materials for technical analysis.” Source: USG-UAP-D002 — Interagency Correspondence Concerning Space Fragments, 1962-1964

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Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program (Book)
Bigelow Aerospace (Organization)
Skinwalker Ranch (Place)
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Place)
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Program)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (Organization)
Defense Intelligence Agency (Organization)

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