Government Releases 28 UAP Files in Seventh Batch on PURSUE Portal

The PURSUE portal at war.gov/UFO posted release 7 on October 23, 2026. The index lists 28 files, all of them documents. With this release, the portal holds 478 files across its 7 releases.

By agency, the index credits the Department of War with 25 files. The FBI, the Executive Office of the President and "U.S. Government" are each listed with 1. Incident years in the index run from 1949 to 2026.

Several rows are described in the index. They include Catalina Island, California files with incident dates in 1949, 1952, 1953 and 1955, and an Air Intelligence Information Report tied to Saudi Arabia in 1957. One row is a Utah Ranch investigation report from April 2010, which the index describes as related to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, a Defense Intelligence Agency program active from 2008 to 2012. Another is an AARO memorandum for record dated 2026, about a witness debrief concerning a site in the western United States.

This story is based only on the release index and its row descriptions. We have not read the files, and we take no position on what any of them shows.

This story is written from the release's index on the PURSUE portal at war.gov/UFO; the files themselves are not read here.