PURSUE Release 7 — October 23, 2026

Department of War · Western United States · June, 2026

AARO memorandum for record documenting a witness debrief of a June 2026 UAP observation by federal law enforcement agents at a sensitive site in the western US. Witnesses described a matte black, low-aspect-ratio triangular craft that ascended vertically, hovered about 20 seconds, then banked and descended into a canyon at fighter-jet-like speed in silence. No wreckage or physiological or EM effects were found; identities and several details are redacted.

Conclusion

No conclusive finding; the object remains unidentified and AARO considers the incident to warrant further investigation.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 4/1/09

Monthly progress report from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), an AAWSAP contractor, covering April 2009. It documents staffing, clearances, Earthtech physics papers, the MUFON purchase order and three MUFON field deployments (Kansas, Arkansas, Maryland), Project Northern Tier analysis of 1975-76 nuclear-facility UAP events, and review of foreign government UAP releases.

Conclusion

Kansas case: 'UAV unknown' (investigator); Arkansas case: 'a real event... object is definitely unknown and does not appear to be a military craft'; all cases remain under MUFON investigation.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 11/23/10

November 2010 contractor-authored capability statement from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), produced under DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072 (AAWSAP). It describes BAASS personnel, field sensors, the CAPELLA data warehouse and ANSYS Multiphysics tools, and demonstrates them through modeling exercises: Tic Tac velocity/acceleration, CFD of Tic Tac and cylinder shapes, a disc entering water, acoustics of a spherical USO, and radar cross section of a spherical UAP. It also excerpts a DIA report on the November 2004 Nimitz/Princeton 'Tic Tac' encounter and recounts historical UFO studies.

Conclusion

Excerpted DIA assessment: the AAV was no known US or foreign aircraft, with advanced low observable, aerodynamic and propulsion characteristics, and possibly the ability to 'cloak' or operate undersea. BAASS makes no formal conclusion on the incident.

FBI · Western United States · June, 2026

FBI FD-302 (2 pages) transmitting a verbatim written statement co-signed by two Special Agents describing a roughly three-second sighting of a dark black triangular unmanned aerial object at about 1923 hours in 2026, first flagged as a thermal detection from an observation post. Followed by nine sequential photo frames of a ridge-line landscape with a small black triangular marker tracing the object's path. Names, dates, and locations are heavily redacted.

Department of War · Saudi Arabia · 1/18/57

A 1957 USAF Air Intelligence Information Report documents a B-52 (aircraft 394, 22d Bombardment Wing) picking up an unidentified radar return on its A-3A gunnery scope for 5-7 minutes during SAC's Operation Powerflight over Saudi Arabia. The return was smaller than that of a second B-52 in the cell and disappeared off the scope toward the Baghdad Flight Information Region after the B-52 banked left. The report includes a scope diagram and is unredacted, though the pages are duplicated across scans.

Conclusion

No conclusion stated; the object is described as an unidentified aircraft that appeared on the scope where no aircraft were expected (evaluation B-2).

Department of War · Guam · 12/31/56

Air Intelligence Information Report (IR-7-57, dated 8 Feb 57) documenting a 31 Dec 1956 night sighting by an F-86D pilot over Guam of a round, blinking white light that reportedly maneuvered with and circled the interceptor for about 10 minutes. A lighted weather balloon had been launched earlier, but the preparing officer concluded the balloon could explain the sighting only if it had malfunctioned and stayed at low altitude.

Conclusion

Unidentified Flying Object cannot be readily explained unless the lighted weather balloon malfunctioned and remained at relatively low altitude.

Department of War · Canada · 11/13/53

Headquarters, 916th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (Prince George, B.C.) submitted a Flying Objects Report under AFR 200-2 dated 19 November 1953, covering a night sighting on 13 November 1953. Two USAF airmen guarding a B-29 at Prince George Airport saw a round, blinking white-blue light that descended like a falling star, hovered near the ground, rose, and departed westerly. The report lists the cause as unknown; there was no physical evidence, interception, or instrument data.

Conclusion

Cause unknown

Department of War · Sweden · 12/17/53

A 1954 USAF Air Intelligence Information Report from the Office of the Air Attaché in Stockholm forwards a translated Swedish press account of a December 17, 1953 sighting near Hässleholm. A Transair DC-3 crew observed a shining metallic, nearly round object pass below them for six to seven seconds. The report adds a negative character sketch of the pilot from a Swedish Air Board source who personally doubts the story.

Conclusion

Unresolved; Swedish Defense Staff stated it was not a Swedish aircraft and the investigation was ongoing.

Department of War · 12/1/53

A January 1954 Air Force Reserve (2466th AFRCTC, Atterbury AFB) report, submitted in lieu of AF Form 112b under AFR 200-2, documents a civilian couple's sighting near Seymour, Indiana of two large, white, cloudy ring-like objects with four rotating bright lights each. The objects descended, hovered level and silently, then departed at very high speed to the southwest. The exact date is unknown (sometime between 8-15 Dec 1953), with no physical evidence and a single pair of witnesses.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 12/2/08

December 2, 2008 Project Management Plan (Overview Paper) from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) under DIA contract HHM402-08-C-0072 (AAWSAP). It lays out nine proposed projects, milestones, team compositions and requests for DIA assistance in obtaining government-held UAP files, film and materials. Appended exhibits include a 1947 AMC "Flying Discs" opinion memo, a 2002 Roswell affidavit, and a 1988 UK MoD file on a 1957 F-86D radar/UFO intercept.

Conclusion

No formal conclusion; contractor plan asserts that advanced craft of unknown origin exist and may pose a national security threat, and that further study and acquisition of government-held materials is needed.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 7/9/09

A 131-page contractor monthly progress report from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) covering June 2009, produced under the DIA-administered AAWSAP. It covers staffing, facilities (including a planned secure vault for recovered hardware and biological samples), EarthTech physics papers, the MUFON purchase agreement and funding dispute, a compilation of MUFON field case investigations, a Brazil deployment, Project Northern Tier witness-tracing at USAF bases, and review of foreign-government UAP releases.

Conclusion

Individual MUFON case conclusions vary: Kansas case 'UAV unknown'; Arkansas case 'real event... definitely unknown and does not appear to be a military craft'; no overall official conclusion stated.

Department of War · Italy · 8/27/52

Air Intelligence Information Report (IR-700-53, 15 Dec 1953) from the U.S. Air Attaché in Rome transmitting a translated account by Prof. Giovanni Battista Sias of a luminous green-blue sphere seen over Sassari, Sardinia, on 27 Aug 1952 at 2145 hrs. The report includes Sias's newspaper article, a Vatican astronomer's distance/size calculations, and religious and political personal remarks. The preparing officer describes Sias as intelligent but intense, close to fanatic.

Conclusion

No official conclusion; the preparing officer only commented on the witness's credibility and beliefs. Evaluation code D-4.

Department of War · Morocco · 12/16/53

Air Intelligence Information Report (DI-1-53) from the 316th Air Division (Defense) describing a radar-only return observed on 16 December 1953 by Detachment 2, 737th AC&W Squadron in northern French Morocco. The return shifted among V, W, and M shapes, appeared as 1 to 12 returns, and faded after several minutes. Division electronics personnel attributed it to anomalous propagation, ship-borne radar jamming, or geese/storks.

Conclusion

Logical deduction is that one of the mundane possibilities (anomalous propagation, ship-borne radar jamming, or geese/storks) caused the radar return.

Department of War · Alaska · 12/1/53

A 1953 USAF Air Intelligence Information Report (IR 5004-42-53) from the 5004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron documents a stationary light seen on the horizon west of Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, by an Alaska National Guard sergeant. The light was visible about five minutes before it vanished; the preparing officer could reach no conclusion, though an unidentified ship at sea was suggested as a possible source.

Conclusion

No definite conclusion could be reached as to the origin of the light; a possibility exists that it came from an unidentified ship in or near U.S. territorial waters.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 11/1/08

A November 2008 compilation of MUFON Advanced Technology Establishment white papers prepared for Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) in support of AAWSAP. The papers cover Lift, Power Generation (cold fusion), Control, Human Interface (alleged human implants, mind-to-vehicle interfaces), and Propulsion (anti-gravity). They are speculative technology proposals that use UFO/UAP reports as a premise, not incident reports.

Department of War · San Fransisco, California · 12/10/08

December 10, 2008 report (Report no. 001) from Documatica Research, LLC to Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) proposing Project CAPELLA, an Excel-based data warehouse to standardize and integrate catalogues of unusual aerial phenomena. Appendices cover a behavior-based classification and SVP reliability code, a six-layer 'high strangeness' model, and a ten-screen data structure with a sample NIDS catalogue excerpt; the document includes a two-year budget and staffing plan. No specific incident is investigated; content is methodological and proposal-oriented, with author and other names redacted as 'AAP Person' or 1843(a)(2).

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 4/10/09

Monthly progress report from Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), an AAWSAP-linked contractor, covering March 1-31, 2009. It documents staffing, clearances, Earthtech position papers, the 'Capella' UAP data warehouse (234,364 reports), a MUFON purchase order, FAA reporting-agency changes, a UNLV research program, an executive summary of the 1977-2003 Brazil/Colares UFO reports, and review of UK, Canadian and Danish releases. Most content is programmatic and secondhand compilation; personal names are redacted as 'AAP Person' and some sections carry 1843(a)(2) redactions.

Conclusion

No formal conclusion on any case; Colares summary recommends a follow-up investigation of northeastern Brazil and renewed on-site examination with remote sensing equipment.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · 11/1/09

Based on the official description and metadata only, this is a Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) monthly progress report for November 1-30, 2009, produced under the DIA-administered AAWSAP program. It reportedly covers MUFON-sourced investigative activity, investigations centered on a ranch in Utah, and a preliminary report on a "blue orb" incident, along with case database expansion.

Department of War · Las Vegas, Nevada · March, April 2010

A 2010 Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) field investigation report on a Utah ranch near Fort Duchesne, covering deployments of March 22-26 and April 19-23, 2010. It compiles witness interviews about reported creatures ("dog-like" bipedal, "Skinwalker", "little people", pterodactyl-like bird) and orbs/balls of light, along with game cameras, RF sweeps, biosensor plant experiments and DNA analysis of hair samples. The lab results identified the hair samples as raccoon and domestic dog.

Conclusion

No conclusion reached; investigation ongoing. Hair DNA identified as raccoon and domestic dog; RF signal origin requires further research.

Department of War · Catalina Island, California · 6/25/52

Air Intelligence Information Report (AF Form 112) prepared by the 807th Air Base Group, March AFB, dated 28 August 1952, documenting a 25 June 1952 sighting by three Boy Scouts at Camp Fox on Santa Catalina Island. The silver object was reportedly faster than a jet, made a climbing turn, and disappeared by disintegrating. The report notes no instruments, no reliability estimate, and probably meager observer experience.

Conclusion

No evaluation stated (Evaluation: None); reliability not assessed.

Department of War · Catalina Island, California · 4/28/49

Three-page file: a Project 10073 (Project Blue Book-era) record card, an AMC transmittal slip from the 17th District (Kirtland Field) to IAXS, and a handwritten letter dated May 1, 1949 from Percy E. Mackey of Avalon, Catalina Island to Kenneth Arnold. The letter relays that his wife and a school teacher saw six objects flying singly around 8 PM on April 28, 1949, and that four more were seen minutes later by three other family members. The official conclusion was 'Insufficient data for evaluation'.

Conclusion

Insufficient data for evaluation

Department of War · Germany · 8/10/53

A 1953 USAF Air Intelligence Information Report by Capt. Fred L. Allen (7350th Base Complement Squadron) extracts Tempelhof air traffic control log entries for 10-11 August 1953. It records a BEA DC-3 pilot reporting red rockets fired about one mile ahead, a second BEA DC-3 pilot reporting a stationary red light near Genthin, and a Pan Am pilot who saw no light but earlier witnessed ground-to-air firing in the same area. The Soviets reportedly could not account for the light; no further information could be obtained from the Pan Am pilot.

Conclusion

No evaluation given; Soviets reportedly could not account for the red light.

Department of War · Alaska · 10/6/53

A 1953 USAF Air Intelligence Information Report (5004th Air Intel Sv Sq) records a 14-year-old Little Diomede resident's observation of a brief light on the southern tip of Big Diomede Island, USSR, resembling a flashlight or spotlight. The preparing officer treated it as a possible signal or unusual human activity near the USSR border, not as an aerial phenomenon. The report includes source reliability, weather, and a sketch map.

Conclusion

No conclusion stated; the report noted the sighting as unusual and stated there is no evidence that the light was used for signaling.

Department of War · Catalina Island, California · 3/15/55

File on a 15 March 1955 civilian ground-visual sighting at Avalon, Catalina Island, California, consisting of a Project 10073 record card, a UFOB index card, and a teletype report from the 670th ACW Squadron to ADC, ATIC and USAF Intelligence. A single witness (Paul J. Carr) saw one round, very bright object change from orange to red and fall straight down in about 2 seconds. It was assessed as a probable meteor and not investigated further.

Conclusion

Probable meteor (Possibly Astronomical per the 4602d AISS index card); no further investigation deemed worthwhile.

Department of War · Catalina Island, California · 11/16/53

Project Blue Book–style file on a 16 November 1953 ground-visual sighting over Catalina, California, reported by a single USAF T/Sgt via a 2347th AFRTC teletype and summarized on an FTD form. A round, purplish-white object appeared stationary, then moved NW toward Los Angeles on a straight, level path for about 10 minutes. The form concludes the object was astronomical (Jupiter), citing Griffith Park Observatory astronomers.

Conclusion

Astronomical (Jupiter)

Department of War · 8/31/54

Metadata-only analysis: the file is described as the final personnel record of USAF Colonel Howard M. McCoy (1954). The description states he served as Deputy Commanding General for Intelligence (T-2) and Chief of the Intelligence Department, Air Materiel Command, at Wright-Patterson AFB during the initiation of Project SIGN and Project GRUDGE. The document itself was not reviewed.

Executive Office of the President · Washington, D.C. · 5/29/63

A May 29, 1963 memorandum from R.W. Hale to Dr. Welsh summarizing a May 28 meeting with NASA's Arnold Frutkin and assistant Marvin Robinson about an interagency project involving recovery of 'pieces' and possible NASA 'cover'. The memo records Frutkin's negative views on public announcements, an Executive Order, and legislation; it contains no description of any UAP sighting or observation.

U.S. Government · Washington, D.C. · 1962-1964

Based on the official description only, this file holds interagency memoranda and correspondence (Oct 2, 1962 to May 26, 1964) among senior Executive Branch officials on a policy framework and communications strategy for recovering, handling, analyzing and disposing of space-related debris of US and foreign origin. The drafts did not produce a settled policy. The description frames the file in the context of the Space Race and Cold War.

Conclusion

No settled policy framework resulted from the negotiations.