PURSUE Release 03 (June 12, 2026)

Overview of the third tranche of UAP records released by the Department of War under PURSUE

⚠ Note on validity: PURSUE files are cases the government calls unresolved: it could not reach a definitive conclusion, often because of limited data. “Unresolved” does not mean “anomalous,” and historical records are included for context whether or not they were resolved at the time.

PURSUE Release 03
Release date	June 12, 2026
Publisher	U.S. Department of War, with ODNI
Files	72 (53 PDF, 10 Image, 6 Video (DVIDS), 3 Audio (DVIDS))
Highlights	Western U.S. Event; Robertson Panel file; Colorado Springs 2022
Official site	war.gov/ufo
Official release

Release 03, on June 12, 2026, added the full record of the October 2023 Western U.S. Event (AARO’s update, five witness narratives, ten FBI renderings and two video recreations), FBI files on orb sightings in the Northeast and a 2022 Colorado Springs incident, 18 CIA documents including the Robertson Panel file, early Army, Navy and Air Force studies, Gemini debriefings and a 1962 Gordon Cooper interview.^[1]

Cases in this release

Case page	Files from this release
Western U.S. Event (October 2023)	19
FBI Northeastern Orb Sightings (2021–2026)	11
CIA Reports on Foreign UFO Sightings (1955–2008)	9
CIA UFO Policy Records and the Robertson Panel (1950–1971)	8
NASA Gemini Astronaut Observations (1965–1966)	7
Project Sign and Early Military UFO Studies (1947–1949)	4
Colorado Springs UAP Incident (2022)	4
FBI Field Office UFO Files (1949–1974)	3
NASA Apollo and Skylab Observations (1969–1974)	2
NASA Mercury Astronaut Observations (1961–1963)	2
White House and Congressional UFO Correspondence (1998)	1
CIA U-2 and OXCART History (1954–1974)	1
Senator Russell Transcaucasia Sighting (1955)	1

Overall assessment

Assessment. The Western U.S. Event, which AARO calls “among the most compelling” cases it holds, is the centerpiece, though it rests on testimony without sensor data. The Colorado Springs case includes one of the few official explanations in PURSUE (sunlight reflected from snow onto clouds, assessed with low confidence). Most CIA items were already on CIA’s website in more redacted form.

References

^ U.S. Department of War, PURSUE website and release database (uap-data.csv), accessed October 4, 2026. war.gov/ufo.

Source: U.S. Department of War, PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters), war.gov/ufo. Official records are U.S. government works in the public domain; summaries and analysis on this page are by UFO UAP Wiki.

PURSUE Release 03 (June 12, 2026)

Cases in this release

Overall assessment

See also

References