PURSUE Release 05 (August 7, 2026)
Overview of the fifth 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 05 | |
| Release date | August 7, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | U.S. Department of War, with ODNI |
| Files | 41 (22 PDF, 16 Video (DVIDS), 3 Image) |
| Highlights | Puerto Rico 1964 radar case; AC-130 Gulf of Oman 2021; FBI triangles |
| Official site | war.gov/ufo |
| Official release | |
Release 05, on August 7, 2026, included an AC-130 gunship sighting over the Gulf of Oman (2021), Navy Pacific videos from 2019, new CIA records on a 1964 Puerto Rico radar case, State Department and White House records on a 1963 Brazilian crash hoax, a 1947 ghost-rocket review, the 1953 Navy film analysis, and FBI interviews about triangles and 2026 western U.S. sightings.[1]
Cases in this release
Overall assessment
Assessment. The Puerto Rico case, with a destroyer’s radar tracking a contact at over 4,000 mph for 21 minutes, is one of the most interesting genuinely new historical cases in PURSUE. The AC-130 sighting began right after a flare drop, which points to an ordinary explanation. The Bahia records show U.S. officials debunking a crash story in 1963.
See also
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.