It isn’t exactly the “X-Files,” but on Friday the Pentagon released a sixth batch of documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), more commonly known as UFOs. The latest data dump included dozens of documents detailing a military program that commissioned studies of science-fiction technologies, including warp drives and wormholes. The recent files also include details on injuries that researchers had linked to possible encounters with unknown craft.
“Today, the Department of War is publishing the sixth release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The collection continues to be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO, and the Department will release additional files on a rolling basis,” said Secretary of War for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell.
The files, which included 67 items from the Pentagon and four from local law enforcement in Colorado, consisted of 55 PDF documents, 15 video clips and an audio file. Sixty-four of the files, which were written between 1952 and 2025, contain redactions.
Sixth Tranche of Records
The documents were released more than six months after President Donald Trump ordered their release. The first tranche of records was released on May 8, 2026, and the sixth and newest batch was released last Friday, September 18, 2026. It is unclear how many unreleased documents remain.
The new records are part of the ongoing disclosure effort under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) and are hosted on the government’s UAP portal.
“This is an unprecedented, historic undertaking that requires coordination between dozens of agencies and the review of tens of millions of records, many existing only on paper, spanning many decades. Given the scope of this task, the Department of War will be releasing new materials on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks,” the Pentagon had explained.
The oldest of the files was a Project Blue Book investigation and assessment of an incident near Tremonton, Utah, on July 2, 1952.
“The file describes the Air Force’s assessment of the principal witness, Delbert C. Newhouse, a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer specializing in photography, as honest and reliable, and as an expert with more than 1,000 hours of aerial-photography experience. Newhouse reported observing 12 to 14 reflective objects and recorded the event on color motion-picture film using a handheld Bell & Howell Auto Master camera,” the document explained.
A video clip of the incident is also among the newly released files.
Among the newest files is a 2025 report from United States Central Command (CENTCOM) that detailed the sighting of “six small spherical objects, grouped,” which were seen “frequently changing direction” at 480 mph. Another video from 2023 appears to show circular objects flying over the Yellow Sea, spotted by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military vessel.
Secret Weapons Programs
The documents don’t provide any definitive evidence that extraterrestrial life or alien spacecraft exist, but do contain reports, videos, and sensor data of objects moving in unusual ways or at high speeds that analysts could not immediately identify. The documents do attribute some sightings to mundane explanations, such as weather balloons, drones, debris, camera optical artifacts, or sensor limitations.
One document in particular addresses the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, which the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) established in 2008 to study aerospace threats.
“One aspect of the future threat environment involves advanced aerospace weapon system applications. The objective of this program is to understand the physics and engineering of these applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from now through the year 2050. Primary focus is on breakthrough technologies and applications that create discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends,” the document explained.
The document also included 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) that discussed a range of advanced technologies, including warp drives, traversable wormholes, antigravity, negative-mass propulsion, invisibility cloaking, and spintronics.
However, as CBS News reported, all 37 documents had been publicly available for years through the DIA’s Freedom of Information Act releases.
“Friday’s versions include some details the agency had previously withheld, like the names of the agency offices that produced the documents,” CBS News reported.
