THE SOURCE
PURSUE Release 07 in full, published by the U.S. Department of War at war.gov/ufo on 23 October 2026: one documents bundle holding 28 PDFs, 325,519,689 bytes by this project’s extraction record, downloaded on 28 October 2026, extracted without error and checksummed for this series. No videos bundle was issued, and the release holds no video, image or audio record. The 28 PDFs run to 1,139 pages. All 28 carry AES-256 encryption with an owner password: they open and print without one, but viewers that honour PDF permissions block copying text out of them. Twenty-five records carry the Department of War prefix DOW-UAP-, and one each the prefixes FBI-UAP-, USG-UAP- and EOP-UAP-. The war.gov site’s database holds one row for each of the 28, with a title, agency, incident date, incident location, flags and a description; those rows were captured glyph-exact on 28 October 2026. What the site says of a record is taken from its row and reported as the site’s wording, never quoted. Everything else here is read from the files, their text layers or their page images, and where a figure is this project’s own count or arithmetic the sentence says so.
Why this one is worth your time
The eleven other briefings in this run each take one to ten records. Some things show only across all 28: how the numbers run, how the pages mark what is withheld, how the nine BAASS records hang together, and where the file names and the site’s titles, descriptions and metadata say what the pages do not.
There is no assessment here: a number is in the release or not, a word is on a page or not, and anyone holding the bundle can check each item.
What the release contains
The count. The site database lists 28 Release 07 rows, all PDF, matching the 28 files one to one. By the site’s titles and pairings the release holds fourteen Air Force reports of 1949 to 1957, nine BAASS records of 2008 to 2010, a 2026 AARO memorandum for record paired with an FBI FD-302, a folder of interagency papers of 1962 to 1964 on space fragments paired with a 1963 memorandum, and one personnel file.
The numbers. The Department of War records run DOW-UAP-D155 to DOW-UAP-D181, picking up where Release 06 stopped at DOW-UAP-D154, with two numbers missing (below). The other three are FBI-UAP-D043; USG-UAP-D002, whose prefix’s first record, USG-UAP-D001, is listed in the Release 03 catalogue; and EOP-UAP-D002, whose prefix’s first record, EOP-UAP-D001, came in Release 05.
The text layers. By this project’s count, 41 of the 1,139 pages carry fewer than 25 visible characters as issued: one page each in DOW-UAP-D158, DOW-UAP-D167, DOW-UAP-D171 and DOW-UAP-D178, two each in DOW-UAP-D164 and DOW-UAP-D174, six in DOW-UAP-D180, eight in USG-UAP-D002, nine in FBI-UAP-D043 and ten in DOW-UAP-D173. This project ran its own OCR over all 41 and kept its text for the 13 pages, in D174, D180 and USG-UAP-D002, where OCR gained any. Ten further pages carry a labelled block of supplementary OCR (DOW-UAP-D175 p. 62, D180 p. 195 and eight pages of USG-UAP-D002). None of that text is in any released text layer, and none is quoted here.
How the pages mark what is withheld. The BAASS records and the AARO memorandum use labels beginning 1843. By text-layer count, 1843(a)(2) occurs in all ten of them: DOW-UAP-D166, D167, DOW-UAP-D168, DOW-UAP-D169, DOW-UAP-D170, D171, D173, D174, D175 and DOW-UAP-D176. 1843(a)(3) occurs in five (D170, D171, D173, D174, D176), 1843(a)(1)(B) in two (D168, D176) and 1843(a)(1)(C) in one (D176). On the BAASS pages viewed here the labels sit in thin-outlined white boxes (D166 p. 8, D167 p. 42, D168 p. 45); on D176 they are printed on black bars (p. 1, read from the page image). Eight of the BAASS records also replace names with substitution labels of the form AAP Person with a number: every BAASS record but D166 carries at least one in its text layer. Some labels recur across records; this briefing gives no label’s number and sets no label’s roles in two records side by side. MUFON’s own case pages inside D170, D171 and D173 replace witnesses’ names with typed asterisks. FBI-UAP-D043’s two form pages carry black bars with no code printed on them (pp. 1, 2, read from the page images).
The other seventeen records (the fourteen Air Force reports, D180 and the two space-fragment records) return no 1843 label and no substitution label in their text layers, and D180’s 298 pages return no redact or exempt either. The site leaves their Redaction flag blank. They carry declassification stamps and overlays instead, with authorities that differ by group, among them NND 57597 on eight Air Force reports (DOW-UAP-D157 to D164, p. 1), NND 923007 on the Catalina cards (for example D181 p. 1) and NW 78452 on DOW-UAP-D155 and DOW-UAP-D156 (p. 1, read from the page images).
Personal data left in the clear. The release prints, unredacted, personal data of kinds this series does not repeat. By kind only, with pages for official details only: in D180, the subject’s date of birth, home addresses, right-hand fingerprints (seen on the page image), a social security account number in a filled-in field and his family members’ details; in the Air Force reports, a minor’s name, age and occupation (DOW-UAP-D161), a witness’s age, ethnic designation, education and employment (DOW-UAP-D162), and a witness’s street address, occupation and business, a doctor’s name and address and a hospital stay (D164); in the BAASS records, where names are masked (by MUFON’s asterisks in D170, by the release’s boxes in D173 and D174) but the details around them are not, a child’s health (D173), witnesses’ homes, families and workplaces (D170), and interviewees’ ages, ethnicity and residences (D174); in USG-UAP-D002, an office code and telephone extension (pp. 67, 68).
The BAASS records as a set. Nine records run from November 2008 to November 2010: MUFON papers prepared for BAASS (D166), the Project Capella proposal (D167), a project management plan (D168), four monthly reports of 2009 (D169, D170, D171, D173), the Utah ranch report (D174) and a capabilities report (D175). They share names, projects and whole paragraphs.
The projects of the December 2008 plan recur. Project Northern Tier is in D168 (pp. 9, 35, 36), D170 (pp. 3, 34, 45), D171 (pp. 3, 119 to 130) and D173 (p. 155), and D175 refers to Northern Tier incidents (p. 11). Project Oral History is in D168 (pp. 9, 12, 31) and next in D173, which says it and Northern Tier are on hold because BAASS does not have the Need to Know (p. 155). A project on events in Brazil in 1977 (D168 p. 9) is followed by an executive summary of a report on Brazil in D169 (pp. 24 to 40), a Brazil deployment in D171 (pp. 101 to 118) and a database named after that project in D175 (p. 20).
The name Capella runs from the D167 proposal (pp. 1, 2) to the data warehouse statistics of D169 (pp. 10 to 15), a separate Capella database for the Utah ranch events in D173 (p. 155) and the data warehouse of D175 (pp. 20, 21). D168, dated 2 December 2008, eight days before D167, does not print it.
The same sentence, that BAASS executed a Purchase order with MUFON in February 2009, stands in all four monthly reports (D169 p. 19, D170 p. 11, D171 p. 12, D173 p. 4). The claim that the BAASS case database is larger than any other owned by UAP organisations in North America stands in the Conclusion of three of them (D170 p. 50, D171 p. 134, D173 p. 155). The only page on which the March, April and June reports print Utah is the staff table, in a row for the Utah ranch (D169 p. 5, D170 p. 5, D171 p. 6). One paragraph runs backwards: the March report says the translation of 329 pages the Danish Air Force released will be complete by 13 March 2009 (D169 p. 41), the April report says it has been completed (D170 p. 48), and the June report repeats the March wording (D171 p. 132).
Only D168 and D175 print the contract number HHM402-08-C-0072 (D168 pp. 1, 2, 7, 9, 14; D175 p. 11), and only D175 expands DIA, as the Defense Intelligence Agency (pp. 11, 12, 103).
What the release does not contain
Two numbers. DOW-UAP-D165 and DOW-UAP-D172 are not in the bundle or among the site’s Release 07 rows, and the release gives no reason. Neither is in the catalogues of Releases 02 to 06 that this project holds. Both fall inside the BAASS run D166 to D175. The site’s thumbnail serials for the Department of War records rise by one per number, from 1147 for D155 to 1173 for D181, and 1157 and 1164, where D165 and D172 would fall, are absent. That two items were numbered and left out is an inference from that pattern; the release says neither that nor what they were.
Months of BAASS reporting. The release holds monthly reports for March, April, June and November 2009, and no BAASS monthly report for any other month. MUFON’s report for April, dated 6 May 2009 and bound into D170, says the fourth of four deployments was in May, as it occurred at the end of the month, and will be included in the May report (p. 17); it does not say whose May report. D173 says that, as described in previous reports, BAASS continues to deploy officers to the Utah ranch, where its surveillance began in August 2009 (p. 60); no report between June and November 2009 is in the release.
What some pages held. Near its end D173 holds ten pages (pp. 144 to 146, 148 to 154), before its Conclusion (p. 155), whose text layers hold only the label 1843(a)(2); p. 144, viewed here, is a single box filling the page. The reference list of D175 holds, in its text layer, only its heading and that label (pp. 101, 102). The withdrawal sheet of USG-UAP-D002 lists four drafts of November 1963 unstruck, with restriction code A, which it defines as closed by Executive Order 13292 (p. 1, read from the page image); that they are still withheld is an inference. FBI-UAP-D043’s nine images carry no text layer, and its two form pages return 0 for image, sketch, photo and drawing.
An explanation of the markings. No page says what the 1843 labels mean or what a substitution label stands for: by a search of every text layer, the labels stand alone, with no statute or section printed beside them.
Titles and what the pages print. Four records, DOW-UAP-D177, D178, DOW-UAP-D179 and D181, carry release titles that begin Unresolved UAP Report. Unresolved and UAP each return 0 in the text layers of all fourteen Air Force reports. D181’s card gives its conclusion as insufficient data for evaluation (block below), and D177’s record card gives Probable meteor (p. 1). The site calls D179 an Air Intelligence Information Report. For D157 and D164 the site title and the file name give different years: 1952 against 1953, and 1953 against 1954. D175 is released as “BAASS Self Assessment of UAP Analysis Capabilities November 2010”; its covers read Summary Report on BAASS UAP Analysis Capabilities, and self returns 0 (pp. 1, 2).
What the site says and the pages do not. The site gives every BAASS record the Incident Location Las Vegas, Nevada, except D167, which it places in San Fransisco, California, as it spells it. D169, D170 and D171 say BAASS’s investigators are located in Las Vegas (D169 p. 19, D170 p. 11, D171 p. 12); Las Vegas returns 0 in the text layers of D166, D168 and D175, and D174 prints it once.
The site tags all nine BAASS records AAWSAP and opens each of their descriptions with the same paragraph, on a DIA-administered programme of that name, which the site dates to 2008 to 2012. AAWSAP returns 0 in every text layer of the release. D168 calls its contract the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Application contract (p. 7); D175 says BAASS was contracted between 2008 and 2010 (p. 11).
The site’s description of D180 says the Air Force began Project SIGN and Project GRUDGE during the subject’s tenure and that he was among the officers involved in designing and running them. Grudge, Project Sign, saucer, flying disc, UAP and unidentified each return 0 in the whole record. An attachment to his request for voluntary retirement says that, from December 1946 to August 1949, the undersigned managed a laboratory known as the Science Survey Office (pp. 60, 62).
The site’s description of D176 speaks of observations over two days, a second sighting the next evening, and an AARO view that the case calls for more inquiry. The text layer returns 0 for evening, night, further, investigat and incident; the pages give one sighting, at 2023L, and a ground survey the following morning (pp. 1 to 3).
The site calls FBI-UAP-D043 a record of an interview, and its nine images sketches the site calls the FBI’s, made digitally, which it says the two agents confirmed. The form page says the FBI received from a Special Agent a written statement co-signed by a second, to be attached and given verbatim (p. 1, read from the page image); interview and sketch return 0 in its text layer.
The site’s description of EOP-UAP-D002 says State and the Department of War wanted to use NASA’s civilian standing. The page sets out, in seven points, what Frutkin seems to feel, and names State, DOD and AF; War returns 0 (p. 1).
The site’s Incident Date for D164, 1 December 1953, is on no page: the report says the observers were unable to remember the date exactly (p. 3), and the site leaves the Incident Location blank. The site’s thumbnail alt text for D162 speaks of blacked-out redaction boxes; none of its four page images shows one.
From the record
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION
DOW-UAP-D181, p. 1, the Conclusion field of the Project 10073 Record card, whole
Probable meteor.
DOW-UAP-D177, p. 1, the Comments field of the record card, whole
specialized laboratory known as the Science Survey Office (SSO) which
DOW-UAP-D180, p. 62, the third page of the attachment to the subject’s request for voluntary retirement, in the sentence on the period December 1946 to August 1949; the sentence continues: developed certain classified types of security and investigative equipment.
4. DOD and AF want to use NASA for a “cover” but have no
EOP-UAP-D002, p. 1, the fourth of the seven points under the line Frutkin seems to feel that; the sentence continues: intention of letting NASA do anything but return some pieces;
contracted by the Defense Warning Office of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to create,
DOW-UAP-D175, p. 11, the second sentence of the executive summary; the sentence begins: Between 2008 and 2010 BAASS was
separate Capella database for the events on the Utah ranch and surrounding
DOW-UAP-D173, p. 155, the Conclusion, in the sentence that opens with the words It should be noted that BAASS has initiated a; the sentence continues: areas, a report on which will be forthcoming in the coming months.
Where the case connects
Release 07 Briefing 1 takes the four Catalina Island reports (D177, D178, D179, D181), Release 07 Briefing 2 the other ten Air Force reports (D155 to D164), Release 07 Briefing 3 the personnel record D180 and Release 07 Briefing 4 the space-fragments records (USG-UAP-D002, EOP-UAP-D002). The BAASS records are in Release 07 Briefing 5 (D166, D167, D168), Release 07 Briefing 6 (D169, D170), Release 07 Briefing 7 (D171), Release 07 Briefing 8 (D173), Release 07 Briefing 9 (D174) and Release 07 Briefing 10 (D175). Release 07 Briefing 11 sets D176 beside FBI-UAP-D043.
Some pages print what the release boxes elsewhere. These release slips are given once, by kind and record, with no value: the Utah property’s name, which D174 boxes, printed unboxed on D174 p. 43 and on D173 pp. 117, 119 and 122; a latitude and longitude readout under a map (D171), where the record boxes GPS coordinates elsewhere under 1843(a)(3); personal names and an institute’s name in a figure legend, and a name on its chart (D166), where the narrative boxes the experimenters’ names; an e-mail address, and the town and state of a source whose name is boxed (D167); the affiant’s post and role, legible beside the box over his name (D168); an investigator’s MUFON ID number beside his substitution label (D171); a witness’s date of birth beside the asterisks that mask the name (D171); and a law enforcement officer’s name and office (D170), while the project’s investigative plan boxes a name.
Release 06 Briefing 24 does for Release 06 what this briefing does for Release 07. Release 06 Briefing 10 covers a contract file whose pages carry the same contract number as D168 and D175. EOP-UAP-D001, the first record of its prefix, is one of the three records of Release 05 Briefing 8.
Read it yourself
The bundle is linked from the Release 07 tab at war.gov/ufo, and each record has its own row on the site. Everything above is checked the same way: list the record numbers and look for the gaps, set each release title and site row against the pages it names, and search the text layers for the words the titles and descriptions use.
Read the files. Decide for yourself.
Related wiki entries
The wiki entries below give background on the programme and publisher behind this briefing, and on the subjects it touches.
- PURSUE
- Department of War
- Catalina Island Sightings 1949-1955
- Air Intelligence Information Report
- H. M. McCoy
- Space Vehicle Fragments File 1962-1964
- BAASS Project Management Plan 2008
- BAASS Monthly Reports 2009
- Utah Ranch Investigation 2009-2010
- BAASS Capabilities Report 2010
- Triangle over the Ridge 2026
- UAP Postponement Code
References and further reading
- PURSUE Release 07 documents bundle, 28 PDFs, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- war.gov/ufo database rows for the 28 Release 07 records: titles, metadata and descriptions, captured 28 October 2026
- Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), U.S. Department of War, war.gov/ufo
- AARO UAP Records, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, aaro.mil/UAP-Records
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 07 Briefings 1 to 11, on the records of this release
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 24, on what Release 06 holds
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 10, on the AAWSAP contract file
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 8, on EOP-UAP-D001 and two Department of State records of November 1963