THE SOURCE
PURSUE Release 06 in full, published by the U.S. Department of War at war.gov/ufo on 18 September 2026: 72 files in two official bundles, a documents bundle of 2,232,873,877 bytes holding 56 PDFs and a videos bundle of 1,476,785,104 bytes holding 16 mp4 files. Both were downloaded on 19 September 2026, extracted without error and checksummed for this series. The PDFs run to 2,603 pages. Sixty-seven files carry the Department of War prefix DOW-UAP- and five a new prefix, LLE-UAP-, which no released page expands. The 16 mp4 files are named in the bundle by asset number only; each is also posted on DVIDS as its own record, with a title and an official description, and those sixteen descriptions were checked character by character against the live pages on 23 September 2026. What the Department says of a clip is taken from its description. Everything else here is read from the files, their text layers, their page images or their frames, and where a figure is this project’s own measurement the sentence says so. This briefing takes the release itself as the record.
Why this one is worth your time
The other twenty-three briefings in this run each take a handful of records. Some things can only be seen across all of them: how the numbers run, how the release marks what it withholds, and where the release’s own labels (its file names, its titles, its video descriptions) say something the pages under them do not.
There is no assessment here. A file is in the bundle or it is not; a label is printed on a page or it is not; a date falls inside a period or it does not. Each item below is one of those, and anyone holding the two bundles can check it.
What the release contains
The count. The bundles hold 72 files: 56 PDFs and 16 mp4 files, one of which is the 65-minute audio recording of a 1952 presentation, posted on DVIDS as a video record. Outside the released record, CBS News, in a report by Stefan Becket updated on 18 September 2026, counted 71 files, 67 from the Defense Department and four from local law enforcement in Colorado, and broke them down as 55 PDF files, 15 video files and one audio file. The bundles hold 67 files under the Department of War prefix and five under the new prefix, one PDF and four videos. The difference between the two counts is one PDF.
The numbers. The documents run DOW-UAP-D102 to D154 with no gap, picking up where Release 05 stopped at DOW-UAP-D101. Two single-page PDFs holding greyscale stills, DOW-UAP-PR130 and PR131, sit in the documents bundle under the PR series, which in Release 05 held only video, so in this release a PR number does not always mean a clip. The video and audio records are DOW-UAP-PR133, PR135, PR140, PR141, PR143, PR144, PR148, PR150, PR151, PR152, PR159 and PR160. The new prefix carries one document, LLE-UAP-D001, and four clips, LLE-UAP-PR001 to PR004.
How the pages were made. By the extraction record, 51 of the 56 PDFs were passed through Adobe Acrobat’s Paper Capture plug-in, which lays a machine text layer over a page image; three mission reports carry a text layer with no producer named, and the 1952 presentation transcript is a Word export. LLE-UAP-D001 was issued with no text layer at all: the PDF holds no fonts and yields no text. This project added its own OCR to 66 pages that had no usable text as issued; none of that text is quotable in this series, and nothing from it is quoted here.
The research papers’ front matter. Thirty-seven Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, DOW-UAP-D117 to D153, dated on their covers from 14 December 2009 to 11 January 2011, carry the same kind of front page. On the page after the cover (the third page on D145 and D151), the author’s name is replaced by a label of the form AAP Person, with a number, printed over the field without a border on 36 papers and inside a ruled box on D118; the programme manager’s name in the administrative note is replaced by the label AAP Person 1, in or beside a thin ruled box. The project’s cross-audits read all three front pages of all 37 papers at 200 dpi and found no black bar and no exemption code on any of them, and the text layers of all 37 return no exemption string. Every paper prints the programme as AAWSA; none prints AAWSAP, which is the release’s own spelling in 36 of the 37 file names. Four things change together between the papers dated 6 April 2010 and those dated 1 November 2010: the series line on the cover (Acquisition Threat Support, then Defense Futures), the preparing office (Acquisition Support Division, DWO-3, then Technology Warning Division, DWO-4), the fiscal year in the administrative note (FY 2009, then FY 2010) and the routing code in its address (CLAR/DWO-3, then JUIAF - DI/DWO-3). The one exception is D144, a Defense Futures paper of 1 November 2010 whose note still says FY 2009 (block below). Twenty-six papers carry the earlier set and eleven the later.
The labels, read across papers. Seven labels appear on more than one paper, read from the 200 dpi images: AAP Person 58 on six (D135, D138, D139, D142, D143, D153), AAP Person 73 on three (D130, D150, D151), and AAP Person 65 (D119, D136), 72 (D126, D152), 75 (D131, D134), 83 (D145, D148) and 85 (D146, D147) on two each. Four papers carry more than one author label (D138, D146, D147, D149). That is the release’s labelling; no page says what a label stands for. Some papers’ own text identifies their author, as the briefings on those papers record. This briefing names no one the front matter withholds.
How the rest is marked. The release marks what it withholds in at least five ways. The four mission reports carry exemption codes in their text layers, (b)(6) in all four and (b) (1) in three; on DOW-UAP-D107 p. 1 they are printed in red on black bars, read from the page image. The contract file uses white boxes printing (b)(3):10 USC 424, (b)(6) (DOW-UAP-D111 p. 1, DOW-UAP-D115 p. 1, DOW-UAP-D116 p. 1) and, on D111 p. 1, the code (b)(3):26 U.S.C. §§ 6103, 6105, carries the label AAP Person 4 (D115 p. 1, D116 p. 1) and, on D115 p. 1, one black bar with (b) (6) printed on it in red. LLE-UAP-D001 carries six black boxes with (b) (7)(A) or (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(C) printed on them in white. The ten military sensor clips carry plain black boxes with no code, and open on a caption, read from the frames, saying public disclosure is postponed under 44 U.S.C. § 2107. The four Colorado descriptions say AARO blurred the bottom half of the footage: without a time limit on LLE-UAP-PR001 and PR002, and in the first 2 seconds on PR003 and PR004. On the frames, the lower part of the picture is blurred at every second looked at on PR001 and PR002; on PR003 the blur is on the frame at 00:00 only, and from 00:01 the thin straight lines that cross the sky run sharp to the bottom edge; PR004 is too dark to show where any blur starts or stops. No description mentions the black boxes or the caption.
The boxes on the sensor clips. Measured for this briefing on the frames, eight of the ten military clips carry boxes in the same six places as fractions of the picture, the four corners, the top edge and the left edge: DOD_111985772, 782, 790, 798, 818, 820, 821 and 835. On all eight the lower right box, for instance, starts between 0.866 and 0.877 of the picture’s width and between 0.720 and 0.752 of its height and runs to the edges; its height varies more, from about 0.25 to 0.28 of the picture. The two that do not share the layout are DOD_111985822, whose boxes sit in different places and are larger, and DOD_111985832, whose picture is inset in a black margin and whose boxes line up with the other eight only when measured against the inset. Some boxes move: in 790 and 798 one box travels round the centre on the same line as a small lettered marker, and in 822 and 835 a box sits on the aim point or beside the tracking gate and moves with it. This briefing describes only that the boxes are there and how they move.
The sound. All fifteen video files other than the audio recording carry an audio track that is digital silence. That is this project’s measurement on the issued files (ffmpeg, mean and maximum level -91.0 dB on each, taken on Mikey’s computer and repeated), not something the release states.
What the release does not contain
Numbered but absent. Release 05 Briefing 13 counted 18 of the 33 numbers from PR117 to PR149 missing. Release 06 carries nine of them. Across PR117 to PR160, fifteen numbers are now in neither release: PR128, PR129, PR132, PR137 to PR139, PR145 to PR147 and PR153 to PR158. Nothing in Release 06 accounts for them: no index, no withdrawal sheet, no placeholder.
The contract and the papers. The contract file names twelve technical study areas (DOW-UAP-D110 p. 1) and prices research reports for tasks 3.a.1 to 3.a.12, quantity 12 (D111 p. 3). None of its seven records uses DIRD or Reference Document, lists a paper’s title or gives the number 37, and none of the 37 papers prints the contract number. The last released modification, P00005 of 28 September 2010, extends the period of performance to 21 December 2010 (D116 p. 1). Two papers are dated after that on their covers: D152, 3 January 2011, and D153, 11 January 2011. Their ICOD dates, 30 August and 10 August 2010, fall inside it. That is an observation about dates printed on released pages; the release does not say the papers were delivered under this contract.
Titles the pages do not support. DOW-UAP-D111 is released as “AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order September 22 2008”; its form’s foot reads STANDARD FORM 1449 (REV. 2/2012) and its signature lines are empty, though the contracting officer’s date-signed block reads SEP 22, 2008 (p. 1, read from the page image). DOW-UAP-D115, “AAWSAP Contract Modification P00004 May 18 2010”, is one page, a routing sheet for that modification with no modification form in it (p. 1). DOW-UAP-D104, “Final Personnel Record for Newhouse Delbert C US Navy 1957”, has as its latest dated document a Bureau of Naval Personnel letter of 20 November 1964 (p. 466, the date read from the page image).
Where the descriptions and the files differ. The first sentence of the DOW-UAP-PR133 description ends “in 2024”, where the record’s title, its date-taken field and its VIRIN give 2025, and the mission report it names, DOW-UAP-D107, carries date-time groups in October 2025. The LLE-UAP-PR002 description gives the footage as “1 minute and 19 seconds”, the same figure as the LLE-UAP-PR001 description, for a file that runs 15:00 and whose own timed line reads 00:00-15:00. The same description opens with a line reading “PURSUE Title:” followed by the record’s ID and title, a line no other description carries.
Wording the transcript does not carry. Each of the four Colorado descriptions says the reporting officer described the phenomenon as “silent” and as featuring “red, blue, and green flashing lights”. Read in full on its page image, LLE-UAP-D001 contains neither phrase and none of the words silent, red, blue, green or flashing; it ends at [01:00] with the speaker saying the craft is flying closer and can be seen, and no end marker. No description names the transcript, and the transcript names no clip. It names no police or sheriff’s office either: its italic note says only local law enforcement in Colorado, and its letterhead is the Office of the Under Secretary of War’s, with Intelligence and Security under the seal.
Cross-references the descriptions do not make. Four descriptions name a mission report and one names the Tremonton case file. None names DOW-UAP-D106, the Iraq 2022 mission report, or DOW-UAP-D154, the transcript whose release title names the same 1952 presenter as PR160’s.
On the page and not in the text. Pages with no usable text as issued number 23 in D102, 22 in D104 and 11 in D105; the covers of D145 and D148 are set in a font with no Unicode map, and LLE-UAP-D001 has no text at all. A search of the released text layers will not find what is printed there.
From the record
This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Defense
DOW-UAP-D143, p. 2, the first line of the second paragraph of the administrative notes of a Defense Futures paper of 1 November 2010; the sentence continues: Intelligence Agency, Defense Warning Office’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program
This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense
DOW-UAP-D144, p. 2, the same line in the Defense Futures paper of the same date that still gives the earlier fiscal year
a) Bilaterally extend the POP from 09/22/2010 to 12/21/2010.
DOW-UAP-D116, p. 1, the first of the three paragraphs of block 14 of modification P00005, the last extension of the period of performance in the released contract file
MOD: P00004
DOW-UAP-D115, p. 1, the modification field of the routing sheet, the only line in the record that says which modification it belongs to
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 4 minutes and 58 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024.
DOW-UAP-PR133, the first sentence of the official description, whole, under a title that reads 2025
A local law enforcement officer submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office consisting of 1 minute and 19 seconds of video footage from a commercially available cellular device’s rear-facing camera in October 2023.
LLE-UAP-PR002, the first sentence of the official description of the 15-minute clip, whole, word for word the first sentence of the LLE-UAP-PR001 description
The reporting officer described the phenomenon as “silent” and as featuring “red, blue, and green flashing lights.”
LLE-UAP-PR001, the second sentence of the official description, which the other three Colorado descriptions repeat word for word
Where the case connects
Each item above belongs to one or more of the other briefings. Release 06 Briefing 10 has the contract file, the unsigned print on the 2012 form and the routing sheet; Release 06 Briefing 3 has the personnel file and its 1964 letter. The 37 papers are in Release 06 Briefings 11 to 23, where the per-paper front matter and the pages on which some papers identify their author are set out. The ten military sensor clips are in Release 06 Briefings 6, 7 and 8, the PR133 date among them; the Colorado transcript and clips, and the officer’s wording, are in Release 06 Briefing 9. The 1952 records, from the Tremonton file and film to the Air Force flying discs file and the presentation and its transcript, are in Release 06 Briefings 1, 2, 4 and 5.
Release 05 Briefing 13 sits directly behind this one: it listed the record numbers Release 05 skipped, and half of the eighteen PR numbers among them have now arrived. PURSUE publishes on a rolling basis; anything later released against the numbers still missing lands in this series when it does.
Read it yourself
Both bundles are linked from the Release 06 tab at war.gov/ufo, the documents in one and the videos in the other, and each clip has its own DVIDS page with its title and description. Everything above is checked the same way: list the record numbers and look for the ones that are not there, set each release title against the page it names, and set each description against its clip and its papers. For the pages with no usable text layer, work from the page images.
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
- DIRDs
- AAWSAP Contract HHM402-08-C-0072
- AAP Person Labels
- UAP Postponement Code
- Colorado Orb Sighting 2023
References and further reading
- PURSUE Release 06 documents bundle, 56 PDFs, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- PURSUE Release 06 videos bundle, 16 mp4 files, U.S. Department of War, hosted at war.gov/ufo
- Official video descriptions of the sixteen Release 06 video and audio records, DVIDS, dvidshub.net
- 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
- Stefan Becket, CBS News, report on the sixth PURSUE release, updated 18 September 2026, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-uap-pentagon-6th-release/
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 05 Briefing 13, on the record numbers and references Release 05 did not contain
- Signals from the Periphery, Release 06 Briefing 10, on the contract file