The seventh tranche of declassified data on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) was released today, October 23, 2026, by the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). In contrast to all previous tranches, this one does not include any videos.
Among its 28 PDF files, there is a historical report about findings at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. A monthly report from March 2009 implies that Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) funded faculty from the University Nevada Las Vegas to study how ten disclosure scenarios would affect the media, politics, religion, public health and academia. Scenario 1 is a U.S. government release of declassified UAP files. The report blames a “giggle factor” for academic avoidance. File D168 includes the BAASS Project Management Plan (Dec 2008, DIA contract HHM402–08-C-0072). It asks the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to lobby for access to “biological material of potentially non-human origin”. It also describes “contact” efforts at the ranch (“we were acted upon”) on page 20 and attaches a redacted 2002 Roswell affidavit on page 46.
The file EOP-UAP-D002 (May 1963) is a White House-level report on whether to tell the public about recovered space-vehicle fragments. Arnold Fruitkin, NASA’s chief of international relations, argued a White House statement “would scare people needlessly”. He also noted that the Department of Defense and the Air Force wanted NASA as “cover”, and he opposed going to Congress because of “the harmful debate”. It is unclear whether the discussion is in reference to familiar rocket or satellite debris, or genuine UAP.
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