PURSUE / AARO · Release 06

PURSUE · Sixth release

8 cases use documents from this release. The full contractual paperwork of the AAWSAP program and its 37 reference documents (DIRDs), the Blue Book file on the Tremonton film (1952) and Ruppelt's recording at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, mission reports from Iraq and the Middle East, sensor clips over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, and the first material contributed by a local police force (Colorado, 2023).

8 cases · Tier S 3 · A 5 · B 0

397China.

East China Sea · a military sensor tracks a thermal patch· 2023

In 2023, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command reported to the Pentagon office that investigates…

2023A
396Multi-country (Middle East).

Middle East · two drone crews spot spherical objects· 2025

In 2025, crews from two U.S. Central Command MQ-9 drone squadrons reported objects they…

2025S
395Iraq.

Iraq · two military drone crews track small objects· 2022

On May 5, 2022, the crews of two U.S. military MQ-9 drones from different squadrons saw…

2022S
394United States.

Colorado · a police officer films a flashing light on his phone· 2023

In October 2023 a local police officer in Colorado used his phone to film four videos of…

2023A
393China.

Yellow Sea · a military sensor tracks a thermal patch· 2023

In 2023, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command reported to the Pentagon office that investigates…

2023A
193United States.

Tremonton film · Navy photographer footage (Utah)· 1952

On July 2, 1952, U.S. Navy Chief Photographer's Mate Delbert C. Newhouse filmed in 16mm…

1952A
51United States.

Washington · radar and pilots spot objects over the capital· 1952

On the weekends of July 19 and 26, 1952, radar at Washington National Airport tracked…

1952S
39United States.

Skinwalker Ranch · the Pentagon funds a study of the ranch· 2008–10

From 2008 to 2010 the Pentagon paid Robert Bigelow's company about $22 million to study…

2008–10A