July 10, 2026: Department of War releases 4th tranche of UAP (PURSUE) files

What was published on July 10, 2026

The Department of War published, on July 10, 2026, the fourth slice of UAP files (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) on the official portal WAR.GOV/UFO — the website of the “Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters”, PURSUE. The prize counts 40 pieces : 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio files and 3 images, from the Department of Energy, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the FBI and NASA. With this tranche, the public base reaches 334 files viewable and downloadable by anyone, with filters by agency, date and type.

One detail changes everything compared to the UAP publications of previous years: the official website itself defines these pieces as “unresolved cases” — that is, in the exact words of war.gov, cases where "the government is unable to definitively determine the nature of the phenomena observed." And the Department of War adds a phrase that would have been unthinkable a decade ago: it “welcomes the application of private sector analysis, information, and expertise.” In other words: the American state publishes what it has failed to explain, and asks for help.

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The referenced parts, one by one

Here are the ten pieces that the Department of War itself is putting on display in the official Release 04 slideshow, with their exact file references — as they appear in the database. Each reference is downloadable at war.gov/ufo.

1948-1949: when nuclear America was already taking the subject seriously

The three paper documents in this installment tell the same story from three different angles: In the late 1940s, as the United States was building its atomic arsenal, reports of unidentified flying objects were handled at the highest level — and in writing.

La part DOE-UAP-D004 is the transcription of a conference held at the Los Alamos laboratory on March 22, 1949 — the document still bears its transmittal letter stamped by the Atomic Energy Commission. On the agenda: repeated sightings of green fireballs, green fireballs, above New Mexico. Among the participants, scientists who worked on the Manhattan program.

La part DOW-UAP-D094, dated April 28, 1949, is an internal study analyzing flying object incidents in the United States. The page put forward by the Department of War shows a disturbingly simple detail: a hand-drawn sketch of a cylindrical object, numbered “Fig. 8” — the gesture of an analyst from 1949 trying to draw what a witness described to him.

La part DOW-UAP-D097 is a progress report of the Project SIGN — the very first official investigation program of the American Air Force on “flying saucers”, launched in 1948, direct ancestor of the famous Project Blue Book. The featured photo shows a delta-wing prototype: a useful reminder that, as early as 1948, investigators were systematically comparing reports to actual experimental aircraft of the time. This is exactly the approach that a prudent reader must take today.

1996-2025: four infrared videos that the Pentagon cannot explain

The burning heart of this installment is the videos. Four of them bear the official mention “Unresolved UAP Report” — unresolved UAP report — and cover almost thirty years.

Two details deserve attention. First, two of these videos are from 2025 — not dusty archives, but recordings from last year, captured over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, two areas of very high military activity. Then, the official descriptions remain surgically cautious: “a zone of contrast”, “in the shape of a six-pointed star”, “superimposed on the clouds”. The Department of War describes what the sensor shows, without ever saying what it is. This restraint, frustrating for anyone hoping for a revelation, is exactly what makes these pieces usable: nothing is overinterpreted from the source.

The three NASA STS-80 photos: an unidentified object in low orbit

These are not one but three photographs (references NASA-UAP-D030, D031 and D032) which document the same unidentified object, photographed from the shuttle Columbia during mission STS-80, in November-December 1996 — the longest shuttle mission in history, 17 days and 15 hours in orbit. Three images of the same object are potentially a trajectory; a trajectory is potentially an angular speed; an angular velocity is the start of a serious analysis. This is precisely the type of work the Department of War says it expects from the private sector. The three photos can be downloaded in full resolution at war.gov/ufo.

What exactly the authorities say

Three official texts frame this publication. The first is the presidential directive. On February 19, 2026, Donald J. Trump published on Truth Social:

“Based on the overwhelming interest shown, I will direct the Secretary of War, along with other relevant departments and agencies, to begin the process of identifying and publishing government files relating to extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and unidentified flying objects (UFO). » Donald J. Trump — Truth Social, February 19, 2026 (UFO VIDEO translation)

The second is the operational directive posted at war.gov/ufo: The Department of War, supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), coordinates “dozens of agencies” to review “tens of millions of documents, many of which exist only on paper,” with installments released “every few weeks.” The third is the Secretary of War's statement:

“These files, locked behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation — it’s time for the American people to see them for themselves. » Pete Hegseth — United States Secretary of War (UFO VIDEO translation)

And the same official page sets the limit with the same clarity: the published files do not show no interaction of the American government with beings from other planets, nor any reason to believe that such beings visited Earth. The two claims coexist on the same site: cases that the State cannot explain, and no proof of non-human origin.

PURSUE timeline — four installments in two months

• February 19, 2026 Presidential Directive on Truth Social: Identify and Publish UAP Files.
• May 8, 2026 First tranche — launch of the WAR.GOV/UFO portal and the PURSUE program.
• May 22, 2026 Second installment (UFO VIDEO folder).
• June 12, 2026 Third installment — six videos of orbular objects.
• July 10, 2026 · in progress Fourth installment — 40 files, from Los Alamos 1949 to infrared videos of 2025. Total base: 334 files.

What's not established — and pitfalls to avoid

Here is the paradox that runs through this entire issue. The publication is official: dated, referenced, hosted on a government server, with verifiable file identifiers. But the nature of the documented objects remains, in all the cases listed here, an officially open question — this is the very meaning of the “unresolved” classification. Seventy-seven years after Los Alamos, the question asked by these physicists in 1949 remains, word for word, the same: what was it?

For each piece, the conventional assumptions remain on the table: undeclared drones, balloons, orbital debris (for STS-80), optical or thermal sensor artifacts (for infrared videos — a “contrast zone” is not a confirmed solid object), experimental aircraft (Project SIGN itself was already comparing reports to delta-wing prototypes in 1948). None of these hypotheses can be imposed en bloc; none can be dismissed altogether. The only honest method is the one that the Department of War itself claims: room by room, sensor by sensor, with the chain of custody and the operational context of each.

Our piece by piece analyzes

VIDEO OVNI publishes a separate analysis for the major pieces of the tranche, with the same rule: neither overbidding nor minimizing.