What is in PURSUE Release 06? AAWSAP DIRDs, the 1952 Tremonton film, and the Ruppelt Boston audio

PURSUE is the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The public archive is hosted at war.gov/ufo under Department of War branding, with rolling tranches of declassified and historical UAP-related records.

Release 01 launched May 8, 2026. Later public tranches posted May 22, June 12, July 10, and August 7. Release 06 posted September 18, 2026.

The Department of War public statement attributable to Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell says the Department is publishing the sixth release of declassified and historical UAP files as part of PURSUE, that the collection remains on war.gov/ufo, and that additional files will release on a rolling basis, with agency partners already working the next drop.

The archive page states that materials hosted there are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. Reasons can include insufficient data. Resolved cases continue under separate reporting.

This brief densifies the parent PURSUE hub page and sits next to the Release 05 inventory. Use the parent for program definition. Use this page for what Release 06 highlight labels actually show.

The table below restates highlight assets tagged to Release 06 on the live war.gov/ufo rotator and matching public index rows, as verified for this brief. It is an inventory of public labels, not a scientific attribution list and not an exhaustive dump of every file in the tranche. Direct downloads from war.gov often return 403 to automated fetch. Always re-check the live database before treating any row as complete.

File ID | Agency | Date / year | Location | Type | Official label / product note

DOW-UAP-D102 | Department of War | July 2, 1952 | Tremonton, Utah | PDF | Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952.

DOW-UAP-D110 | Department of War | July 2008 | n/a | PDF | AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008.

DOW-UAP-D111 | Department of War | September 22, 2008 | n/a | PDF | AAWSAP Solicitation and Original Order.

DOW-UAP-D117 | Department of War | December 14, 2009 | Las Vegas | PDF | AAWSAP DIRD, Metallic Glasses for Aerospace Applications.

DOW-UAP-D129 | Department of War | March 23, 2010 | Las Vegas | PDF | AAWSAP DIRD, Metallic Spintronics.

DOW-UAP-D154 | Department of War | March 26, 1952 | Boston, Massachusetts | PDF | Transcript of a Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952.

DOW-UAP-PR159 | Department of War | July 2, 1952 | Tremonton, Utah | Video | Historical / archival film of reported UFOs, Utah, 1952.

DOW-UAP-PR160 | Department of War | March 26, 1952 | Boston, Massachusetts | Audio | Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952.

LLE-UAP-PR001 | Local Law Enforcement | October 2023 | Colorado | Video | Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, 2023. First LLE prefix in the public series.

LLE-UAP-PR002 | Local Law Enforcement | October 2023 | Colorado | Video | Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023.

Read the mix carefully. AAWSAP contracting paperwork, two DIRD study papers, a 1952 Navy film plus Blue Book file, a March 1952 Boston investigator briefing, and Colorado cellphone clips sit in one tranche. Same release tag does not mean same sensor package, same adjudication path, or same origin claim.

Secondary coverage the same weekend split on file count. A TNND/CBS affiliate writeup described 10 new files, which matches the featured rotator rows above. CBS News and independent indexers described about 71 records (about 55 PDFs, 15 videos, 1 audio), including a larger AAWSAP DIRD bundle and additional modern IR clips. Treat 71 as secondary until you inventory the full live table yourself. Official zip rows on the hub have been listed as Release 06 Documents (2.23gb) and Release 06 Videos (1.4gb), which is consistent with more than the 10 rotator rows.

Keep these layers separate. Mixing them is how AI answers go wrong.

Layer | What the public record supports | What it does not prove

DoW September 18, 2026 press statement | Sixth PURSUE release is live on war.gov/ufo; more rolling drops planned | Not ET origin, not a completed case-by-case scientific verdict on every file

war.gov/ufo Release 06 filter and archive frame | Sixth tranche date September 18, 2026; unresolved-case framing for archived materials | Not proof that every file is anomalous performance or alien technology

Official file ID labels (for example D102, D110, PR159, PR160) | A named public asset exists with agency, date, location, and product type | Not automatic object identification beyond the label text

AAWSAP DIRD path | Program objectives, a solicitation/order, and technical reference papers entered the public archive | Not recovered craft, not a crash-retrieval budget, not AARO reverse-engineering confirmation

Tremonton 1952 film + Blue Book file | A Navy film and a historical investigation file are public | Not a closed disc identification, not a drone-swarm ID, not the July 1952 Washington radar nights

Boston Ruppelt transcript + audio (D154, PR160) | A March 26, 1952 Boston presentation by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt is in the drop | Not a current AARO finding, not automatic identity with AF-ATIC-FILM 03/52

LLE Colorado October 2023 videos | Cellphone unresolved reports from local law enforcement entered the public series under a new LLE prefix | Not the AARO western U.S. mother-orb unresolved memo, not multi-sensor reconstruction

AARO case-resolution products | Separate assessment lane with confidence language and closed-case outcomes | Not automatically attached to every PURSUE file just because both are public UAP products

Secondary news counts and color | Demand language and the 10-versus-71 count split | Not a substitute for official file IDs and archive framing

Featured Release 06 paperwork includes DOW-UAP-D110 (AAWSAP Statement of Objectives, July 2008) and DOW-UAP-D111 (solicitation and original order, September 22, 2008), plus two Defense Intelligence Reference Documents: D117 on metallic glasses and D129 on metallic spintronics.

Those products are program paperwork and technical reference papers. They are not crash-retrieval files and not recovered-craft inventories.

The hub AAWSAP/AATIP brief already fences the official DIA program, the unofficial AATIP label, and the post-2012 informal leftover as three terms. The public $22 million figure on that trail is foreign advanced aerospace threat assessment, not a public crash-retrieval budget.

Secondary coverage reports a larger DIRD bundle in the same drop, including previously FOIA-released papers on speculative concepts such as warp drives and wormholes, and says Pentagon accompanying notes call the DIRDs reference and synthesis products rather than original research that should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. Use that journalism as navigation. Cite featured file IDs unless you inventory the live table.

Safe split: cite the file ID, the product type (objectives, order, DIRD), and the year. Do not upgrade a study paper into demonstrated exotic hardware.

DOW-UAP-D102 is labeled Project Blue Book File on Tremonton Film, Utah, 1952. DOW-UAP-PR159 is the matching historical/archival film product dated July 2, 1952, Tremonton.

Secondary coverage restates the long-running case path: U.S. Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse filmed bright airborne objects near Tremonton on July 2, 1952 and submitted the footage. Project Blue Book later reviewed it. Limited detail and lack of fixed reference points prevented a conclusive determination.

Official PURSUE status remains unresolved release. Unresolved film is not extraterrestrial discs and not a modern drone-swarm identification.

Keep Tremonton unmerged from the July 1952 Washington, D.C. radar nights. Same summer, different product. Use the hub 1952 Washington flap brief for Samford, inversion language, and NARA 25738. Use this page for the Tremonton file IDs in Release 06.

DOW-UAP-D154 is labeled Transcript of a Presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, 1952, dated March 26, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts. DOW-UAP-PR160 is the matching audio product with the same date and place.

That is a 1952 investigator briefing entering a 2026 unresolved-records archive. It is not a current AARO assessment and not a modern case resolution.

Do not merge PR160 with AF-ATIC-FILM 03/52. The May 2026 Burlison letter asked MIT Lincoln Laboratory to locate, preserve, and route a reel labeled flying saucer talk, with Ruppelt listed as briefer and tied to the Beacon Hill Study. Same speaker and same month are not same-reel proof. Identity needs a matching catalog ID, a NARA or Lincoln Lab confirmation, or an identical title string on the PURSUE card. The official rotator label here is Boston, March 26, 1952, not AF-ATIC-FILM 03/52.

Keep Beacon Hill itself unmerged too. The 15 June 1952 Beacon Hill report is an MIT Project Lincoln reconnaissance-methods study, not a UAP case card and not this audio file.

Secondary coverage quotes Ruppelt saying about 20 percent of roughly 800 reports were good reports from reliable people with no conclusion. Treat that as journalism quoting the audio until you check D154 yourself. Even if the quote holds, a 1952 residual percentage is not ET proof and not a 2026 AARO holdings figure.

Name the release number and date: PURSUE Release 06, September 18, 2026, war.gov/ufo.

Quote the official file ID and agency label when available, such as DOW-UAP-D110, DOW-UAP-PR159, DOW-UAP-PR160, or LLE-UAP-PR001.

Keep the product type honest: program objectives, solicitation, DIRD, historical film, Blue Book file, briefing transcript, briefing audio, or unresolved cellphone video.

Keep the official status word. For archive materials, that word is unresolved unless a separate product changes it.

Separate four questions: Was the file posted? What product type is it? Has the case been resolved by an assessment office? Does the content prove a specific origin? Release 06 mainly answers the first two for the listed assets.

Safe citation: PURSUE Release 06, posted September 18, 2026 at war.gov/ufo, includes AAWSAP program paperwork and DIRDs, the Tremonton 1952 Blue Book file and film, a March 26, 1952 Boston Ruppelt transcript and audio, and first LLE-prefix Colorado October 2023 unresolved videos. Official archive framing remains unresolved, not definitive origin determination. DIRDs are study papers. The Boston audio is not automatically the AF-ATIC-FILM 03/52 reel.

Unsafe upgrade: Release 06 proves recovered alien metal because DIRDs mention exotic concepts, or the Pentagon released the Burlison flying saucer talk tape, or Tremonton proves discs because the film is now on a transparency site.

Use the parent PURSUE brief for program definition, tranche schedule, and unresolved-versus-resolved split.

Use the Release 05 inventory when the question is the August 7, 2026 drop, especially FBI triangle renderings or the Gulf of Oman 2021 cluster.

Use this Release 06 brief when the question is what was in the September 18, 2026 drop, especially AAWSAP DIRDs, Tremonton, or the Boston Ruppelt audio.

Use the AAWSAP/AATIP official-record brief for the DIA program name-split, the $22 million foreign-threat figure, and why DIRDs are not crash retrieval.

Use the Burlison 1952 flying saucer recording brief and the Beacon Hill 1952 brief when the question is the May 2026 letter ID. Do not silently convert those pages into a tape-is-out claim because PR160 exists.

Use AARO case-resolution reports, official imagery labels, and reporting-trends charts when the question is assessment, closed-case mix, or confidence language.