6th batch of Pentagon UAP files: Air Force talk and more

This infrared video was recorded over a U.S. military platform in 2025. It shows 6 small apparent “spheres or orbs” making changes in direction and moving at an estimated 480 miles per hour (770 kph), according to the United States Central Command. The video is part of the 6th batch of Pentagon UAP files. Video via DoD.

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• The U.S. Pentagon released the 6th batch of formerly hidden UAP files on September 18, 2026.
• The release contains a mix of video, image and document files. There are 72 new files in all, and 15 are videos, 56 are documents and one is audio.
• The release is part of a continuing rollout of formerly classified files, every few weeks. And again so far, there’s been no “smoking gun” to show that alien craft are visiting Earth. Still, the files are interesting.

Pentagon UAP files: Part 6

The U.S. Pentagon released its 1st batch of declassified UAP/UFO materials on May 8, 2026. And now it has just made public batch 6. There are 72 new files in all in batch 6, including 15 videos, 56 documents and one audio. There are no image files this time around. All the files are on the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) website.

And as usual, Sean Parnell, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesman, said in a statement that the Department of Defense:

… is publishing the 6th release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The collection continues to be housed at WAR.GOV/UFO, and the Department will release additional files on a rolling basis.

For context, the Pentagon released a 2nd batch on May 22, a 3rd batch on June 12, the 4th batch on July 10 and the 5th batch on August 7, all in 2026.

As has been the pattern for these releases, they are a mixed bag of old and previously known material, and newer material. Do the releases prove aliens exist, or that alien craft are visiting Earth? Not so far.

Likely the most significant record in today’s federal government UAP records release is the audio and transcript of a recording of a 1952 talk on then-recent UFO data and events by Captain Edward Ruppelt, the head of the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book in the early 1950s. The…

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6 small objects above a U.S. military platform

One of the more interesting military videos is one recorded of several small spheres over a U.S. military platform in 2025 (see video at top and image below). The infrared video apparently shows six small “spheres or orbs,” as described by the United States Central Command. The description states:

The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. An accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D108, described the UAP as ‘six small spherical objects grouped together, and characterized their behavior as ‘seem[ingly] agile,’ and ‘frequently changing direction.’ The reporter estimated the speed of the UAP to have been 480 miles per hour [770 kph].

Captain Edward Ruppelt ‘Flying Saucer Talk’ in 1952

Included in this batch is the audio recording of a talk on UAP given by Captain Edward Ruppelt of the U.S. Air Force on March 26, 1952. Ruppelt later headed the well-known Project Blue Book study of UAP. The description states:

This audio file records a March 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, outlining the U.S. Air Force’s reorganized investigation into unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The presentation previews prospective technical methodologies, such as diffraction-grating photography and radar-scope synchronization, that were subsequently incorporated into Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force program active from 1952 to 1969 that investigated the nature and origin of UFOs. Ruppelt explains that out of approximately 800 historical cases reviewed by the Air Force, approximately 20% remained unexplained after technical analysis.

These unresolved reports were sourced from credible military personnel, commercial pilots and other qualified technical observers. He highlights geographic report concentrations around sensitive national security and nuclear weapons installations (including Los Alamos, Albuquerque, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories) and notes recurring anomalous characteristics, including silent high-speed flight and radar detections indicating unconfirmed air speeds between 1,000 and 3,500 miles per hour [around 1,600 to 5600 kph].

Emphasizing that the Air Force found no conclusive evidence regarding the nature or origin of the phenomena, Ruppelt underscores the national security need for a systematic physical data collection effort to better evaluate these sightings.

20% are ‘good reports’

Ruppelt’s basic conclusion, as stated:

We’ve gone through these reports and come up with the fact that about 20% are very good reports offered by very reliable people and are just absolutely no conclusions can be drawn.

And there’d been some chatter on social media that Ruppelt’s talk included the famous sightings of disks over Washington, D.C. in 1952. But those sightings didn’t happen until July 26, 1952, some months after the talk.

In additon, there are other files related to Project Blue Book.

You can listen to Ruppelt’s presentation (about an hour long) here and read a thread of the entire transcript here.

Tremonton, Utah, 1952

One of the primary documents is the Project Blue Book investigation of the famous Tremonton, Utah, video from July 2, 1952. The film shows a large group of small white objects flying in the blue sky.

The film has also been studied, analyzed and debated multiple times by others ever since, with no firm conclusions. The Project Blue Book study itself suggested sea birds as a likely explanation, however.

The famous Tremonton, Utah, film from July 2, 1952. A large group of small white objects can be seen moving in the blue sky. Video via DoD.

Defense Intelligence Reference Documents

This release also includes 37 “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents,” or DIRDs. They were produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP, 2008-2012) that dealt with fringe or futuristic topics like warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative mass propulsion and invisibility cloaking. All of them have already been publicly available for years. Some had been released through Freedom of Information Act releases by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). These “new” versions do include some details that had been previously withheld, though, such as the names of the agency offices that produced the documents.

One 38-page DIRD from 2010 analyzed what the report called:

… evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems.

One case was said to involve:

… three previous fit and active individuals experienced an anomalous [‘irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain’] aerospace-related event.

The individuals were said to have:

… suffered a range of medical symptoms in the aftermath, including heat and redness on their skin and hair loss. One of the individuals showed ‘signs of radiation illness’ and ‘over several years developed signs of malignant transformations.’

Legal waiver for government personnel on UAP

And in related news … on September 14, 2026, the U.S. government also announced a legal waiver that would allow current and former employees previously bound by nondisclosure agreements to share UAP-related information with the government’s PURSUE office.

As some have noted, the waiver is only for DOW/DoD employees, not people in the U.S. intelligence community. The press release states in part:

Under this directive, all current and former DOW service members, civilian personnel, and contractors holding or previously granted access to UAP-related National Defense Information (NDI) are authorized to disclose protected information directly to official PURSUE representatives. The waiver supersedes civil and administrative enforcement provisions contained within Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements (SAPIAs) previously executed within the United States, strictly for communications directed to the PURSUE team.

This infrared video, submitted by United States Indo-Pacific Command, shows a small white UAP flying above clouds and the ocean in 2023. Video via DoD.

Bottom line: The 6th batch of the Pentagon UAP files has just been released. Read about a U.S. Air Force talk on UAP from 1952, see more videos and more.

Read more:

Video files can be seen and downloaded here

Document files can be seen and downloaded here

Audio file can be seen and downloaded here

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