UAP Files Batch 6+7

The Pentagon announced a new legal waiver allowing current and former military to disclose UFO information to PURSUE, but there are some concerning shortcomings. Also, there have been two further UAP file drops, including the AAWSAP reports (or do they?), the 1952 Blue Book flying saucer briefing that Rep. Burlison requested from MIT, and a fascinating report about the FBI witnessing a flying black triangle!

UAP Disclosure Waiver

Wired: “Just over a year ago, Dylan Borland—a former Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist—told a House Oversight task force that he'd watched a roughly 100-foot triangular craft lift silently off the flight line at Langley Air Force Base in 2012. But there were some questions he couldn’t answer… He told members of Congress he could only answer their questions, such as whether a private company he worked for was reverse engineering nonhuman technology, inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF. He said he was concerned whether he was ‘legally even allowed to answer’ some questions and at one point cited a fear of being charged under the Espionage Act.”
Newsweek: “The Department of Defense announced Monday that it is issuing a legal waiver allowing current and former military personnel, civilian employees and contractors to disclose information related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs, to designated representatives of a government transparency initiative, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE)… Officials said the new process will create a formal pipeline for reviewing, evaluating and potentially declassifying historical and ongoing UAP information.”
Pentagon press release: “Historically, individuals with direct knowledge of UAP-related programs cited concerns regarding potential legal liability, loss of clearances, or administrative prosecution stemming from standard NDAs and SAP indoctrination terms. This waiver removes those barriers by explicitly authorizing covered disclosures to PURSUE representatives without triggering breach-of-agreement penalties or standard NDA violations.”
Borland in Wired: “Those of us who already became whistleblowers, we already were told that our NDAs were waived. We were legally allowed to talk to AARO,” he says, referring to the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, created in 2022 to investigate UAP reports and serve as the official channel for whistleblowers. He adds that the new directive essentially “just repeated what we've been told for three, four years.”
Liberation Times Editor-in-Chief Chris Sharp noted that the press release didn’t mention AARO at all: “PURSUE appears to supersede AARO now.”
Journalist Joe Murgia, highlighting the phrase “individuals with direct knowledge of UAP-related programs”: “One would expect that to say ‘alleged UAP-related programs’… We need to see the actual language from the waiver… Until we hear otherwise, I'm gonna assume they just forgot to include ‘alleged.’”
Former State Dept Analyst Marik Von Rennenkampff: “Certainly possible. That said, given the intense public scrutiny that any USG release on UAP generates, I suspect this press release was meticulously wordsmithed.”
Wired: “The new waiver also only covers those who have worked with the Pentagon, leaving a CIA-sized hole in it.”
Von Rennenkampff: “Deputy DNI Lukas indicated that a waiver governing the IC is coming.”
Wired: “There's a second gap that no memo can close. Many of the people alleged to hold this information work for private contractors, and the government can't waive an NDA it isn't party to. Only the 2022 statute addresses those types of agreements, and only for disclosures made through the official AARO channel.”
Journalist Rob Jones: “This morning we requested a copy of the legal waiver itself… We have received no response… Current and former personnel are being told they're legally protected if they come forward, but neither they, nor their attorneys can read the document that supposedly provides that protection, which leaves no way to assess what it actually covers or whether it would survive a challenge.”

UAP Files Batches 6 & 7

Two UAP file batches were released, one on September 18, and another on this past Friday, October 23.

MIT Flying Saucer Briefing

Rep Burlison: “I sent a letter to MIT Lincoln Labs asking for a classified 1952 briefing video referenced as a ‘flying saucer talk.’”
CBS News, 9/18: “The Pentagon… released its sixth batch of files on [UAP], including… an hour-long audio recording and transcript of remarks by Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt from 1952 in which he explains the service's investigation into UFO incidents. In the presentation, Ruppelt revealed that roughly 20% of the 800 UFO reports the Air Force had investigated were still a mystery. ‘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 … just absolutely no conclusions can be drawn,’ Ruppelt said. Ruppelt would go on to run Project Blue Book, an Air Force program that investigated UFOs from 1952 to 1969.”
Grusch: “ Representative Burlison and I, before I left his office recently got a 1952 recording that was still classified from Blue Book, talking about the seriousness of this issue and all the crazy shit that they're seeing near nuclear sites and test ranges… Edward Ruppelt… [who] eventually defected from Blue Book because he realized it was a coverup in the '50s… was talking to the Beacon Hill study team at MIT Lincoln Labs saying, ‘Hey, the Air Force has ruled out mass hysteria. We're seeing shit during nuclear tests… In the White Sands, Holloman Air Force Base area, we caught multiple objects traveling an estimated 3,500 miles an hour. We can't rule out maybe some sort of meteor shower, but we're seeing a lot of weird shit moving at velocities that we don't know.’ And in the recording it [says] we've ruled out… foreign programs, et cetera. And this is an internal recorded briefing between Lincoln Lab scientists and the Air Force that just got released in the recent tranche… Which is interesting because… it mentions the very sites that in modern day have that same anomalous activity.”

AAWSAP Files Included

CBS News, 9/18: “The historical files include… dozens of documents detailing a military program that commissioned studies… linked to possible encounters with unknown craft… The most noteworthy documents deal with a secretive military initiative known as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program… The release includes 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, or DIRDs, produced under AAWSAP, dealing with topics like warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative mass propulsion and invisibility cloaking.”
CBS News: “While most of the DIRDs examine ideas that are typically the domain of science fiction, one is a 38-page highly technical study from 2010 analyzing "evidence of unintended injury to human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems.”
CBS: “Researchers recounted that ‘three previous fit and active individuals experienced an anomalous ['irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain'] aerospace-related event’ and 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.’”
CBS: “The document did not identify the source of the exposure that led to the symptoms, but said the three individuals were ‘antennae engineers.’ The author compared the cases to 42 published and roughly 300 unpublished incidents of conventional radiofrequency injury where the source of the radiation was known. ‘Sufficient incidents/accidents have been accurately reported, and medical data acquired, as to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque to full US understanding,’ the author found.”

AAWSAP Files Missing

Fox News Reporter Peter Doocy: “There’s a newly declassified copy of an expense report going through the $22 million that the DIA spent to investigate… Skinwalker Ranch… [and] UAPs. Harry Reid… in 2008, got $22 million to investigate this. Senior White House officials are telling me they cannot find any copy of the records. They got all the proof that this government contractor was spending $22 million to do this investigation, but when folks high up at the White House, who can just pick up a phone and say ‘I need a copy of those records,’ make the call, they are being told that if these records were created, they are either lost or something happened to them.”
Above the Norm News: “Despite the new material, the release left a substantial gap. The original field investigations, extensive case database and detailed assessments described by former programme participants were not included as a complete investigative archive.”
Liberation Times Editor-in-Chief Chris Sharp: “People within the DoW/IC apparently cannot find them or are claiming they are lost. I have been told this is a recurring pattern when it comes to certain videos etc.”
George Knapp in episode two of Robert Bigelow’s podcast, 8/11: “Word from the White House, which was asked, ‘Well, where's the rest of it?’ Because the list of all the [AAWSAP] reports that you guys created has been public for a couple of years now, and everyone's wondering where the heck are they?”
- Bigelow: “BAASS, our organization, we have the 38 papers. We have copies of everything… So, DIA has those someplace.”
- Knapp: “But they deny it. They say, ‘We don't have them.’”
- Bigelow: “Well, I don't know. They could be buried in a frigging trailer or the back of a car somewhere in the trunk and put into a cellar. I don't know where it is, but we have ours, we have copies of everything.”
Dr Colm Kelleher, deputy administrator of AAWSAP, 9/22: “When we were putting together the final set of documents in my office before they were sent to the DIA, there was a stack of three-ring binders that was about, between five and six feet tall in my office that were eventually FedExed to the DIA. So we're talking between 8,000 and 10,000 pages of documents that would have to be separately gone through line-by-line in order to identify personal identifiable information, medical issues that people have talked about during UFOs. So, a lot of confidential information would have to be scrutinized. So, that's an enormous amount of work that would need to be, you know, gone into… We know that paper copies and electronic copies were individually submitted to DIA. I mean, we know that. So, they definitely are at the Defense Intelligence Agency.”
Robert Bigelow, 10/6: “I received this letter, dated September 29… Colm talked earlier about our having 8-10,000 pages overall… He thinks about 5,000 pages, maybe 6 that have not been released, but apparently the DIA have found… those documents. And so this letter is… saying, ‘given the passage of time and recent public statements by Mr Robert Bigelow on the Bigelow Podcast… DIA understands that BAASS does not object to the disclosure of AAWSAP material held by DIA… Additionally… the government retained an unlimited right… to disclose and distribute copies to the public.’ So this is kind of like a courtesy letter, I think, letting us know that’s what they intend to do.”

Black Triangle Report

CBS News, 10/23: “Federal agents in the western U.S. this year encountered a large, triangular aircraft that zoomed through the sky from a standstill while making no noise or giving off any exhaust, according to new documents released by the Pentagon. The agents' recollections were included in the Defense Department's [seventh] release of [UAP] files.”
FBI statement: "We initiated a visual survey of the western horizon and almost immediately observed a substantial, nonreflective, dark black triangular object most resembling a delta wing drone. We estimated the object's wingspan at approximately nine to fifteen feet, its depth at six to nine feet, and its thickness at one to two feet."
CBS: “The AARO report notes that the ‘unidentified craft was executing a slow, controlled, perfectly vertical ascent directly over the ridge line. The craft climbed approximately two to three hundred feet while maintaining a completely static orientation without tilting, swaying, or wobbling. The non-reflective, matte black exterior presented a continuous, featureless profile.’ Investigators wrote that the ‘ascent occurred in absolute acoustic silence.’”
CBS: “The agents told the FBI that when viewed through an infrared scope, the object ‘appeared hotter than ambient temperature with a completely consistent thermal signature across the entire airframe and no visible exhaust gases.’ When the craft was 200 to 300 feet above the ridgeline, it ‘instantaneously’ stopped moving and began hovering, staying perfectly still for about 20 seconds, the AARO debrief said. The craft then sped off, reaching a velocity ‘compared to that [of] a military fighter jet.’ The agents lost sight of it within a few seconds.”
UAP Science Advisory Council Chair Avi Loeb: “What makes the account interesting is the combination of reported details. The object climbed almost vertically while keeping a steady orientation, then hovered. The witnesses described no sound, and the thermal view reportedly showed no distinct hot spots or temperature differences across the object. It then banked and disappeared into a canyon in just a few seconds. Those observations do not establish the nature of the UAP and the report does not include a measured speed or raw sensor recordings. The fundamental question is whether the triangular object was manufactured in a black project of an adversarial nation or an extraterrestrial project with off-world technology.”

Reactions

UAP Science Advisory Council member Jacob Haqq Misra released a new paper on arxiv with a compelling explanation for several videos in the UAP files: “An infrared video recorded from a military aircraft over the Middle East, with a mission report describing six small spherical objects moving at an estimated 480 miles per hour. We measure the brightness of each object in every frame. All six brighten and dim steadily at 7.1-7.9 times per second, each at its own rate and out of step with the others… Neither compression nor the sensor produces this flicker. The same analysis, applied to the Galileo Project's ground-based infrared cameras… finds flying animals beating steadily at 3.4-10.0 times per second, within the range of bird wingbeats. A nearly stationary object at 60-80% of the aircraft's height would produce the reported ground-projected speed of 480 miles per hour. (the parallax effect.) The six objects are best explained as a small flock of birds flying nearer to the aircraft than the crew assumed. The same analysis also finds 19 objects with similar beats, at 2.3-11.0 times per second, in nine other released military videos. Releasing the redacted sensor and platform data would provide information that could refute the bird hypothesis.”
UFO researcher Jason Samosa: “I've become convinced the real goal is to increase the reach of the UFO issue 1% at a time. It's a slow, safe, and stable approach. In that sense, the ‘where is the real evidence?’ diatribe is part of the plan. This is what they want. A slow build up of discussion so that by the time a serious figure confirms key data points, everyone has already digested it.”

References

Pentagon press release: DOW Issues Legal Waiver to Authorize UAP Disclosures to PURSUE
Newsweek: Pentagon Issues Major Change to UFO Disclosure Rules
DefenseScoop: Pentagon offers new ‘targeted legal relief’ for UAP whistleblowers supporting Trump’s PURSUE work
The Debrief: Pentagon Opens New Pathway for Government Insiders to Disclose UAP Information
Wired: The Trump Administration Sends a New Signal to Alien Disclosure Whistleblowers
Sharp: “PURSUE appears to supercede AARO now.”
Von Rennenkampff: “Dep DNI Lukas indicated an IC waiver is coming.”
Murgia: “One would expect that to say alleged UAP-related programs.”
Von Rennnenkampff: "I suspect this press release was meticulously wordsmithed."
Jones: “They can’t read the document that supposedly provides that protection.”
Fox News: Never-before seen files released by the White House and Peter Doocy got a first look!
Sharp: “I have been told this is a recurring pattern.”
Bigelow Podcast: Episode 2, the New Space Race, AI Threats, and National Survival
Bigelow Podcast: Colm Kelleher, the Evolution of AAWSAP
Bigelow Podcast: DIA Says it Finally Located the Missing AAWSAP Files
Above the Norm News: Pentagon Reportedly Finds Long-Missing Files From Secret UFO Programme
CBS News: Pentagon releases more UFO files, including documents on secretive military program
CBS News: New UFO files include details of strange triangular craft: "Absolute acoustic silence"
Loeb: The Triangular UAP in the 7th Tranche of PURSUE
Rep Burlison: “I sent a letter to MIT Lincoln Labs asking for a classified 1952 UFO briefing.”
Rep Burlison: Letter to MIT Lincoln Labs
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt Blue Book Presentation (transcript)
Samosa: “The real goal is to increase the reach of the UFO issue 1% at a time.”
Haqq-Misra: Six objects reported at 480 mph in a declassified military infrared video show brightness flicker at bird wingbeat rates

Episode 97, posted on October 25, 2026