PURSUE Release 04, fourth tranche
Fourth tranche of declassified UAP records released through the PURSUE portal: 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio recordings, and 3 images sourced from the Department of War, NASA, CIA, FBI, and the Department of Energy. 40 files total. Announced by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell.
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Official description
On July 10, 2026 the Department of War published a fourth release of files through PURSUE. Release 04 adds forty new records: fourteen documents, nineteen videos, four audio recordings, and three images. Contributing agencies named in the announcement: Department of War, NASA, CIA, FBI, and the Department of Energy. Named individual cases highlighted at release include the 2015 Pantex nuclear-weapons facility intrusion (Amarillo, Texas); a 2020 Atlantic Ocean 12-15 foot maroonish object; a 2019 Eastern US rectangular object account from a 28-year US military aviator; a 2025 Yellow Sea six-pointed star formation; a 2025 East China Sea INDOPACOM tracking event; a 1949 Los Alamos green-fireballs physicists' conference transcript; Project Sign and Project Blue Book records; 1955 CIA sighting analyses; and NASA STS-80 imagery.
Editor's context
Release 04 continues the roughly monthly cadence established by Releases 01 (May 8), 02 (May 22), and 03 (June 12). Its structural feature is the broadening of DoE participation (the Pantex nuclear intrusion is the second DoE-contributed case, following the Sandia / Pajarito / PANTEX historical set in Release 02) and the return of large historical batches from Project Sign / Blue Book and 1949-1955 CIA / Los Alamos material. Sean Parnell confirmed a fifth release is in preparation.
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- Stampp. release headerDEPARTMENT OF WAR, PURSUE RELEASE 04
- AnnotationFile breakdown: 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio recordings, 3 images. Total 40 records.
- AnnotationContributing agencies: DoW, NASA, CIA, FBI, Department of Energy.
- AnnotationSecond Department of Energy contribution to PURSUE (following Release 02 DOE historical set).
- AnnotationSean Parnell (Assistant to SecWar for Public Affairs) confirmed a fifth release is in preparation.
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U.S. Department of Defense. "PURSUE Release 04, fourth tranche." Released via PURSUE program, 2026-07-10. File ID: PURSUE Release 04. https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4539898/department-of-war-publishes-fourth-release-of-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/. Accessed 2026-09-04 via Social Media for Aliens archive, https://socialmediaforaliens.com/files/pursue-release-04-2026.
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