Released August 7, 2026·41 documents

Release 05: 41 declassified UAP files — the FBI's first witness interviews and triangle renderings, six Gulf of Oman gunship videos, and the 1963 Bahia sphere cables

Tranche five of the Department of War's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), released August 7, 2026. 41 records spanning 1947-2026: the FBI's first substantial tranche — eight FD-302 witness interviews paired with eight digital renderings of reported triangles and red lights over Colorado Springs, Afghanistan and the western United States — six AC-130J gunship videos from the Gulf of Oman in 2021 alongside their Intelligence Information Report, five Navy UAPTF hand-held Pacific Ocean videos from 2019, four Middle East sensor clips from 2023 and 2025, the November 1963 Bahia, Brazil "large metal sphere" thread traced across two State Department cables and a National Aeronautics and Space Council inquiry, a 1947 intelligence review of Sweden's "Ghost Rocket" incidents, Project Sign correspondence, and CIA memoranda on a 1964-65 Puerto Rico incident. 22 PDFs, 16 videos, and 3 images across five agencies.

Fifth tranche under PURSUE; the first four dropped May 8, May 22, June 12, and July 10, 2026. The Executive Office of the President appears for the first time (a National Aeronautics and Space Council inquiry into the November 1963 Bahia, Brazil incident); the Department of State returns for the first time since Release 01; NASA is absent from a tranche for the first time. The FBI's share jumps from 1 record in Release 04 to 17 here. war.gov changed its asset path for this tranche - files now sit under /medialink/ufo/release_05/Aug_07/documents/ rather than Release 04's date-prefixed layout. PDF and image records deep-link their direct war.gov asset via pdfUrl; the 16 video records stream via DVIDS on the release page, so they leave pdfUrl null and rely on the sourceUrl deep-link. 14 of the 41 records carry a redaction flag on the release page. Whole-release bundles are posted (Release 05 documents ~130MB, videos ~513MB). Scraped from war.gov's uap-data.csv via the Chrome MCP (Akamai blocks headless/curl) on 2026-08-11; record order verified against the Release 05 filtered view (4 pages x 12 rows).