The PURSUE Scoreboard: Seven Tranches, 478 Records, and What Is Still Missing

Seven tranches in, the PURSUE program has a body of work, and a body of work can be counted. So we counted it.

Every number below comes from one place: the index the Department of War publishes alongside the files at war.gov/UFO, the spreadsheet that drives the search table on that page. We took a snapshot of it on October 27, 2026. Where a number comes from our own reading of the files rather than the index, we say so and link the piece where we did the reading.

The count

Release	Date	Records	Docs	Video	Audio	Images	Gap
01	May 8	158	116	27	1	14
02	May 22	64	6	51	7	0	14 days
03	June 12	72	53	6	3	10	21 days
04	July 10	40	14	19	4	3	28 days
05	Aug 7	41	22	16	0	3	28 days
06	Sept 18	75	59	15	1	0	42 days
07	Oct 23	28	28	0	0	0	35 days
Total		478	298	134	16	30

Two things stand out before you read a single file.

The releases are spacing out and thinning out. The gaps went from two weeks to five or six. Release 07 is the smallest yet, and the first with no video at all. Release 06 looks like the exception, but much of its bulk was 37 AAWSAP research papers that had been public since a FOIA release in March 2022.

The index moves after release day. On September 18 the index counted 72 records for Release 06. It now counts 75. The three additions are all Colorado law enforcement transcripts: the release’s PDFs rose from 56 to 59, and its law enforcement records from five to eight. We have found no announcement of them. That is not sinister, but it means any count of PURSUE, including this one, is a count as of a date.

Who is releasing

Agency	Records
Department of War	282
FBI	105
NASA	40
CIA	23
Department of State	9
Local law enforcement	8
Department of Energy	5
Executive Office of the President	2
”U.S. Government”	2
ODNI	1
”Intelligence Community Agency”	1

Defense intelligence material, the DIA’s AAWSAP papers among it, is filed under the Department of War, so the intelligence community is not as absent as the bottom of this table makes it look. But the records the index credits to the CIA, ODNI or an unnamed intelligence agency add up to 25. That matters because the intelligence community is exactly where the whistleblower claims say the legacy programs sit, and as of today it has no published NDA waiver of its own.

When it happened

PURSUE is often described as an archive dump. It is closer to half archive, half current file.

• 210 records concern incidents in the 2020s.
• 90 concern the 1940s through the 1960s, the foo-fighter and Project Blue Book years.
• 58 are from the 2010s and 19 from the 2000s. Only 26 concern the 1970s through the 1990s, three decades with almost nothing in the file.
• 75 have no incident date in the index at all.

The modern material is mostly military sensor video and FBI tip-line reports. The historical material is mostly paper. That split is also the split between what gets headlines and what teaches you something, which is a point we have made in nearly every tranche review.

Unresolved, redacted

Ninety records carry the word “Unresolved” in their official title, usually as “Unresolved UAP Report.” That is the government saying it did not identify the object. It is not the government saying it identified something non-human. AARO’s published position is still that it has “discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology,” and that finding is about the cases it could fully analyze, not the ones it could not.

The index flags 282 of the 478 records as redacted. Redaction is not evidence of a cover-up. Names, units and sources get blacked out in every declassified file. But it does mean that most of what PURSUE has released is a version of a record, not the record. When Release 06 put out a DIA report that a 2022 FOIA had already produced, the only difference we found was a lifted office block and names swapped for pseudonyms. The SECRET version is still unreleased.

One more thing missing, which the index does not count and we did: the sound. Every one of Release 06’s fifteen video clips carries an audio track, and every track measures as digital silence, an empty channel rather than a quiet room.

The two questions

We ask two questions of every tranche. Here is where seven of them leave both.

Any biological record? One. Release 07 included a 2010 contractor report on four hairs collected at a Utah ranch under the DIA’s AAWSAP program. The lab identified them as raccoon and dog. The same contractor told the DIA it knew of programs involving “associated biological material,” and produced none.

Any photo or video for the western U.S. cases? None. The program has described several western U.S. incidents in writing, most recently a silent black triangle over a national security site in June 2026. What came with that file were nine drawings on a daytime photograph, not pictures of the object.

And for the question everyone actually asks: there is no record of a recovered craft, or of material analysis of one. The closest Release 07 came was a 2009 contractor plan for a secure underground vault, and a 1963 “foreign materiel” memo that turns out to be about rocket debris.

What would change the score

The program does not need to release a body to move this scoreboard. Any of these would:

1. Original sound on any military clip, or the unredacted version of a record already released in redacted form.
2. An intelligence-community tranche, with records credited to the CIA, NSA or NRO in numbers comparable to the FBI’s.
3. A file that closes an unresolved case, either way. A program that only ever adds to the unresolved pile is not investigating, it is publishing.
4. Anything physical: a materials analysis, a chain of custody, a photograph of an object rather than a drawing of one.

We will update this page when the eighth tranche lands.

Counts are from the war.gov/UFO index as of October 27, 2026, retrieved through a standard browser. Decades are taken from the index’s incident date field. Findings about file contents come from our tranche-by-tranche reviews, linked above, where we read the records in full.