The U.S. government has released a sixth batch of UFO-related records, adding 71 files to a disclosure process that began in May and has now become a rolling release of documents, videos and audio material.
The latest release came out on September 18 under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE. It followed earlier releases on May 8, May 22, June 12, July 10 and August 7. Those earlier batches included historical reports, government memos, videos, images, audio files and witness accounts from several agencies.
The new release does not settle the UFO debate. But it does shift the story again, because it adds a fresh batch of records at the same time that a separate reported sighting over Tehran is spreading online.
Sixth release includes aerospace studies and sensor cases
The sixth release included 55 PDF files, 15 video files and one audio file. Most were redacted. The records date from 1952 to 2025.
A major part of the release involves documents connected to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, or AAWSAP. The program commissioned studies on unusual aerospace concepts, including warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative mass propulsion and invisibility cloaking.
The Pentagon has cautioned that the papers should be read as reference or synthesis products, not as proof that those technologies exist or that they are connected to extraterrestrial craft.
The release also included more conventional UAP material. One 2022 incident from the Middle East involving objects estimated at around one to two meters in size, moving between 80 and 180 mph in a target area. Another item involved Colorado law-enforcement cellphone footage from October 2023 showing a silent object with red, blue and green flashing lights.
A later review of the sixth-release archive found that three additional transcripts tied to the Colorado local law-enforcement footage were added after publication, without a separate new tranche. AARO cautioned that cellphone autofocus and high magnification can distort how distant lights appear.
More recent coverage of the sixth release also highlighted the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film, in which U.S. Navy Warrant Officer Delbert Newhouse reported seeing 12 to 14 bright objects and filmed them on a handheld 16mm camera. Other items reportedly include infrared sensor cases from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, as well as a 2025 Middle East report describing six small spherical objects that appeared to change direction frequently.
Disclosure process expands
The new release is not the only recent development. On September 14, the Pentagon issued a targeted legal waiver allowing current and former service members, civilian personnel and contractors to disclose UAP-related national defense information to official PURSUE representatives.
That does not mean people can freely publish classified material online or speak to the media without consequences. The waiver appears limited to disclosures made through the PURSUE process. Still, it shows that UAP disclosure is moving beyond old files and into a more formal government procedure.
Since President Donald Trump’s February directive to release UFO and UAP-related records, the process has grown into a continuing declassification effort. In April, Trump said the review had uncovered “interesting” documents. Six releases have now followed.
Tehran lights revive UFO speculation
A sighting over Tehran, reportedly recorded on September 20, near Tehran’s Azadegan Expressway, has also attracted attention. Videos circulating online appear to show multicolored lights over the Iranian capital at night.
The footage has been widely discussed as a possible UFO or drone sighting. Reports note that there is no confirmed official explanation, and key details such as altitude, distance, size, speed and exact identity remain unclear.
Possible explanations discussed online include drones, aircraft lights, LED-equipped kites, balloons or other ordinary sources.
The Tehran videos also revived comparisons to the famous 1976 Tehran UFO incident, when Iranian fighter jets reportedly responded to a bright object and pilots later described instrument and communication problems. That older case remains one of the better-known international UFO incidents. The 1976 Tehran UFO incident occurred on September 19, 1976. The similarity in timing is part of why the new video attracted so much attention.
