On 18 September 2026, the US Department of War released the sixth batch of materials from the PURSUE program — the Presidential system for declassification and reporting on encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena. Seventy-two files: dozens of documents, fifteen videos and one audio recording, covering the period from 1952 to 2025. But the real interest in the release arose not so much from its volume as from how it was assessed by Professor Avi Loeb — an astrophysicist from Harvard and head of the Scientific Advisory Council on UAP.
Almost immediately after publication, Loeb went through the key materials. His attention was especially drawn to a one-minute infrared recording from a military platform over the Middle East in 2025. The footage shows six small spherical objects moving as a group. In the accompanying report, the operator noted that they "seem agile" and "frequently change direction," and estimated their speed at roughly 480 miles per hour. Loeb emphasized: ordinary drones, especially in a tight formation, fly noticeably slower. Maintaining formation at such a speed requires communication and precision that go beyond known capabilities. A coordinated swarm at 480 miles per hour would look extremely risky even for the most advanced systems. "This is either unknown advanced technology, or something else," he noted, leaving the question open, but quite serious.
Another recording that Loeb also drew attention to shows a white sphere over the Yellow Sea in 2023. The object passes through the clouds and leaves a faint trail. For an astrophysicist, this is important confirmation: we are looking at a physical object, not a glare or a camera artifact. For the first time, the release also included materials from local police — a phone video by an officer from Colorado, capturing a silent object with blinking lights. One of the clips lasts fifteen minutes.
The historical part of the batch also did not go without assessment. Loeb specifically noted an audio recording of a speech by Captain Edward Ruppelt in 1952. The first director of Project Blue Book said at the time that about 20 percent of the 800 cases reviewed remained unexplained. Ruppelt also mentioned objects that moved several times faster than sound, but without the characteristic sonic boom. Loeb called this one of the strangest details: supersonic movement usually produces a boom that can be heard far away. Along with the recording, the Newhouse film over Tremonton was also published — bright objects that never received a final explanation.
A separate block of documents concerned the AAWSAP program of 2008. For the first time on such a scale, research on warp drives, wormholes, antigravity and spintronics was released. The program's budget was 22 million dollars. Loeb also noted that the materials for the first time directly link physiological injuries of military personnel to possible close encounters with unknown objects.
For the head of the Scientific Advisory Council, the sixth release became another step in the consistent declassification of what had long remained behind closed doors. Loeb does not make loud claims, but consistently emphasizes: the data are now open, they can be analyzed, and many details do not fit into the usual framework. Spheres changing direction at high speed, supersonic objects without sound, research into technologies that until recently were considered science fiction — all of this is now available. The Council continues its work, and the next batch is already being prepared. What was kept silent for decades is gradually coming to light.
