- The Pentagon's 7th UAP release: 28 files
Includes a June 2026 memo about a silent black triangle at a sensitive western US site (no physical evidence found) and space-race guidance on handling crashed craft. Source: EarthSky
- Mars' best life candidate is stranded
With Mars Sample Return cancelled, the Sapphire Canyon sample may never reach an Earth lab; China's Tianwen-3 plans its own sample return. Source: CNN
- 6th release: 71 files
Pentagon research papers from 2008 to 2012 (including warp drives), a 1952 Project Blue Book recording and recent Middle East footage. Source: FOX 10 video
- 5th release: gunship footage
An AC-130J recorded about 25 unidentified objects over the Gulf of Oman in 2021; also an orb over a Middle East town (January 2025). Source: war.gov/UFO
- Secrecy pledges no longer block UAP reports
Intelligence guidance says non-disclosure agreements don't stop staff from reporting UAP information to AARO or the PURSUE task force. Source: DLA Piper
- 4th release: the first Energy Department files
Includes the 1949 "green fireballs" over Los Alamos and a 2015 case at the Pantex nuclear plant. Source: war.gov/UFO
- 3rd release: 72 files from the CIA, FBI, NASA and Pentagon
Documents, renderings, six videos and three NASA audio clips. Source: Department of War
- The first Pentagon UFO files go public
162 files on war.gov/UFO, including Apollo and Gemini astronaut reports. All open cases are "unresolved" for lack of data. Source: NBC News video
- Presidential order to release UAP files
The PURSUE program is set up to find, declassify and publish federal UAP records. Source: MeriTalk
- No technology signals from K2-18b
A radio search for technosignatures from the planet with the disputed DMS hint found nothing. Source: Astronomy
- Congress asks about UAP intercepts
The 2026 defence bill asks AARO to brief Congress on the number, location and nature of UAP intercepts by NORAD and Northern Command. Source: DefenseScoop
- NASA shows 3I/ATLAS is a comet
Spacecraft images show a coma and tail, as expected for a comet. Source: NASA video
- NASA: a "potential biosignature" on Mars
The Sapphire Canyon sample from the Cheyava Falls rock, published in Nature. Source: NASA video
- House hearing shows the Yemen "orb" video
A Hellfire missile appears to strike a glowing object and glance off. Source: CBS video
- Exoplanet count passes 6,000
NASA's archive confirms more than 6,000 planets around other stars. Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive
- K2-18b: the strongest hint yet, then the pushback
A possible life gas on a distant ocean planet; reanalyses found the signal weak. Source: BBC video
Checked 31 October 2026. Each entry links to its source.