The War Department’s Sixth UFO/UAP Release: AAWSAP Warp and Wormhole Research, and Injury Reports
On September 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of War (Department of War), through its official UFO information-release platform, published the sixth batch of declassified UAP/UFO files (Release 06). It is the sixth disclosure under the PURSUE (Presidential UAP Encounter Declassification and Reporting System) framework since the first batch was released on May 8, 2026. This batch contains 71 items, 67 of them from the Department of War and the other 4 from local law enforcement in Colorado, including 55 PDF documents, 15 videos, and 1 audio file, spanning 1952 through 2025. Most striking are 37 Defense Intelligence reference documents from the terminated secret military program, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). They cover warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative-mass propulsion, and invisibility technology, along with a research report on possible harm to the human body from anomalous aerospace systems.
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What the Sixth Batch Contains
Compared with the first five batches, the sixth is different in both size and structure. Of the 71 items, most (64) are redacted to varying degrees. The material spans nearly seventy-four years, from the Air Force’s early UFO investigation records in 1952 to the latest imagery captured by military sensors in 2025. This arrangement, placing “historical files alongside modern records,” has become a standing feature of the PURSUE releases.
By type of medium, 55 PDF documents make up the bulk of this batch, 15 videos are mostly footage of unidentified flying objects shot by military cameras, and one audio file is an internal Air Force recording from 1952. Worth noting: four items in this batch come from local law enforcement in Colorado. It is the first time the PURSUE system has included UAP reports from a non-federal source, which means collection is extending from the military and the intelligence agencies down to local law enforcement.
AAWSAP: Warp Drives, Wormholes, and Antigravity
The part of this batch with the most research value is 37 AAWSAP documents marked as “Defense Intelligence reference documents.” The program was set up in 2008 by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to assess the kinds of aerospace threats that might appear over the coming decades, and it ended in 2012. The files now released cover theoretical studies of frontier topics including warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative-mass propulsion, and invisibility cloaks.
These materials are mostly theoretical arguments and literature reviews, not engineering reports, and a fair number of them had already leaked in pieces. Their entry into the official declassified record matters because it confirms that, at least from 2008 to 2012, the U.S. defense-intelligence system formally established a program, funded it, and systematically assessed propulsion concepts usually treated as science fiction. That fact itself is important background for understanding the disclosures that followed.
The “Anomalous Aerospace System Injury” Study
The document in this batch that researchers are watching most closely is a 38-page study completed in 2010. Its title points to “evidence of unintended harm to human observers from anomalous advanced aerospace systems.” It records three “antenna engineers” who had been in normal health and fully active. After an anomalous aerospace event they developed hot, reddened skin and hair loss. One of them showed “signs of radiation illness” and developed a malignancy over the following years.
After comparing the cases with hundreds of known radiofrequency injuries from radiation sources, the authors reached a striking conclusion:“A sufficient number of events and accidents have been accurately reported, and medical records have been obtained, to support the hypothesis that certain advanced systems have already been deployed, yet the United States still cannot fully understand them.”The file does not identify the specific source of the exposure. Even so, writing medical observations of a group of engineers into the official record is itself rare.
Newly Released Video: Spherical Objects over the Middle East
Most of the 15 videos in this batch continue the earlier pattern of “blurry footage shot by military cameras,” showing unexplained objects flashing past at high speed. One 2022 recording shows a UAP “moving at varying speeds of about 129 to 290 kilometers per hour.” Operators on a mission in the Middle East suddenly found several objects of unknown altitude, between 1 and 2 meters in size, “flying intermittently” inside the target area.
Another video, shot over the Middle East, shows about six “small spherical objects” flying side by side, “quite agile” and “changing direction often.” The event still has no explanation. Spherical targets of this “formation-flying, maneuverable” kind have turned up again and again in military footage in recent years, and they have become one of the forms most discussed in UAP research.
The 1952 Recording and Project Blue Book’s Early Verdict
The historical material in this batch includes one unusual item: an hour-long 1952 recording of Air Force officer Edward Ruppelt (Edward Ruppelt), together with a transcript. Ruppelt later ran the Air Force’s Project Blue Book (Project Blue Book), which systematically investigated UFO cases from 1952 to 1969.
In the recording, Ruppelt revealed that of the 800 UFO reports the Air Force was then investigating, “about 20 percent were very good reports, filed by very reliable people, and yet no conclusion at all could be reached”. That share—one in five high-quality reports that could not be explained in any ordinary way—spoken by the investigator himself more than seventy years ago, is precious firsthand evidence for understanding where the whole declassification process began.
The Course of Disclosure, and What Remains Open
The release of the sixth batch continues the monthly pace of disclosure that began on May 8, 2026. The previous five batches were published on May 8, May 22, June 12, July 10, and August 7. Several hundred files have now been made public in all, and traffic to the PURSUE website has stayed high. This “steady stream” style of release avoids the overload of dumping everything at once, and it lets researchers follow each release in depth and check the files against one another.
As with the third and fourth batches, this one was issued in the name of the “Department of War (Department of War)” rather than the “Department of Defense.” The Department of War is the historical name of the U.S. defense establishment before the 1947 reorganization, and its UFO lineage reaches back to the Roswell incident of that year. Researchers often read the use of that name for UAP material as a hint that the files span the long stretch from the early Cold War to the present.
Conclusion
The sixth batch of UAP files does not deliver any final verdict on extraterrestrial craft. In every release, officials have kept to the position of “drawing no conclusion, only releasing the material.” The value of this batch is that it brings into a checkable body of official documents a set of topics that had stayed at the level of rumor and speculation: warp drives, wormholes, harm to the human body, and the share of high-quality reports in 1952. As the remaining files continue to be organized and reviewed, more material will meet the public, and a fuller, clearer picture of the UAP phenomenon may gradually come together.
Sources
U.S. Department of War PURSUE official platform: https://www.war.gov/UFO/
CBS News report: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-uap-pentagon-6th-release/
Sina Finance report: https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-09-19/doc-iniskimw9753780.shtml
