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DROP 06 · 2026-09-18

Drop 06 - Tremonton 1952, the AAWSAP Records, and Police Video from Colorado

PURSUE Release 06 added 75 files to the archive - 59 documents and 16 recordings (15 videos and one audio file) - bringing the total to 450. War.gov published 72 of them on September 18 and added three more, transcripts of police videos, to its list on September 24. It introduced a new releasing body: Local Law Enforcement, with eight Colorado files: four videos from a commercially available cellular device's rear-facing camera, submitted to AARO by local law enforcement, and a transcript of each recording, whose audio AARO removed before release. The Department of War contributed the other 67 files. Forty-four are records of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a Defense Intelligence Agency program active from 2008 to 2012: a July 2008 statement of objectives, a September 2008 solicitation and original order, five contract modifications, and 37 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) on topics from metallic glasses to warp drives. Five files form a cluster around a July 2, 1952 film shot near Tremonton, Utah: the film itself, two Project Blue Book files, the final Navy personnel record of the man who filmed it, and an Air Force file of 1952 flying disc records. The CSV links all five to the 1953 Navy film analysis (DOW-UAP-D098) that Release 05 published. A March 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt arrived as both an audio recording and a transcript. The remaining 16 files are four mission reports and 12 unresolved UAP reports from Iraq, the Middle East, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea. Sixty-seven of the 75 files are flagged as redacted.

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