DAILY BRIEFING
Saturday 19 September 2026. The day’s UFO and UAP news in brief, each item with its source.
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18 SEP 21:33
OFFICIAL RECORD
Pentagon releases sixth batch of declassified UAP files
The Department of War published its sixth tranche of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena files on 18 September under the PURSUE programme, comprising 72 documents, including video, audio and PDFs dating from 1952 to 2026, and taking the total released so far to 447. The batch includes a 1952 film shot at Tremonton, Utah, of bright airborne objects that the Air Force's Project Blue Book could not identify, audio of a 1952 briefing by Blue Book chief Capt. Edward Ruppelt, and 2022-2023 video from the Middle East and Colorado. Officials said files marked 'unresolved' reflect a lack of information, not any link to extraterrestrial activity.
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18 SEP 18:57
EXPLAINER
1952 UFO footage in Pentagon's sixth file release already public since 1956, Mediaite finds
Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy presented 1952 Navy footage as being digitised to 4K and shown 'for the first time' as part of the Pentagon's sixth UAP file release, but Mediaite reports the same footage was already public in the 1956 docudrama 'Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers'. Mediaite said the film, available on YouTube, includes an account from Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse describing the original filming, and cites a 1956 UPI article reporting that producer Clarence Greene had obtained film 'allegedly showing saucers' that had been turned over to the government. Mediaite said the objects in both versions appear identical, though the newly released copy is of higher quality, and that the Department of War did not respond to a request for comment on the discrepancy.
Source: Mediaite
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18 SEP 17:11
OFFICIAL RECORD
Declassified report shows $22m Skinwalker Ranch inquiry, but White House says it cannot find the underlying records
A newly declassified Defense Intelligence Agency expense report, obtained by Fox News as part of the Pentagon's sixth UAP file release, shows about $22m was spent between 2007 and 2012 investigating reported anomalies at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, funding secured by then-senator Harry Reid and carried out through Robert Bigelow's BAASS. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy said senior White House officials told him they could not find any copy of the underlying investigation records, despite having proof that a government contractor carried out the work. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed the department was publishing its sixth release of declassified UAP files.
Source: AOL
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