Daily UFO - UAP Disclosure Update

Episode 43: Tuesday, October 27th, 2026.

Rep. André Carson, a House Intelligence Committee member, says the administration has slow-walked UAP transparency and wants AARO's long-delayed Historical Record Report, Volume II, released now, as The Hill asks what happens to the issue if the House changes hands. Retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet tells Sean Hannity why the ocean may be the best place to look, and New York Post columnist Cindy Adams joins the call for answers.

Sources:

- The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6169367-democrats-majority-congress-ufo-sightings-transparency/

- AARO Historical R...

Episode 42: Monday, October 26th, 2026.

Rep. Eric Burlison says his next hire, following David Grusch's year and a half on his staff, is someone who has appeared on Ross Coulthart's show, and that the ink isn't dry yet. Britain's UK Airprox Board could not identify a shiny, metallic object that passed no more than 50 feet above a British Airways 777 climbing out of Heathrow, and gave it its highest collision-risk grade. Plus a new deadline in David Grusch's FOIA lawsuit, and barrister Jonathan Caplan KC on George Knapp's Coast to Coast AM.

Sources:<...

Episode 41: Friday, October 23rd, 2026.

The Department of War posts its seventh PURSUE release of UAP files on the Friday Disclosure Tonight's Thomas Fessler predicted: 28 documents and, for the first time, no video. The headline file is a new AARO memo and FBI interview record on federal agents who watched a silent, matte-black triangle rise over a ridgeline at a sensitive western site, while Bigelow contractor files from 2008 to 2010 describe plans for an underground vault for "exotic material or tissue." And Jeremy Corbell points to Jay Stratton's account of a 1964 landing at Holloman Air Force Base, and a 1988...

Episode 40: Thursday, October 22nd, 2026.

Will a seventh PURSUE release of UAP files land Friday? Disclosure Tonight's Thomas Fessler says his sources expect it, and expect a lighter batch, while the Department of War has not announced a date. Germany's government tells the Bundestag it has "no information" on UAP and no reporting channels for sightings. And a newly released 2022 clip of former UAP Task Force director Jay Stratton describes taking UAP data to Lockheed's Skunk Works and Boeing's Phantom Works.

Sources:

- PURSUE portal: https://www.war.gov/UFO/

- Disclosure...

Episode 39: Wednesday, October 21st, 2026.

Rep. Eric Burlison warns on Fox Business that the United States could be beaten to UAP disclosure by rival nations, saying the PURSUE releases so far may not be enough. Former UAP Task Force director Jay Stratton tells NewsNation's Chris Cuomo that a "legacy program" of the CIA, Air Force, Department of Energy and defense contractors is keeping its secret from Congress and the President. And Ross Coulthart's Reality Check revisits the unexplained 2024 lights over U.S.-operated air bases in England with former police investigator Mike Morgan.

Episode 38: Tuesday, October 20th, 2026.

Rep. Eric Burlison says the government is still keeping UAP information from the President, pointing to missing AATIP records, while George Knapp says the Defense Intelligence Agency's release of the AAWSAP files will take time. Jacques Vallée makes the case for a chain of evidence in any disclosure, CUNY's Graduate Center announces a master's course on UAP and national security, and Disclosure Tonight's Thomas Fessler doubles down on a Friday PURSUE release the Department of War has not announced.

Sources:

- Disclosure Foundation (Burlison clip): https://x.com/d...

Episode 37: Monday, October 19th, 2026.

Disclosure Tonight host Thomas Fessler says a source tells him the seventh PURSUE tranche of UAP files drops this Friday, October 23. The Department of War has not announced a date. Ross Coulthart, on Reality Check, says the White House is working around the legacy program. And Senator Chuck Schumer, asked on Ask a Pol whether he takes the White House disclosure effort seriously, says "Who knows?"

Sources:

- Disclosure Tonight, Sat Oct 17 stream (~24:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7AFNh6F2w0&t=1490s

- PURSUE...

President Trump tells Newsmax he is "looking" at a disclosure announcement and says "we are releasing everything," with no date given. On The Dr. Phil Podcast, Rep. Eric Burlison describes a second ODNI briefing about dozens of glowing orbs at a western military base in late 2025 and says he has requested the radar and video. Plus a remembrance of Ellsworth AFB witness Mario Woods.

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/trump-leaves-door-open-to-ufo-disclosure-announcement-im-looking

A UAP Science Advisory Council preprint led by Jacob Haqq-Misra extends its wingbeat analysis to four more PURSUE videos and finds seven more objects beating like birds; the authors still want unredacted sensor data. Plus Michael Shermer presses Jay Stratton's memoir on evidence.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08692

David Grusch's team filed its FOIA opposition, asking Judge Brinkema to order the Department of War to "follow the trail" (hearing Nov 20). New excerpts from Jay Stratton's memoir Out of the Shadows go beyond his Fox clip. Plus a Scientific Reports paper on Beatriz Villarroel's vanishing-star transients.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72351349/grusch-v-united-states-department-of-defense/

Jay Stratton tells Fox News' Special Report the government has non-human craft as his memoir Out of the Shadows goes on sale. UAP Science Advisory Council chair Avi Loeb says Stratton hasn't answered his invitation to brief the council. Plus Eric Weinstein on The Diary of a CEO.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406725522112

Sen. Mark Warner tells Ask a Pol the Langley Air Force Base swarms were "mostly Chinese drones," but says he has not seen photos of the objects. Plus: Jay Stratton's memoir Out of the Shadows lands Oct 13 after a Fox News interview with Bret Baier, and the Disclosure Foundation's legal briefing on putting PURSUE under the AARO statute.

https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/chinese-drones-shuttered-air-force-base-on-us-soil

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on The Secretary Kennedy Podcast that people claiming crash-retrieval roles approached him during the transition. Plus: Liberation Times obtains 67 NRC drone reports covering 28 U.S. nuclear sites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypXdvznVHU0

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/new-records-reveal-repeated-drone-flights-over-us-nuclear-sites-including-reactors-near-langley-air-force-base

Robert Bigelow says DIA has located the missing AAWSAP archive and is preparing a redacted public release. House Oversight Chair James Comer says he wants a UAP hearing in the November lame duck. Plus: Reality Check on Villarroel and Bruehl's Palomar transient hotspots paper.

https://x.com/g_knapp/status/2107534400590315836

https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/news-oversight-chair-planning-uap-hearing-after-election

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

UAP Science Advisory Council members (Haqq-Misra, Loeb, Kopparapu, Shermer) say PURSUE Release 06 video DOW-UAP-PR135, six "480 mph" dots near Kuwait, is best explained as a flock of birds (preprint, not yet peer reviewed). Lue Elizondo on Podcast UFO: "I am employed with the U.S. government." Plus Air Force FOIA records on the Dec 2024 Wright-Patterson drone incursions.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08692

https://podcastufo.com/789-lue-elizondo/

https://www.tippgazette.com/news/2026/10/d9rcludrcbk9o3oyoymgbwe1bnt3h7

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

Avi Loeb takes his UAP council's plan to Fox: government data first, new sensors second, plus a pitch for a $10M UAP XPRIZE. Ross Coulthart says sources claim Trump was briefed on a "legacy program." Senate left Sept 30 without voting on the Disclosure Act / NDAA path.

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-trump-administration-can-make-history-by-unraveling-alien-technology-e14875680faf

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/26/ufos-trump-aliens-uaps-government-01088254

https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ross-coulthart-space-weapons-uap-ufo/

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/floor_activity/09_30_2026_Senate_Floor.htm

Lue Elizondo says he's working for the U.S. government again, per a new Podcast UFO listing (airs Tue Oct 6, 8pm ET). NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says NASA has "a seat at the table" on PURSUE, plus SCU's Robert Powell on the NDA waiver. Avi Loeb, Peter Diamandis and council members push a UAP XPRIZE, and Lithuania's Vilnius radar alert stays unresolved.

https://podcastufo.com/upcoming-lue-elizondo/

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/nasa-chief-jared-isaacman-wants-to-stay-open-minded-about-ufos-if-its-aliens-i-think-nasa-should-have-a-seat-at-the-table

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/alien-technology-deserves-an-xprize-78473efb24b4

https://defencematters.eu/nato-fighters-lithuania-vilnius-unidentified-object/

WEAPONIZED #125 with Liberation Times’ Christopher Sharp on alleged White Sands UAP shootdown/lure questions. White House Sep 25 deadline non-answer is the process beat; shootdown claims attributed, not confirmed.

https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/white-house-leaves-ufo-shootdown-claims-unanswered

Daily UFO Special Report — David Grusch on Joe Rogan Experience #2560 (Sep 30, 2026). YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYPXINFcvmI Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0p7hBnYGZwXIxHEVPfHM0B

Liberation Times: White House missed Sep 25 deadline on questions about alleged UAP shootdown/lure authorization (DoW had referred those Qs to WH). Also: Valdez no-footage on Colorado triangle clips.

Grusch v. DoD FOIA (E.D. Va. 1:26-cv-00607): DOJ summary-judgment motion on search adequacy; opposition due Oct 12; hearing Nov 20.

Sources:

https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/white-house-leaves-ufo-shootdown-claims-unanswered

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72351349/grusch-v-united-states-department-of-defense/

Galileo Project: first published Las Vegas triangulation results — ADS-B-validated distances; May sample week aircraft vs small clouds; no anomalous objects claimed.

Ask a Pol: Oversight Ranking Member Garcia — Secrets Task Force / Select UFO Committee wait until after November.

Sources:

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/first-triangulation-results-in-search-for-uap-by-the-galileo-project-observatories-eacc4798a538

https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/ufo-investigations-hang-in-balance

POLITICO Magazine (Sep 26): Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council is still waiting for usable raw government sensor data months after its June appointment — year-end clock, FBI working group, agency pushback on the record.

Also: WEAPONIZED Episode 124 (Sep 25) on the AAWSAP archive principals say DIA received but the public still hasn't seen.

Sources:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/26/ufos-trump-aliens-uaps-government-01088254

https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/

Episode 21 — Friday, September 25, 2026.

Black Vault FOIA (Sep 25) fills the administrative record behind AARO’s invitation-only August 2025 narrative-data workshop (case 26-F-1773): named agenda speakers omitted from AARO’s February 2026 white paper; Pentagon engagement with Uruguay’s CRIDOVNI; AARO email language about an early-2026 follow-on workshop beside Sue Gough’s March 2026 “nothing to announce.” Confirmed from FOIA pages; 19 pages withheld; whether the follow-on or collaboration continued is unfinished.

Also: Navy Scott Bray UAP email cache (Black Vault Sep 24 / Navy response Sep 23) — 1,321 pages located, 1,019 released, 302 withheld. Email as quoted puts Jay Stratton leading the Navy UAPTF effor...

Episode 20 — Thursday, September 24, 2026.

What moved: Variety and Deadline (Sep 24) — Terence Winter and Dan Farah developing a television series from Jay Stratton’s forthcoming memoir Out of the Shadows (William Morrow / HarperCollins, Oct 13, 2026). Stratton = former Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force lead and AAWSAP cofounder. Confirmed: trade announcement, book date, Winter (Cold Front) and Farah (Farah Films) as executive producers; no cast/network announced. Attributed press quotes: cover-up / nuclear-site / family-encounter claims (Stratton’s, not DoW confirmation).

Links:

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/terence-winter-dan-farah-uap-memoir-out-of-the-shadows-1236874218/

https://deadline.com/2026/09/terence-winter-jay-stratton-out-of-the-shadows-tv-series-1237112244/

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Episode 15 — Thursday, September 17, 2026.

What moved: WIRED (Sep 17) — Nathaniel Janowitz maps what Monday’s DoW PURSUE waiver does not cover: text not public; protections strictly for communications to PURSUE (not Congress, press, or public). Ties to Aaron Lukas July 31 IC memo (30-day procedures clock expired August) with no matching intelligence-community waiver on record. Attributed: Dylan Borland says it “changes nothing”; Marik von Rennenkampff flags the intel-side gap.

Also: The Debrief (Sep 16) — Rep. Eric Burlison co-authors with Yasukazu Hamada and Yoshiharu Asakawa (Japan UAP Parliamentary League) calling for Emerging Technologies Interparliamentary Caucus (ETIC) allied overs...

Episode 19 — Wednesday, September 23, 2026.

What moved: NewsNation Reality Check today — Ross Coulthart interviews Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany; White House UAP Science Advisory Council) on The Case for UAP Science. New episode (Sep 23), not yesterday’s waiver Q&A.

Attributed: council members lack clearances to read classified holdings; 50+ declassification requests filed; Varginha named as priority; Art’s Parts sample with millimeter-scale holes he reads as pointing toward human manufacture.

Confirmed: Sep 23 Reality Check package (title, guest, chapter labels including Inside the Science Advisory Council / Testing Art’s Parts / The Millim...

Episode 18 — Tuesday, September 22, 2026.

What moved: NewsNation Reality Check (Sun Sep 20) — Ross Coulthart, “New Whistleblower Rules Are Not Transparency.” He frames the Department of War’s Sep 14 PURSUE legal waiver as an internal reporting lane to designated PURSUE representatives only — not authorization to speak to press or the public — and says that is not the same as public transparency. Attributed: AARO still does not take general-public sighting reports.

Context stack (not re-reported as new drops): PURSUE Release 06 (Fri), WEAPONIZED Episode 123 waiver questions, NY Post public NDA ask (Sat).

Confirmed: Sep...

Episode 17 — September 21, 2026. NY Post (Sat Sep 19): Grusch, Borland, and Brown (via James Fox) publicly ask Trump to waive NDAs for public disclosure — distinct from the Sep 14 DoW PURSUE waiver (PURSUE reps only). Burlison + Luna attributed in same piece. Secondary: WEAPONIZED Ep. 123 (Sep 18) — Corbell/Knapp put 20+ questions on PURSUE waiver ops; hosts say War Dept answered nothing beyond the announcement and referred them to the White House.

Sources:

https://nypost.com/2026/09/19/us-news/ufo-whistleblowers-want-ok-from-trump-to-reveal-secrets-to-public/

https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com/

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4600020/department-of-war-issues-legal-waiver-to-authorize-unidentified-anomalous-pheno/

Episode 16 — September 18, 2026. PURSUE Release 06: Sean Parnell announced the Department of War's sixth public UAP file drop, the first new tranche since Release 05 (Aug 7). CBS inventories 71 files (67 Defense / 4 Colorado LE; 55 PDFs, 15 videos, 1 audio; 64 redacted; 1952–2025), including 37 AAWSAP DIRDs with DoW's no-current-validation caveat, unresolved CENTCOM/INDOPACOM sensor cases, Colorado LE cellphone clips with AARO autofocus caution, and Blue Book-era Tremonton/Ruppelt material.

Sources:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-uap-pentagon-6th-release/

https://www.war.gov/UFO/

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1023397/dow-uap-pr135-unresolved-uap-report-middle-east-2025

Episode 14 — September 16, 2026. Reality Check (Ross Coulthart) with Jacques Vallée on Forbidden Science 7 / Capella (~260k) / unfinished AAWSAP analysis — ties to AARO Historical Record Volume II. Secondary: The Debrief — Michael Gold on Monday’s PURSUE waiver (“unprecedented”) and an ask that House UAP overseers (Burlison, Luna, Burchett et al.) eventually see waiver intakes.

Sources:

https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check/

https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-opens-new-pathway-for-government-insiders-to-disclose-uap-information/

Episode 13 — September 15, 2026. Follow-up on Monday's Department of War PURSUE waiver: The Black Vault (Greenewald) compares it to AARO's existing FY23 NDAA §1673 receive-notwithstanding-NDA authority and FOIA paper on Grusch — new text mainly adds an explicit PURSUE channel and names SAPIAs; underlying DoW directive still not public. Named source Marik von Rennenkampff (IBTimes UK / NewsNation): significant but limited; attributes DoW-only scope with IC matching guidance still coming; no retroactive immunity. Jordan Flowers (Disclosure Foundation) quoted on DefenseScoop.

Sources:

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/department-of-war-issues-new-uap-disclosure-waiver-but-similar-protections-already-existed/

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4600020/department-of-war-issues-legal-waiver-to-authorize-unidentified-anomalous-pheno/

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Episode 12 — September 14, 2026. Department of War issues a targeted legal waiver authorizing current/former DoW personnel to share UAP National Defense Information with designated PURSUE representatives (protected channel, not public dumping). Secondary: Avi Loeb (UAP Science Advisory Council chair) tells Space.com the government is sincere on scientific data collection after an Aug 31 ODNI private meeting he will not detail; Ben Lamm on evidence standards.

Sources:

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4600020/department-of-war-issues-legal-waiver-to-authorize-unidentified-anomalous-pheno/

https://www.leonarddavid.com/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-whistle-blowers-welcomed-by-legal-waiver/

https://dallasexpress.com/national/pentagon-waives-uap-secrecy-pacts-so-insiders-can-talk-to-pursue/

https://www.space.co...

Episode 11: What moved overnight is two Ask a Pol UAP exclusives from the same September 1 sidewalk day. Representative Tim Burchett says White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has made UAP disclosure a priority and assigned people — which Burchett reads as the highest levels — while refusing to buy "earth-moving" leak rumors without proof. Representative Nancy Mace wants the public to see UAP tapes she has already seen that are not out yet; told of Miller's White House UAP working group, she says she did not know and will say something. Confirmed: on-tape Ask a Pol remarks. Unconfirmed: White Hous...

Episode 10: What moved overnight is new on-tape detail from retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet about how AARO handles people who already know the file. On The Good Trouble Show (Sept 9), he describes a long AARO interview he frames as an influence operation, including staff arguing the 2004 Tic Tac was U.S. technology. He also attributes a Science Advisory Council ask that Eric Davis and other NDA-bound witnesses be freed to brief the council. Confirmed: his on-tape account and public roles. Unconfirmed: any AARO on-record rebuttal.

Also: Reality Check (Sept 8) with physicist Kevin Knuth on his 2019...

Episode 9: What moved this week is a named-source exclusive from Capitol Hill, not a new PURSUE file drop. Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri told Ask a Pol UAP's Matt Laslo that he is pressing the Trump administration to restore security clearances for UAP whistleblower David Grusch — and that an NDA waiver alone is not enough. He attributes to unnamed administration contacts that they "probably went too far" with Grusch, and says CIA, FFRDCs, and contractors — not only the Pentagon — may hold the most UAP information. Confirmed: on-tape Ask a Pol remarks. Unconfirmed: any formal clearance restore or named admitting office...

Episode 8: What moved is new tape, not a new PURSUE file drop. Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp's WEAPONIZED posted Episode 122: "He Saw Four Tic Tac UFOs — Then AARO Came Calling." Guest Senior Chief Alexandro Wiggins describes what he characterizes as coercion from AARO after declining a SCIF retelling of his February 2023 USS Jackson Tic Tac account — including alleged chain-of-command pressure and a floated escalation to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Those pressure details are attributed to Wiggins; they are not confirmed by AARO or the Department of War. Confirmed baseline: his September 9, 2025 House Oversight testimony and written statement.

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Episode 7: Iran conflict absorbs all federal resources, effectively pausing President Trump's February 19th UAP disclosure directive. However, a remarkable story resurfaces: Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who breached 97 U.S. government systems in 2002—accessing NASA, the Pentagon, and military networks—breaks his silence in a new interview with Jesse Michels on the American Alchemy podcast.

At NASA's Building 8 (Johnson Space Center), McKinnon accessed a high-resolution image of a silvery cigar-shaped craft hovering above Earth—smooth, with no visible propulsion—before being manually disconnected. He also discovered a spreadsheet labeled "non-terrestrial officers" listing ranks and ship-to-ship transfers. The conseque...

Episode 6: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Chair of the Congressional Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets, has confirmed she is actively communicating with teams running point on UAP disclosure within multiple federal agencies.

Slow news day, overall.

Episode 5: Pentagon's AARO reveals details about a private workshop with civilian researchers focused on standardizing UAP data collection. The workshop marks a shift toward greater collaboration between government and civilian UAP researchers.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms AARO's caseload has grown to over 2,000 cases, with approximately 1,000 reports lacking sufficient data for analysis. A War Department official states AARO is working with the White House to consolidate records and expedite release of never-before-seen UAP information.

Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb publishes two new Medium articles on the disclosure developments, expressing optimism that President Trump's directive could...

Episode 4: ODNI has officially confirmed that UAP files will be included in ongoing declassification efforts following President Trump's directive. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Pentagon cooperation with the ODNI, describing the disclosure process as deliberative and underway—but with no firm timeline yet. Scientists caution that most released documents are expected to be heavily redacted due to military surveillance equipment sensitivity.... and more