Unexplained Craft, Ranch Reports, and a Roswell Affidavit Appear in Latest UAP File
October 25, 2026
A newly released batch of government records has again drawn attention to longstanding claims of unidentified aerial phenomena and related anomalies. The Department of War’s seventh public release under the PURSUE program, issued October 23, includes historical materials connected to the 1947 Roswell incident, a 2010 contractor investigation of a Utah ranch long associated with unusual reports, and a 2026 account of a silent triangular object observed by federal agents near a sensitive site.
Haut Affidavit Included
Among the materials is a copy of a 2002 affidavit signed by Walter Haut, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in July 1947. Haut, who died in 2005, prepared the statement for release after his death. In it, he asserted that he was present when base personnel recovered debris from a crash and that he later saw bodies described as non-human. He also stated that the weather-balloon explanation issued at the time was a cover story.
The affidavit appears as an appendix in a December 2008 project-management plan prepared by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), the contractor that carried out the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP). The document does not contain contemporaneous 1947 records confirming Haut’s later claims. The Air Force’s 1994 report on the Roswell incident attributed the debris to a Project Mogul balloon train and found no evidence of extraterrestrial material or bodies. Haut’s statement remains a late, uncorroborated account rather than primary evidence.
Utah Ranch Investigation
The release also contains the April 2010 “Utah Ranch Investigation” report prepared by a BAASS team. The property, widely identified in public reporting as Skinwalker Ranch near Fort Duchesne, Utah, had been the subject of earlier private research into reported lights, orbs and other phenomena.
According to the report, investigators interviewed more than 25 local residents, including ranchers, business owners, law-enforcement officers and tribal members. Witnesses described bipedal dog-like creatures, balls of light (including one said to approach within inches of a person’s face), a large bird-like form and other unusual events. The team deployed cameras, collected environmental measurements, and planned plant-based experiments. Radio-frequency signals in a band used by satellites were recorded on the mesa and left for further analysis.
Physical samples did not support the more extraordinary claims. Hair recovered after a reported pursuit tested as domestic dog; another sample tested as raccoon. The report records the accounts as given but does not conclude that the events involved unknown technology or non-human intelligence. BAASS’s own later self-assessment noted that many UAP reports can be explained as misidentifications and that hard data were often limited.
2026 Triangular Object
The most recent incident documented in the batch is a June 2026 observation by federal agents at a sensitive site in the western United States. An All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office memorandum and related FBI documentation describe a matte-black, low-aspect-ratio triangular craft estimated at roughly 9 to 15 feet across. Witnesses said the object rose vertically several hundred feet, hovered for approximately 20 seconds, then accelerated into a canyon at high speed. No sound, exhaust, or distinct heat signature was reported. A subsequent ground search found no wreckage or ground disturbance.
Officials said the reported performance doesn’t match any known U.S. aircraft or systems. They also doubted that ordinary foreign planes or drones could do the same combination of things: stay completely silent, give off almost no heat signature, and go from hovering in place to flying at high speed very quickly.
No sensor video or raw data was included when the information was released publicly.
Assessment
Taken together, the documents illustrate continued official interest in reports of anomalous objects and related claims. They include multi-witness accounts from trained observers, a late affidavit tied to a historic incident, and contractor records of local testimony. They also show the absence of recovered material, confirming sensor data or laboratory results that would establish non-human origin.
The possibility that some fraction of unresolved reports could involve technology or visitors of non-human origin is not ruled out by the current release. It is also not supported by positive evidence within these files. Previous AARO historical reviews have found no verified extraterrestrial technology or reverse-engineering programs. Most cases examined by the government are assessed as balloons, drones, natural phenomena, sensor artifacts, or remain unexplained for lack of data.
Readers seeking the primary documents can locate them on the Department of War’s UAP archive under the PURSUE Release 07 collection. Further releases and independent analysis will determine whether additional evidence emerges that moves any of these cases beyond the status of unresolved observation.
