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The Fourth UAP Drop Landed This Morning. We Read All 40, Indexed Them, and Put Them on the Globe Before Lunch. The Nuclear Files Are the Story.

  • Writer: Patrick Duggan
    Patrick Duggan
  • 2 minutes ago
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The Department of War published the fourth tranche of UAP records under PURSUE this morning, July 10, 2026. Forty new assets: fourteen documents, nineteen videos, three images, four audio files, from the Department of War, NASA, the CIA, the FBI, and — for the first time in this collection — the Department of Energy. By early afternoon we had pulled all fourteen PDFs off war.gov, extracted the full text, indexed every one of the forty into our searchable archive, geocoded them onto the globe, and updated the timeline and network graph. You can read and search the whole thing right now at epstein.dugganusa.com/uap. That is the point of holding an archive instead of writing a hot take: the files are live and full-text searchable the same day they drop, not whenever a news cycle gets around to them.


Now, what is actually in it. Three things stand out, and the first is the one nobody was expecting.



The Department of Energy is in the file now


The prior three releases were War, NASA, CIA, FBI. This one adds the agency that runs America's nuclear weapons complex, and it adds it with two documents that draw a line across sixty-six years.


The older one is DOE-UAP-D004, the Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, 1949 — a gathering at the birthplace of the bomb, four years after Trinity, to discuss objects in the sky that the people guarding the most sensitive facility on earth could not identify. The newer one is DOE-UAP-D005, the Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, 2015. Pantex, outside Amarillo, is where the United States assembles and disassembles its nuclear warheads — the single most security-saturated industrial site in the country. The document is marked, in its own header, "Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information," and it is exactly what it says: a formal report of an unidentified object over the nuclear weapons plant, written up by the plant's Safeguards and Security operation.


The nuclear-facility pattern is the oldest thread in this subject and the one the government has been quietest about. Two DOE documents, 1949 and 2015, at Los Alamos and Pantex, is the closest this disclosure effort has come to putting that thread on the table itself.



The Navy had a form for this


The second thing is bureaucratic, and that is precisely why it matters. Three of the new documents are "Range Fouler Debriefs" — DOW-UAP-D089, D090, D091, from the Eastern United States and the Atlantic Ocean, 2019 and 2020. "Range fouler" is the Navy's own workaday term for something that intrudes into a training range where it does not belong. And what these documents show is not a breathless report. It is a standardized debrief form: fields for Contact Working Area, Contact Latitude, Contact Longitude, Contact Altitude, with printed instructions telling the aircrew to derive a lat/long from the sensor bearing and range relative to the bullseye, and a line noting the process "sanitizes all reports of identifying information."


A one-off gets a memo. A recurring problem gets a form. The existence of a pre-printed Range Fouler Debrief template is the quiet admission inside this tranche: by 2019 and 2020, unidentified incursions into East Coast naval training ranges were common enough, and structured enough, to have their own paperwork. That is the same window and the same waters as the Roosevelt Roads and carrier-strike-group encounters that started this whole modern chapter.



The through-line to 1948, and the pivot to the Pacific


The third thing is the historical spine. This tranche reaches back to the origin: DOW-UAP-D097 is a Project Sign Progress Report from 1948 — the first official U.S. Air Force study of the phenomenon, the direct ancestor of Project Blue Book. Its pages carry the texture of the moment, including a note that the physicist Irving Langmuir "was reluctant to consider the so-called flying discs," beside an engineering estimate of an object with a "diameter estimated at 2 miles." Alongside it sit DOW-UAP-D092 through D096: the Air Force committee that reviewed and ultimately shut down Blue Book in 1966–1967, and the correspondence around it. Read together, they are the paper trail of how the government studied this, decided to stop studying it in public, and filed the rest.


And then the tranche jumps to now. The newest video reports — DOW-UAP-PR104 and PR105 — are unresolved UAP encounters over the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in 2025. That is not idle geography. Those are the contested waters off China, where U.S. naval aviation operates today, and where "unidentified" carries a very different weight than it did over the New Mexico desert in 1949. From Los Alamos to the East China Sea, the file now spans the entire arc of the American nuclear-security century.



Why we ingest instead of react


We are holding this at about ninety-five percent, as always — OCR is imperfect, the government's own redactions and "sanitizing" remove detail by design, and a debrief form is a record of a report, not a ruling on what the object was. What we can say without hedging is narrower and more useful: these forty records exist, they are what they claim to be, and as of this afternoon they are indexed, full-text searchable, plotted on the globe, and laid out on the timeline at epstein.dugganusa.com/uap — the same day the Department of War released them.


That is the difference between an archive and an opinion. Anyone can have a reaction to a UFO drop by tonight. We would rather hand you the primary sources by lunch, searchable, so you can have your own.




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