THE ALIEN FILES

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UPDATED OCTOBER 20, 2026 PACIFIC. NEWEST FILE ON TOP.

People are looking up, and a lot of them are hitting record. This desk keeps the clips and the government files. A sighting here is a report, not a verdict. Border crossings live on the Border page.

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The Department of War posts declassified UAP records at war.gov/UFO, under the name PURSUE. Release 06 went up on September 18, 2026. AARO keeps its own site at aaro.mil. A newer drop belongs above this note, not inside it.

October 14 — A dark object hung over Saltillo for about five hours

WITNESS VIDEO. Yoel Jesús Dávila posted the recording on the Facebook page Avistamientos Coahuilenses. He said the object stayed in view on Sunday, October 11, near the Escuela Forestal in Saltillo, from about 1 p.m. to about 6 p.m. Vanguardia published the clip. Coast to Coast wrote it up on October 14. In the footage a dark object descends, then climbs. People watching it said craft, drone, or balloon. This desk has not authenticated the file.

Five hours is a long time to watch one dot.

VANGUARDIA’S REPORT ON THE SALTILLO OBJECT, OCTOBER 12, 2026. THE RECORDING WAS POSTED BY YOEL JESÚS DÁVILA.

Source: Vanguardia, October 12, 2026. Coast to Coast AM, October 14, 2026.

October 5 — Three quiet lights over Wolverhampton

WITNESS VIDEO. Coast to Coast reported a clip filmed August 23 in Wolverhampton, England. Three lights moved slowly and quietly, about north to south. The witness told the Mutual UFO Network that their mother saw the lights first while letting the dog out, and that the witness then saw them too. The lights kept their places relative to each other. The witness said they could not see a structure connecting them, and they did not see a sudden acceleration. This page does not have a stable copy of the clip, so there is no embed.

The dog got the first look.

Source: Coast to Coast AM, October 5, 2026.

October 18 — Jay Stratton told Bret Baier he has seen non-human beings

SAYS HE SAW IT. Coast to Coast reported that Jay Stratton, former director of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, told Fox News anchor Bret Baier that he has seen non-human craft and beings. He also said the U.S. government and defense contractors have craft of non-human origin and are trying to reverse-engineer them. That is his account. The interview is not a recovered object, and this page does not have one.

He answered yes. The argument did not end there.

Source: Coast to Coast AM, October 18, 2026.

October 16 — Some of the Pentagon’s unresolved dots flap

OPEN. Avi Loeb wrote on October 16 that his group measured sensor videos declassified under PURSUE. He says more than 8 percent of them match the wing-flap rate of birds, including clips still labeled unresolved. He counts 10 videos and 25 bird candidates. That is his group’s measurement. This page has not seen AARO adopt it.

Some of the unresolved dots appear to flap. Flapping is a very ordinary way to stay in the air.

Source: Avi Loeb, Medium, October 16, 2026.

October 16 — AARO sat down with Uruguay’s UFO office

OPEN. USA Herald reported that FOIA records show AARO arranged a meeting inside the Pentagon on August 4, 2025, with CRIDOVNI, Uruguay’s official UAP office, the day before an AARO workshop. The story says the attendee list includes CRIDOVNI twice and a separate “Australian Government” line with no agency named. Uruguay’s director says a cooperation agreement is being developed, and that it could include shared investigations, data, software, and equipment. The meeting was in 2025. The records are what is new.

The interesting part of a UFO story is sometimes a calendar.

Source: Samuel Lopez, USA Herald, October 16, 2026.

October 13 — Northern Israel sirens, then a balloon assessment

CLOSED. On Saturday, October 10, an unidentified object set off sirens in Arab al-Aramshe, near the Lebanese border. The Times of Israel reported on October 13 that the Israeli military, after a review, said the object was most likely a balloon or something that floats on hot air. The military said it was not a drone or UAV. It also said the origin, the purpose, and the size are not settled, and the object has not been found.

The sirens were real. Nobody has the object in a bag.

Source: Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, October 13, 2026.

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