New UFO Files Detail 1,800 MPH Black Triangle Near Military Sites

The Pentagon’s UFO archive grew again on Friday. The Department of War posted PURSUE Release 07 — 28 new UAP documents at war.gov/UFO — bringing the public archive to 478 files. Among them is a signed FBI statement, form FD-302, in which two federal agents describe watching a matte-black triangular object near a national-security site in the western United States in June 2026. The exact place and date are redacted from the released file. The story in the documents is a witness account, and the government files it the same way: unresolved.

PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — is the declassification program that has been publishing the files in batches since May 2026. Release 07, posted October 23, mixes the new with the old: a 2026 FBI interview record and an AARO memorandum on the triangle case sit in the same drop as Air Force reports from the 1950s. It is the triangle case, the newest sighting in the release, that drew coverage from CBS News, The Guardian, Scientific American, Axios and the New York Post.

What The Agents Reported

A third observer spotted the object first and called it out, according to the statement. The two agents then watched it with him. In the FBI statement, the object “most resembl[ed] a delta wing drone,” with an estimated wingspan of nine to fifteen feet. The agents reported that it rose vertically some 200 to 300 feet, then hovered for about 20 seconds. The AARO memorandum — document DOW-UAP-D176, the second file on the same encounter — describes that hover as taking place in “absolute acoustic silence.”

Then, the witnesses reported, it moved. The FBI statement says the object covered roughly a mile and a half in about three seconds before dropping into a canyon. The report’s own math puts that pace at about 1,800 miles per hour. The Daily prints the second account beside the first because the two documents do not agree: where the FBI statement describes a dash of about three seconds, the AARO memorandum describes the same movement taking about 30 seconds — a tenfold difference that runs straight through every speed drawn from the story, and one the released files do not resolve.

One agent watched through a thermal scope. The statement reports no exhaust, and a heat signature that ran uniformly across the whole airframe — not the concentrated hotspot of an aircraft engine. The following morning, a ground survey of the canyon found no wreckage, no scarring and no vegetation damage, according to the AARO memo.

Three Triangles In One Release

The case is not the only triangle in the drop. The New York Post’s review of Release 07 counted three separate black-triangle reports over sensitive sites in the past year. The FBI file also carries nine illustrations — drawings made from the agents’ account, showing the dark triangle against the ridgeline — and those drawings, reproduced under the headline of this story, are the only images of the object that exist in the public file.

What Officials Say — And What They Do Not

The Defense Department frames everything published through PURSUE as “unresolved” cases: files closed neither as identified nor as anything else, released because the data is insufficient. That framing is printed in the government’s own paperwork. The AARO memo on this encounter cautions that its details are witness interpretations that “do not conclusively establish the object’s features or performance.” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that agencies are already working on the next batch of files.

Outside reviewers sounded the same note. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, speaking on The Hill and NewsNation on October 23, said the data in this tranche is “not good enough” to identify the objects, raised the technology of an adversarial nation as a possibility the files cannot rule out, and called for better sensors. The Daily makes no identification: what the release establishes is that two federal agents signed a statement, that a government memo records the same account with a different clock on its central claim, and that the government has published both without settling either.

From The Same Release: Catalina Island

Release 07 also reaches back seventy years, and part of it lands off the Southern California coast. The drop includes four historical cases from Catalina Island, in Los Angeles County, dated 1949 to 1955. In one, an Air Force report from June 1952 records three Boy Scouts at Camp Fox who said they saw “silver flying saucers” that outran jets. Like the triangle case, the Catalina files are witness reports that the government kept, marked unresolved, and has now published as they were written.

The Daily has its own standing file on an object in a California sky: “TicTac Object Over The Plaza,” the footage shot by this newspaper’s publisher over Cypress, in Orange County. A companion report on the strangest file in Release 07 — a 2010 investigation near Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch — is published alongside this story: “New UFO Files Detail Sightings Of Six-Foot ‘Skinwalkers’ Near America’s Famous Paranormal Hotspot.”

Sources: FBI statement FBI-UAP-D043 and AARO memorandum DOW-UAP-D176, PURSUE Release 07, Department of War (war.gov/UFO), October 23, 2026; CBS News; The Guardian; Scientific American; Axios; New York Post; The Hill and NewsNation, October 23–24, 2026.