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 portal (Release 06 still latest): https://www.war.gov/UFO/

- Ross Coulthart on Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check/ross-coulthart-the-white-house-is-going-around-the-legacy-program-reality-check/

- Ask a Pol, Schumer: https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/chuck-who-knows-schumer-says-on-whether

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

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/