Signals Ahead of Release 7

• All six PURSUE UAP tranches have landed on Fridays, with every interval falling on an exact number of weeks.
• USA Herald is watching Friday, November 13 — exactly eight weeks after Release 6 — as a possible date for the Pentagon’s seventh release.
• David Grusch is now publicly making far more specific claims about recovered craft and occupants, increasing pressure for government releases to produce stronger evidence.

By Samuel López | USA Herald

Something unusual is hiding in plain sight in the Pentagon’s UAP disclosure schedule.

Every numbered release under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, known as PURSUE, has landed on a Friday.

Release 1 arrived May 8. Release 2 followed May 22. Release 3 came June 12, Release 4 on July 10, Release 5 on August 7 and Release 6 on September 18.

The gaps are just as interesting: 14, 21, 28, 28 and 42 days.

In weeks, that becomes:

2 → 3 → 4 → 4 → 6.

Not one release has drifted onto another weekday.

The government has never announced a fixed Friday schedule. It says additional PURSUE files will be released on a “rolling basis.”

Still, six consecutive Friday releases create a pattern worth watching.

And USA Herald is now watching one date especially closely — Friday, November 13, 2026.

November 13 is exactly 56 days, or eight weeks, after September 18. If Release 7 lands that day, the sequence would become:

2 → 3 → 4 → 4 → 6 → 8 weeks.

It would be the longest interval yet and would preserve the government’s perfect Friday release streak.

There is another calendar coincidence. November 13 is the final Friday the 13th of 2026, following February 13 and March 13.

To be clear, the Pentagon has not announced November 13 as the Release 7 date. USA Herald’s prediction is based on the Friday pattern and the widening gaps between releases. There is no evidence the Friday-the-13th date itself carries any government significance.

But if November 13 proves correct, the timing would become considerably harder to ignore.

Expectations surrounding Release 7 are also being raised by former intelligence officer and UAP whistleblower David Grusch, who has recently become much more specific in public about subjects he previously discussed with greater restrictions.

During an August appearance with Dr. Phil McGraw, Grusch said the number of allegedly recovered craft was greater than 25 but fewer than 100. He described multiple configurations, including discs, boomerangs, Tic Tac-shaped vehicles and other forms, and alleged that some occupants had been recovered alive. Those remain Grusch’s claims; the physical evidence he describes has not been publicly produced for independent testing.

Then, during the September 30 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Grusch went further.

He said he had seen video connected to a retrieval operation depicting what he described as dead cadavers. He also said colleagues had encountered alleged occupants alive and discussed reports involving grays and reptilian-looking beings.

Those statements are extraordinary. They are also still allegations.

AARO’s published historical review reached a sharply different evidentiary conclusion, saying it found no empirical evidence that the U.S. government or private companies had reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology and no confirmed UAP case representing off-world technology.

That gap is exactly why Release 7 matters.

The public discussion is moving toward crashed vehicles, biological remains and alleged living occupants. The government’s publicly released evidence has not yet reached anything close to that level.

If PURSUE eventually produces high-resolution retrieval photographs, biological documentation, complete sensor packages, laboratory reports, chain-of-custody records or close-range imagery of allegedly recovered craft, the debate would change dramatically.

Until then, there remains a major difference between what witnesses say exists behind classified doors and what the government has actually allowed the public to examine.

For now, circle the date — cautiously.

Friday, November 13.

About the Author

Samuel López is a reporter and news correspondent for USA Herald who has reported for the publication since 2022. López is also a seasoned legal professional with more than two decades of experience analyzing state and federal litigation, government records and complex legal matters. His reporting includes UAP disclosure, national security, emerging technology, insurance and government transparency.

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