The independent tracker of every UFO file the Trump administration declassifies through PURSUE. Release 01 (May 8, 2026) added 158 files; Release 02 (May 22, 2026) added 64; Release 03 (June 12, 2026) added 72 more. 294 files now indexed, scored, and SHA-256 verified. We continue indexing, scoring, and verifying each one within hours of release.
48db08be3960...) fetched directly from war.gov: 222 files from Releases 01-02 + 72 from Release 03 (FBI, CIA, NASA, and DoD records, plus new intelligence-community and U.S. Government files), all indexed, scored, and individually SHA-256 verified against war.gov (294 of 294). Status detail →
On May 8, 2026, the Trump administration launched the Presidential Unsealings and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), a multi-agency program to declassify and publicly release the U.S. government's accumulated records on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. The first batch contained 158 files spanning eight decades - from the FBI's central UFO investigative file (62-HQ-83894), to NASA Apollo mission photography, to U.S. military encounter footage from the Mediterranean, Greece, the Indo-Pacific, and the Arabian Gulf as recently as 2026.
Files are released on a rolling basis at war.gov/UFO. The official government interface is a flat list. This site is the searchable, indexed, scored mirror. Every file from every drop is here within hours of release, with full-text search across PDFs, transcripts on every video, agency and category filters, and a transparent evidentiary-weight score on each encounter.
We do not claim aliens exist. We do not claim they don't. The files don't answer that question. What they do answer is what trained military and government personnel have observed and the U.S. government has documented but cannot explain - and that is a story worth telling honestly. Read our full verdict on what these files prove and don't prove →
The FBI's central UFO investigative file (62-HQ-83894) plus related field-office records, including Oak Ridge atomic-facility sightings and citizen UFO reports forwarded to the Bureau across multiple decades through 2025.
Military encounter reports and AARO mission packets from 2020-2026: Mediterranean triangle objects, Greek airspace right-angle maneuvers, Arabian Gulf orbs, Indo-Pacific football-shaped craft, Syrian luminous bodies.
Apollo 11, 12, and 17 records and mission imagery, the Apollo 17 (Schmitt / Grimaldi) lunar observations from December 1972, plus Gemini 7 astronaut audio of unidentified objects in low Earth orbit.
Five modern embassy cables on UAP reported through diplomatic channels (Papua New Guinea 1985, Kazakhstan 1994, Georgia 2001, Mexico 2003, Turkmenistan 2004) plus two earlier internal State memos from 1952 and 1963.
28 video files (with full transcripts) · 116 PDFs (full-text searchable) · 14 images · 105 partially redacted
The second release added 64 files - mostly Pentagon sensor video - and brought three new agencies into the disclosure for the first time: the CIA, ODNI, and Department of Energy.
The 51-file DOW-UAP-PR sensor video series - the Karaganda/Kazakhstan airport clip, Iranian formations, Syrian instant-acceleration, and more - the single largest batch of military UAP video in the disclosure.
Mercury program air-to-ground audio (Atlas 7, 8, 9 and Redstone 4, 1961-1963), the Apollo 12 medical debriefing, and an Apollo 17 audio excerpt.
The first intelligence-community files: CIA-UAP-D001 (a 1973 report relating to the USSR) and the ODNI USPER narrative - a senior IC official's account of a multi-witness UAP encounter from a military helicopter in late 2025.
Department of Energy nuclear-complex records: enhanced PANTEX imagery, James Tuck's 1970s Los Alamos correspondence, and a 1986 Pajarito astronomers invitation.
64 files · 58 videos, 6 PDFs · 54 partially redacted · the first CIA, ODNI & DOE files in the disclosure
The third PURSUE release added 72 files, bringing the archive to 294. The headline is the CIA: its contribution jumped from 1 file to 19. Every new file is indexed, scored, and SHA-256 verified.
The CIA's foundational UFO record, 1950-2008: the 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel (the Robertson Panel) that recommended debunking saucers, the U-2/OXCART history, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, and Cold War sightings. Several are less redacted than the CIA's own long-public copies.
Modern UAP reports beyond the 1947-1968 vault: the 2022 Colorado Springs incident (FD-1057 plus a digital rendering), 2026 Northeastern "orb" sightings, and the FBI-UAP-PR003 "Orbs Over the Pond" video.
The Apollo 16 scientific debriefing, an interview excerpt with Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, and the Gemini 4, 5, 7, and 9 crew debriefings.
A 1949 U.S. Army flying-saucer study and a multi-document AARO case from the Western United States (analysis update, notional map, and witness narrative statements).
Two new record types: an intelligence-community analysis of the 2022 Colorado Springs UAP incident, and a compilation of Congressional and White House UFO-related constituent correspondence.
72 new files · 294 total · all SHA-256 verified · 12 partially redacted · full verified diff → · CIA files deep dive →
🎯 AI-RANKED · TOP 5 MOST ANOMALOUS
Highest-scoring files on our open Anomalousness Index. Not "probability of aliens" - that number is unknowable. These are the encounters where the evidence is strongest that the U.S. government cannot explain what was observed.
NASA · 1965 · Low Earth Orbit. Astronaut-witness, on official voice loop.
NASA · Apollo 16 (1972) · crew scientific debriefing, newly released in PURSUE Release 03.
NASA · 1962 · Walter Cronkite interview excerpt with astronaut Gordon Cooper (Release 03).
FBI · 2024 · Northeastern US eyewitness footage, logged unresolved (Release 03).
FBI · 2021 · eyewitness observed triangle-formation orbs near the horizon (Release 03).
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Files ranked by Anomalousness Index (0-100). Identical scores indicate identical rubric component values - common among similar file types (e.g., CENTCOM MISREPs). The rubric is open and reproducible: scoring-rubric.json.
This audio recording contains air to ground communications and the NASA Public Affairs audio feed with commentary, recorded during the flight of the Gemini 7 mission. In this excerpted segment of audio, Astronaut Frank Borman reports to NASA mission control in Houston his sightin
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission rep
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of ten seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying missio
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 14 seconds of video footage from an infrared (left) and electro-optical (right) sensor aboard a U.S. military platfo
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of ten seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission repo
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 43 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. An accompanying mission repor
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of four minutes and 57 seconds of video footage from an infrared (IR) sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. An acco
This archival photograph depicts the lunar surface as viewed from the landing site of Apollo 12. This image features a highlighted area of interest slightly to the right of the vertical axis of the frame, above the horizon, in which unidentified phenomena are visible. This image
This archival photograph depicts the lunar surface as viewed from the landing site of Apollo 12. This image features two highlighted areas of interest, labeled “Area 1” and “Area 2,” slightly to the right of the vertical axis of the frame, above the horizon, in which unidentified
This archival photograph depicts the lunar surface as viewed from the landing site of Apollo 12. This image features a highlighted area of interest near the right edge of the frame, above the horizon, in which unidentified phenomena are visible.This image has been modified from i
This archival photograph depicts the lunar surface as viewed from the landing site of Apollo 12. This image features a highlighted area of interest slightly to the left of the vertical axis of the frame, above the horizon, in which unidentified phenomena are visible. This image h
This archival photograph depicts the lunar surface as viewed from the landing site of Apollo 12. This image features five highlighted areas of interest, labeled “Area 1” through “Area 5,” above the horizon, in which unidentified phenomena are visible.This image has been modified
As part of the review of historical UAP materials under PURSUE, DOW has opened a case to investigate the accompanying NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission, taken December 1972. The image contains three “dots” in a triangular formation in the lower right quadrant of the luna
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The date and location of the event have not been provid
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The date and location of the event have not been provid
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The date and location of the event have not been provid
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The date and location of the event have not been provid
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The date and location of the event have not been provid
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of a still image derived from a U.S. government system. The date and location of the event have not been provid
Gemini 7 was the tenth crewed American spaceflight. This document is a transcript of communications between the flight crew, Astronauts James “Jim” Lovell and Frank Borman, and the Manned Flight Center (now known as Johnson Space Center) in Houston, Texas. The transcript begins w
Launched on May 14, 1973, Skylab was the United States’ first laboratory in space. From 1973 to 1974, the station was visited by three crews. This document contains excerpts from all three crews to visit the station. In the first excerpt taken from Skylab 1/2 [first crew] Technic
This memorandum, dated July 18, 1963, from the Executive Office of the President, National Aeronautics and Space Council, relates to thoughts on the space alien race question. Included are details relating to plans if alien intelligence is discovered, expanding scientific knowled
This two page memorandum, dated July 18, 1952, relates to increased reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Included in the record are possible explanations of increased sightings, such as technological improvements, historical records of UFOs, and U.S. Air Force opinions
This document is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to USCINCPAC (United States Indo-Pacific Command) at Honolulu, HI on January 28, 1985. The cable reports that the U.S. Embassy to Papua New Guinea received an inqu
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Each file is scored 0-100 on what we call the Anomalousness Index. This is not a "probability of alien origin" - no honest analyst can produce that number, and any site claiming to is selling you something.
The score reflects evidentiary weight that the encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis, weighted by:
Scores are this site's editorial judgment based on publicly reported descriptions. They are not a Department of War or AARO assessment, and they are not a claim about extraterrestrial origin. They are a fast-read evidentiary heuristic - useful for triage, not for conclusions.
We use AI for three things, all human-supervised:
/data/scoring-rubric.json.We do not use AI to "decide if it's aliens" - no model can honestly do that, and we refuse to publish such a number. Full AI disclosure on the verdict page →
PURSUE is the Presidential Unsealings and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. It's the official acronym for the Trump administration's UAP disclosure program, established to declassify and publicly release the U.S. government's accumulated records on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena across agencies including the FBI, Department of War, NASA, and Department of State.
Drop 01 went live on May 8, 2026, with 158 files at war.gov/UFO. The Department of War has stated additional files will be released on a rolling basis. This site indexes every drop within hours of release. Subscribe to RSS or use the email signup above for next-drop alerts.
No. None of the 294 files contains a body, a craft, biological material, or any artifact whose origin can only be extraterrestrial. They also do not prove aliens don't exist. They prove that trained military and government personnel have observed objects with flight characteristics that no known aircraft can replicate, and that the U.S. government has been collecting such reports continuously for at least 80 years. Read our full honest verdict →
UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is the historical, public-facing term used since the 1940s. UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, formerly Unidentified Aerial Phenomena until 2022) is the current official U.S. government term, adopted to cover underwater and transmedium objects, not just aerial ones. The Pentagon, AARO, and ODNI use UAP in formal documents. War.gov calls the program PURSUE but kept the public URL at /UFO/ because that's what most people search for.
A 0-100 score reflecting evidentiary weight that an encounter remains unexplained after conventional analysis. It is calculated from six weighted components: sensor quality, witness credibility, corroboration, kinematic anomaly, mundane-explanation availability, and official disposition. The full rubric and weights are open JSON at /data/scoring-rubric.json - you can recompute every score yourself. It is not a probability of extraterrestrial origin. Anyone publishing a "% chance aliens" number is selling something.
Yes. All files are works of the U.S. Government and are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. You may cite, embed, screenshot, redistribute, and commercialize freely. Attribution to the source agency (FBI, DoD, NASA, State Dept) is courteous; attribution to this index is appreciated but not required.
Every file has a SHA-256 hash on its detail page and in the verification manifest. Re-download the file from war.gov, hash it locally (PowerShell: Get-FileHash file.pdf -Algorithm SHA256), and compare. They should match exactly. This is how journalists fact-check our archive. Full step-by-step on the verification page →
The video files (28 in Drop 01, 95 across the three releases) are hosted on DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service - the U.S. military's public media platform). We retrieve them via DVIDS' public API and mirror to our CDN for direct playback. Each video includes the closed captions provided by DVIDS, and we link back to the official DVIDS page on every video detail page.
Yes. The Department of War has stated PURSUE is a rolling-release program, with additional drops planned. This site polls the official war.gov UAP CSV every 30 minutes during U.S. weekday business hours and hourly off-hours via an automated GitHub Action. New drops trigger an indexing run within hours of release. Subscribe via the form at the top of the homepage, or follow our RSS feed.
Both numbers describe CSV row counts, not file counts. The May 8 PURSUE CSV listed 161 rows describing 158 unique files; war.gov restructured it to 158 rows on May 11. The underlying file inventory was identical between the two dates: verified by URL-set comparison, zero PDFs added, zero PDFs removed, zero videos added, zero videos removed. The 161→158 row delta is fully explained by 9 PDFs that previously had 1 CSV row each gaining additional cross-reference rows, plus 1 PDF having its storage slug changed (Title unchanged). Release 02 (May 22) then brought the archive to 222 files, and Release 03 (June 12) to 294 - every one SHA-256 verified against war.gov. Full diff & data tables →
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