The independent tracker of every UFO file the Trump administration declassifies through PURSUE. Drop 1 dropped May 8 - 162 files. More files release on a rolling basis. We index, score, and verify each one within hours of release.
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 161 files spanning 80 years - from FBI investigative records of the 1947 Roswell incident, 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 →
Bureau case file 62-HQ-83894 covering 1947-1968, including Roswell field office reporting, Oak Ridge incidents, the FBI photographic library, and four decades of citizen sighting reports.
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 12, 16, and 17 mission imagery, the Schmitt-Grimaldi lunar flash report from December 1972, plus Gemini-era astronaut audio of unidentified objects in low Earth orbit.
Diplomatic cables from six overseas posts spanning 1985-2025 (Papua New Guinea, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Mexico, Tajikistan), including the 1994 Tajikistan PanAm crew sighting at flight level 410.
28 video files (with full transcripts) · 119 PDFs (full-text searchable) · 14 images · 108 partially redacted
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:
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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 161 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 161 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.
The 28 video files in Drop 01 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.
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