Do Aliens Exist?

Do these files prove aliens exist?

No. None of the files released so far contains a body, a craft, biological material, or any artifact whose origin can only be extraterrestrial. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something.

Do they prove aliens don't exist?

Also no. Several files document encounters that the U.S. government has not been able to explain after review. "Unexplained" is not the same as "alien" - but it is also not the same as "nothing happened."

What do they actually prove?

Three things, with file-level evidence:

1. The U.S. government has been collecting UAP encounter reports continuously for at least 80 years, across the FBI, DoD, NASA, and State Department. FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 alone covers 1947-1968.

1. Trained military personnel have reported objects they could not identify, and the government has logged those reports as unresolved. A 2023 mission report from the Aegean Sea (DOW-UAP-D033) describes an object flying just above the ocean surface and taking "multiple 90-degree turns at an estimated 80 mph." War.gov itself cautions that such descriptions reflect the reporter's subjective interpretation, not a measured performance.

1. At least some encounters come with military sensor footage, not only eyewitness testimony. The Aegean Sea report is paired with infrared video (DOW-UAP-PR034) in which the sensor tracks the object for more than two minutes before losing lock, and some captures show electro-optical and infrared views of the same object side by side (DOW-UAP-PR141).

What would change the answer?

Any one of these would move the needle from "unexplained" to "extraterrestrial":

• Recovered physical material with isotope ratios outside known terrestrial ranges, independently verified by multiple labs
• Biological samples whose genetic structure doesn't match any known Earth taxonomy
• Continuous multi-instrument tracking (radar + infrared + visual + telemetry) of an object performing maneuvers physically impossible for any known craft, released with raw data
• A craft, intact, examined by an international scientific consortium

None of these is in the current PURSUE release.

Why should I trust this index over war.gov directly?

You shouldn't have to. Every file links back to the war.gov source URL. Every file has a SHA-256 hash you can independently verify. We mirror; we don't editorialize the documents themselves. The Anomalousness Index is our editorial scoring of evidentiary weight, with transparent methodology, not a claim on the underlying files.

Did you use AI for the analysis?

Yes, and we want to be specific about what the AI did and didn't do.

What the AI did:

• Applied our human-designed scoring rubric to each file's metadata. The rubric defines six components (sensor quality, witness credibility, corroboration, kinematic anomaly, mundane-explanation availability, official disposition) with human-set weights. The AI picked which rubric value best matched each file based on publicly reported descriptions of the file.
• Generated audience-friendly summaries (TL;DR / What we know / What we don't know) from the structured metadata.
• For videos: generated transcripts using OpenAI's Whisper model.
• For PDFs: extracted searchable text using pdfplumber.

What the AI did NOT do:

• Did not analyze the underlying files for "alien content" or extraterrestrial markers. That's not what these scores measure and not what AI is capable of.
• Did not editorialize the documents. The files are mirrored as the U.S. government released them.
• Did not generate the rubric weights or the editorial position. Those are human-set and visible at /data/scoring-rubric.json.
• Did not produce a "% chance aliens exist" number. No AI can do that honestly. We refuse to publish one.

Why disclose this: other AI-analysis sites don't disclose, then get caught and lose credibility. We tell you upfront. The rubric is open JSON. Every score is reproducible. If you disagree with how a specific file was scored, edit the rubric and recompute - the math is identical.

Models used: Claude (Anthropic) for rubric application and summaries. OpenAI Whisper for video transcription. pdfplumber (open-source) for PDF text extraction.

Why is this site here?

Because war.gov's interface is a flat list, and hundreds of files deserve search, categorization, transcripts, and per-file context. Public-domain government documents should be as accessible as possible. That's the whole pitch.

Will this site be updated as PURSUE adds more files?

Yes. The Department of War has stated that files will be added to war.gov/UFO "on a rolling basis." A public poller checks war.gov several times a day, and each new release is added here once its files are downloaded and verified. Subscribe to the RSS feed for alerts on new releases.