What Is the PURSUE Program? The Department of War's UAP Records Release
An introduction to PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — the U.S. Department of War's government-wide UAP records and imagery release portal at war.gov/ufo: what it is, what has been released, and how this archive preserves and links to the files.
PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — is the U.S. Department of War’s records and imagery release portal at war.gov/ufo. According to the portal, the Department of War, with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), is overseeing a government-wide effort to find, review, identify, declassify, and publicly release unresolved UAP-related records held across the federal government.
What has been released
According to the PURSUE portal, materials are released on a rolling basis in tranches. The first tranche was released on May 8, 2026 and the second on May 22, 2026. The released catalog lists 222 entries — 221 distinct files (one video clip appears under two catalog entries), comprising:
- 122 documents (PDF)
- 77 video clips
- 14 still images
- 8 NASA mission audio excerpts (from Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions)
The PURSUE database at war.gov/ufo provides a searchable catalog and carries each file’s authoritative metadata, including agency of origin, incident date and location, and identifier.
What “unresolved” means
The portal describes these as unresolved cases — meaning the government states it is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This designation does not assert that the observations are anomalous in origin; it indicates that available data and analysis did not yield a definitive identification. Separate reporting on resolved cases continues through the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
How this archive uses PURSUE materials
This archive preserves copies of the released documents, images, video clips, and audio, and links to the official portal:
- Documents, still images, and the NASA audio excerpts are organized on the PURSUE UAP Documents & Images record page.
- Video clips are hosted as click-to-load players on the PURSUE UAP Imagery record page.
- The full released catalog is mirrored as a machine-readable CSV: PURSUE catalog (CSV).
The Department of War’s PURSUE database at war.gov/ufo remains the authoritative source for each file’s metadata and official designation. This archive hosts preservation copies and organizes them for researchers; it conducts no investigations, makes no independent assessments, and is not affiliated with any government agency.