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Department of War · Disclosure Archive

HISTORICAL UAP FILE RELEASE

On May 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of War published the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) — 161 declassified documents drawn from FBI vault holdings, U.S. Army Air Forces incident files, and historical UAP records spanning 1947 through the present.

A second tranche followed on May 22, 2026, adding sensor videos, NASA mission-audio excerpts, and CIA, ODNI, and Department of Energy files; a third on June 12, 2026 brought the FBI's modern case files — including the Colorado Springs 2022 incident and a five-witness Western US event from 2023 — plus eighteen CIA historical documents and the NASA Gemini debriefings. A fourth on July 10, 2026 reached back to the beginning: the Project Sign progress report of 1948, the Air Force's own committee review of Project Blue Book, the 1949 Los Alamos conference at which Manhattan Project physicists argued over the green fireballs, and — at the other end of the record — three Navy Range Fouler debriefs released alongside the sensor videos they describe. Combined with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) public document set, the corpus is the largest body of declassified U.S. government UFO material ever released. Every case below was extracted from those primary-source files.

2,156 Indexed Cases
9 Eras Covered
12 Source Agencies
390 Source Documents
SV · Disclosure-Archive · 2026

Ranked by evidence

The strongest cases in the archive

The method →

2,156 declassified cases, scored on what is actually behind them. The archive's mean is 3.2 out of 100 — these files are overwhelmingly thin, and saying so is the point. What follows is the top of a very shallow distribution.

  1. 01 The Oak Ridge UFO Wave: Unidentified Objects Over America's Atomic City, 1947-1951 FBI · Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA · 1947 Evidence 36/100
  2. 02 FBI UAP Sensor Imagery: 32 Government-System Captures Submitted to AARO (2024) FBI · Multiple, redacted · 2024 Evidence 31/100
  3. 03 Western United States UFO Sighting (8 May 2023) — AARO Records AARO · Western United States · 2021 Evidence 28/100
  4. 04 Unresolved UAP Sighting Over Syria (October 2024) — Pentagon Report #2 USAF · Syria · 2024 Evidence 28/100
  5. 05 Unresolved UAP Sighting Over INDOPACOM (2023) — Pentagon Report USAF · Japan · 2023 Evidence 25/100
  6. 06 New Orleans, Louisiana UFO Sighting (July 7, 1947) — FBI Files FBI · New Orleans, Louisiana · 1947 Evidence 24/100
  7. 07 Woodside, California UFO Sighting (August 27, 1954) — FBI Files FBI · Woodside, California · 1954 Evidence 24/100
  8. 08 AARO Unresolved Case Analysis Update: Western United States Event, 2023 — Department of War File Department of War · Western United States · 2023 Evidence 24/100
  9. 09 South Asia UFO Sighting, 2023 — AARO Records AARO · South Asia · 2023 Evidence 24/100
  10. 10 Unresolved UAP Sighting Over Department of the Army (2026) — Pentagon Report USAF · North America · 2026 Evidence 24/100

Notable visuals from the corpus

Hand-curated artifacts pulled from the underlying PDFs — annotated aeronautical charts, 1947 newspaper clippings, FBI sensor photographs, and ORNL specimen analysis.

View all 55 visuals · 239 document covers →

Browse by Era

The corpus is concentrated in the first wave of saucer reports (1947–1952) and the Cold War Blue Book era (1953–1969), reflecting the periods most heavily documented in the FBI vault files. Modern AARO and ODNI cases form a smaller but distinct cluster.

Foo Fighters Era (1940-1946)

60 cases

Modern Wave (1970-1989)

66 cases

Browse by Source Agency

Each case is tagged with the federal agency that filed or holds the primary-source document. The FBI dominates the historical record; AARO and ODNI dominate the modern.

Source Documents

The full PDF archive lives at the U.S. Department of War's UFO disclosure portal and at AARO. The 4,118 underlying pages have been OCR'd, indexed, and embedded for full-text and semantic search; every case below links to the primary-source PDF on the originating agency website.