The sixth tranche of the Trump administration's PURSUE program: 72 files — 56 documents, 15 videos, 1 audio recording — bringing the public corpus to 447 files. Forty-four are the paper trail of AAWSAP, the DIA program behind the 'warp drive and wormhole' studies: 37 of its 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, the 2008 Statement of Objectives, the solicitation and five contract modifications, each published with the Department's own assessment. Also new: the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film and its Project Blue Book case file, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's March 1952 presentation on tape, the first local law enforcement files in the program, and ten CENTCOM and INDOPACOM sensor videos and stills.
The U.S. Department of War announced on September 15, 2026, a new legal waiver creating an authorized, legally protected disclosure mechanism for current and former government and military personnel to provide UAP-related National Defense Information (NDI) to designated representatives of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The waiver offers targeted relief from certain civil and administrative enforcement provisions contained in Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements (SAPIAs), and applies to Department of War service members, veterans, civilian employees, and contractors who hold or previously held access to UAP-related NDI.
The announcement represents a significant procedural development in UAP disclosure policy, addressing longstanding concerns from potential whistleblowers about legal and professional repercussions for discussing protected information. Critically, the waiver does not declassify any information; material submitted to PURSUE will undergo security review before any potential public release. The PURSUE initiative, launched earlier in 2026 by the Trump administration, is distinct from investigative bodies such as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and is focused specifically on identifying, reviewing, declassifying, and releasing UAP-related records held across U.S. federal agencies.
Four days before Release 06, the Department of War announces a targeted legal waiver: all current and former service members, civilian personnel and contractors who hold or once held UAP-related National Defense Information may disclose it directly to designated PURSUE representatives. The waiver supersedes the civil and administrative enforcement provisions of their non-disclosure agreements and Special Access Program indoctrination agreements — for communications to the PURSUE team only.
A preprint study by Jacob Haqq-Misra of Blue Marble Space and Ravi Kopparapu of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, published in August 2026, analyzed all 112 UAP videos released by the U.S. Department of War under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) since May 8, 2026. The researchers, both members of the UAP Science Advisory Council to the U.S. government, concluded that pervasive redaction of sensor data — particularly the range (distance) between observing platform and object — makes it impossible for civilian scientists to determine whether objects depicted in the footage display genuinely anomalous velocities.
The study, titled "Limits on Velocity Recovery from the PURSUE Sensor Videos" and posted to the arXiv preprint server, represents one of the first systematic scientific examinations of the PURSUE release corpus. It carries significance both for the UAP transparency debate and for the methodology of UAP science more broadly: the authors argue that apparent pixel-per-frame motion in infrared targeting-pod footage is not a reliable proxy for real-world object velocity without accompanying range data, platform trajectory, and camera field-of-view specifications. The researchers explicitly declined to draw extraordinary conclusions from the footage while also declining to dismiss the objects as mundane, and called for future releases to include unredacted or separately certified range measurements.
The fifth tranche of the Trump administration's PURSUE program: 41 files — 22 documents, 16 videos, 3 images — published 28 days after Release 04 and bringing the public corpus to 375 files. The organizing theme is triangles: four FBI interviews, each paired with a 2026 digital rendering, spanning a 2002 sighting over Bagram Air Force Base to two independent October 2023 reports from Colorado Springs. The release also contains the first FBI-captured video in the program's history and the first-ever State Department and Executive Office of the President files, tracking a 1963 Brazilian crashed-sphere claim to a fabrication within eleven days.
The fourth tranche of the Trump administration's PURSUE program: 40 files — 14 documents, 3 images, 19 videos, 4 audio files — bringing the public corpus to 334 files. Where Release 03 was the FBI's tranche, Release 04 is the historical one: a 1955 CIA debrief of four observers (one a sitting U.S. Senator) watching an object over the Soviet Union, the 1949 Los Alamos conference on 'green fireballs' attended by Manhattan Project physicists, Project Sign's founding 1948 progress report, and three NASA photographs of an unidentified object shot from Space Shuttle Columbia in 1996. Nineteen AARO sensor videos and four Apollo-era 'light flash' audio segments round out the release.
The United States Department of War (DOW) published its fourth official release of declassified UAP imagery and historical files on July 10, 2026, under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The release, announced by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell, includes several previously unseen U.S. military videos of unidentified aerial objects collected by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), as well as historical documents dating to as early as the 1940s, all hosted at WAR.GOV/UFO.
The fourth PURSUE tranche is notable for the range of incidents represented, spanning imagery from the 1996 NASA STS-80 Space Shuttle Columbia mission, a 2019 Eastern United States sighting described by an observer with 28 years of combined U.S. Air Force and Navy experience, and multiple unresolved reports from 2020 over the Western United States and the Atlantic Ocean. Reporting by The Debrief's Micah Hanks notes that none of the released videos provide clear evidence of objects attributable to unknown aircraft or advanced technology, and that several are assessed as consistent with balloons or sensor artifacts. The DOW stated that additional file releases are being prepared on a rolling basis.
The U.S. Department of War released its third batch of UAP files on June 13, 2026, under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The release includes a previously undisclosed CIA document describing a disc-like object observed over Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe in 2008, reports of a translucent "potato"-shaped object seen near Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs in 2024, and footage of apparent luminous orbs assessed by analysts to likely be sky lanterns. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell stated that WAR.GOV/UFO had received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since its May 8, 2026 launch and confirmed that the Department of War and agency partners are actively preparing the next release.
The article, written by Micah Hanks of The Debrief, also highlights a video from the second PURSUE batch — designated DOW-UAP-PR061, "Spherical UAP [CALLSIGN] 2021/04/12 vid 0" — which captured on April 12, 2021 from a U.S. military drone operating within USCENTCOM's area of responsibility appears to show a small, light-colored spherical object descending, changing direction, and moving into shadowed terrain. Hanks argues this video, while not extraordinary, is consistent with AARO's own "target package" for genuine UAP as characterized by former AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick in April 2023, and raises the broader question of whether higher-quality UAP data that informed AARO's technical signature data remains classified and unreleased.
The third tranche of the Trump administration's PURSUE program: 72 files — 53 documents, 10 images, 6 videos, 3 audio files — bringing the public corpus to 294 files. The FBI dominates with 29 files, anchored by two modern American case clusters: a four-year series of orb sightings in the northeastern U.S. that the Bureau's own agents witnessed first-hand, and the first-person record of the October 2023 Western US Event. Also included: the CIA's 1953 Robertson Panel report in less-redacted form, NASA's Gemini-era crew debriefings, and the 1962 Cronkite–Cooper interview audio.
Exactly 14 days after PURSUE Release 01, the U.S. Department of War publishes a second tranche of declassified UAP records through war.gov/UFO: 51 sensor videos (the DOW-UAP-PR050–PR099 series), 7 NASA crew audio files, and 6 documents. The centerpiece is a first-person USPER narrative from a currently-serving senior U.S. intelligence officer describing a one-hour, multi-witness UAP encounter from a U.S. military helicopter in late 2025.
A new tranche of up to 46 UAP videos held by the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is expected to be released imminently under the Department of War's Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) initiative. The release follows a March 31, 2026, letter from Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth formally requesting the footage, which was originally due no later than April 14, 2026. On May 15, 2026, Luna confirmed she and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) had completed a review of the videos alongside AARO director Jon Kosloski.
The forthcoming batch — anticipated to be designated "Release 02" — includes footage of spherical objects, cigar-shaped UAP, fast-moving objects, and at least two videos depicting what the military characterizes as "transmedium" or unidentified submerged objects (USOs). The collection also appears to include additional footage related to the January 26, 2023, Eglin Air Force Base diamond-formation incident and the February 12, 2023, Lake Huron shootdown event. The article, published by The Debrief on May 21, 2026, represents the most detailed public accounting of the expected contents of the release prior to its official publication.
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP. The report describes the UAP as a “triangular and metallic UAP.” The reporter estimated the UAP’s altitude as 24,989 feet and speed as 168 knots (193mph). All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance
Eighteen sections and serials of the FBI Headquarters master investigative case file on 'flying discs,' covering the Roswell era through the late 1960s. Includes Oak Ridge nuclear-facility overflight reports. The largest single PDF in PURSUE is 101 megabytes.
The Trump administration launches PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — and the Department of War publishes 160 declassified UAP-related files in the first tranche: 117 PDFs, 29 sensor videos, and 14 photographs spanning 1944 to 2026. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the goal is 'maximum transparency.'
This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
The most recently dated video in PURSUE Release 01 — DOW-UAP-PR49, captured in 2026 by a U.S. Department of the Army sensor — runs 1 minute 49 seconds and shows infrared tracking of an unresolved aerial object.
FBI-UAP-PR007 is hand-held thermal footage a U.S. Government Special Agent shot himself during a 2026 incident in the western United States — two slow-moving 'black-hot' areas of contrast — making it the first video in the PURSUE program captured by the Bureau rather than submitted to it. A second agent separately reported a thermally elevated aerial object the same year, and two more witnesses to a third sequence of incidents within five hours were interviewed and rendered independently.
A first-person USPER narrative published as the centerpiece of PURSUE Release 02 by a currently-serving senior U.S. intelligence officer who describes 'a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour' from a U.S. military helicopter in late 2025: two oval orange-with-white-center orbs stationary just above the rotor disk, a swarm of smaller orbs forming a triangular pattern, and a fighter scramble in which the same orbs trailed the responding jets.
The United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of two seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
A U.S. military operator reported observing two “white hot UAPs.” The reporter estimated the UAP’s speed as approximately 240 nautical miles per hour (276 mph). All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
For the first time PURSUE pairs U.S. Central Command Mission Reports systematically with their sensor imagery: four MISREPs, two infrared stills and four videos from Iraq and the Middle East. A 2022 operator reported UAP 'flying sporadically within the target area… at various speeds between 80 and 180 miles per hour,' one to two metres across. A 2025 operator described 'a white round orbit… moving as fast as 500 miles per hour.' Another reported 'six small spherical objects grouped together,' agile and frequently changing direction, at an estimated 480 mph.
PURSUE Release 03 declassifies the FBI's investigation of recurring orb phenomena in one sparsely populated area of the northeastern United States: four authenticated eyewitness videos spanning November 2021 to July 2025 — 'Triangle Orbs,' 'Red Orb Rotation,' 'Orbs Over the Pond,' and the 'Northeastern Orb Sighting' — plus seven investigative records. The standout: an FD-1057 documenting two FBI special agents' own first-hand UAP observation during a November 2024 site survey. The Bureau assesses the civilian witnesses as 'highly credible.'
This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
This document is a Mission Report (MISREP), a standardized reporting form the U.S. Military uses to record the circumstances surrounding its operations. U.S. military services often use MISREPs to report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to AARO. The GENTEXT, or “general text” section of these reports often contains important qualitative, contextual information, distinguishing it from the more quantitative, or numerical, data found elsewhere in the report. While conducting a weapons calibra
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP on July 14, 2024. The observer reported that the UAP maintained a “straight flight path at same altitude”. The report notes that the UAP’s “speed was faster than flying speed,” and the operator assessed the object as “benign.” The operator reported following the UAP “till the distance became too far.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such
The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and thirty-nine seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of nine seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)consisting of five seconds of video footage from a Full-Motion Video (FMV) camera aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of six seconds of video footage from a Full-Motion Video (FMV) camera aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from a Full-Motion Video (FMV) camera aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of twenty-one seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and five seconds of video footage captured via multiple sensor modalities aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from a full-motion video (FMV) camera aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D32, described the UAP as consisting of a “misshapen and uneven ball of white light,” and reported that a “light/glare halo effect” occurred at the top of the FMV feed. Video Description
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP at an estimated altitude of approximately 24,000 feet. The observer estimated the UAP’s speed as 163 knots (187 mph). All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
Released May 8, 2026 in PURSUE Release 01, the 65-second AARO video designated DOW-UAP-PR028 (PR-028) records a UAP over Greece that the mission report describes as diamond-shaped and moving at roughly 434 knots — detectable only on short-wave infrared. When the operator switched to the visible spectrum, it was gone.
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP, estimating its speed as “approximately 434 knots (499 mph)”. The observer described the UAP as diamond-shaped, with a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom. The observer noted that the UAP was only visible when viewed via an onboard Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) sensor. The observer reported that the event occurred over a duration of approximately two minutes. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP “shaped as a bouncy ball.” The observer described the UAP as traveling “~424kn (483 mph) consistently for at least 7mins.” The reporter described the UAP approaching from the south. The operator assessed the object as “benign.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of
A local law enforcement officer in Colorado submitted four cell-phone videos to AARO — three from October 2023 and one from January 2024 — describing a 'silent' phenomenon 'featuring red, blue, and green flashing lights,' along with a transcript of his own narration as he recorded. The five files are the first from a local law enforcement agency in the PURSUE program. One clip runs a full fifteen minutes on a single light source. AARO blurred the lower half of each frame, edited the transcript to remove identifying detail, and attached its standing caveat about what phone autofocus does to distant subjects.
A 2-minute-57-second AARO video from a U.S. military sensor records an unidentified object over Greece performing multiple sharp 90-degree turns at speed — flight characteristics that exceed publicly disclosed performance of known aircraft. Released as DOW-UAP-PR34 in PURSUE Release 01.
Two separate people independently reported triangular objects with red lights near Colorado Springs, Colorado in October 2023 — a former Department of War employee describing a 'dark translucent triangle,' and a separate U.S. Person describing a 'large triangle with red lights.' The FBI interviewed each witness months apart and commissioned an independent digital rendering from each account. It is a different object, and a different year, from the 'bean-shaped' unresolved case PURSUE Release 03 documented near the same city in 2022.
Newly released FBI 302 interviews and an FBI Lab composite sketch describe an ellipsoid bronze metallic object, 130-195 feet in length, that materialized out of a bright light, was observed by multiple credentialed witnesses at a U.S. test site, and disappeared instantaneously.
Over two days in 2023, seven separate U.S. federal government employees reported close-range encounters with multiple unidentified phenomena at a site in the western United States — including orbs launching other orbs, a large stationary glowing orb at close range, and a large semi-transparent object described as a 'translucent kite.' AARO calls it 'among the most compelling within AARO's current holdings.'
The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and fifty-nine seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of twenty-four seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
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 fifty-seven seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of forty-three seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 24 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2023. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D35, described the UAP as small and circular, flying near the surface of the ocean toward land. Video Description: 00:02: The sensor narrows its field-of-view to zoom in on an area of contrast near the
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 accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D23, mentions a UAP was observed during the mission. Video Description: 00:00-01:55: No content. 01:56: An area of contrast becomes distinguishable against the background in the center o
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's contribution to PURSUE Release 06: six infrared sensor videos recorded aboard U.S. military platforms in 2023 — five over the Yellow Sea, one over the East China Sea — between 19 seconds and one minute 38 seconds long, each tracking a single area of contrast over open water. No mission reports accompany them, and the Department's descriptions are confined to what the sensor does. The shortest, DOW-UAP-PR143, supplies the iconic frame of the release: one black-hot object under the reticle.
A U.S. military operator reported observing “several bright objects maneuvering quickly” west to east northeast. The operator reported achieving a track on the UAP via an onboard targeting pod for approximately 20 seconds. The report describes that UAP then dimmed and disappeared from the targeting pod. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a
A U.S. military operator reported observing one “possible balloon” at approximately 2,100 feet. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
Cockpit/sensor footage from the February 12, 2023 U.S. Air National Guard F-16C engagement over Lake Huron, Michigan — the third of four shootdowns that month in the wake of the Chinese surveillance-balloon incident. AARO has characterized the underlying object as 'a benign hobbyist or research balloon' but the engagement footage itself is published for the first time in PURSUE Release 02.
A 20-second infrared sensor recording from a U.S. military platform over CENTCOM waters near Iran, August 26, 2022, showing four areas of contrast moving together — and then a fifth object entering the frame from the top-left. The opening video of the new PR050-PR099 series released in PURSUE Release 02.
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
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of fourteen seconds of video footage from an infrared (left) and electro-optical (right) sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command 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. military system in 2022. The original reporter digitally altered the imagery by adding a red line encircling an area of interest before submitting it to AARO. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D12, described the UAP as moving from north to northeast. The operator reported that they were unable t
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 report, DoW-UAP-D18, described the UAP as "flying west to east." Video Description: The video depicts an area of contrast moving from the bottom left to the top right of the sensor field-of-view. At approximately six second
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 platform in 2022. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D16, described the UAP as “moving from north to south.” Video Description: At the five second mark, the video depicts an object moving from right to left across the to
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 mission report, DoW-UAP-D14, described the UAP as a “probable SU-27/35." Video Description: The video depicts two areas of contrast moving together near the center of the field-of-view throughout the runtime. This video des
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 report, DoW-UAP-D10, described the observation as a “possible missile” moving across the field-of-view. The report also described four other objects not depicted in the video as “possible birds.” Video Description: At the
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP flying north to northeast. The observer reported following the UAP for as long as possible but was unable to positively identify it. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
A sensor video from a U.S. Navy platform in March 2022 showing multiple spherical objects moving in and out of the water in close proximity to a surfaced U.S. submarine — the cleanest transmedium/USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) footage AARO has released to date, and the iconic image of PURSUE Release 02.
U.S. military service members near Colorado Springs reported a motionless, silent, matte-white 'bean-shaped' object whose surface was covered in intersecting ridges forming an abstract polygon pattern. PURSUE Release 03 declassifies the FBI's witness interviews, a digital rendering, and an Intelligence Community partner's analysis assessing — with low confidence — that the phenomenon may have been sunlight backscattering from snow-covered mountains. The case remains unresolved as of June 2026.
Six videos from September 8, 2021 show an unidentified object over the Gulf of Oman — every clip a cell-phone recording of the infrared display aboard a Special Operations AC-130J gunship, a limitation the Department of War states plainly for each file. An accompanying Intelligence Information Report, itself unevaluated raw reporting, documents the incident that produced them.
Released as the kinematic standout of PURSUE Release 02, DOW-UAP-PR051 records a 2021 encounter on the Jordan-Syria border in which a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone achieves a weapons-quality lock on an unidentified object before that object exhibits instantaneous acceleration and abrupt directional changes that, per AARO's mission report, exceed the publicly disclosed performance envelope of any known crewed or uncrewed aerial system.
An infrared sensor video from November 23, 2020 over Afghanistan — captured by a U.S. military platform in CENTCOM's area of responsibility — showing a single spherical object moving in and out of cloud cover. The footage was uploaded to a U.S. classified network in June 2024 and declassified in PURSUE Release 02.
A U.S. military operator reported observing two UAP on November 2, 2020, at 2143Z and at 2148Z. The first observation occurred at an unknown altitude. The reporter described the second UAP’s direction of travel as proceeding to the northwest. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrin
This document is a Range Fouler Debrief, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with a group of two UAP. The operator described the UAP as “balloon-shaped,” metallic, and reflective, characterizing them as “2x red blinking stro
This document is a Range Fouler Reporting Form, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported observing a “round, cold object” via infrared sensor, traveling at 319 degrees (northwest) at approximately 20 mph. The report describes the UAP making “
A U.S. military operator reported observing a UAP. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP at an estimated altitude of 1,800 feet. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
This document is a Range Fouler Reporting Form, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported tracking a “round, cold object” over the Gulf of Aden for eight minutes via “black hot” IR sensor, making the UAP appear “bright white.” The report state
This document is a Range Fouler Debrief Form, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported observing an “object fly through the screen.” The observer described a second object surpassing the first, at a higher speed. The report describes a total
A U.S. military operator reported observing a “formation of unknown flying objects” traveling northeast to northwest along the coast for approximately two minutes. The report notes that light cloud coverage “prevented the continuous tracking of the formation.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or abs
This document is a Range Fouler Debrief Form, a standardized reporting form the U.S. Navy uses to record the circumstances surrounding an unauthorized intrusion into controlled airspace during active military operations or training. These reports contain a narrative description of the observer’s experiences. A U.S. military operator reported an encounter with a group of three “unidentified small air contacts” over the North Arabian Sea. The reporter described the UAP as having “wings/airframe”
A U.S. military operator reported observing one UAP. The report describes the UAP as “transiting” and notes it had “no impact to mission.” The report also states that “dense cloud coverage intermittently impacted FMV collection.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object fe
A U.S. military operator reported encountering three separate UAP on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and thirty-four seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of one minute and three seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
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
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of nine seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of two minutes and seventeen seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
A U.S. military operator reported observing a UAP, describing it as “look[ing] like a balloon.” The report describes the UAP as “traveling with the winds at approximately 31,000 ft.” The visually tracked the UAP via onboard infrared sensor. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsi
A U.S. military operator reported observing a UAP. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
A U.S. military operator reported observing two UAP traveling at an estimated speed of 278 knots (320 mph. The observer reported that the UAP “increased speed and changed direction towards the south.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance charact
A U.S. military operator reported observing a UAP traveling at an estimated speed of 321 knots (369 mph). The observer reported that the UAP “increased speed and changed direction towards the east.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance character
A U.S. military operator reported observing a “line of dots followed by a trailing dot.” All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
The Department of the Air Force submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of fifty-eight seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon(UAP)to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five minutes and eleven seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
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 fifty-three seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
A U.S. Navy Range Fouler debrief from May 14, 2020 documents a 'solid white object' performing erratic movements above the water of the Persian Gulf — a close-proximity encounter with active U.S. military training. Released as DOW-UAP-D38 with companion video DOW-UAP-PR36.
Infrared sensor footage from a U.S. military platform in U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility in December 2019, showing a single unidentified object off the U.S. East Coast. Uploaded to a U.S. classified network in September 2020 and declassified in PURSUE Release 02 — a rare NORTHCOM (continental U.S.) entry in the PR-series corpus.
This document is a mission briefing summarizing an observation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) by a U.S. military platform near Latakia, Syria. A U.S. military pilot flying a P-8A aircraft reported observing an object via the aircraft’s EO/IR sensor, which they characterized as appearing to be in “sea skim mode,” traveling at approximately 500 knots (575 mph) on a southeasterly heading. The P-8A lost visual contact with the object after two minutes. All descriptive and estimative langu
On September 1, 2015, an unidentified object intruded the restricted airspace above the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas — the facility where the United States assembles and disassembles its nuclear weapons. Ground-surveillance-radar imagery and an incident report were first released, heavily redacted, as part of PURSUE Release 02 in May 2026. PURSUE Release 04 republishes the same file, DOE-UAP-D005, with far fewer redactions.
The oldest sensor video in PURSUE Release 01 — a 1-minute-46-second AARO clip from 2013 — shows what military observers described as an 'eight-pointed star formation' of objects over a Middle Eastern theater of operations.
PURSUE Release 06 publishes 44 records of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program: the July 2008 Statement of Objectives, the September 2008 solicitation and original order, five contract modifications, and 37 of the 38 Defense Intelligence Reference Documents the DIA-administered program commissioned between December 2009 and January 2011. The famous titles are all here — Warp Drive, Dark Energy and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions; Traversable Wormholes, Stargates and Negative Energy; Antigravity for Aerospace Applications; Negative Mass Propulsion; Concepts for Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum — each with a Department of War summary that grades it, often harshly.
A never-before-released July 2008 CIA report — featured by the Department of War in PURSUE Release 03 — documents a UFO sighting at Harare International Airport, Zimbabwe, and an internal debate over whether the object was an advanced reconnaissance device of a foreign government or 'of extraterrestrial origins.' The report's routing context: perceived aggressive foreign posturing had placed personnel on high alert.
A former U.S. military pilot, interviewed by the FBI in March 2024, described an enormous dark triangle passing directly overhead while he was deployed as a reservist at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan, in June 2002. The Bureau commissioned a digital rendering from his account in 2026: a solid black delta large enough to blot out the stars, now the iconic image of PURSUE Release 05. The same interview also covers incidents the witness reported in 2023 and 2024.
Three photographs taken from Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission (November 19 – December 7, 1996) show an unidentified object in low-Earth orbit near the Earth's limb. Across the sequence the object appears to rotate or tumble, then continues along a trajectory that carries it against the face of the Earth. The Department's release includes no NASA disposition for the object, unlike two earlier Shuttle-era anomalies — STS-48 (1991) and STS-75 (1996) — already on the public record.
This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
A 1994 U.S. State Department diplomatic cable from Kazakhstan, declassified in PURSUE Release 01, records a Tajik Air 747 captain plus three U.S. citizens on board observing what the cable describes as a 'bright light of enormous intensity' at 41,000 feet over Kazakh airspace.
A previously-classified CIA intelligence report from 1973 documenting a Soviet citizen's observation of a luminous, bright-green airborne object in the summer of 1973. One of the few PURSUE entries with an explicitly Cold-War-era USSR provenance; reproduced in full as part of Release 02.
A NASA still from Apollo 17 — released for the first time as part of PURSUE Release 01 — shows three small dots in a tight triangular formation in the lunar sky. Released alongside Apollo 17 crew transcripts and technical debriefings.
PURSUE Release 04 publishes four audio segments — two from the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing (February 18, 1971) and two from the Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing (December 21, 1972) — in which astronauts and their debriefers discuss the 'light flash phenomena': brief flashes of light some Apollo crews reported seeing with their eyes closed in flight. The phenomenon was unexplained at the time; it is now understood as high-energy cosmic rays passing through the retina or optic nerve. PURSUE Release 02 previously published the related November 1969 Apollo 12 medical debrief on the same subject.
PURSUE Release 02 publishes the audio of the Apollo 12 medical crew debriefing in which Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Al Bean describe seeing brief 'light flashes' and 'streaks of light' during quiet rest periods on the cislunar coast. NASA's contemporary medical assessment attributed the phenomenon to cosmic-ray-induced retinal events.
PURSUE Release 03 publishes eight NASA crew-debriefing transcripts spanning Glenn and Schirra (1962-63) through Gemini 4, 5, 7, and 9 — the formal record of the 'sparkles,' 'snow,' and luminous-particle observations of early U.S. spaceflight — plus three audio files: the November 1962 Walter Cronkite interview in which Gordon Cooper says 'exceptionally well-qualified people have seen objects' without logical explanation, and two Apollo 16 scientific debriefings, one containing an off-hand 'could be an alien starbase' remark.
A November 9, 1963 Rio de Janeiro radio broadcast claimed a 'large metal sphere' carrying a dead occupant had crashed near Conde, Bahia, Brazil. The CIA's wire service flagged the report the same day; by November 20, the U.S. consulate's scientific attaché in Salvador had traced it to a fabrication with no basis in local reporting. The paper trail — a CIA wire summary preserved in the files of the White House's space council, plus two State Department cables — marks the first appearance of the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State in the PURSUE corpus.
In October 1955, four Americans travelling by train through the Soviet Union — among them U.S. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, then chairman-in-waiting of the Senate Armed Services Committee — watched a luminescent, greenish-yellow object climb and pass above their train between Baku and Tiflis, now Tbilisi. PURSUE Release 04 declassifies the CIA's debriefing memo and its companion analysis, which concluded the sighting could 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles.' The analysis also weighs the 1953 Robertson Panel's findings and Project 'Y,' the real U.S.-Canadian program then trying to build a saucer-shaped aircraft.
PURSUE Release 03 publishes the CIA's 1952-1953 Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects — the Robertson Panel — in less-redacted form, with the Department of War's own transmission copy to the Secretary of Defense. The panel found no direct physical threat but warned that public fascination could clog intelligence channels and that a 'morbid national psychology' could be exploited by adversaries — and recommended an official policy of 'debunking' to 'strip the UFO subject of its mystery.'
On July 2, 1952, Navy Chief Warrant Officer Delbert C. Newhouse — a Photographer's Mate with more than 1,000 hours of aerial-photography experience — filmed 12 to 14 bright, reflective objects near Tremonton, Utah, on 16mm Kodachrome. The Air Force assessed him as honest, reliable and expert, and never conclusively identified the objects: birds, balloons and mirage early on; 'pillow balloons' after a December 1952 review with General Mills; seabirds reflecting sunlight in later assessments. PURSUE Release 06 publishes the National Archives digitization of the film, the Blue Book case file, the balloon photo file, Newhouse's personnel record, and the Air Force's late-1952 'Flying Discs' compilation.
Three months before the Washington, D.C. flap, the head of the Air Force's reorganised UFO investigation told a Boston audience that roughly 20 percent of about 800 historical cases remained unexplained after technical analysis, that reports concentrated around Los Alamos, Albuquerque and Oak Ridge, and that radar had logged unconfirmed speeds between 1,000 and 3,500 miles per hour. PURSUE Release 06 publishes the transcript and a 65-minute audio recording of the presentation.
PURSUE Release 04 publishes the verbatim transcript of a March 22, 1949 conference at Los Alamos, called after months of unexplained 'green fireball' sightings over the laboratory that built the first atomic bombs. Manhattan Project physicists — Edward Teller among them — argued over explanations ranging from shallow-angle meteors to an 'electron phenomenon'; meteoriticist Lincoln LaPaz told the room nothing like it had ever been seen in a meteorite fall. The conference adjourned without a consensus.
A 116-page joint file from the U.S. Air Force and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program — the Manhattan Project's nuclear-weapons custodial successor — documenting 209 sightings of 'green orbs,' discs, and fireballs maneuvering near the Sandia, New Mexico custodial nuclear-weapons installation between 1948 and 1950. Released in full as part of PURSUE Release 02; some sighting locations contained recovered copper powder.
PURSUE Release 04 publishes six U.S. Air Force files tracing the government's institutional handling of UFO reports from 1948 to 1967. The centerpiece is Project Sign's first progress report on 100 sightings from 1947-48, alongside both surviving drafts of Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203. Rounding out the file: records of the Avro 'Project Y2' saucer-shaped-aircraft assessments, 1955 correspondence relating to Project Blue Book, and the 1966-67 Scientific Advisory Board review that led directly to the Condon Committee and, eventually, Blue Book's closure.
A U.S. Army General Staff intelligence review, dated January 9, 1947, assesses the wave of 'ghost rocket' sightings reported across Sweden and its neighbors beginning in May 1946. Drawing on Swedish government statements and reporting from the U.S. military attaché in Stockholm, the review reaches no conclusion either way — the earliest document in PURSUE Release 05, and a companion piece to the Swedish military's own Lake Kölmjärv investigation from the same wave.
PURSUE's earliest entry — wartime Department of War records from 1944-1945 documenting the 'foo fighter' encounters reported by U.S. Army Air Forces pilots over the European theater, with corroborating Air Ministry analysis.