Is war.gov/UFO a real, official U.S. government website?

“Yes. war.gov is the official domain of the U.S. Department of War, and /UFO/ is its public-facing UAP disclosure portal — the DoD published a formal press release confirming the launch on 2026-05-08.”

Yes. war.gov is the official internet domain of the U.S. Department of War (the rebranded name of the Department of Defense), and /UFO/ is its public-facing UAP disclosure portal. The portal was formally launched on 2026-05-08, when the Pentagon published a press release at war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4480582/ announcing the release of 162 declassified UAP files. All hosted documents are served from the canonical war.gov domain and DVIDS (the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, dvidshub.net), both of which are authoritative U.S. government channels. The portal is administered as part of the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), which works alongside the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). UAP records released through war.gov/UFO are subject to AARO technical review before declassification. UAP.WATCH provides an independent, mirrored index of the catalog so researchers can search the full-text of every PDF.