What is the Pentagon's PURSUE program?

“PURSUE stands for Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters — the framework under which the Pentagon released 162 declassified UAP files on 2026-05-08.”

PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters — is the U.S. Department of War program that declassifies and releases government UAP records to the public. PURSUE Release 01, published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/, contains 162 files: 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 images. Source agencies include the FBI, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, NASA, the State Department, and DoD components. The catalog spans incidents from a 1947 FBI Dallas field memo on a recovered hexagonal object through black-hot infrared imagery captured in December 2025. PURSUE is administered alongside AARO (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) and routes raw reports to AARO for technical assessment before public release.