Pentagon UFO Files: The 2026 PURSUE Release
Complete guide to the U.S. Department of War's 2026 declassified UFO/UAP file release — the PURSUE program — including all 162 files, source agencies, and how to access the originals.
The Pentagon's 2026 declassified UFO/UAP file release is officially called PURSUE Release 01 — Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Published on 2026-05-08 at war.gov/UFO/, the release 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 1947 (FBI Dallas hexagonal-object memo) through December 2025 (FBI black-hot infrared captures). PURSUE is administered jointly with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) under 50 U.S.C. § 3373. UAP.WATCH provides an independent visualization layer of the entire catalog, with locally-extracted text for 113 of the 118 unique PDFs.
“AT 1514Z, [REDACTED] OBSERVED 1X UAP.”
How to access the originals
All PURSUE files are hosted at war.gov/UFO/ as direct PDF and DVIDS-video links. The canonical CSV catalog is at war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-csv.csv (also available via the Wayback Machine). Most PDFs use the URL pattern war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/<filename>.pdf. Most videos are hosted on DVIDS (dvidshub.net) — the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. UAP.WATCH mirrors all 162 catalog entries and links every entry directly to its war.gov source URL.
What's in the catalog
By document type: 120 PDFs include 8 hand-curated synthetic memo extracts (for the redaction-bar Easter egg) plus 112 declassified mission reports, FBI memos, State Department cables, and AARO unresolved-case reports. The 28 videos include CENTCOM AOR clips (Greece, Iraq, Syria), INDOPACOM full-motion-video, EO and IR sensor captures, and historical archive video. The 14 images include FBI black-hot infrared still frames, NASA Apollo lunar plates with annotated areas of interest, and the 2023 DoD ellipsoid-bronze-metallic-object photograph.
Status breakdown
Of the 26 named incidents in the catalog: 1 is RESOLVED (the 2017 Navy GOFAST clip, attributed by AARO to parallax at ~13,000 ft); 8 are UNRESOLVED; 12 are ANOMALOUS; 5 are CORROBORATED. Unresolved cases include the 2023 "Eye of Sauron" orange-orb case and the January 2024 Mediterranean triangular-metallic UAP. Anomalous cases include the Syria 2024 orange-area video and the INDOPACOM "misshapen and uneven ball of white light" with halo effect. Corroborated cases include the 1947 FBI Dallas memo and the 1947 Wright Field AMC memorandum.