war.gov/UFO: The Pentagon's Official UAP Disclosure Hub
Complete guide to war.gov/UFO, the U.S. Department of War's official UAP disclosure portal — launched 2026-05-08 with 162 declassified files from FBI, USAF, USN, NASA, and State Department.
war.gov/UFO is the U.S. Department of War's official public-disclosure portal for declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) records. The portal launched on 2026-05-08 with PURSUE Release 01 — the first batch under the Presidential Unsealing & Reporting System for UAP Encounters. It hosts 162 files (120 PDFs, 28 videos, 14 images) drawn from the FBI, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, NASA, the State Department, and several DoD components. The catalog spans from a 1947 FBI Dallas field memo on a recovered hexagonal object through black-hot infrared imagery captured in December 2025. The portal is administered alongside AARO (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) under 50 U.S.C. § 3373. UAP.WATCH provides an independent index of the catalog with locally-extracted full-text search across 113 of the 118 unique PDFs.
“The site went from launch to over one billion total visits in its first weeks.”
What's on the portal
The portal landing page links to four main resources: the PURSUE Release 01 file catalog, the AARO Historical Record Report, a statutory disclosure overview citing 50 U.S.C. § 3373, and direct DVIDS-hosted video clips. The file catalog is browsable by source agency (FBI, USAF, USN, NASA, State, DoD), by year, and by AARO classification status (resolved, anomalous, unresolved, corroborated). A canonical CSV is available at war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-csv.csv for researchers who want a machine-readable index.
How to navigate the file catalog
Every file in PURSUE Release 01 has a unique DOW-UAP identifier (e.g., DOW-UAP-D14 for the Iraq May 2022 mission report) and a classification status — DECLASSIFIED, SECRET//DECLASSIFIED, or UNCLASSIFIED. PDFs follow the war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/ URL pattern; videos are hosted on dvidshub.net. For full-text search across the catalog, UAP.WATCH mirrors all 162 entries with extracted text for 113 of the 118 PDFs — the remaining five are image-only FBI scans. AARO assigns each named incident one of four statuses: corroborated, anomalous, unresolved, or resolved.
What's NOT on the portal
war.gov/UFO does not contain recovered material, alleged "non-human biologics," or any content corroborating the 2023 Grusch congressional testimony's claims of a multi-decade crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program. AARO's 2024 Historical Record Report — linked from the portal — directly addressed the retrieval narrative and stated AARO "found no empirical evidence" for any such program. The portal also does not host pre-1947 records, civilian-only NUFORC reports, or non-U.S. government UFO records (which are the domain of the UK National Archives, the French CNES/GEIPAN, and other foreign repositories).
Subsequent releases
PURSUE Release 01 is the first batch published under the framework. The Department of War has not publicly committed to a release cadence for subsequent batches as of mid-2026. Schumer-Rounds and follow-on legislation would, if enacted in expanded form, establish a UAP Records Review Board with subpoena authority to drive ongoing disclosures. UAP.WATCH monitors the war.gov/UFO catalog for additions and re-publishes any changes.