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Track, search, and understand government UFO/UAP file releases.
UFO Files Watch tracks every major U.S. government UFO and UAP file release — from declassified Pentagon reports and congressional testimony to AARO findings and historical archives. Search the record, explore the timeline, and ask Dr. Elara Voss anything about official UAP disclosure.
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U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE Release 06 pairs a modern research-program paper trail with early-1950s primary sources. The AAWSAP contribution includes the program's July 2008 Statement of Objectives (D110), its September…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
Release 06 is the first PURSUE tranche to publish paperwork from AAWSAP, a Defense Intelligence Agency program that ran roughly from 2008 to 2010 and commissioned technical studies of advanced…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
The Tremonton film was recorded near Tremonton, Utah, in July 1952 and was studied at the time by both the U.S. Navy and the Air Force's Project Blue Book. Release 06 places the official Project Blue…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt led Project Blue Book and is generally credited with coining the term 'unidentified flying object.' DOW-UAP-D154 is a transcript of a presentation he gave in 1952, at the…
Department of War (LLE)
Release 06 introduces records carrying an LLE prefix that had not appeared in earlier PURSUE tranches, indicating another contributing organization has entered the public series. LLE-UAP-PR001 and…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE Release 05 is centered on linked case material rather than isolated records. The FBI contribution pairs witness-report records with digital renderings of several triangular-object observations…
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Understanding Releases
Governments and agencies periodically release UFO and UAP-related records in response to congressional mandates, Freedom of Information Act requests, executive directives, and voluntary disclosure initiatives.
Releases include declassified military reports, official sensor recordings, congressional hearing transcripts, agency annual reports, and historical archival documents. Not all releases confirm anomalous activity — many involve resolved cases, administrative records, or updated policy documents.
UFO Files Watch tracks these releases, provides AI-assisted summaries, and helps users locate original source documents. The site does not editorialize on whether UAP are extraterrestrial.
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History
The U.S. Department of War published its second PURSUE UAP release on May 22, 2026 — the first to include records from multiple agencies. CIA, ODNI, NASA, and the Department of Energy contributed records alongside DOW. Highlights include video of a four-UAP formation over Iran (PR050), a Syrian UAP exhibiting instant acceleration (PR051), a USAF-ANG F-16C shoot-down of a UAP (PR071), a December 2019 East Coast case (PR086), and historical documents from Sandia Base (1948–1950), a 1973 CIA USSR intelligence report, an ODNI senior official USPER narrative, an Apollo 12 medical debriefing, and DOE PANTEX radar tower imagery. war.gov/UFO has received over 1 billion hits since Release 01. Release 03 is in development.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its third PURSUE UAP release on June 12, 2026. Release 03 is the first to include FBI-contributed records and the first to include a formal Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on a specific UAP incident. The 10-file release documents the 2022 Colorado Springs UAP incident (FBI FD-1057 interview, digital rendering, and ICA analysis), multiple 2025–2026 Northeastern U.S. orb sighting field reports and video, a 2024 FBI orb video, a Cold War-era CIA intelligence cable related to Zimbabwe, the 1949 U.S. Army Flying Saucer Study, and a 1949 FBI correspondence referral.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its fourth PURSUE UAP release on July 10, 2026. Release 04 includes three declassified photographs of unidentified objects in low-Earth orbit from Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission (November 1996), two 2025 infrared video cases from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, a 1996 Western U.S. dual-object infrared video with HUD elements, a 2019 Gulf of America infrared video, the 1948 Project Sign Progress Report, the 1949 Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S., and the 1949 Atomic Energy Commission transmittal letter regarding a Los Alamos conference on aerial phenomena.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its fifth PURSUE UAP release on August 7, 2026. The portal lists 41 records, led by FBI reports and digital renderings of triangular objects and multiple red-light observations, a 1953 analysis of films from Montana and Utah, a 2021 Gulf of Oman intelligence report with six associated videos, CIA records concerning the Caribbean, and two 1963 State Department cables from Bahia, Brazil.
Official source ↗The U.S. Department of War published its sixth PURSUE UAP release on September 18, 2026. Release 06 introduces documents from the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) — its Statement of Objectives, contracting paperwork, and two Defense Intelligence Reference Documents on metallic glasses and metallic spintronics — alongside a Project Blue Book file and archival film of the 1952 Tremonton UFO case in Utah, a 1952 presentation transcript from Project Blue Book's first director Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, and two new LLE-prefixed unresolved reports from Colorado in October 2023.
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