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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 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…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
DOW-UAP-D098 places two early filmed UAP cases into a single historical analytical record. The official index dates the underlying incidents to 1950 and 1952 and identifies their locations as Montana…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Release 05 groups several FBI triangle reports with witness-oriented digital renderings. Two Colorado Springs cases include both an FD-302 interview or investigative record and a corresponding…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The four multiple-red-light renderings appear in two numbered pairs, each labeled Rendering 1 and Rendering 2. All four are dated 2026 and located only to the western United States in the official…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
The Gulf of Oman material is one of Release 05's clearest multi-record case clusters: a dated intelligence information report is accompanied by six separately indexed videos from the same region and…
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
CIA-UAP-D022 adds a specifically dated Caribbean case to the PURSUE historical archive. The official index identifies Puerto Rico, the Caribbean Sea, and February 1, 1965, but does not summarize the…
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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 first UAP release under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). Release 01 contains approximately 49 individually numbered unresolved case reports, infrared imagery, sensor stills, and video from military operators across multiple global locations. Secretary Pete Hegseth announced rolling releases to follow every few weeks.
Official source ↗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.
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