Records Archive
Government UAP and UFO file releases, sorted by release date. AI-assisted summaries are provided for each record. Verify all details against original source documents.
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE Release 03 is notable for two reasons: it is the first release with FBI-contributed records, and it introduces an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) into the public record. The FBI…
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
CIA-UAP-017 is a Cold War-era intelligence cable or routing document with the subject of 'Zimbabwe' and a description of forces being placed on high alert due to perceived aggressive foreign…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / U.S. Army
DOW-UAP-D084 is a newly declassified 1949 U.S. Army internal study on 'flying saucers' — the terminology used before 'UAP' was standardized. Its 1949 date places it contemporaneously with Project…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-D002 is an FD-1057 — the FBI form used to document investigative activity, in this case an interview conducted to develop a witness sketch. The Colorado Springs 2022 incident is significant…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-D003 contains a digital rendering of the phenomenon reported in the 2022 Colorado Springs UAP incident — a visual reconstruction based on witness accounts documented in the companion FD-1057…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-D009 is an FD-302 — the FBI's standard witness interview summary form — documenting an orb sighting in the Northeastern United States in 2026. The document is redacted, consistent with…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-D010 is a second FD-302 report — sequential form number FD-302-71 — from the Northeastern U.S. orb sighting investigation series in Release 03. Like D009, it documents a 2026 incident and…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-D011 is a 1949 FBI correspondence referral — likely a document routing case information between the FBI and another agency. The 1949 date is significant: it coincides with the early Project…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-PR003 is the first video contributed by the FBI to the PURSUE program. It shows an orb — described as a ball of light — over a pond or body of water, captured in 2024. The capture year…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
FBI-UAP-PR004 shows two lights above a treeline in the Northeastern U.S. in 2025. The presence of two distinct light sources above a treeline is a characteristically ground-level or low-altitude…
U.S. Intelligence Community (IC)
ICA-UAP-D001 is an Intelligence Community Assessment of the 2022 Colorado Springs UAP incident. An ICA is a formal product of the U.S. intelligence community that synthesizes information from…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE Release 02 marks a significant expansion of the Trump Administration's UAP transparency initiative. Unlike Release 01, which drew exclusively from DOW records, Release 02 is multi-agency —…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR050 documents a four-object UAP formation captured on video over water near Iran on August 26, 2022. Formation flight — multiple objects traveling in coordinated patterns — is difficult…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR051 documents a UAP in or near Syrian airspace that exhibited what the DOW database describes as 'instant acceleration' — an abrupt, dramatic change in velocity. Instant or…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR052 is an infrared sensor recording showing multiple areas of contrast clustered near the lower left of the frame, consistent with other DOW PURSUE video cases captured by military…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / U.S. Air Force Air National Guard
PURSUE case PR071 is among the most operationally significant cases in Release 02. It documents a USAF Air National Guard F-16C pilot who engaged and shot down an unidentified aerial object. The…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR086 documents a UAP incident off the East Coast of the United States in December 2019. The published still shows a sensor view of water with a targeting crosshair over an object —…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
DOW PURSUE document D017 is a collection of general correspondence and reports from Sandia Base, New Mexico, covering UAP observations from 1948 to 1950. Sandia Base was the primary assembly and…
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
CIA-UAP-D001 is the CIA's first contributed record in the PURSUE program and represents a significant step: intelligence community records beyond military sensor data are now being included in the…
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
ODNI-UAP-D001 is ODNI's first contributed record in the PURSUE program. It is described as a USPER — a UAP Subject-matter expert Personal Experience Report — submitted by a senior U.S. Intelligence…
NASA
NASA-UAP-D008 is a medical debriefing document from the Apollo 12 lunar mission. Medical debriefings were routine post-flight procedures for Apollo astronauts covering physical health, psychological…
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
DOE-UAP-D001 is the Department of Energy's first contributed record in the PURSUE program. It contains an unidentified object report with enhanced imagery from a radar tower at the PANTEX Plant — the…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
Release 01 under the PURSUE directive is the Trump Administration's first major public release of declassified UAP records. It contains approximately 49 individually numbered case reports…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Multiple infrared still images in DOW PURSUE Release 01 document UAP incidents over the western United States in 2025. The images, captured in 'black hot' infrared mode, show unidentified objects at…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
DOW PURSUE Release 01 includes a composite sketch depicting a potential anomalous sighting in the southeastern United States in September 2023. The use of a composite sketch rather than sensor…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / NASA
The inclusion of Apollo 17 archival imagery in DOW PURSUE Release 01 represents one of the oldest cases in the release. The image highlights an area showing three lights above the lunar terrain.…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR19 documents a UAP incident reported by a U.S. military operator in the Middle East in May 2022. The still image published in Release 01 shows what the operator described as a UAP…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR26 covers a UAP incident captured on video near the United Arab Emirates in October 2023. The still image in Release 01 shows an object or phenomenon reported by military personnel in…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE cases PR34 and PR35 both document UAP near Greece in October 2023. PR34 shows aqua-colored radar scope lines with unidentified returns over a gray background with cloud scatter. PR35 shows…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR38 documents a 2013 infrared sensor capture in the Middle East showing an eight-pointed star-like area of contrast. The distinctive shape could represent optical or sensor artifact…
U.S. Department of War (DOW)
PURSUE case PR43 covers a UAP incident reported by a U.S. military operator in African airspace in 2025. No specific country is identified in the released material. U.S. military activities in Africa…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / U.S. Air Force
PURSUE case PR45 is attributed to the U.S. Air Force and covers a UAP incident in the southern United States in 2020. The case predates AARO's establishment in July 2022, meaning it was originally…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)
PURSUE case PR46 was reported by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and describes a UAP observed near Japan in 2024 characterized as resembling a football-shaped (prolate spheroid) body.…
U.S. Department of War (DOW) / U.S. Army
PURSUE case PR49 is one of the most recent UAP incidents in any official U.S. government release. Attributed to the U.S. Army and occurring in North America in 2026 — potentially just weeks or months…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
AARO publishes aggregate statistics on UAP cases on its official website. As of January 2026, closed case resolution outcomes show that balloons account for 52.1% (510 cases), satellites for 32.1%…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
The August 2025 UAP Workshop brought together 40 participants from government agencies, academic institutions, and independent research organizations. Organized around the challenges and…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
AARO's 2025 declassification information paper addresses a common public question: why is so much UAP information still classified? The paper explains that classification typically protects sources…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
This report covers AARO's case intake and resolution process for UAP incidents reported by military and government personnel during FY2024. It describes the office's efforts to reduce stigma around…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
AARO's information paper on Starlink satellite flaring addresses a significant source of UAP misidentification. Satellite flaring occurs when sunlight reflects off a satellite's antennas or solar…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
AARO's information paper on forced perspective and parallax addresses two common sources of UAP misperception. Forced perspective occurs when the relative size of objects at different distances…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
The AARO FY2023 consolidated annual report documented the office's second full fiscal year of operations. It described continued case intake growth, investigative methodologies, and improvements in…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In 2022, AARO contracted ORNL to test a magnesium alloy specimen that had been publicly alleged to be recovered from a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle in 1947. Claimants asserted it functioned as a…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
AARO released Volume 1 of its Historical Record Program report, examining allegations of secret government UAP recovery and reverse-engineering programs. The report found no verifiable evidence of…
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
The 2023 ODNI annual UAP report reflected continued expansion of government UAP reporting infrastructure. It documented a significant increase in submitted cases compared to prior years, attributed…
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
The UAP Disclosure Act, championed in part by Senator Chuck Schumer, sought to establish a presidentially appointed review board with authority to declassify UAP-related government records. While the…
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
The FY2024 NDAA directed NARA to establish a formal UAP Records Collection. NARA created Record Group 615 and issued guidance to federal agencies on identifying, preparing, and transferring…
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) / Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL evaluated a metallic specimen submitted to AARO that was alleged to have anomalous properties. The specimen was reportedly recovered from private property in Ohio in the mid-1990s. After…
U.S. House of Representatives
The November 2023 House Armed Services subcommittee hearing focused on AARO's operational status and investigative progress approximately four months after the high-profile July 2023 Oversight…
NASA
NASA convened an independent study team to examine the UAP phenomenon from a scientific perspective. The 33-page report concluded that current data is insufficient to draw firm conclusions about UAP…
U.S. House of Representatives
The House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security held a public UAP hearing in July 2023 that drew significant public attention. David Grusch testified that he had been told of alleged U.S.…
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
The ODNI 2022 annual UAP report built on the landmark 2021 preliminary assessment by documenting 247 new UAP reports submitted between March 2021 and August 2022, bringing the total historical case…
U.S. Department of Defense
Following passage of the UAP Disclosure Act provisions embedded in the FY2023 NDAA, the Department of Defense released a set of historical UAP-related records. These cover sensor data summaries,…
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
This landmark 9-page report examined 144 UAP incidents reported by U.S. government sources, mostly military aviators. Of these, only one was explained with high confidence (a large, deflating…
U.S. Department of Defense / U.S. Navy
The 'Gimbal' video was captured off the U.S. East Coast in 2015 and officially released by the DoD in April 2020. Navy pilots describe tracking an object that rotated against the wind while…
U.S. Department of Defense / U.S. Navy
The 'GoFast' video was recorded off the U.S. East Coast and officially released by the DoD in 2020. Pilots expressed surprise at the object's apparent speed and low altitude. Independent analysis has…
U.S. Navy / Department of Defense
In November 2004, pilots from the USS Nimitz reported an encounter with an unidentified aerial object approximately 40 feet long, white, and oblong. Pilot David Fravor described the object as making…
U.S. Air Force / National Archives
Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force's official UFO investigation program, running from 1947 to 1969 (formalized 1952). It examined over 12,600 reports. The Air Force concluded that no reports…