PURSUE Release 01
US Department of War, published 8 May 2026
The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The first batch of declassified UAP files, around 160 documents spanning the 1940s to 2026. An interagency release: War Department, ODNI, Energy, AARO, NASA and FBI. This release is the basis of the site's Document Briefings.
Original files: war.gov/ufo ↗
PURSUE Release 02
US Department of War, published 22 May 2026
The second tranche of declassified UAP records. 51 video clips, numbered PR050 to PR099, located after eight members of Congress requested access on 6 March 2026. Carries a chain-of-custody caveat: many files lack a substantiated provenance, and uploader-assigned titles are not verified. The Document Briefings series covers this release alongside Release 01.
Original files: war.gov/ufo ↗
PURSUE Release 03
US Department of War, published 12 June 2026
The third tranche of declassified UAP records: 53 documents, 10 images and digital renderings, six videos and three NASA audio recordings, drawn from the CIA, FBI, NASA and the Department of War and spanning the 1940s to 2026. The CIA and NASA material is largely historical, taking in the Robertson Panel, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, the U-2 and OXCART overflights, and the Gemini astronaut debriefings. The Document Briefings series covers this release's documents alongside Releases 01 and 02; the video and audio files are held for now, pending a per-clip manifest.
Original files: war.gov/ufo ↗
PURSUE Release 04
US Department of War, published 10 July 2026
The fourth tranche of declassified UAP records: 40 records spanning 1948 to 2025, and the first release to include Department of Energy material alongside Department of War, CIA and NASA records. The written records take in the 1948-49 Air Intelligence Study 203, the 1949 Los Alamos green-fireball conference, the Avro saucer file, Project Blue Book's correspondence, and the Apollo debriefing tapes and STS-80 frames; the video records cover an Indo-Pacific cluster, US-homeland clips and a 1996 tape. The Document Briefings series covers all 40 records across thirteen briefings.
Original files: war.gov/ufo ↗