PURSUE Release 1 — UAP Declassified Files Corpus (May 2026)
Date
May 8, 2026
Document Type
Gov. Report
Authentication
Official PublicationRedaction Status
✓ Fully ReleasedIssuing Authority
Department of War / Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Summary
The first tranche of declassified UAP records published through the Trump administration's PURSUE initiative (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters). Released May 8, 2026 at war.gov/UFO, the corpus comprises 162 files covering more than 400 documented UAP incidents spanning the 1940s to 2026. Contributing agencies include the DoD, FBI, NASA, State Department, USCENTCOM, USINDOPACOM, USNORTHCOM, and ODNI. This is the first institutionally coordinated, publicly accessible UAP document archive in U.S. history, requiring no FOIA request.
Significance
PURSUE Release 1 is the most consequential official UAP document release since Project Blue Book was terminated in 1969. Unlike prior FOIA releases, which were fragmentary and agency-by-agency, this corpus is the product of a coordinated multiagency declassification effort covering eight decades of incidents. The release includes DOW-UAP written mission reports (D-series) and PR-series full-motion sensor videos (PR019-PR049), Apollo and Gemini mission transcripts, FBI field investigation records, and recent infrared sensor footage from INDOPACOM and NORTHCOM — all publicly accessible via direct PDF download at war.gov/UFO. The DoW explicitly invited private-sector analysis.