Mirrored from war.gov/UFO/ with full OCR, cropped photographs, transcriptions, and search across 8,017 pages. No editorial — just what's been released, organized so you can find it.
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A CIA History Staff monograph detailing the development and operation of the U-2 and A-12 OXCART overhead reconnaissance programs from 1954 to 1974. The document covers the technological, bureaucratic, and political context of these pivotal Cold War intelligence efforts.
This NASA memorandum, dated June 1, 1965, outlines three additional flight activities for the Gemini Flight Number Four (GT-4) mission. These include the demonstration of extravehicular activities (EVA) with a 25-foot umbilical, extravehicular maneuvering using a one-man propulsion unit, and rendezvous with the booster second stage. The document details the flight plan sequence, including Ed White's planned 10-minute EVA to test maneuvering and photograph the booster.
This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
Section 6 of the FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file — investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. Includes high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems.
Documents most recently published by war.gov.
A two-page UAP reporting form. The first page is the blank form with instructions for aircrew. The second page contains a narrative from a witness with 28 years of experience describing a fast-moving, rectangular object observed from a King Air aircraft.
A 2015 report from the Pantex Plant details an unidentified object sighting on September 1, 2015. The object was tracked by radar and observed by security personnel before moving offsite. The report includes photos and was sent to Sandia National Labs and the FBI.
USAF correspondence from January 1955 responding to public inquiries about UFOs and the Sylacauga, Alabama meteorite incident. Includes internal memos and letters from citizens, with standard replies enclosing an Air Force summary on the topic.
A partially redacted Range Fouler Debrief Form describing a sighting by a pilot. The object was metallic, reflective, and moved in a constant direction. A second page provides declassification authority from the Department of the Navy and AARO.
USAF Air Materiel Command initial report for Project SIGN, dated April 23, 1948. It summarizes early 'Flying Disc' sightings from 1947-1948 and includes a detailed tabulation of 100 incidents, analyzing characteristics like shape, speed, and location.
USAF Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, dated 1948, analyzes flying object incidents in the U.S. It discusses possible Soviet origins, tactics, and compares sightings to known German, British, and U.S. unconventional aircraft designs.
A 1949 Atomic Energy Commission transcript of a conference at Los Alamos discussing sightings of green fireballs. Experts, including Dr. LaPaz, debate their origin, trajectory, color, and lack of sound, considering meteors, secret tests, and other phenomena.
USAF Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203, dated 10 December 1948, analyzes flying object incidents in the U.S. It discusses patterns, observer credibility, object shapes, and considers both domestic and foreign (Soviet) origins for the phenomena.
Every batch the government has published — grouped, counted, and summarized honestly (including what the files do NOT claim).
19 'Unresolved UAP Report' videos (2015–2025) from the Yellow Sea and China Seas to the Gulf of America, the Department of Energy's first entries (the 2015 Pantex plant incident and the 1949 Los Alamos 'green fireballs' conference), three official STS-80 shuttle images and Apollo debriefing audio. Honest caveat: AARO labels every video 'unresolved' — not identified, not explained — and flags unverified chain-of-custody on the older material.
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The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 18 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. Video Description: 00:01-00:15: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star, keeping it generally centered within the center of the screen. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 5 minutes of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. Video Description: 00:01-00:14: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast, keeping it generally centered within the center of the frame. 00:15-00:19: The sensor adjusts, and the image is momentarily overlaid with black rectangular areas. 00:20-1:34: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast, keeping it generally centered within the center of the frame. Portions of the area of contrast intermittently lose distinctiveness against the background throughout this segment. 01:35-02:05: The sensor zooms in, panning from right to left to track the area of contrast. The area of contrast exits the scene from the right edge of the frame several times. 02:06-04:59: The sensor zooms out and in several times, and pans the field-of-view against the background. No content. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
USAF Air Materiel Command initial report for Project SIGN, dated April 23, 1948. It summarizes early 'Flying Disc' sightings from 1947-1948 and includes a detailed tabulation of 100 incidents, analyzing characteristics like shape, speed, and location.
USAF Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203, dated 10 December 1948, analyzes flying object incidents in the U.S. It discusses patterns, observer credibility, object shapes, and considers both domestic and foreign (Soviet) origins for the phenomena.
The FBI's first-ever released UFO videos (the Northeastern orb cases), the Colorado Springs incident documented across three agencies, NASA astronaut debriefings from Gemini and Apollo, and the multi-witness Western US event narratives. Honest caveat: the star items are witness accounts and unresolved footage — compelling, but none of it is presented by the government as proof of anything non-human.
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In November 2021, at approximately 0500 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed a bright light source near the horizon at an estimated distance of 2,000 feet. The light source initially appeared as a single intense luminous object before resolving into multiple lights exhibiting erratic rotational motion relative to one another. The object slowly moved laterally from left to right during the encounter. The eyewitness captured the video with a hand-held iPhone 12 Pro, resulting in unintended camera movement. The location was well known to the eyewitness and is sparsely populated. The description above is derived from statements provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by the eyewitness to the event. The FBI assesses the individual who reported this event as highly credible. The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D004 through FBI-UAP-D008 and depicted in the video footage FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
In March 2022, at approximately 1920 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed two bright red luminous light sources hovering near the horizon at an estimated distance of 2,500 feet. Both luminous objects maintained generally stationary positions throughout the encounter. The lower light source appeared to rotate slowly relative to the upper light source, moving from an apparent 6 o’clock position to slightly beyond the apparent 9 o’clock position. The eyewitness did not hear any sounds from the light sources. The eyewitness captured this video using an iPhone 12 Pro at a location well known to them, which is sparsely populated. The description above is derived from statements provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by an eyewitness to the event. The FBI assesses the individual who reported this event as highly credible. The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D004 through FBI-UAP-D008 and depicted in the video footage FBI-UAP-PR001 through FBI-UAP-PR003 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
A CIA History Staff monograph detailing the development and operation of the U-2 and A-12 OXCART overhead reconnaissance programs from 1954 to 1974. The document covers the technological, bureaucratic, and political context of these pivotal Cold War intelligence efforts.
FBI Newark Field Office file (100-36998) from 1952-1960, documenting investigations into UFO sightings. Includes a detailed 1952 case of photographs from Passaic, NJ, and numerous public reports of aerial objects across New Jersey, coordinated with the USAF OSI.
A video-heavy drop: 51 military sensor clips including the PURSUE case files, plus cockpit audio. Many clips are seconds long and context-free by design. Honest caveat: AARO notes most of this material 'lacks a substantiated chain-of-custody' — it was pulled from a classified network where users had uploaded it over the years.
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On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN],” is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Central Command area of responsibility in 2022. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in June 2024. Video Duration: 00:00:20 Video Description: 00:01-00:04: Four areas of contrast transit the sensor field-of-view, entering from the lower third of the left side of the screen and exiting near the center of the bottom of the frame. 00:05-00:06: An area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the top left corner of the screen. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “Syrian UAP instant acceleration,” is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Central Command area of responsibility in 2021. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in June 2024. Video Duration: 00:05:02 Video Description: This media was digitally altered prior to its upload to a classified network, and is presented as received. 00:01-00:19: The sensor pans to maintain the position of an area of contrast within the center of the frame. 00:20-00:21: The sensor stops tracking the area of contrast, causing it to rapidly exit the right side of the frame. 00:22-00:27: No content. 00:27-00:29 A black screen appears featuring the phrase “white edge threshold enhancement in attempt to highlight UAP shape. Original clip excerpt at 100% speed.” 00:30-00:50: The video replays with digital alterations applied. 00:51-00:53: A black screen appears featuring the phrase “50% speed.” 00:54-01:05: The video replays with digital alterations applied. 01:06-01:08: A black screen appears featuring the phrase “25% speed.” 01:09-01:35: The video replays with digital alterations applied. 01:36-01:41: A black screen appears featuring the phrase “B/W values inverted, picture zoomed” 01:42-02:03: The video replays with digital alterations applied. 02:04-02:09: A black screen appears featuring the phrase “full original clip TRT: 2:52” 02:10-03:49: The video replays, showing additional footage of the area of contrast at its original resolution on a far zoom. 03:50-04:02: The sensor rapidly zooms in and out. 04:03-04:28: The sensor focuses and zooms in, locking a reticle around the area of contrast. 04:29-5:01: The video replays 00:20-00:21, the period in which the sensor stops tracking the area of contrast, causing it to rapidly exit the right side of the frame. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
A collection of USAF and OSI documents from 1949-1950 concerning security inspections and investigations into 'green fireballs' and other aerial phenomena, primarily in New Mexico. Includes scientific analysis of collected particles and a summary of sightings.
A report from the Pantex Plant showing a redacted ground surveillance radar image and two enhanced images of an unidentified object, processed by Sandia National Labs. The pages are numbered 5 and 6 of a larger document.
The foundation: 157 items, mostly historical paper — 1940s–70s Air Force and FBI files, flying-disc investigations, incident summaries and Blue Book-era correspondence, plus a set of modern videos. Honest caveat: decades-old scans, heavy redactions and OCR-hostile typewriter pages; some documents are duplicates of long-public FOIA material, now centralized.
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The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of five seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D10, described the observation as a “possible missile” moving across the field-of-view. The report also described four other objects not depicted in the video as “possible birds.” Video Description: At the two second mark, the video depicts an area of contrast moving from left to right across the bottom third of the sensor field-of-view. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP) to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of ten seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2022. An accompanying mission report, DoW-UAP-D14, described the UAP as a “probable SU-27/35." Video Description: The video depicts two areas of contrast moving together near the center of the field-of-view throughout the runtime. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance. AARO Comment: SU-27 and SU-35 are designations for military aircraft operated by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
Section 6 of the FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file — investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. Includes high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems.
Original reporting and analysis written directly from the declassified files.
Declassified 1966 USAF Scientific Advisory Board files reveal Carl Sagan's role in the Ad Hoc Committee that shaped the end of Project Blue Book.
View all →A 1974 FBI letter explicitly denies collecting UFO data, yet resides in a file containing the Bureau's own 1967 UFO intelligence routing.
View all →Declassified 1948 USAF documents reveal that early military investigations into unidentified flying objects were driven by fears of advanced Soviet aircraft, not extraterrestrial visitors.
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Everything about the declassified UFO/UAP files — the PURSUE releases, the agencies, the major cases, and what the documents actually say.
uap-files.org is a complete, full-text, searchable mirror of the UFO/UAP documents the U.S. government has declassified and released through the Pentagon's PURSUE transparency initiative on war.gov/UFO. We download every release, run dual-engine OCR on the scanned PDFs, extract the photos, and index the people, places, agencies and events — so you can read primary-source UFO documents, FBI UFO files, CIA UFO reports, NASA astronaut debriefings, and military UAP videos that were previously buried in un-searchable scans.
PURSUE is the U.S. government's ongoing UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) declassification and release program, published on war.gov/UFO by order of Congress and the administration. It periodically dumps batches of formerly classified UFO/UAP material — intelligence reports, witness statements, photographs, audio and video — from agencies including the Department of War (formerly DoD), AARO, the FBI, the CIA, NASA, the Department of Energy and the State Department.
Release 1 (May 8, 2026) brought roughly 132 files. Release 2 (May 22, 2026) added about 222 documents plus 51 videos and astronaut audio. Release 3 (June 12, 2026) added 72 items — 53 PDFs, 10 images, 6 videos and 3 audio recordings — and is the most significant yet: it includes the FBI's first-ever authenticated UFO videos, 2026 FD-302 witness reports, the Colorado Springs / Cheyenne Mountain incident, the 'Western U.S. Event,' and a 1949 U.S. Army flying-saucer study, spanning a 77-year arc from 1949 to 2026.
Yes — Release 3 contains the first UFO/UAP videos released directly by the FBI, alongside the FD-302 and FD-1057 reports behind them. They document recurring red and white 'orbs' in the Northeastern United States, including a case where FBI Special Agents staked out a witness's property and reported seeing the lights themselves, and ruled out drones on-site. The witness logged ADS-B flight data and reported gamma-radiation spikes correlated with the sightings.
AARO is the Pentagon office responsible for investigating and resolving UAP reports across air, sea, space and other domains. Its case files appear throughout the releases — including the 'Western U.S. Event' analysis, where AARO concluded roughly 40% of the reported activity 'lacks a plausible explanation' and labeled it provisional 'Unrecognized Technology.'
No. None of the declassified documents state that any object is extraterrestrial. They describe unidentified phenomena, witness testimony, and analyses that often leave a percentage 'unresolved.' We report exactly what the files say — sober and sourced — without claiming alien origin. Many famous 'UFO' images, like the Skylab/Amazon photos, turn out to have prosaic explanations on close reading.
In October 2023, six federal agents near a sensitive site reported orbs that launched smaller orbs, plus a ground-level object that mimicked an ordinary car — with mismatched taillights, hovering off-road without raising dust, and turning translucent enough that a witness could 'see a star through the object.' Notably, AARO's official summary omits the car and the 'portal' descriptions that appear in the raw witness narratives released alongside it.
Five soldiers reported a stationary 'bean-shaped' craft over the Cheyenne Mountain area whose panels 'shifted in slow waves' while the body stayed still. They independently drew matching pictures. An intelligence assessment tried to attribute it to sunlight on snow despite the witnesses reporting clear skies, and logged 'low confidence' in that explanation; the FBI later conducted forensic interviews.
The documents show a recurring pattern of UAP interest near nuclear and atomic infrastructure. Files from 1948–1949 show the FBI and the Atomic Energy Commission jointly tracking sightings near the Hanford plutonium site and the Cascades, and modern Release 3 cases continue near sensitive national-security sites — a 77-year 'atomic proximity' thread running through the archive.
Project Blue Book was the U.S. Air Force's official UFO investigation (1952–1969). Special Report No. 14 (1955) is its large statistical analysis of thousands of sightings — one of the most-cited UFO documents in history. The CIA copy appears in the Release 3 archive.
The releases include NASA debriefings where astronauts logged unidentified visual phenomena. The Gemini 4 debriefing (Jim McDivitt's cylindrical-object sighting) internally references Project Blue Book and the civilian group NICAP, and the same astrophysicist who interviewed the astronauts later judged astronaut sightings for the official Condon Report. John Glenn's famous 'fireflies' were also examined by Los Alamos and Air Force scientists.
The Guy Hottel memo is the single most-viewed document in the FBI's online Vault — a 1950 memo relaying a third-hand claim about recovered 'flying saucers' in New Mexico. It is frequently misread as proof of a crash; the file itself is an unverified report, and we provide its full extracted text so you can read it in context.
They mean the same core idea — an object or phenomenon that hasn't been identified. 'UFO' (Unidentified Flying Object) is the historical term; the U.S. government now uses 'UAP' (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) to include objects seen underwater and in space, not just flying.
Yes. Every file is an official U.S. government release from war.gov/UFO and is public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. We mirror the originals, link back to the source, and publish the extracted OCR text and metadata so researchers, journalists and AI systems can cite primary sources directly.
Use the search bar to query every document by keyword, person, place, agency or year. Each document page shows the full OCR text page-by-page, extracted photos, metadata, related documents, and any @UAP-archives video that explains it. You can also browse by agency (FBI, CIA, NASA, AARO, DOE), by location, by incident, or on the timeline.
New PURSUE batches drop periodically on war.gov/UFO. We mirror, OCR and explain each one within hours — first on the @UAP-archives YouTube channel and here on uap-files.org. Subscribe to the channel and check the blog to get every declassified file explained as it lands.
