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Contract records for the DIA's AAWSAP program plus all 37 of its Defense Intelligence Reference Documents (DIRDs) on topics from metamaterials to warp drives, republished in PURSUE Release 06.
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During a September 2021 night live-fire exercise over the Gulf of Oman, an AC-130 crew saw two stationary, four-foot objects just above the water after dropping a water-activated flare. An intelligence report and six phone-recorded videos were released.
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Early Army Air Forces and Air Force files (1946–1950) on flying-disc reports, including Air Materiel Command correspondence and incident reports filed under regulation FSR 200-4.
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In 1963 Brazilian radio reported a "large metal sphere" with a dead occupant crashing in Conde, Bahia. Embassy cables show the U.S. Consulate found the story was a fabrication.
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A U.S. military operator in Iraq reported 1–2 meter objects flying "sporadically" at 80–180 mph. PURSUE Release 06 includes the mission report and two infrared still images.
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Two CENTCOM videos from 2022 track an object in both visible and infrared modes, reported at 80–180 mph. PURSUE Release 06 includes the videos and the mission report.
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A U.S. operator described "six small spherical objects grouped together" that seemed agile and changed direction often, estimated at 480 mph. PURSUE Release 06 includes the video and mission report.
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A U.S. operator in the Middle East described a white, round "orb" moving as fast as 500 mph. PURSUE Release 06 includes nearly five minutes of infrared video and the mission report.
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2020 U.S. military reports from the Arabian Gulf and nearby waters: "round, cold" objects, balloon-shaped contacts with red strobes, formations and erratic movers, with infrared videos.
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U.S. military UAP reports from Iraq and Syria, 2016–2024, including a P-8A "sea-skimming" object near Latakia, "bouncy ball"-shaped objects, and videos released with their mission reports.
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Six CENTCOM sensor videos (10 seconds to 1 min 39 s) from the Middle East, 2023–2025, each showing a single tracked area of contrast, released without reports.
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CIA reports on UFOs over Budapest (1955–1957), Soviet scientists' views (1967) and a Kardashev–Sakharov paper (1972), the Sary Shagan test range, a green luminous object in the USSR (1973), Himalayan sightings (1968) and a 2008 Harare airport sighting.
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The CIA's official history of the U-2 and A-12 OXCART programs, including Francis Gary Powers' 1960 shootdown. A 1997 CIA study said U-2 and OXCART flights caused many 1950s–60s UFO reports.
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CIA records on the 1953 Robertson Panel and its transmission to the Air Force, 1952 British UFO efforts, the 1953 status of the Air Force project, Leon Davidson's 1958 "space message," Blue Book Special Report 14, and a 1971 Australian review.
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A Colorado officer filmed a silent light flashing red, blue and green on four nights in 2023–2024. AARO released the phone videos and transcripts; the description strongly matches a twinkling bright star.
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Service members near Colorado Springs in 2022 reported a motionless, silent, "bean shaped" white object with a polygon pattern. An intelligence analysis tentatively blamed sunlight reflected from snow onto clouds.
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NASA's file copy of the 1999 French COMETA report, which argued the extraterrestrial hypothesis best explains unresolved UFO cases, plus a letter from former von Braun spokesperson Carol Rosin.
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The FBI's complete 1947–1968 "flying discs" case file, including pages missing from the FBI Vault version, plus 1957 and 1958 field reports from Detroit.
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FBI files: 1949 Hoover correspondence about beams of light over the Cascades, the Newark Field Office UFO inquiry (1952–1967), a Washington State file (1952–1960), and 1967–1974 letters including one from Larry Bryant.
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FBI files and four civilian videos of orbs in the northeastern U.S., 2021–2026: "Triangle Orbs," a rotating red orb, "Orbs Over the Pond," and a red sphere hovering 25 ft above a backyard in July 2025.
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Witnesses at a U.S. test site in September 2023 described a bronze, ellipsoid object 130–195 ft long that appeared out of a bright light and vanished instantly. FBI interviews and a composite sketch were released.
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FBI interviews and renderings of four triangle sightings: lights and a triangle seen by a former pilot (2002, 2023–24), a "dark translucent triangle" and a "large triangle with red lights" over Colorado Springs (2023), and a "dark triangle with lights" (2011).
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2026 FBI interviews from the western U.S.: a special agent's thermal video of two "slow-moving objects," a "thermally elevated aerial object," and two accounts of "multiple red lights" with renderings.
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SHAEF messages and memos from 1944–1945 about "night phenomena (foo fighters)," flak rockets and blinking lights reported by the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over Germany.
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A 1947 U.S. War Department review of 1946 "ghost rocket" sightings over Scandinavia, noting the Swedish Defense Staff privately blamed Soviet missile tests from Peenemünde.
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Transcript of the 1949 Los Alamos conference on green fireballs (with Edward Teller), 209 Sandia sightings of green orbs and fireballs from 1948–1950, and later Los Alamos physicists' UFO correspondence.
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Nine INDOPACOM sensor videos from 2023–2025 over Japan and the Yellow, East China and South China Seas, including three objects tracked together near Japan.
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Six infrared videos (19 seconds to 1 min 38 s) from U.S. military platforms over the Yellow Sea and East China Sea in 2023, each showing a tracked area of contrast. No reports accompany them.
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Apollo and Skylab records: Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 "sizeable" object, light flashes inside the cabin, Apollo 12 and 17 sightings, six lunar photos with marked anomalies, and an open Department of War case on three dots in an Apollo 17 photo.
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Gemini 7's "bogey" report by Frank Borman with audio, Jim McDivitt and Ed White's Gemini 4 "Visual Sightings," and Gemini 5, 7 and 9 debriefings mentioning sparkles and flashing lights.
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Mercury flight audio of "fireflies," "snowflakes" and "lathe shavings" outside the capsule, NASA's files on the effect (traced to frost particles), and Walter Cronkite's 1962 interview with Gordon Cooper about UFOs.
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The 1953 Navy photo-interpretation memo on the Great Falls and Tremonton UFO films, with brightness charts, concluding the objects did not match natural phenomena or known aircraft.
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Five hand-held recordings of a Navy infrared display in the Pacific in 2019, transferred from the UAP Task Force to AARO. The period overlaps the 2019 Southern California Navy encounters.
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A 2015 Department of Energy report and ground-radar imagery of an unidentified object over the Pantex Plant, the main U.S. facility for assembling and dismantling nuclear weapons.
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1955 Project Blue Book correspondence, U.S.-Canadian files on the disc-shaped Avro "Project Y2" VTOL aircraft, and the 1966–67 Air Force committee review that recommended a university UFO study.
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Records of the first U.S. military UFO studies: Air Materiel Command memos and the 1948 Project Sign report on 100 sightings, Air Force Study 203 suggesting possible Soviet origin, a 1949 Army evaluation and a 1948 Navy reporting order.
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A Navy pilot saw a delta-shaped object "the size of a jet fighter" near Puerto Rico in 1964 while USS Gyatt's radar tracked a contact at 3,800 knots for 21 minutes. New CIA records show top officials were briefed.
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Department of War program, launched after a February 2026 presidential directive, that declassifies and publishes unresolved UAP records in tranches every few weeks at war.gov/ufo.
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Guide to PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026): 158 files including the complete FBI flying-discs file, 2016–2025 military UAP reports and videos, NASA astronaut records, and new FBI cases from western test sites.
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Guide to PURSUE Release 02 (May 22, 2026): 51 classified-network UAP videos requested by Congress, Mercury and Apollo audio, the Sandia green-fireball file and a Pantex radar image.
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Guide to PURSUE Release 03 (June 12, 2026): the full Western U.S. Event file, FBI Northeastern orb and Colorado Springs cases, CIA records including the Robertson Panel, early military studies and Gemini debriefings.
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Guide to PURSUE Release 04 (July 10, 2026): East Coast Navy and INDOPACOM videos, Project Sign and Blue Book-era records, the 1949 Los Alamos green-fireball conference, Pantex 2015 and STS-80 photos.
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Guide to PURSUE Release 05 (Aug. 7, 2026): the 1964 Puerto Rico radar case, an AC-130 sighting over the Gulf of Oman, FBI triangle and 2026 western U.S. reports, the 1963 Bahia hoax and historical military studies.
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Guide to the sixth PURSUE release (Sept. 18, 2026): the 1952 Tremonton film, a 1952 Ruppelt briefing, AAWSAP contract records and DIRDs, new CENTCOM and INDOPACOM military videos, and the first law-enforcement reports.
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A 1952 recording of Capt. Edward Ruppelt, first head of Project Blue Book, explaining the Air Force UFO program, its plans for instrumented cameras and radar, and the 20% of cases it could not explain.
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Air Force and CIA records on Senator Richard Russell and companions seeing two lights or triangular craft rise from an airfield near Baku in 1955. A CIA analyst concluded they were probably not unconventional aircraft.
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State Department records on UFOs: a 1952 memo on the sighting wave, a 1963 NASC memo on "the space alien race question," and embassy cables from Papua New Guinea, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Mexico.
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Three photos from Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-80 mission (1996) showing an unidentified object passing between the shuttle and Earth.
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Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse filmed 12–14 bright objects near Tremonton, Utah, in 1952. PURSUE Release 06 publishes the film and the Air Force file, which ultimately favored seabirds.
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233 numbered U.S. Navy UFO incident summaries, each with a standard "Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects," from National Archives Record Group 38.
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Domestic U.S. military UAP reports: East Coast Navy range fouler cases from 2019–2020 (one "maroonish," 12–15 ft object drifting with the wind), a 1996 Navy video, and 2024–2026 AARO emails.
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U.S. military reports from the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, 2023–2024: objects making 90-degree turns just above the water, a "triangular and metallic" UAP, and a "diamond-shaped" object visible only in short-wave infrared.
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U.S. military reports from the UAE, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden and Djibouti, 2023–2025, including "white hot" objects, an object with a pole beneath it, and objects the operators judged "benign."
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35 informally titled UAP videos from a classified network, released after House members requested them in 2026: Persian Gulf "formations," "spherical UAP," a 2017 Kabul clip and AFRICOM and EUCOM footage.
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16 classified-network UAP videos released after a 2026 House request, including the F-16 shootdown over Lake Huron (Feb. 2023), Eglin AFB aircrew footage, Coast Guard "tic tac" clips and an object near a submarine.
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A 1996 Air Force report on modeling unlikely space-booster failures and a 2000 summary of all Vandenberg AFB launches since 1958, included in PURSUE Release 01 as background.
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In late 2025 a senior U.S. intelligence official, flying in a helicopter during a search, reported a "super-hot" orb that outran the aircraft and swarms of orbs flaring on and off at a western test installation. FBI and ODNI records and 32 images were released.
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Seven federal employees, mostly special agents, reported orbs launching other orbs, a large glowing orb, a ground-level pursuit and a "translucent kite" near a sensitive western U.S. site in October 2023. AARO calls it one of its most compelling cases.
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1998 White House and congressional replies to constituents about UFOs, astronaut sightings and Mars photos, released in PURSUE Release 03.