Official UFO/UAP files, mapped against real sky context.
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What is PURSUE?
The U.S. Department of War's official declassification of UAP records — 158 files in Release 01 (May 8, 2026), 64 in Release 02 (May 22), 72 in Release 03 (June 12), 40 in Release 04 (July 10), and 41 in Release 05 (Aug 7; Gulf of Oman 2021 & Pacific Ocean 2019 Navy videos, FBI triangle FD-302s, CIA Puerto Rico 1965, State Dept Brazil 1963 cables, 1947 Ghost Rocket review). 375 total records across DoW, FBI, CIA, NASA, State, and the Executive Office of the President. On 2026-07-21 the President waived NDAs for UAP witnesses. New here? Start with our complete guide to every declassified Pentagon UFO file.
What makes a case significant?
Dual-sensor capture (radar plus visual or infrared), multiple credible witnesses, sustained duration, and behaviour the official report could not explain conventionally.
What does SkyLens add?
An independent editorial deep-dive for every PURSUE case — sensor context, what the official report does and does not conclude, hedged interpretive framing. Linked from every card.
LATEST · PURSUE Release 04 · July 10, 2026
Fourth batch: 40 new records — NASA STS-80 (1996), 1949 Los Alamos green fireballs, Project Sign 1948, "Tic Tac"-like Western US 2020.
Status as of 2026-08-10: Release 05 was published on Aug 7, 2026 — 41 new files — and is now the most recent PURSUE tranche (375 total records). SkyLens tracks the official war.gov database directly and flags new tranches automatically.
2026-07-21 · Executive action: President Trump issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum directing the Department of War and intelligence community to waive prior NDAs for former government employees and contractors cooperating with UAP investigations. Witnesses may now speak to AARO or the PURSUE taskforce without NDA restrictions. This is a policy change, not a new file release — but expected to accelerate the disclosure pipeline.
The Department of War's fourth release adds 40 files — 19 videos, 14 documents, 4 audio files, and 3 images from DoW, NASA, CIA, FBI, and Department of Energy sources. Historical highlights: NASA STS-80 (1996) astronaut imagery of a small triangular/cone-shaped object from Columbia; a 1949 conference document on the Los Alamos "green fireballs" attended by Manhattan Project scientists; a 1948 Project Sign document containing 100 UAP reports from 1947–1948. Modern cases include a Western US 2020 clip compared to the famous 2004 "Tic Tac" footage, a Yellow Sea 2025 video (4 min 57 sec) whose sensor footage progressively degrades, and additional Eastern US, Atlantic Ocean, East China Sea, and Middle East encounters.
Release 05 — Aug 7, 2026 (41 files)
The Department of War's fifth release adds 41 files spanning 1947–2026 from DoW, FBI, CIA, the Department of State, and the Executive Office of the President. Highlights: 16 Navy sensor videos — a six-clip Gulf of Oman 2021 series (DOW-UAP-PR117–122), a five-clip Pacific Ocean 2019 series (PR123–127), and four Middle East clips (2023 & 2025); FBI FD-302 witness interviews with paired digital renderings of triangular craft over Afghanistan (2002), Colorado Springs (2011, 2023), and the Western US "multiple red lights" wave (2026); CIA reporting on a 1965 object near Puerto Rico; two 1963 State Department diplomatic cables and an Executive Office (NASC) inquiry into the Bahia, Brazil incident; a 1947 intelligence review of the Scandinavian "Ghost Rocket" wave; and a 1953 Naval Photographic Interpretation Center film analysis. Catalog now totals 375 records across all five releases.
Release 04 · NASA-UAP-D030STS-80 (1996) — triangular / cone-shaped object photographed from Space Shuttle Columbia
NASA astronaut photograph from the November 1996 STS-80 mission depicting a small triangular or cone-shaped object. First shuttle-era in-flight photograph in the PURSUE catalog. Historical significance: STS-80 was Columbia's 21st flight and holds the record for longest shuttle mission (17 days 15 hours).
Release 04 · Historical PDF1949 Los Alamos "green fireballs" conference — attended by Manhattan Project scientists
Foundational Cold War-era document covering the wave of "green fireball" sightings near Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1948–1949. Conference attendees included prominent scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Pre-dates Project Blue Book by several years.
The first US military UAP investigation program's own document, cataloguing 100 reports from the founding year of the modern UFO era. Sits alongside the R03 US Army Flying-Saucer-Study (1949) and US Navy Report of Flying Discs (1948) — R04 adds the missing third foundational document.
Release 04 · DOW-UAP-PR108Western United States 2020 — footage compared to the 2004 "Tic Tac"
Sensor video collected over the Western United States in 2020, reportedly notable for its resemblance to the famous "Tic Tac" imagery captured by F/A-18 pilot Chad Underwood off the USS Nimitz in 2004. Officially unresolved.
Nearly five minutes of dual-sensor sensor footage over the Yellow Sea. The report notes the electro-optical and infrared imagery "gets progressively worse over time" — an unusual sensor-degradation pattern that the official report does not explain.
Release 04 · DOW-UAP-PR112 + PR116Eastern US 2019 + Atlantic Ocean 2020 — East Coast domestic cluster
Two closely-related domestic-territory Release 04 files: an Eastern United States 2019 encounter and an Atlantic Ocean 2020 encounter. Both officially unresolved.
Release 04 · full 40-file index19 videos + ~21 documents · full inventory on war.gov
The complete R04 file list is on the official portal. This SkyLens page tracks the 8 headline cases above; additional coverage will be added as file IDs are catalogued.
Third batch: 72 new records — Western US Event 2023, first FBI orb videos, Apollo astronaut audio.
The Department of War's third release adds 53 PDFs, 10 images, 6 videos, and 3 audio files — including the AARO unresolved case file for the 2023 Western United States event, the first dedicated FBI video series (Triangle Orbs, Red Orb Rotation, Orbs Over the Pond), Apollo 16 scientific debrief audio, an astronaut Gordon Cooper 1962 interview clip, an 18-file CIA Cold War batch (Robertson Panel + U-2/OXCART history + Kardashev/Sakharov 1972), the Colorado Springs FBI case file with the ICA's debut analysis, and the foundational 1948–1949 US Army / Navy / Air Force flying-disc studies. Catalog now totals 294.
Release 03 · DOW-UAP-D077–D083Western United States Event, 2023 (AARO unresolved case file)
The most substantial single case in Release 03: AARO's unresolved-case analysis update plus a notional incident map and five operator narrative statements. Two incidents, multiple observers. FBI also released digital renderings (FBI-UAP-D014–D023) and video recreations (FBI-UAP-PR005, PR006) for the same event.
Three further FBI sensor videos spanning four years of orb sightings on the U.S. East Coast. PR003 is the longest at 4 min 25 sec. Supplemental review material indicates parts of the series may have conventional explanations (sky lanterns) — released as source material, not as anomalous claims.
Release 03 · CIA-UAP-002 → 01918 CIA Cold War UFO records (1950–1973)
Scientific Advisory Panel report (Robertson, 1952–53), the U-2/OXCART overhead-reconnaissance history, Soviet scientist reports, Budapest 1956–57 sightings, Sary Shagan 1973, plus a speculative Kardashev/Sakharov paper (1972).
Eight new NASA mission-debrief PDFs spanning the Mercury and Gemini programs, including the Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing Parts I & II and the Gemini 7 / Gemini 9 technical debriefs.
FBI FD-302 interview report and FD-1057 supplemental document plus an FBI digital rendering. Witness describes a “potato”-shaped object with articulating panels resembling fish scales. Official assessment suggests possible sunlight reflection off snow — but explicitly notes low confidence. The standalone ICA-UAP-D001 Intelligence Community Agency analysis is the first time ICA appears as a contributing PURSUE source.
Five FD-1057 supplemental documents (FBI-UAP-D004 → D008) covering a Northeastern United States investigation in 2024, plus two FD-302 interview reports (D009, D010) tied to the 2025 Northeastern Orb Sighting. The companion video is FBI-UAP-PR004.
The Cold War origin story of the US UFO program. DOW-UAP-D084 US Army Flying-Saucer-Study (1949); D085 CIA Scientific Advisory Panel Report transmission (1953); D086 US Navy Report of Flying Discs (1948); D087/D088 US Air Force Analysis of Flying Objects, Incidents 1–172. FBI-UAP-D011 (D/FBI Correspondence 1949), D012 (Newark Field Office 1952–67), D013 (Washington State 1952–60). USG-UAP-D001 Congressional and White House UFO-related constituent correspondence (1998).
Release 01 imagery — first official UAP file drop.
The original PURSUE batch added official still imagery from unresolved UAP records, including PR-049 and several infrared/sensor frames. These images are shown as source material for review, not as proof of any conclusion.
Part of an 8-image FBI infrared set submitted to AARO. Crosshair overlay from the original sensor system.
FBI Photo A2Infrared 2025
Second frame from the FBI A-series infrared set. Thermal contrast visible against redacted sensor data.
FBI Photo A3Infrared 2025
FBI Photo A4Infrared 2025
FBI Photo A5Infrared 2025
FBI Photo A6Infrared 2025
FBI Photo A7Infrared 2025
FBI Photo A8Infrared 2025
Last frame in the A-series. The full B-series (24 infrared PDFs) covers the western U.S. observations.
FBI B-seriesWestern U.S. 2025
Sample from the 24-image FBI B-series. Infrared observations from the western United States, late 2025.
NASA VM1Apollo 12 · 1969
Lunar surface image from Apollo 12 with yellow annotations highlighting unidentified objects over the horizon.
NASA VM2Apollo 12 · 1969
Second Apollo 12 lunar image. Annotated areas mark anomalous bright spots near the horizon.
NASA VM3Apollo 12 · 1969
NASA VM4Apollo 12 · 1969
NASA VM5Apollo 12 · 1969
Last of five Apollo 12 images. These lunar surface photos are annotated to highlight areas of interest near the horizon.
NASA VM6Apollo 17 · 1972
Three dots in a triangular formation visible in the lower right quadrant of the lunar sky upon magnification.
FBI sketchSoutheastern U.S. 2023
Witness composite sketch from an FBI September 2023 sighting report. Recreation, not a photograph.
PURSUE Release 01 · 120 declassified documents
Full document archive from the first public release.
120 PDFs covering FBI case files (1947-1968), Department of War mission reports (2013-2025), NASA Apollo and Gemini transcripts, State Department cables, and historical records. 108 files contain redactions protecting eyewitness identities and facility locations. Each link opens the official war.gov source PDF.
42 mission reports, range fouler debriefs, and email correspondence from operations in Iraq, Syria, Greece, UAE, Arabian Gulf, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, INDOPACOM, Djibouti, and the western United States. Each PDF links directly to war.gov.
24 infrared image PDFs (B1-B24) from FBI observations in the western United States, late 2025. Each PDF contains a single high-resolution infrared still.
Second batch: 64 new files including first-ever UAP shootdown footage.
The Department of War published the second PURSUE release with 64 new files including 50+ sensor videos. Highlights: F-16 shoots down UAP over Lake Huron, Syrian UAP showing "instant acceleration," spherical transmedium objects, 5th-gen fighter jet captures, and a 17-minute Persian Gulf formation video. More DVIDS IDs are being catalogued.
All PURSUE videos are U.S. government public domain — free to download, share, and use.
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PR-071 · Feb 12, 2023 · NORTHCOM · InfraredF-16 shoots down UAP over Lake Huron
What happened: A U.S. Air National Guard F-16C fighter jet fired an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile at an unidentified object flying at approximately 20,000 feet over Lake Huron.
Why it matters: This is the first-ever released footage of the U.S. military engaging a UAP with weapons. The object was one of three shot down in February 2023 after the Chinese balloon incident.
Status: Officially unresolved — the object was destroyed but never recovered or identified.
What happened: A military infrared sensor tracked an object that demonstrated what the uploader described as "instant acceleration" — going from stationary to high speed with no visible transition.
Why it matters: Instant acceleration without visible propulsion is one of the five observables identified by AARO as characteristic of anomalous UAP behavior.
What happened: A spherical object was captured on both full-motion video and infrared sensors. The object's behavior suggested potential transmedium capability — movement between air and another medium.
Why it matters: Dual-sensor capture (visible + infrared) makes camera artifact explanations harder to sustain. Transmedium movement is one of AARO's five anomalous observables.
What happened: UAP footage captured by a fifth-generation aircraft — either an F-22 Raptor or F-35 Lightning II. These are the most advanced sensor platforms in the U.S. military.
Why it matters: 5th-gen aircraft have the most sophisticated sensor suites available. If these systems can't identify the object, it significantly narrows conventional explanations.
PR-098 · 2019 · CENTCOM · Infrared · 17 min 36 secUFOs in formation over Persian Gulf
What happened: Nearly 18 minutes of infrared footage showing multiple objects flying in formation near maritime zones in the Persian Gulf. The longest UAP video in either PURSUE release.
Why it matters: Formation flying implies coordination. Multiple objects tracked simultaneously over an extended duration makes sensor malfunction unlikely.
What happened: An unidentified aerial phenomenon was observed near Karaganda International Airport in Kazakhstan. This is an intelligence report revision.
Why it matters: UAP near civilian airports represent potential aviation safety concerns. International location expands the geographic scope beyond U.S. military theaters.
Declassified NASA mission audio from Mercury, Apollo, and Gemini programs.
Audio excerpts from astronaut debriefings and mission communications describing unusual visual phenomena. These are historical recordings released as part of the PURSUE disclosure.
NASA-D008 · Release 02Apollo 12 Medical Debrief, 1969
Audio from Apollo 12 crew medical debriefing. Astronauts describe streaks of light during the mission.
40 confirmed DVIDS embeds above (33 military sensor videos + 7 NASA audio recordings). Includes F-16 shootdown, submarine transmedium, 5th-gen fighter, Coast Guard Tic Tac, cigar-shaped UAP, East China Sea, Columbus Ohio, Afghanistan, Syria, Kazakhstan, Persian Gulf, and NASA Mercury/Apollo/Gemini audio. Additional videos may still be catalogued.
PURSUE Release 01 · May 8, 2026 · all 27 declassified videos
Full unclassified video set from the first U.S. public release.
294 files have been released across three batches under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — 162 in Release 01 (May 8, 2026), 64 in Release 02 (May 22, 2026), and 72 in Release 03 (June 12, 2026). The 27 Release 01 videos below, hosted on DVIDS, are the complete unclassified video set from the first batch. Every case is officially unresolved. Sensors include infrared, electro-optical, SWIR, and full-motion video. Incidents span 2013 to 2026 across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Indo-Pacific, and the United States.
Newest case in Release 01. Infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform, 1 min 49 sec of an unresolved object reported directly by the Army to AARO.
Release 01 totals: 162 files — 28 videos (27 shown above plus Gemini VII audio), 14 images, 120 PDF documents. 108 files contain redactions protecting eyewitness identities, facility locations, and unrelated military site details. All video cases above are officially unresolved. Source agencies include the Department of the Army, AARO, FBI, NASA, the State Department, and components of U.S. intelligence. Release 01 was followed by Release 02 (May 22, 2026 — 64 more files including the F-16 shootdown over Lake Huron) and Release 03 (June 12, 2026 — 72 more files including the Western US Event 2023 AARO case package). Catalog total now stands at 294 records.
Official media previews
Real videos and images from public government sources.
These are not mockups. The video players are official DVIDS embeds used by AARO source pages, and the stills are public DVIDS/Navy imagery. If an agency blocks an embed in a browser, the source link opens the original record.
DVIDS videoPR-013, unresolved UAP report
AARO-linked public video from a 2022 European Command report. Use it as source media, then compare the time, sensor, and sky context.
This inventory reflects the public DVIDS UAP result set: videos, still frames, official images, source records, and related explanatory media. The button opens the live DVIDS search so users can see newly added items beyond this snapshot.
PR-049 Army 2026 unresolvedPR-048 INDOPACOM 2024 unresolvedPR-047 INDOPACOM 2023 unresolvedPR-046 INDOPACOM 2024 unresolvedPR-045 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-044 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-043 Africa 2025 unresolvedPR-042 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-041 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-040 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-039 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-038 Middle East 2013 unresolvedPR-037 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-036 Middle East 2020 unresolvedPR-035 Greece 2023 unresolvedPR-034 Greece 2023 unresolvedPR-033 Syria 2024 unresolvedPR-032 Syria 2024 unresolvedPR-031 Syria 2024 unresolvedPR-029 UAE 2024 unresolvedPR-028 Greece 2024 unresolvedPR-027 UAE 2023 unresolvedPR-026 UAE 2023 unresolvedPR-023 Iraq 2022 unresolvedPR-022 Syria 2022 unresolvedPR-021 Iraq 2022 unresolvedPR-019 Middle East 2022 unresolvedPR-018 Europe 2024 unresolvedPR-017 Europe 2024 unresolvedPR-016 Europe 2023 resolved as birdsPR-015 Europe 2022 unresolvedPR-014 Europe 2022 unresolvedPR-013 Europe 2022 unresolvedPR-012 Europe 2022 unresolvedPR-011 Europe 2021 under analysisPR-010 resolved as balloonPR-009 resolved as balloonPR-008 Europe 2022PR-007 closed not anomalousPR-006 resolved as balloonPR-005 resolved as balloonPR-004 resolved as balloonPR-003 Africa 2023PR-001 Africa 2022GIMBAL - UAPGOFAST - UAPFLIR - UAPEast Coast Navy imageNavy cockpit captureFBI infrared stills (western U.S.)Apollo 17 archival imageGemini VII audio (1965)Composite sketch southeastern U.S.Satellite flaring phenomenon2013 Puerto Rico reconstructionPuerto Rico objectsWestern U.S. objectsYuma Test Station historical sighting
Complete public UAP video index
All PURSUE Release 01–05 and AARO public video links.
This index combines the PURSUE Release 01 DVIDS videos (May 8, 2026), the Release 02 sensor videos (May 22, 2026), the new FBI-UAP-PR video series from Release 03 (June 12, 2026), and earlier AARO public imagery releases. Each link opens the official source record.
publicly available, unclassified sources only. Visitors can start from any official source family, see sample media when embedding is allowed, then jump into Trinetra for satellite and sky-context comparison.
PURSUE releases
Newest government release portal and future public tranches.
Every catalogued UAP record covered by SkyLens — PURSUE Release 01 (141 cases), PURSUE Release 02 (10 cases), PURSUE Release 03 (7 cases — Western US Event, FBI Triangle Orbs, Cooper audio, Apollo 16 debriefs, Harare 2008, CIA Cold War batch, overview), the foundational pre-PURSUE Navy trio (3 cases), famous historical UAP incidents (32 cases), and FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-discs case file sections (53 cases). Each entry links to an independent SkyLens editorial deep-dive. Cases marked ↻ also have an editorial PR-case analysis. Use the filters or search to find a specific case.
The PURSUE Release 01, 02, and 03 catalogue above covers the official US Department of War declassified record (294 files). SkyLens editorial extends that record with independent deep-dives across the broader international historical, contemporary, institutional, and academic UAP landscape — over 230 additional analytical entries. Browse by category, or see the full archive on the SkyLens blog.
Famous historical worldwide cases
Multi-witness encounters, radar-correlated events, and physical-trace cases across five decades — beyond the headline US cases.
The full UAP archive on the SkyLens blog includes 543 UAP-tagged entries — all PURSUE deep-dives (R01 + R02 + R03), historical cases, researcher profiles, institutional analysis, and contemporary news, fully searchable and filterable by sub-topic.
Every UAP-tagged post in the SkyLens archive — PURSUE Release 01/02/03 case deep-dives, FBI 62-HQ-83894 file analyses, historical international cases, researcher profiles, contemporary news, academic publications, and institutional framework analysis. Filter by sub-topic, search by keyword, or open any post directly.
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