PURSUE
pursue.
A multiagency effort, ordered by the President of the United States in February 2026, to find, review, declassify, and publicly release every unresolved UAP record in federal custody — with new tranches posted on a rolling basis as material is cleared.
The directive
On February 19, 2026, President Donald J. Trump directed the Department of War to lead a multiagency effort to identify and release government-held material on unidentified anomalous phenomena. The directive was first announced via Truth Social and reposted by the White House the same day:
Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.
Implementation was assigned to the Secretary of War (Pete Hegseth) and routed through the Department of War's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as the lead reviewing body. The first public tranche — release 3, 72 records spanning 1948–present — went live at war.gov/UFO/ on 8 May 2026.
Participating agencies
The program is officially run by the Department of War, with contributions from the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, NASA, the FBI, the Department of State, and additional components of the U.S. intelligence community. AARO — the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — coordinates review.
- Department of War 143 records
- FBI 86 records
- NASA 33 records
- CIA 18 records
- Department of State 7 records
- Department of Energy 3 records
- Central Intelligence Agency 1 record
- Intelligence Community Agency 1 record
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence 1 record
- U.S. Government 1 record
Counts above reflect what's currently mirrored in this archive. The upstream program identifies several additional intelligence-community contributors that haven't yet had material declassified for release.
What's being released
Under the directive, the Department of War is releasing previously classified or restricted material on UAP from across the federal government: investigative case files, witness reports, military mission video and imagery, scientific assessments, DVIDS-hosted footage, and the underlying memoranda and correspondence that drove the original investigations. Some material dates to the late 1940s; some is from the present decade.
The American people can now access the federal government's declassified UAP files instantly. The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place — no clearance required.
The program is explicitly rolling: the Department of War states that
additional tranches will be posted “every few weeks” as
material clears review. Each new release is mirrored here under
/releases/release_<N>/ with the upstream CSV
snapshot, sha256-checksummed manifests, and full media payload.
Primary sources
- war.gov/UFO/ ↗ Official PURSUE landing page and current release index.
- Department of War · release 1 announcement ↗ Official statement on the 8 May 2026 first tranche.
- @WhiteHouse on X ↗ White House post quoting the 19 Feb 2026 directive in full.
- National Archives · UFO/UAP records topic page ↗ Federal records context outside the PURSUE program.
- about ufo-files How this archive mirrors the program (methodology, sha256, schema).