“All the Skies That Are Fit to Print”
The Department of War, White House, FBI, NASA, and ODNI release the first tranche of never-before-seen UAP records under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — open to the public with no clearance required.
On May 8, 2026, the Trump administration delivered on one of the most anticipated commitments in modern political history: the systematic declassification of the United States government’s files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. The first tranche of materials — spanning FBI infrared footage of unidentified objects, Apollo mission transcripts and photographs, military encounters over the Middle East, Greece, the Indo-Pacific, and Africa — is now publicly available at WAR.GOV/UFO, the dedicated portal established under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE).
The release is unprecedented. No previous administration has compiled, declassified, and published government UAP records at this scale, across this many agencies, in a single coordinated effort. The materials include files from the Department of War’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), NASA, the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Department of Energy. All have been reviewed for security, but the Department of War has explicitly stated that many of the files have not yet been analysed for resolution of the anomalies they depict — and has invited the private sector to apply its own analysis.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stated at the release: “These files, hidden behind classifications, have long fuelled justified speculation — and it’s time the American people see it for themselves.” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed that the ODNI is actively coordinating with the Department of War on an ongoing, rolling declassification effort. FBI Director Kash Patel described it as “the first time in history the American people have unfettered access to declassified government files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon.” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman pledged to “be candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered.”
The initial tranche contains 162 unresolved UAP case files — meaning the U.S. government has been unable to make a definitive determination on what was observed. These cases were selected, in part, because the evidence is compelling enough to warrant public scrutiny and private-sector analysis. Among the materials published:
FBI Infrared Footage (Western United States, 2025): Multiple infrared still images captured over the western United States between September and December 2025, showing unidentified objects of varying configurations. The FBI documented at least one object operating below an active helicopter, and multiple objects in formation. The objects show no conventional propulsion signature.
Apollo 17 Lunar Anomaly (1972): Archival photographs from the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon showing three distinct lights visible above the lunar terrain. Transcripts from the mission include crew discussion of the anomaly. The documents note that the lights were observed against the lunar horizon in a configuration inconsistent with known photographic artefacts or instrument error.
Apollo 12 Transcripts (1969): Mission transcripts documenting crew observations of strange flashes and moving lights during the Apollo 12 lunar orbit. These materials had been held in classified status since the mission.
Military Encounters Worldwide (2013–2026): Case files covering UAP reports from U.S. military operators in the Middle East, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific. A 2024 report from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command describes a football-shaped object near Japan. A 2026 U.S. Army report covers a UAP encounter in North America. Several cases from Greece in October 2023 include both scope imagery and video stills showing objects with no identifiable propulsion system.
PURSUE is an interagency framework directed by President Trump’s Truth Social post of February 19, 2026, in which he stated: “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.”
The Department of War coordinates the effort across the White House, ODNI, DOE, AARO, NASA, and the FBI. The stated scope is “tens of millions of records, many existing only on paper, spanning many decades” — a scale that the Department itself acknowledges will take years to fully process. New tranches will be released “every few weeks” as materials are discovered and declassified.
The collection at WAR.GOV/UFO is searchable by agency, release date, incident date, incident location, and type. The Department has committed to maintaining the archive as a permanent public resource and has invited external researchers and private-sector analysts to review the materials independently.
Previous UAP disclosure efforts — the 2017 New York Times revelation of the AATIP programme, the 2021 ODNI preliminary assessment, the 2022 and 2023 congressional hearings — all produced acknowledgements but no primary source documents open to independent verification. What PURSUE delivers is different: original government files, photographs, video stills, and transcripts that can be examined, cross-referenced, and tested by anyone.
The cases selected for Release 01 are designated “unresolved” — the government cannot explain them. The Pentagon has not claimed these are weather balloons, sensor malfunctions, or foreign drones. It has published them precisely because it does not have an answer. That is a significant institutional admission from an organisation that spent seven decades actively discouraging civilian UAP research.
Whether the materials ultimately reveal non-human technology, classified U.S. or foreign programmes, or genuine phenomena beyond current scientific understanding remains to be determined. What is no longer deniable is that the United States government has, for decades, been collecting evidence of objects it cannot explain — and is now, for the first time, sharing that evidence with the public.
All files are available immediately at WAR.GOV/UFO →
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