First PURSUE Release Puts 158 UAP Files Online

The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, hosted at war.gov/UFO, published its first release on May 8, 2026. The release added 158 files to the portal. Six more releases have followed since then, the latest on October 23, 2026.

The 158 files come from four agencies. The Department of War contributed 79 files, the FBI contributed 57, NASA contributed 15, and the Department of State contributed 7. By format, the release holds 116 documents, 27 videos, 14 images, and 1 audio recording.

The index lists incident years spanning from 1946 to 2026. Several of the indexed records reach back further than 1946, however. One file, drawn from Department of War records, is described in the index as containing SHAEF messages and memorandums related to what the index calls "night phenomena (foofighters)," unidentified cylindrical objects, and blinking lights, with multiple references to the 415th Night Fighter Squadron; its listed incident date is 3/18/45 in Germany.

Other Department of War files described in the index include records related to flying disc and saucer sightings from incidents dated 12/30/47 and 6/15/48, a November 1948 Air Force intelligence report tied to an incident in the Netherlands, and an Air Intelligence Information Report dated 10/14/55 concerning an eyewitness account of an unconventional aircraft in the trans-Caucasus region of the USSR, with Azerbaijan listed as the location.

The NASA portion of the release includes a file the index describes as containing a report on UFOs written by the French association COMETA, previously published in the French magazine VDS in 1999, along with a letter from Carol Rosin noting her role as spokesperson for von Braun during the last years of his life.

This story is written from the release's index on the PURSUE portal at war.gov/UFO; the files themselves are not read here.