NASA’s UAP programme page at science.nasa.gov/uap/ was last updated on February 23, 2026 — three months before the PURSUE programme’s Release 01 went public on May 8, 2026. The page is maintained under NASA Science, with Diana Logreira as the Responsible NASA Official and Julie Stoltz as page editor. UAP contact remains Daniel A. Evans at Daniel.A.Evans@nasa.gov. The programme did not end with the Final Report.
Why the February 2026 Update Matters
A February 2026 page update means someone at NASA’s Science Mission Directorate reviewed and maintained the UAP page six days before the PURSUE directive was signed (February 19, 2026) and seven days after the AARO workshop paper was published (February 13, 2026). The cluster of UAP-related government activity in mid-February 2026 — AARO white paper, NASA page update, PURSUE executive directive — within a ten-day window is not coincidental.
NASA’s Role in PURSUE
PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, launched May 8, 2026 — names NASA as one of the agencies in its Release 01 structure. The PURSUE directive instructs civilian agencies including NASA to cooperate with the transparency framework. NASA’s Independent Study recommendation to build standardised UAP data collection infrastructure is directly relevant to what PURSUE is trying to create at the federal level.
The NASA Framework Compared to PURSUE
NASA’s study team framed UAP as a data collection and analysis challenge requiring new sensor protocols and inter-agency data sharing. PURSUE is attempting to implement exactly that — a centralised reporting and declassification system across DoW, ODNI, FBI, DOE, NASA, and AARO. NASA’s 2023 report can now be read as the scientific architecture document for the political programme PURSUE is executing in 2026. The February 23, 2026 page update suggests NASA is aware of this connection and is maintaining its public UAP posture accordingly.
Source: science.nasa.gov/uap/. Page last updated February 23, 2026. PURSUE directive February 19, 2026. AARO workshop February 13, 2026.