On May 8, 2026, the United States Department of War launched PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The portal is live at war.gov/ufo. It contains 161 declassified files in Release 01. More tranches are coming “every few weeks.” No clearance required.
What PURSUE Is
PURSUE is the operational implementation of President Trump’s February 19, 2026 Truth Social directive ordering the Secretary of War and all relevant departments to begin identifying and releasing government UAP files. The Department of War describes it as “an unprecedented, historic undertaking that requires coordination between dozens of agencies and the review of tens of millions of records, many existing only on paper, spanning many decades.”
Agencies Involved
PURSUE is an interagency operation. Confirmed participating agencies in Release 01:
- Department of War (DOW) — lead agency
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) — coordinating IC declassification
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — releasing its UAP case file archive
- Department of Energy (DOE) — formally included
- NASA — releasing archived imagery and reports
- AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) — operational integration
- Additional components of US intelligence agencies (unnamed in Release 01)
What Release 01 Contains
161 files released May 8, 2026. The portal displays them in a paginated table with columns for Agency, Release Date, Incident Date, Incident Location, and Type. Files include FBI case file sections (62-HQ-83894), DoW unresolved UAP incident reports (PR-series), NASA archival imagery, and AARO case files. All files are described as “unresolved cases” — meaning the US government cannot make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.
The Rolling Release Framework
Release 01 is explicitly the first tranche. The DoW states new materials will be released “on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.” The December 2026 congressional deadline creates a legislative backstop for the full release timeline. The DoW also explicitly invites private-sector analysis: “the Department of War welcomes the application of private-sector analysis, information and expertise.”
The Oracle Assessment
PURSUE is the most significant institutional UAP transparency action any government has taken in recorded history. It is not a FOIA response, a congressional hearing, or a leaked document. It is a purpose-built federal portal, on a .gov domain, run by the Secretary of War, with the CIA Director and FBI Director standing behind it by name. The classification barrier between the American public and five decades of UAP documentation is structurally lower than it has ever been. What comes in the next tranches will determine whether PURSUE is genuine disclosure or managed revelation.
Source: war.gov/ufo, Department of War Press Release, May 8, 2026.