On May 8, 2026, the Department of War released the first tranche of declassified UAP documents under PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The portal is live at war.gov/UFO. 162 files in the first release. New tranches are scheduled every 2-3 weeks. Here is a complete breakdown of what happened and what was released.
What is PURSUE
PURSUE — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — is the Trump administration’s UAP transparency program, operated by the Department of War with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It is the institutional response to Trump’s January 2025 executive order directing relevant departments and agencies to begin identifying and releasing government UAP information.
The DOW’s Release 01 statement: “The Department of War is in lockstep with President Trump to bring unprecedented transparency regarding our government’s understanding of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.”
What “Unresolved Cases” Means
The portal explicitly states: “The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.” This is the government formally stating in public that these cases remain open — they cannot be explained by known technology, misidentification, or natural phenomena. Every document on the portal is a government-acknowledged mystery.
Release 01 Contents Summary
- FBI infrared imagery — 6 images from western US operations, Sept-Dec 2025. Objects confirmed as unresolved.
- Military incident reports — Middle East (2013, 2022), UAE (2023), Greece (2023-2024), Africa (2025), Syria (2024), Iraq (2022)
- Indo-Pacific — Football-shaped UAP near Japan
- Apollo 17 archival imagery — 1972. Three lights above lunar terrain. Declassified.
- Dual-sensor confirmation — Diamond-shaped object at ~434 knots, captured simultaneously on electro-optical and SWIR sensors
- Composite sketch — Southeastern US, Sept 2023. Reconstruction of anomalous sighting.
- Historical file 18_100754 — General records 1946-47, Vol. 2. Earliest government UAP documentation in the release.
Access all documents free at war.gov/UFO. UAP Oracle will update this article with every new PURSUE tranche.
Source: The Debrief (Micah Hanks, May 8, 2026), war.gov/UFO, DOW Release 01 statement.