Trump Opens the UFO Files in a Historic Government Release
A new federal portal — WAR.GOV/UFO — went live this morning, dumping never-before-seen Department of War records, Apollo-era photographs, and AARO case material into public hands. Officials are calling it the largest single act of UAP transparency in U.S. history.
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Inside PURSUE: What's Actually Sitting Inside the WAR.GOV/UFO Drop
The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters is the bureaucratic name. The contents are stranger: stitched-together case folders, photographs from two Apollo missions, and a handful of incidents the Pentagon couldn't explain even with its own analysts. We walked through the portal page by page.
AARO's 2,400-Case Backlog: The Office Behind the Disclosure
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office was supposed to be a clearinghouse. Three years in, it's a chokepoint — with a caseload that has more than doubled since Hegseth promised the Pentagon was “digging in.”
Congress's UAP Reckoning: Whistleblowers, Hearings, and the FY2026 NDAA
Anna Paulina Luna wants 46 named video files. Tim Burchett wants whistleblower protection law. The conferenced defense bill quietly hands AARO new authority. Here's the legislative map of disclosure.
Greer at 25: The Disclosure Project Returns to the Press Club
Twenty-five years to the day after the original briefing, Steven Greer brought new whistleblowers to the National Press Club — and a question the political class has spent two decades dodging.
PURSUE Files — Sighting Briefs
FBI Flying-Discs Case File 62-HQ-83894
Eighteen sections and serials of the bureau's foundational flying-discs file, surfaced with fewer redactions than any prior public version.
Gemini 7 Transcript & Audio: Low Earth Orbit, December 5, 1965
Paired transcript and audio excerpt from the long-duration Borman/Lovell mission, surfaced together as NASA-UAP-D3 / D3A.
Apollo 12 Lunar Material: Transcript and Four Surface Photographs
Five files from Conrad and Bean's Ocean of Storms landing, surfaced with annotation context the Pentagon flagged for review.
Apollo 17: Transcript, Two Crew Debriefings, and Two Lunar Images
The last crewed lunar mission. Schmitt's reported flash north of Grimaldi sits inside the surfaced material.
Apollo 11 Technical Debriefing (1969) and Skylab Crew Debriefing (1973)
Two formal mission post-mortems bracketing the Apollo era, both routed into the unresolved-cases archive.
Five State Department UAP Cables: PNG, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Mexico
Embassy cables capturing UAP-adjacent reporting from four continents across two decades.
FBI September 2023 Sighting: Composite Sketch and Case Serials
An active 2023 case folder with a composite sketch, multiple serials, and an associated USPER witness statement.
FBI Photo Album: 23 Sequential Photographs, Western United States
Frames B2 through B24 of an FBI-tagged photo series captured in the western U.S. late last year.
Naval UAP Encounters: Syria, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Mediterranean
Mission reports and range-fouler debriefs from the Middle East and Mediterranean theaters.
Combat-Zone UAP Reports: Middle East 2020 and Iraq, May 2022
Two PR-series unresolved reports filed from active operating environments.
INDOPACOM Email Trail: April 10-11, 2025
Email correspondence from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command captured as primary contemporaneous evidence.
Pacific Time Zone Email Trail, March 2023
An unusually-tagged email file captured against the Pacific Time Zone identifier.
Vandenberg AFB Launch Summary, February 3, 2000
A West Coast launch-range summary tied to a Y2K-era event, surfaced with full sensor context implied.
Wire Feed
THEY Finally Released It: 162 Hidden Government UFO Files Just Dropped—Here's What They're Hiding
The Department of War activated WAR.GOV/UFO on May 8, unleashing 162 declassified files including 120 PDFs, 28 military videos, and 14 photographs from DoD, FBI, NASA, and State Department archives spanning 1948 to 2026. The initial PURSUE tranche contains infrared and optical UAP footage from multiple operating theaters, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 debriefings with Pentagon annotations never publicly released, FBI case material dating to the 1947 flying-discs archive, and diplomatic cables from four continents. Pentagon officials maintained no evidence of extraterrestrial origin has emerged; several video clips remain formally unresolved despite internal analysis.
NEW Whistleblower Comes Forward—Congress Scrambles to Keep It CLASSIFIED (This Changes Everything)
The House UAP Caucus announced it has secured a replacement witness willing to testify before Congress regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena, with the new source agreeing only to classified Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) testimony. Rep. Eric Burlison confirmed the strategy prioritizes “people who would not be comfortable going public,” funneling witness testimony through classified channels while the UAP Whistleblower Protection Act (H.R. 5060) advances toward a floor vote. Officials indicated a second public hearing remains possible after classified sessions conclude, representing a shift in how Congress manages disclosure coordination.
The Pentagon Just Admitted It: 2,400+ UAP Cases They NEVER Told You About—And Now They're Watching
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office now oversees more than 2,400 documented unidentified anomalous phenomena cases, according to Secretary Hegseth's May 9 confirmation to lawmakers. In parallel, the Pentagon announced deployment of a new sensor suite designed for real-time field detection and tracking of UAP across multiple operating domains. Officials declined to disclose deployment scope, timeline, or technical specifications for the new surveillance apparatus. The expansion represents AARO's operational shift from historical case analysis toward active monitoring infrastructure, indicating Pentagon intent to transition UAP tracking from archival review to continuous field surveillance.
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