Department of War / Release No. 1 / 2026
The PURSUE
Files.
162 declassified records from FBI, the Department of War, NASA, and State — including verbatim federal LEO encounter reports and Apollo-era astronaut transcripts of unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Brief
What is PURSUE?
PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters— is the U.S. Department of War's public release portal for declassified records relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
Release No. 1 contains 162 records contributed by Department of State, Department of War, FBI, and NASA.
This site is a cinematic walk-through of the most striking material in the release — agent testimonies, AARO measurements, and Apollo lunar observations — alongside a searchable index of every file. The originals live at war.gov/UFO.
Featured Casework
Four Encounters in the Western U.S.
Federal law enforcement officers describe what they saw, in their own words. Where AARO performed downstream analysis, the measured numbers are included.
Federal Law Enforcement · Western U.S.
Orbs Launching Orbs
A mother orb launched two more.
A single luminous mother-orb hovers low over the desert at dusk. Then it ejects two more.
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Federal Law Enforcement / AARO · Remote canyon country, Western U.S.
The Large Fiery Orb
Eye of Sauron — 12 meters wide.
A perfect orange sphere — roughly the size of a small house — hovers motionless beside a thousand-meter rock spire. The agent on scene called it the Eye of Sauron.
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Federal Law Enforcement · Western U.S. desert basin
The Dark Kite
Solid black. Silent. Fast.
Predawn. Through night-vision goggles, agents track a solid black triangular shape gliding silently above the desert floor.
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Federal Law Enforcement · Western U.S. ridgeline
The Transparent Kite
Stars visible through it.
Same shape — but you can see the stars through it. A handheld spotlight at 50 yards is absorbed by its surface.
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NASA · Apollo 17 · 1972
The Lunar Transcripts
Among the records released is a 1972 air-to-ground transcript from the Apollo 17 mission referencing visual observations the crew made of unidentified objects in the lunar environment.
The full transcript is in the file index — searchable alongside the other 161 records.
View NASA records →162 files. Search them all.
Filter by agency, type, or full-text. Each entry links back to the original on war.gov.
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