Why this exists.

On the date of release, the U.S. Department of War posted PURSUE Release No. 1 — 162 declassified records spanning roughly 80 years of federal documentation of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

The release page on war.gov is functional but dense. The records are valuable, but the interface forces you to click each one to see what's inside. This site is a curated, cinematic walk-through of the most striking material — designed to be readable on a phone, browsable in a single sitting.

What you're looking at

• The Featured Encounterssection pulls from federal law-enforcement officer testimony in the Western United States slide deck, with AARO's downstream measurements where available.
• The Lunar Transcripts teaser links to the NASA Apollo 17 air-to-ground transcript record.
• The file index exposes all 162 records with full search and filtering. Each card links back to war.gov/UFO/ where the original PDFs / images / videos live.

Editorial note

Encounter narratives are paraphrased from the Department of War's public slide deck. Pull-quote excerpts are stylized for readability, not verbatim transcripts. Where AARO has produced a quantitative finding (e.g., object diameter in meters), that finding is included.

The visuals on this site are generated illustrations, not photographs from the release. They are intended to evoke the agents' descriptions, not to misrepresent the source material.

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