Archive
Every file we’ve ingested.
Release 01 of the U.S. Department of War PURSUE archive went live on May 8, 2026 at war.gov/UFO/. The manifest below is what we have ingested so far. The full Phase 0 scrape is rolling.
Agency
Cluster
Showing 17 of 17 files in Release 01
FBI INFRARED 2025
FBI black-hot infrared still of an unidentified airborne object, December 2025.
Infrared imagery from federal aircraft — FBI included — is captured routinely during operations. Public release of FLIR stills tied to a UAP designation is uncommon, and is itself the news. This frame is one of six in the same FBI infrared cluster within Release 01 (Photos 1, A5, B2, B7, B18, B20), spanning two reporting windows: a September and a December 2025 sequence.
by FBI-PHOTO-1 Western United States
4/10
FBI INFRARED 2025
Companion FBI infrared frame, December 2025 western U.S. window.
Sits inside the same FBI infrared cluster as Photo 1 (December) and Photos B2, B7, B18, B20 (September). The A/B letter split suggests at least two distinct sensors, platforms, or sortie windows.
by FBI-PHOTO-A5 Western United States
4/10
FBI INFRARED 2025
Earliest dated frame in the FBI infrared cluster — September 2025.
The September dates (B2, B7, B18, B20) precede the December dates (Photo 1, A5) by roughly three months — same region, same agency, same imagery type.
by FBI-PHOTO-B2 Western United States
4/10
FBI INFRARED 2025
FBI helicopter infrared, object captured BELOW the platform — geometrically unusual.
B7 sits in the September 2025 sub-cluster. The 'below helicopter' framing is the single most specific positional fact in the entire FBI cluster's public metadata.
by FBI-PHOTO-B7 Western United States
5/10
FBI INFRARED 2025
Multiple unidentified objects in a single FBI infrared frame.
Multi-object captures are a small but consequential subset of UAP imagery. They rule out single-platform explanations like a tethered balloon or a stuck pixel and force a multi-source explanation: multiple drones, multiple aircraft, atmospheric phenomena affecting a region, or — speculatively — a coordinated formation.
by FBI-PHOTO-B18 Western United States
6/10
FBI INFRARED 2025
Final frame of the September FBI sub-cluster, multiple objects per caption.
Sequencing — B2, B7, B18, B20 — implies dropped frames between releases (B3–B6, B8–B17, B19) that have not been published. This is normal in selective release: investigators publish the frames most useful for public communication, not the full reel.
by FBI-PHOTO-B20 Western United States
5/10
SOUTH US SKETCH
A witness composite sketch — the lowest-fidelity, highest-human kind of evidence in the file.
Composite sketches sit at the human end of the evidence spectrum. They cannot prove an object existed. What they reliably preserve is what a witness believed they saw, with shapes and proportions filtered through human memory and the artist's hand.
by COMPOSITE-SKETCH Southeastern United States
2/10
APOLLO 17PILOT
The PILOT episode subject — three lights, the lunar terrain, a yellow box around them.
Apollo 17 — Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, Ronald Evans — landed in the Taurus-Littrow valley on December 11, 1972. It was the final crewed Apollo mission and produced one of the densest photographic records of any lunar landing. The mission's film magazines (designated by two-letter codes including VM) are catalogued in the publicly available NASA archive.
by NASA-UAP-VM6 Lunar surface · Taurus-Littrow
7/10
MIDDLE EAST
Unresolved DOD UAP report from Middle East operations, May 2022.
The Department of Defense established AARO — the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — to centralize UAP reporting from military personnel across services. Reports submitted by operators are reviewed; a portion are explained, a portion remain unresolved. Public release of the unresolved subset is one of the office's transparency commitments.
by DOW-UAP-PR19 Middle East
5/10
MIDDLE EAST
Unresolved UAE-airspace UAP report, October 2023.
Sits in the Middle East regional cluster alongside PR19 (May 2022) and PR45 (2020, Southern U.S. tag but Middle East cluster per the manifest). Recurring U.S. military operator reports from a single broad theater is a pattern worth noting independent of any individual report's content.
by DOW-UAP-PR26 United Arab Emirates
4/10
GREECE 2023
Sensor-display still — scope lines, cloud scatter, rectangular contrast feature.
Sensor-display imagery (radar repeater, FLIR feed, sensor pod overlay) is the dominant medium in modern military UAP captures. The display itself encodes information — bezel labels, scope rings, range markers — that would give context to anyone trained on the specific sensor.
by DOW-UAP-PR34 Greece
4/10
GREECE 2023
Object reportedly tracked from over-water to over-land, approaching shore.
Companion to PR34 in the same Greece-2023 cluster. The over-water-to-over-land trajectory is the most behaviorally specific claim in the entire DOW set in Release 01 — most UAP reports describe stationary or chaotic motion; few describe a clean transit.
by DOW-UAP-PR35 Greece
6/10
MIDDLE EAST
Eight-pointed infrared contrast feature, Middle East, 2013 — the oldest report in the DOW set.
Infrared sensors can produce diffraction-spike artifacts on bright thermal sources — typically a four-, six-, or eight-point star pattern caused by the sensor's aperture geometry. An eight-point feature is consistent with a hot, point-like source seen through a sensor with eight aperture vanes.
by DOW-UAP-PR38 Middle East
3/10
AFRICA 2025
Sole African continent entry in the DOW set, 2025.
U.S. military activity in Africa is concentrated around AFRICOM responsibilities — counterterrorism patrols, partner-nation training, surveillance. Operator reports from the continent are rare in the public record relative to Middle East / INDOPACOM reports.
by DOW-UAP-PR43 Africa
3/10
MIDDLE EAST
U.S. Air Force-reported UAP, southern United States, 2020. Note: location and cluster tag disagree.
USAF operator reports from over CONUS are common in the AARO pipeline — many are eventually attributed to drones, training aircraft, or weather phenomena. The 2020 timestamp predates AARO's 2022 establishment by two years; it has been worked under earlier UAP task force authority.
by DOW-UAP-PR45 Southern United States
3/10
INDOPACOM 2024
INDOPACOM-area UAP report, 2024 — described as football-shaped, near Japan.
INDOPACOM is the geographic combatant command covering the Indo-Pacific region. Operator reports from this command have grown in volume over recent years — partly because of theater activity, partly because of reporting-system maturation.
by DOW-UAP-PR46 Pacific (Japan vicinity)
5/10
US ARMY 2026
Most recent dated entry in Release 01 — U.S. Army, North America, 2026.
Army UAP reports are statistically less common in the public AARO archive than Air Force or Navy reports — Army aviation operates at lower altitudes and slower speeds than fast-jet platforms, producing different sighting profiles. A 2026 case being released only a few months after capture (Release 01 published May 8, 2026) indicates an unusually short review cycle, or a deliberately accelerated declassification.
by DOW-UAP-PR49 North America
4/10