United States
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Holdings from multiple NARA Record Groups containing UFO and UAP-related material. The centrepiece is the Project Blue Book microfilm collection: digitised frames from the Air Force's official investigation programme.
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Record Group 341
Project Blue Book Microfilm
Case files, witness questionnaires, investigator reports, radar photographs, and administrative records from the USAF's official UFO investigation, 1947 to 1969.
3,464
Frames
Frames
17
Rolls
Rolls
1947 to 1969
Dates
Dates
Record Group 342
USAF Commands Photography
Black and white photographs of Air Force activities, facilities, and personnel. Includes TIF scans of Avrocar disc-craft testing and unidentified aerial photography.
322
Files
Files
TIF + GIF
Formats
Formats
1940 to 1981
Dates
Dates
NARA Catalog 542185
USAF Photographic Records
284 files including high-resolution TIF scans and GIF duplicates of Air Force photographic documentation related to unidentified aerial objects.
284
Files
Files
132
Unique Images
Unique Images
Record Group 330
Office of the Secretary of Defense
AARO annual reports, case resolution cards, congressional briefing slides, and technical analyses produced by the Pentagon's UAP office between 2023 and 2025.
316
Pages
Pages
29
Documents
Documents
2023 to 2025
Dates
Dates
Record Group 263
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA records on unidentified aerial phenomena including declassified assessments and inter-agency correspondence.
Documents
Format
Format
Record Group 237
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA information releases relating to unidentified flying objects, 1986.
1986
Date
Date
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC UAP Records
Records from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena near nuclear facilities.
2023 to 2025
Dates
Dates
Record Group 306
U.S. Information Agency
Broadcast recordings: Dr. Page interview on UFOs (1968), Dr. Condon feature (1966), and Foreign Press Center briefing with Maccabee, Shandera, and Hopkins (1987).
3
Broadcasts
Broadcasts
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI UFO Files
The complete 16-part FBI UFO investigation file released under FOIA. Covers Bureau investigations of UFO sighting reports, interagency correspondence, and field office records.
16
Parts
Parts
FOIA
Release
Release
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA FOIA Request Logs
Annual FOIA request logs from the CIA covering 2001 to 2023, documenting the volume and nature of public information requests related to UAP, UFOs, and related programmes. Includes Electronic Reading Room documents.
881
Pages
Pages
23
Annual Logs
Annual Logs
2001 to 2023
Dates
Dates
NAIC / Air Intelligence Division
Air Force Intelligence Reports
Intelligence digests and analytical reports from the National Air Intelligence Center and Air Force Intelligence Division covering aerial phenomena assessments, 1948 to 1953.
10
Documents
Documents
1948 to 1953
Dates
Dates
USAF Directives
Air Force UFO Reporting Regulations
The AFR 200-2 series and related directives that governed how the Air Force collected, classified, and reported UFO sightings. Includes identification aids, operational manuals, and regulatory changes from 1951 to 1968.
18
Documents
Documents
1951 to 1968
Dates
Dates
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA Star Gate Program
Declassified documents from the CIA's remote viewing research programme, investigating psychic phenomena for intelligence applications.
2
Documents
Documents
Classified
Originally
Originally
CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence
The Robertson Panel Report
The 1953 CIA scientific panel chaired by H. P. Robertson that reviewed the Air Force's best UFO evidence and recommended public debunking and the monitoring of civilian UFO groups, shaping US policy for two decades.
28
Pages
Pages
Jan 1953
Convened
Convened
USAF Air Materiel Command
Project Sign Final Report
The 1949 final report of the Air Force's first official UFO study at Wright-Patterson, covering the 1947 to 1948 reports including the Mantell and Chiles-Whitted cases, before Sign gave way to Project Grudge.
72
Pages
Pages
Feb 1949
Issued
Issued
USAF Directorate of Intelligence
Samford Press Conference 1952
Transcript of Major General John Samford's 29 July 1952 Pentagon briefing on the Washington, D.C. radar-visual sightings, the largest such press conference since World War II.
39
Pages
Pages
Jul 1952
Date
Date
Battelle Memorial Institute
Blue Book Special Report No. 14
The largest statistical study of UFO reports the US government ever commissioned: Battelle's analysis of thousands of 1947 to 1952 cases, released 1955, which found the best-documented reports were the most likely to remain unexplained.
310
Pages
Pages
1955
Released
Released
Multiple Agencies
Key Memos and Directives
Pivotal government communications on UFOs: the Schulgen memo, Bolender memo, Air Force Inspector General briefs, SECDEF instructions, and congressional report directives spanning 1947 to 2002.
11
Documents
Documents
1959 to 2002
Dates
Dates
Joint Chiefs of Staff
JANAP 146 Series
Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication 146: the interservice directive that required military and civilian pilots to report unidentified aerial objects. Editions from 1948 through 1966.
7
Documents
Documents
1948 to 1966
Editions
Editions
About PURSUE
The Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters is a declassification and public release programme administered through the Department of War (war.gov). PURSUE coordinates the review and release of UAP-related records held across US government agencies, including the Department of Defense, intelligence community, Department of Energy, NASA, the FBI, and the State Department. Documents are assigned DOW-UAP identifiers and released in numbered tranches.
Department of War, war.gov, Release 01
PURSUE Release 01
The first declassification tranche from the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, published 8 May 2026. Military mission reports, FBI investigative serials, NASA transcripts, AARO analytical slides, State Department cables, and 28 Department of Defense UAP videos.
155
Documents
Documents
28
Videos
Videos
8 May 2026
Released
Released
Department of War, war.gov, Release 02
PURSUE Release 02
The second declassification tranche from PURSUE, published 22 May 2026. Six documents and 57 video files spanning 1949 to 2025. Headline items include the 116-page Sandia Base 1949 Green Fireballs correspondence with Dr. Lincoln La Paz, a 2025 senior US intelligence officer USPER narrative of a multi-hour helicopter encounter, the CIA Sary Shagan 1973 Soviet defector report, Manhattan Project physicist James L. Tuck's Condon Report and ball-lightning correspondence, and the PANTEX nuclear facility incident report.
6
Documents
Documents
57
Videos
Videos
22 May 2026
Released
Released
Department of War, war.gov, Release 03
PURSUE Release 03
The third declassification tranche from PURSUE, published 12 June 2026. Eleven documents and two FBI video files spanning 1948 to 2026. The first PURSUE release to include complete FBI investigative case packages (FD-302 witness interviews, FD-1057 forensic sketch sessions, site surveys) and an Intelligence Community Agency analytical assessment. Headline items include the FBI Northeastern US case file documenting agent direct observation, the Colorado Springs Cheyenne Mountain forensic-sketch package, a SECRET/NOFORN CIA cable from Harare 2008, and the 1949 US Army flying-saucer evaluation study.
11
Documents
Documents
2
Videos
Videos
12 June 2026
Released
Released