All four official UAP declassification releases by the U.S. Department of War.
Sourced verbatim from war.gov/UFO
UAP = Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena · PURSUE = Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters
PURSUE stands for Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — the formal interagency declassification program created after President Trump issued a directive on February 19, 2026 instructing the Department of War, FBI, NASA, and intelligence agencies to identify, review, and release UAP records.
UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — redefined from "Aerial" to "Anomalous" by the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act (FY2023, signed December 23, 2022), expanding scope beyond air to include maritime, undersea, space-based, and transmedium observations.
All files — PDFs, photographs, and videos — are on Google Drive, publicly accessible, no sign-in required.
| Release | Drive folder |
|---|---|
| Release 01 | Open → |
| Release 02 | Open → |
| Release 03 | Open → |
| Release 04 | Open → |
The first large-scale official declassification of UAP materials in U.S. history. Documents span from the late 1940s to 2025.
| Folder | Contents | Size |
|---|---|---|
pdfs/ |
126 declassified PDF documents | ~2.3 GB |
images/ |
14 photographs (FBI, NASA, DoD) | ~15 MB |
videos/ |
28 original videos from DVIDS | ~1.2 GB |
videos-with-music/ |
28 videos with cinematic instrumental soundtrack | ~1.3 GB |
The release covers incidents spanning multiple decades and commands:
- DOW-UAP-D series — Mission Reports documenting UAP encounters
- DOW-UAP-PR series — Unresolved UAP Incident Reports (Middle East, Iraq, Syria, INDOPACOM, Africa)
- FBI files — Historical UAP investigation documents and photographs
- NASA files — Apollo 12 & 17 photographs, Gemini 7 audio excerpt (1965)
- DIA / NSA / NRO — Intelligence agency UAP assessments
- Video footage — Raw military UAP encounter video from DVIDS
Two files (Serial_153 and one other) return 404 on war.gov itself — they are not missing from this archive, they simply do not exist at the source.
The second tranche under PURSUE. Includes intelligence agency records spanning the CIA, DOE, DOW, and ODNI — plus 57 DoD videos.
| Folder | Contents | Size |
|---|---|---|
documents/ |
6 declassified PDFs | ~70 MB |
videos/ |
57 DoD UAP videos | ~5.4 GB |
Documents in this release:
| File | Agency | Description |
|---|---|---|
CIA-UAP-D001 |
CIA | Intelligence Information Report — USSR, 1973 |
DOE-UAP-D001 |
DOE | PANTEX Image |
DOE-UAP-D002 |
DOE | James Tuck Correspondence |
DOE-UAP-D003 |
DOE | Pajarito Astronomers |
DOW-UAP-D017 |
DOW | General Correspondence of Sandia |
ODNI-UAP-D001 |
ODNI | USPER Narrative — Senior USIC |
The third tranche under PURSUE. Heavy on declassified intelligence files — 43 PDFs from CIA, DOW, and FBI covering historic UFO investigations (Project Blue Book, US Air Force analyses, Naval reports, AARO case files) plus digital renderings of recent Western US and Northeastern US unresolved incidents.
| Folder | Contents | Size |
|---|---|---|
release_03_documents/ |
43 declassified PDFs + 7 JPG renderings | ~250 MB |
AARO061226/ |
4 DoD UAP videos | ~120 MB |
Agency breakdown of the documents:
| Agency | Range | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIA | CIA-UAP-002 – CIA-UAP-019 |
18 | Project Blue Book Special Report #14, Kardashev/Sakharov speculative paper, Sary Shagan weapons range, Soviet conversations, etc. |
| DOW | DOW-UAP-D077 – DOW-UAP-D088 |
12 | Western US Event narratives (5), US Army Flying Saucer Study (1949), US Navy Flying Discs report (1948), Air Force analyses 1–172 |
| FBI | FBI-UAP-D001 – FBI-UAP-D020 |
20 | 13 PDFs (Colorado Springs 2022, Northeastern US 2024, Northeastern orb sighting 2026, historic field offices) + 7 JPG digital renderings of two unresolved incidents |
The 4 videos in AARO061226/ are DoD footage released alongside the document bundle.
The fourth and most recent tranche under PURSUE. A small but targeted intelligence release: three FBI / CIA records tying off historic investigative threads.
| Folder | Contents | Size |
|---|---|---|
Documents/ |
3 declassified PDFs | ~15 MB |
uap_release04_videos_071026/ |
(reserved for video bundle — currently empty) | — |
Documents in this release:
| File | Agency | Description |
|---|---|---|
CIA-UAP-D020 |
CIA | Memorandum on Unconventional Aircraft Sightings (1955) |
CIA-UAP-D021 |
CIA | Analysis of Unconventional Aircraft Sightings (1955) |
FBI-UAP-D014 |
FBI | Correspondence Relating to UFO Sightings (1967–1974) |
The video folder is published but currently empty — check back for the video bundle to be added.
pip install curl_cffi
python download_uap.pyUses Chrome TLS impersonation to bypass Akamai CDN bot detection.
pip install curl_cffi
python download_release02.pyDownloads the document bundle via chunked range requests (Akamai blocks full-file streaming) and streams the video archive directly from CloudFront.
These releases are currently distributed only via the Google Drive folder above. Self-contained download_release03.py / download_release04.py scripts will be added once war.gov publish the corresponding direct-download URLs.
python add_music.pyPulls dark/thriller instrumental tracks from Pixabay (royalty-free, no lyrics) and mixes one unique track per video using ffmpeg.
Requirements: pip install curl_cffi · ffmpeg · yt-dlp
All files sourced from the official U.S. Department of War UAP portal: https://www.war.gov/UFO/
This archive is for research, journalism, and public record purposes.