PURSUE Release 02: 64 Unresolved UAP Files (22 May 2026)

OFFICIAL FILES · Released 22 May 2026. These are U.S. government records published at war.gov/ufo. Incident years: 1948 to 2025. Redacted Weekly archives them as public-domain government works.

On 22 May 2026, the Department of War posted Release 02 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) at https://www.war.gov/ufo/. The release page lists 64 records: 51 VID, 7 AUD, 6 PDF (PDF = document, VID = video, IMG = image, AUD = audio). The bulk downloads offered on the page were documents (70.1 MB) and videos (5.6 GB).

What PURSUE says these are: the program page says “The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sufficient data.” So no record in this release is an official finding of anything extraordinary. The government simply could not explain them with the data it had.

Who supplied the files: Department of War (52), NASA (7), Department of Energy (3), CIA (1), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (1).

Where they happened: the most common listed locations are CENTCOM (32), NORTHCOM (4), Low Earth Orbit (4), Southeastern United States (3), New Mexico (2), Yellow Sea (2).

Highlights picked by the Department of War

The database marks some records as “Featured.” Where fewer than three are flagged, we added the earliest incident, a video and a non-DoW record. Here are up to four from this release, with the official description quoted rather than paraphrased:

DOW-UAP-D017, UAP Reported at Sandia Base, 1948-1950

Incident: 1948-1950, New Mexico · Department of War

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This file contains 116 pages of documentation from the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program (AFSWP) – the direct, post-World War II successor to the Manhattan Project – and from the U.S. Air Force – relating to a series of sightings and investigations in Sandia, New Mexico, from 1948-1950. This file contains 209 sightings of “green orbs,” “discs,” and “fireballs” reported near the military base.”

DOW-UAP-PR050, “4 UAP Formation Iran 26 Aug 2022 over water [CALLSIGN]”

Incident: 2022, CENTCOM · Department of War

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network.”

CIA-UAP-D001, Intelligence Information Report, USSR, 1973

Incident: 12/20/1973, USSR · CIA

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “This document is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intelligence information report (IIR) that describes human intelligence gathering activities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). This report characterizes its content as informational, not as finally evaluated intelligence. In section 14 of this document, the source describes an incident occurring in summer of 1973, where he allegedly observed an airborne, luminous, bright green, unidentified object.”

DOE-UAP-D003, Pajarito Astronomers Invitation, 1986

Incident: 5/20/1986, New Mexico · Department of Energy

Official description (quoted from the PURSUE database): “A letter to the members of the Pajarito Astronomers club regarding an upcoming meeting featuring a presentation from a Los Alamos National Laboratory-affiliated physicist, Dr. John Warren, titled “Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFOs?” The referenced event was not officially hosted by Los Alamos. The laboratory has no record of the subject matter discussed at the meeting.”

CASE FILE · PURSUE-R02
Publisher: U.S. Department of War (with ODNI support), war.gov/ufo
Released: 22 May 2026
Records: 64 (51 VID, 7 AUD, 6 PDF)
Incident years: 1948 to 2025
Status: all listed as unresolved by the publisher

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