Pentagon UFO Files: Official Documents and Releases

The modern federal UFO record is spread across several official systems rather than one complete archive. The Department of War PURSUE portal publishes rolling tranches of documents, imagery, video, and other media. AARO maintains its own case imagery, report documents, information papers, and congressional products. The National Archives is separately assembling Record Group 615 from records transferred by federal agencies. Probed connects those collections without pretending that they are interchangeable or complete.

This page concentrates on records released by defense and intelligence organizations and on the official context needed to interpret them. Every file card links to a Probed record that preserves the originating release, agency label, file type, source URL, and available analysis. The source link remains the authority for the underlying record; Probed adds navigation, transcription, cross-references, and clearly labeled editorial assessment.

PURSUE began with an initial release on May 8, 2026 and describes the collection as a rolling interagency transparency effort. The official portal organizes material by release date, agency, and file type. That release date is not necessarily the date of the event or the date a document was created. Probed stores those fields separately so researchers can distinguish publication chronology from incident chronology.

A release may combine historical documents, recent mission material, photographs, or video. A file name can be an agency identifier, a descriptive title, or a portal-specific label. For that reason, the tracker keeps the official title and source URL while presenting a clearer display title where an editor has verified one. It also preserves direct file identifiers in search metadata when they are important for exact-match research.

Official release is evidence of provenance, not proof that every claim inside a record is correct. A report may preserve a witness statement, an analyst hypothesis, a historical allegation, or a resolved case. Start with the exact wording and source locator, then separate what the record reports from what an agency concluded. Look for dates, sensor type, chain of custody, redactions, and references to attachments that may not have been released.

Visual material deserves the same caution. Compression, cropping, stabilization, missing telemetry, and unknown viewing geometry can change what a clip appears to show. AARO and NASA both emphasize the importance of better-calibrated, consistently collected data. Probed therefore treats an unexplained label as a status of the available evidence, not as a conclusion about origin.

The National Archives UAP collection is the main federal archival destination created under the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. Record Group 615 now lists transfers from agencies including the FAA, NRC, ODNI, Office of the Secretary of Defense, NSA, State Department, FBI, and Air Force, with additional transfers expected on a rolling basis. NARA also offers bulk downloads for several UAP-related series and older Project Blue Book holdings.

If a specific record is not public, FOIA.gov recommends first checking existing agency reading rooms and then sending a written request that reasonably describes the records sought. A narrow request with agency, office, date range, record type, and known identifiers is generally easier to process than a request for every record about a broad topic. A FOIA request asks for existing records; it does not require an agency to create analysis or answer research questions.