Overview
- The Department of War, which posted the first tranche Friday, released 162 photos, videos and documents on war.gov/ufo for public access.
- The files span decades and geography, from 1947–48 Air Force memos and Apollo‑era NASA images to recent military sensor videos over the Mediterranean, Gulf of Oman, East China Sea, Syria, Greece, Japan and Mexico.
- The White House’s PURSUE program coordinates the Pentagon, ODNI, NASA, FBI, DOE and AARO, and officials plan new batches every few weeks as they sift tens of millions of records.
- Pentagon caveats say the incidents are unresolved and not evidence of extraterrestrial technology, and the government is inviting outside researchers to analyze the data.
- The release has drawn strong public interest and partisan criticism, renewing long-running fights over government secrecy and the timing of disclosures.