Directive
PURSUE Release 01 originated in President Donald J. Trump's February 19, 2026 public directive calling for federal agencies to identify and release government files related to UAP, UFOs, alien life, extraterrestrial life, and adjacent records. The Department of War page presents PURSUE as the resulting publication system, run with support from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to locate, review, declassify, and release unresolved UAP-related records from across federal holdings.1
Release 01
The first tranche was cleared for release on May 8, 2026. PURSUE Release 01 comprises 162 records: 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 images. The named agencies are the Department of War, FBI, NASA, and Department of State, with four records carrying no agency attribution.1
The Department of War describes the tranche as unresolved material. In the page's own framing, these are cases where the government could not make a definitive determination about the reported phenomena, whether because of limited data, incomplete reporting, or other evidentiary limits. The page also publishes a statement attributed to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who framed the release as part of a broader transparency effort and said the files had previously been held behind classification.1
Source Corpus
The corpus is not one story. It is a cross-agency release that combines older historical holdings with newer military reporting. FBI records include sections from the 62-HQ-83894 UFO case file and several images. Department of War records include mission reports, range-fouler reports, email correspondence, unresolved-video records, DVIDS-hosted MP4 assets, and related still imagery. NASA records include Apollo, Gemini, and Skylab transcripts or media. Department of State records include diplomatic cables from Papua New Guinea, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, and Mexico.1
Publication Structure
The release is hosted on WAR.GOV/UFO and links directly to source PDFs, DVIDS-hosted videos, and images held at their original locations. Several records are deliberately paired: mission reports appear alongside their associated videos, and some entries share related imagery or companion documents. A number of video records are served via DVIDS pages that carry the playable media.1