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PURSUE Portal Launch — Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters

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PURSUE Portal Launch (war.gov/UFO)

Summary

On May 8, 2026, the department-of-war launched the public-facing pursue portal at war.gov/UFO. The portal operationalizes donald-trump’s February 19, 2026 Truth Social directive (src-uap-trump-disclosure-2026) and is overseen by DoW with odni support. The portal is structured around rolling tranches of declassified, unresolved UAP cases, supplementing — not replacing — aaro’s statutory work on resolved cases. Release 01, “CLEARED FOR RELEASE — MAY 8, 2026,” is introduced by a pete-hegseth statement and contains roughly 170 records (page 1 of 17, ~10 records per page). Page 1 is composed entirely of fbi PDFs from a single file series 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894 (sections 2–7, 9, 10; serials 130, 153) — see fbi-case-file-62-hq-83894. The page opens with a 17-image evidence carousel of infrared stills and recreations (2020–2026) including an apollo-17 archival lunar image. The page was retrieved via Wayback Machine after war.gov returned HTTP 403.

Key Claims

  • PURSUE expands as Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters; hosted at war.gov/UFO.
  • DoW with odni support is conducting a government-wide effort spanning “tens of millions of records, many existing only on paper.”
  • New tranches will post “every few weeks” on a rolling basis.
  • PURSUE handles unresolved cases; aaro retains statutory responsibility for resolved-case reporting.
  • Carousel images include cases from western U.S. (Sept and Dec 2025), UAE, Greece, African airspace, a 2020 USAF southern-U.S. case, an INDOPACOM “football-shaped” object near Japan, a 2026 U.S. Army case, a 2023 southeastern-U.S. recreation, and an Apollo 17 archival image with three lights enlarged above the lunar terrain.
  • “Learn More” links externally only to aaro.mil.
  • The page does not include a public sighting-submission form, despite the “Reporting” element of the PURSUE acronym.

Notable Quotes

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” — donald-trump (Truth Social, 2026-02-19)

“The materials archived here are unresolved cases, meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena.” — department-of-war

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