war.gov/UFO Portal
The Department of War’s public-facing UAP files portal launched May 8, 2026 as the operational instrument of the PURSUE Release 01; mirrored at pentagonufofiles.io by enigma-labs. Hosts video files, image carousels, FBI PDFs, and interagency records under a “make up your own minds” framing.
Traffic and release cadence
- >1 billion hits since launch (May 8 → May 22), per Pentagon officials — triple-sourced via src-pentagon-second-batch-ufo-release-2026-05 (Washington Times), src-newsweek-pursue-release-02-2026-05 (Newsweek), and the DoW primary-source release src-dow-pursue-release-02-2026-05 (Sean Parnell).
- Operates on a rolling-release cadence of “every few weeks.” Release 02 dropped May 22, 2026 — exactly 14 days after Release 01.
- Release 01 → Release heading change: on May 21 the portal’s “Release 01” header was shortened to “Release” (anticipated Release 02), and a transient site listing of up to 140 blank pages flashed before reverting (src-debrief-pursue-next-batch-preview-2026-05).
Catalog conventions and caveats
- January-1 “date taken” filler — many video records list “01 January” of a given year, which Gizmodo’s matt-novak reads as a year-only-precision filler convention rather than a literal capture date (src-gizmodo-find-ufos-pentagon-videos-2026-05).
- DOW-UAP-PR- prefixes identify individual video records (e.g. dow-uap-pr38 for the 2013 eight-pointed-star clip; PR47 for the 2023 INDOPACOM IR formation near Japan).
Related pages
- department-of-war · src-pursue-portal-launch-2026-05
- src-dow-uap-files-release-2026-05 · src-uap-files-rollout-interagency-2026-05
- src-gizmodo-find-ufos-pentagon-videos-2026-05
- src-pentagon-second-batch-ufo-release-2026-05 · src-newsweek-pursue-release-02-2026-05 · src-debrief-pursue-next-batch-preview-2026-05 · src-dow-pursue-release-02-2026-05
- dow-uap-pr38 · dow-uap-pr47
- enigma-labs
- rolling-release-cadence