On 8 May 2026, the United States Department of Defense began an ongoing declassification of previously classified documents concerning Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The program is named the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — abbreviated PURSUE — and was initiated on the direct order of President Donald Trump, who had publicly announced the declassification effort in February 2026.
The material is being published on a dedicated archive maintained by the Department of Defense at war.gov/UFO. This page follows the releases tranche by tranche and links to AI Disclosure Day's documentation of the individual records.
Release 01 — 8 May 2026
The first PURSUE tranche comprises 162 documents covering the period from 1942 to 2025. The material includes audio recordings, photographs, transcripts, and eyewitness statements from NASA, the FBI, and the Department of Defense. Several files are partially or fully redacted.
Among the most substantive items in Release 01 are original audio from the Gemini VII mission (December 1965), in which astronaut Frank Borman reports an unidentified object distinct from the Titan II booster and a separate field of particles, and a previously SECRET//NOFORN statement describing a multi-hour UAP incident in 2025 with two senior US intelligence officials as named witnesses.
AI Disclosure Day's coverage of Release 01:
- Pentagon Releases 162 Classified UAP Files Including 1965 Gemini VII Audio
- Declassified USPER Statement Describes Multi-Hour Orb Pursuit (2025)
Additional primary documents from Release 01 have been integrated into existing documentation. Military mission reports from US Central Command (USCENTCOM MDR 26-0019) are covered in Radar-Confirmed UAP Incidents.
Future releases
The Department of Defense has indicated that PURSUE is a continuous program rather than a single declassification event. Subsequent tranches are expected to be added to the war.gov/UFO repository over the coming months. This page will be updated when new releases occur. AI Disclosure Day does not publish forecasts or expectations regarding the contents of future tranches.
How AI Disclosure Day reads PURSUE
AI Disclosure Day documents PURSUE records only when the primary source file is available at the Department of Defense repository and can be cited directly. We do not combine separate documents into a unified narrative. Each record is treated on its own terms — including those instances where the witnesses themselves offer conventional explanations, as Borman and Lovell did in maintaining throughout their lives that they had observed orbital debris.
The full archive is available at war.gov/UFO.