PURSUE Program

PURSUE — the Program for UAP Research and Systematic Understanding of Evidence — is the mechanism the U.S. Department of Defense uses to release declassified records on unidentified anomalous phenomena to the public. The releases are mandated under Section 1841 of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which directed the Pentagon to publish historical UAP documentation on a rolling basis. The primary documents are hosted by the DoD at war.gov; Now Declassified is an independent index that downloads each release, reads every file, and organizes the material so it can be searched, compared, and cited. We are not affiliated with the Department of Defense or any government agency.

Each release is a mixed bag of formats rather than a single report. Across the onboarded releases you will find mission debriefs and range-fouler reports, FLIR and cockpit infrared footage, congressional hearing videos, State Department cables, FBI photographs, and NASA mission transcripts. Some files are a single page; others run to dozens. Because the source scans vary widely in quality and redaction level, every entry on this site links back to the original government document so readers can verify the primary record for themselves rather than relying on our summary alone.

To make a large, uneven archive navigable, we assign each file a tier from 1 to 3reflecting its evidential weight. Tier 1 marks the strongest cases — multiple independent witnesses, corroborating sensor data such as radar, FLIR or electronic countermeasure logs, and behavior matching one or more of the “Five Observables” (anti-gravity lift, sudden acceleration, hypersonic velocity, low observability, and transmedium travel). Tier 2 covers notable single-sensor or single-witness accounts, and Tier 3 holds administrative or contextual records that add supporting detail. The tiering is our editorial judgment, clearly labeled as such, and is not a government classification.