A primary-source archive
The federal record
on the strange.
govweird catalogs every declassified U.S. government file we can find on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, cryptids, mind-control programs, missing persons on federal land, and the rest of the strange and unexplained. Drawn from the National Archives, the Department of War, the FBI Vault, the CIA reading room, the National Park Service, and other primary sources. Cataloged, cross-referenced, and editorially layered. Never paraphrased away from the source.
- Records cataloged
- 10,726
- Editorial summaries
- 70
- Earliest record
- 1947
Released imagery · PURSUE 01
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Featured · Breaking
Just released · May 8, 2026
PURSUE: The Pentagon's rolling UAP file release
On May 8, 2026 the U.S. Department of War launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters with 160 declassified files spanning the FBI, NASA, the Department of War itself, and the State Department. Records range from a 1947 FBI investigative file to a 2024 mission report from a tactical unit in the Persian Gulf. Govweird has cataloged every file in Release 01, with editorial summaries on 70 of them.
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What the records are about
UFOs and UAP
160 recordsProject Blue Book, the Department of War PURSUE release, FBI UFO files, NASA transcripts. The federal record on what was in the sky.
Missing in national parks
QueuedCold cases on federal land. NPS investigations, search-and-rescue records, FOIA-released incident reports.
Bigfoot and cryptids
QueuedFBI Vault Bigfoot file, USDA APHIS livestock-attack records, USFS incident logs, BIA tribal-lore designations.
Mothman
QueuedThe 1966-67 Point Pleasant sightings and the Silver Bridge collapse, drawn from the contemporaneous federal record.
Mind control and psi
QueuedMKULTRA, MKDELTA, Stargate remote viewing, SRI contracts. The CIA experiments and what they produced.
Haunted federal property
QueuedNPS reports of unexplained activity at NRHP sites: lighthouses, forts, battlefields, federal buildings.
Conspiracies and admissions
QueuedFamily Jewels, COINTELPRO, CHAOS, MOCKINGBIRD. Documented federal misconduct, by name and by file number.
Assassination plots
QueuedCastro, Lumumba, Trujillo. Plots authored, contracted, or considered by U.S. agencies and admitted in writing.
JFK records
QueuedWarren Commission volumes, HSCA, the rolling NARA Kennedy assassination releases.
Operation Paperclip
QueuedThe recruitment of Nazi-regime scientists into U.S. military programs from 1945 onward, drawn from declassified war and intelligence records.
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Where the records came from
Coverage will expand as we ingest CIA reading room, FBI Vault, NSA, and other agency corpora.
Primary-source only
Every record on this site is a public-domain federal work, sourced from the originating agency or the National Archives. We host metadata and editorial context. We link out to the originating agency for the source files.
Editorial summaries
Where we can text-extract or OCR the underlying document, we generate a journalistic summary in addition to the official government caption. Both appear on the file page; neither replaces the other.
Updated weekly
The Department of War has stated PURSUE will release new tranches on a rolling basis. We re-poll war.gov regularly and ingest new records within 48 to 72 hours.