What the U.S. government has on UFOs

For most of the twentieth century, the federal government's public position on Unidentified Flying Objects ranged from polite dismissal to active discouragement of inquiry. That stance has cracked. The Department of War now operates a public reading room of unresolved UAP cases. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence files an annual report to Congress. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has stood up a UAP working group. Records that took decades of Freedom of Information Act work to surface are now being posted, with editorial summaries, on a .gov domain.

We track three primary federal corpora here: the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book (1947 to 1969), the new Department of War PURSUE release (May 2026 onward), and the cross-agency files that surface piecemeal from the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and NASA archives. Every record is a public-domain federal work; we host metadata and editorial context, and link out to the originating agency for the source files.