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PURSUE Release 1

What is in the May 8, 2026 UAP Release

Published May 8, 2026 by the U.S. Department of War

The U.S. Department of War released 159 UAP records on May 8, 2026 under the PURSUE declassification effort: 116 documents, 28 videos, 14 images, 1 audio file.

Records in this batch come from 4 agencies: Department of State, Department of War, FBI, NASA.

PURSUE is the Department of War's public release program for records on unidentified anomalous phenomena. Every file below links to the government's own copy, at war.gov or on DVIDS, and the text on this site is extracted from those files, not rewritten.

Processing
25 documents in this batch are still being processed for full text. They are listed below and link to the official file in the meantime.

Agency breakdown

  • Department of State7 files
  • Department of War79 files
  • FBI57 files
  • NASA16 files

Documents (116)

Videos (28)

Images (14)

Audio (1)

Frequently Asked Questions

What is in the May 8, 2026 UAP release?

The May 8, 2026 PURSUE batch contains 159 files: 116 documents and 43 video, image and audio files. The full text of 91 documents is searchable on this page.

Which agencies released files on May 8, 2026?

This batch includes records from 4 agencies: Department of State, Department of War, FBI, NASA. Every file below names the agency that produced it.

Where can I download the May 8, 2026 UAP files?

All 159 files in this batch are published by the U.S. government: 142 at war.gov and 17 on DVIDS, the Defense Department public media service. Each entry below links straight to the official copy, and UAP Ledger does not re-host the files. The CSV manifest on this page lists every file in the batch with its official source URL, so you can fetch the originals from the source.

Text extraction via abigailhaddad/ufo-releases. Files are published by the U.S. government at war.gov and on DVIDS, the Defense Department public media service. UAP Ledger links to the official copy and does not re-host the files.