161 files. 32 videos. 5 agencies. All labeled “unresolved.”
Here's what the U.S. Government just admitted it can't explain.
118 PDFs (54 text-bearing, 64 scanned/OCR-required) plus 32 MP4 videos and 14 images including FBI sensor frames and a 2024 composite sketch.
FBI (57 files), DOW/AARO (72 files including 32 videos), NASA (13 files), NARA (13 files), Department of State (5 embassy cables).
From 1944 WWII-era Foo Fighter reports to 2026 Army infrared video. Eight decades of documentation. All officially unresolved.
PURSUE Release 01 focuses exclusively on cases the U.S. Government has no explanation for. Not weather balloons. Not drones. Not classified U.S. programs. These are cases that passed through multiple agencies, were reviewed by trained analysts, and remain officially unexplained. The government is showing you what it can't figure out.
The FBI's primary UAP case file. Investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports documenting flying discs and unidentified objects across six decades. Sections 1-10 released, with additional serials covering major incidents including Oak Ridge, TN.
View Source ↗An artist rendering based on multiple 2024 witness sightings, compiled by FBI. This is the first composite sketch of a UAP-related encounter released publicly by the Bureau. The file also includes raw sensor photographs from FBI assets - actual stills showing structured objects.
View Source ↗An FBI Form 302 interview with a senior U.S. intelligence official who recounts a first-hand UAP encounter at a U.S. military facility. The official and other federal and state personnel "conducted searches to where orbs had been previously seen." Redacted but released.
Read Document ↗All 34 videos are labeled "Unresolved UAP Reports" submitted through CENTCOM, AFRICOM, INDOPACOM, and Department of Army channels to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Geographic coverage: Middle East (10 recordings), Europe (5), Africa (3), UAE (3), Greece (3), INDOPACOM (4), Iraq (2), Syria (4), Dept of Army (1). Date range: 2013–2026. All formats MP4. None of them have been explained.
🎥 Watch all 34 videos in the full Video Archive → — organized by region with a full-screen modal player for every recording.
Longest video in PURSUE Release 01 — five minutes fifty seconds, infrared, no explanation.
DVIDS ↗4:53. CENTCOM 2020 cluster — purposeful, directed movement. Most analyzed in the tranche.
DVIDS ↗5:12 from the 2020 CENTCOM cluster. Not one of ours. Not one of theirs.
DVIDS ↗2:57 over Greek airspace. Mediterranean corridor. Part of the active late-2023 cluster.
DVIDS ↗Most recently recorded in the release. North America, 2026. Highest-resolution in the tranche.
DVIDS ↗
Among the most dramatic in the release. A single object undergoes apparent separation into three smaller objects, each tracked independently by military sensors. Multiple sensor lock-ons recorded. Analysts rated this among the highest in "unexplained behavior" criteria across the tranche.
View on DVIDS ↗Object tracked via infrared sensor showing a clear thermal signature but no discernible airframe structure. "Small and circular, flying near the surface of the ocean toward land" per the accompanying mission report. 24 seconds of footage.
📄 Mission Report ↗January 2024 mission report describes a diamond-shaped UAP with "a non-maneuvering probe at the bottom," estimated speed approximately 434 knots (499 mph). No known conventional aircraft matches this description or behavior profile.
📄 Mission Report ↗United States Africa Command submission. Two "white hot UAPs" reported at approximately 240 knots in a 2025 encounter over the Mediterranean near Djibouti. Brief, unexplained, officially filed.
🎥 Source: war.gov/UFO ↗The most recent video in the release. Submitted by the Department of the Army. Location: North America. 1 minute 49 seconds of infrared footage. Analysts identified this as among the highest-resolution captures in the entire tranche.
View on DVIDS ↗A mission report describes observing a "triangular and metallic UAP" over the Mediterranean Sea. No date listed. The triangular shape is one of the most recurring descriptors across both historical and modern UAP reports in the PURSUE release.
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Astronaut Frank Borman reports a "bogey" and debris field to Houston during Gemini 7. The communication transcript and audio excerpt are both included in PURSUE Release 01. Borman would go on to command Apollo 8. He was not confused about what he saw.
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NASA-UAP-VM6. Three dots in triangular formation photographed during the final Apollo mission. Previously released and publicly discussed - now formally assigned a DOW case number. The photograph has been available for decades. Someone finally asked what's in it.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's post-mission technical crew debriefing documents an object observed en route to the Moon, light flashes inside the cabin, and a bright light on the return trip. All three are now formally documented in PURSUE as unresolved observations.
View Document ↗Port Moresby → USCINCPAC Honolulu. Papua New Guinea's intelligence services formally inquire about unidentified aircraft in their airspace. The U.S. Embassy filed it through official channels.
Read Cable ↗Dushanbe → Secretary of State. A Tajik pilot and three Americans on a commercial flight encounter "a bright light of enormous intensity" at altitude over Kazakhstan. A State Department cable. Standard diplomatic traffic.
Read Cable ↗A cable from Ashgabat notes with bemusement that the UFOlogists of Turkmenistan have earned a positive reputation as a reliable U.S. partner in civil society development. Because, apparently, everyone in Turkmenistan "is interested in UFOs."
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FY2024 Annual Report. Historical Record Vol. 1. New DVIDS video releases.
Same office. Very different tone. Now they have answers — and the answers are all "balloon."
The FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report covers 757+ UAP cases reviewed across all domains. Submitted by military, intelligence community, and other U.S. government personnel.
FY24 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP — November 14, 2024. The most current official accounting of AARO's caseload and findings. Resolution categories now included.
AARO's consistent position across all FY24 outputs: no credible evidence of extraterrestrial origin, reverse-engineering programs, or non-human technology. Consistent with Vol. 1 Historical Record Report.
PURSUE Release 01 (May 8, 2026) gave you 161 files — all labeled unresolved. No explanations. No resolutions. Just: here is the footage, figure it out.
The Second Wave takes a very different approach. The FY24 annual report, the Historical Record, and the new DVIDS video releases are categorizing cases, resolving objects as balloons, birds, and sensor artifacts, and maintaining a consistent position: no extraterrestrial evidence. Same agency. Same office. Different tone.
The interesting question is not whether the explanations are right. The interesting question is: why are they explaining now?
AARO's most recent annual report. 757+ cases reviewed. Resolution categories: resolved, unresolved, insufficient data. Consistent "no ET evidence" finding. Released November 14, 2024 on defense.gov.
Download PDF →March 2024. Covers historical UAP cases back to the 1940s. Reviewed crash retrieval claims, reverse-engineering allegations, non-human biology claims. Conclusion: no evidence supporting any of it. Volume 2 remains unreleased as of May 2026.
Download PDF →New AARO Director Dr. Jon Kosloski's November 19, 2024 testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. First major public statement from the new director. Emphasis on data collection rigor and transparency.
Read Statement →Presentation slides used during the open Senate Armed Services hearing. Includes case examples shown to senators. First public visual walkthrough of how AARO categorizes and resolves submitted UAP reports.
Download Slides →Unlike Release 01 (which was exclusively unresolved), the Second Wave DVIDS releases include both resolved and unresolved cases. Some are confidently attributed to balloons, birds, or sensor artifacts. Others remain unexplained. The resolved cases are new. The mix is new. The framing is new.
All videos hosted on DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) — the official U.S. Department of Defense media platform. These are primary source releases. Browse all AARO DVIDS releases →
Official DVIDS release. Resolved with high confidence as a balloon. One of the first cases in the PR-numbered series to receive a definitive prosaic explanation from AARO.
Watch on DVIDS →Resolved as birds. Military sensor footage of birds in flight, flagged by automated anomaly detection and submitted as a UAP report. AARO reviewed and closed. This is one of the cases you are not supposed to find funny.
Watch on DVIDS →A Middle East theater UAP case from 2024, resolved. The footage shows an object identified as a red balloon. Case closed. Full video on DVIDS. Yes, it is a red balloon.
Watch on DVIDS →2017 incident, resolved with accompanying case resolution PDF. Determined to be balloons. AARO released both the original footage and the written case resolution report. The Mt. Etna 2018 object (Italy) similarly received a DVIDS release.
Watch on DVIDS → · Resolution PDF →Most recent European theater unresolved report. Filed through standard channels, reviewed by AARO, classified unresolved. No explanation. Released on DVIDS alongside the balloon cases.
Watch on DVIDS →Second 2024 Europe unresolved case from the same DVIDS batch. Submitted, reviewed, unresolved. Filed next to PR-016 (birds) and PR-018 on the same DVIDS channel. The contrast is instructive.
Watch on DVIDS →A 2024 Middle East theater UAP case that AARO reviewed and could not resolve. Filed on the same DVIDS channel as the red balloon. One case resolved, one not. Same theater, same year.
Watch on DVIDS →Five unresolved reports from the European theater spanning 2021-2022. PR-011 is listed as "undergoing analysis" as of release. PR-012 through PR-015 are formally unresolved. All available individually on DVIDS.
View All on AARO.mil →The AARO Historical Record Report Volume 1 (March 2024) covered historical cases and pre-2024 allegations. Volume 2 was expected to follow. As of May 2026, it has not been released.
The UAP research community has noted this absence. Volume 1 covered 1940s through recent years. Volume 2 was expected to address specific whistleblower claims in more detail, including crash retrieval allegations. The silence is its own kind of signal.
"In May they gave you 35 unresolved videos. Six months later they gave you annual reports explaining things as balloons. They still haven't delivered Volume 2. What's in Volume 2?" — Eshkari