Continuous coverage of every PURSUE release, every press briefing, and every credible analysis — without the hype cycle.
On May 8, 2026, the Department of War published the first PURSUE tranche at war.gov/ufo: 162 declassified files comprising 14 photographs, 28 videos, and 120 documents. Here is what is in it, what is missing, and what to read first.
From a February 2026 Truth Social post to the war.gov/ufo launch on May 8: a step-by-step reconstruction of how the President's UFO disclosure order moved through the federal bureaucracy in under 100 days.
"Looks like the Fourth of July" — Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan, December 1972. The transcript and accompanying Apollo 12 photographs are the most-shared items from PURSUE Release 01. Here is what they actually contain — and what they do not.
Release 01 contains 162 files: 14 photographs, 28 videos, 120 documents. Here is the full breakdown by agency, era, and what to expect from each category.
Two days before PURSUE Release 01, Neil deGrasse Tyson predicted in The New York Times that the UFO files would be "anticlimactic." We compare his prediction to the actual contents.
Released on Amazon Prime in late 2025, *The Age of Disclosure* alleged an 80-year cover-up of non-human intelligence. PURSUE Release 01 followed five months later. Here is how the documentary's claims hold up against the actual files.
