Volume I · No. 1 · 2026-05-09
Every released PURSUE file in one place, structured and searchable. A short digest of what actually changed. A path in for the people who got curious yesterday.
49 cases structured here, including 25 of the 162 PURSUE Release 1 files.
Last synced with war.gov/UFO: 2026-05-08
DIA Defense Information Report documenting the Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 intercept of an unidentified luminous object over Tehran, including reported electronic system anomalies.
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The Department of War launched war.gov/UFO and released 162 files in the first tranche of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The release includes 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 images sourced from FBI, DoD, NASA, and State Department archives. Apollo-era audio and stills, an IR video from Greece (CENTCOM, 2023), an Indo-Pacific still photo from Japan (2024), and historical FBI flying-disc files are among the standout items. Officials emphasize the cases are 'unresolved' and the public should 'make up their own minds.' Additional tranches are expected on a rolling basis.
Astronaut Jack Schmitt's flash sighting near Grimaldi crater plus a separate photo showing three dots in triangular formation in the lunar sky.
2:57 IR video of a white object near the ocean surface making multiple 90-degree turns at approximately 80 mph, captured aboard a US military platform.
Multi-day series of radar contacts and visual encounters by F/A-18F crews from Strike Fighter Squadron 41 with a small white object resembling a Tic Tac, observed near the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group during pre-deployment exercises.
Mass-witness sighting of a series of lights, and a separately reported large V-shaped craft, observed across Arizona during a roughly three-hour window on the evening of March 13, 1997.
Navy night-vision video from the USS Omaha and adjacent vessels captured multiple pyramid-shaped objects circling the ships off San Diego. The footage was leaked publicly in 2021 and subsequently authenticated by the Department of Defense.
Each new section goes live only when there is enough seeded material to be useful. No empty rooms.
Most writing about UAP defaults to one of two registers: certain it's aliens, or certain it isn't. This archive does neither. It catalogs the primary record honestly, names the prevailing scientific explanation when one exists, and treats the still-open cases as genuinely open.
On May 8, 2026 the Pentagon began rolling out hundreds of declassified UAP files through PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. New tranches are expected on a regular schedule going forward.
Social Media for Aliens is the editorial layer for that record. Each released file is given a permanent, citable home with structured metadata, plain-English context, and full source links back to the originating agency.
Most cases turn out to have ordinary explanations. A few are genuine open questions. Both are wondrous in their own way, and the question itself, still open, is the most interesting thing of all. If something here turns out to be real, our default is welcome, not alarm.