WHAT IS PURSUE?

THE PROGRAM

PURSUE gathers the government's scattered UAP holdings — files that previously surfaced only through piecemeal FOIA requests, agency reading rooms, and one-off declassifications — and publishes them as a single, public record at war.gov. The material is released in tranches and framed neutrally: it carries the assessments of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Pentagon office that catalogs and investigates UAP reports, rather than conclusions about what any object was. The point of the program is access, not interpretation — the raw record, in the open.

WHAT'S IN THE RECORD

The PURSUE release spans agencies and decades. The largest portion is Department of War material: infrared and electro-optical sensor footage from military platforms across CENTCOM, INDOPACOM, and EUCOM, alongside mission reports. The FBI's bureau case files — led by 62-HQ-83894 — run from 1947 into the late 1960s. NASA contributes astronaut observations from Apollo, Gemini, Mercury, and Skylab. Air Force and intelligence records cover the Cold War flying-disc era, and a thread of incidents is logged at U.S. nuclear sites including PANTEX, Los Alamos, and Sandia Base. Each file keeps its original markings, IDs, and serials.

HOW RELEASES WORK

PURSUE publishes in numbered tranches — Release 01, Release 02, and onward — each adding documents, images, audio, and sensor video to the public record. A new tranche can drop with little warning. War.gov hosts the raw files; it does not organize them for reading, so a tranche arrives as a wall of cryptically named PDFs and clips. Umbra exists to close that gap: it indexes every release by agency, type, date, and location, makes the whole archive searchable, and pushes a notification the moment a new tranche goes public.

You can read the entire PURSUE record for free in Umbra. An optional Clearance subscription adds ECHELON — a fully on-device AI analyst that reads the actual documents (OCR-ing scanned pages) and answers with quotes and page citations — plus an incident map, offline cache, real-time push, and ad-free reading.