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PURSUE incident files
Every incident in the war.gov PURSUE releases, one record each, from the official file descriptions.
Case files (131)
- 2026An Army sensor tracks two infrared contrasts (North America, 2026)
- 2025A two-second, barely visible infrared contrast over Djibouti (2025)
- 2025CENTCOM EO/IR clip: contrast moving left to right (Middle East, 2025)
- 2025CENTCOM infrared clip: three-second crossing (Middle East, 2025)
- 2025Middle East, 29 July 2025: AFSOC crew reports six small spheres changing direction "simultaneously"
- 2025Middle East, 29 October 2025: ISR crew tracks a "white round orbit" at up to 500 mph
- 2025Two brief "possible UAP" sightings by a U.S. aircraft in INDOPACOM (10-11 April 2025)
- 2025Two round, white-hot UAPs heading south at about 240 knots (war.gov "Djibouti, 2025")
- 2024A "football-shaped" object with three radial projections over the East China Sea (2024)
- 2024A "spherical UAP pulsing over water", held centre-frame (date not given)
- 2024A Coast Guard C-144 records "tic tac", IR-hot objects near Tyndall AFB (24 April 2024)
- 2024A diamond-shaped UAP with a "probe", seen only in short-wave infrared, at about 434 knots (25 January 2024)
- 2024A glowing hot sphere with a vertical "pole" skims the Gulf of Oman at 140 knots (7 June 2024)
- 2024A hot object "flies" through the sensors during a Griffin missile shot near Ayn al-Asad (20 September 2024)
- 2024A low UAP outpaces the ISR aircraft following it over the Gulf of Aden (14 July 2024)
- 2024A U.S. aircraft keeps "eyes on" an oval or orb-shaped possible UAP for over two hours (31 October 2024)
- 2024An 8-minute, digitally altered clip of four contrasts titled "UAP USO Formation" (date not given)
- 2024An INDOPACOM UAP clip reissued at 8x speed, stabilised and enhanced (date not given)
- 2024An infrared contrast tracked for 1 min 39 s (INDOPACOM, 2024)
- 2024Glare and a "misshapen ball of white light" cross an ISR camera over Syria (20 October 2024)
- 2023"Several bright objects" above FL600 seen by a 77 EFS flight (31 March 2023)
- 2023A "bouncy ball"-shaped UAP keeps pace at about 424 knots for seven minutes (9 November 2023)
- 2023A civilian reports a large blue triangle hovering near a national security facility (March 2023)
- 2023A fifth-generation fighter films two infrared contrasts (20 January 2023)
- 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: 30-second track, partly occluded by the platform (Middle East, 2023)
- 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: 51-second track (Middle East, 2023)
- 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: two bright contrasts and a reticle-tracked dark one (Middle East, 2023)
- 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: two contrasts cross in one second (Middle East, 2023)
- 2023Colorado Springs: black triangle with red corner lights emerging from a "pixelated" cloud (October 2023)
- 2023Colorado Springs: low, silent, "almost see-through" triangle over a back porch (October 2023)
- 2023Eglin AFB aircrew film a UAP (13 February 2023)
- 2023F-15E pair sees three possible UAP and a possible balloon near Shaddadi, Syria (21 February 2023)
- 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 19-second track (Yellow Sea, 2023)
- 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 49-second track (Yellow Sea, 2023)
- 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 59-second track (East China Sea, 2023)
- 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 98-second track (Yellow Sea, 2023)
- 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: contrast tracked until platform occludes sensor (Yellow Sea, 2023)
- 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: magnified track (Yellow Sea, 2023)
- 2023Three infrared contrasts held in a fixed formation for two minutes near Japan (2023)
- 2023Three people driving to a U.S. test site see a bright light and a silent bronze or metallic object vanish (September 2023)
- 2023Two UAP, one "thermal showed cold", logged by an ISR aircraft from Al Dhafra (24 October 2023)
- 2022"Possible UAP/UAV" near Baghdad, not followed (1 December 2022)
- 2022"Spherical UAP erratic movement": a EUCOM clip whose apparent performance AARO says was distorted by digital alteration (August 2022)
- 2022A "possible small UAP" off the Syrian coast on a night of Russian air activity (30 May 2022)
- 2022A 21-second, slowed-down, altered clip of a "cigar shaped or fast spherical" UAP (15 October 2022)
- 2022A 29-second F/A-18 FLIR clip with a brief reticle lock (2022)
- 2022A phone video of a luminous phenomenon near Karaganda airport, Kazakhstan (March 2022)
- 2022A UAP event lasting under a minute over Syria (31 July 2022)
- 2022Five UAP cross an ISR feed over Iraq; one like a missile, four like birds (6 May 2022)
- 2022Four areas of contrast cross an infrared view over water: "4 UAP Formation Iran" (26 August 2022)
- 2022Four small contrasts among several tracked targets (13 June 2022)
- 2022Iraq, 5 May 2022: two ISR sorties report 1-2 m "UAPs" at 80-180 mph
- 2022Screener "could not get a positive ID": a UAP over Iraq, 20 May 2022
- 2022Several UAP encountered near Columbus, Ohio (November 2022)
- 2021A contrast tracked for 17 seconds over the East China Sea (9 June 2021)
- 2021A contrast tracked near the top of the frame for a minute (3 January 2021)
- 2021Four clips of a "spherical UAP" from one platform on 12 April 2021
- 2020"3 fast moving UAPs": two contrasts share the frame for 15 seconds (29 October 2020)
- 2020"Dual UAP" over the Gulf of Arabia: one contrast resolves into several (5 May 2020)
- 2020"Looks like a balloon": a weapons-quality track on a UAP at 31,000 ft (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020"NAG UAP": a contrast tracked, lost and reacquired over the North Arabian Gulf (1 June 2020)
- 2020"U/I small thermal signature": an operator-annotated infrared track (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
- 2020A "formation of unknown flying objects" tracked along the coast for two minutes (27 August 2020)
- 2020A "spherical UAP" moving in and out of clouds over Afghanistan, replayed enhanced (23 November 2020)
- 2020A 40-knot UAP and a pair at 278 knots in one mission report (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020A contrast crosses and is tracked (8 August 2020)
- 2020A contrast drops through the frame over the Persian Gulf and fades into the grain (21 August 2020)
- 2020A contrast that fades in and out and survives two sensor-mode switches (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
- 2020A contrast that fades in infrared and reappears in electro-optical (13 February 2020)
- 2020A contrast that grows as the aircraft closes in (2020; "Middle East" in the title, "Southern United States" in the listing)
- 2020A contrast that leaves and re-enters the frame several times (24 August 2020)
- 2020A contrast tracked for three minutes until it fades; then a second appears (7 October 2020)
- 2020A faint contrast clips the corner of an infrared frame (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
- 2020A five-minute infrared track with reticle cycling, then loss of track (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
- 2020A five-second diagonal crossing in AFRICOM (18 October 2020)
- 2020A full-motion video of a UAP zoomed and tracked (16 September 2020)
- 2020A Navy helicopter crew sees three unknown small air contacts with no radar, IFF or ES returns (24 August 2020)
- 2020A one-second crossing in AFRICOM (16 October 2020)
- 2020A possible UAP speeds up and turns east at 321 knots (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020A round, cold object tracked in infrared making abrupt turns over the Gulf of Aden (4 September 2020)
- 2020A two-second crossing on full-motion video (17 September 2020)
- 2020A UAP near the Strait of Hormuz whose observation line is missing from the release (2 October 2020)
- 2020An infrared track held centre-frame for a minute and a half (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
- 2020An ISR crew records one UAP "transitting" over the Persian Gulf (8 August 2020)
- 2020An object crosses the frame bottom to top three times (5 September 2020)
- 2020Eight separate crossings of the sensor view in five minutes (20 October 2020)
- 2020Four UAP pass beneath an ISR aircraft (MISREP 8799515, war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020Nine seconds of infrared: a contrast crosses the frame in two seconds (Arabian Gulf, 2020)
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: auto-tracked contrast grows in angular size (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: auto-tracked contrast leaves frame left (Western U.S., 2020)
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: contrast repeatedly leaving and re-entering frame (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: several small contrasts, one auto-tracked (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020One "probable UAP", no mission impact (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")
- 2020One UAP on full-motion video off Bushehr, Iran, on a mission with two lost-link events (16 September 2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: a round, cold object with abrupt turns off Mirbat, Oman (15 October 2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: a solid white object makes "erratic moments" over the northern Gulf (14 May 2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: maroon "deformed balloon" off the Atlantic coast (2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: one object overtaken by another, then three on screen (31 August 2020)
- 2020Range Fouler: small reflective object, sensor-tracked (Eastern U.S., 2020)
- 2020Three separate UAP observations on one ISR mission over the Persian Gulf (16 July 2020)
- 2020Two parts of an infrared recording of several contrasts (31 August 2020)
- 2020Two range foulers circle each other, vanish "in 1/30th of a second", with strobes and noise jamming (27 October 2020)
- 2019"UFOs in formation over Persian Gulf?": a 17-minute infrared recording (uploaded October 2019)
- 2019A brief infrared track from the U.S. East Coast (December 2019)
- 2019Grouped contrasts recorded twice on one day (25 September 2019, 1715Z and 2135Z)
- 2019Navy handheld recordings of infrared screens and lights over the Pacific (2019)
- 2019Range Fouler: small high-speed object, "rectangular" on review (Eastern U.S., 2019)
- 2019USAF infrared clip: flickering contrast (Gulf of America, 2019)
- 2018One contrast resolves into three in a line, and one pulls away (3 July 2018)
- 2017A one-second crossing in a 17-second AFSOC clip from Kabul (July 2017)
- 2016A P-8A sees an unidentified low-flying object, possibly a sea-skimming missile, off Latakia (18 November 2016)
- 2016NORTHCOM infrared clip: reticle track, then a second contrast (Atlantic Ocean, 2016)
- 2015UAPTF-transferred infrared clip, digitally altered before reporting (Eastern U.S., 2015)
- 2013An eight-pointed star with a trail on infrared (Middle East, 2013)
- 2011Massive low black triangle with three white corner lights, seen from a driveway (June or July 2011)
- 2008A disc with a hollow centre and "beams" hovers over Harare airport, and Zimbabwe goes on high alert (2 July 2008)
- 1996UAPTF-transferred infrared clip, three-second crossing (Western U.S., 1996)
- 1972Apollo 17 crew medical debriefing: light flashes in lunar orbit and on the surface (1972)
- 1971Apollo 14 crew debriefing: the "light flash phenomena" (1971)
- 1966Gemini 9 science debrief: a whitish-green meteor, sunrise "luminous particles", and no sparkles from the ATDA (June 1966)
- 1965Gemini 5 debrief: "snow" and glittering debris, and one sighting Cooper "never could identify" (August 1965)
- 1958A young Detroit man phones the FBI about a circular object with a crystal-type dome (17 April 1958)
- 1955KC-97 crew and GCI radar: unidentified object near Newfoundland (6 July 1955)
- 1955RB-47 crews: unidentified aircraft over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1-8 June 1955)
- 1954Ground and airborne radar track an unknown off Neah Bay, and an F-86D radar shows it splitting in two (22 June 1954)
- 1952CIA hears of a "perfect flying saucer" seen by senior RAF officers at a demonstration in Yorkshire (memo of 18 December 1952)
- 1948A pastor writes to Hoover about four beams converging on the Cascades and a 10,000-ft "explosion" (May 1948)
- 1948B-29 crews of the 307th Bomb Group report a fast-climbing unidentified jet off Holland (5 September 1948)
- 1947Two "flying saucer" photographs from Oak Ridge sent to the FBI (July 1947)
- 1944A former Polish prisoner of war tells the FBI of a vertical-rising craft that stalled his tractor in Germany (1944; interviewed 1957)
- —A triangular, metallic UAP over the Aegean during return to base (date withheld)
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