war.gov files
Cases from the war.gov/ufo (PURSUE) releases.
Case files (32)
- 2026Red lights and slow movers
- 2026war.gov/ufo: the files come out
- 2025Orbs around a helicopter
- 2024Spheres over the Yellow and East China Seas
- 2024The FBI's northeastern orbs
- 2023An F-16 shoots down a UAP
- 2023Colorado officers film silent lights
- 2023Federal agents' two-day encounter
- 2023Ninety-degree turns over the Aegean
- 2022Cheyenne Mountain "Potato" Object
- 2022Spheres in and out of the water near a submarine
- 2021'Syrian UAP instant acceleration'
- 2021Cold orbs versus an AC-130
- 2020Tracking UAP over Iran
- 2015Pantex Plant: an unidentified object over the U.S. nuclear weapons assembly site
- 2013The CIA admits Area 51 exists
- 2002Bagram Airborne Triangle (FBI PURSUE file)
- 1996STS-80's unidentified object
- 1994Corkscrews at 41,000 feet
- 1985Papua New Guinea's night of lights
- 1973Skylab's red object
- 1968UFOs over the Himalayas
- 1967The Soviet side of the story
- 1964A 4,400 mph contact near Puerto Rico
- 1962The Mercury astronauts' 'fireflies'
- 1956Objects over Budapest
- 1955Senator Russell's flying saucers
- 1952The Tremonton film
- 1950The Great Falls film
- 1949Green fireballs over the atomic labs
- 1948Air Force Study 203: 'some object has been seen'
- 1946Ghost rockets over Sweden
Articles (4)
From an HHS meeting to war.gov
Robert Bigelow, whose company ran AAWSAP, met RFK Jr. in December 2025 and handed Trump seven reports in February 2026. Thirteen days later came the directive that led to war.gov/ufo. See the sequence. Kennedy's recovery-team story is secondhand, from unnamed veterans. The sequence continues with…
Calling the craft: Swann to Skywatcher
The government's own psychic work runs from Swann at SRI through Stargate to the psionic teams Jake Barber describes, which 'invite' craft to land before recovery. Skywatcher tried to do the same in the open, with Garry Nolan present in August 2024, and its base sat under the El Paso airspace…
What the PURSUE files add
war.gov/ufo turned rumors into file numbers. The military clips are the bulk: infrared tracks from CENTCOM, INDOPACOM and NORTHCOM, several with nothing to name the object. The written reports are sharper. An AFSOC crew logged six small spheres "able to change directions quickly and…
Other governments kept files too
The US is not the only state that chased these objects with jets. Belgium scrambled F-16s during the triangle wave and got radar locks on targets that out-accelerated them. Spain sent a Mirage after the lights that diverted flight JK-297 into Manises. In England the RAF vectored Venom night…