war.gov/ufo Portal Architecture: The Pentagon’s Public-Facing UAP Disclosure Platform
The Pentagon’s war.gov/ufo portal is a centralized, browser-accessible disclosure platform that hosts the PURSUE document tranches under a Department of War subdomain, supersedes the older AARO public page on defense.gov, and went live on May 8 2026 with an initial release of roughly 160 files, more than 100 of them carrying redactions [1][2]. Published: 2026-05-18. […]
‘Data Alone Is Not Disclosure’: How the UAP Research Community Read the May 14 PURSUE Tranche
On May 14, 2026, six days after the Department of War posted its first 162 PURSUE records at war.gov/UFO, DefenseScoop published a community-reaction roundup that crystallized a single phrase the UAP research community had begun repeating in podcasts, Substacks, and X threads since the drop: data alone is not disclosure [1]. The line is a […]
AATIP, AAWSAP, AARO: How Pentagon UAP Investigation Programs Evolved 2007-2026
Three Pentagon programs, not one, sit behind the modern UAP record. AAWSAP, AATIP, and AARO ran on different mandates, different budgets, and different parents — Defense Intelligence Agency, then Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, then Office of the Secretary of Defense. The lineage matters because each program was authorized to investigate […]
PURSUE Release 01: Inside the Pentagon’s First Mass UAP Declassification
By Marcus Halloway · Published May 13, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 13, 2026. On May 8, 2026, the Department of War opened a public archive at war.gov/UFO and posted 162 records under a program it now calls PURSUE: the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The drop included […]