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]. What war.gov/ufo […]
‘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
Several Pentagon efforts, not one, sit behind the modern UAP record. AAWSAP (often called AATIP), the UAP Task Force, and AARO ran on different mandates, different budgets, and different parents: a Defense Intelligence Agency contract, then a Navy-led task force, then an office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The lineage matters because […]
PURSUE Release 01: Inside the Pentagon’s First Mass UAP Declassification
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 120 PDFs, 28 sensor videos, and 14 image files, drawn from the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, […]