About this archive
On May 8, 2026 the U.S. Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense) published its first tranche of unresolved Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) records under a presidential transparency directive. The release contains 161 individual artifacts — sworn mission reports, FBI memos, NASA mission imagery, range-fouler debriefs, and DVIDS sensor footage. This site mirrors that release with a clean, searchable, citation-ready interface.
Every file on this site links back to the original document on war.gov/UFO or to the U.S. military's public DVIDS archive. The PDF, image, and video bytes you click are served by the U.S. government, not by us. We add only navigation, search, and short editorial summaries.
What is a UAP?
UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — the term adopted by the U.S. government in 2022 to replace “UFO.” It covers any airborne, transmedium, or space-domain object whose identity, origin, or behavior could not be resolved by trained observers using standard sensors. A record being in this archive means it remains officially unresolved — not that it confirms anything extraterrestrial.
How to read the codenames
- DOW-UAP-D## · Department of War, individual document (mission report, range-fouler debrief, email, etc.)
- DOW-UAP-PR## · Department of War, formal unresolved UAP Prepared Report assembled for AARO.
- 62-HQ-83894 · FBI Headquarters case file on flying discs, 1947–1968.
- NASA-UAP-D# · NASA archival imagery and mission transcripts.
- DVIDS ####### · Defense Visual Information Distribution Service — official military video footage.
The five agencies in this tranche
- Department of War (DOW) — the bulk of the release: pilot debriefs, sensor logs, range-fouler incident reports, and AARO-prepared analysis packets covering U.S. and overseas military airspace from 1947 onward.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation — HQ file 62-HQ-83894, the FBI's consolidated “flying disc” correspondence from 1947 through the late 1960s.
- NASA — Apollo, Skylab, and Space Shuttle imagery flagged for unexplained optical or radar returns, plus mission transcripts referencing them.
- U.S. Department of State — diplomatic cables and embassy reporting on foreign UAP incidents.
- DVIDS — the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, which hosts the official video footage in the release.
How summaries work
Each record carries a short TL;DR, a longer briefing, and (where the source supports it) extracted findings and a representative quote. The TL;DR is an editorial paraphrase of the official descriptive blurb. The briefing reproduces the government's own language as closely as possible. We do not rewrite, embellish, or speculate. Read the full process on the methodology page.
How to cite a file
Retrieved from war.gov/UFO. Mirrored at uap-archive.lovable.app/file/[id].
Disclaimer
This is an independent reading room. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. Government, the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, the State Department, or DVIDS. Editorial summaries are written by humans with AI assistance and may contain mistakes — for anything that matters, read the original PDF. Full legal terms on the legal page.
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