About the Archive

Our mission

The official documents are published as scanned PDFs in terse, partly redacted bureaucratic English — hard to read and inaccessible to a Hebrew-speaking audience. Our goal is to make the U.S. Department of War's PURSUE releases readable, searchable, contextualized, and available in Hebrew — while always linking back to the primary source so any reader can verify the record independently.

You can browse the collection by topic and agency, by timeline, by location, or through the strongest documents.

Where the documents come from

PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters) is the declassification framework under which the U.S. Department of War publishes batches of UAP documents on the official site war.gov. The records are released in successive "releases" (Release 1, Release 2, Release 3), and every document is a public-domain U.S. government record.

This archive is not affiliated with the U.S. government, the Department of War, or any agency. It is not the source of the documents — it is a layer of transcription, translation, and context on top of them.

How we process each document

For every document we: (1) locate the source file in the official release; (2) transcribe the scanned text; (3) write a research article that summarizes, dates, and places the document in its historical and operational context; (4) translate it into Hebrew; and (5) cross-link related documents, people, and locations to surface connections that aren't visible in any single file.

Structured metadata — dates, agency, page count — is taken from the documents themselves. Where a source is ambiguous, contradictory, or garbled by OCR, we say so explicitly rather than guess.

Standards and transparency

All source documents are public-domain U.S. government records. The research write-ups and the Hebrew translation are produced with AI assistance (Claude) and reviewed before publishing. Our governing principle is verifiability against the source: every article links back to the primary document, so no claim has to be taken on trust — you can always return to the original evidence.

The archive documents; it does not claim to settle what the phenomena "are." Where a document states a conclusion (for example, an agency's credibility assessment), we attribute it to the source rather than adopt it as our own position.

Who maintains it

The archive is maintained by an independent researcher, out of an interest in government transparency and in making this documentation accessible to a Hebrew-speaking audience. For questions, corrections, or suggestions, use the contact page.