PURSUE Release 1
The U.S. Department of War's first declassified UAP release, May 2026 — the foundation the entire archive is built on: 91 bilingual research articles across six categories.
In May 2026 the U.S. Department of War released its first large batch of declassified UAP records under PURSUE. We read every page of every document, wrote original English research and translated it into Hebrew, and built the archive. Here is what the first release contains.
What's in Release 1
- ▪91 bilingual research articles written directly from the documents.
- ▪Six categories: FBI Flying Discs, US Navy, Army Air Force, State Dept & NASA, and Modern UAP Reports.
- ▪Documentation spanning eight decades, from 1940s sightings to modern military encounters.
- ▪Photographs, DVIDS videos, and an astronaut-debriefing audio recording, all linked to their official sources.
Headline Findings
The Twining Letter
The 1947 USAAF assessment that "the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
The Mantell Incident
A military pilot killed in January 1948 while pursuing an unidentified object — one of the earliest fatal UFO cases.
Frank Borman — "bogey at ten o'clock high"
Gemini 7 transcripts capturing astronaut observations of objects in orbit.
The White House "alien race" memo
A July 1963 State Department document referencing "the alien race."
The Categories
Six research categories spanning eight decades of documentation.
Media
Release 1's videos, images, and audio, all linked to their official sources.
Why It Matters
- ▪Release 1 is the foundation: it establishes the timeline, people, and locations the later releases build on.
- ▪It includes the Twining Letter ("real and not visionary") and the Mantell incident — foundational historical documents of UFO investigation.
- ▪The Apollo and Gemini astronaut testimony provides first-hand observations from trained observers in space.