"The Department of War launched a website on Friday called war.gov/ufo. It contains 162 files, including photographs from the Apollo 17 mission that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of objects the military cannot identify, and internal memos describing sightings in Iraq and Syria that no agency has resolved. Two-thirds of the documents are partially redacted. The government says it is being transparent."
"The initial release consists of 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 image files drawn from the FBI, the Department of War, NASA, and the State Department. The documents span decades and continents. The roughly two dozen videos run for a total of 41 minutes and show reported encounters between 2020 and 2026, most captured by infrared cameras tracking white objects that appear as specks moving through the frame."
"The most discussed file is a NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission, taken in December 1972, showing three dots in a triangular formation in the lunar sky. The Department of War said in an accompanying caption that " there is no consensus about the nature of the anomaly" but that a preliminary analysis indicated it could be a " physical object." The photograph is 54 years old. The analysis is new. The conclusion is that nobody knows what it is."
"The release is the first batch from PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, an interagency programme established after President Trump directed the Department of War in February to find, review, declassify, and publish unresolved records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena. The acronym is a backronym. The initiative is not."
war.gov/ufo was launched with 162 declassified files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena. The collection includes NASA Apollo 17 photographs that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of objects the military cannot identify, and internal memos describing sightings in Iraq and Syria that no agency has resolved. Two-thirds of the documents are partially redacted. The release is the first batch from PURSUE, an interagency program created after a presidential directive to find, review, declassify, and publish unresolved records. The initial set contains 120 PDFs, 28 videos, and 14 image files from multiple agencies. The videos total 41 minutes and mostly show infrared-tracked white specks moving through frames. A highlighted Apollo 17 image shows three dots in a triangular formation, with no consensus on the anomaly’s nature and preliminary analysis suggesting it could be a physical object.
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