govweird/archive

A primary-source archive

The federal record
on the strange.

govweird catalogs every declassified U.S. government file we can find on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, cryptids, mind-control programs, missing persons on federal land, and the rest of the strange and unexplained. Drawn from the National Archives, the Department of War, the FBI Vault, the CIA reading room, the National Park Service, and other primary sources. Cataloged, cross-referenced, and editorially layered. Never paraphrased away from the source.

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Records cataloged
10,862
Earliest record
1947

Released imagery · PURSUE 01

FBI September 2023 Sighting - Composite SketchFBI Photo B1FBI Photo B14FBI Photo B15FBI Photo B20FBI Photo B4

Federal evidence photos cleared for public release May 8, 2026. See all →

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Just released · May 8, 2026

PURSUE: The Pentagon's rolling UAP file release

On May 8, 2026 the U.S. Department of War launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters with 296 declassified files spanning the FBI, NASA, the Department of War itself, and the State Department. Records range from a 1947 FBI investigative file to a 2024 mission report from a tactical unit in the Persian Gulf. Govweird has cataloged every file in Release 01, with editorial summaries on 147 of them.

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What the records are about

UFOs and UAP

Project Blue Book, the Department of War PURSUE release, FBI UFO files, NASA transcripts. The federal record on what was in the sky.

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Where the records came from

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Coverage will expand as we ingest CIA reading room, FBI Vault, NSA, and other agency corpora.

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Nine New Mexico UFO Sightings in the Project Blue Book Files

Police officers, radar stations, atomic weapons laboratories, and one Harvard astronomer all reported, on the record, something they could not identify between 1949 and 1964. The Air Force investigated every one of them.

Primary-source only

Every record on this site is a public-domain federal work, sourced from the originating agency or the National Archives. We host metadata and editorial context. We link out to the originating agency for the source files.

Editorial summaries

Where we can text-extract or OCR the underlying document, we generate a journalistic summary in addition to the official government caption. Both appear on the file page; neither replaces the other.

Updated weekly

The Department of War has stated PURSUE will release new tranches on a rolling basis. We re-poll war.gov regularly and ingest new records within 48 to 72 hours.