PURSUE Changes Log

🛰️ Release 07 · 28 rows added · 478 rows total · 0 removed · revised after it appeared

The Department of War published Release 07 on October 23, 2026; the poller first recorded the new CSV at 13:16 UTC that day. All 28 new rows are PDFs: 25 Department of War, 1 FBI, 1 Executive Office of the President and 1 U.S. Government. No new agency label appeared. By title, the Department of War rows are ten Air Force forms from 1952 to 1957 ("Air Intelligence Information Report" and "Flying Object Report", D155 to D164), nine records from 2008 to 2010 that carry the tag TAG:AAWSAP in the CSV (D166 to D171 and D173 to D175, among them four BAASS monthly reports and a "Utah Ranch Investigation Report"), four Catalina Island files from 1949 to 1955 (D177, D178, D179 and D181), the final personnel record of Howard M. McCoy (D180), and a 2026 "Triangular UAP AARO Memorandum for Record" (D176). The CSV pairs D176 with the FBI row, FBI-UAP-D043, an FD-302 from 2026. It also pairs the last two rows with each other: EOP-UAP-D002, a May 1963 memorandum on recovering foreign materiel, and USG-UAP-D002, interagency correspondence on space fragments from 1962 to 1964. No row in the CSV carries the ID DOW-UAP-D165 or DOW-UAP-D172; the file does not say why.

Current CSV SHA-256: 92b3ec7dd87286ea7092a33b476566b4416d3bb02970b02757b237d8322fe81a, the October 26 revision. It matches the poller's record, a byte-exact copy is archived (2026-10-26-92b3ec7dd872.csv), and our pre-push check confirms that the mirror at /uap-data-csv is byte-identical to it. The CSV as first recorded on October 23 was 096ef2c0058abd412a568d630df31cb836241c1c08c4f67bdc8cdb7e5c8418b9, also archived byte-exact (2026-10-23-096ef2c0058a.csv).

Existing rows edited: 56

• 10 had the Featured flag cleared: the ten rows flagged in Release 06. Eight Release 07 rows are flagged Featured.
• 44 had their PDF Pairing list replaced by a tag. These are the 44 Release 06 rows with AAWSAP in their titles. Each listed the other 43 by ID; each now reads TAG:AAWSAP. Four of them are also among the ten above. With the nine new rows that carry the same tag, 53 rows in today's CSV have it.
• 5 gained pairings. DOW-UAP-D044 gained a Video Pairing (DOW-UAP-PR040), and PR040 gained a PDF Pairing (D044). Videos DOW-UAP-PR039, PR088 and PR089 each gained a PDF Pairing (DOW-UAP-D042) and a Video Pairing with the other two.
• 1 is whitespace only. LLE-UAP-D001's Description Blurb lost a trailing space.

One row with a new title and file link: DOW-UAP-D042

DOW-UAP-D042 went from "Range Fouler Debrief, Japan, 2023" to "Range Fouler Debrief, Arabian Gulf, 2023", and its link went from dow-uap-d42-range-fouler-debrief-japan-2023.pdf to DOW-UAP-D042-Range-Fouler-Debrief-Arabian-Gulf-2023.pdf in the same folder. Because we match on ID and file link, the tool reports this as a re-link: it is counted as neither added nor removed, and it is not among the 56 above. It is also the one Release 03 row that does not match today's CSV on ID and link. The row itself is still there. It also gained a Video Pairing (DOW-UAP-PR039, PR088 and PR089). Its Incident Location column read Arabian Gulf in all eight earlier CSV states we hold, back to May 8. Its title still says 2023, while its Incident Date column says August 31, 2020. We compared the old and new PDFs; the result is on /revisions. Our page for this file keeps its original address: /files/dow-uap-d042-range-fouler-debrief-japan-2023.

The October 26 revision, row by row (478 rows before and after)

Diffed from the two archived CSVs: 0 rows added, 0 removed, 0 re-linked, and all 478 edited.

• Release Date: all 478 values went from a two-digit to a four-digit year (10/23/26 became 10/23/2026).
• Incident Date: 159 values did the same. In each, the month, the day and the last two digits of the year stayed the same.
• One rewritten date is wrong in war.gov's file. NASA-UAP-D013 (Mercury Atlas 7, May 24, 1962) went from 5/24/62 to 5/24/2962. Our mirror stays byte-exact, so it carries that value; our page for the file shows 1962.
• FBI-UAP-D043 gained one sentence in its Description Blurb, saying the report is accompanied by 9 digitally rendered FBI forensic sketches.
• One unnamed, empty trailing column was dropped from the file.

This diff covers CSV rows, not the files they link to. Separately, on November 1 we re-fetched the 28 Release 07 PDFs and DOW-UAP-D042 from war.gov: all 29 match the SHA-256 values in our manifest. We did not re-hash the rest of the archive for this check. Every old and new value is under steps and revisions in data/release-diff.json.

🛰️ Release 06 · 75 rows added · 450 rows total · 0 removed · revised after it appeared

The Department of War published Release 06 on September 18, 2026. In the current CSV, 75 rows carry that Release Date: 67 under Department of War (55 PDFs, 11 videos and 1 audio file) and 8 under a new label, Local Law Enforcement (4 videos and 4 PDF transcripts, all Colorado). 44 of the Department of War rows have titles containing AAWSAP: a statement of objectives, a solicitation, five contract modifications and 37 DIRD papers (see the AAWSAP hub). The rest include the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film (DOW-UAP-PR159) with two Project Blue Book files (D102, D103), a 1952 presentation by Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (transcript D154, audio PR160), four mission reports from Iraq and the Middle East (D106 to D109), and further "Unresolved UAP Report" items.

SHA-256 of the 450-row CSV, this release's last state: c3f8209ef5f53a124bf3f30c4a36106ffaa63ea9770ad2d33e2ba5c4fec347c7, from the poller's record. A byte-exact copy is archived in our repository (2026-09-24-c3f8209ef5f5.csv) and hashes to this value.

Revision history: 446 rows, then 447, then 450

The poller recorded three CSV states for this release: 446 rows at 12:51 UTC on September 18 (+71), 447 rows at 16:58 UTC the same day (+1), and 450 rows at 21:15 UTC on September 24 (+3). We have byte-exact copies of the 447-row and 450-row CSVs, but not of the 446-row one. So which of the first 72 Release 06 rows were in the 446-row state and which one was added by the 447-row state is not something we can reproduce, and this page makes no claim about it. The times above are when our poller recorded each state, not when war.gov published it. The step from 447 to 450 rows is diffed below. What the 450-row CSV shows, by direct count:

• All 75 Release 06 rows carry Release Date 9/18/26, the date of the first state. None carries a later date.
• The eight Colorado rows are four videos (LLE-UAP-PR001 to PR004) and four PDF transcripts (LLE-UAP-D001 to D004), each transcript paired to one video.
• One internal inconsistency in war.gov's own data: LLE-UAP-PR004's Title says "January 2024", but its Incident Date column says "October, 2023". Its paired transcript, LLE-UAP-D004, says January 2024 in both its Title and its Incident Date.
• A Release 05 row was changed by this release: DOW-UAP-D098 ("Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953") gained a Video Pairing, DOW-UAP-PR159 (the Tremonton film), and a PDF Pairing, DOW-UAP-D103, D104, D105. In the Release 05 CSV it had neither.

Nine existing rows were edited between Release 05 and the 450-row CSV: all nine had the Featured flag cleared (the nine rows flagged in Release 05), and DOW-UAP-D098 also gained the two pairings above. Ten Release 06 rows are flagged Featured. No row was removed. All nine edits were already in the 447-row CSV of September 18, 16:58 UTC.

The September 24 amendment, row by row (447 to 450 rows)

Diffed from the two archived CSVs, 2026-09-18-19e6dd7a69d5.csv and 2026-09-24-c3f8209ef5f5.csv: 3 rows added, 5 existing rows edited, 0 removed. All eight changed rows are Colorado rows under Local Law Enforcement.

• Added: three PDF transcripts, LLE-UAP-D002, D003 and D004, each with Release Date 9/18/26. D002 and D003 are titled "Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023"; D004 is titled "Transcript of an Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, January 2024".
• LLE-UAP-PR004 (video): its Title changed from "LLE-UAP-PR004, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, October 2023" to "LLE-UAP-PR004, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado, January 2024", and its PDF Pairing changed from LLE-UAP-D001 to LLE-UAP-D004. Its Incident Date column read "October, 2023" in both CSVs, so its Title and Incident Date agreed in the 447-row CSV and disagree from the 450-row CSV on.
• LLE-UAP-D001 (transcript): its Video Pairing changed from LLE-UAP-PR004 to LLE-UAP-PR001, and its Description Blurb was rewritten to describe a transcript of a 1-minute, 19-second recording, LLE-UAP-PR001. Two minor fields also changed: its Image VIRIN (260918-D-D0360-1146 to 260918-O-D0360-1165) and its Image Alt Text (a period added).
• LLE-UAP-PR001, PR002 and PR003 (videos): each gained a PDF Pairing (D001, D002 and D003 respectively). In the 447-row CSV they had none.

So the 447-row CSV held four Colorado videos and one transcript, LLE-UAP-D001, paired with PR004; the 450-row CSV pairs each of the four videos with its own transcript. This diff covers CSV rows only, not the contents of the files they link to. Every old and new value is under revisions in data/release-diff.json.

🛰️ Release 05 · 41 rows added · 375 rows total · 0 removed

The Department of War published Release 05 on August 7, 2026; the poller first recorded the new CSV at 13:17 UTC that day. All 41 new rows carry Release Date 8/7/26: 19 Department of War (4 PDFs, 15 videos), 17 FBI (13 PDFs, 3 images, 1 video), 2 CIA PDFs, 2 Department of State PDFs and 1 PDF under a new label, Executive Office of the President (EOP-UAP-D001, "NASC Inquiry into Bahia, Brazil Incident, November 13, 1963"). By title, the FBI rows are "Digital Rendering" images and PDFs and FD-302 forms (for example "Dark Translucent Triangle," "Large Triangle with Red Lights" and "Multiple Red Lights," incidents dated 2002, 2011, 2023 and 2026); the State rows are two November 1963 cables from Brazil; the CIA rows are a 1965 report on an object near Puerto Rico and briefing notes for Walter Elder; the Department of War rows include an intelligence review of "Ghost Rocket" incidents (1947), an Air Materiel Command report on unidentified flying objects (1947-1948), "Film Analysis of Unidentified Objects, 1953", and videos from the Gulf of Oman (2021), the Pacific Ocean (2019) and the Middle East (2023 and 2025).

CSV SHA-256: 5f5698f132245115dd9d4a5197d2748847f281e466d8b660de036aa3c4b678c7, from the poller's record. A byte-exact copy is archived in our repository (2026-08-07-5f5698f13224.csv) and hashes to the same value.

Ten existing rows were edited in this step: in all ten, the Featured flag was cleared. They are the ten rows flagged in Release 04. Nine Release 05 rows are flagged Featured.

🛰️ Release 04 · 40 rows added · 334 rows total · 0 removed

The Department of War published Release 04 on July 10, 2026; the poller first recorded the new CSV at 12:00 UTC that day. All 40 new rows carry Release Date 7/10/26: 28 Department of War (19 videos, 9 PDFs), 7 NASA (3 STS-80 images and 4 audio debriefings from Apollo 14 and Apollo 17), 2 Department of Energy PDFs (a 1949 Los Alamos conference on aerial phenomena and a 2015 Pantex incident report), 2 CIA PDFs (a 1955 memorandum and an analysis, both on "unconventional aircraft sightings") and 1 FBI PDF (correspondence relating to UFO sightings, 1967 and 1974). The Department of War PDFs include three "Range Fouler Debrief" reports (2019 and 2020), Project Blue Book correspondence and a Project Sign progress report (1948). No new agency label appeared.

CSV SHA-256: 13e730c18d6ea586bcb9b58984481b093f3e4802c33b0f9281258ee786f8abd1, from the poller's record. A byte-exact copy of this CSV is archived in our repository (2026-07-10-13e730c18d6e.csv) and hashes to this value.

Twelve existing rows were edited in this step: 10 had the Featured flag cleared (the ten rows flagged in Release 03); DOE-UAP-D001 gained a PDF Pairing (DOE-UAP-D005); and CIA-UAP-D001's Agency label changed from "Central Intelligence Agency" to "CIA". Ten Release 04 rows are flagged Featured.

🛰️ Release 03 verified · CSV in hand · 294 rows confirmed · 294/294 SHA-256 verified

The U.S. Department of War published a third PURSUE release on June 12, 2026. We fetched the canonical war.gov CSV directly and verified it: SHA-256 48db08be39605efd86e1d92fe6af3cda7730e1da6a4b5741d37a30712ebf5e04, 294 data rows (158 from Release 01 + 64 from Release 02 + 72 new from Release 03). The 72 new files: 18 historical CIA records (the Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs, a study titled "The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance," the Leon Davidson / CASE 17708 correspondence, and mid-century sighting reports), 29 FBI files (modern UAP reports including the 2022 Colorado Springs incident and Northeastern "orb" sightings), 11 NASA debriefings (Gemini 4/5/7/9, the Apollo 16 scientific debriefing, and a Gordon Cooper interview), 12 DoD files (a 1949 U.S. Army flying-saucer study and an AARO "Western United States" case), and the first intelligence-community-analysis and U.S. Government correspondence records. War.gov also added a new "Featured" column to the CSV schema and corrected three filename typos (re-slugged, not withdrawn); zero files were removed.

🛰️ Release 02 verified · CSV in hand · 222 rows confirmed · ingested + SHA-256 verified

The U.S. Department of War published PURSUE Release 02 on May 22, 2026. We have fetched the canonical war.gov CSV directly (now hosted at /Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-data.csv, the older uap-csv.csv URL was retired and 404s) and verified its byte-identity: SHA-256 6be2c64e760534a567e13ebaac939bf2cea3bd9de4864d9ae98c5c8b5df1b963, 222 data rows. Breakdown: 158 rows from Release 01 (5/8/26) plus 64 new rows from Release 02 (5/22/26).

War.gov restructured the CSV schema for Release 02 - the new file has 27 columns including Redaction, Release Date, Video Pairing, PDF Pairing, Description Blurb, DVIDS Video ID, Video Title, Agency, Incident Date, and Incident Location columns. The 64 Release-02 records include the DOW-UAP-PR050 - PR099 sensor-video series (51 entries), the 7 NASA crew audio files, and 6 documents including ODNI-UAP-D001 (a first-person narrative from a senior U.S. intelligence officer describing a one-hour multi-witness UAP encounter from a military helicopter in late 2025).

The 64 Release 02 files are indexed, scored, and live on the site. Live status JSON: data/poll-state.json.

🔬 File-integrity audit · war.gov re-processed 62 documents · verified: no content removed

Sometime between our May 8-9 capture and June 10, war.gov silently replaced the file bodies of 62 Release-01 PDFs at the same URLs - same filenames, same CSV rows, same page count. The replacement files are about half the size (the audited corpus went from 2.49 GB to 1.25 GB). Watching the CSV alone would not reveal this: the files kept the same URLs, so the change only shows up when you fetch the files themselves and compare their hashes or sizes. This was first flagged publicly by a reader hashing every file daily; we independently verified it before publishing, and credit the catch. The natural worry - "they shrank the files, are they hiding something?" - is answerable here because we keep the original bytes.

What we verified, file by file, against our archived originals (all 62):

Conclusion: re-processing, not removal. War.gov re-compressed the raw scanned images and added searchable OCR text layers. The originals had no extractable text (they were image-only scans); the new versions are text-searchable. The files got smaller and more usable. We checked every one of the 62 changed files - page counts are identical, and the single file that showed fewer extracted characters turned out to be garbage OCR being replaced with clean text, not content loss.

Scope of this claim: we compared page counts and extractable-text layers on all 62 changed files against our SHA-256-matched originals. We did not pixel-compare every page image, so we cannot rule out a localized visual change on an individual page - but no pages were dropped, no images cropped, and OCR text was added rather than removed. The exact date of the swap is bounded by our two data points (May 8-9 and June 10); a reader with daily snapshots dates it to mid-May. Full machine-readable per-file audit (old size, old SHA-256, current size): wargov-file-integrity-audit-2026-06-10.json.

TL;DR (plain English)

War.gov changed how they label their UFO file list on May 11, 2026, but the files themselves are exactly the same. 130 PDFs and 28 videos exist in both versions. The row count in their published spreadsheet dropped from 161 to 158 because 9 PDFs that used to appear as one row each now appear as multiple rows (the same file referenced under different incident titles), and one PDF had its storage filename renamed. That accounts for the entire change. The data tables below show every PDF affected, with links to the actual files.