Where the PURSUE incidents happened
94 cases. 67 have a specific site or town, 21 only a region, country or sea, and 6 cannot be placed on a map. Each marker is a case (or several at one place): a dot where the files name a specific place, a shaded area where they name only a region, country or sea. Colours show what the case's files conclude (how that is counted).
Map
Every case by place
The location as the files word it. Areas are approximate.
Alabama
- Birmingham, Alabama sightings Unresolved
- Maxwell Field, Alabama light sighting Unresolved
- Chiles-Whitted Eastern Air Lines sighting Unresolved
Alaska
- Bethel, Alaska DC-3 disc encounter Unresolved
Arizona
- William Rhoads photographs, Phoenix, Arizona Unresolved
California
Colorado
District of Columbia
- Washington, D.C. radar sightings, July 1952 Explained in the record
Idaho
Kentucky
- Mantell crash, Godman Field, Kentucky Conflicting conclusions
Michigan
- Joe Perry photographs of saucer-like object, Grand Blanc, Michigan No conclusion in the record
Missouri
- Browning B-25 sighting west of Kansas City Unresolved
Montana
- Nicholas Mariana film sighting, Great Falls, Montana Conflicting conclusions
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
- Highway 17 sighting near White Sands, New Mexico Unresolved
- Roswell crash, New Mexico Unresolved
- Green fireball, Las Vegas / Starvation Peak, New Mexico Unresolved
- Holloman AFB sightings, April 1948 Unresolved
- Los Alamos green fireball sightings No conclusion in the record
- Los Alamos green fireball, 20 December 1948 Unresolved
- Lonnie Zamora sighting, Socorro, New Mexico No conclusion in the record
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City Byron Savage sighting Unresolved
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
- Oak Ridge photographs by William Presley No conclusion in the record
Texas
Utah
- Newhouse Tremonton, Utah film sighting Conflicting conclusions
Virginia
- Arlington, Virginia Cobb sighting Unresolved
- Richmond, Virginia pibal disk sightings Unresolved
Washington
Germany
- Gut Alt Golssen enclosure vehicle sighting, Germany No conclusion in the record
Newfoundland
Paraguay
USSR
- Moscow object sighting Unresolved
- Senator Russell train sighting, Baku to Tiflis Conflicting conclusions
Approximate areas
- Ghost rockets, Sweden Unresolvedapproximate area
- 30 December 1947 Western US flame/fireball sightings approximate area
- Green fireball of 30 January 1949 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Truman Bethurum Nevada desert contact claims approximate area
- Arabian Gulf UAP observations, 2 November 2020 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Arabian Gulf UAP observations, 8 August 2020 No conclusion in the recordapproximate area
- Iran/Strait of Hormuz UAP observations, 16 September 2020 No conclusion in the recordapproximate area
- Gulf of Oman AC-130J infrared sightings, 8 September 2021 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Northeastern United States witness orb sightings near residence, 2021-2022 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Iraq ISR UAP observation, 5 May 2022 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Iraq UAP, December 2022 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Syria UAP, July 2022 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Aegean Sea UAP observation, October 2023 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Colorado law enforcement UAP videos, October 2023 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Western United States sensitive national security site sightings (Orbs Launching Orbs, Dark Kite), October 2023 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Gulf of Oman UAP, June 2024 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Northeastern pond lights, November 2024 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Syria ISR UAP sightings, October 2024 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Western US test range orb and helicopter encounters, late 2025 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Western US multiple red lights sightings, 2026 Unresolvedapproximate area
- Western US triangular craft, June 2026 Unresolvedapproximate area
Not on the map
- Wally Schirra Sigma 7 orbital observations No conclusion in the record
- Gemini 4 booster sightings and tracking No conclusion in the record
- Gemini 7 bogey sighting by Borman, low Earth orbit Unresolved
- Apollo 17 cislunar bright particles and flashes near S-IVB Explained in the record
- Skylab 3 reddish rotating object sighting near Skylab Unresolved
- FBI September 2023 test site sighting Unresolved
How the map is made
Each case's location is taken as its files word it. An AI model (Claude Haiku) only turns that wording into a place name to look up — a 1947 airfield becomes today's base or nearest town. The coordinates come from OpenStreetMap, never from the model.
Where the files name only a region, a country or a sea, the case is drawn as a shaded area of roughly that size, not as a pin. Cases in orbit or on the Moon, and cases whose location is redacted or unclear, are listed under “Not on the map”. Zoom in to separate cases that are close together; a numbered bubble groups nearby cases. The map tiles come from OpenFreeMap, built on OpenStreetMap.