PURSUE UAP Document Dataset
Every document in the U.S. government's PURSUE releases on war.gov/UFO, with a structured analysis of each file and a link to the original — free to use, share and adapt under CC BY 4.0. Updated daily.
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478 documents · 7 releases · 133 linked news articles
- documents.csvOne row per document: war.gov metadata + our analysis
- documents.jsonlThe same, with lists as arrays and entities nested
- releases.csvOne row per release, with an overview
- coverage.csvNews articles linked to the release they cover
- pages.jsonlMachine transcription of every PDF page
What's in it
War.gov metadata — title, releasing agency, release, incident date and location as published, and the link to the original file.
Our analysis of each document— a short factual summary, key findings, the classification stamp, how heavily it is redacted, the shape and behaviour of any object it describes, who the witnesses were, what evidence it contains, the document's own conclusion, and credibility notes: the limits of the evidence and any mundane explanation the document itself mentions. Plus the people, agencies, places and programs it names, and a 0–10 significance score.
Full text — a page-by-page machine transcription of every PDF, with redactions marked.
Releases and coverage — an overview of each release, and the news articles that covered it (titles and links only).
Example record
- title
- 341_110677_Numerical_File,_5-2500
- agency
- Department of War
- score
- 9/10
- summary
- This is a 9-page SECRET (NOFORN) Air Intelligence Information Report (IR 193-55) dated 14 October 1955, prepared by US Air Attaché Lt. Col. Thomas S. Ryan, documenting an eyewitness account by three high-credibility US observers — Senator Richard Russell, Lt. Col. E.U. Hathaway, and Mr. Ruben Efron — who observed two disc-shaped unconventional aircraft taking off in the Trans Caucasus region of the USSR on 4 October 1955. The report also includes supplementary intelligence observations on Soviet military aircraft, airfields, radar sites, and railroad infrastructure gathered during the group's travel through the USSR.
- credibility_notes
- Three witnesses are highly credible (a sitting US Senator, a US Army Lt. Col., and a Senate committee consultant), but the sighting was a brief visual observation from a moving train at dusk with no sensor corroboration. No photographs were taken. The debriefing was rushed (under one hour) due to the group's departure schedule. USAIRA itself noted that a more relaxed, extended debriefing would produce more valuable technical details. No mundane explanation is offered in the document.
How it's made — and its limits
- War.gov's own index provides the titles, agencies, dates and file links; it is refreshed every day.
- Claude (Anthropic) read each original PDF, image or video record and wrote the analysis fields. They are machine-generated and can be wrong — check the original before relying on a detail.
- Every PDF page is also transcribed by Claude (pages.jsonl). War.gov's own text layer is poor OCR, so this is a fresh reading — still a machine transcription that can misread old typewriter and handwriting.
- The analysis reports what a document says; it doesn't judge whether a sighting was real. Redacted text stays redacted.
- News coverage is matched to releases automatically.
Cite and reuse
Use it for anything — articles, research, apps — and credit uapinsight.com with a link to this page. The government documents themselves are U.S. public domain.
uapinsight.com. PURSUE UAP Document Dataset. https://uapinsight.com/pursue/data