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Search the PURSUE files

Every document the U.S. government has published under PURSUE (the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters), searchable in one place — across all releases, agencies and decades.

What is searched

For each file: its title, war.gov's own description, the incident place and date, and our analysis of the document — the summary, key findings, people, places, aircraft and programs it names, and the credibility notes.

For PDFs, also a machine transcription of every page, so a name that appears only deep inside a file is found too — the result links to that page. Transcripts can contain reading errors; check the original.

Search tips

  • "flying saucer" — exact phrase
  • triangle -balloon — leave out files mentioning a word
  • Malmstrom or Minot — either word
  • Word endings don't matter: "orb" also finds "orbs".
  • Results are sorted by how well they match, then by our significance score (1–10). The score rates how notable a file is, not whether its claims are true.

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