The United States government launched a dedicated online portal on Thursday to publicly release declassified UFO and UAP files.

The portal, called PURSUE, which stands for Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, went live at war.gov/UFO on Thursday morning. Release 01 was cleared for publication today. The file counter on the page reads zero.

The initiative was ordered by President Donald Trump on February 19, 2026. In a Truth Social post, Trump directed the Secretary of War and other relevant agencies to identify and release all government files related to "alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects."

"GOD BLESS AMERICA!" he concluded.

The Department of War, formerly known as the Department of Defense under the Trump administration's renaming, is overseeing the effort alongside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The two agencies are coordinating with dozens of others to review tens of millions of records, many of which exist only on paper and span several decades.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the files had "long fueled justified speculation" and that it was "time the American people see it for themselves."

The portal does feature a slideshow of previously released images. Among them are several infrared photographs of unidentified objects captured over the western United States in September and December of 2025, a still from a video featuring UAP flying across a military operator's screen in the Middle East in May 2022, footage captured near the United Arab Emirates in October 2023, imagery from near Greece the same month, a sighting reported by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command near Japan in 2024 of a football-shaped object, and an archival image from the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon showing three unexplained lights above the lunar terrain.

All cases on the portal are described as "unresolved," meaning the government has been unable to determine the nature of what was observed. The Department of War said this is often due to a lack of sufficient data and said it welcomes analysis from the private sector.

New files will be released on a rolling basis every few weeks as they are discovered and declassified, the department said.