ishumilin/DOW-PURSUE-UAP-declassified

DOW PURSUE UAP Declassified Records

A continuously updated archive of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) records released by the U.S. Department of War (DOW) under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), initiated by President Donald J. Trump's directive of February 19, 2026.

"Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)..." — President Donald J. Trump, February 19, 2026

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Overview

Field	Detail
Source	war.gov/UFO — PURSUE Program
Program	Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters
Overseeing Agency	U.S. Department of War (DOW) with ODNI support
First Release	May 8, 2026
Update Cadence	Rolling — new tranches every few weeks as records are declassified
License	U.S. Government Work (Public Domain)

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What's in This Dataset

All files are unresolved UAP cases — meaning the U.S. government was unable to make a definitive determination on the nature of the observed phenomena, due to insufficient data or other factors.

This dataset contains OCR-extracted text from PDF documents only. It does not include the original PDFs or associated media assets; it is a text-first corpus intended for search, analysis, and NLP workflows.

Documents include:

• Case reports — incident summaries from military operators across multiple commands
• Historical documents — declassified records spanning several decades
• Correspondence/cables — emails and cables included in the releases

Geographic Coverage

Middle East · Indo-Pacific · Africa · Europe (Greece) · Domestic U.S. · Near Japan · United Arab Emirates · Apollo 17 archival

Incident Date Range

1972 (Apollo 17) through 2026

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File Structure

DOW-PURSUE-UAP-declassified/
├── README.md
├── release_01/                  # May 8, 2026 — initial tranche
│   └── release_01.parquet        # canonical document table for release_01
├── release_02/                  # future releases will follow the same pattern
└── metadata.jsonl               # JSONL index of documents (one line per document)

Note: This repository is updated as new tranches are published by the DOW. metadata.jsonl provides a stable index into the release Parquet files. The canonical content is stored in release_*/release_*.parquet.

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Metadata Schema

Each entry in metadata.jsonl follows this structure:

{
  "release_id": "release_01",
  "parquet_file": "release_01/release_01.parquet",
  "row_index": 0,
  "file_path": "DOW-UAP-D74_Mission_Report_Syria_November_2023/pALL/DOW-UAP-D74_Mission_Report_Syria_November_2023.md",
  "file_name": "DOW-UAP-D74_Mission_Report_Syria_November_2023.md"
}

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Parquet Schema

The canonical data for each release is stored in Parquet.

release_01/release_01.parquet columns:

Column	Type	Description
file_path	string	Original source-relative path/name (as published)
file_name	string	Basename of the document
content	string	Extracted document content (typically Markdown / OCR text)

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Loading

Using 🤗 Datasets:

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("ishumilin/DOW-PURSUE-UAP-declassified", data_files={
    "release_01": "release_01/release_01.parquet"
})

print(ds["release_01"].column_names)
print(ds["release_01"][0])

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License

These materials are works of the U.S. federal government and are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. No copyright applies. The us-govt-work license is used on this repository. For international interoperability this is equivalent to CC0.

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Citation

@dataset{dow_pursue_uap_2026,
  title     = {DOW PURSUE UAP Declassified Records},
  author    = {{U.S. Department of War}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ishumilin/DOW-PURSUE-UAP-declassified},
  note      = {Source: war.gov/UFO. Updated on a rolling basis.}
}

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Disclaimer

This dataset is a mirror of publicly released U.S. government records. The compiler of this repository makes no claims regarding the nature or interpretation of the phenomena depicted. All records are presented as-is from official government sources.

For additional historical UAP records, visit AARO.mil.