The UFO Files The Unsealed Archive
ARCHIVED/2026-05 - CASE BOARD
Release 02 active 22 May 2026 / War.gov/UFO 69 indexed files 7 threads 1,282 OCR pages

Vol. I/ No. 02/ The Unsealed Archive

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A searchable evidence atlas of unresolved UAP records.

Built from public government releases, FBI case files, source PDFs, OCR transcripts, and investigative cross-references.

69 indexed cases across 7 threads. Every claim links back to the page it came from. Read the cases. Verify the sources. Decide for yourself.

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Gun-camera, FLIR, sensor footage from DoW releases / Mercury through Apollo mission audio from NASA.

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01 Headline cases Start with the four that did not get prosaic-explained away. Curated entry points to the strongest material. 4 cases 02 Chronology Watch the institutional response form in real time: Mantell, Twinkle, Hottel, AARO, PURSUE. 03 Geography Incidents pinned on the ground. Atomic installations, military bases, witness chains, and memo correspondence. Map view 04 Entity network Follow the people, programs, agencies, and places. Lines show who appears together across sources. Connected 05 Evidence Atlas The unified research interface. Filter by source, thread, signal, evidence type, witness count, and location. Active 06 Source Vault Browse original source material directly: PDFs, FBI 302s, OCR transcripts, AARO sheets, and agency releases. Reviewed

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Threads run through the file.

  1. 01 FBI 62-HQ-83894 / Sec 2 1947, origin year Kenneth Arnold's Cascade sighting. The FBI's first institutional response patterns. Maury Island, Muroc, Rhodes. By August 19, intel agencies are privately discussing whether the saucers are a classified US experiment. FBI June 1947 onward 23 cases
  2. 02 FBI 62-HQ-83894 / 1948-49 1948-49, institutional hardening The Mantell P-51 fatality. Air Defense Command's baseline. Project Grudge and the Vital Installations correspondence. Oak Ridge. The Cuneo, Jones, Winchell channel: proof that source proximity, not source content, triggered Bureau action. FBI Mantell to Project Grudge 9 cases
  3. 03 FBI 62-HQ-83894 / 1949-50 1949-50, the disinformation year The single richest section of the file. Project Twinkle. The Belmont OSI master log. The Hottel memo, properly read. Hoover's Communist-affiliation cross-check on Frank Scully. Multi-agency coordination for the saucer problem. FBI Twinkle, Hottel, Scully 23 cases
  4. 04 FBI 62-HQ-83894 / Sec 10 1950s through 1973, the long tail The Hoover-directed pattern: politely decline to investigate. Section 10 catches the post-Blue Book civilian writers, including the James Collins Chesapeake abduction claim from January 1967. FBI Civilian correspondence after Blue Book 3 cases
  5. 05 NO ARCHIVE PUBLISHED 1974 through 2025, the silence From 1974 through 2025 the government published nothing on this question. Blue Book closed in 1969. The FBI handed the file off. Air Force units destroyed records. Then in May 2026 the Pentagon released a folder of incidents that happened inside the gap: Kazakhstan 1994, Mexico 2003, the western-US orb cluster, USPER. The cases were always there. They were not in any archive a citizen could touch. GAP Fifty years no records 5 cases
  6. 06 WAR.GOV/UFO/REL-01 PURSUE Release 01 The May 8, 2026 Department of War release. 162 records reviewed by AARO. Apollo 17 VM6, the Bronze Ellipsoid, the USPER orb-helicopter chase, the western-US orbs-launching-orbs cluster. The four cases that mattered. PURSUE 2026 Pentagon disclosure 7 cases
  7. 07 WAR.GOV/UFO/REL-02 PURSUE Release 02 The May 22, 2026 Department of War release. Six documents this time, not gun-camera clips: the Sandia Base green fireball file and the road to Project Twinkle, the CIA's Sary Shagan readout, a Pantex radar object, the Pajarito astronomers, the James Tuck correspondence, and a firsthand USPER narrative. The paper record sitting behind the gap. PURSUE 1948 through 2025 6 cases

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69Files indexed

Latest additions.

  1. 01 2025-late USPER Statement — Super-Hot Orb, Helicopter Pursuit, US Military Facility (Late 2025) HIGH PURSUE
  2. 02 2025-late ODNI-UAP-D001 — The USPER Narrative: First-Person Account of the Late-2025 Test-Range Encounter HIGH PURSUE
  3. 03 2023-09 September 2023 Bronze Ellipsoid — FBI Composite Sketch + 302 Interviews HIGH PURSUE
  4. 04 2023 Western US 'Orbs Launching Orbs' Event Slides (2023) HIGH PURSUE
  5. 05 2003-09-12 State Dept Cable 5 — Mexico Congress Alien Corpses Hearing (Sept 12, 2003) MEDIUM PURSUE
  6. 06 1994-01-27 State Dept Cable 2 — Kazakhstan 1994 747 Encounter (Jan 27, 1994) MEDIUM PURSUE
  7. 07 1986-05 DOE-UAP-D003 — Pajarito Astronomers Newsletter: A Los Alamos UFO Talk, May 1986 LOW PURSUE
  8. 08 1976 DOE-UAP-D002 — James Tuck Correspondence: Atmospheric Vortices, Ball Lightning, and the Condon Report LOW PURSUE
  9. 09 1973 CIA-UAP-D001 — Green Circular Object Over the Sary Shagan Weapons Range (USSR, Late Summer 1973) MEDIUM PURSUE
  10. 10 1972-12 Apollo 17 VM6 — Apollo 17 Triangular Formation Photo (Dec 1972) HIGH PURSUE
  11. 11 1967-06-08 Paul L. Peyerl 1944 German WWII Saucer-Shaped Aircraft, June 1967 Miami Office Report MEDIUM FBI
  12. 12 1967-01-18 James C. Collins Chesapeake Virginia Abduction Case, January 17-18 1967 (The Earliest In-Archive Primary-Source UAP Abduction Case) MEDIUM FBI

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Evidence Atlas

A single research surface for the whole archive.

One screen with case list, chronology, geography, and network. Side drawer previews. Filter across source, thread, signal, evidence type, entity, and location.

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Source Vault

Direct access to the original material.

Every source row points to a dossier and, where available, the issuing agency's original material. The source wins if a narrative ever drifts.

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Methodology

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What this is

A reading guide, not a verdict.

This is not a theory hiding aliens. AARO openly identifies mundane causes inside the unresolved tranche. This archive keeps those causes visible and separates case material from payoff.

Files are the government's. Voice and analysis are Dead Pixel Design's.

  • Every claim links back to a primary source.
  • Cases were selected on evidentiary structure, not narrative payoff.
  • What is missing is named, not hidden.
  • Memo correspondence is not placed on the map.
  • Correction pages are open and dated.
  • You are encouraged to disagree with the framing.