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

Read by thread / The four that mattered / Open the atlas

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.

Footage

Full archive ->

84videos indexed

The footage.


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

The five threads / Files and records

All threads ->

07

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

Methodology

The trust contract

Read this first

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.