Pentagon’s UFO files portal: war.gov/UFO (2026)
🏛️ U.S. Department of War (Defense)
The Pentagon launched a public portal and released a first batch of 162 declassified files from several agencies, with more batches promised every few weeks.
Key points
- The first batch, as reported, mixed PDFs, videos and images, spanning the 1940s to 2025.
- Sources included the military, the FBI, the State Department and NASA.
- The Pentagon said many items had only been screened for security, not yet analyzed to resolve them.
- Some documents are heavily redacted; news coverage found nothing pointing to contact with aliens.
Why it matters
It is the largest single U.S. release of UAP records since Project Blue Book was opened, and it is still growing.
Read it yourself
The summary above is ours, written in plain English. Always check the original: the official files on this page go straight to the source, and each one has a backup copy saved by the Internet Archive in case the government page moves.
U.S. Department of War (Defense). (2026). Pentagon’s UFO files portal: war.gov/UFO (2026). https://www.war.gov/UFO/Related records
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