Insights / Agencies

Who owns the source records?

The PURSUE corpus is not a single-agency archive. This view uses the normalized source manifest agency for each hosted document, then counts the public serials attached to those documents. It is a custody map, not a claim about who investigated every incident.

Agencies

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Public serials

73 documents / 73 public serials

Department of War

Modern military reports and historical War Department records released through the PURSUE archive.

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1944-2025

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18_100754_ general 1946-7_vol_2.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 18_6369445_general_1948_vol_1.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 331_120752_numeric_files_1944–1945_37153_german_armament_equipment_documents.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 341_110448_records_relating_to_the_collection_and_dissemination_of_intelligence_1948-1955-ts_cont_no.2_2-5300-2-5399.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01

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1946-11-05 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 9304cfef-6b9e-4bab-bf5b-7f20fa3a036bAir Materiel Command "Flying Discs" Correspondence and Opinion, 1947 (18_100754 General 1946-7 Vol. 2)On September 23, 1947, Lieutenant General N. F. Twining, Commanding General of Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, transmitted a formal opinion to Army Air Forces headquarters stating that "the phenomeno…1947-09-24 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 39f2de8f-85b5-47a7-9112-6891a47cf940USAF Flying Disc Reporting Correspondence and Sighting Reports, 1947,1948 (General File Vol. 1)Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of…1944-12-01 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / a9e4e342-d79d-4378-a3de-b3a22d4dc6f5SHAEF Air Staff File 37153: "Foo Fighter" / Night Phenomena and Cylindrical Object Reports, ETO, 1944,1945SHAEF Air Staff file 37153 contains messages and memorandums from December 1944 through March 1945 documenting reports of "night phenomena (foofighters)" by crews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the European Th…

63 documents / 63 public serials

FBI

Federal investigative files, photographic exhibits, statements, and case material from FBI-linked source records.

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1944-2025

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2024-04-30-composite-sketch.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 65_hs1-101634279_100-de-18221_serial_844.pdfpdf / 100-DE-18221 65_hs1-101634279_100-de-26505.pdfpdf / 100-DE-26505 65_hs1-834228961_62-hq-83894_section_1.pdfpdf / 62-HQ-83894

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2024-01-01 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 5fb9eb79-fa7b-4ba0-b0ea-56e414742529Composite Sketch: Disc-Shaped UFO Over Rural Field, April 2024The image is a composite sketch created in Adobe Photoshop 25.6, combining a photographic background of a rural grassy field with a digitally rendered golden-bronze disc-shaped flying saucer in the upper right. A bright…1958-04-17 / 100-DE-18221 / 844Detroit Witness Reports Circular Object with Crystal Dome Over City at 4 A.M., April 1958David Weaver, age 23, of 15801 Decosta, Detroit, Michigan, telephoned the FBI Detroit office at 4:08 A.M. on April 17, 1958, to report seeing a circular object with a crystal-type dome that reflected lights. He said the…1944-01-01 / 100-DE-26505 / 3e60e27d-c737-46c2-bd93-af3175d80ec0FBI Detroit Interview: Wladyslaw Krasuski Reports Circular Vertically-Rising Vehicle in 1944 GermanyIn a November 7, 1957 interview conducted by SA Cassius Rathbun, Wladyslaw Krasuski of 5457 Joseph Campau, Detroit, described witnessing a circular vehicle rise vertically from a tarpaulin-enclosed compound near Gut Alt…

20 documents / 20 public serials

CIA

Source records attributed to this agency in the hosted manifest.

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1955-1955

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CIA-UAP-002_Scientific-Advisory-Panel-on-Unidentified-Flying-Objects_Report_1952-1953.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 CIA-UAP-003-THE_CENTRAL_INTELLIGENCE_AGENCY_AND_OVERHEAD_RECONNAISSANCE-THE_U-2_AND_OXCART_PROGRAMS_1954-1974.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 CIA-UAP-004-CASE_17708_CLOSED_AND_DR_LEON_DAVIDSON.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 CIA-UAP-005-GERMAN_SCIENTISTS_ ARTICLE_ON_FLYING_DISCS.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03

Linked public serials

Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 / e44ddbe2-b76a-4a8c-b9f8-248108c1f4dbPURSUE-RELEASE-03 Serial e44ddbe2-b76a-4a8c-b9f8-248108c1f4dbMr. Richard D. Drain Secretary Intelligence Advisory Committee 2430 E Street, N. W. Washington 25, D. C.Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 / 1a45cf49-0f4b-4c26-bbfc-fe7256c9a91dPURSUE-RELEASE-03 Serial 1a45cf49-0f4b-4c26-bbfc-fe7256c9a91d| The Need for High-Altitude Reconnaissance.. | | 1 | |-|-|-| | Early Postwar Aerial Reconnaissance. | | .2 | | New Approaches to Photoreconnaissance.. | | 4 | | The Air Force Search for a New Reconnaissance Aircraft..…Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 / 9b10a074-7047-4019-88f4-0e7d79c08bbaPURSUE-RELEASE-03 Serial 9b10a074-7047-4019-88f4-0e7d79c08bba1. We have contacted Dr. Davidson by telephone advising him that we cannot resolve his problem concerning the space message and its transmitter because records on the matter have been destroyed by the evaluating agency.…

16 documents / 16 public serials

NASA

Apollo, Gemini, Skylab, and NASA visual material where the source record is NASA-originated or NASA-contextual.

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1965-2001

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255_413270_ufo's_and_defense_what_should_we_prepare_for.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 255_t_763_r1b_transcripts.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 NASA-UAP-D015_Astronaut-Scientific-Debriefings_1962-1963.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 NASA-UAP-D016_Preliminary-Gemini-4-Crew-Debriefing_Part1_1965.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03

Linked public serials

2001-04-30 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 7e5f380e-5411-4178-b159-fe666a0784acCarol Rosin & Jon Cypher Letter to NASA Official Transmitting the French COMETA UFO Report (April 30, 2001)On April 30, 2001, Carol Rosin and Jon Cypher sent a letter to a NASA official identified only as "Dan," announcing a Friday meeting and promising to deliver a package at no cost to NASA. A follow-up note, written on Re…1965-12-01 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 683e4360-28cc-4b93-b9d4-803a7ec9d653Gemini 7 Crew Reports "Bogey" and Debris Field During GT-7/6 Mission, PAO Release Commentary Tape T-00763At 4 hours 24 minutes into the Gemini 7 flight in December 1965, Commander Frank Borman reported "a bogey at ten o'clock high" to Houston, confirmed it as "an actual sighting," and described hundreds of small particles…Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 / ea6458ed-49db-49c4-955b-92d6dbc8facePURSUE-RELEASE-03 Serial ea6458ed-49db-49c4-955b-92d6dbc8face....... a little bit, my skin waswet and it didn't stick the way it had stuck when we tried it out in the trainer and in the capsule on the pad and I finally gave up on it and just kept one eye shut. This is marginally…

6 documents / 6 public serials

Department of State

Diplomatic cables and State Department memoranda that report UAP-related events or policy context.

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1963-2023

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059uap00011.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 059uap00012.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 059uap00013.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 59_214434_sp_16_[7.18.1963].pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-01

Linked public serials

2001-10-28 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 2342245d-8809-44b2-bb6e-5a9797c72a83UFOs Over Georgia: U.S. Embassy Moscow Cable on Russian Airspace Violations and Gudauta Withdrawal (October 2001)A confidential cable sent October 30, 2001, from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to the State Department reports that Deputy Foreign Minister Mamedov, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, categorically denied that Russian…2004-11-05 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / 428bb3b2-d0d8-486e-875f-37573219fc2bU.S. Embassy Ashgabat Cable: Turkmenistan Civil Society and UFOs, Union of UFOlogists of TurkmenabatOn November 5, 2004, the U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission and USAID Director met with the Board of the Union of UFOlogists of Turkmenabat in Lebap Welayet, Turkmenistan. UOU President Ovezberdy Muradov stated that T…2023-09-11 / PURSUE-RELEASE-01 / a670eb4f-17df-4642-9e34-61f83ad794e8Mexico Weekly Political Blotter, Sep 11,15, 2023: UAP Testimony, Prosecutor Killings, and MORENA Election DisputesThe U.S. Embassy in Mexico City reported in a September 16, 2023 cable that Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan presented alleged non-human remains to the Mexican Congress, which pilot witness Graves called an "unsubstanti…

5 documents / 5 public serials

Department of Energy

Source records attributed to this agency in the hosted manifest.

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Date range in public serials

1948-2015

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DOE-UAP-D001_PANTEX_Image.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 DOE-UAP-D002_JamesTuck_Correspondence.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 DOE-UAP-D003_Pajarito_Astronomers.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 DOE-UAP-D004_Los-Alamos-Conference-on-Aerial-Phenomena_1949.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-04

Linked public serials

Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 / 2ca3e217-bca9-4f62-a240-9da873fefe56Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, Ground Surveillance Radar and Sandia-Enhanced Images (Pages 5,6 of 6)Pages 5 and 6 of a six-page "Pantex UAP Incident Report," produced by Pantex Plant (managed by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC), show a Ground Surveillance Radar Tower image with a small point target circled in red;…1948-01-01 / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 / c5ec265a-5be5-4525-89aa-8ef42cf6c3e1James Tuck Correspondence: Green Light Sightings at Los Alamos, 1948,1951A correspondent wrote to James L. Tuck at Los Alamos reporting several sightings of green lights in the Jemez Mountains between 1948 and 1951, typically between 9 and 11 PM, and one afternoon sighting of five objects fl…1986-05-29 / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 / 01baf760-c0aa-4fd5-9894-28d9f9771ff4Pajarito Astronomers Club Meeting Notice: "Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?", Los Alamos, May 1986A May 20, 1986 newsletter from the Pajarito Astronomers of Los Alamos, New Mexico announces a club meeting scheduled for May 29, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ranch Room at Fuller Lodge. Guest speaker Dr. John Warren of AT-…

1 documents / 1 public serials

Central Intelligence Agency

Source records attributed to this agency in the hosted manifest.

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1972-1972

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CIA-UAP-D001_Intelligence_Information_Report_USSR_1973.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-02

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1972-11-01 / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 / 01b53189-084f-4568-8a9b-df03f07f3414CIA Intelligence Information Report: Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon at Sary Shagan Weapons Testing Range, USSR (1973)A former Soviet citizen reported observing an unidentified sharp green circular object or mass in the sky over Site 7 at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR sometime between November 1972 and November 1973…

1 documents / 1 public serials

Intelligence Community Agency

Source records attributed to this agency in the hosted manifest.

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ICA-UAP-D001_Analysis_Colorado-Springs-UAP-Incident.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03

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Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 / d67096dc-2376-4e1b-a491-599951784685PURSUE-RELEASE-03 Serial d67096dc-2376-4e1b-a491-599951784685An Airborne Object Over Cheyenne Mountain in February 2022 was Possible Backscattering of Sunlight

1 documents / 1 public serials

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Source records attributed to this agency in the hosted manifest.

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2025-2025

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ODNI-UAP-D001_USPER_Narrative_Senior_USIC.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-02

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2025-01-01 / PURSUE-RELEASE-02 / 1c9334cb-2949-4725-95b5-4079dc6609d8Senior USIC Officer Helicopter UAP Encounter Over Mountain Test RangeIn late 2025, a senior U.S. intelligence officer and two pilots departed a Joint Operations Center by helicopter to investigate loud thuds and UAP sightings over a weapons test range. Hovering at 700 feet AGL, they obse…

1 documents / 1 public serials

U.S. Government

Source records attributed to this agency in the hosted manifest.

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USG-UAP-D001_Congress-WhiteHouse-UFO-Correspondence_1998.pdfpdf / PURSUE-RELEASE-03

Linked public serials

Date not stated / PURSUE-RELEASE-03 / 971fae86-0b5f-4dbb-8556-3c938ebceb68PURSUE-RELEASE-03 Serial 971fae86-0b5f-4dbb-8556-3c938ebceb68Title: WARD/Sen Snowe fwds ltr from (b) (6) , who's interested in U.F.O. and the recent Mars photo