| ---
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| license: other
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| license_name: u-s-government-public-domain
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| license_link: https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright
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| pretty_name: "DOW UFO/UAP Release 01 (May 2026)"
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| tags:
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| - uap
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| - ufo
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| - government-records
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| - declassified
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| - foia
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| language:
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| - en
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| size_categories:
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| - n<1K
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| ---
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|
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| # Department of War — UFO/UAP "Release 01" (May 8, 2026)
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| Mirror of the files published at <https://www.war.gov/UFO/> as part of the U.S.
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| Department of War's "Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP
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| Encounters" (PURSUE) initiative — the first batch of records released under
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| President Trump's directive for transparency on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
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| (UAP).
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| The original site is gated by Akamai bot protection, which makes scripted bulk
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| downloads inconvenient. This dataset is a complete, unmodified mirror of every
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| file referenced by the page's master CSV, organized for easy browsing and
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| analysis.
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| ## Contents
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| | Folder | Files | Description |
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| |------------------|-------|----------------------------------------------------------|
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| | `pdfs/` | 116 | FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 sections, NASA reports, DoS, DoW reports |
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| | `videos/` | 28 | DOW UAP encounter videos + NASA Gemini 7 audio (mp4, sourced via DVIDS) |
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| | `images/` | 26 | FBI evidence photos and other imagery (full-resolution) |
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| | `thumbnails/` | 130 | Modal/carousel thumbnails for each record |
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| | `csv/uap-csv.csv`| 1 | Original master CSV from the war.gov page |
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| | `metadata/manifest.json` | 1 | Cleaned, structured manifest for all 161 records |
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| | `metadata/dvids_videos.json` | 1 | Resolved DVIDS video IDs → CloudFront mp4 URLs |
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| Total: **161 records**, ~**3.6 GB**.
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|
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| ## Agencies represented
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| - Department of War — 82 records
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| - Federal Bureau of Investigation — 57 records
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| - NASA — 15 records
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| - Department of State — 7 records
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|
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| ## How it was collected
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| 1. Fetched the master CSV referenced by the page: `https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-csv.csv`
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| 2. Downloaded each `PDF | Image Link` and `Modal Image` URL.
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| 3. For records with `Type == VID`, scraped the public DVIDS video page
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| (`https://www.dvidshub.net/video/{ID}`) for the direct CloudFront `.mp4` URL
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| and downloaded it.
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| 4. Used `curl_cffi` with Chrome TLS impersonation to bypass Akamai bot
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| protection on `war.gov`.
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| The full scraping script is included alongside this dataset in the companion
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| GitHub repo (link in the dataset card if available) or can be reproduced from
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| the description above.
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|
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| ## File naming
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| Files are named after the `Title` field in the source CSV with characters
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| sanitized (e.g. `65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_10.pdf`,
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| `DOW-UAP-PR42_Unresolved_UAP_Report_Middle_East_2020.mp4`).
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|
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| ## License / Source
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| These are U.S. government records released to the public by the Department of
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| War. U.S. government works are generally not subject to copyright in the United
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| States. See <https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright>.
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| Original source: <https://www.war.gov/UFO/> (PURSUE — Presidential Unsealing and
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| Reporting System for UAP Encounters), released 2026-05-08.
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|
|
| ## Caveats
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| - One CSV row had a corrupted PDF URL
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| (`65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_153`); the correct file path was
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| inferred from the naming pattern and downloaded successfully.
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| - Per the source page: "The materials archived here are unresolved cases,
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| meaning the government is unable to make a definitive determination on the
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| nature of the observed phenomena."
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|
