
The DoW dropped 162 files on May 8 at war.gov/UFO/ but the official page is just a flat directory of PDFs with cryptic filenames. So over the release weekend I built uap.watch to serve as a public reading room for the entire tranche.
What's in it:
- All 162 documents, OCR'd to clean text (113 of 118 unique PDFs have full extracted text inline; 5 are image-only FBI scans)
- 57 incidents pinned on a world map, filterable by year, agency, and region
- Cross-linked photo and video evidence with deep links back to the war.gov source
- A RAG chatbot grounded *only* in the 162 files — no model speculation, citations to the source document on every answer Wiki pages, state-by-state breakdowns, FAQ explainers, side-by-side incident comparisons
Independent project, no ads, MIT-licensed code on GitHub. Built this because every news article during the release was linking to a folder of PDFs and bouncing readers off.
Happy to answer any questions about the pipeline or the data.
by ReverseSalmonLadder
![[Seriois] I built a free, searchable archive of all 162 PURSUE Tranche 1 files released by the DoW [Seriois] I built a free, searchable archive of all 162 PURSUE Tranche 1 files released by the DoW](https://www.ufofeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1778787905_738_4JAKKvGD_JJsdb5li5EISuSJvXwHezvfPXVswkp8qY8-1024x683.jpeg)
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Awesome! Thank you for this