THE UAP FILES

The file includes an Air Materiel Command letter, "AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'," to the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, attention Brig. General George Schulgen. It states: "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious," and lists an apparent common description that includes "Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top." Other items include newspaper clippings, a note on the Horten brothers, and correspondence about a private individual's theories.

Commentary (editorial): The AMC opinion letter is dated 23 September 1947 on the copy at p.12; the index date (12/30/47) is not explained by the file.

The image shows an Apollo 17 lunar surface photograph with hills on the horizon and a yellow callout box enlarging three small faint dots in the dark sky at upper right. Per index: As part of the review of historical UAP materials under PURSUE, DOW has opened a case to investigate the accompanying NASA photograph from the Apollo 17 mission, taken December 1972. Per index, "new preliminary US government analysis suggests the image feature is potentially the result of a physical object in the scene," and full NASA and DOW results are still to be released.

Commentary (editorial): The index notes that this photo was released before and that there is "no consensus" on what the dots are.

The three keyframes show grayscale infrared views over terrain and water with a full on-screen data overlay that reads "26AP2013" and "GROUND TRACK". Per DVIDS description: The footage appears to depict a UAP moving at high speed, splitting into two objects, and entering and exiting the water before disappearing into the ocean off Puerto Rico's northwestern coast. [...] An Intelligence Community partner's reconstruction of the flight path and look angle from the infrared sensor indicates that the video instead depicts two objects traveling near each other rather than a single object splitting into two.

Commentary (editorial): The audio track is not near-silent and its content was not reviewed; the AARO page titles this "Puerto Rico Object Video"; DVIDS titles it "Puerto Rico Objects".

In January 2015, a U.S. Navy F/A-18F pilot recorded an object with a FLIR sensor over the Atlantic off Florida; the Department of Defense released the "Go Fast" video in 2020. AARO assessed "with high confidence that the object did not move at anomalous speeds," placing it at about 13,000 feet, and says it "cannot definitively identify the object." A technical appendix sets out AARO's reconstruction from the publicly available 34-second video, because the original file and metadata "are no longer available."

Commentary (editorial): AARO case resolution with methodology appendix; an editor's note says it was updated 20 February 2025 and that AARO could not obtain aircrew accounts.

The three keyframes show a gray background with a dark irregular shape between two vertical tracking marks, which appears larger in each later frame. Per index: The United States Northern Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 32 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2020. Per index description: 00:01-00:32: The sensor zooms and pans to keep an area of contrast generally within the center of the frame.

Commentary (editorial): The object's growing apparent size across the frames may reflect zoom changes; the frames alone do not show which.

The three keyframes show a grayscale infrared view of a plain background with a small bright shape with short projections near the center, inside a box reticle, and black redaction boxes at the edges. Per index: The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of nine seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2024. Per index description: 00:00-00:09: The sensor focuses on an area of contrast that resembles a football-shaped body with three radial projections: one oriented vertically, and two oriented downward at a 45-degree angle relative to the major axis of the main mass.

Commentary (editorial): Black redaction boxes cover parts of the on-screen display; the keyframes alone do not show the motion described in the index.