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The Pentagon released 162 declassified UAP files on May 8 — we built a free index for navigating them.

The Pentagon's May 8 declassified UAP file release isn't just paperwork — a meaningful portion is actual sensor footage. Infrared from CENTCOM submissions across 2022-2024 (Iraq, Gulf of Oman, East China Sea), MQ-9 Reaper sensor data from a 2023 mission near Iranian airspace, and NASA / Apollo-era material that had been buried in mission archives for decades.

We built a free index for the full release at pentagonufofiles.io. The official war.gov asset page lists everything but doesn't let you search or filter — it's a pile of scanned PDFs in subfolders. Our index pulls the same documents into one searchable place, organized by year, location, agency, sensor type, and shape, with the original Pentagon-released doc linked on every case page. Nothing rehosted. Nothing reinterpreted. Just made navigable.

A few cases that have been getting attention from people working through it:

The 2013 "chandelier" infrared. Eight-pointed star-shaped object trails across the frame, vanishes from the sensor, then reappears along the same arc. The IR signature geometry is unusual.
The 2024 Gulf of Oman teardrop. Object described in the Pentagon doc as "an inverted teardrop with a pole-like structure hanging beneath it," tracked at 163 knots / 24,000 feet.
The 2023 MQ-9 Reaper case near Iran. Two unidentified fast-movers (320 / 440 mph) in one hour during a long-endurance surveillance run. The mission report notes that Iranian air defenses had already radioed a warning before the U.S. drone acquired the objects — multi-party observation is rare in the broader record.
Apollo / Skylab phenomena. Older NASA-archive material that had not been previously declassified.

Free, no signup, no ads. We'll keep adding to it as new tranches come out — DoD has indicated more releases are scheduled.

u/Enigma_Labs — 5 days ago

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After the Pentagon's May 8 release, we pulled all 162 declassified UAP files into one searchable index. Here's what's actually in it.

As you know the Pentagon dropped 162 declassified UAP files on May 8, 2026. The full set is on the war.gov asset index, but it's structured for archivists, not readers, so we built a free index at pentagonufofiles.io that makes the release actually navigable.

A few things worth flagging from working through the full set:

The numbers. 162 files compiled into 77 cases (some files are multiple documents from the same incident). Searchable / filterable by year, geography, agency, sensor type, shape, and tags. Each case has the original Pentagon-released document, supporting media, and mission-report context where applicable.

The agencies. Department of War / DoD is most of it, but the release also includes FBI reports, NASA / Apollo-era material, and State Department cables from various U.S. embassies (Mexico, Turkmenistan, Tbilisi, Papua New Guinea, Kazakhstan). The cross-agency nature is unusual — most prior UAP releases have been single-agency.

The geography. Heavy CENTCOM AOR (Iraq, Iran, Gulf of Oman), East China Sea, plus a meaningful chunk of older U.S. domestic incidents. Also Apollo / Skylab phenomena from the moon missions, which had been buried in NASA archives for decades.

The cases that have caught attention so far:

Case 66 — "the chandelier." 2013 Middle East infrared, an eight-pointed star-shaped object that trails across the frame, vanishes from the sensor, and reappears along the same arc. The IR geometry is unusual; conventional aircraft signatures don't show radial point-source patterns.
Case 64 — Gulf of Oman teardrop. 2024, an "inverted teardrop with a pole-like structure hanging beneath it" tracked at 163 knots / 24,000 feet. The geometry description is what makes this one strange — there's no standard chaff or aerial vehicle that matches it.
Case 13 — MQ-9 Reaper near Iran. 2023 long-endurance surveillance run that picks up two unidentified fast-movers in one hour (320 mph and 440 mph), with notation that Iranian air defenses had already radioed a warning before the U.S. drone acquired the objects. Multi-party observation — that's rare in the broader UAP record.
Case 9 — Iraq orb. 2022 CENTCOM submission to federal investigators, orb crosses a major Iraqi city in 6 seconds. CENTCOM submitted it for federal review rather than dismissing internally, which is itself unusual.

Why we built the index. The official war.gov page lists files but doesn't let you search or compare. If you want to look across all the CENTCOM submissions, or all the cases involving infrared lock-on, or all the cases where the original document notes "no identification provided" — there's no way to do that on the official site. Our index has filters for all of that, plus links to the original Pentagon docs on every case so nothing is rehosted or reinterpreted. Free, no signup, no ads. We're going to keep adding to it as new tranches come out...

pentagonufofiles.io

u/Enigma_Labs — 5 days ago

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We built a free index of the Pentagon's May 8 declassified UAP file release — 162 files in one searchable place.

The Pentagon released its first batch of declassified UAP files on May 8, 2026 — 162 files in total, the long-promised drop after Congress requested 46 back in March. DoD ended up putting out 162 instead.

We built a free index for it: pentagonufofiles.io. The official war.gov asset page lists the files but doesn't let you search or filter, and the documents themselves are scanned PDFs in subfolders. So we pulled everything into one place — searchable, filterable by year, location, agency, sensor type, shape — with the original Pentagon-released doc on every case page. It's helped us made sense of the dump of files.

The site has a lot, including the cases that have been getting talked about (the 2013 "chandelier" infrared signature, the 2024 Gulf of Oman teardrop, the MQ-9 Reaper Iran case from 2023). Apollo 17 phenomena are in there too, which a lot of people didn't know existed in the NASA archives.

Free, no signup, no ads. We'll keep adding to it as new tranches come out (DoD has indicated more releases are coming).

u/Enigma_Labs — 5 days ago