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What this is

UFOlens is an independent third-party project that turns the declassified UAP/UFO records released by the U.S. Department of War’s “PURSUE” program into a multilingual, structured, tool-friendly platform — with OCR transcription, an interactive map, a timeline, full-text search, an overlay reader for the originals, and a read-only API.

Source

All documents and images come from war.gov/ufo (U.S. Department of War — PURSUE program, Release 01: 2026-05-08). Videos are actually hosted on DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service), provided by DVIDS / AARO.

Legal status

Works of the U.S. federal government are in the public domain within the United States (17 U.S.C. §105); anyone may freely download, copy, translate, and use them commercially. This site reproduces and translates these files on that basis.

• Declassified files may include third-party copyrighted content supplied to the government by civilians, private companies, or contractors (FBI case files in particular may contain old private correspondence); for documents flagged as containing third-party material, this site adds a note and links back to the war.gov original rather than re-hosting the third-party image itself.
• For content redacted by the government, this site shows the redaction in place, does not reconstruct it, and does not “restore” it with AI.
• This site does not use the logos, seals, or insignia of the U.S. Department of War, the FBI, NASA, AARO, or other agencies; this site has no affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, or partnership with the U.S. government or any of its agencies.

Translation quality

Translations are produced automatically by open-source AI (local models such as NLLB-200 and TranslateGemma) and may contain errors. Every non-English page is marked as machine-translated and offers “View original English”; low-confidence OCR blocks are flagged separately. If you spot an error, report it via “Report a translation error” on the document page. The original English files are authoritative.

What we add vs. the originals

The originals (PDFs / images / videos) are always viewable and downloadable (or linked back to war.gov); OCR transcription, machine translation, AI summaries, AI-upscaled images, and so on are derivative value added by this site, and are labelled as to how they were generated.

How to cite

Suggested format: U.S. Department of War — PURSUE program (war.gov/ufo), Release N, date. "Document title". Transcribed and translated via UFOlens.com. <permalink>. Each document page has a BibTeX / citation block.

Privacy

This site collects as little as possible: no registration required; no tracking cookies (just one cookie that remembers your language preference). The translation-report form stores only a hashed IP (for rate limiting, not the raw IP). The contact / API-request form stores the name, email, and message you provide, plus your IP address (to prevent abuse); messages are reviewed by a human, are never sold or shared, and are kept only as long as needed to handle your request. Basic page-view telemetry is recorded server-side as a “daily-rotating hashed IP” (no cookie, can’t be tracked across days, can’t be reversed to the raw IP) and is automatically deleted after 30 / 90 / 365 days at the latest; the site administrator’s own visits are not counted.

Contact / takedown requests / third-party copyright claims

For questions, corrections, takedown requests, or media inquiries, please use the contact form (or the contact details in the footer / on GitHub). If you are the copyright holder of some third-party material and want it addressed, the process is the same. This site operates under U.S. law. The API terms of service also state: attribution is required, impersonating an official source is prohibited, and you are reminded not to “reconstruct” redacted content.