A mirror of the war.gov UFO/UAP release — 338 content files, 15.1 GB in Git LFS, pulled from https://www.war.gov/UFO/ starting 2026-05-08 and kept in sync by a weekly watcher.
This is a mirror of public-domain US government documents, hosted as the canonical example dataset for the uap-release-analyzer skill. It lets anyone reproduce the eval scoreboard against the same input the skill was tuned on, without scraping war.gov themselves.
Last sync: 2026-08-02. war.gov currently lists 334 records (189 PDF · 103 video · 27 image · 15 audio). 333 are mirrored; NASA-UAP-D024 (Apollo 16 debriefing, 3.2 GB) is mid-transfer and lands next run. The 5 extra local files are documented under Known gaps.
| Agency | Files | Size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOW (Dept of War, formerly DoD) | 163 | 8.60 GB | Mission reports and range-fouler debriefs (PDF) plus 99 Unresolved UAP Report videos dow-uap-prNN.mp4 |
| FBI | 82 | 2.10 GB | 62-HQ-83894 case-file sections, FD-302 reports, sensor photos, 2024 composite sketch |
| NASA | 38 | 3.34 GB | Apollo / Skylab / Gemini / Mercury transcripts and debriefings, image frames, and 14 audio excerpts nasa-uap-dNN-*.mp4 |
| NARA / other | 26 | 0.95 GB | Numeric record groups (RG 18, 38, 59, 65, 255, 331, 341, 342) — historical, mostly scanned-only |
| CIA | 21 | 0.09 GB | Scientific Advisory Panel report, OXCART/U-2 history, Soviet-sighting reporting |
| DOE | 5 | 0.01 GB | Pantex image, Tuck correspondence, Pajarito astronomers |
| DOS | 2 | 0.00 GB | Embassy cables (Papua New Guinea 1985, Kazakhstan 1994) |
| ODNI | 1 | 0.00 GB | USPER narrative, senior USIC official |
| Total | 338 | 15.09 GB |
(Agency buckets are by filename prefix and approximate at the margins.)
- 193 PDFs — 3.65 GB. Both text-bearing and scanned-only; the latter need OCR for content.
- 118 MP4s — 11.42 GB. 99 DOW Unresolved UAP Report videos (
dow-uap-prNN.mp4), 14 NASA audio excerpts (nasa-uap-dNN-*.mp4), plus a handful of other agency clips. Audio records are DVIDS video assets — audio over a static frame — so they carry an.mp4extension. - 27 images — 19 JPG + 8 PNG. FBI sensor frames and the 2024 composite sketch. These need vision analysis, not OCR.
Largest files: dow-uap-pr52.mp4 (514 MB), dow-uap-pr58.mp4 (440 MB), nasa-uap-d25-apollo-16-scientific-debriefing.mp4 (426 MB), nasa-uap-d11-mercury-atlas-9-audio-excerpt-may-15-1963.mp4 (416 MB).
All video and audio is sourced from war.gov's DVIDS/CloudFront pipeline — see Provenance.
Clone with LFS:
git lfs install # one-time setup if you don't have LFS
git clone https://github.com/ckpxgfnksd-max/uap-release-01.git ~/Documents/UFO/release_01Then run the analyzer:
git clone https://github.com/ckpxgfnksd-max/uap-release-analyzer.git
python uap-release-analyzer/scripts/run_all.py ~/Documents/UFO/release_01
open ~/Documents/UFO/release_01/REPORT.mdTo skip downloading 15 GB up front (clone metadata only, fetch on demand):
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://github.com/ckpxgfnksd-max/uap-release-01.git
cd uap-release-01
git lfs pull --include "dow-uap-d27*" # one specific PDF
git lfs pull --include "dow-uap-*.pdf" # all DOW mission report PDFs
git lfs pull --include "dow-uap-pr*.mp4" # all 99 DOW Unresolved-Report videos
git lfs pull --include "nasa-uap-d*.mp4" # the 14 NASA audio excerpts
git lfs pull --include "65_hs1*" # the heavy FBI scanned sectionsThe scripts that maintain this mirror live in tools/, version-controlled alongside the corpus so the committed copy is the copy that runs:
tools/run.sh # ref check, then: fetch record list -> diff -> fetch docs -> resolve DVIDS -> fetch mediatools/README.md documents the non-obvious failure modes — the Akamai transport that only an in-page fetch() clears, chunked base64 on large responses, why partial downloads must never sit inside the repo, and why audio records resolve as id=video:. Read it before changing the pipeline.
- Source: https://www.war.gov/UFO/
- PDFs and images first pulled: 2026-05-08.
- Videos (PR19–PR49) added 2026-05-09: fetched from
d34w7g4gy10iej.cloudfront.net/video/<group>/DOD_<id>/DOD_<id>.mp4after each record's DVIDS asset id was discovered. war.gov serves these through an inline viewer with client-side HLS-to-MP4 assembly; the direct CloudFront URLs bypass that and return the pre-assembled MP4. - 2026-05-31: switched the watcher from DOM scraping to the server-side
uap-data.csvmanifest, which is authoritative and removed the synthetic-click fragility. - 2026-06-07: completed the release_02 tranche — DOW PR092–PR099 and the first NASA audio excerpts. Audio has no per-file war.gov URL and resolves through the DVIDS asset API (
https://api.dvidshub.net/asset?api_key=<key>&id=video:<DVIDS_ID>, sent with ahttps://www.war.gov/Referer), readingresults.files[].srcfor the canonical…/DOD_<id>/DOD_<id>.mp4. - 2026-08-02: added DOW-UAP-D092/D093/D096 and 11 media records. Two earlier runs had reported those three documents as withdrawn from war.gov. That was wrong: the fetcher had drifted onto a transport Akamai rejects for every war.gov document, including files already mirrored. All three downloaded normally through the documented path. Nothing had been withdrawn, and the toolchain was moved into this repo so the failure mode cannot recur silently.
- Verification: every media file is checked against the size reported by the DVIDS API and for an
ftypbox before being committed. - No re-redactions or transformations have been applied. Files are as-released by war.gov.
- NASA-UAP-D024 (Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing, 3.2 GB) is mid-transfer across runs and not yet mirrored.
- 5 files present here with no matching current war.gov record. These are renames, duplicates, or superseded entries retained deliberately — nothing is ever auto-deleted:
255_t_763_r1b_excerpt.mp4,59_214434_sp_16_7.18.1963.pdf,dow-uap-d20-mission-report-southern-united-states-2020.pdf(see issue #3),dow-uap-pr20 (1).pdf,nasa-uap-d3-gemini-7-transcript-1965.pdf.
US federal government works are not eligible for copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 105 and are in the public domain in the United States. Foreign copyright treatment may vary; check your jurisdiction if redistributing outside the US.
This repository carries no additional copyright claim by Chase Wang or contributors.
The corpus is 15.09 GB across 338 binary files in Git LFS (193 PDFs · 3.65 GB, 118 MP4s · 11.42 GB, 27 images · 0.02 GB). Several files exceed GitHub's 100 MB single-file cap, which is why LFS is required.
If you don't need the heaviest scanned NARA/FBI files (they have no text layer, and the analyzer flags them as "OCR-required" rather than analyzing them) or the larger videos, the partial-clone form above fetches only the buckets you care about.
Updates are picked up by the war-gov-uap-watcher scheduled task (weekly, Sunday 9 AM local). It fetches war.gov's uap-data.csv with a headless browser (Akamai 403s plain curl), diffs it against this mirror, resolves video and audio records through the DVIDS API, verifies each download, and commits via Git LFS. Files that vanish from war.gov are flagged in an issue for review, never auto-deleted.
A record is only left as a *.viewer-only.txt placeholder when it genuinely cannot be resolved to bytes; that is the rare exception, not the default. If you spot a delta the watcher missed, open an issue.