# Coverage, sources and limitations

Research date: November 8, 2026 (PST / America/Los_Angeles). Public sources only; no accounts, leaks, paid archives, foreign-government collections or user-computer filesystem access.

## Search procedure

1. Open official AARO imagery and resolution catalogs; enumerate PR-001–PR-018 and every older imagery entry.
2. Open the current government PURSUE landing page and latest release announcement. Discover the seven-release index; direct official CSV retrieval returned HTTP 403, so use a clearly labeled third-party CSV mirror as a *lead list*, not independent official authentication.
3. Independently retrieve every listed DVIDS audio/video record, its official title, caption and publicly linked MP4. Compare catalog labels with actual DVIDS labels. Deduplicate source IDs and later exact binary hashes.
4. Cross-check Navy FOIA, NARA RG615 and moving-image/bulk catalogs; download all twelve CBP FOIA video attachments and all thirteen MP4s in NARA's currently offered Blue Book film bulk ZIP. Check all nine agency-provided RG615 metadata CSVs for additional moving-image/audio records. This found two short FBI witness clips outside PURSUE.
5. Search NASA, ODNI, CIA, FBI Vault, and congressional hearing/exhibit sources for other released recordings and current analytical context. Distinguish recordings from testimony, simulations, eyewitness illustrations, policy documents, historical interviews and engineering demonstrations.
6. Acquire unchanged official linked media; resume interrupted public downloads using ordinary HTTP byte ranges. Verify container readability with ffprobe, compute local SHA-256, and compare official CDN file lengths/ETags where possible. No viewing, frame interpretation, trajectory reconstruction or independent debunking was performed.

The ranking is editorial documentary interest grounded in official captions/status, not a quantitative measure of how inexplicable a recording is. No official source reviewed supplies a defensible universal “most unexplained” ranking.

## Official source directory

### AARO / Department of War / Navy / DVIDS

- [AARO complete imagery listing](https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/)
- [AARO case-resolution reports](https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/UAP-Case-Resolution-Reports/)
- [PURSUE government release portal](https://www.war.gov/UFO/)
- [Release 07 announcement, October 23, 2026](https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4632058/department-of-war-publishes-seventh-release-of-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/)
- [Initial release announcement, May 8, 2026](https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4480582/department-of-war-releases-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-files-in-historic-t/)
- [Official PURSUE CSV (403 from command-line retrieval)](https://www.war.gov/Portals/1/Interactive/2026/UFO/uap-data.csv)
- [AARO DVIDS unit](https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/AARO)
- [Navy FOIA document library](https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents)
- [April 27, 2020 official release of the three historical Navy videos](https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/)

Every recording's individual official source and actual CDN URL are in manifest.csv/json. DVIDS-linked CloudFront hosts are official media delivery links even though the hostname is not `.gov`. DVIDS MP4s may be publication renditions, sometimes upscaled or repackaged; these are not asserted to be native original sensor files.

PURSUE index mirror used solely for discovery: [CSV](https://pursueufotracker.com/data/uap-data.csv), [provenance/revision explanation](https://pursueufotracker.com/uap-data-csv). The mirror's claim of matching the live government hash was NOT independently reproducible because official CSV access failed. Its 478 rows comprise 150 audio/video rows but 149 distinct DVIDS IDs. The PR057b row points to the same official ID as PR057a (1007720); that official page is titled PR057a. This is an index alias/mismatch, not two independently acquired videos. Exact binary duplicates are stored once.

Latest tranche: the official landing page identifies Release 07 as October 23, 2026. The discovery CSV lists its 28 additions as PDFs; the latest newly listed recordings are Release 06, September 18. No claim is made that every late government revision or file replacement is detectable through a blocked live index.

### National Archives / Customs and Border Protection

- [RG615 UAP collection overview, reviewed October 27, 2026](https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/rg-615)
- [Moving images and sound recordings directory](https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps/moving-images-and-sound)
- [UAP bulk downloads](https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog/catalog-bulk-downloads/uap-bulk-download)
- [Blue Book film series 61934](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61934) · [Official film ZIP](https://catalog.archives.gov/medialz/bulk-downloads/uaps/zips/moving-images/61934.zip)
- [FBI RG615 series 580705010](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/580705010)
- [Anoka witness case / video](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/653523962)
- [Rolling Meadows FD-302 / video](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/653628630)
- [CBP full FOIA recording release](https://www.cbp.gov/document/foia-record/unidentified-aerial-phenomenon)
- [CBP RG615 series 665701604](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/665701604)

The currently offered Blue Book ZIP contains thirteen MP4s; the broader physical series comprises more reels. A film's presence in Blue Book holdings does not establish it as an unsolved case. These thirteen films are included without case-by-case anomaly ranking. No fictional event dates or object identifications were added to them.

CBP archive attachment 3.1 contains an MP4 internally named “Video … 10”; 3.2 contains “Video … 3.” Do not map cases by internal filename number alone. The manifest retains source attachment numbering and actual ZIP member filenames. CBP's separate “9” AVI is the Aguadilla/Puerto Rico event, for which AARO publishes a non-anomalous reconstruction. Other CBP clips are labeled *unattributed releases* rather than confirmed anomalous.

Official agency-provided metadata, saved in sources/:

- [FAA](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2025-0006-tr-0615-2025-0008-faa-uap-combined.csv): 575 PDF entries; no media-format entries in this particular list.
- [NRC](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2025-0001-tr-0615-2025-0003-nrc-uap-combined.csv)
- [ODNI](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2025-0005-odni-uap.csv)
- [OSD](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2025-0009-osd-uap.csv)
- [NSA](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2025-0010-nsa-uap.csv)
- [State](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2026-0001-tr-0615-2026-0002-state-uap-combined.csv)
- [FBI](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2025-0013-fbi-uap.csv): includes two witness videos acquired separately from official NARA media objects.
- [Air Force](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2026-0003-tr-0615-2026-0017-daf-uap.csv): includes MP3/WAV formats of the Ruppelt talk; long historical presentation, not an encounter sensor recording.
- [CBP](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/topics/UAP/tr-0615-2026-0009-cbp-uap.csv): all twelve listed video attachments acquired from CBP, avoiding duplicate full copies from NARA.

### NASA / ODNI / CIA / FBI / Congress

- [NASA UAP study and source directory](https://science.nasa.gov/uap/)
- [NASA study final PDF, September 2023](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf) — included in analysis/.
- [ODNI / AARO consolidated annual report, November 2024](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/DOD-AARO-Consolidated-Annual-Report-on-UAP-Nov2024.pdf) — included in analysis/. The old ODNI report landing URL redirected to a generic newsroom; use the actual PDF.
- [CIA official historical UFO collection guide](https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/take-a-peek-into-our-x-files/)
- [CIA reading room UFO search](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/UFO)
- [FBI Vault UFO collection](https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO/) — historical document parts, not a complete modern FBI video index. Modern FBI PURSUE and NARA videos are covered separately.
- [September 9, 2025 official congressional hearing page](https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency-and-whistleblower-protection/)
- [March 2026 congressional request letter](https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/UAP-Request-Letter-FINAL.pdf)
- [2023 congressional UAP hearing / exhibit repository](https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=116282)

Congressional witness assertions and displayed footage are not automatically DoD-authenticated sensor releases. No standalone new media file with independently verified government chain of custody was acquired from the reviewed hearing pages beyond already cataloged official clips. The hearing broadcasts were not downloaded as though they were original sensor recordings. CIA historical files, FBI Vault PDFs, NASA studies, ODNI reports and NARA document-only holdings were searched as cross-checks, not individually downloaded/read page-by-page in their entirety. That is an explicit limit on “exhaustive.”

## Access and selection gaps

- Official war.gov / AARO HTML and CSV often returned 403 to command-line HTTP. Readable official page text was available through WebFetch, and actual media through official DVIDS pages. No authentication, private APIs, browser session, credentials, anti-bot evasion or user-network proxy was used.
- Seven specific mission/analysis PDFs on war.gov (D025, D033, D038, D077, D102, D107, D108) returned 403. Their URLs remain discoverable in the labeled index, and relevant official DVIDS captions provide context. They were NOT replaced with unofficial PDFs masquerading as official downloads.
- Long contextual audio records (Apollo debriefings, Mercury excerpts, Gordon Cooper interview, Ruppelt talk) remain inventoried with official playback/media URLs, but are not primary anomalous-event recordings and were not all copied. The Gemini 7 audio excerpt is included as a short historical example.
- NARA Roswell interview video/audio (many GB), Avrocar engineering films, historical press conferences/newsreels, policy-hearing streams, photographs and thousands of PDFs were excluded from the recording shortlist. The directory links retain routes to them.
- Classified, withdrawn, withheld, not-digitized, unavailable-online and not-indexed records cannot be ruled out or acquired. No conclusion of “there are no more files” is justified.
- No government case resolution was inferred from visual appearance, viral claims, social-media popularity, a failed search, or lack of corroboration.

## Blue Book film-level cross-check

All thirteen bulk film files were mapped to twelve individual catalog items (Great Falls has two reels). Dates below are catalog production/coverage dates, not newly validated event timestamps. Some 1967 dates fall outside the series title’s nominal 1950–1966 span. These films were not individually resolved by this review.

- [Great Falls, Montana](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61935) — 341-PBB-323; 1950-08-15 (catalog produced date; two reels).
- [Tremonton, Utah](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61937) — 341-PBB-345; 1952-07-02 (catalog produced date).
- [Landrum, South Carolina](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61939) — 341-PBB-374; 1952-11-16 (catalog produced date).
- [Luke AFB, Arizona](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61940) — 341-PBB-382; 1953-03-03 (catalog produced date).
- [Montebello, California](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61941) — 341-PBB-489; 1957-12-01 (catalog produced date).
- [Duncansville, Texas (catalog spelling)](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61943) — 341-PBB-492; 1957-12-12 (catalog produced date).
- [River Forest, Illinois](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61944) — 341-PBB-494; 1958-01-01 through 1958-01-10 (catalog coverage dates).
- [Corpus Christie, Texas (catalog spelling)](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61945) — 341-PBB-535; 1959-07-28 (catalog produced date).
- [Champaign, Illinois (catalog: ILLINIOS)](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61947) — 341-PBB-554; 1960-06-07 (catalog produced date).
- [Colorado Springs, Colorado](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61948) — 341-PBB-661; 1964-08-09 (catalog produced date).
- [Galesburg / Moline, Illinois](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61950) — 341-PBB-757; 1967-03-06 through 1967-03-09 (catalog coverage dates).
- [Yonkers, New York](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/61951) — 341-PBB-761; 1967-03-19 (catalog produced date).

Great Falls former item 61936 was consolidated into 61935 because it duplicated reel 2. Tremonton also appears in the newer DVIDS PR159 release. These are not additional independent events. See analysis/NARA-film-catalog-metadata.csv.