Unsealed · Case File 001

The Pentagon's UFO Files

What 450 declassified records actually show, from Project Blue Book to the Navy videos.

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In 1952 the officer running the US Air Force's UFO investigation gave a talk in Boston. Seventy-four years later, the Pentagon released the recording.

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The story

Case File 001 goes through the 450 records released through the PURSUE portal in 2026, and the 79 years of programmes behind them: Wright Field, the Robertson Panel, the swamp-gas summer of 1966, the end of Blue Book, the Navy videos and the hearings that followed.

It ends, as every Unsealed film does, with What the record shows: a short verdict with every source on screen.

Format
Documentary
Runtime
29 min
Language
English
Sources
14 named records
Footage
Archival; reconstructions labelled

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Sources

  1. PURSUE, Releases 01–06 (8 May – 18 Sep 2026), war.gov/ufo
  2. Presentation by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, Boston, 26 March 1952 (DOW-UAP-PR160, D154)
  3. Tremonton, Utah film and Project Blue Book file, 2 July 1952 (DOW-UAP-PR159, D102)
  4. AAWSAP records, 2008 (DOW-UAP-D110, D111)
  5. LLE-UAP-PR001/002: Colorado, October 2023
  6. Report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects (Robertson Panel), January 1953
  7. Lt. Gen. N. F. Twining memo, 23 September 1947
  8. Project Blue Book records, US National Archives
  9. Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report), 1968
  10. ODNI, Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, 25 June 2021
  11. AARO, Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Vol. 1, March 2024
  12. US Navy videos FLIR1, Gimbal, GoFast, released 27 April 2020
  13. House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UAP, 26 July 2023
  14. E. J. Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)

Footage: US Department of War, US Navy, US Air Force, DVIDS, US National Archives, Universal Newsreels (public domain), Wikimedia Commons. Reconstructions are labelled on screen.

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