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The deep dive on the PURSUE disclosure — when the incidents happened, who held the files, and which documents carry the most text.
The deep dive on the PURSUE disclosure — when the incidents happened, who held the files, and which documents carry the most text.
Dated files by incident decade (year taken from the document title). The 2020s spike is not modern sightings — it is the bulk of AARO-era reports (2020–2025) released with the program; the 1940s–1960s tail is the Cold War correspondence that took decades to declassify.
197 of 297 files carry an incident year in the title; undated files are mostly multi-year correspondence bundles.
Which agencies contributed each tranche. R01 is the mixed Cold War dump; R03 is CIA-heavy; R05 is FBI-heavy (the “triangle renderings” tranche); R06 is DOW-heavy (the AAWSAP/DIRD advanced-aerospace tranche).
| Release | CIA | DOE | DOS | DOW | FBI | NASA | UNATTRIBUTED | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R01 | — | — | 2 | 42 | — | 12 | 74 | 130 |
| R02 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 6 |
| R03 | 18 | — | — | 7 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 63 |
| R04 | 2 | 2 | — | 9 | 1 | 3 | — | 17 |
| R05 | 2 | — | 2 | 4 | 16 | — | 1 | 25 |
| R06 | — | — | — | 55 | — | — | 1 | 56 |
By volume of extracted text — the documents that carry the most of the 19M characters.
| # | Document | Agency | Year | Release | Text Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Final Personnel Record for Newhouse Delbert C US Navy (1957) | DOW | 1957 | R06 | 1440K chars |
| 2 | THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND OVERHEAD RECONNAISSANCE THE U 2 AND OXCART PROGRAMS 1954 (1974) | CIA | 1974 | R03 | 827K chars |
| 3 | Project Blue Book Special Report No 14 | CIA | — | R03 | 569K chars |
| 4 | Report September (1996) | DOW | 1996 | R01 | 528K chars |
| 5 | 65 HS1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Section 6 | UNATTRIBUTED | — | R01 | 459K chars |
| 6 | 65 HS1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Section 10 | UNATTRIBUTED | — | R01 | 450K chars |
| 7 | Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing Part1 (1965) | NASA | 1965 | R03 | 416K chars |
| 8 | Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing Part2 (1965) | NASA | 1965 | R03 | 412K chars |
| 9 | Launch Summary February (2000) | DOW | 2000 | R01 | 404K chars |
| 10 | Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing Part2 (1965) | NASA | 1965 | R03 | 358K chars |