India, May 8 -- The US Department of War (DoW) has released its first batch of declassified files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs as part of a new initiative called the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE. The announcement was made via a post on X on Friday, May 8.

The files are now publicly available at war.gov/UFO and will be released on a rolling basis. For the first time, citizens can browse photos, videos and related documents without needing any security clearance.

The first batch which is released is named "Release 01" and it contains 162 newly declassified files. According to the Pentagon, these are all "unresolved" cases, which means that government was not...