About this wiki

A static, browsable, hostable archive of the U.S. Department of War's May 8, 2026 release of UAP-related records. Every document in raw/ufo/ has a wiki page; every wiki page links back to the underlying binary file.

What's in scope

147 binary files — 117 PDFs, 16 videos, 14 images.
Source: war.gov/UFO/ (public-domain U.S. government records).
Catalog metadata as published by the Department of War: agency, release date, incident date, incident location, media type, plus a description blurb per record.
~40 hand-curated concepts that organize the corpus by program, collection, region, sensor, phenomenology, witness type, and process.

How concepts are assigned

Every concept has a small set of regular expressions matched against each document's title, description, agency, and incident location. A document is tagged with every concept whose pattern matches. Tagging is fully transparent and reproducible — see wiki/ufo/_build.py in the source tree.

The catalog descriptions are quoted directly. They are U.S. government works in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). No interpretive content has been invented; concept summaries are based solely on the catalog text.

How to host

Pure static. Drop wiki/ufo/ on any HTTP server (or a local one) and link index.html. No build pipeline at runtime.

cd wiki/ufo
uv run python -m http.server 8080
# → http://localhost:8080/index.html

The wiki references the raw binaries via relative path ../raw/ufo/<filename>. To keep download links working, serve the parent directory (the repo root or its descendant containing both wiki/ and raw/).

Re-build

Re-run after editing the catalog or extending the concept taxonomy:

uv run python wiki/ufo/_build.py

Generation is deterministic: same inputs produce byte-identical outputs.