Declassified UAP audio — Pentagon UFO recordings.
16 audio recordings
UAP Browser preserves 16 audio recordings declassified under the PURSUE program by Department of War and NASA, recorded between 1952 and 1972. These are mission and cockpit communications — radio transmissions between aircrew, controllers and ground stations — released as part of a case file that also includes the reported incident date, location and, where the source material supports it, a transcript of what was said. Each audio page links to the official file identifier and the same location, date and agency metadata used across the rest of the archive, so a recording can be cross-referenced against related videos, documents or images from the same mission. None of these files are hosted by or affiliated with the Department of War; they are mirrored here exactly as released, to make search and citation practical. Browse the recordings by decade below, or use the case index, map and timeline to follow a single incident across every format it was released in.
2020s — 2 audio recordings
UFO audio: Apollo 16 scientific debriefing, 1972
This is a roughly 96-minute scientific debriefing shortly after Apollo 16 (April 1972), where principal investigators present preliminary experiment results to crew members John Young (CDR), Charlie Duke (LMP), and Ken Mattingly (CMP), part
UFO audio: Apollo 16 debriefing, comment at 32:41
This recording is a NASA post-mission scientific debriefing following the Apollo 16 mission, in which mission scientists present preliminary results to program officials and the returning flight crew. Speakers cover orbital photography cove
1970s — 5 audio recordings
UFO files: Apollo 17 medical debriefing, audio 1/2
This recording is segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 17 crew's post-mission technical and medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, held shortly after splashdown. The three crew members work through a checklist covering lunar-o
UFO files: Apollo 17 medical debriefing, audio 2/2
This is segment 2 of 2 of the Apollo 17 post-mission technical/medical debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. Unlike a multi-party discussion, this segment is largely a solo, structured debrief by Lunar Module Pilot Harrison '
UFO audio: Apollo 17 crew sees bright particles, 1972
This brief Apollo 17 air-to-ground audio excerpt, recorded December 7, 1972 during transit to the Moon, captures a crew member (Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, or Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans) reporting brig
UFO files: Apollo 14 crew debriefing, audio 1/2
This is segment 1 of 2 of the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. A NASA physician (addressed as Dr. Berry) and other debriefers question the three-man crew in a Q&A format. Roughly the first 90
UFO files: Apollo 14 crew debriefing, audio 2/2
This audio continues (segment 2 of 2) the Apollo 14 post-mission crew debriefing at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, with Commander Alan Shepard, CMP Stuart Roosa, and LMP Edgar Mitchell discussing the light flash phenomenon with flig
1960s — 8 audio recordings
UFO audio: Apollo 12 medical debriefing, tape 12, 1969
This is an audio recording of a NASA medical debriefing session with the Apollo 12 crew — Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard "Dick" Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean — discussing light flashes and streaks t
UFO Files: NASA Gemini 7 Audio of Astronauts, 1965
This recording is a NASA Public Affairs replay of air-to-ground audio from the Gemini 7 mission, played back for the press after a mechanical/line failure delayed the original tape. Roughly 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight, near Antigua,
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 9, Cooper's "fireflies", 1963
This short air-to-ground audio excerpt captures Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr., roughly one hour and 21 minutes into the final and longest Project Mercury flight, describing what he calls "John's fireflies" — a referen
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 9, luminous particles, 1963
This Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) air-to-ground audio excerpt begins with Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. narrating orbital sunrise — the brilliant blue band of light beneath the atmospheric haze layer as seen from orbit — and reporting small, lumi
UFO audio: Walter Cronkite interviews Gordon Cooper, 1962
This is an excerpt from a November 1962 television interview in which journalist Walter Cronkite questions Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper about unidentified flying objects. Cronkite notes Cooper's previously expressed interest in the topic
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 8, Schirra sees white objects
This is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7), recorded October 3, 1962. The single speaker is pilot Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., transmitting observations during orbital flight as the spacecraft approaches sunset. Sch
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 7, Carpenter's particles, 1962
This is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7), recorded May 24, 1962, capturing radio communication between pilot Scott Carpenter and ground control (CapCom) during the mission's second orbital pass. Carpenter reports n
UFO audio: Mercury-Redstone 4 recovery, Liberty Bell 7
This very brief audio excerpt comes from the recovery operation for Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), the second crewed Mercury flight, recorded July 21, 1961. The single line captured is a recovery-team radio transmission discussing an
1950s — 1 audio recording
Ruppelt’s Project Blue Book UFO briefing, 1952 audio
This is an audio recording of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). The recording opens with equi