Release 01 Explorer
A classic-OS-inspired browser for government UFO disclosure files
Release 01 Explorer is a public archive browser for the US government's UFO Release 01 document collection hosted at war.gov/UFO. It presents 55,256 frames of PDFs, videos, images, and reports in a classic-OS-inspired interface, organized by folder, source, date, location, and collated incident reports. Users can browse the archive tree and view individual documents through an embedded viewer with metadata and canonical source links.
Documents from the war.gov/UFO Release 01 collection are indexed and presented through a retro OS-style interface with folder browsing, metadata, and an embedded document viewer
researchers, journalists, and curious citizens interested in government UFO disclosures
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- Hypergrid Systems
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