# UFO/UAP corpus — plan & storyboard

Built on the production ingest pipeline — the **same pipeline, same rigor** — against the
recently-released UAP/UFO datasets. Branch `ufo-corpus` off `main`. The `infra/`, `ingest/`,
`qa/`, and report generators are reused unchanged; only the source corpus, the two question
sets, and the dataset/version tags change.

## Datasets to download — the recent OFFICIAL Pentagon disclosure

Focus: the Department of War **PURSUE** rolling declassification (war.gov/UFO) plus the official
AARO/DoD reports. Four PURSUE releases so far: 01 (May 8 2026), 02, 03 (Jun 12 2026),
**04 (Jul 10 2026 — the latest)**.

| # | Dataset | Source | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **PURSUE Releases 01–04** — declassified DoW/agency UAP records, transcripts, witness accounts, report cards (1944→2025) | war.gov/UFO (browser-UA scrape on the pod); The Black Vault 2.0 GB zip mirrors Release 01 | The core corpus. ~334 files across the 4 releases |
| 2 | **AARO** — Case Resolution Reports, Historical Record Report Vol 1, Information Papers, Reporting Trends | aaro.mil | Per-PDF |
| 3 | **ODNI/DoD Annual UAP Reports** — FY2021 Preliminary Assessment, FY2023, FY2024 (757 cases) | media.defense.gov / dni.gov | Direct PDFs |
| 4 | **NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report (2023)** | science.nasa.gov | Direct PDF |
| 5 | **NARA UAP electronic records** (ODNI, OSD, FAA, NRC) — supporting | archives.gov S3 bulk (~180 MB text zips only) | Text/electronic only; image + microfilm sets excluded |

Known direct URLs (verified): NASA report `science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf`;
AARO HRR Vol 1 `media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-2024-0263-AARO-HISTORICAL-RECORD-REPORT-VOLUME-1-2024.PDF`;
FY24 report `media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/14/2003583603/-1/-1/0/FY24-CONSOLIDATED-ANNUAL-REPORT-ON-UAP-508.PDF`;
ODNI 2021 `dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf`;
Black Vault Release 01 zip `documents3.theblackvault.com/documents/UFOFiles/UFOFiles-Release1.zip` (2.0 GB);
NARA S3 `s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/bulk-downloads/uaps/zips/electronic-records/{493468580 OSD, 493468575 FAA, 493468579 ODNI, 488808322 NRC}.zip`.

Estimated ~2.5–3 GB, a few thousand dense official pages. Excluded (huge, image/microfilm, not
the recent Pentagon text release): NARA still-pictures (Blue Book photos 36 GB) + microfilm (~379 GB).

## Question storyboard (two sets + refusal probes)

- **RAG-rigor (11):** `qa/questions.txt` — aggregation/counts across annual reports, AARO
  establishment timeline, per-case object+evidence, sensor modalities, HRR Vol 1 reverse-
  engineering conclusions, recurring regions/installations, sightings near sensitive sites,
  the evolving "UAP" definition, most-cited object characteristics, NASA study recommendations,
  cumulative report counts / yearly trend.
- **Community-demand (10):** `qa/questions_community.txt` — evidence of non-human intelligence
  (or explicit absence), sightings near nuclear sites, unresolved cases, astronaut transcripts,
  performance beyond known tech, contributing agencies, civilian-aircraft incidents, Blue Book
  vs AARO, whistleblower/secret-program allegations, most-recent incident.
- **Refusal probes (2):** in-domain-unsupported ("home planet/species of the entities") +
  out-of-corpus (the 2019 UEFA final). Both must be declined.

## Pipeline (reused)

Same v3.1 stack: xberg + pdf_oxide 0.3.74 extraction → Qwen3-Embedding-8B → LanceDB →
parquet/jsonl. Answerer **Mistral-Large-2411** (chosen on the Vectara grounded-faithfulness
evidence), judge **Opus 4.8** (independent family). Retrieval on the merged #508 pipeline
(feat/kreuzberg-5), served with the ready-env.tar engine.

## Artifacts

- **parquet + jsonl** → HF dataset repo **`beeberg/ufo`** (https://huggingface.co/datasets/beeberg/ufo), version-tagged. All UFO artifacts (parquet/jsonl, reports, trace/profile/flamegraph) go here.
- **Extraction + defect report** (native-vs-OCR split, latency, pdf_oxide defect scan).
- **Resource profile + py-spy flamegraph.**
- **Graded Q&A report** (`report2-qa-mistral.{md,pdf}`) + capture + graded JSON, in `reports/ufo/`.

## Phases

1. **Setup (this commit):** branch, plan, UFO question sets, refusal probes, download scripts.
2. **Stage corpus (cheap CPU pod):** download all five sources to the network volume → manifest
   (sizes, file counts, page counts). **CHECKPOINT — review before any GPU spend.**
3. **Ingest (GPU pod):** full ingest → publish parquet/jsonl + extraction/defect report + profile/flamegraph.
4. **QA (GPU pod):** serve + capture 23 questions → grade with Opus → graded report.