Skill

ufo-goat

Browse, search, and download declassified UAP files from the War.gov PURSUE archive

Verified: 2026-05-13 (printing-press-ingest-2026-05-13+enrich-capability-skill)

When to use ufo-goat

Choose if

You're building agents that research, summarize, or monitor the War.gov PURSUE archive — declassified UAP/UFO files across DoD, FBI, NASA, and State. Versus scraping war.gov manually, the CLI handles new-release detection (so the agent doesn't re-walk 2.3 GB every run), local state tracking, and Akamai-aware retry policies.

Avoid if

Your research extends beyond PURSUE — this archive is scoped to the 162+ declassified UAP files released through that initiative. General FOIA archives, JFK files, MKUltra, or any non-UAP declassification are out of scope. Also avoid for high-throughput downloads without checking the GitHub 5000 req/hr cap and Akamai's intermittent 403s.

Risk Flags

  • MEDIUM rate_limit GitHub rate-limits raw content at 5000 req/hr — heavy archive walks can exhaust this. War.gov is behind Akamai CDN and may return HTTP 403 to direct HTTP requests; downloads can fail intermittently.
  • LOW scope Scope is the PURSUE initiative: 162+ declassified UAP files (~2.3 GB of PDFs) spanning 1944–2025 across DoD, FBI, NASA, State. Not a general government-declassification archive — nothing outside PURSUE is indexed.
  • LOW data_quality Archive contents are declassified files, not curated/structured datasets. Spatial and timeline analyses depend on metadata the operator extracts after download.

Cost

Type: Free · Free tier: Free — the PURSUE archive (DoD/FBI/NASA/State declassifications) and the CLI itself are no-cost. No upstream API key required for browsing/searching the file manifest; downloads pull directly from war.gov (subject to Akamai bot protection) and GitHub raw. The parent printing-press-library installer requires GITHUB_TOKEN or GH_TOKEN for catalog and skill fetches since the catalog repo is private.

Install

Default

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install ufo-goat
# Catalog repo is private — the installer needs a GitHub token:
export GITHUB_TOKEN=<your-pat>   # or GH_TOKEN
# No further auth required for browsing/searching the manifest.
# GitHub raw is rate-limited to 5000 req/hr; war.gov downloads may
# hit Akamai HTTP 403 — retry policies ship with the CLI.

Setup docs →

Estimated time to first success: ~5 min

Dependencies

Minimum runtime: Node.js (npx) or Go 1.23+ for direct CLI install

Distribution

Repository
https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library