GOV UFO FILES SEARCH

Step 1: Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/jasonscompshop/ufo-search-app.git
cd ufo-search-app

Step 2: Download the source files

• Go to: https://war.gov/ufo
• Download all PDFs and extract to data/
• Download the video bundle and extract to data/videos/

Step 3: Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Run the App

python app.py

Open http://localhost:5000

Using Your Own Files

If you want to make your own PDFs or images searchable, you'll need Tesseract OCR and ffmpeg installed:

Your Computer	Tesseract	ffmpeg
Mac	brew install tesseract	brew install ffmpeg
Windows	Download installer	Download installer
Linux	sudo apt install tesseract-ocr	sudo apt install ffmpeg

Place your files in ~/UFO_Files/ (PDFs) or ~/UFO_Files/videos/ and index them:

python add_new_files.py

Then restart the app. To reindex everything from scratch:

python index_all.py

Source

All documents from archive.war.gov/ufo