# UFO Disclosure Map

An interactive geospatial interface over the United States Department of Defense UFO disclosure archive, releases one through three.

Public Work / Live

An interactive geospatial interface over the United States Department of Defense UFO disclosure archive, releases one through three.

Direct answer

## What did Devzilla build?

Devzilla turned a difficult government disclosure archive into an interactive geospatial system with searchable events, documents, imagery, and remote media.

[Open the live system](https://ufo.devzilla.co/) [Inspect the primary source ↗](https://www.war.gov/UFO/search/uap/)

Status**Live**

Type**Devzilla-owned public work**

Stack**MapLibre / JavaScript / Cloudflare Workers / Government archives**

Constraint

## The challenge

The source archive mixes documents, images, video, audio, locations, and release-specific URL structures. The complete source archive is roughly twelve gigabytes, which is too large to treat as an ordinary static website bundle.

Architecture

## What was built

The application uses a framework-free MapLibre interface over a generated events dataset. It bundles the images needed for stable visual context, links documents to war.gov, and embeds video and audio from DVIDS. A separate archive repository owns the data-regeneration pipeline while the deployed application remains self-contained.

Engineering decisions

## The choices that shaped the system

-   Keep map state in the URL hash so shared views need no server-side path routing.
-   Bundle the twenty-four images the interface actually displays instead of depending on untracked parent directories.
-   Remove approximately seven megabytes of thumbnails that the application never reads.
-   Keep heavy government video, audio, and documents remote so the deploy remains approximately twenty-one megabytes instead of twelve gigabytes.

Current result

## What exists now

The map is live from one Cloudflare Worker at its canonical Devzilla subdomain. Missing assets return real 404 responses, the source repository builds from a clean clone, and the original government media remains linked to its primary hosts.

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## Capabilities behind this system

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## Bring Devzilla the difficult source.

We will start with what must be true, what can fail, and who needs to own the result.

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Canonical URL: https://devzilla.co/work/ufo-disclosure-map/