Jacob's Ladder (Genesis 28)
Fleeing his brother Esau, Jacob leaves Beersheba for Haran and stops for the night at a place called Luz, using a stone for a pillow. In a dream he sees a ladder, or…
Utsuro-bune, the Hollow Ship of Hitachi, 1803
In 1803, according to several Edo-period manuscripts, fishermen on the Hitachi coast of eastern Japan towed ashore a strange round vessel. The best-known version, in the…
John Martin's 'Large Saucer', North Texas, 1878
On a Tuesday morning in January 1878 a Texas farmer named John Martin was out hunting when a dark object high in the southern sky caught his eye. Its odd shape and speed…
Scandinavian Ghost Fliers, 1933-1934
From Christmas Eve 1933, when an aircraft with a brilliant searchlight was reported coming in from the Gulf of Bothnia over Kalix in northern Sweden, the far north of…
Battle of Los Angeles, 1942
Less than three months after Pearl Harbor and a day after a Japanese submarine shelled an oil field near Santa Barbara, Southern California was on a hair trigger. In the…
Roswell, New Mexico
In June 1947 ranch foreman Mac Brazel found a field near Corona strewn with foil, rubber, tape and light sticks. After hearing about the new 'flying disc' craze, he…
Project Sign and the 'Estimate of the Situation'
Acting on the Twining memo, the Air Force ordered Air Materiel Command on 30 December 1947 to set up a project to collect, evaluate and share all information on sightings…
Thomas Mantell Crash, Kentucky
On the afternoon of 7 January 1948 the Kentucky State Police called Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox about a large, round object drifting over towns to the east and…
The Robertson Panel
After the Washington radar sightings of July 1952 alarmed the Truman White House, the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence asked a panel of eminent scientists to judge…
Kinross Incident: F-89 Lost Over Lake Superior
On the evening of 23 November 1953 radar at Calumet Air Force Station on Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula picked up an unidentified target over Lake Superior, about 30 miles…
RAF West Freugh Radar Tracking
West Freugh ran a bombing trials range over Luce Bay, ringed by mobile radar units manned by civilian Ministry of Supply operators. On the morning of 4 April 1957, with…
Exeter, New Hampshire
In the small hours of 3 September 1965, 18-year-old Norman Muscarello was walking home along Route 150 in Kensington when, he said, a silent object with a row of…
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
Late on 4 October 1967, after a night of odd lights reported by an Air Canada crew over Quebec, a fishing captain off Sambro and callers in Halifax, 17-year-old Laurie…
The Condon Report
After the 1966 Michigan sightings and Gerald Ford's call for a hearing, the U.S. Air Force paid the University of Colorado to run an independent scientific study of UFOs…
Project Blue Book Closes
On 17 December 1969, Secretary of the Air Force Robert Seamans announced the end of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's public UFO investigation office at Wright-Patterson…
Frederick Valentich Disappearance
On the evening of 21 October 1978, 20-year-old Frederick Valentich took off from Moorabbin in a Cessna 182 bound for King Island across Bass Strait. Just after 7 p.m. he…
Japan Air Lines Flight 1628
A Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 freighter carrying French wine from Reykjavík to Anchorage was cruising at 35,000 feet over remote Alaska in the early evening of 17 November…
Varginha, Brazil
On the afternoon of 20 January 1996, after a heavy storm, three young women in the Jardim Andere neighbourhood of Varginha, Minas Gerais, said they saw a strange being…
El Bosque Air Base Video, Chile
During the change-of-command ceremony for the Chilean Air Force commander at El Bosque Air Base in Santiago in November 2010, crowds filmed the acrobatic team and fighter…
Aguadilla Thermal Video, Puerto Rico
Late on 25 April 2013, a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft over north-western Puerto Rico recorded about three minutes of infrared video of a small warm object…
USS Theodore Roosevelt Encounters (Gimbal and GoFast)
From 2014 into 2015, Navy fighter crews flying from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt off the US East Coast reported repeatedly picking up unknown objects on…
Chilean Navy Helicopter Video
On 11 November 2014, a Chilean Navy Airbus Cougar AS532 helicopter was on a daytime coastal patrol west of Santiago when its camera technician spotted an object flying…
The New York Times reveals the Pentagon's secret UFO program
On Saturday 16 December 2017, The New York Times and Politico published simultaneous reports that the Pentagon had quietly funded a program to study unidentified flying…
US Navy calls the three leaked videos 'unidentified'
In September 2019 the US Navy went on the record about the three cockpit videos that had circulated since 2017. Spokesman Joseph Gradisher told reporters, first via The…
Pentagon formally releases FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast
On 27 April 2020 the Department of Defense officially published the three Navy infrared videos that had leaked years earlier. The clips, filed as FLIR, GIMBAL and GOFAST…
Pentagon establishes the UAP Task Force
On 14 August 2020 the Pentagon announced that Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist had, ten days earlier, approved an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The…
ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP
On 25 June 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a nine-page unclassified report to Congress, prepared with the Navy-led UAP Task Force. It…
First public congressional UFO hearing in over 50 years
On 17 May 2022 the House Intelligence Committee's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation, chaired by Representative André Carson…
From AOIMSG to AARO: the Pentagon's permanent UAP office
Five months after the 2021 intelligence assessment, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks created the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization…
ODNI 2022 Annual Report on UAP
On 12 January 2023 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, working with the new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, published an unclassified version of…
Three objects shot down over Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron
In the week after the Chinese balloon was shot down, NORAD tuned its radars to catch slower, smaller targets, and three more objects appeared. On 10 February an F-22…
'Non-human' bodies shown to Mexico's Congress
On 12 September 2023 Mexico's Chamber of Deputies held a hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena, weeks after the Grusch hearing in Washington. Witnesses, sworn to tell…
NASA's UAP independent study report
On 14 September 2023 NASA published the final report of the independent team it had convened in 2022 to advise how the agency could study unidentified anomalous phenomena…
The Schumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act and what survived
In July 2023 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Mike Rounds, joined by Marco Rubio, Kirsten Gillibrand, Todd Young and Martin Heinrich, introduced the…
New Jersey drone sightings
From mid-November 2024, residents across New Jersey began reporting large numbers of drone-like lights moving at night, including near Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons…
AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I
On 8 March 2024 the Pentagon published AARO's 'Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I,' required…
'UAP: Exposing the Truth' House hearing
On 13 November 2024 two House Oversight subcommittees, led by Representatives Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothman, held a joint hearing titled 'Unidentified Anomalous…
AARO FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP
AARO's report for fiscal 2025, issued by what is now styled the Department of War, covers 2 June 2024 to 30 May 2025 but was not published until July 2026, months after…
Trump directs agencies to release UFO and alien files
On the evening of 19 February 2026 President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that, citing tremendous public interest, he would direct the Secretary of War and…
PURSUE: the Pentagon's first UAP file releases
On 8 May 2026 the Department of War launched WAR.GOV/UFO and published the first tranche of files under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP…