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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
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Government23 Oct 2026
The Department of War posted its seventh batch of records under PURSUE, the program it says is releasing unresolved UAP files on a rolling basis after a presidential directive. Items include 1950s Air Force reports and a 2010 Utah ranch investigation report.
Photo: United States Department of War, Public domain
Government22 Jul 2026
The House adopted Rep. Eric Burlison's UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the FY2027 defense bill. It would set up a review board with subpoena power and require agencies and contractors to send UAP records to the National Archives. The bill then went to the Senate.
Photo: Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 3.0
GovernmentJul 2026
AARO's report for June 2024 to May 2025, due October 2025 but out in July 2026, logged 319 new UAP reports. No resolved case pointed to breakthrough foreign technology and it found no evidence of recovered UAP material. A Navy report of about 100 objects off Virginia was still under investigation.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Media12 Jun 2026
Universal released Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day in U.S. theaters. Emily Blunt plays a weather forecaster drawn into a federal cover-up of decades of UFO sightings and alien contact, a plot built on the government-disclosure theme of post-2017 UFO news.
Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0
Government8 May 2026
The Department of War posted a first tranche of declassified UAP videos, photos and documents on war.gov/UFO under the interagency Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), saying more would follow on a rolling basis. It noted many items had not been analyzed.
Government31 Mar 2026
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs a House Oversight task force on declassification, wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listing 46 UAP video files, citing whistleblowers who said AARO held more footage. She asked for delivery by April 14, 2026.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military9 Mar 2026
Barksdale Air Force Base, home of B-52 bombers, sheltered in place on March 9, 2026 after a drone report. The 2nd Bomb Wing confirmed multiple unauthorized drones that week, and an internal briefing reported by ABC News described waves of 12 to 15 drones. Operators were not identified.
Photo: Airman 1st Class Benjamin Gonsier, Public domain
GovernmentMar 2026
In an interview with commentator Benny Johnson, Vice President JD Vance said he had been 'obsessed' with the government's UFO files on taking office but got busy with other issues. He said he did not think UFOs were aliens but 'demons', and that a release of files was being worked on.
Photo: Emily J. Higgins, Public domain
Military2 Feb 2026
The UK Ministry of Defence said drone incidents near defence sites doubled to 266 in 2025 and that the Armed Forces Bill would let authorised personnel counter drones there without police help. The plan was first reported in October 2025.
Photo: Tagishsimon, CC BY-SA 3.0
GovernmentFeb 2026
President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was directing the Secretary of War and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files on alien and extraterrestrial life and UAP. The Department of War cited this direction when it began PURSUE releases in May 2026.
Photo: Daniel Torok, Public domain
Government20 Jan 2026
The DoD Office of Inspector General, evaluating responses to drone incursions at U.S. installations, issued an advisory saying unclear policy on which sites qualify for counter-drone protection and fragmented approvals needed immediate attention. Inspectors visited 10 sites with incursions.
Photo: Duane Lempke, CC0
Media6 Jan 2026
Americans for Safe Aerospace, in a post by Ryan Graves, announced a white paper arguing that the regulatory framework for pilots keeps about 90 percent of pilot UAP sightings unreported, and that career risk is the main reason pilots stay silent.
Photo: U.S. House Committee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Government19 Dec 2025
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came no closer to Earth than about 270 million km (1.8 AU), on Dec. 19, 2025, per NASA, posing no danger. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb kept pointing to anomalies, while NASA treated it as a natural comet.
Photo: NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui, Public domain
Government18 Dec 2025
The FY2026 defense authorization law requires AARO briefings to cover UAP intercepts by NORAD and Northern Command, including ones back to 2004, repeals a duplicate reporting rule, and orders an accounting of UAP security classification guides.
Sightings9 Dec 2025
Through autumn 2025 Vilnius Airport was repeatedly shut as balloons carrying contraband drifted in from Belarus. Lithuanian officials called it part of a hybrid attack, and on Dec. 9, 2025 the government declared a nationwide emergency situation. The objects were identified, not unexplained.
Photo: Trevort Morgondont, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government2 Dec 2025
Asked on Fox News about The Age of Disclosure, Rubio said his interview was filmed years earlier as a senator and relayed what witnesses had told him, not firsthand knowledge. He said his main worry was an adversary's surveillance capability over restricted airspace.
Photo: U.S. Department of State, Public domain
Government27 Nov 2025
The International Asteroid Warning Network opened an observing campaign on 3I/ATLAS to practise measuring precise positions of fuzzy comets, running to Jan. 27, 2026. Some outlets cast it as a secret planetary-defense drill; the network described it as a routine astrometry exercise.
Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin, CC BY 4.0
Media21 Nov 2025
Dan Farah's documentary The Age of Disclosure went worldwide on Prime Video with a limited run in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. It features 34 current and former U.S. officials asserting a decades-long cover-up of non-human intelligence; those claims have not been confirmed.
Military21 Nov 2025
The Dutch Ministry of Defence said unidentified drones were seen over Volkel Air Base between 7 and 9 p.m. and personnel fired at them with ground-based weapons. The drones left and no wreckage was found. Drone sightings halted flights at Eindhoven the next evening.
Photo: Ministerie van Defensie, CC0
Government19 Nov 2025
After a shutdown delay, NASA held an online briefing releasing 3I/ATLAS images from about a dozen missions. Associate Administrator Nicky Fox said it behaves like a comet and that NASA saw no technosignatures, answering speculation that it was an alien craft.
Photo: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI), CC BY 4.0
