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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
MediaNov 2023
St. Martin's published 'Encounters', a book by UNC Wilmington religious-studies professor D. W. Pasulka on people who report experiences with nonhuman intelligences and the spiritual meaning they attach to them.
Government31 Oct 2023
Under the FY2023 NDAA, the Defense Department opened a form on aaro.mil for current or former government employees, service members and contractors with direct knowledge of alleged UAP programs since 1945. Reports were to inform AARO's historical record report to Congress.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government18 Oct 2023
ODNI and the Defense Department published their joint FY2023 UAP report, covering 291 reports received from late August 2022 to April 2023. It said reporting still skewed toward military airspace and that no case had been tied to foreign activity or shown an unsafe approach to aircraft.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
MediaOct 2023
University of Chicago physicist Patricio Gallardo argued in Research Notes of the AAS that the element pattern in Avi Loeb's Pacific spherules matches industrial coal ash, disfavoring a meteoritic or interstellar origin. Loeb disputed the comparison.
Media22 Sep 2023
Hulu released Brian Duffield's nearly wordless thriller No One Will Save You, starring Kaitlyn Dever as a young woman defending her home from alien invaders. Reviews were mixed, with praise for Dever and the creature design.
Photo: DannyB Photos, CC BY 2.0
Government14 Sep 2023
NASA's independent UAP study team released its final report, urging better-calibrated sensors and data and a larger NASA role. It said the scientific literature holds no conclusive evidence of an extraterrestrial origin. NASA said it was appointing a director of UAP research.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Government14 Sep 2023
Alongside its independent UAP study report, NASA named Mark McInerney, its former liaison to the Defense Department on UAP, as director of UAP research, charged with centralizing data and building a database for evaluating future reports.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Government12 Sep 2023
At Mexico's first congressional UAP hearing, journalist Jaime Maussan displayed two small mummified bodies he claimed were non-human. UNAM said its lab had only carbon-dated samples and drew no conclusions about origin; scientists widely called the bodies a hoax.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings2 Sep 2023
A bright meteor turned clouds green over Erzurum and nearby provinces in eastern Turkey on the night of September 2, 2023. Videos shared widely online showed the flash; news reports identified it as a meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere.
Photo: Ben Bender, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government31 Aug 2023
The Defense Department launched aaro.mil, a public site for its UAP office meant to carry declassified photos and videos of resolved cases, reports and FAQs. A secure reporting form for government personnel was promised for later.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Media29 Aug 2023
Avi Loeb and 33 co-authors posted a preprint saying some seafloor spherules from their June 2023 expedition off Manus Island had an unusual 'BeLaU' composition suggesting an extrasolar source. Other researchers argued the grains matched coal ash or ordinary sources; Loeb disputed that.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media11 Aug 2023
Bleecker Street released Jules, directed by Marc Turtletaub, in which Ben Kingsley plays a man in a small Pennsylvania town whose backyard becomes the crash site of a UFO and its alien passenger. The film premiered in March 2023 at the Sonoma International Film Festival.
Photo: Sbclick, CC BY 2.0
Media9 Aug 2023
Two weeks after his House testimony, The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein reported Virginia police records of 2014 and 2018 mental health incidents involving David Grusch and asked how he kept his clearance. A statement from Grusch cited PTSD; The Intercept said the records were public, not leaked.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Government28 Jul 2023
Days after the July 2023 UAP hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett said efforts led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to question David Grusch in a secure facility were stalled by a claimed problem with Grusch's clearance, which he called ridiculous. Luna later said permission had been granted.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government27 Jul 2023
The Senate passed its FY2024 defense bill 86-11 with a UAP Disclosure division that would create a records review board and direct the government to take eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin. Most of those provisions were dropped in conference with the House.
Photo: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), Ranking Member of the..., Public domain
Whistleblowers26 Jul 2023
Former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath that he had been told of a decades-long program to recover craft of non-human origin, which he said he learned through interviews rather than firsthand access. The Pentagon and AARO have said they found no verifiable evidence of such programs.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Sightings16 Jul 2023
A large barnacle-covered cylinder found on a beach 250 km north of Perth drew police guards and wide speculation. The Australian Space Agency said it likely came from a foreign rocket and later identified it as the third stage of an Indian PSLV launcher.
Government14 Jul 2023
The House passed its FY2024 defense bill on July 14, 2023 with an amendment from Rep. Tim Burchett directing the Pentagon to release records on publicly known UAP sightings, provided release would not harm national security.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government13 Jul 2023
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds filed the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the Senate defense authorization bill. Modeled on the JFK records law, it would have created a UAP records collection at the National Archives and an independent review board.
Photo: Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds, United States Senate, Public domain
Whistleblowers26 Jun 2023
Sen. Marco Rubio, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told NewsNation that current and former officials with high clearances had brought UAP-related claims to the committee. He did not say whether he found the claims credible.
Photo: United States Senate, Public domain
