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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Government22 Jun 2023
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported its FY2024 Intelligence Authorization Act, whose Section 1104 would bar spending on UAP recovery, analysis or reverse-engineering efforts unless disclosed to AARO and congressional leaders, and would require contractors holding such material to report it.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
Government6 Jun 2023
Days after David Grusch's claims of a secret crash-retrieval program went public, Oversight Chairman James Comer said his committee planned a UAP hearing, with Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett leading the inquiry. The Pentagon said it had found nothing verifiable to support Grusch.
Photo: US House of Representatives, Public domain
Skinwalker Ranch6 Jun 2023
History launched Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, a spin-off in which owner Brandon Fugal, Travis Taylor, Erik Bard and others investigate reported phenomena at other U.S. sites, including Bradshaw Ranch in Arizona and the Bridgewater Triangle in Massachusetts.
Photo: US Army, Public domain
Media5 Jun 2023
Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal reported in The Debrief that ex-intelligence officer David Grusch told Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General that the U.S. holds craft of non-human origin. His statements were cleared for release by the Pentagon's prepublication review office.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
MediaJun 2023
NewsNation aired Ross Coulthart's interview with former intelligence officer David Grusch, who alleged a secret U.S. program had recovered craft of non-human origin. The claims were unverified; Grusch repeated several under oath before a House panel in July 2023.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (screenshot from..., Public domain
MediaJun 2023
Harvard's Avi Loeb led a June 2023 search off Papua New Guinea for fragments of the 2014 fireball IM1, recovering tiny metal spherules he said might be interstellar or even technological. Other scientists disputed it, attributing the material to coal ash and the seismic trace to a passing truck.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
GovernmentJun 2023
After David Grusch alleged a hidden craft-retrieval program, Defense Department spokesperson Sue Gough told NewsNation that AARO had found no verifiable information that programs to hold or reverse-engineer extraterrestrial materials ever existed.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
WhistleblowersJun 2023
Days after his claims surfaced in The Debrief and on NewsNation, former intelligence officer David Grusch told Le Parisien more, including a claimed bell-shaped craft recovered in northern Italy in 1933. A French media writer faulted outlets for amplifying unverified claims.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (screenshot from..., Public domain
Government31 May 2023
NASA's independent UAP study team held a livestreamed public meeting ahead of its report. Chair David Spergel said the main lesson was the need for high-quality data, and NASA said it had seen no convincing evidence linking UAP to extraterrestrial life. Panelists reported online harassment.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Sightings24 May 2023
Harvard's Galileo Project announced that its first seven peer-reviewed papers were online in the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, ahead of a special issue. They describe the project's methods and its multi-sensor ground observatories for recording and screening aerial phenomena.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
SightingsMay 2023
Sky360, a volunteer open-source project, built low-cost stations pairing an all-sky camera with a tracking camera and software to flag unusual aerial motion. By May 2023 it reported about 20 stations worldwide.
Military28 Apr 2023
A balloon at about 36,000 feet was detected near Hawaii and visually checked by F-22s, which described a spherical object. Defense officials said it showed no link to China or another adversary, posed no threat and was not shot down; its owner was never identified.
Military27 Apr 2023
Poland's defence ministry said the remains of an unidentified aerial military object were found in a forest near Bydgoszcz; prosecutors opened a probe. The government said it had tracked an object in December and then lost it; media later reported a Russian Kh-55 cruise missile.
Photo: George Chernilevsky, Public domain
Government19 Apr 2023
AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick testified in open session to the Senate Armed Services emerging threats subcommittee and showed two declassified MQ-9 videos, including a spherical object over the Middle East that he said could not be identified from the available data.
Photo: Defense.gov, Public domain
Skinwalker Ranch18 Apr 2023
History began airing the fourth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, continuing the team's investigations on the Utah property. The network's episode listing shows weekly episodes from April 18 through early August 2023.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sightings15 Apr 2023
A swirling light photographed amid the northern lights over Alaska was explained by University of Alaska Fairbanks physicist Don Hampton as fuel vented by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage about three hours after a California launch, freezing into ice that caught sunlight.
Photo: United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang, Public domain
Whistleblowers7 Apr 2023
Former intelligence officer David Grusch, who had represented the NRO and NGA on UAP task force work, left government service on April 7, 2023. About two months later The Debrief published his claims that the U.S. holds craft of non-human origin.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
SightingsApr 2023
The Madison County Sheriff's Office said six cattle found dead in Madison, Brazos and Robertson counties had their tongues and parts of their mouths removed, with no tracks or signs of struggle. It said the cause of death was unknown and that it was working with other agencies.
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
Media22 Mar 2023
In Nature, Jennifer Bergner and Darryl Seligman proposed that cosmic rays turned ice in 'Oumuamua into trapped hydrogen that escaped as it warmed, giving the small speed-up once cited as a sign of an alien craft. A later Nature reply argued the mechanism is hard to make work.
Photo: geckzilla, CC BY 2.0
Government7 Mar 2023
Pentagon UAP office director Sean Kirkpatrick and Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb released a draft, 'Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'. It was not peer-reviewed or an official Pentagon document; a speculative passage on a mothership releasing small probes drew wide headlines.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
