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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Government23 Dec 2022
The FY2023 defense authorization law required a secure channel for authorized reporting of UAP events and of any government program on UAP material, rewrote the statute for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office including a historical record report, and ordered a GAO audit of that record.
Government16 Dec 2022
Under Secretary Ronald Moultrie and AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick described the new office's mission to reporters and said it had received several hundred new reports. Both said they had seen nothing indicating alien visitation or a crash.
Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Sightings19 Nov 2022
A small asteroid found by the Catalina Sky Survey about three and a half hours earlier entered the atmosphere over southern Ontario at 3:27 a.m. EST, where NASA's Scout system, refined by amateur follow-up, had predicted. It broke up as a fireball near Lake Ontario.
Photo: Tomruen, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government28 Oct 2022
The New York Times reported, citing unnamed defense officials, that a classified government review attributed many recent UAP incidents to foreign surveillance, some to Chinese drones, and others to airborne clutter such as weather balloons. Officials did not release the underlying analysis.
Government21 Oct 2022
NASA named 16 people to its independent UAP study team, chaired by Simons Foundation president David Spergel, with work starting Oct. 24, 2022. The nine-month study was limited to unclassified data and aimed to recommend how NASA could collect and analyze UAP data.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Sightings19 Oct 2022
Bergen Airport, near Norway's main naval base, shut for about two and a half hours after drone sightings first reported around 4:15 a.m.; Forde airport also briefly closed. Police said they were sure of at least one drone, and Norway's security service took over the probe.
Photo: Varde / Avinor, CC BY 3.0
Media18 Oct 2022
James Fox's documentary on the 1996 Varginha, Brazil reports was released digitally by 1091 Pictures. Narrated by Peter Coyote, it presents townspeople, former military personnel and figures such as Christopher Mellon; the 1996 creature reports it revisits remain disputed.
Photo: Felipe Trombini, CC BY 3.0
Government13 Oct 2022
France's space agency CNES, through its UAP office GEIPAN, held the CAIPAN II conference in Toulouse on Oct. 13-14, 2022. More than 100 scientists, investigators and associations presented methods and tools for investigating UAP reports.
Photo: GEIPAN / Wizly-08, Public domain
Government26 Sep 2022
The Canberra Times reported Defence talking points, released under freedom of information, saying Australia had no plans to work with the U.S. on UAP and saw no evidence they were extraterrestrial. Defence listed natural phenomena, sensor issues or human-made technology as likely causes.
Photo: Nick Dowling at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
GovernmentSep 2022
Answering a FOIA request from The Black Vault, the Navy's FOIA office withheld all UAP-designated videos in full, saying release would give adversaries information on Navy operations and capabilities. It said three earlier videos were released only because they had already leaked.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Close encounters23 Aug 2022
Three researchers at the Main Astronomical Observatory of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences posted a preprint describing daytime-sky video of fast bright and dark objects. They estimated sizes of 3 to 12 meters and very high speeds; the paper was not peer reviewed when posted.
Photo: Alexey laa, CC BY 4.0
Sightings30 Jul 2022
The spent core stage of China's Long March 5B fell back uncontrolled on July 30, 2022. NASA's administrator faulted China for not sharing trajectory data. Debris was later found in Malaysia and the Philippines, a case where fiery lights in the sky had a known cause.
Media22 Jul 2022
Universal released Jordan Peele's 'Nope', in which a brother and sister try to film a hostile object hiding in the clouds over their California horse ranch. The AP described it as a flying saucer horror about spectacle. It grossed about $171 million worldwide.
Photo: Capital FM Kenya, CC BY 3.0
Government20 Jul 2022
The Defense Department announced the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, replacing an earlier group with a wider remit covering air, space, undersea and transmedium objects. Sean Kirkpatrick was named its first director.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Media20 Jul 2022
Choi Dong-hoon's Alienoid opened in South Korean theaters through CJ ENM. The time-travel story joins Goryeo-era Taoists hunting a magic sword with present-day characters guarding alien prisoners held inside human bodies. It was the first of two parts.
Photo: Yutyubeu tteoksang jingjo (YouTube), CC BY 3.0
Government13 Jul 2022
The House adopted by voice vote an amendment from Reps. Ruben Gallego and Mike Gallagher to its FY2023 defense bill, creating a secure system to receive UAP reports, including from people previously bound by nondisclosure agreements.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain
Government12 Jul 2022
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported its FY2023 intelligence bill (S. 4503) with UAP sections. One authorized witnesses to report UAP events or related government programs through a new secure system, notwithstanding nondisclosure agreements; a version was later enacted in the FY2023 NDAA.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
Sightings9 Jul 2022
Locals in southern New South Wales heard a sonic boom and saw a blazing arc as part of a SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon trunk reentered. Farmers later found charred panels near Dalgety, and the Australian Space Agency confirmed the debris came from a SpaceX mission.
Photo: Steve Bennett, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings7 Jul 2022
A bright daytime fireball crossed the sky above Cook Strait near Wellington on July 7, 2022. A sonic boom was heard across the southern North Island, GeoNet seismometers recorded the shock wave, and scientists estimated the meteor's energy at about 1,800 tonnes of TNT.
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0
WhistleblowersJul 2022
According to a 2023 report by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, the Intelligence Community Inspector General found David Grusch's May 2022 complaint 'credible and urgent' in July 2022. The finding itself has not been published; Grusch testified he filed a PPD-19 urgent-concern complaint.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (screenshot from..., Public domain
