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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Government23 Nov 2021
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks directed the intelligence under secretary to set up the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group as successor to the Navy's UAP Task Force, focused on objects in special use airspace. It was later replaced by AARO.
Photo: United States Department of Defense, Public domain
Government4 Nov 2021
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand filed an amendment to the FY2022 defense bill, cosponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, to replace the UAP Task Force with a permanent office reporting to Defense and intelligence leaders. Her office said on Dec. 9, 2021 that a version was included in the final NDAA.
Photo: US Senate Photography, Public domain
Media30 Oct 2021
Harvard's Galileo Project, led by Avi Loeb, named former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon and former AATIP figure Luis Elizondo as research affiliates, to help choose sites for its sky-watching instruments and weigh the implications of any findings.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Media25 Oct 2021
Two Nature Astronomy papers analyzed BLC1, a narrowband signal Breakthrough Listen recorded toward Proxima Centauri in April 2019 with Australia's Parkes telescope. The authors concluded it was not an alien technosignature but an artifact of local human-made radio interference.
Photo: Shane Smith, Danny C. Price, Sofia Z. Sheikh, Daniel J. Czech, Steve Croft, David DeBoer,..., CC BY 4.0
Media22 Oct 2021
Apple TV+ premiered Invasion, a 10-episode science-fiction drama from Simon Kinberg and David Weil that follows an alien invasion through the eyes of people on several continents. Sam Neill and Golshifteh Farahani were among the cast.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government19 Oct 2021
In a University of Virginia Center for Politics talk with Larry Sabato, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he had spoken with Navy pilots whose radars locked onto unknown objects. He said no one knew what they were and hoped they were not an adversary's technology.
Photo: Bill Ingalls, Public domain
Whistleblowers19 Oct 2021
At the National Press Club, Robert Salas and three other former Air Force officers described 1960s incidents in which they said UFOs coincided with missiles going offline or appeared during tests. The accounts repeat claims first made decades after the events and have not been officially confirmed.
Photo: Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Media30 Sep 2021
Peacock premiered Unidentified with Demi Lovato, a four-part unscripted series in which the singer, their sister and a skeptical friend talk with UFO eyewitnesses and experts, look at government reports and run their own UFO experiments.
Photo: Soho Media Group, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government27 Sep 2021
Answering an Official Information Act request, the NZDF said it has no role in UFO reports, refers any it receives to the Civil Aviation Authority, and neither investigates nor keeps records of such sightings. The CAA said it looks only at incidents affecting aviation safety.
Government1 Sep 2021
At its September 1, 2021 markup the House Armed Services Committee approved an FY2022 defense bill with a section creating an office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to take over the UAP Task Force's work and report each year.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain
Media20 Aug 2021
A Gallup poll taken in July 2021, weeks after the ODNI's preliminary UAP assessment, found 41 percent of U.S. adults thought some UFOs were alien spacecraft, up from 33 percent in 2019. Half said all sightings could be explained by human activity or natural phenomena.
Media8 Aug 2021
Showtime debuted 'UFO', a four-part documentary series from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and Zipper Bros. Films directed by Mark Monroe and Paul Crowder. It covered cases such as the Phoenix Lights and O'Hare, the Pentagon's AATIP study and the leaked Navy videos.
Photo: Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0
Close encounters26 Jul 2021
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb announced the Galileo Project, a privately funded effort to search systematically for evidence of extraterrestrial technological objects, including UAP and interstellar visitors, using purpose-built instruments and publishing data openly.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
MediaJul 2021
Australian investigative journalist Ross Coulthart's book 'In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible Science' came out from HarperCollins in Australia, with a U.S. edition that October. Reviewers were divided; Coulthart later conducted the 2023 Grusch interview.
Photo: Mosman Library, CC BY 2.0
SightingsJul 2021
In July 2021 the group UAPx and University at Albany physicists ran a week of camera and radiation monitoring at Avalon on Catalina Island. Their later paper said several early candidates were explained, leaving one unresolved dark spot recorded on 16 July.
Photo: Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media30 Jun 2021
A Pew Research Center survey of 10,417 U.S. adults found 65% thought intelligent life likely exists elsewhere and 51% said military UFO reports are at least probably evidence of it. About 87% saw UFOs as no threat or a minor threat to national security.
Photo: Pew Research Center, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a preliminary assessment of military UAP reports from 2004 to 2021. It explained one case with high confidence, a deflating balloon, and said limited data left the rest unresolved.
Photo: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
The day ODNI delivered its preliminary UAP assessment, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks directed the intelligence under secretary to plan how to formalize the UAP Task Force's mission, including reporting procedures, range security and a new follow-on office.
Photo: United States Department of Defense, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose committee requested the ODNI report, called it an important first step in cataloging incidents but only a first step, saying military personnel who reported encounters had often been ignored.
Photo: US Senate, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
Responding to the ODNI preliminary UAP assessment, Senate Intelligence chair Mark Warner called the report rather inconclusive and said the U.S. must understand and mitigate threats to its pilots, whether from adversary technology, drones or balloons.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
