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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Skinwalker Ranch23 Mar 2020
Robert Bigelow's space-habitat company in North Las Vegas laid off its remaining 68 employees, after 20 the week before. The company tied the move to Nevada's COVID-19 order closing nonessential businesses and said it planned to rehire, though others saw the layoffs as permanent.
Photo: Bill Ingalls, Public domain
Whistleblowers2020
Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and former intelligence official Christopher Mellon, who joined Tom DeLonge's To The Stars Academy in 2017, left the company at the end of 2020. They later said the firm's science mission was losing out to entertainment.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Sightings1 Jan 2020
Eight cameras of Italy's PRISMA fireball network recorded a fireball over northern Italy on the evening of 1 January 2020. A predicted fall zone and a public appeal led volunteers to two fragments near Cavezzo, Modena, on 4 January.
Military19 Dec 2019
Chad Underwood, the Navy F/A-18 pilot who recorded the 2004 FLIR1 'Tic Tac' video off southern California, gave his first public interview to New York Magazine. He described locking the object on radar and infrared after a warning from David Fravor and said it did not behave like known aircraft.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Sightings12 Dec 2019
Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel and colleagues published the first paper of VASCO, a project comparing 1950s sky-survey records with modern surveys to find objects that appear to vanish. A 2021 follow-up reported nine short-lived point sources on one 1950 plate; their cause is debated.
Photo: Beatriz Villarroel et al., CC BY 4.0
SightingsDec 2019
From mid-December 2019 residents and deputies in rural Colorado and Nebraska reported nightly drones flying in patterns. The Air Force and FAA said they were not theirs, a federal and state task force found no operators, and Colorado officials later attributed some reports to planes and stars.
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media17 Nov 2019
The BBC began a three-part adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, written by Peter Harness and set in Edwardian England in 1905, with Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson and Robert Carlyle. Reviews were mixed.
Photo: Sean Reynolds from Liverpool, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0
Sightings9 Nov 2019
Sightings of a drone-like object shut both runways at Kansai International Airport near Osaka, delaying nearly 30 flights, two days after an earlier drone-related suspension. No operator was identified. Japan had already widened airport no-fly zones for drones in September 2019.
Photo: Ankou1192, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media5 Oct 2019
Retired Navy commander David Fravor recounted his 2004 encounter with the 'Tic Tac' object off California in a long interview on The Joe Rogan Experience episode 1361, with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
Photo: U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain
Sightings29 Sep 2019
Security officers at Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear plant reported five or six drones over the site on Sept. 29, 2019, and more the next night. NRC records released under FOIA show the reports went to the NRC, FBI and others; operators were never found and the reports were closed unresolved.
Photo: Cuhlik, Public domain
Sightings27 Sep 2019
Sussex Police ended their inquiry into the December 2018 Gatwick shutdown, saying 109 of 129 drone sightings came from credible witnesses and at least two drones flew. With no realistic lines of enquiry left, no culprit was ever identified.
Photo: Mike McBey, CC BY 2.0
Media25 Sep 2019
Kevin Knuth, Robert Powell and Peter Reali published a peer-reviewed paper estimating accelerations implied by witness and sensor accounts, including the 2004 Nimitz case, from roughly 70 g to over 5,000 g. Critics argued some figures rested on doubtful readings of the data.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Media6 Sep 2019
Gallup reported that 68 percent of U.S. adults believed the government knew more about UFOs than it was saying, close to its 1996 result. Only 33 percent thought some UFO sightings had been alien spacecraft, and 16 percent said they had personally seen something they believed was a UFO.
Media30 Aug 2019
Amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov spotted a comet with his own telescope in Crimea. Its hyperbolic orbit showed it came from outside the solar system, and NASA calls it the first confirmed interstellar comet, a clearly natural object unlike the debate over 'Oumuamua.
Photo: Hubble ESA, CC BY 2.0
Sightings30 Jul 2019
Five breeding bulls were found dead on July 30-31, 2019, on Silvies Valley Ranch with tongues and genitals cleanly removed. The Harney County deputy leading the probe found no wounds or bullets, suspected people were responsible, and dismissed alien theories; no culprit was found.
Photo: Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media19 Jul 2019
History launched The UnXplained, a nonfiction series on unexplained mysteries hosted by William Shatner and produced by Kevin Burns of Ancient Aliens. It joined a Friday block that included Unidentified and Project Blue Book.
Photo: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0
Government16 Jul 2019
Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina wrote to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer asking how the Navy logs and investigates UAP reports from its aviators, whether it holds physical evidence, and whether any foreign nation or private company could be behind the objects.
Photo: United States Congress, Public domain
Military14 Jul 2019
Deck logs obtained under FOIA show USS Kidd, Rafael Peralta and other destroyers recording unidentified drones around them near San Clemente Island over several nights from July 14, 2019. In 2021 the Chief of Naval Operations said the aircraft had not been identified.
Photo: San Diego Webcam, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media20 Jun 2019
Bob Lazar and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell appeared on episode 1315 of The Joe Rogan Experience, where Lazar repeated his claim to have worked on alien craft at a site near Area 51. His account and stated background have never been independently verified.
Government19 Jun 2019
Senate Intelligence vice chairman Mark Warner and two other senators received a classified Pentagon briefing on Navy pilot encounters with unidentified aircraft. His office said unexplained interference with naval pilots was a safety concern; the Navy confirmed the briefing but gave no details.
Photo: U.S. Senator Mark Warner, Public domain
