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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Government15 Jun 2019
President Trump told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos he did not particularly believe in UFOs. Asked whether he thought he would know of any case of extraterrestrial life, he said 'our great pilots would know.'
Photo: Shealeah Craighead, Public domain
Media14 Jun 2019
Sony released 'Men in Black: International', a spin-off starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as agents of the secret alien-policing agency. It opened to about $28.5 million in North America, below expectations for the franchise.
Photo: Niki.L, CC BY-SA 4.0
Whistleblowers1 Jun 2019
Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told The Intercept that Luis Elizondo had no responsibilities for AATIP while in his intelligence office. Days later spokesperson Susan Gough said he had no assigned AATIP role, starting a long dispute with Elizondo, who says he ran the program.
Photo: Txint445444, CC BY-SA 4.0
WhistleblowersJun 2019
Notes said to record a 2002 talk between physicist Eric Davis and retired Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson, ex-DIA director, about being denied access to a UFO program, spread online. They have no provenance; Wilson called them fiction and denied the meeting, and Davis has not commented.
Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain
Media31 May 2019
History premiered a six-part series following Luis Elizondo, Tom DeLonge's To The Stars Academy and former Pentagon official Chris Mellon. It featured Navy pilot David Fravor describing his 2004 encounter and other accounts tied to the Navy cases.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Media26 May 2019
The New York Times published on-record accounts from Navy F/A-18 pilots, including Lt. Ryan Graves and Lt. Danny Accoin, of objects seen almost daily off the East Coast in 2014-2015, including a near collision. The Navy said it was updating its guidance for reporting such sightings.
Photo: U.S. House Committee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Media26 May 2019
The Black Vault posted Dave Beaty's documentary The Nimitz Encounters in full on YouTube with his permission. The film retells the November 2004 Tic Tac events off southern California through CGI re-creations based on accounts from sailors and naval aviators.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Sightings24 May 2019
A day after SpaceX launched its first 60 Starlink satellites, a Dutch satellite tracker filmed them crossing the sky as a line of lights. The Dutch reporting site UFOmeldpunt got more than 150 reports, an early case of satellite trains being mistaken for UFOs.
Media13 May 2019
Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist who lectured on UFOs for five decades and whom a colleague called the original civilian investigator of the Roswell crash, died at 84 at Toronto Pearson airport while returning home to Fredericton. He said he never saw a UFO himself.
Photo: SMG2019, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military23 Apr 2019
The Navy told Politico it was drafting a formal process for pilots and other personnel to report unidentified aircraft entering military ranges. It cited a rise in unauthorized or unidentified aircraft and did not suggest the objects were alien.
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans, Public domain
Sightings23 Apr 2019
A fireball at about 9:07 pm, recorded by Costa Rican seismological cameras, dropped stones on Aguas Zarcas. One piece punched a grapefruit-sized hole in a house roof and another hit a dog house; the stones were classified as a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite.
Photo: Csavil, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media15 Apr 2019
Harvard's Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb posted a paper arguing that a small meteor that hit the atmosphere near Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014, recorded in U.S. government fireball data, had an orbit showing it came from outside the solar system. The claim remains debated.
Photo: Aloeb, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government4 Apr 2019
By Resolution 364/2019 the Argentine Air Force restructured its aerospace phenomena commission (CEFAE) as the Centro de Identificacion Aeroespacial (CIAE) from April 4, 2019. The center publishes annual case reports and says most sightings it receives have ordinary causes.
Media15 Mar 2019
Focus Features released Rupert Wyatt's 'Captive State', a science-fiction thriller starring John Goodman and Ashton Sanders set in Chicago years after an alien occupation of Earth, following a resistance cell.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government13 Mar 2019
A wider drone no-fly zone around UK airports took effect, barring drones within 5 km of airports and runways without permission. It followed a government review prompted by the December 2018 drone disruption at Gatwick, which ministers called a deliberate criminal act.
Photo: Chris Sampson, CC BY 2.0
Media5 Feb 2019
Ning Hao's 'Crazy Alien', loosely based on a Liu Cixin short story about a small alien that crash-lands and is taken in by a theme park worker, opened on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday and led China's record single-day box office with over 400 million yuan.
Photo: Dian Li, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings1 Feb 2019
Residents of Vinales in western Cuba reported a bright flare and explosions, and small black stones fell around the town without causing damage. State media first denied a plane crash, and Cuba's science ministry confirmed a meteorite fall as its geophysics institute sent a team to collect samples.
Photo: James St. John, CC BY 2.0
Sightings22 Jan 2019
The FAA briefly halted arrivals at Newark Liberty International after two incoming flights reported a drone at about 3,500 feet over nearby Teterboro Airport. Operations resumed within the hour and the FAA passed the reports to law enforcement.
Photo: Fan Railer, Public domain
Media15 Jan 2019
The CW premiered Roswell, New Mexico, its second adaptation of Melinda Metz's Roswell High novels about aliens living in the town, after the WB's Roswell series of 1999.
Media8 Jan 2019
History premiered a period drama from executive producer Robert Zemeckis, starring Aidan Gillen as astronomer J. Allen Hynek, with episodes drawn from Air Force Blue Book cases. It ran two seasons before History ended it in 2020.
Photo: U.S. Air Force, Public domain
