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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Media28 May 2017
In a CBS 60 Minutes profile of his space company by Lara Logan, Las Vegas businessman Robert Bigelow said he was convinced of an existing alien presence on Earth. CBS reported the FAA had confirmed it once referred UFO reports to a firm Bigelow owned.
Photo: Bill Ingalls, Public domain
Media24 Apr 2017
Michael Mazzola's documentary Unacknowledged, in which Disclosure Project founder Steven Greer presents what he says is evidence of extraterrestrial contact, opened in limited release. It draws on witness testimony, documents and UFO footage; one critic called it a fun conspiracy-theory film.
Media21 Apr 2017
Cinelou Films released Phoenix Forgotten, a found-footage horror film imagining teenagers who vanish while filming a search for the source of the 1997 Phoenix Lights. Ridley Scott was among its producers. The story is fiction.
Media14 Mar 2017
To The Stars Academy's 2017 SEC offering filing lists physicist Harold Puthoff, known for SRI remote viewing research, as a director from 14 March 2017 and its vice president for science and technology. The company later released Navy UAP videos.
Media26 Feb 2017
At the 89th Academy Awards, Arrival, Denis Villeneuve's film about linguists decoding visiting aliens, won for sound editing. It had eight nominations, including Best Picture, directing and adapted screenplay.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Media22 Feb 2017
NASA and an international team announced seven Earth-size planets orbiting the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, about 40 light-years away, three of them in the zone where liquid water could exist. The find, led by the Spitzer telescope, was published in Nature.
Sightings6 Feb 2017
A bright green fireball seen by hundreds of people around Lake Michigan at 1:25 a.m. CST was identified by NASA as an asteroid fragment of at least 600 pounds that broke apart over the lake. Weather radar tracked falling fragments, and police dash cams recorded it.
Media26 Jan 2017
Fyodor Bondarchuk's Attraction, about an alien ship that crash-lands in Moscow's Chertanovo district, opened in Russia. Kommersant reported it recouped its 400 million ruble budget in under two weeks; worldwide gross was about $19 million.
Photo: Persycat, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government17 Jan 2017
The CIA posted about 930,000 declassified documents, more than 12 million pages, to its online reading room. The CREST collection, which includes the Star Gate remote viewing files, had until then been viewable only on a standalone system at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain
Whistleblowers2017
Investigators searched Bob Lazar's chemical supply firm, United Nuclear, in Laingsburg, Michigan, seeking thallium sales records for a poisoning-death inquiry. Lazar said the real aim was 'element 115'; police reports reviewed by VICE do not mention it and do not list him as a suspect.
Sightings10 Nov 2016
A metal cylinder about 4.5 m long fell on a jade-mining site in Hpakant, Kachin State, and a smaller piece with Chinese writing pierced a house roof; no one was hurt. State media said it might be satellite or missile parts, and experts linked it to a Chinese Long March 11 launched the day before.
Photo: Arezarni, CC BY-SA 3.0
MediaNov 2016
Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, a first-contact story centered on a linguist trying to communicate with visiting aliens, opened in November 2016. It grossed more than $200 million worldwide and earned eight Academy Award nominations, winning for sound editing.
Photo: Paramount Pictures, Public domain
Sightings31 Oct 2016
Six cameras of Curtin University's Desert Fireball Network recorded a fireball near Morawa, Western Australia. A four-person team used the computed fall line to find a 1.15 kg meteorite six days later, before any rain had touched it.
Photo: Hadry, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government24 Oct 2016
France enacted law 2016-1428 on civil drone safety, adding registration, training, onboard signalling and jail terms for flying over prohibited zones. Commentators tied it to illegal overflights of sensitive French sites.
GovernmentOct 2016
Spain's Ministry of Defence published 80 Air Force UFO case files, about 1,900 pages covering 1962 to 1995, in its online Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa. The files had been declassified from 1991 and earlier could only be read in person at the Air Force library in Madrid.
Photo: Bartomeu Caldentey Vives, CC BY-SA 3.0
MediaOct 2016
Emails to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, published by WikiLeaks, included messages from musician Tom DeLonge seeking a private meeting on a 'sensitive topic' and from astronaut Edgar Mitchell on extraterrestrial disclosure. Whether any meeting took place is unclear.
Photo: NHD-INFO, CC BY 2.0
Government26 Sep 2016
Objects that fell in Sumenep on Madura island on Sept. 26, 2016 were identified by Indonesia's space agency LAPAN as debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. LAPAN handed the pieces over to SpaceX in Bandung on Oct. 7, 2016.
Government25 Sep 2016
China's state news agency Xinhua reported the opening of the 500-meter FAST radio telescope in Guizhou, then the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Chinese astronomers said its work would include studying possible interstellar communication signals.
Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, Public domain
Media24 Aug 2016
ESO announced that the Pale Red Dot campaign had found Proxima b, a planet of at least 1.3 Earth masses orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. The result was published in Nature by Anglada-Escude and colleagues.
Photo: ESO/A.Santerne, CC BY 4.0
MediaAug 2016
A brief radio signal recorded in 2015 by Russia's RATAN-600 telescope toward the star HD 164595 drew headlines as a possible SETI candidate. In late August 2016 Russian astronomers said it was most likely terrestrial interference, with one official pointing to a military satellite.
Photo: aleksandr s kavkaza (Panoramio), CC BY 3.0
