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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
MediaOct 2015
Kepler data on star KIC 8462852 showed deep, irregular dips, and in October 2015 Penn State astronomer Jason Wright and colleagues called it a strong SETI target, sparking 'alien megastructure' headlines. A 2018 study led by Tabetha Boyajian found the dimming was most likely dust.
Photo: Infrared: IPAC/NASA Ultraviolet: STScI (NASA), Public domain
Whistleblowers25 Sep 2015
Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet took over as Oceanographer of the Navy in a September 25, 2015 ceremony. He later said that in that role he saw a 2015 Navy email warning of UAP near-collisions with jets off the East Coast.
Photo: United States Department of Commerce, Public domain
Sightings7 Sep 2015
A bright fireball crossed the sky over Bangkok around 8:40 am and was filmed by many dashboard cameras, prompting rumors of a downed aircraft. A Thai observatory astronomer said it was a meteor burning up, and officials in Nakhon Ratchasima called off a crash search.
Sightings2 Sep 2015
A night fireball filmed over Bingol province broke up and rained stones on the village of Saricicek. Scientists documented 343 stones, the first recorded fall of a howardite, a meteorite type linked to the asteroid Vesta.
Government13 Aug 2015
The FAA said pilot reports of drones near manned aircraft had risen to more than 650 so far in 2015, up from 238 in all of 2014. Monthly pilot reports in mid-2015 ran several times higher than a year earlier.
Photo: Runner1928, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings10 Aug 2015
A volunteer group, the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, released an analysis of the 2013 Aguadilla infrared video arguing a wind-borne object could not explain it. In 2025 AARO assessed with moderate confidence that the objects were sky lanterns.
Photo: Miguelpr91 at English Wikipedia, Public domain
Media20 Jul 2015
Investor Yuri Milner, joined by Stephen Hawking at the Royal Society in London, announced Breakthrough Listen, a privately funded $100 million, 10-year search for signals from other civilizations using the Green Bank and Parkes radio telescopes and an optical telescope at Lick Observatory.
Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0
Sightings20 Jul 2015
The crew of a Lufthansa Embraer 195 from Munich reported a black object, possibly a drone, passing within about 100 meters of the jet at 760 meters on approach to Warsaw. The plane landed safely; police questioned a local drone owner but brought no charges.
Photo: PerpetualTraveler, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media15 May 2015
Six years after filming, Paramount gave Oren Peli's found-footage film Area 51, about friends who break into the Nevada base, a one-weekend run at 16 Alamo Drafthouse theaters alongside a video-on-demand release. Reviews were poor.
MediaApr 2015
Astronomers led by Emily Petroff showed that 'perytons', puzzling radio bursts seen for years at the Parkes radio telescope, came from staff opening a microwave oven door before it finished. Press coverage framed it as an alien-signal mystery, which the researchers said it never was.
Photo: Diceman Stephen West, CC BY-SA 3.0
Media14 Mar 2015
Former Navy aviator Paco Chierici published 'There I Was: The X-Files Edition' on the Fighter Sweep site, retelling squadron mate Cmdr. David Fravor's account of chasing a white object off southern California in November 2004. It appeared more than two years before the New York Times story.
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John Phillip Wagner Jr., Public domain
Sightings24 Feb 2015
On two straight nights, unidentified drones were seen over Paris sites including the Eiffel Tower, the U.S. Embassy and the Interior Ministry. Police opened an investigation; a government spokesman said hobbyists were the likely operators.
Photo: Getfunky Paris, CC BY 2.0
Government13 Feb 2015
On his last day as counselor to President Obama, John Podesta tweeted that his biggest failure of 2014 was again not securing disclosure of the UFO files. It was unclear which files he meant; he had long urged release of government UFO records.
Photo: Lawrence Jackson, White House photographer, Public domain
MediaFeb 2015
Scientists and writers issued a statement saying a worldwide scientific, political and humanitarian discussion should precede any deliberate message to extraterrestrials. Signers included Geoffrey Marcy and Elon Musk. Douglas Vakoch, who favoured transmitting, later founded METI International.
Military26 Jan 2015
Drones were detected over Ile Longue near Brest, home of France's ballistic-missile submarines, on the night of 26-27 January 2015, and the maritime prefecture sought to confirm it. A deputy raised it in Parliament amid months of drone overflights of French nuclear sites.
Photo: Rundvald, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media20 Jan 2015
John Greenewald's site The Black Vault posted about 129,500 pages of Air Force Project Sign, Grudge and Blue Book records as searchable PDFs. The files had long been viewable on microfilm at the National Archives but had not been fully online.
MilitaryJan 2015
Navy F/A-18 crews training off the U.S. East Coast recorded the infrared videos later known as Gimbal and GoFast. Pilots in the squadron, including Ryan Graves, have said they saw unidentified objects repeatedly in 2014 and 2015.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
WhistleblowersJan 2015
Retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet testified in 2024 that in January 2015, during a pre-deployment exercise, Fleet Forces Command emailed commanders about near-midair collisions with unknown objects, attaching the 'Go Fast' video. He said the email vanished the next day.
Photo: United States Department of Commerce, Public domain
Media2015
In 2015 Mexican TV personality Jaime Maussan championed the 'Roswell Slides', photos claimed to show an alien body. The figure was identified as the mummified body of a two-year-old boy, and the slides are now counted among the hoaxes he promoted.
Military2015
Former airman John Burroughs, a witness to the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, said through his attorney that the VA granted him full medical disability for injuries he links to that night. The VA's reasoning was not published; the UFO link is his and his lawyer's view.
Photo: Simon Leatherdale, CC BY-SA 2.0
