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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Media2015
Filmmaker Jennifer Stein released a documentary on Travis Walton's account of being taken aboard a craft in Arizona in 1975 and how the claim shaped his life. Stein said she made it to counter efforts to debunk him; the case remains disputed.
Photo: SMG2019, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media19 Dec 2014
Rajkumar Hirani's Hindi film PK opened, with Aamir Khan as an alien stranded in the Rajasthan desert after his ship's remote is stolen. His questions about human religious customs drive the satire. Disney-UTV released it on a record number of screens.
Photo: Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
Sightings9 Dec 2014
A bright fireball over the Czech Republic on 9 December 2014 was photographed by the Czech part of the European Fireball Network. Astronomers computed where pieces should land, and three small L3.9 chondrite meteorites were found almost exactly there.
Photo: IAUPavel Spurny, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences., CC BY 4.0
Military11 Nov 2014
A Chilean Navy helicopter crew on coastal patrol west of Santiago filmed an object with an infrared camera for about 10 minutes. Chile's CEFAA studied the footage for two years and called it unidentified; skeptics later argued it was an airliner leaving contrails.
Military17 Oct 2014
Sweden's armed forces mobilized about 200 personnel with helicopters, minesweepers and a stealth corvette to search the Stockholm archipelago for 'foreign underwater activity' after a tip. The military released a blurry photo and reported several sightings; Russia denied involvement.
Photo: Mark Harkin, CC BY 2.0
SightingsOct 2014
EDF said unidentified drones flew over seven of its French nuclear sites between Oct. 5 and Oct. 20, 2014, mostly at night. Each plant filed a police complaint and the interior minister said a judicial investigation was under way; no operator was named.
Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0
MilitaryOct 2014
A small object launched with Russian military satellites in May 2014, first catalogued by U.S. trackers as debris, was later seen changing orbit. A British analyst identified it as Kosmos 2499 and speculated it might be an inspector satellite; the report carried no Russian explanation.
Sightings22 Jul 2014
An A320 crew on short final to Heathrow reported a small black object pass about 20 feet over the wing at 700 feet. The UK Airprox Board judged it a suspected radio-controlled model helicopter and rated the risk Category A, its highest; the operator was never traced.
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government8 Jul 2014
France's space agency CNES, through its UAP study unit GEIPAN, hosted a two-day international workshop in Paris on better ways to collect and analyze UAP reports. Scientists, gendarmerie and air force officials and outside researchers presented; GEIPAN published the papers and slides.
Photo: GEIPAN / Wizly-08, Public domain
Media2 Jul 2014
Relativity Media released this found-footage family film about three boys who discover and hide a small stranded alien and help it get home. It opened in U.S. theaters on July 2, 2014.
Media12 May 2014
In a morning homily, Pope Francis imagined a group of green Martians, one of whom asks to be baptized, to show how shocking it was when Peter baptized non-Jews. The Vatican published the remark in its official summary of the May 12, 2014 homily.
Photo: Pascal Bastien / European Union, 2014 / EC - Audiovisual Service, CC BY 4.0
Sightings19 Apr 2014
Finnish Fireball Network cameras at three sites recorded a fireball over the Kola Peninsula on April 19, 2014. Searchers using the computed fall zone found two small fragments in late May, the first meteorite recovered from the Finnish network's observations.
Photo: Underminer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government8 Apr 2014
Bright spots in Curiosity Navigation Camera images from April 2-3, 2014 drew online claims of a light on Mars. NASA said the likely causes were cosmic-ray hits on the detector or sunlight glinting off rock, noting such spots appear nearly every week.
Media4 Apr 2014
IFC released Alien Abduction, a found-footage horror film directed by Matty Beckerman about a family who encounter aliens while camping. Its story is inspired by the Brown Mountain Lights reported in western North Carolina.
Photo: Thomson200, CC0
Government2 Apr 2014
On ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, former President Bill Clinton said that in his second term he had Area 51 records checked and the Roswell papers reviewed, and found no aliens. He added he would not be surprised if Earth were visited some day.
Photo: Lauren Gerson, Public domain
Sightings22 Mar 2014
A US Airways regional jet descending toward Tallahassee at about 2,300 feet reported nearly hitting a small drone; the pilot thought it had struck the plane. FAA official Jim Williams disclosed the case in May 2014. The drone's type and operator were not identified.
Photo: The Bushranger, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings9 Mar 2014
A fireball with a sonic boom was seen over South Korea on the evening of March 9, 2014. Stones of about 9 and 4 kg turned up in Jinju farm fields over the next two days, and the Korea Polar Research Institute confirmed them as ordinary chondrite meteorites.
Media28 Feb 2014
A cable documentary series built on the Mutual UFO Network's archive of more than 70,000 case files premiered on Feb. 28, 2014, with MUFON members appearing as hosts. It ran two seasons and reflected UFO case material moving into reality-style TV.
Sightings17 Jan 2014
Chinese researchers published the first spectrum of natural ball lightning, recorded by chance on the Qinghai Plateau in July 2012. It showed silicon, iron and calcium, supporting the idea that vaporized soil feeds the glow. Ball lightning is often offered as a UAP explanation.
Photo: Olli Niemitalo, CC0
Military2014
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves testified that two VFA-11 F/A-18Fs took evasive action when a pilot saw a dark gray cube inside a clear sphere hovering at the entry point to training area W-72 off Virginia Beach. He said the squadron filed a safety report but got no official response.
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Josh Hammond, Public domain
