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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Military10 Sep 2025
During a Russian attack on Ukraine, drones crossed into Poland overnight; Prime Minister Donald Tusk said 19 entered and that Polish and allied aircraft shot down three or four. Poland invoked NATO's Article 4, opening consultations with its allies.
Government9 Sep 2025
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's House Oversight task force heard sworn testimony from Navy and Air Force witnesses and journalist George Knapp. Rep. Eric Burlison showed a video he said was filmed off Yemen in October 2024 of a Hellfire missile apparently failing to down an object.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 4.0
Military28 Aug 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the Army secretary to establish Joint Interagency Task Force 401, reporting to the deputy secretary, to speed counter-small-drone capabilities and protect personnel and facilities at home and abroad.
Photo: David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media6 Aug 2025
Omer Eldadi, Gershon Tenenbaum and Avi Loeb posted a 0-10 scale for rating how anomalous an interstellar object is, from natural (0) to confirmed artificial (8-10). They rated 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS a 4; Loeb has said 3I/ATLAS is most likely a natural comet.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government6 Aug 2025
On the New York Post podcast 'Pod Force One', Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard answered yes when asked if extraterrestrial life is possible, said her office would be open with the public when the time comes, and said she still had questions about the 2024 drone sightings.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government17 Jul 2025
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported S. 2342, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2026. Its Section 323 consolidated reporting requirements for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and directed that UAP-related data be made available to AARO.
Photo: United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Public domain
Media16 Jul 2025
Weeks after the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was found, Avi Loeb and two co-authors posted a non-peer-reviewed paper asking whether it could be alien technology. NASA describes it as a comet, and astronomers quoted in the press said the evidence points to a natural object.
Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin, CC BY 4.0
Government1 Jul 2025
The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, found a fast object on an interstellar path, reported to the Minor Planet Center on July 1, 2025. Named 3I/ATLAS, it was only the third known interstellar visitor and was classified as a comet.
Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech, CC BY 4.0
Media6 Jun 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported that AARO had found officers were told about a fictional alien program, 'Yankee Blue', as a hazing ritual, and that an Air Force colonel passed fake saucer photos near Area 51 to shield stealth work. The Pentagon has not published these findings.
Photo: David James Henry, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government6 Jun 2025
President Trump signed Executive Order 14305, creating a federal task force on unauthorized drones and directing FAA flight limits over sensitive sites, wider drone detection and counter-drone capacity. It addresses drones and unidentified drone incursions; it does not mention UAP.
Photo: Daniel Torok, Public domain
Skinwalker Ranch3 Jun 2025
History began the sixth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, 14 episodes centered on what the show calls an invisible 'Bubble' anomaly, with drone and radar flights, rocket launches and tests of material found on the mesa. No independent confirmation of its claims has been published.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
GovernmentJun 2025
The Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada published its Sky Canada Project report on how public UAP reports are handled. It recommended naming a lead federal agency, creating a service to collect and publish analyses, and encouraging pilots to report without stigma.
Photo: Phillip Jeffrey, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government9 May 2025
AARO posted military infrared videos from the Middle East in 2023 and 2024 that it lists as unresolved. It says each shows an apparent thermal contrast but that without other sensor data it cannot tell whether it is a physical object or a sensor artifact.
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government29 Apr 2025
AARO published its case resolution and video of an object filmed in October 2017 by an aerostat infrared sensor above Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq. It assessed with high confidence that the object was a cluster of inflated balloons with no anomalous performance.
Photo: Cpl. John Baker, Public domain
Sightings24 Mar 2025
A large glowing spiral was seen and filmed across the UK and much of Europe on the evening of March 24, 2025, prompting UFO speculation. The Met Office and astronomers attributed it to the frozen exhaust plume of a Falcon 9 launched from Florida that day.
Media9 Mar 2025
Dan Farah's documentary The Age of Disclosure had its world premiere at SXSW in Austin. It features 34 current and former officials, including Marco Rubio and Luis Elizondo, asserting a hidden government UAP effort; reviewers noted it offers testimony rather than new proof.
Sightings6 Mar 2025
SpaceX lost its Starship upper stage minutes into its eighth test flight. Glowing debris was filmed from Florida, the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos, and the FAA briefly halted departures at several Florida airports, citing space launch debris.
Photo: NASA/JSC/Don Pettit, Public domain
Government19 Feb 2025
The House Oversight Committee said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's new Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets had asked the administration for briefings on records about UAP and unidentified submerged objects, alongside files on the JFK assassination and other topics.
Photo: US House of Representatives, Public domain
Sightings19 Feb 2025
Early on February 19, 2025, bright flashes were seen over parts of Poland. The Polish Space Agency said a Falcon 9 rocket stage from a SpaceX Starlink launch had made an uncontrolled reentry, and fragments were later confirmed at four sites near Poznan.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Aubrey Gemignani, Public domain
Military13 Feb 2025
At a Senate Armed Services posture hearing, Gen. Gregory Guillot of U.S. Northern Command said 350 drone detections were reported on military installations the year before, across about 100 installations, and that he saw surveillance of sensitive capabilities as the main threat.
Photo: U.S. Air Force, Public domain
