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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Sightings21 Apr 2008
Residents across north Phoenix reported a line of red lights that shifted formation and faded one by one; Luke Air Force Base said no aircraft of its were involved. Two days later a local man told a TV station he had tied road flares to helium balloons, and police declined to investigate.
Photo: Alan Stark, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media4 Feb 2008
NASA transmitted the Beatles song 'Across the Universe' through its Deep Space Network toward Polaris, about 431 light-years away, marking the song's 40th anniversary, NASA's 50th and the Deep Space Network's 45th.
Media30 Jan 2008
History premiered UFO Hunters, a series following a UFO Magazine team investigating cases in North America and Europe, on 30 January 2008. The Sci Fi Channel launched an unrelated series with the same name the same night.
Sightings19 Jan 2008
Texas MUFON held a public meeting in Dublin, Texas, where investigators took statements from about 50 witnesses to the Stephenville-area lights. The group's journal estimated 200 to 600 attendees and said national media crews crowded in.
Photo: Renegomezphotography, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings8 Jan 2008
Several dozen people around Stephenville, including a county constable, reported a large, quiet, low object with shifting lights, some saying jets chased it. The Air Force Reserve's 301st Fighter Wing first said none of its planes were there, then said 10 F-16s had been training in the area.
Photo: CletusDitto, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings2008
Night watchman Yalcin Yalman said he filmed about 30 videos of lit objects over the Sea of Marmara near Kumburgaz between 2007 and 2009, promoted by the Sirius UFO group. Claims that Turkish scientists authenticated them are poorly sourced; skeptics suggest reflections or a hoax.
Photo: Defnealamutt, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media2008
Nuclear physicist and UFO lecturer Stanton Friedman published 'Flying Saucers and Science' with New Page Books, arguing that interstellar travel is feasible and criticizing scientists who dismiss UFO evidence and government secrecy.
Photo: SMG2019, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media2008
Hong Kong director Stephen Chow released CJ7, in which a poor construction worker finds a small alien creature left behind by a spacecraft and gives it to his son. It was a large box-office success in China, while critics in the West were mixed.
Photo: Kit Liew, CC BY 3.0
Government20 Dec 2007
Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters, as his personal view, that there were no grounds to deny UFOs exist, and mused on how the pacifist constitution would let the military respond to an alien arrival. The remarks followed a cabinet colleague's similar comment that week.
Photo: Cabinet Public Relations Office, Japan, CC BY 4.0
Government18 Dec 2007
Answering a question from opposition lawmaker Ryuji Yamane, Japan's cabinet formally stated it had not confirmed any UFOs believed to come from outer space. Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura then told reporters he personally believed they exist, and the defense minister weighed in.
Photo: Cabinet Public Relations Office, Japan, CC BY 4.0
Whistleblowers12 Nov 2007
A panel of former pilots and officials from seven countries, moderated by former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, described encounters with unidentified objects at the National Press Club and urged the U.S. to reopen official UFO investigations through the Air Force or NASA.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings11 Oct 2007
UC Berkeley and the SETI Institute dedicated the first 42 dishes of the Allen Telescope Array in northern California, a radio telescope designed to do astronomy and search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations at the same time. Paul G. Allen's foundation provided seed money.
Photo: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
GovernmentOct 2007
Settling journalist Leslie Kean's federal FOIA lawsuit, NASA agreed to search its archives again for records on the 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, incident and to pay her legal fees. The court-supervised search ended in 2009 without resolving what fell; many files were missing.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
MediaAug 2007
Online videos of saucers flying over Haiti spread widely in August 2007. Within about a week the Los Angeles Times identified their maker as a French computer animator, who said he made the clips as a test for a film project and did not expect them to go viral.
Whistleblowers20 Jul 2007
The CPSC announced that United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, founded and run by Robert Lazar, pleaded guilty in federal court in New Mexico to three counts of shipping banned hazardous substances used in illegal fireworks. It was fined $7,500 and put on three years' probation.
Sightings20 Jul 2007
Cameras of Australia's Desert Fireball Network photographed a fireball over the Nullarbor Plain, letting researchers compute its path and orbit. Searchers found the first stones near the predicted spot in October 2008; the rock proved an unusual basaltic meteorite.
Photo: Rmhowie, CC BY-SA 4.0
Skinwalker Ranch28 Jun 2007
Bigelow Aerospace, founded by NIDS and Skinwalker Ranch backer Robert Bigelow, launched its second inflatable test habitat, Genesis II, on a converted Russian Dnepr missile from the Yasny launch base.
Sightings10 May 2007
A brilliant fireball moving north across Spain shortly before 6 p.m. local time was tracked by the Spanish Fireball Network. Pieces of the meteorite, a brecciated eucrite, were recovered in olive groves near Puerto Lapice in Ciudad Real province.
Photo: PePeEfe, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings23 Apr 2007
Aurigny captain Ray Bowyer, flying a Trislander from Southampton to Alderney, reported two long, bright yellow objects hovering over the Channel Islands; a Blue Islands pilot reported a similar object. Bowyer filed an incident report, and no official explanation was published.
Photo: G B_NZ, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government12 Apr 2007
The records site Footnote.com (later Fold3) said it had begun posting scanned Project Blue Book case files free online, with a little over half of roughly 130,000 pages up and the rest of the National Archives microfilm set to follow.
