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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Government12 Dec 2024
At a White House briefing, national security spokesman John Kirby said there was no evidence the New Jersey sightings posed a security or safety threat or had a foreign link. He said many appeared to be lawful manned aircraft and urged Congress to expand counter-drone authority.
Photo: The White House, Public domain
Military12 Dec 2024
A spokesperson for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst said no drone incursions had been identified during the New Jersey sightings. The Air Force later said the base's 2024 drone incidents involved contraband deliveries to the federal prison on base, the latest in September.
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government11 Dec 2024
During the New Jersey drone sightings, Rep. Jeff Van Drew said on air that an Iranian 'mothership' off the East Coast was launching the drones. The same day, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said there was no truth to it and no Iranian ship off the U.S. coast.
Photo: Office of Congressman Jeff Van Drew, Public domain
Government11 Dec 2024
Asked about Rep. Jeff Van Drew's claim that an Iranian 'mothership' off the coast was launching the drones seen over New Jersey, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said there was no truth to it and no Iranian ship off the U.S. coast.
Photo: DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando, Public domain
Government11 Dec 2024
Senators Andy Kim, Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand wrote to DHS, the FBI and the FAA asking for an immediate briefing on how they were working with police to identify the source of night drone sightings over New Jersey and New York.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
Government11 Dec 2024
After a Homeland Security and state police briefing for New Jersey officials, Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia posted that the drones were up to six feet across, sometimes flew unlit and seemed to evade detection. DHS said there was no known threat.
Photo: Marion Touvel, Public domain
Government10 Dec 2024
Rep. Chris Smith wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about drones flying near sensitive New Jersey sites, including military installations, and asked that all Defense Department counter-drone capabilities, such as those at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, be deployed.
Photo: United States Congress, Public domain
Military5 Dec 2024
The Defense Department announced that Secretary Lloyd Austin had signed a classified strategy for countering unmanned systems, releasing only an unclassified fact sheet. Officials called drones an urgent threat to U.S. forces overseas and increasingly at home.
Photo: Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain
Government3 Dec 2024
The FAA confirmed it had issued two temporary flight restrictions at the request of federal security partners after drone reports in New Jersey: one over President-elect Trump's Bedminster golf club, the other over the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, until Dec. 26.
Photo: United States Army Picatinny Arsenal Precision Armaments Laboratory, Public domain
Government3 Dec 2024
The FBI's Newark office, New Jersey State Police and the state homeland security office asked the public to report sightings of possible drones, and a possible fixed-wing aircraft, along the Raritan River, saying reports went back several weeks.
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0
GovernmentDec 2024
For the second year running, the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act, including its independent review board, failed to make it into the final National Defense Authorization Act, reported The Debrief in December 2024.
Photo: The White House, Public domain
MilitaryDec 2024
Drones of varying size were reported around the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein Air Base in early December 2024, and an Air Force spokesperson confirmed the sightings. The base said it would monitor the airspace with German authorities. Police were then probing similar reports at Bavarian bases.
Photo: Beowulf Tomek, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government27 Nov 2024
UK defence minister Vernon Coaker told Parliament the Ministry of Defence takes safety seriously and keeps robust measures, including counter-drone capabilities, at its sites, as police investigated drones over RAF bases used by U.S. forces.
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0
Military26 Nov 2024
U.S. Air Forces in Europe said small drones of varying size and number had been seen near and over RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Feltwell since Nov. 20, and its update added RAF Fairford in southwest England. It said none affected base residents, facilities or assets.
Photo: Chris, CC BY-SA 2.0
Whistleblowers22 Nov 2024
The Sol Foundation, a UAP think tank founded by Stanford academics, held its second annual symposium on Nov. 22-23, 2024. Speakers included former NOAA head Tim Gallaudet, a former Senate Armed Services staffer, and scientists Garry Nolan, Avi Loeb and Jacques Vallee.
Government19 Nov 2024
AARO director Jon Kosloski testified to the Senate Armed Services Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee in an open and closed hearing on the office's activities, days after its FY2024 annual report was released.
Photo: All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government19 Nov 2024
At a Senate hearing, AARO released December 2018 infrared drone video that seemed to show an object passing through Mount Etna's eruption plume. AARO said atmospheric distortion caused the effect and assessed with moderate confidence the object was a balloon drifting with the wind.
Photo: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, Public domain
Government14 Nov 2024
The Pentagon's AARO reported 757 UAP reports received from May 2023 to June 2024, bringing its caseload above 1,600. It resolved 118 cases to balloons, birds, drones and similar objects, and said it had found no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government13 Nov 2024
Two House Oversight subcommittees held a joint hearing at which Tim Gallaudet, Luis Elizondo, Michael Gold and Michael Shellenberger testified under oath. The witnesses alleged excessive secrecy around UAP and urged more disclosure and better reporting.
Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain
Whistleblowers13 Nov 2024
Journalist Michael Shellenberger's written House testimony described an anonymous whistleblower report alleging a hidden Pentagon program, 'Immaculate Constellation', that gathers UAP imagery. A Defense Department spokesperson said it has no record of any such program; the claim is unverified.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
