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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
SightingsNov 2024
From mid-November 2024 residents across New Jersey and nearby states reported thousands of suspected drones at night. In joint statements the FBI, DHS, FAA and DoD said they found no national security threat and attributed sightings to lawful drones, manned aircraft and stars.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
Military30 Oct 2024
At a September 2025 House Oversight hearing, Rep. Eric Burlison played a video he said was taken on October 30, 2024 by an MQ-9 tracking an orb off Yemen as another MQ-9 fired a Hellfire missile that appeared to strike it. The video's source was not officially authenticated at the hearing.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government3 Sep 2024
Asked on the Lex Fridman Podcast whether he would help push the Pentagon to release more UFO footage, presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would and would love to, then turned to the pressure he faced over the JFK files.
Photo: lexfridman, CC0
Government26 Aug 2024
The Defense Department announced that Dr. Jon T. Kosloski, a scientist on detail from the National Security Agency, would direct the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which had been led by an acting director since late 2023.
Photo: All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
WhistleblowersAug 2024
Luis Elizondo, who says he led the Pentagon's AATIP effort, published Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, arguing that UFOs are a serious national security issue the Defense Department withholds. The Pentagon said in 2019 he had no responsibilities for AATIP.
Photo: Luis Elizondo/HarperCollins/United States Department of Defense, Public domain
SightingsAug 2024
In August 2024 police in Schleswig-Holstein reported repeated night drone flights over Brunsbuttel's chemical park and LNG terminal, up to five per night. Flensburg prosecutors opened an inquiry on suspicion of sabotage-related espionage; no operator was publicly identified.
Photo: Steffen Papenbroock, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government6 Jun 2024
More than 80 Japanese lawmakers formed a nonpartisan group, headed by former defense minister Yasukazu Hamada, urging the government to create a body to gather and analyze UAP information and to work with the U.S. AARO. Members framed UAP chiefly as possible security threats.
Photo: Cabinet Public Relations Office, Japan, CC BY 4.0
Skinwalker Ranch4 Jun 2024
History aired the second season of its spin-off Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, eight episodes with Andy Bustamante and Paul Beban. Episodes covered a ranch linked to Robert Bigelow, a Colorado cattle-mutilation site, a petroglyph site and a California desert.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
MediaJun 2024
Tim Lomas and Brendan Case of Harvard and Michael Masters of Montana Tech argued that scientists should stay open to the idea that some UAP reflect intelligences hidden on or near Earth. The speculative paper drew wide coverage; the authors acknowledged it would meet skepticism.
MediaJun 2024
Penn State historian Greg Eghigian published a global history of the UFO phenomenon with Oxford University Press, drawing on archives, old newspapers and interviews to trace how witnesses, scientists, governments and media responded to sightings and abduction reports.
Government17 May 2024
Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett filed a House bill directing the president to have all federal agencies release their UAP records within 270 days, with quarterly progress reports to the House.
Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain
Military9 May 2024
Japan's Defense Ministry concluded that footage of the warship Izumo at Yokosuka, posted on Chinese social media in March 2024, was most likely shot by a drone that went undetected. Minister Minoru Kihara pledged faster counter-drone purchases.
Photo: Kurushima Kaikyo Ohashi (Wikimedia Commons user), CC0
WhistleblowersMay 2024
Retired Army Col. Karl Nell, who had worked with the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told a SALT iConnections audience in New York that non-human intelligence exists and has long interacted with humanity. AARO has said it found no evidence that UAP are alien.
Skinwalker Ranch23 Apr 2024
History began airing the fifth season of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, its series on investigations at the Utah property. The network's episode listing shows weekly episodes from April 23 into late July 2024.
Photo: Paul from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government12 Apr 2024
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon published a long rebuttal to AARO's March 2024 Historical Record Report, arguing it was error-ridden, too narrow and dismissive of unresolved cases. AARO stood by its finding of no evidence of alien technology.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Government8 Mar 2024
The Pentagon released volume one of AARO's review of U.S. government UAP efforts since 1945. AARO said it found no verifiable evidence that the government or private companies had recovered or reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.
Photo: All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government8 Mar 2024
Acting AARO director Tim Phillips told reporters the office was developing Gremlin, a portable, reconfigurable sensor kit built with Energy Department labs and Georgia Tech, to be sent to UAP report sites to collect data. He said Texas range tests also picked up many birds and bats.
Photo: Touch Of Light, CC BY-SA 4.0
WhistleblowersMar 2024
Retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, a former Oceanographer of the Navy, published the Sol Foundation's first policy paper, 'Beneath the Surface', arguing that UAP research should look at the ocean and at reported objects that move between air and water.
Photo: United States Department of Commerce, Public domain
MediaMar 2024
Johns Hopkins seismologist Benjamin Fernando's team told the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference that the Manus Island seismic signal Avi Loeb's group used to find the 2014 fireball changed direction along a road, likely a passing truck. Loeb disputed the coverage.
Photo: Avi Loeb and Frank Laukien (study authors), CC BY 4.0
Government25 Jan 2024
The Defense Department Inspector General released an unclassified summary of its classified 2023 UAP evaluation. It found the department had no overarching UAP policy and that components handled reports in differing ways, and it made 11 recommendations.
Photo: Department of Defense, Public domain
