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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Sightings21 Jan 2024
Krisztian Sarneczky in Hungary discovered a meter-scale asteroid hours before it entered the atmosphere about 50 km west of Berlin at 00:32 UTC. Searchers recovered dozens of fragments near Ribbeck, a rare aubrite meteorite.
Photo: Andreas Moller, CC BY-SA 4.0
Whistleblowers19 Jan 2024
Sean Kirkpatrick, AARO's first director, wrote in Scientific American that claims of a secret U.S. program to recover and reverse-engineer alien craft were unsupported by evidence, arguing they spread by circular reporting among a small group of advocates.
Photo: Defense.gov, Public domain
Government12 Jan 2024
Experts working for Peru's prosecutors examined figures seized by customs and said they were dolls built from animal and human bones held with modern synthetic glue. Similar bodies had been shown to Mexico's Congress in 2023 as possible non-human life.
Whistleblowers12 Jan 2024
Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim gave a classified UAP briefing to a House Oversight subcommittee following David Grusch's 2023 testimony. Members came out divided: some said they learned little, while Rep. Jared Moskowitz said it showed progress on parts of Grusch's claims.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government11 Jan 2024
Reps. Robert Garcia and Glenn Grothman introduced H.R. 6967, which would let pilots, controllers and other aviation workers report UAP to the FAA, have the FAA pass reports to AARO, and protect reporters from retaliation or medical disqualification. It did not advance past committee.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Media2024
The Society for UAP Studies, a nonprofit scholarly group, began publishing Limina, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of UAP studies, with its first issue in spring 2024.
Sightings1 Jan 2024
A heavy police response to a New Year's Day brawl among teenagers at Miami's Bayside Marketplace set off viral posts claiming tall 'shadow aliens' were there. Miami police said there were no aliens, UFOs or power outages, and that the response was to the fight.
Photo: Phillip Pessar, CC BY 2.0
Government22 Dec 2023
The FY2024 defense bill, signed Dec. 22, 2023, kept a reduced version of the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act, ordering agencies to send UAP records to a new National Archives collection. Conferees dropped the proposed independent review board and the push to obtain privately held material.
Photo: David Samuel, User:Hellodavey1902, CC BY-SA 3.0
Media14 Dec 2023
University of Utah geographers Richard Medina and Simon Brewer, with Sean Kirkpatrick of the Defense Department, modeled about 98,000 U.S. public sighting reports from 2001-2020. More reports came where light pollution and tree cover allow open skies and where aircraft and military sites are near.
Government13 Dec 2023
In a Senate floor colloquy, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds criticized House negotiators for dropping their proposed independent UAP records review board from the defense bill, warning that declassification would stay with the agencies that had long withheld the records.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy, Public domain
Military7 Dec 2023
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense began listing Chinese balloons crossing the Strait median line in its daily reports, and dozens followed through early 2024, some passing over the island. The ministry generally assessed them as weather balloons and called the launches gray-zone harassment.
Photo: NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain
Military6 Dec 2023
Starting December 6, 2023, drones of varying size and number repeatedly flew over Langley AFB, home to F-22s, through the month. The Air Force confirmed the incursions, and NORAD-NORTHCOM commander Gen. Gregory Guillot raised them before the Senate in March 2024.
Photo: Tech. Sgt. Natasha Stannard, Public domain
Government1 Dec 2023
AARO added its first case resolution reports to aaro.mil, covering cases labeled Atmospheric Wake, Southeast Asia Triangles and Western United States, with imagery. Later reports found no anomalous behavior in other cases, including the GoFast video and a 2013 Puerto Rico infrared video.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
GovernmentDec 2023
AARO's first director, Sean Kirkpatrick, left the office in December 2023, as announced by the Pentagon in November. Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks credited his team with investigating over 800 cases; new deputy Tim Phillips led the office in an acting role.
Photo: Defense.gov, Public domain
Government1 Dec 2023
When Sean Kirkpatrick left AARO, new deputy director Tim Phillips, on assignment from ODNI, became acting director. The Pentagon said his priorities were interviewing people with firsthand UAP knowledge and fusing intelligence and sensor data on open cases.
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Sightings19 Nov 2023
Flights at Imphal's Bir Tikendrajit International Airport were disrupted for several hours after an unidentified object was reported hovering over the airport. The airport director said two flights were diverted and three departures delayed.
Photo: Haoreima, CC BY-SA 4.0
Whistleblowers17 Nov 2023
The Sol Foundation, a UAP research and policy group led by Stanford's Garry Nolan, held an invitation-only two-day symposium at Stanford. Speakers included former NOAA official Tim Gallaudet and Army Col. Karl Nell, and David Grusch appeared remotely. Lecture videos were later posted.
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0
Media14 Nov 2023
Journalist and historian Garrett M. Graff published 'UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here - and Out There' with Avid Reader Press. Reviewers noted it surveys decades of official investigations, debunks many cases and takes no firm stance on what UFOs are.
Photo: Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government7 Nov 2023
Journalist Jaime Maussan returned to Mexico's Congress with doctors and Peruvian researchers who said the three-fingered bodies were once-living organisms. None would certify them as extraterrestrial, and the bodies were not shown this time.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0
SightingsNov 2023
Harvard's Galileo Project began continuous recording with an eight-camera infrared array at its first observatory in Massachusetts. Over five months it tracked about 500,000 objects; 144 trajectories stayed ambiguous, which the team said were likely mundane.
Photo: Abraham Loeb and Frank H. Laukien (Galileo Project), CC BY 4.0
