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7 entries here, 1952 to 2024, in date order.
Maj. Gen. John Samford, Air Force Director of Intelligence, held a Pentagon press conference on the Washington sightings. He said the reports showed no threat to the U.S., that temperature inversions might explain the radar returns, and that the objects were not U.S. tests.
Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall released a records search, prompted by a GAO inquiry requested by Rep. Steven Schiff, concluding the 1947 Roswell debris most likely came from Project Mogul, a then-secret balloon program to detect Soviet nuclear tests. It found no evidence of a crashed spacecraft.
The Defense Department authorized the release of three Navy infrared videos, FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast, that had already circulated publicly. It said the objects in them remain unidentified.
Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist approved a Navy-led task force to detect, analyze and catalog UAP that could threaten national security. The Pentagon announced it on August 14.
The Defense Department announced the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, replacing an earlier group with a wider remit covering air, space, undersea and transmedium objects. Sean Kirkpatrick was named its first director.
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.
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.
