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Official programs, reports, laws and hearings, from Project Blue Book to AARO and the National Archives. 328 events, newest first.
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Government23 Oct 2026
The Department of War posted its seventh batch of records under PURSUE, the program it says is releasing unresolved UAP files on a rolling basis after a presidential directive. Items include 1950s Air Force reports and a 2010 Utah ranch investigation report.
Photo: United States Department of War, Public domain
Government22 Jul 2026
The House adopted Rep. Eric Burlison's UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the FY2027 defense bill. It would set up a review board with subpoena power and require agencies and contractors to send UAP records to the National Archives. The bill then went to the Senate.
Photo: Martin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 3.0
GovernmentJul 2026
AARO's report for June 2024 to May 2025, due October 2025 but out in July 2026, logged 319 new UAP reports. No resolved case pointed to breakthrough foreign technology and it found no evidence of recovered UAP material. A Navy report of about 100 objects off Virginia was still under investigation.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government8 May 2026
The Department of War posted a first tranche of declassified UAP videos, photos and documents on war.gov/UFO under the interagency Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), saying more would follow on a rolling basis. It noted many items had not been analyzed.
Government31 Mar 2026
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs a House Oversight task force on declassification, wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listing 46 UAP video files, citing whistleblowers who said AARO held more footage. She asked for delivery by April 14, 2026.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 4.0
GovernmentMar 2026
In an interview with commentator Benny Johnson, Vice President JD Vance said he had been 'obsessed' with the government's UFO files on taking office but got busy with other issues. He said he did not think UFOs were aliens but 'demons', and that a release of files was being worked on.
Photo: Emily J. Higgins, Public domain
GovernmentFeb 2026
President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was directing the Secretary of War and other agencies to begin identifying and releasing government files on alien and extraterrestrial life and UAP. The Department of War cited this direction when it began PURSUE releases in May 2026.
Photo: Daniel Torok, Public domain
Government20 Jan 2026
The DoD Office of Inspector General, evaluating responses to drone incursions at U.S. installations, issued an advisory saying unclear policy on which sites qualify for counter-drone protection and fragmented approvals needed immediate attention. Inspectors visited 10 sites with incursions.
Photo: Duane Lempke, CC0
Government19 Dec 2025
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came no closer to Earth than about 270 million km (1.8 AU), on Dec. 19, 2025, per NASA, posing no danger. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb kept pointing to anomalies, while NASA treated it as a natural comet.
Photo: NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.-T. Hui, Public domain
Government18 Dec 2025
The FY2026 defense authorization law requires AARO briefings to cover UAP intercepts by NORAD and Northern Command, including ones back to 2004, repeals a duplicate reporting rule, and orders an accounting of UAP security classification guides.
Government2 Dec 2025
Asked on Fox News about The Age of Disclosure, Rubio said his interview was filmed years earlier as a senator and relayed what witnesses had told him, not firsthand knowledge. He said his main worry was an adversary's surveillance capability over restricted airspace.
Photo: U.S. Department of State, Public domain
Government27 Nov 2025
The International Asteroid Warning Network opened an observing campaign on 3I/ATLAS to practise measuring precise positions of fuzzy comets, running to Jan. 27, 2026. Some outlets cast it as a secret planetary-defense drill; the network described it as a routine astrometry exercise.
Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin, CC BY 4.0
Government19 Nov 2025
After a shutdown delay, NASA held an online briefing releasing 3I/ATLAS images from about a dozen missions. Associate Administrator Nicky Fox said it behaves like a comet and that NASA saw no technosignatures, answering speculation that it was an alien craft.
Photo: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI), CC BY 4.0
Government26 Oct 2025
An FAA notice replaced the air traffic manual's 'UFO Reports' section, which had told controllers to refer callers to a private center such as the National UFO Reporting Center. Controllers must now tell supervisors of UAP reports, and ATC must notify the FAA's security operations team.
Photo: United States Federal Aviation Administration, Public domain
Government8 Oct 2025
Germany's cabinet approved a draft law letting federal police bring down drones that violate German airspace, including by shooting them in acute danger, and planned a police counter-drone unit. It followed drone sightings that disrupted Munich Airport; parliament still had to pass it.
Photo: H-stt, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government3 Oct 2025
As 3I/ATLAS passed about 30 million km from Mars on Oct. 3, 2025, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imaged its coma, and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN and Perseverance also observed it, showing a fuzzy comet.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona, Public domain
Government28 Sep 2025
After a week of unexplained drone sightings and airport closures, Denmark's transport ministry banned civilian drone flights from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, 2025, for an EU summit in Copenhagen, saying it would avoid confusing legal drones with hostile ones.
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government25 Sep 2025
After drones closed Copenhagen airport on September 22 and appeared over Aalborg, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and Skrydstrup air base, Denmark's defence minister called it a hybrid attack by a professional actor. No perpetrator was named; Russia denied involvement.
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government9 Sep 2025
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's House Oversight task force heard sworn testimony from Navy and Air Force witnesses and journalist George Knapp. Rep. Eric Burlison showed a video he said was filmed off Yemen in October 2024 of a Hellfire missile apparently failing to down an object.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government6 Aug 2025
On the New York Post podcast 'Pod Force One', Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard answered yes when asked if extraterrestrial life is possible, said her office would be open with the public when the time comes, and said she still had questions about the 2024 drone sightings.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
