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Official programs, reports, laws and hearings, from Project Blue Book to AARO and the National Archives. 328 events, newest first.
Government17 Jul 2025
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported S. 2342, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2026. Its Section 323 consolidated reporting requirements for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and directed that UAP-related data be made available to AARO.
Photo: United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Public domain
Government1 Jul 2025
The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, found a fast object on an interstellar path, reported to the Minor Planet Center on July 1, 2025. Named 3I/ATLAS, it was only the third known interstellar visitor and was classified as a comet.
Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech, CC BY 4.0
Government6 Jun 2025
President Trump signed Executive Order 14305, creating a federal task force on unauthorized drones and directing FAA flight limits over sensitive sites, wider drone detection and counter-drone capacity. It addresses drones and unidentified drone incursions; it does not mention UAP.
Photo: Daniel Torok, Public domain
GovernmentJun 2025
The Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada published its Sky Canada Project report on how public UAP reports are handled. It recommended naming a lead federal agency, creating a service to collect and publish analyses, and encouraging pilots to report without stigma.
Photo: Phillip Jeffrey, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government9 May 2025
AARO posted military infrared videos from the Middle East in 2023 and 2024 that it lists as unresolved. It says each shows an apparent thermal contrast but that without other sensor data it cannot tell whether it is a physical object or a sensor artifact.
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government29 Apr 2025
AARO published its case resolution and video of an object filmed in October 2017 by an aerostat infrared sensor above Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq. It assessed with high confidence that the object was a cluster of inflated balloons with no anomalous performance.
Photo: Cpl. John Baker, Public domain
Government19 Feb 2025
The House Oversight Committee said Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's new Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets had asked the administration for briefings on records about UAP and unidentified submerged objects, alongside files on the JFK assassination and other topics.
Photo: US House of Representatives, Public domain
Government11 Feb 2025
House Oversight Chairman James Comer named Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to lead a six-month task force on declassifying federal records. Its announced remit put UAPs alongside the JFK, RFK and MLK assassination files, the Epstein files, COVID-19 origins and 9/11.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government11 Feb 2025
Rep. Tim Burchett introduced H.R. 1187 in the 119th Congress. It would have the President direct agencies to declassify and post their UAP records online within 270 days, with progress reports to Congress. It repeats a bill he first filed in May 2024 and was referred to the Oversight Committee.
Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain
Government28 Jan 2025
At the first press briefing of President Trump's second term, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the drones seen over New Jersey were authorized by the FAA for research and other reasons, with many flown by hobbyists. She gave no details on who operated them.
Photo: The White House, Public domain
Government23 Dec 2024
The FY2025 defense bill became Public Law 118-159. Its intelligence division has a UAP title ordering a Government Accountability Office review of AARO and sunsetting audit requirements for AARO's historical report; the bill also has AARO liaise with a new counter-drone task force.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government21 Dec 2024
The American Relief Act, 2025, a stopgap spending law approved Dec. 21, 2024, extended DHS and Justice Department authority to counter drones over protected sites from Dec. 20, 2024 to March 14, 2025. Officials had asked Congress for more drone powers during the New Jersey sightings.
Government18 Dec 2024
At the request of federal security partners, the FAA issued 22 temporary flight restrictions barring drones within a nautical mile of critical infrastructure in New Jersey towns, ground to 400 feet, into mid-January. Similar limits covered parts of New York. DHS called it a precaution.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
Government16 Dec 2024
DHS, the FBI, FAA and Pentagon said the FBI had received more than 5,000 drone tips, about 100 of which produced leads. They said sightings were lawful drones, manned aircraft, helicopters and stars, that nothing anomalous had been found, and asked Congress for counter-drone powers.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
Government15 Dec 2024
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ABC's This Week that officials knew of no foreign involvement in the Northeast sightings. He said some were real drones and others manned aircraft, linked the rise partly to night-flight rules, and asked Congress for wider powers.
Photo: Zachary Hupp/U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Public domain
Government15 Dec 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the Department of Homeland Security to deploy a recently declassified radio-wave tracking system to identify drones reported over New York and New Jersey and their operators, noting state and local police lacked authority to track them.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy, Public domain
Government13 Dec 2024
President-elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about drone sightings around the country, asking whether this could happen without the government knowing and saying the drones should be shot down unless officials told the public. Some Republican lawmakers made similar calls.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government13 Dec 2024
Gov. Phil Murphy wrote to President Biden asking for more federal resources to find out what was behind weeks of drone reports over New Jersey, and urged him to keep directing the federal agencies involved to work together until they had answers.
Photo: Montclair Film, CC BY 4.0
Government13 Dec 2024
During the late-2024 New Jersey drone sightings, Rep. Josh Gottheimer urged the FBI and DHS to let state and local police use equipment to safely bring down unauthorized drones, and asked for a public briefing on the reports.
Photo: Kristie Boyd; U.S. House Office of Photography, Public domain
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
