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Official programs, reports, laws and hearings, from Project Blue Book to AARO and the National Archives. 328 events, newest first.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
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
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.
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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
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
Government31 Oct 2023
Under the FY2023 NDAA, the Defense Department opened a form on aaro.mil for current or former government employees, service members and contractors with direct knowledge of alleged UAP programs since 1945. Reports were to inform AARO's historical record report to Congress.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government18 Oct 2023
ODNI and the Defense Department published their joint FY2023 UAP report, covering 291 reports received from late August 2022 to April 2023. It said reporting still skewed toward military airspace and that no case had been tied to foreign activity or shown an unsafe approach to aircraft.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government14 Sep 2023
NASA's independent UAP study team released its final report, urging better-calibrated sensors and data and a larger NASA role. It said the scientific literature holds no conclusive evidence of an extraterrestrial origin. NASA said it was appointing a director of UAP research.
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Government14 Sep 2023
Alongside its independent UAP study report, NASA named Mark McInerney, its former liaison to the Defense Department on UAP, as director of UAP research, charged with centralizing data and building a database for evaluating future reports.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Government12 Sep 2023
At Mexico's first congressional UAP hearing, journalist Jaime Maussan displayed two small mummified bodies he claimed were non-human. UNAM said its lab had only carbon-dated samples and drew no conclusions about origin; scientists widely called the bodies a hoax.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government31 Aug 2023
The Defense Department launched aaro.mil, a public site for its UAP office meant to carry declassified photos and videos of resolved cases, reports and FAQs. A secure reporting form for government personnel was promised for later.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government28 Jul 2023
Days after the July 2023 UAP hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett said efforts led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to question David Grusch in a secure facility were stalled by a claimed problem with Grusch's clearance, which he called ridiculous. Luna later said permission had been granted.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government27 Jul 2023
The Senate passed its FY2024 defense bill 86-11 with a UAP Disclosure division that would create a records review board and direct the government to take eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin. Most of those provisions were dropped in conference with the House.
Photo: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), Ranking Member of the..., Public domain
Government14 Jul 2023
The House passed its FY2024 defense bill on July 14, 2023 with an amendment from Rep. Tim Burchett directing the Pentagon to release records on publicly known UAP sightings, provided release would not harm national security.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government13 Jul 2023
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds filed the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the Senate defense authorization bill. Modeled on the JFK records law, it would have created a UAP records collection at the National Archives and an independent review board.
Photo: Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds, United States Senate, Public domain
Government22 Jun 2023
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported its FY2024 Intelligence Authorization Act, whose Section 1104 would bar spending on UAP recovery, analysis or reverse-engineering efforts unless disclosed to AARO and congressional leaders, and would require contractors holding such material to report it.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
