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Official programs, reports, laws and hearings, from Project Blue Book to AARO and the National Archives. 328 events, newest first.
Government12 Jan 2023
ODNI's first annual UAP report, written with the new AARO, counted 366 reports beyond the 2021 preliminary assessment, for 510 in total. Initial review characterized 163 as balloon-like, 26 as drone-like and 6 as clutter, leaving 171 uncharacterized.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government2023
The Office of Canada's Chief Science Advisor began a review of how the federal government handles public UAP reports, its first such look in decades. Its 2025 report recommended naming a federal body to collect, investigate and publish UAP data.
Photo: Phillip Jeffrey, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government23 Dec 2022
The FY2023 defense authorization law required a secure channel for authorized reporting of UAP events and of any government program on UAP material, rewrote the statute for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office including a historical record report, and ordered a GAO audit of that record.
Government16 Dec 2022
Under Secretary Ronald Moultrie and AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick described the new office's mission to reporters and said it had received several hundred new reports. Both said they had seen nothing indicating alien visitation or a crash.
Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Government28 Oct 2022
The New York Times reported, citing unnamed defense officials, that a classified government review attributed many recent UAP incidents to foreign surveillance, some to Chinese drones, and others to airborne clutter such as weather balloons. Officials did not release the underlying analysis.
Government21 Oct 2022
NASA named 16 people to its independent UAP study team, chaired by Simons Foundation president David Spergel, with work starting Oct. 24, 2022. The nine-month study was limited to unclassified data and aimed to recommend how NASA could collect and analyze UAP data.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Government13 Oct 2022
France's space agency CNES, through its UAP office GEIPAN, held the CAIPAN II conference in Toulouse on Oct. 13-14, 2022. More than 100 scientists, investigators and associations presented methods and tools for investigating UAP reports.
Photo: GEIPAN / Wizly-08, Public domain
Government26 Sep 2022
The Canberra Times reported Defence talking points, released under freedom of information, saying Australia had no plans to work with the U.S. on UAP and saw no evidence they were extraterrestrial. Defence listed natural phenomena, sensor issues or human-made technology as likely causes.
Photo: Nick Dowling at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
GovernmentSep 2022
Answering a FOIA request from The Black Vault, the Navy's FOIA office withheld all UAP-designated videos in full, saying release would give adversaries information on Navy operations and capabilities. It said three earlier videos were released only because they had already leaked.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Government20 Jul 2022
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.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government13 Jul 2022
The House adopted by voice vote an amendment from Reps. Ruben Gallego and Mike Gallagher to its FY2023 defense bill, creating a secure system to receive UAP reports, including from people previously bound by nondisclosure agreements.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain
Government12 Jul 2022
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported its FY2023 intelligence bill (S. 4503) with UAP sections. One authorized witnesses to report UAP events or related government programs through a new secure system, notwithstanding nondisclosure agreements; a version was later enacted in the FY2023 NDAA.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
Government9 Jun 2022
NASA said it would commission an independent team, chaired by astrophysicist David Spergel, to study unidentified aerial phenomena using only unclassified data and recommend how NASA could help. The 16-member team began work in October 2022.
Photo: NASA Headquarters / NASA/Joel Kowsky, Public domain
Government17 May 2022
A House Intelligence subcommittee held an open hearing on UAP with Under Secretary of Defense Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray, who showed newly declassified video. It was described as the first open congressional hearing on the subject in about 50 years.
Photo: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Public domain
Government17 May 2022
At the House Intelligence subcommittee's UAP hearing, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray said triangle-shaped objects filmed by Navy crews were likely small drones, their shape an effect of light passing through night-vision goggles onto an SLR camera.
Photo: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Public domain
GovernmentApr 2022
The Defense Intelligence Agency released nearly 1,600 pages on AAWSAP, the program it funded through Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies, including contractor studies on topics like wormholes and antigravity. The release followed FOIA requests from Vice and The Black Vault.
Photo: MSGT KEN HAMMOND, Public domain
Government27 Dec 2021
The FY2022 defense bill, signed Dec. 27, 2021, ordered the Pentagon and intelligence community to set up an office on unidentified aerial phenomena, with unclassified annual reports and semiannual classified briefings to Congress. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand pushed the provision.
Photo: The White House, Public domain
Government6 Dec 2021
After the Pentagon set up the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office told The Debrief it did not go nearly far enough. Days later her own UAP office amendment was included in the final FY2022 defense bill.
Photo: US Senate Photography, Public domain
Government23 Nov 2021
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks directed the intelligence under secretary to set up the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group as successor to the Navy's UAP Task Force, focused on objects in special use airspace. It was later replaced by AARO.
Photo: United States Department of Defense, Public domain
Government4 Nov 2021
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand filed an amendment to the FY2022 defense bill, cosponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio, to replace the UAP Task Force with a permanent office reporting to Defense and intelligence leaders. Her office said on Dec. 9, 2021 that a version was included in the final NDAA.
Photo: US Senate Photography, Public domain
