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Official programs, reports, laws and hearings, from Project Blue Book to AARO and the National Archives. 328 events, newest first.
Government19 Oct 2021
In a University of Virginia Center for Politics talk with Larry Sabato, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he had spoken with Navy pilots whose radars locked onto unknown objects. He said no one knew what they were and hoped they were not an adversary's technology.
Photo: Bill Ingalls, Public domain
Government27 Sep 2021
Answering an Official Information Act request, the NZDF said it has no role in UFO reports, refers any it receives to the Civil Aviation Authority, and neither investigates nor keeps records of such sightings. The CAA said it looks only at incidents affecting aviation safety.
Government1 Sep 2021
At its September 1, 2021 markup the House Armed Services Committee approved an FY2022 defense bill with a section creating an office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to take over the UAP Task Force's work and report each year.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a preliminary assessment of military UAP reports from 2004 to 2021. It explained one case with high confidence, a deflating balloon, and said limited data left the rest unresolved.
Photo: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
The day ODNI delivered its preliminary UAP assessment, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks directed the intelligence under secretary to plan how to formalize the UAP Task Force's mission, including reporting procedures, range security and a new follow-on office.
Photo: United States Department of Defense, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
Sen. Marco Rubio, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose committee requested the ODNI report, called it an important first step in cataloging incidents but only a first step, saying military personnel who reported encounters had often been ignored.
Photo: US Senate, Public domain
Government25 Jun 2021
Responding to the ODNI preliminary UAP assessment, Senate Intelligence chair Mark Warner called the report rather inconclusive and said the U.S. must understand and mitigate threats to its pilots, whether from adversary technology, drones or balloons.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
Government16 Jun 2021
Days before the ODNI preliminary UAP report, House Intelligence Committee members received a closed briefing from Navy and FBI officials. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said members wanted to know what they were dealing with; Rep. Andre Carson said he hoped for a public hearing.
Photo: Architect of the Capitol, Public domain
Government3 May 2021
The Defense Department inspector general announced an evaluation of the extent to which the department had taken actions on UAP, covering the services, combatant commands and defense agencies. It was described as a policy review, not a criminal or misconduct investigation.
Photo: United States Department of Defense, Public domain
GovernmentMar 2021
In a March 2021 Fox News interview, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the intelligence community knew of many UAP incidents around the world, only some of which had been declassified.
Photo: Office of the Director of Intelligence, Public domain
GovernmentJan 2021
The Black Vault posted about 2,780 pages of CIA UFO-related records from a CD-ROM it bought from the agency, which the CIA described as its entire UFO collection. The site's founder noted that claim could not be independently verified, and many pages are redacted.
Government27 Dec 2020
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, signed Dec. 27, 2020, carried the FY2021 Intelligence Authorization Act. The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on that bill directed the DNI to deliver a UAP report within 180 days of enactment, leading to the June 2021 assessment.
Photo: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain
Government16 Dec 2020
On the Conversations with Tyler podcast, former CIA director John Brennan called the Navy pilot videos eyebrow-raising and said some phenomena might reflect something not yet understood, possibly another form of life. He framed it as keeping an open mind, not as a conclusion.
Photo: CIA photo, Public domain
Government14 Sep 2020
Defense Minister Taro Kono issued standing orders telling Japan's Self-Defense Forces to record and photograph unidentified aerial objects and analyze sightings, including public reports. The ministry said it knew of no SDF encounters, and Kono had said he did not believe in UFOs.
Photo: Japanese Ministry of Defense, CC BY 4.0
Government4 Aug 2020
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.
Photo: DNI, Public domain
Government16 Jul 2020
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told CBS reporter Jim DeFede that objects were flying over U.S. military bases and exercises and were not American. He called them a national security risk worth investigating, and said an off-world origin might be better than an adversary's technological leap.
Photo: United States Senate, Public domain
Government17 Jun 2020
In the report on its intelligence bill, the Senate Intelligence Committee, then chaired by Marco Rubio, directed the DNI and Defense Secretary to report on UAP within 180 days of enactment. The resulting preliminary assessment was released in June 2021.
Photo: US Senate, Public domain
Government27 Apr 2020
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.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Government16 Jul 2019
Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina wrote to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer asking how the Navy logs and investigates UAP reports from its aviators, whether it holds physical evidence, and whether any foreign nation or private company could be behind the objects.
Photo: United States Congress, Public domain
Government19 Jun 2019
Senate Intelligence vice chairman Mark Warner and two other senators received a classified Pentagon briefing on Navy pilot encounters with unidentified aircraft. His office said unexplained interference with naval pilots was a safety concern; the Navy confirmed the briefing but gave no details.
Photo: U.S. Senator Mark Warner, Public domain
