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Official programs, reports, laws and hearings, from Project Blue Book to AARO and the National Archives. 366 events, newest first.
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
Government11 Jul 2020
Andrei Kuryakov of Russia's Ural prosecutor's office said the reopened inquiry found the nine hikers who died in 1959 fled their tent in a storm fearing an avalanche and froze. Soviet investigators' 'unknown, compelling force' wording had fed theories ranging from military tests to aliens.
Photo: Anonymous / Soviet investigators, 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
Government15 Jun 2019
President Trump told ABC News's George Stephanopoulos he did not particularly believe in UFOs. Asked whether he thought he would know of any case of extraterrestrial life, he said 'our great pilots would know.'
Photo: Shealeah Craighead, Public domain
Government4 Apr 2019
By Resolution 364/2019 the Argentine Air Force restructured its aerospace phenomena commission (CEFAE) as the Centro de Identificacion Aeroespacial (CIAE) from April 4, 2019. The center publishes annual case reports and says most sightings it receives have ordinary causes.
Government13 Mar 2019
A wider drone no-fly zone around UK airports took effect, barring drones within 5 km of airports and runways without permission. It followed a government review prompted by the December 2018 drone disruption at Gatwick, which ministers called a deliberate criminal act.
Photo: Chris Sampson, CC BY 2.0
GovernmentSep 2018
NASA convened scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to review the state of the search for technosignatures, signs of technology from other civilizations, and what role NASA might play. The workshop's report was posted in December 2018.
Government28 Jun 2018
A National Assembly commission of inquiry, with Paul Christophe and Barbara Pompili as authors, delivered its report on the safety and security of French nuclear installations, listing drones alongside cyberattacks and insider threats as new forms of threat.
Photo: Pmau, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government27 Jun 2018
A team led by Marco Micheli reported in Nature that 'Oumuamua was moving slightly faster than gravity alone predicted. The authors favoured comet-like outgassing as the cause even though no gas or dust was seen, and the result later fed speculation that the object was artificial.
Photo: Alan Fitzsimmons ( Astrophysics Research Centre , Queen's University Belfast ), Isaac Newton..., Public domain
