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The books, broadcasts, films, podcasts and reporting that shaped what the public knows. 342 events, newest first.
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Media12 Jun 2026
Universal released Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day in U.S. theaters. Emily Blunt plays a weather forecaster drawn into a federal cover-up of decades of UFO sightings and alien contact, a plot built on the government-disclosure theme of post-2017 UFO news.
Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0
Media6 Jan 2026
Americans for Safe Aerospace, in a post by Ryan Graves, announced a white paper arguing that the regulatory framework for pilots keeps about 90 percent of pilot UAP sightings unreported, and that career risk is the main reason pilots stay silent.
Photo: U.S. House Committee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Media21 Nov 2025
Dan Farah's documentary The Age of Disclosure went worldwide on Prime Video with a limited run in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. It features 34 current and former U.S. officials asserting a decades-long cover-up of non-human intelligence; those claims have not been confirmed.
Media31 Oct 2025
Yorgos Lanthimos's dark comedy Bugonia opened nationwide in U.S. theaters. Jesse Plemons plays a conspiracy theorist who, with his cousin, kidnaps the CEO of his company (Emma Stone), convinced she is an alien out to destroy the planet. NPR called it timely in an age of misinformation.
Photo: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0
Media6 Aug 2025
Omer Eldadi, Gershon Tenenbaum and Avi Loeb posted a 0-10 scale for rating how anomalous an interstellar object is, from natural (0) to confirmed artificial (8-10). They rated 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS a 4; Loeb has said 3I/ATLAS is most likely a natural comet.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media16 Jul 2025
Weeks after the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was found, Avi Loeb and two co-authors posted a non-peer-reviewed paper asking whether it could be alien technology. NASA describes it as a comet, and astronomers quoted in the press said the evidence points to a natural object.
Photo: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin, CC BY 4.0
Media6 Jun 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported that AARO had found officers were told about a fictional alien program, 'Yankee Blue', as a hazing ritual, and that an Air Force colonel passed fake saucer photos near Area 51 to shield stealth work. The Pentagon has not published these findings.
Photo: David James Henry, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media9 Mar 2025
Dan Farah's documentary The Age of Disclosure had its world premiere at SXSW in Austin. It features 34 current and former officials, including Marco Rubio and Luis Elizondo, asserting a hidden government UAP effort; reviewers noted it offers testimony rather than new proof.
MediaJun 2024
Tim Lomas and Brendan Case of Harvard and Michael Masters of Montana Tech argued that scientists should stay open to the idea that some UAP reflect intelligences hidden on or near Earth. The speculative paper drew wide coverage; the authors acknowledged it would meet skepticism.
MediaJun 2024
Penn State historian Greg Eghigian published a global history of the UFO phenomenon with Oxford University Press, drawing on archives, old newspapers and interviews to trace how witnesses, scientists, governments and media responded to sightings and abduction reports.
MediaMar 2024
Johns Hopkins seismologist Benjamin Fernando's team told the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference that the Manus Island seismic signal Avi Loeb's group used to find the 2014 fireball changed direction along a road, likely a passing truck. Loeb disputed the coverage.
Photo: Avi Loeb and Frank Laukien (study authors), CC BY 4.0
Media2024
The Society for UAP Studies, a nonprofit scholarly group, began publishing Limina, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of UAP studies, with its first issue in spring 2024.
Media14 Dec 2023
University of Utah geographers Richard Medina and Simon Brewer, with Sean Kirkpatrick of the Defense Department, modeled about 98,000 U.S. public sighting reports from 2001-2020. More reports came where light pollution and tree cover allow open skies and where aircraft and military sites are near.
Media14 Nov 2023
Journalist and historian Garrett M. Graff published 'UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here - and Out There' with Avid Reader Press. Reviewers noted it surveys decades of official investigations, debunks many cases and takes no firm stance on what UFOs are.
Photo: Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0
MediaNov 2023
St. Martin's published 'Encounters', a book by UNC Wilmington religious-studies professor D. W. Pasulka on people who report experiences with nonhuman intelligences and the spiritual meaning they attach to them.
Media22 Sep 2023
Hulu released Brian Duffield's nearly wordless thriller No One Will Save You, starring Kaitlyn Dever as a young woman defending her home from alien invaders. Reviews were mixed, with praise for Dever and the creature design.
Photo: DannyB Photos, CC BY 2.0
Media29 Aug 2023
Avi Loeb and 33 co-authors posted a preprint saying some seafloor spherules from their June 2023 expedition off Manus Island had an unusual 'BeLaU' composition suggesting an extrasolar source. Other researchers argued the grains matched coal ash or ordinary sources; Loeb disputed that.
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media9 Aug 2023
Two weeks after his House testimony, The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein reported Virginia police records of 2014 and 2018 mental health incidents involving David Grusch and asked how he kept his clearance. A statement from Grusch cited PTSD; The Intercept said the records were public, not leaked.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Media5 Jun 2023
Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal reported in The Debrief that ex-intelligence officer David Grusch told Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General that the U.S. holds craft of non-human origin. His statements were cleared for release by the Pentagon's prepublication review office.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
MediaJun 2023
NewsNation aired Ross Coulthart's interview with former intelligence officer David Grusch, who alleged a secret U.S. program had recovered craft of non-human origin. The claims were unverified; Grusch repeated several under oath before a House panel in July 2023.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (screenshot from..., Public domain
