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Air Force investigations, bases and aircrew reports, from Project Sign to today. 216 events, newest first.
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Government23 Oct 2026
The Department of War posted its seventh batch of records under PURSUE, the program it says is releasing unresolved UAP files on a rolling basis after a presidential directive. Items include 1950s Air Force reports and a 2010 Utah ranch investigation report.
Photo: United States Department of War, Public domain
Military9 Mar 2026
Barksdale Air Force Base, home of B-52 bombers, sheltered in place on March 9, 2026 after a drone report. The 2nd Bomb Wing confirmed multiple unauthorized drones that week, and an internal briefing reported by ABC News described waves of 12 to 15 drones. Operators were not identified.
Photo: Airman 1st Class Benjamin Gonsier, Public domain
Military27 Sep 2025
Norway's Armed Forces and police reported two possible drones near Orland, home of the air force's F-35s, early on Sept. 27, 2025. Police, PST and the military investigated and set a 10 km no-fly zone; police said it was too early to say what was seen.
Photo: yetdark from Hamburg, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0
Government9 Sep 2025
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's House Oversight task force heard sworn testimony from Navy and Air Force witnesses and journalist George Knapp. Rep. Eric Burlison showed a video he said was filmed off Yemen in October 2024 of a Hellfire missile apparently failing to down an object.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 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
Whistleblowers18 Jan 2025
In a NewsNation special built on a Ross Coulthart interview, former Air Force helicopter pilot Jake Barber said he flew as a contractor recovering downed craft, including an egg-shaped object he believes was non-human. A Pentagon spokesperson said no verifiable information supports such claims.
Photo: Mosman Library, CC BY 2.0
Military13 Dec 2024
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio closed its airspace for about four hours after small drones were seen near and over the base late on Dec. 13, 2024. The 88th Air Base Wing said they did not affect base residents, facilities or assets. It came amid a wave of drone reports in several states.
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain
Military12 Dec 2024
A spokesperson for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst said no drone incursions had been identified during the New Jersey sightings. The Air Force later said the base's 2024 drone incidents involved contraband deliveries to the federal prison on base, the latest in September.
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0
MilitaryDec 2024
Drones of varying size were reported around the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein Air Base in early December 2024, and an Air Force spokesperson confirmed the sightings. The base said it would monitor the airspace with German authorities. Police were then probing similar reports at Bavarian bases.
Photo: Beowulf Tomek, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government27 Nov 2024
UK defence minister Vernon Coaker told Parliament the Ministry of Defence takes safety seriously and keeps robust measures, including counter-drone capabilities, at its sites, as police investigated drones over RAF bases used by U.S. forces.
Photo: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0
Military26 Nov 2024
U.S. Air Forces in Europe said small drones of varying size and number had been seen near and over RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Feltwell since Nov. 20, and its update added RAF Fairford in southwest England. It said none affected base residents, facilities or assets.
Photo: Chris, CC BY-SA 2.0
Military6 Dec 2023
Starting December 6, 2023, drones of varying size and number repeatedly flew over Langley AFB, home to F-22s, through the month. The Air Force confirmed the incursions, and NORAD-NORTHCOM commander Gen. Gregory Guillot raised them before the Senate in March 2024.
Photo: Tech. Sgt. Natasha Stannard, Public domain
Whistleblowers26 Jul 2023
Former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath that he had been told of a decades-long program to recover craft of non-human origin, which he said he learned through interviews rather than firsthand access. The Pentagon and AARO have said they found no verifiable evidence of such programs.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Military4 Feb 2023
An F-22 from Langley AFB downed a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon about six miles off South Carolina after it crossed the continental U.S. The episode preceded the shootdowns of three more objects later that month.
Photo: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson, Public domain
Military3 Feb 2023
Colombia's Air Force said it detected an object with balloon-like features above 55,000 feet, moving about 25 knots, and tracked it out of the country's airspace, judging it no threat. The Pentagon had reported a Chinese balloon over Latin America; China called it a stray civilian craft.
Photo: Fuerza Aerea Colombiana, CC0
Military1 Feb 2023
A high-altitude balloon seen over Billings halted flights at the city's airport for about two hours. The Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese surveillance balloon over sensitive sites in Montana, home to Malmstrom AFB's ICBM fields, and chose not to shoot it down over land.
Photo: Department of Defense, Public domain
Military2023
At the July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz said a member of an Eglin AFB flight crew showed him a photo of an orb a pilot saw near four craft in a diamond formation over the Gulf of Mexico. He asked that the image and radar data be given to the committee.
Photo: Ike Hayman, U.S. House Office of Photography/House Creative Services, Public domain
Whistleblowers19 Oct 2021
At the National Press Club, Robert Salas and three other former Air Force officers described 1960s incidents in which they said UFOs coincided with missiles going offline or appeared during tests. The accounts repeat claims first made decades after the events and have not been officially confirmed.
Photo: Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
MilitaryJun 2021
The South China Morning Post reported that Chinese military researchers, including Chen Li of the Air Force Early Warning Academy, proposed using AI to analyze a growing volume of unidentified aerial object reports from radar, pilots and observatories.
SightingsDec 2019
From mid-December 2019 residents and deputies in rural Colorado and Nebraska reported nightly drones flying in patterns. The Air Force and FAA said they were not theirs, a federal and state task force found no operators, and Colorado officials later attributed some reports to planes and stars.
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0
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.
Media8 Jan 2019
History premiered a period drama from executive producer Robert Zemeckis, starring Aidan Gillen as astronomer J. Allen Hynek, with episodes drawn from Air Force Blue Book cases. It ran two seasons before History ended it in 2020.
Photo: U.S. Air Force, Public domain
Sightings22 Dec 2017
A Falcon 9 carrying 10 Iridium satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at dusk, leaving a sunlit plume seen across Southern California. Drivers stopped to watch and many people posted UFO fears; the Los Angeles Fire Department said the light came from the rocket launch.
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jim Araos, Public domain
GovernmentOct 2016
Spain's Ministry of Defence published 80 Air Force UFO case files, about 1,900 pages covering 1962 to 1995, in its online Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa. The files had been declassified from 1991 and earlier could only be read in person at the Air Force library in Madrid.
Photo: Bartomeu Caldentey Vives, CC BY-SA 3.0
Whistleblowers2016
Charles Halt, deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters in 1980, published The Halt Perspective with former police officer John Hanson, setting out his own account of the Rendlesham Forest events. In press coverage Halt said he believed the objects he saw were extraterrestrial.
Photo: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, Public domain
