Government and military
Hearings, briefings, letters and laws, from the 1966 House hearing to the 2025 task force. 122 events, newest first.
Government17 May 2024
Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett filed a House bill directing the president to have all federal agencies release their UAP records within 270 days, with quarterly progress reports to the House.
Photo: U.S. House of Representatives, Public domain
Government12 Jan 2024
Experts working for Peru's prosecutors examined figures seized by customs and said they were dolls built from animal and human bones held with modern synthetic glue. Similar bodies had been shown to Mexico's Congress in 2023 as possible non-human life.
Whistleblowers12 Jan 2024
Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim gave a classified UAP briefing to a House Oversight subcommittee following David Grusch's 2023 testimony. Members came out divided: some said they learned little, while Rep. Jared Moskowitz said it showed progress on parts of Grusch's claims.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government11 Jan 2024
Reps. Robert Garcia and Glenn Grothman introduced H.R. 6967, which would let pilots, controllers and other aviation workers report UAP to the FAA, have the FAA pass reports to AARO, and protect reporters from retaliation or medical disqualification. It did not advance past committee.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government22 Dec 2023
The FY2024 defense bill, signed Dec. 22, 2023, kept a reduced version of the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act, ordering agencies to send UAP records to a new National Archives collection. Conferees dropped the proposed independent review board and the push to obtain privately held material.
Photo: David Samuel, User:Hellodavey1902, CC BY-SA 3.0
Government13 Dec 2023
In a Senate floor colloquy, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds criticized House negotiators for dropping their proposed independent UAP records review board from the defense bill, warning that declassification would stay with the agencies that had long withheld the records.
Photo: U.S. Senate Photographic Studio/Jeff McEvoy, Public domain
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
Government7 Nov 2023
Journalist Jaime Maussan returned to Mexico's Congress with doctors and Peruvian researchers who said the three-fingered bodies were once-living organisms. None would certify them as extraterrestrial, and the bodies were not shown this time.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government31 Oct 2023
Under the FY2023 NDAA, the Defense Department opened a form on aaro.mil for current or former government employees, service members and contractors with direct knowledge of alleged UAP programs since 1945. Reports were to inform AARO's historical record report to Congress.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government12 Sep 2023
At Mexico's first congressional UAP hearing, journalist Jaime Maussan displayed two small mummified bodies he claimed were non-human. UNAM said its lab had only carbon-dated samples and drew no conclusions about origin; scientists widely called the bodies a hoax.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, 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
Government28 Jul 2023
Days after the July 2023 UAP hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett said efforts led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to question David Grusch in a secure facility were stalled by a claimed problem with Grusch's clearance, which he called ridiculous. Luna later said permission had been granted.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government27 Jul 2023
The Senate passed its FY2024 defense bill 86-11 with a UAP Disclosure division that would create a records review board and direct the government to take eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin. Most of those provisions were dropped in conference with the House.
Photo: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), Ranking Member of the..., Public domain
Government14 Jul 2023
The House passed its FY2024 defense bill on July 14, 2023 with an amendment from Rep. Tim Burchett directing the Pentagon to release records on publicly known UAP sightings, provided release would not harm national security.
Photo: House Creative Services, Public domain
Government13 Jul 2023
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds filed the UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the Senate defense authorization bill. Modeled on the JFK records law, it would have created a UAP records collection at the National Archives and an independent review board.
Photo: Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds, United States Senate, Public domain
Whistleblowers26 Jun 2023
Sen. Marco Rubio, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told NewsNation that current and former officials with high clearances had brought UAP-related claims to the committee. He did not say whether he found the claims credible.
Photo: United States Senate, Public domain
Government22 Jun 2023
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported its FY2024 Intelligence Authorization Act, whose Section 1104 would bar spending on UAP recovery, analysis or reverse-engineering efforts unless disclosed to AARO and congressional leaders, and would require contractors holding such material to report it.
Photo: Ryan Donnell, Public domain
Government6 Jun 2023
Days after David Grusch's claims of a secret crash-retrieval program went public, Oversight Chairman James Comer said his committee planned a UAP hearing, with Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett leading the inquiry. The Pentagon said it had found nothing verifiable to support Grusch.
Photo: US House of Representatives, 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
Government19 Apr 2023
AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick testified in open session to the Senate Armed Services emerging threats subcommittee and showed two declassified MQ-9 videos, including a spherical object over the Middle East that he said could not be identified from the available data.
Photo: Defense.gov, Public domain
Government13 Feb 2023
Opening a briefing after U.S. jets downed three objects, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there was no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity. NSC spokesman John Kirby added that Americans did not need to worry about aliens.
Photo: The White House, Public domain
Government13 Feb 2023
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Feb. 13, 2023 that U.S. high-altitude balloons had entered China's airspace more than ten times since early 2022. The White House National Security Council called the claim false.
Photo: China News Service, CC BY 3.0
Military12 Feb 2023
At a Pentagon briefing on the objects downed over North America, a reporter asked Gen. Glen VanHerck whether aliens had been ruled out. He said he would leave that to intelligence agencies and had not ruled anything out. The White House said the next day there was no indication of aliens.
Photo: U.S. Northern Command, Public domain
Government9 Feb 2023
The House passed H.Res. 104, sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul, 419-0. It condemned the Chinese government's high-altitude surveillance balloon as a brazen violation of U.S. sovereignty and asked for briefings on past airspace intrusions.
Photo: U.S. House of Representatives - Office of the Clerk, Public domain
