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What the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA and ODNI collected, concluded and released. 148 events, newest first.
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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.
Government6 Aug 2025
On the New York Post podcast 'Pod Force One', Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard answered yes when asked if extraterrestrial life is possible, said her office would be open with the public when the time comes, and said she still had questions about the 2024 drone sightings.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Government17 Jul 2025
The Senate Intelligence Committee reported S. 2342, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2026. Its Section 323 consolidated reporting requirements for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and directed that UAP-related data be made available to AARO.
Photo: United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Public domain
Sightings9 Jan 2025
A drone flown from a Santa Monica parking structure into a flight restriction zone hit a Quebec-owned Super Scooper fighting the Palisades Fire, leaving a hole in its left wing and taking it out of service. After an FBI investigation the operator agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Public domain
Government23 Dec 2024
The FY2025 defense bill became Public Law 118-159. Its intelligence division has a UAP title ordering a Government Accountability Office review of AARO and sunsetting audit requirements for AARO's historical report; the bill also has AARO liaise with a new counter-drone task force.
Photo: U. S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
Government16 Dec 2024
DHS, the FBI, FAA and Pentagon said the FBI had received more than 5,000 drone tips, about 100 of which produced leads. They said sightings were lawful drones, manned aircraft, helicopters and stars, that nothing anomalous had been found, and asked Congress for counter-drone powers.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
Government13 Dec 2024
During the late-2024 New Jersey drone sightings, Rep. Josh Gottheimer urged the FBI and DHS to let state and local police use equipment to safely bring down unauthorized drones, and asked for a public briefing on the reports.
Photo: Kristie Boyd; U.S. House Office of Photography, Public domain
Government11 Dec 2024
Senators Andy Kim, Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand wrote to DHS, the FBI and the FAA asking for an immediate briefing on how they were working with police to identify the source of night drone sightings over New Jersey and New York.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
Government3 Dec 2024
The FBI's Newark office, New Jersey State Police and the state homeland security office asked the public to report sightings of possible drones, and a possible fixed-wing aircraft, along the Raritan River, saying reports went back several weeks.
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0
SightingsNov 2024
From mid-November 2024 residents across New Jersey and nearby states reported thousands of suspected drones at night. In joint statements the FBI, DHS, FAA and DoD said they found no national security threat and attributed sightings to lawful drones, manned aircraft and stars.
Photo: Chetsford, Public domain
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.
WhistleblowersMay 2024
Retired Army Col. Karl Nell, who had worked with the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told a SALT iConnections audience in New York that non-human intelligence exists and has long interacted with humanity. AARO has said it found no evidence that UAP are alien.
Government12 Apr 2024
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon published a long rebuttal to AARO's March 2024 Historical Record Report, arguing it was error-ridden, too narrow and dismissive of unresolved cases. AARO stood by its finding of no evidence of alien technology.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
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
Government1 Dec 2023
When Sean Kirkpatrick left AARO, new deputy director Tim Phillips, on assignment from ODNI, became acting director. The Pentagon said his priorities were interviewing people with firsthand UAP knowledge and fusing intelligence and sensor data on open cases.
Photo: U.S. Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Public domain
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.
Government18 Oct 2023
ODNI and the Defense Department published their joint FY2023 UAP report, covering 291 reports received from late August 2022 to April 2023. It said reporting still skewed toward military airspace and that no case had been tied to foreign activity or shown an unsafe approach to aircraft.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 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
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
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
Whistleblowers7 Apr 2023
Former intelligence officer David Grusch, who had represented the NRO and NGA on UAP task force work, left government service on April 7, 2023. About two months later The Debrief published his claims that the U.S. holds craft of non-human origin.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
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
Government10 Feb 2023
The Bureau of Industry and Security added six Chinese entities to the Entity List, citing support for PLA aerospace programs including airships and balloons. The rule said the PLA uses high-altitude balloons for intelligence and reconnaissance.
Photo: U.S. Department of Commerce, Public domain
