Events
Events
Encounters, sightings, retrievals, hearings and releases, in date order. Each names who reported it and from which side, who investigated, what officials said, and who spoke about it later on the channel.
Place photograph · contextMagenta crash claim (Italy, 1933)
Italian researchers say a craft came down near Magenta, Lombardy in June 1933 and that Mussolini formed a secret study group, the "Gabinetto RS/33".
1 craft · 3 people · 4 sources
Archival photograph · reported objectBattle of Los Angeles
In the early hours of 25 February 1942, coastal batteries fired more than 1,400 anti-aircraft shells at objects reported over Los Angeles; no…
2 people · 1 footage · 3 sources
- UAP / RECORDFoo fighter reports (WWII aircrews)Source-led dossier
Foo fighter reports (WWII aircrews)
From late 1944, aircrews of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron over the Rhine valley and crews in the Pacific reported balls of light that paced their…
2 crafts · 2 people · 3 sources
Place photograph · contextSan Antonio, New Mexico crash claim (August 1945)
Two men, Jose Padilla and Reme Baca, said that as boys in August 1945 they saw an avocado-shaped craft crash on the Padilla ranch near San Antonio…
1 craft · 2 people · 3 sources
Archival photograph · reported objectSwedish ghost rockets
Through 1946 Swedish authorities logged about 2,000 reports of rocket- or cigar-shaped objects, some said to fall into lakes.
1 craft · 2 people · 4 sources
Witness drawing · archiveKenneth Arnold sighting
On 24 June 1947 private pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine bright crescent-shaped objects flying in echelon past Mount Rainier at a speed he…
2 crafts · 2 people · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextMaury Island incident
Harold Dahl said that on 21 June 1947 six doughnut-shaped objects hovered over his boat near Maury Island, Washington, one dropping slag that killed…
1 craft · 2 people · 3 sources
Archival photograph · reported objectRoswell incident
In early July 1947 rancher W.
1 craft · 1 being · 2 sites · 4 people · 4 documents · 7 sources
Place photograph · contextAztec, New Mexico crash claim
Writer Frank Scully reported in 1949–1950 that a 99-foot disc had landed intact near Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 and that sixteen small bodies…
1 craft · 1 being · 2 sources
Archival photograph · reported objectMcMinnville (Trent) photographs
On 11 May 1950 Evelyn Trent called her husband Paul to photograph a metallic disc over their farm near McMinnville, Oregon; he took two frames.
1 craft · 1 person · 1 document · 1 footage · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextWashington, D.C. flap (July 1952)
On the nights of 19–20 and 26–27 July 1952 radar operators at Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB tracked unidentified targets while jets…
1 craft · 2 people · 2 documents · 3 sources
Official document · primary recordCIA Robertson Panel
From 14 to 17 January 1953 a CIA-convened panel of scientists chaired by Caltech physicist H.
1 person · 2 documents · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextKingman, Arizona crash claim (1953)
An engineer using the pseudonym "Fritz Werner" (Arthur Stancil) said in 1973 that in May 1953 he was bused with blacked-out windows to a site near…
1 craft · 1 being · 1 person · 3 sources
Official document · primary recordLevelland sightings
On the night of 2–3 November 1957 at least fifteen people around Levelland, Texas reported a glowing egg- or cigar-shaped object near the road that…
2 crafts · 1 document · 2 sources
- Witness drawing · archive · link onlyBetty Hill's star map and the Hill papers (UNH)
Betty and Barney Hill abduction report
Driving home through New Hampshire on 19–20 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported a lighted craft, a period of missing time and later…
1 craft · 1 being · 2 people · 1 document · 3 sources
Place photograph · contextBluegill / Johnston Atoll test-series sightings (1962)
During the Operation Fishbowl high-altitude nuclear tests over Johnston Atoll in 1962, including the Bluegill shots, films of the detonation plumes…
1 craft · 2 people · 3 sources
Hardware photograph · contextBig Sur / Vandenberg missile-film claim (September 1964)
Lt Robert Jacobs, a photo-instrumentation officer, said a telescope film of an Atlas launch from Vandenberg in September 1964 showed a disc circling…
1 craft · 3 people · 3 sources
Hardware photograph · contextRichard Barr Vandenberg missile-site encounter (September 1964)
Richard Barr, then an Air Force guard at a Vandenberg Minuteman site, says that in September 1964 he experienced an encounter and missing time at…
1 person · 2 sources
Archival photograph · investigation recordSocorro (Lonnie Zamora) landing
On 24 April 1964 Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora reported an egg-shaped craft on legs in an arroyo with two small figures beside it, which then…
1 craft · 3 people · 1 document · 4 sources
Replica model · contextKecksburg incident
On 9 December 1965 a fireball crossed several states and residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania reported an acorn-shaped object in the woods, which…
1 craft · 2 sites · 1 document · 3 sources
Place photograph · contextPortage County police chase
Before dawn on 17 April 1966 Portage County, Ohio deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a bright disc-shaped object across the state…
1 craft · 1 person · 1 document · 2 sources
Place photograph · contextWestall school sighting (Melbourne)
On 6 April 1966 more than 200 students and staff at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne reported a silver disc that descended behind…
1 craft · 2 people · 3 sources
Hardware photograph · contextMalmstrom AFB missile shutdown (March 1967)
Lt Robert Salas says that on 24 March 1967, while on duty at Malmstrom's Oscar Flight, security guards reported a glowing red object over the gate…
1 craft · 1 site · 4 people · 7 sources
Place photograph · contextShag Harbour incident
On the night of 4 October 1967 residents of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia reported a lighted object descend into the water; RCMP officers saw a light on…
1 craft · 2 sources
Official document · primary recordCondon Report and the closing of Project Blue Book
The University of Colorado study led by physicist Edward Condon, funded by the Air Force, published its report in January 1969 concluding that…
2 people · 3 documents · 4 sources
Hardware photograph · contextUSS Holland deck sighting (May 1970)
A former sailor recounts that in May 1970 about two dozen crew of USS Holland, a submarine tender, went topside before evening meal and, with a…
1 source
Place photograph · contextHolloman AFB landing-film claim
Producer Robert Emenegger said that in 1973 Air Force officials showed him film of a craft landing at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with three beings…
1 being · 1 person · 2 sources
Portrait photograph · contextPascagoula abduction report
On 11 October 1973 Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said that while fishing on the Pascagoula River, Mississippi, they were taken aboard an oval…
1 craft · 3 people · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextLoring AFB overflights (October 1975)
Over several nights from 27 October 1975 security personnel at Loring AFB, Maine reported an unidentified helicopter-like object hovering near the…
1 craft · 1 person · 3 sources
Portrait photograph · contextTravis Walton disappearance (Snowflake, Arizona)
On 5 November 1975 six logging-crew members near Snowflake, Arizona said Travis Walton was struck by a beam from a hovering disc and vanished; he…
1 craft · 2 beings · 2 people · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextAllagash abduction report (August 1976)
Four art students on a canoe trip in the Allagash wilderness, Maine, in August 1976 reported a bright object over the lake and a period of missing…
1 craft · 1 being · 3 sources
Aircraft type photograph · contextTehran F-4 incident
Early on 19 September 1976 Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4s were scrambled toward a bright object over Tehran; pilots reported instrument and weapons…
1 craft · 2 people · 3 sources
Place photograph · contextBroad Haven school sighting (Wales)
On 4 February 1977 fourteen pupils at Broad Haven Primary School, Pembrokeshire reported a silver cigar-shaped object with a dome landing near the…
2 crafts · 1 person · 2 sources
- UAP / RECORDColares wave and Operação PratoSource-led dossier
Colares wave and Operação Prato
From mid-1977 residents of Colares and nearby Amazon river communities in Pará reported lights that fired beams causing burns, puncture marks and…
2 crafts · 1 person · 5 sources
Place photograph · contextEllsworth AFB "November 5" encounter (Mario Woods, November 1977)
Former Air Force security policeman Mario Woods says that on 18 November 1977 at Ellsworth AFB's November-5 missile site he and a partner saw a…
1 craft · 1 being · 1 person · 2 sources
Place photograph · contextCash–Landrum incident
On 29 December 1980 Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Colby Landrum reported a diamond-shaped object venting flame over a road near Huffman, Texas…
1 craft · 1 source
Place photograph · contextKirtland AFB / Manzano sightings and the Bennewitz affair
In August 1980 security police at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, reported a bright light descending into the Coyote Canyon area of the Manzano weapons…
2 sites · 2 people · 1 document · 5 sources
Place photograph · contextRendlesham Forest incident
On the nights of 26–28 December 1980 US Air Force personnel from RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters reported lights and a metallic triangular object in…
2 crafts · 1 site · 2 people · 5 sources
Place photograph · contextHessdalen lights wave (Norway)
From late 1981 to 1984 residents of the Hessdalen valley in central Norway reported unexplained lights several times a week, some stationary for an…
1 craft · 1 site · 1 person · 1 footage · 2 sources
Official document · primary recordMajestic 12 documents surface
In December 1984 filmmaker Jaime Shandera received an anonymous roll of film postmarked Albuquerque showing a 1952 "Majestic 12" briefing for…
3 people · 1 document · 4 sources
- UAP / RECORDWhitley Strieber cabin experience (26 December 1985)Source-led dossier
Whitley Strieber cabin experience (26 December 1985)
Author Whitley Strieber reported that on the night of 26 December 1985 at his cabin in upstate New York he was taken from his bedroom by small…
2 beings · 1 person · 3 sources
Aircraft type photograph · contextBrazilian "night of the UFOs" (19 May 1986)
On the night of 19 May 1986 Brazilian air traffic control and Air Force radar tracked about twenty unidentified objects over São Paulo, Rio de…
2 crafts · 1 person · 3 sources
Aircraft type photograph · contextJapan Airlines flight 1628 (Alaska)
On 17 November 1986 Captain Kenju Terauchi of JAL cargo flight 1628 reported two lighted objects and then a very large object pacing his 747 over…
2 crafts · 3 people · 3 sources
- Photograph · admitted hoax (2011) · link onlyThe Petit-Rechain photograph, April 1990
Belgian UFO wave
From 29 November 1989 to spring 1990 thousands of people in Belgium reported large silent triangles with lights at the corners; on 30–31 March 1990…
1 craft · 2 sources
Place photograph · contextBob Lazar S-4 claims (1989)
In May and November 1989 Robert Lazar told KLAS-TV reporter George Knapp that he had worked at a site called S-4 near Papoose Lake, Nevada on the…
2 crafts · 3 sites · 4 people · 6 sources
- UAP / RECORDAriel School sighting (Ruwa, Zimbabwe)Source-led dossier
Ariel School sighting (Ruwa, Zimbabwe)
On 16 September 1994 some sixty pupils at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported a silver craft landing beyond the playground and one or two small…
1 craft · 1 being · 5 people · 5 sources
Place photograph · contextJohn Blitch Daniels Park experience (1995)
Former Army officer and DARPA program manager John Blitch says that in 1995, weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, he rode his mountain bike into…
2 sources
Place photograph · contextBigelow buys Skinwalker Ranch; NIDS investigation begins
In 1996, after the Sherman family reported cattle mutilations, lights and large animals on their Uintah Basin ranch, Robert Bigelow bought the…
1 site · 6 people · 5 sources
Monument · context, interpretation not evidenceVarginha incident
In January 1996 residents of Varginha, Minas Gerais reported strange creatures, and three young women described a brown-skinned being with red eyes…
1 being · 1 site · 2 people · 5 sources
Portrait photograph · contextKirsan Ilyumzhinov Moscow contact claim (17 September 1997)
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, then president of Kalmykia and of FIDE, has said that on 17 September 1997 he was taken from his Moscow apartment aboard a craft…
1 being · 2 sources
Place photograph · contextPhoenix Lights
On the evening of 13 March 1997 thousands of people across Arizona reported a silent V-shaped formation of lights, described by many as a single…
2 crafts · 1 site · 2 people · 1 footage · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextKandahar giant story (Afghanistan, 2002)
A story circulated among US service members holds that in 2002 a special-forces patrol searching for a missing squad near Kandahar was attacked by a…
1 being · 1 site · 2 sources
Portrait photograph · contextWilson–Davis meeting (Las Vegas, 16 October 2002)
Fifteen pages of handwritten notes attributed to physicist Eric Davis record a 16 October 2002 meeting in Las Vegas with Vice Adm Thomas Wilson…
3 people · 1 document · 3 sources
Hardware photograph · contextVandenberg "red square" (October 2003)
Former Air Force security personnel and contractors say that on 14 October 2003 a glowing red square about a hundred yards on a side approached…
1 craft · 1 person · 2 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseNimitz "Tic Tac" encounter
From 10 November 2004, USS Princeton radar tracked objects off Baja California descending from high altitude to the surface in seconds.
1 craft · 1 site · 6 people · 1 document · 2 footage · 9 sources
Place photograph · contextChris Bledsoe Cape Fear River experience (January 2007)
Chris Bledsoe, a Fayetteville, North Carolina contractor, says that on 8 January 2007 while fishing on the Cape Fear River with his son and…
1 craft · 1 being · 3 people · 4 sources
Place photograph · contextStephenville lights (Texas)
On the evening of 8 January 2008 dozens of residents of Stephenville and Dublin, Texas, including a pilot and a police officer, reported bright…
1 craft · 2 sources
Place photograph · contextF.E. Warren AFB missile communications outage (October 2010)
On 23 October 2010 F.E.
2 crafts · 3 people · 5 sources
- UAP / RECORDBaltic Sea anomaly sonar discoverySource-led dossier
Baltic Sea anomaly sonar discovery
In June 2011 the Swedish Ocean X team of Peter Lindberg and Dennis Åsberg recorded a circular sonar feature about 60 metres across at 90 metres…
1 site · 1 person · 4 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseAguadilla infrared object (Puerto Rico)
On 25 April 2013 a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft at Aguadilla airport, Puerto Rico, recorded on thermal camera an object that crossed…
1 person · 1 footage · 3 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseRoosevelt carrier group encounters (2014–2015)
From 2014, pilots of the USS Theodore Roosevelt air wing off Virginia Beach reported radar tracks and visual sightings of objects in their training…
2 crafts · 2 people · 2 footage · 6 sources
Museum exhibit · context, not the disputed specimensNazca "tridactyl" bodies (Peru)
In 2015 a grave robber known as Leandro is said to have found small desiccated three-fingered bodies in a cave near Nazca, Peru; promoters presented…
1 being · 1 person · 4 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseNew York Times reveals AATIP and releases Navy videos
On 16 December 2017 the New York Times published a report by Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal and Helene Cooper revealing the Pentagon's Advanced…
1 site · 7 people · 1 document · 2 footage · 7 sources
Sensor recording · official releaseUS Navy confirms the three videos show UAP
In September 2019 Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault and other outlets that the three videos published in 2017 and 2018 depict…
1 person · 3 footage · 3 sources
Sensor recording · official releasePentagon formally releases FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST
On 27 April 2020 the Department of Defense authorized the release of three Navy videos, FLIR1, GIMBAL and GOFAST, saying they had circulated since…
2 people · 3 footage · 3 sources
Official document · primary recordODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAP
On 25 June 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a nine-page preliminary assessment of 144 UAP reports from 2004 to…
1 document · 2 sources
Agency emblem · contextAARO established
On 20 July 2022 the Deputy Secretary of Defense established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, succeeding the UAP Task Force and AOIMSG, with…
2 people · 1 document · 3 sources
Official recording · hearing frameHouse Intelligence subcommittee UAP hearing (17 May 2022)
On 17 May 2022 a House Intelligence subcommittee held the first open congressional hearing on UAP in more than fifty years, with testimony from…
2 sources
Portrait photograph · contextDavid Grusch goes public (NewsNation, 5 June 2023)
On 5 June 2023 The Debrief published a report by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal and NewsNation aired an interview by Ross Coulthart in which…
3 people · 1 document · 4 sources
Official recording · hearing frameHouse Oversight UAP hearing (26 July 2023)
On 26 July 2023 the House Oversight subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs heard sworn testimony from David Grusch, Cdr…
6 people · 1 document · 1 footage · 6 sources
Portrait photograph · contextSchumer–Rounds UAP Disclosure Act and its December 2023 cut
On 13 July 2023 Senators Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds introduced the UAP Disclosure Act as an NDAA amendment, modelled on the JFK Records Act, with…
6 people · 2 documents · 5 sources
Official document · primary recordAARO Historical Record Report, Volume I
On 8 March 2024 the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office published Volume I of its report on the historical record of US government involvement with…
3 people · 2 documents · 5 sources
- Interview or testimony · not footageThe complete House hearing
House joint subcommittee UAP hearing (13 November 2024)
On 13 November 2024 two House Oversight subcommittees held the hearing "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth" with Luis Elizondo…
6 people · 1 footage · 4 sources
- UAP / RECORDImmaculate Constellation whistleblower report entered into the recordSource-led dossier
Immaculate Constellation whistleblower report entered into the record
On 13 November 2024 journalist Michael Shellenberger entered into the congressional record a twelve-page report he said came from a whistleblower…
2 people · 3 sources
- UAP / RECORDKarl Nell: "non-human intelligence exists" (SALT conference, May 2024)Source-led dossier
Karl Nell: "non-human intelligence exists" (SALT conference, May 2024)
On 21 May 2024, at the SALT iConnections conference in New York, retired Army Colonel Karl Nell, a former UAP Task Force liaison, said there was…
3 people · 3 sources
Map · contextNew Jersey drone sightings
From mid-November to December 2024 residents of New Jersey and neighbouring states reported large drones flying at night over homes and military…
4 sources
- UAP / RECORD"The Age of Disclosure" documentary premiereSource-led dossier
"The Age of Disclosure" documentary premiere
Dan Farah's documentary "The Age of Disclosure" premiered at SXSW in Austin on 9 March 2025, with 34 current and former officials on camera…
1 site · 6 people · 3 sources
Portrait photograph · contextHouse Task Force on Declassification UAP hearing (9 September 2025)
On 9 September 2025 the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep.
4 people · 3 sources
- UAP / RECORDJake Barber crash-retrieval account (NewsNation, January 2025)Source-led dossier
Jake Barber crash-retrieval account (NewsNation, January 2025)
In January 2025 former Air Force helicopter crewman Jake Barber told Ross Coulthart on NewsNation that he had been part of a team that recovered an…
1 craft · 3 people · 5 sources
- UAP / RECORDWall Street Journal: "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology"Source-led dossier
Wall Street Journal: "The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology"
In June 2025 the Wall Street Journal published an investigation by Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha reporting that AARO had found the 1967…
3 people · 1 document · 4 sources