The Record
Scroll the record from the rolling declassifications of 2026 back to the earliest indexed sightings — filter by category and open any dossier in full.
PURSUE Declassification Begins
A multi-agency program begins the rolling declassification of unresolved UAP records, posting tens of millions of documents in tranches for public and independent analysis.
Western Installation Plasmoid Incident
A recent multi-witness military case involving a luminous plasmoid over a Western US installation — one of the newest entries keeping the record live to the present.
Congressional UAP Testimony
Under oath before Congress, an intelligence-community whistleblower alleged a decades-long craft-retrieval program; fellow Navy witnesses testified to encounters and physiological effects.
AARO Stood Up · Open Hearing Returns
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is established and Congress holds its first open UAP hearing since 1966 — permanent oversight machinery returns.
ODNI Preliminary Assessment
The first unclassified government tally in decades: of 144 reported events, 143 could not be explained.
VASCO — Vanishing Star-like Objects
Villarroel et al. (Scientific Reports, 2021): nine star-like objects appear within ~30 minutes on a 1950 Palomar plate — absent before, after, and in modern surveys.
Pentagon Releases the Navy Videos
The Department of Defense formally acknowledges the three Navy infrared videos as genuine and unresolved.
US Navy Formalises UAP Reporting
The Navy issues formal guidelines for aircrew to report unidentified aircraft — institutional normalisation of the subject.
The Disclosure Turn
Mainstream reporting confirmed a covert Pentagon program studying UAP and published authenticated Navy sensor videos, relocating the subject into national-security discourse.
Roosevelt / GoFast / Gimbal Encounters
Near-daily Super Hornet sensor engagements off the eastern seaboard — the source of two of the three authenticated Navy videos.
Nimitz / Tic-Tac Encounter
F/A-18 aviators from the USS Nimitz carrier group engaged a 40-foot oblong object exhibiting instantaneous acceleration, captured on FLIR and corroborated by AEGIS radar — the most-corroborated modern case in the archive (12 sources).