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This is the opening and closing statement that former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch prepared for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on 26 July 2023. Grusch served 14 years in the US Air Force and at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and he was a member of the UAP Task Force. He testifies that officials told him of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program that he was denied access to. He also describes retaliation after becoming a whistleblower and asks Congress to investigate.
This is the written testimony that Ryan Graves, a former Navy F-18 pilot and founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, submitted to a House Oversight subcommittee for its first public hearing on UAP. It gives three main arguments: UAP are grossly underreported, stigma silences pilots, and overclassification hides data. Graves describes regular UAP encounters in his VFA-11 squadron near Virginia Beach in 2014, including a near miss with a cube inside a sphere. He calls for pilot reporting, an empowered investigation and declassification.
This is the final report of NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team, a 16-member external panel chaired by Dr. David Spergel, with a foreword by Dr. Nicola Fox. The report says it is not a review of past incidents. It concludes that UAP analysis is limited by poor data, calibration and metadata, and that NASA should support AARO's whole-of-government effort. It recommends using NASA satellites, commercial imagery, AI, crowdsourcing apps and the Aviation Safety Reporting System, and reducing stigma around reporting.
This FBI FOIA release, dated November 22, 2023 and obtained by John Greenewald Jr. of The Black Vault, is the second and final release on United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, LLC. The FBI reviewed 357 pages and released 56. The records include a 2012 Detroit interview at the company's Michigan warehouse about orders for nitric acid and potassium perchlorate, a 2006 Albuquerque WMD case over a suspicious call, grand jury subpoenas, and a 2008 to 2009 New York and Baltimore inquiry into an attempted purchase of Polonium-210.
This December 8, 2023 letter from the Department of the Navy's FOIA/PA Program Office answers John Greenewald of The Black Vault. His July 2022 FOIA request sought UAP reports involving the USS Theodore Roosevelt from 2014 onward. The Navy points him to a publicly posted set of redacted range fouler reports. Attached are heavily redacted classified Range Fouler Reporting Forms used by the UAPTF, and some narratives describe multiple UAS sighted around the reporting platform.
The Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued Volume I of its Historical Record Report in February 2024. It reviews U.S. Government UAP investigations since 1945, drawing on classified and unclassified archives and about 30 interviews. AARO found no evidence that any sighting represented extraterrestrial technology and no empirical evidence of reverse-engineering programs, attributing such claims to misidentified sensitive programs, the unapproved KONA BLUE proposal and circular reporting. It also found an alleged crash sample to be an ordinary terrestrial alloy.
Kamisu City published this feature in issue No. 409 of its public relations magazine, Koho Kamisu, dated 1 March 2024. It covers the Edo period tale Hitachi no Kuni Utsuro-bune Kidan, which says a disc-shaped boat carrying a strangely dressed woman drifted ashore in 1803. The article presents research by Professor Tanaka, including the Mito document's resemblance to the Konjiki-hime statue at Hoshifuku-ji and the 2014 Ban family document. According to the feature, that document places the landing site at Sharihama in the Hasaki district.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office issued this July 2024 supplement to an Oak Ridge National Laboratory analysis of a magnesium alloy specimen. The specimen is publicly alleged to come from a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle in 1947 and to work as a terahertz waveguide. AARO agrees with ORNL that its isotopic composition shows a terrestrial origin and that its structure cannot act as a waveguide. AARO assesses it is likely a test object or byproduct of mid-20th century magnesium alloy research.
This synopsis from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, dated July 2024, reports findings on a magnesium-zinc metallic specimen with bismuth layers that is claimed to come from a UAP crash in or around 1947. AARO tasked Oak Ridge National Laboratory with testing the specimen's origin and whether it could act as a terahertz waveguide. ORNL concluded that the material was manufactured on Earth and later damaged by heat and mechanical stress. Its bismuth layers could not have served as a waveguide.
These slides accompanied a presentation by Dr. Jon Kosloski, Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities in November 2024. They cover UAP reporting trends from 1996 to October 2024, including altitudes, reported shapes, hotspots and how closed cases were resolved, with balloons making up 75 percent. They also present three case resolutions. AARO found that the 2013 Puerto Rico object and the 2016 GO FAST object showed no anomalous flight characteristics. It assessed that the 2018 Mt. Etna object was a balloon.
The Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada issued this June 2025 report of the Sky Canada Project, which reviewed how public reports of unidentified aerial phenomena are handled in Canada. It finds no cohesive, standardized reporting system, no official public platform, limited analysis and little scientific involvement. It compares approaches in the United States, France and Chile, includes a commissioned public survey, and makes fourteen recommendations, including naming a lead federal agency, creating a dedicated reporting service and cooperating with AARO, NASA, GEIPAN and SEFAA.
This is a case resolution report from the U.S. Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated February 6, 2025. It covers the January 2015 "Go Fast" infrared video that a Navy F/A-18F recorded off Florida. AARO worked only from the public video and found the object was at about 13,000 feet, not near the ocean surface, and moved at roughly 5 to 92 mph. The report attributes the apparent high speed to motion parallax and states with high confidence that the object showed no anomalous performance.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office of the U.S. Department of Defense issued this case resolution on February 6, 2025, with a technical appendix, on the "Go Fast" video recorded by a U.S. Navy F/A-18F FLIR sensor off Florida in January 2015. Working from the public 34-second video, AARO puts the object at about 13,000 feet, moving roughly 5 to 92 mph once wind is accounted for. It concludes with high confidence that the object showed no anomalous performance and that its apparent speed came from motion parallax.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) issued this case resolution on 20 March 2025 for "The Puerto Rico Object," infrared video recorded on April 26, 2013 by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft over Rafael Hernandez Airport near Aguadilla. AARO assesses with high confidence that the video shows two objects drifting at wind speed over land, with no anomalous or transmedium behavior. It attributes their apparent vanishing into the ocean to thermal crossover and concludes with moderate confidence that they were sky lanterns.
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) issued this case resolution on 28 April 2025 about infrared video that a U.S. military uncrewed aerial system near Naval Air Station Sigonella recorded in December 2018 during an eruption of Mt. Etna. The operator reported a round object moving at 345 mph through the ash plume. AARO assesses with moderate confidence that the object was a balloon about one foot across, moving at about 24 mph with the wind. It found with high confidence that motion parallax caused the apparent speed and that the object never passed through the plume.
This is the Department of Defense's final response to John Greenewald Jr.'s FOIA request 22-F-0035, dated August 5, 2025. It releases 106 pages from the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with some material withheld under exemptions (b)(4), (b)(5) and (b)(6). The pages cover the 2020 to 2021 security review of James Lacatski's manuscript "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: Correcting the Record," about DIA's AAWSAP program. The records include DIA, Air Force and DHS reviews, and the manuscript was cleared as amended in May 2021.
George Knapp, chief investigative reporter for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, submitted this written testimony for the House Committee on Oversight's September 9, 2025 hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. He argues that government documents contradict what officials tell the public, and says crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs are real. He cites sources including Bob Lazar, Senators Reid, Cannon and Goldwater, Al O'Donnell, and James Lacatski on AAWSAP and Kona Blue. He also describes Soviet UFO programs, including a 1982 incident at a Ukrainian missile base.
This FBI Albuquerque office memorandum, dated May 8, 1964, reports on an unidentified flying object seen at Socorro, New Mexico, on April 24, 1964. Special Agent D. Arthur Byrnes, Jr. went to the site and describes four depressions, burned grass and circular marks in the ground. The memo also gives Officer Lonnie Zamora's detailed account of a flame and a roar, a shiny aluminum-like object with two figures in white coveralls, a red insignia, and the object's departure. The memo states that it contains no conclusions.
This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 on flying discs collects 1947 FBI memoranda, teletypes and Army Air Forces intelligence papers. It includes F. M. Johnson's report of discs near Mt. Adams on June 24, 1947, the Maury Island claims of Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman, the fatal B-25 crash at Kelso, Washington that killed investigators Davidson and Brown, MIT findings that New Hampshire fragments were ordinary cast iron, and A. C. Urie's Twin Falls sighting. It ends with the Bureau discontinuing its disc investigations.
This document is a NASA Public Affairs Office release of Gemini 7 air-to-ground commentary, and the archive lists it as issued by the U.S. Department of War. It records astronaut Frank Borman telling Houston "we have a bogey at ten o'clock high" and describing hundreds of small particles passing three or four miles away in what looked like a polar orbit. Jim Lovell describes seeing the booster tumbling at his two o'clock position. The PAO says the bogey was the third object.
This is the NASA Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing dated July 31, 1969, prepared by the Mission Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, and released by the U.S. Department of War. The confidential excerpts record Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins describing an unidentified bright L-shaped object seen about a day from the Moon, which they could not identify and suspected came from the spacecraft. They also describe light flashes inside the cabin and a bright light on Earth later attributed to reflection off a lake.
This U.S. Department of War PURSUE release, dated 2026-05-08, compiles excerpts from NASA Johnson Space Center technical crew debriefings for Skylab missions, dated June 30, 1973, October 4, 1973 and February 22, 1974. Crews describe light flashes seen with eyes closed and believed to be cosmic particles. The second crew describes tracking a bright reddish rotating object near their orbit for about 10 minutes and asks for it to be identified. The third crew reports flashing lights they presumed were Skylab pieces or other satellites.
This PURSUE Release 1 record, released by the US Department of War on 2026-05-08, is the transcript of NASA tape T-763 (R1b). On it, a public affairs officer presents air-to-ground audio from the Gemini 7 flight. Borman reports a bogey at ten o'clock high, along with hundreds of small particles in polar orbit about three or four miles away. Lovell describes the tumbling booster at his two o'clock position. The officer ends by noting the references to the bogey at 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight.
This declassified document is a March 22, 1949 letter from the Security Operations Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Santa Fe Directed Operations. It forwards a transcript of a Conference on Aerial Phenomena held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory on February 16, 1949. At the conference, Dr. LaPaz described the green fireballs, including his own Starvation Peak sighting of December 12, 1948, and argued that they were not conventional meteors. Dr. Teller and others discussed why the fireballs made no sound, and no conclusion was reached.
This file is a US Atomic Energy Commission transcript of a secret conference on aerial phenomena held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory on 16 February 1949. A cover letter from the AEC Santa Fe office dated 22 March 1949 accompanies it. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz describes the New Mexico green fireballs, including the Starvation Peak sighting of 12 December 1948 and the 30 January 1949 fall over Texas. He argues they were not conventional meteorites. Edward Teller, Norris Bradbury and others discuss the missing sound and the long horizontal paths but reach no conclusion.
This is a SECRET War Department Intelligence Division publication dated January 1947 with a feature article titled "Ghost Rockets" over Scandinavia. The article covers missile reports over Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway from May 1946, a Swedish Air Force pilot's sighting, press censorship and the Swedish Defense Staff's contradictory communiques. It concludes there were perhaps only 2 to 10 real incidents of low-flying V-1 type missiles. It judges that the high-altitude reports were meteors or fireworks.
This Department of War release reproduces Project Blue Book records on the Tremonton, Utah film of 2 July 1952. In them, Navy Chief Photographer Delbert C. Newhouse explains how he filmed a group of bright objects near Tremonton. ATIC memos and a December 1952 travel report record Navy and General Mills balloon specialists judging that the objects closely resembled pillow balloons. A January 1953 memorandum discusses publicly releasing the film. The file also includes unrelated sighting reports from Phoenix and Massachusetts, plus material about Donald Keyhoe.
This Department of War release, dated 2026-09-18, reproduces a Project Blue Book photo file covering Files 1377 and 1415 on the Tremonton, Utah film. The file records that CPO Delbert C. Newhouse was driving 7 miles north of Tremonton at 1110 MST on 2 July 1952 when his wife noticed a group of objects milling about in rough formation. It notes that there were no reference points and that the images were too small to show detail. The file gives the explanation as pillow balloons or birds and includes a General Mills Research Laboratories photo sheet showing 2 by 2 foot pillow balloons.
This declassified Spanish Air Force file, catalogued as expedientes 791111, 791117 and 791128 (Bis), was released through the Air Operational Command (MOA) intelligence section in November 1996. It collects a 1994 request from CJMOA asking commands to search their archives for UFO records, together with a list of past incidents and MACEN's reply. It also holds controller and aircrew reports on a Phantom scramble from Torrejón over Madrid on 28 November 1979. No visual contact was made, though the crew had brief radar echoes and radar-lock warnings.
This heritage pamphlet from Malmstrom AFB traces the history of the 341st Missile Wing. The unit began as a B-25 bomb group in the China-Burma-India Theater in 1942, then flew B-47s at Abilene AFB before being activated at Malmstrom in July 1961. The pamphlet covers the Minuteman I, II and III deployments, the Cuban Missile Crisis alert, arms-reduction work under START, trophies, wing commanders and a missile field chronology. It also has museum display notes on missiles and the UH-1 helicopter.
This Memorandum for Record from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), dated January 8, 2024, lists AARO's repeated efforts between June 2023 and January 2024 to interview David Grusch for its congressionally directed Historical Record Report. Grusch agreed to an interview on November 14, 2023, but did not appear, and he cited concerns about classified information. AARO concluded he had no intention of providing information. The release also includes email threads, text messages and authorization memoranda from DoD and ODNI.
This FOIA release comes from the Department of Defense Freedom of Information Division. It answers request 24-F-0266 from John Greenewald of The Black Vault, and the response is dated March 21, 2024. It holds 26 partly redacted pages, including a January 8, 2024 AARO memorandum for record on repeated invitations to interview David Grusch, along with text messages, emails and authorization memos from DoD and ODNI. AARO concluded that Grusch had no intention of giving it information about his claims.
This is a Foreign Technology Division edited translation, dated September 1983 and approved for public release. It translates Long Ruyi's article "First UFO Incident for Our Country" from the Chinese journal Hangtian (No. 4, 1982). The article describes a huge spiral-shaped UFO that some 10,000,000 people across southwest and northwest China saw on 24 July 1981. It weighs meteor, aircraft and flying saucer explanations, rejects the meteor theory, and leans toward a spy craft while calling the proof lacking.
This document is a NICAP-hosted table of AFOSI raw data summarizing 209 sightings of unknown aerial phenomena, listed from January 1943 through May 1950. Most reports come from New Mexico sites such as Los Alamos, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, Alamogordo and Vaughn, with others from Camp Hood, Texas, and Arizona. For each sighting it records the observers, the reliability rating, direction, color, duration, shape, speed and how the object disappeared. It sorts the cases as green fireball phenomena, disks or variations, or probable meteors.
These are two U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) briefing cards, dated November 23 and December 9, 2021, released under FOIA 22-F-0381. They give talking points and prepared answers on the Deputy Secretary's memo creating the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) as successor to the UAPTF, with an executive council for oversight. The cards say data remains insufficient, there is no single explanation for UAP, and AOIMSG will not search for extraterrestrials.
This FAA release from the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center contains personnel statements dated November 1986 and January 1987 about Japan Airlines Flight 1628 north of Fairbanks, Alaska, on November 18, 1986. Controllers Henley, Rich and Aarnink describe the pilot reporting traffic with white and yellow lights and say they saw intermittent radar returns that the military ROCC also reported. Supervisor Rollins and specialists Keller and Wylie say reviews of the recorded radar data found no target information near the reported traffic.
This is an unclassified Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIA-08-1003-015), dated 29 March 2010. The Defense Intelligence Agency prepared it under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program, and Rep. Burchett entered it into the House committee record. The paper uses a general relativity metric tensor approach to look at how engineering spacetime might enable propulsion, including warp drives, apparent superluminal travel, reduced effective mass and antigravity. It finds these ideas consistent with physics but far beyond present engineering capability.
This is the July 1966 third edition of Dr. Leon Davidson's "Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14", published by Ramsey-Wallace Corp. It reproduces early Air Force press releases, the 1953 CIA panel report, the 1966 Blue Book release and the full text of the May 1955 Special Report No. 14 with its tables and codes. Davidson also gives his view that the CIA was responsible for much saucer publicity.
Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203 is a Top Secret analysis dated 10 December 1948, prepared jointly by the USAF Directorate of Intelligence and the Office of Naval Intelligence. It reviews about 210 reported flying object incidents and concludes that some type of flying object has been observed, though its identity and origin cannot be determined. The study treats domestic devices or Soviet aircraft based on German flying-wing designs as possible explanations. It also summarizes selected sighting and radar reports.
This CIA Foreign Broadcast Information Service translation reproduces a report from the Moscow newspaper Trud of 30 January 1985. It describes the crew of Aeroflot flight 8352, a Tu-134 flying from Tbilisi to Tallinn, watching a luminous object about 120 kilometers from Minsk. The object cast beams of light and became a cloud that escorted the aircraft to Tallinn, and controllers reported seeing it too. Commission member N. A. Zheltukhin concluded that the crew had encountered a UFO.
UK Airprox Board report 2013085 examines a 22 July 2013 conflict near Daventry between an A320 inbound to Heathrow and a DH8D inbound to Birmingham, both deviating around thunderstorms. Both crews received TCAS resolution advisories and controllers issued avoiding action, with recorded separation of 1400ft vertical and 2.3nm horizontal. The Board found the Welin controller allowed the DH8D to come into conflict with the A320 by not monitoring its slow descent, and assessed the risk as Category C, with no collision risk.
The UK Airprox Board issued Airprox Report 2013086 on an incident at 1835Z on 19 July 2013, 19.5nm west of Heathrow at FL340. An A320 captain reported a bright silver, cigar or rugby ball shaped object passing a few feet above the aircraft. No TCAS or radar returns were found, balloon releases were ruled out, and the Board judged a sun reflection off distant aircraft possible. Too little information allowed a meaningful finding, so the cause was recorded as a sighting report, risk category D.
This FAA daily record of facility operation (Form 7230-4) comes from the Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAN) and is dated 11-17-86. It was released through The Black Vault. Most entries cover routine operations, including SIGMETs, radar outages and NOTAMs for the Mt. Pavlof eruption. The log also records that JL1628, a 747 bound for Anchorage, reported traffic at FL350 with white and yellow strobes that appeared to pace it. Controllers had intermittent radar contact but identified no known traffic, and the Washington ROC was briefed.