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The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 1 minute and 39 seconds of video footage from an electro-optical and infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. Video description: 00:00-01:39: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast from left to right across the background, keeping it generally centered within the frame. The sensor adjusts collection mode and level of magnification several times. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 1 minute of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. An accompanying mission report, DOW-UAP-D108, described the UAP as “six small spherical objects grouped together, and characterized their behavior as “seem[ingly] agile,” and “frequently changing direction.” The reporter estimated the speed of the UAP to have been 480 miles per hour. Video Description: 00:00-00:04: No content. 00:05-00:10: Several areas of contrast transit the sensor field-of-view, entering from the top of the frame and exiting from the bottom. 00:11-00:47: The sensor pans to track the areas of contrast, keeping them generally within the center of the frame. 00:48-1:00: The sensor changes its level of magnification. No content. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
The United States Central Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 14 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. Video description: 00:00-00:04: No content. 00:05-00:08: An area of contrast enters the sensor field-of-view from the left edge, transits from left to right, and exits the right edge of the frame. 00:09-00:14: No content. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
The United States Indo-Pacific Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of 18 seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform in 2025. Video Description: 00:01-00:15: The sensor pans to track an area of contrast resembling a six-pointed star, keeping it generally centered within the center of the screen. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
This white paper, sponsored by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and hosted with Associated Universities, Inc. and Florida State University, synthesizes a workshop held August 5 and 6, 2025, that brought together 40 participants. The workshop examined how to collect, standardize, link and analyze UAP narrative reports. It calls for standard metadata templates, human oversight of AI tools, triage of reports, preservation of historical records, better public reporting portals and further workshops.
In July 2025, at approximately 2100 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they parked their car upon returning home from work. The light was hovering approximately 25 feet off the ground, below a tree line near the center of their backyard, at an estimated distance of 90 feet. The eyewitness exited their vehicle briefly before retrieving their phone to record the event. The spouse of the eyewitness came outside to assess the situation. The spouse also witnessed the light, describing it as a “brilliant red sphere” about one meter in diameter. The center of the red sphere appeared to be a white plasma “sun” about the size of a basketball. The orb slowly rose and moved to the left, and both eyewitnesses observed a second, identical orb, hovering above the other orb. The eyewitness then began recording the event using an iPhone 14 Pro Max, capturing the footage depicted in this video. As the eyewitness began recording, the orbs moved westward together above a nearby tree line. The witnesses described the orbs’ motion as silent and smooth, and as moving in tandem as though they were flying in formation or tethered together. As the orbs moved out of sight, both eyewitnesses saw them appear to merge. The eyewitnesses estimated that the orbs moved from their initial position before disappearing from view at an estimated distance of 75 yards. This observation occurred within 25 miles of the “Triangle Orbs,” “Red Orb Rotation,” and “Orbs Over the Pond,” sightings at a location well known to them, which is sparsely populated. The description above is derived from statements provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by eyewitnesses to the event. The FBI assesses the individuals who reported this event as credible. The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D009 through FBI-UAP-D010 and depicted in the video footage FBI-UAP-PR004 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
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.
H.R. 1187, the UAP Transparency Act, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Mr. Burchett on February 11, 2025 and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The bill would require the President, within 270 days of enactment, to direct every federal department or agency holding records on unidentified anomalous phenomena to declassify them and post them on a public website. It also requires progress reports to Congress starting at 360 days and quarterly thereafter.
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.
This Central Intelligence Agency document, approved for release on 25 March 2025, lists internal investigations closed during calendar year 2017. It gives a case number and a short title for each case. The allegations include travel fraud, misuse of a government travel card, child pornography, whistleblower retaliation, conflict of interest, Privacy Act violations, theft of government property, marriage and visa fraud, and time and attendance abuse. The document says nothing about UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, released in 2025, collects 1968 cable traffic and dispatches between CIA headquarters' Western Hemisphere Division and the JMWAVE station about AMBUD dependency payments to families of Bay of Pigs brigade members. It covers closing trust accounts held by the agent AMTIKI-1, settling the account of a dead brigade member's mother, and handing case administration to MHMUTUAL. It also contains 1960 financial reports of the Democratic Revolutionary Front. The file has no UFO content.
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 a Central Intelligence Agency release dated 2025-06-12 under the JFK Act. It collects 1975 newspaper and magazine clippings. They include Mark Harris's New York Times Magazine essay on a UCLA "Conspiracy in America" conference and the conspiracy-theory mindset, a Jack Anderson column on stalled CIA reform, and wire reports of Richard Helms calling CBS newsman Daniel Schorr "Killer" after he testified to the Rockefeller Commission. There is also an essay on power and a publishing item about Philip Agee's book.
This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA release, dated 2025-06-12, collects 1976 CIA paperwork on Harold Weisberg's request (76-F-382) for records on Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes routing slips, an Operations Staff memorandum listing releasable press items and exempt cables, dispatches and memoranda, and a CI Staff reply citing a 1968 Office of Security memo on Coretta Scott King. It also contains a 16 May 1968 memo to the FBI reporting that Gerald Lee Richards, investigated in Japan, did not resemble suspect James Earl Ray.
This CIA release, dated 2025-06-12, is a file of newspaper and magazine clippings from April and May 1975. They cover former CIA Director Richard Helms testifying before the Rockefeller Commission on alleged CIA assassination plots and denouncing CBS reporter Daniel Schorr. Other items include commentary defending or questioning the Warren Commission, calls to reopen the Kennedy assassination case, a book review, and L. Fletcher Prouty's account of a CIA team sent to kill Fidel Castro. None of the clippings concern UFOs.
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.
This is the National Intelligence Survey Gazetteer for Mexico, published by the Central Intelligence Agency in March 1956 and prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior. It contains about 53,000 entries for places and features in Mexico. It gives official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names along with unapproved variant names, and lists coordinates, feature designations and map references. It is marked for official use only and has no UFO content.
H.R. 5060, the UAP Whistleblower Protection Act, is a bill that Representatives Burchett and Luna introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on August 29, 2025. It was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The bill amends federal whistleblower laws to protect disclosures about the use of federal taxpayer funds to evaluate or research unidentified anomalous phenomenon material. The protections would cover civilian employees, FBI staff, the armed forces, defense and civilian contractors, and the intelligence community.
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 is the printed transcript of a September 9, 2025 hearing held by the U.S. House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. The witnesses were Jeffrey Nuccetelli, Alexandro Wiggins, George Knapp, Dylan Borland and Joe Spielberger. They described UAP incursions at Vandenberg Air Force Base from 2003 to 2005 and a tic-tac-shaped object seen from USS Jackson in 2023. Members criticized AARO and called for whistleblower protections and the UAP Disclosure Act.
H.R. 5231, the Safe Airspace for Americans Act, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on September 9, 2025 by Mr. Garcia of California with three cosponsors. The bill would require the FAA Administrator to set up procedures for civilian aviation personnel to report, archive and investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena incidents and to share them with the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. It also protects reporters' medical and airmen certificates, bars reprisals, and defines UAP and transmedium objects.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 interview report from 2026 records a witness account, with names and locations redacted, of multiple unidentified dull red lights seen at night in 2026. The witness watched them through night optical devices as they moved along a mountain ridgeline, hovered overhead and came as low as about 6 feet off the ground. The witness also said his analog watch ran 25 minutes fast afterward. The form states that it contains no FBI recommendations or conclusions.
This FBI FD-302 interview record from 2026, titled "Multiple Red Lights," describes a witness's account of a night observation. Through night vision devices, red lights that looked like single points resolved into clusters of three in a triangular or diamond pattern that moved together. At about 2350, lights near the ground approached and stopped 200 to 300 meters away, and a fast streak of light was seen moving north. One witness's analog watch was later found to be 25 minutes fast, and no physical effects were reported.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 from 2026 records a written statement signed by an FBI Special Agent describing an unidentified aerial object. At about 2100 hours, the agent saw a thermally elevated object flying southbound in the same western sector as an object seen the previous night. Compared with video of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, the object appeared about half the Black Hawk's size. The agent could not determine its type or propulsion before terrain and distance hid it from view.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 interview record, dated February 2026, documents a videoconference interview with a witness whose name is redacted. The witness described coming home at about 9:15 PM and seeing a brilliant red sphere about one meter wide hovering below the tree line in their backyard, with a white plasma-like center. A second, identical orb appeared, and the pair moved silently west in tandem before seeming to merge into one. A video of the orbs was attached, and weeks later the witness saw several white orbs pass overhead.
This Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-302 interview record, dated 2026, documents a witness account of orb sightings, with names and places redacted. The witness reported that around 9:15pm two balls of light, one yellow and basketball-sized and one larger, appeared behind trees near the home and moved laterally before one merged into the other and vanished. The witness also described white orbs weeks later and a red light that hovered and landed near a power station in 1987. Agents attached photos.
A U.S. Government Special Agent captured this video footage via hand-held optical thermal imaging device during a 2026 incident in the western United States, as described in FBI-UAP-D032. The footage features two, slow-moving “black-hot” areas of contrast, visible in infrared imaging.
This Central Intelligence Agency file on Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, approved for release in 2026, collects cables, trace requests and index cards from 1965 to 1971. They follow his capture during an infiltration of Cuba from the Dominican Republic around December 1964 and his Havana television appearance, which JMWAVE judged demoralizing for exiles. Other cables cover an Army intelligence (ACSI) operation linked to him and letters he later smuggled out of Cuban prisons. The file does not discuss UFOs.
This U.S. Department of War release, dated 2026-03-23, is an email exchange between an Information Disclosure Analyst in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and an AFOSI program manager. The analyst asked to use an unclassified summary of a SECRET//NOFORN intelligence report. That report describes a civilian who, one night in March 2023 in the Pacific Time Zone, watched a large, blue, featureless triangular object near a national security facility for about eight minutes. AFOSI treated the request as a derivative classification review and approved using the summary at the UNCLASSIFIED level.
H.R. 8197 is a bill that Mr. Burchett introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 6, 2026, during the 119th Congress. It was referred to the Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Within 60 days of enactment, the Secretary of Defense would have to terminate the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and transfer its functions to other Defense Department elements. The bill also bars any similar centralized office, repeals Section 1683 of the FY2022 NDAA, and defines unidentified anomalous phenomena.
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 Office of the Secretary of Defense FOIA release, dated May 18, 2026, is 40 pages of October 2023 email chains. They show the privacy and intelligence oversight office drafting a reply to Rep. Tim Burchett, who had asked about a reported June 2023 Air Force complaint against David Grusch. The November 1, 2023 response from Mark D. Dupont says an Air Force officer raised only a preliminary concern about a possible unauthorized disclosure and later withdrew it. It states that no complaint was ever filed.
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.
On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “AFSOC Kabul UAP Jul 2017,” is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Central Command area of responsibility. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in June 2024. Video Duration: 00:00:17 Video Description: 00:00-00:13: No content. 00:14-00:15: An area of contrast moves into the sensor field-of-view from the left edge and moves to the right edge out of the field-of-view. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.
On March 6, 2026, eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives requested access to 51 potentially UAP-related records allegedly held by the Department of War and the Intelligence Community. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) identified a collection of responsive materials held on a classified network. Many of these materials lack a substantiated chain-of-custody. AARO assesses that this video, whose uploader-defined title is, “F/A-18 FLIR UAP,” is likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform operating within the United States Northern Command area of responsibility in 2022. A user uploaded this video to a classified network in July 2023. Video Duration: 00:00:29 Video Description: A sensor pans to track an area of contrast. At the 14 second mark, a reticle surrounds the area of contrast. At the 27 second mark, the reticle loses its track on the area of contrast. This video description is provided for informational purposes only. Readers should not interpret any part of this description as reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination regarding the described event’s validity, nature, or significance.