45 articles
A July 31 memo signed by the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence orders every U.S. spy and defense agency to tell staff that their non-disclosure agreements no longer bar them from reporting UAP information - but only through official channels, not to the public.
A future U.S. president and about ten others watched a bright, color-shifting light over Leary, Georgia. Two ordinary explanations fit the record - the planet Venus, or a NASA rocket's glowing cloud - yet Carter, an amateur astronomer, rejected both.
The phrase now anchors UAP hearings, a federal law, and a Pentagon office - and it is carefully broader than 'extraterrestrial.' Here is what 'non-human intelligence' actually covers, and why NASA and the Pentagon still say there is no proof behind it.
For decades, sightings clustered near bases and nuclear sites fed a theory that something is monitoring our weapons. NASA's 2023 study team found the pattern mostly reflects where the cameras, radars, and trained observers are - a reporting bias, not a beacon.
On January 8, 2008, dozens in Stephenville, Texas described a huge, silent craft. A later analysis of FAA radar records logged an unknown, transponder-less object - and the Air Force's account of that night changed twice.
Declassified in 2006, Project Condign examined thousands of sightings over UK airspace and reached an unusual conclusion - the unexplained cases were probably rare 'buoyant plasma', a poorly understood natural phenomenon, and offered no defence value worth chasing.
The U.S. Secretary of State said unidentified objects over American installations 'are not ours' and that he does not know what they are. He stopped short of blaming aliens, and said that if Washington had proof, the president would already be on prime-time TV.
The phrase came from a Hollywood blockbuster, but the system behind it was built by J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer the Air Force hired to explain UFOs away. His six rungs still shape how sightings get sorted, and show what the Pentagon's new files leave behind.
As the Pentagon posts batch after batch of declassified UFO files in 2026, it is worth recalling that Washington's first serious UFO review did the opposite - a CIA-convened panel of top scientists urged a public 'debunking' campaign and surveillance of civilian UFO groups.
The Pentagon's fifth PURSUE release, posted August 7, adds 41 files from the widest set of agencies yet - and a new kind of evidence: FBI witness forms, including federal agents describing objects they could not identify over the western U.S. this year.
AARO's overdue annual report rejects claims the U.S. holds recovered 'non-human' technology, then reveals the office is drafting procedures to take custody of and test such material 'should' any ever surface - and sets the evidence bar a specimen must clear.
Astronomers, Pentagon analysts and aviation experts keep resolving UFO reports to the same short list: a bright planet, a satellite flare, a flickering bird, and the limits of human vision. Here is how they fool even trained observers - and how investigators tell them apart.
The Pentagon's UAP office resolves nearly every case it can actually analyze to balloons, satellites, drones and birds. The reason its pile of 'unexplained' files stays large is not exotic physics - it is a chronic shortage of usable sensor data, the office says.
AARO's annual report on unidentified phenomena, missing for months, arrived this week. Of 319 new sightings, the office resolved 114 - balloons, satellites, birds, one rocket and a single jetpack - while a shortage of sensor data left most cases open.
It is the only maritime case in the Pentagon's newest UAP report, which logged 319 sightings in a year and could resolve only about a third. AARO says the Virginia encounter is still unexplained.
A radar 'solid return' feels like proof - a machine saw it, not a nervous pilot. But the atmosphere can bend a radar beam into a phantom, and telling a real UAP from a ghost comes down to one rule investigators live by.
From 1947 to 1969, the US Air Force ran its longest official inquiry into unidentified flying objects. It reviewed thousands of sightings, explained most - and quietly classified 701 as things it simply could not resolve.
The Pentagon's famous infrared UAP footage is genuine. But the cameras that captured it have specific design quirks - and knowing what they are changes what you see.
The Pentagon's fourth PURSUE release dropped July 10 - 40 newly declassified files including a lockdown at America's nuclear warhead factory, a star-shaped object tracked over the Yellow Sea, and a 1949 meeting of atomic scientists stumped by mystery lights.
Rep. Eric Burlison arranged White House-level access to classified UAP material, toured a key naval test facility, and says the intelligence officials who briefed him cannot identify the glowing, plasma-like objects he consistently sees on restricted footage.
For decades, any scientist who took UFOs seriously risked their career. A former NASA senior official says the agency didn't mean to build that wall - but helped build it anyway. Here's the history, and what's changing.
A US military infrared sensor filmed four unidentified objects in synchronized flight over the Persian Gulf region in August 2022. The footage is now public via PURSUE - and officially unexplained after nearly four years.
The first PURSUE release included official NASA post-mission debriefs from Apollo 11, 12, and 17 in which trained astronauts logged unexplained sightings - from an object near the Moon to three lights photographed in triangular formation above the lunar surface.
Across three PURSUE tranches, glowing spheres appear more than any other shape - and while most have conventional explanations, a stubborn fraction don't. This is what the documented evidence shows.
The Pentagon has a specific technical framework for the most baffling UAP cases in its 2,000-file archive - five physics-defying behaviors identified from real pilot testimony and sensor data that mark an object as 'unresolved.'
The Pentagon's UAP investigation office has 2,000+ active case files - and its own director says 40% remain without a conventional explanation. But AARO has not published its legally required 2025 annual report, raising questions about what the office is finding.
A committee including a former NASA senior official and the first Chief Scientist of the Pentagon's UAP unit will use AI to mine NASA's public archive - acting on a 2023 NASA recommendation no government agency had yet implemented.
Orbs dominate the U.S. government's declassified UAP files - and have for decades. Scientists now have several credible theories about what they could be, but a substantial share of cases still has no explanation at all.
In October 2023, six federal agents near a sensitive U.S. site watched silent orange orbs release red ones over two nights. Newly released Pentagon files show AARO ran every check available - and still can't account for 40% of what the agents reported.
In February 2022, five service members at Fort Carson saw a jet-sized white object - textured like fish scales, shaped like a potato - hanging motionlessly over the mountain that shields America's nuclear command bunker. AARO investigated. The answer came back: low confidence.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has agreed to hand over a 74-year-old reel-to-reel recording of a military UFO briefing - identified by catalogue number - to congressional investigators within 30 days.
The UAP Governance Board - run by ODNI, FBI, and the Department of War - convened for the first time on June 15, but Avi Loeb's independent science team confirmed they hold no security clearance and no access to any classified UAP evidence.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been tasked by the White House, AARO, and ODNI to lead a new advisory council - the first government-mandated scientific body focused on rigorous methodology in UAP research.
The Pentagon's PURSUE programme posted 72 more declassified files on June 12, 2026, revealing that FBI agents traced five years of unexplained orb sightings to a single northeastern U.S. property, while the AARO director found 40% of phenomena cases remain unresolved.
Former intelligence officer David Grusch joined a bipartisan group of House members on the Capitol steps on June 9, calling on President Trump to waive UAP whistleblower NDAs and advance stalled disclosure legislation.
A federally funded research organization that works with the Pentagon and NSA has agreed to search its archives for UAP-related materials, extending the U.S. disclosure push into private contractor networks for the first time.
Three years after a U.S. Air National Guard F-16 shot down an unidentified object over Lake Huron, declassified footage and Canadian debris analysis now give the clearest picture yet of what it was.
Founded in 2021 by astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the Galileo Project is building a global network of sensor-laden observatories to replace eyewitness reports with reproducible, AI-analyzed data on unexplained aerial phenomena.
Established in 2022, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is the U.S. government's primary body for detecting, identifying, and analyzing unidentified anomalous phenomena - here is how it works and what it has found.
A measured look at the two distinct events of March 13, 1997, the military explanations offered for each, and what remains unresolved.
In December 1980, US Air Force personnel at twin NATO bases in Suffolk reported three nights of anomalous lights, physical ground traces, and radiation readings in the forest - producing the most detailed official record of any UAP event in British history.
The 'Tic Tac' case remains the most documented UAP incident in U.S. military history. Here is a careful account of what pilots reported, what sensors recorded, and where the evidence stops.
Sensor artifacts, data gaps, and rigorous methodology - what does it really take to turn a puzzling sky sighting into a scientifically useful data point? Researchers explain.
The Department of War launched war.gov/ufo in May 2026 and published two tranches of declassified UAP records. Here is a clear-eyed account of what was released, what it shows, and what it does not.
From flying saucers to UAP - how the U.S. government changed what it calls unexplained aerial sightings, and why the language shift matters for science and policy.
