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Press coverage, congressional testimony, declassified findings, and peer-reviewed research. The documentary record of UAP disclosure, chronologically ordered.
"Age of Disclosure" Documentary Brings UAP Whistleblowers to Mainstream Audiences
The documentary "Age of Disclosure," featuring extended interviews with Grusch, Elizondo, and former intelligence officers, became the highest-grossing UAP documentary in history.
Hal Puthoff Claims 10 Recovered Non-Human Craft at Pentagon UAP Workshop
Physicist Hal Puthoff presented at an AARO-sponsored scientific workshop, stating that he has personal knowledge of approximately 10 recovered craft of non-human origin in US…
Nick Pope: The UK Is Quietly Ahead of the US on UAP Transparency
Former Ministry of Defence UAP investigator Nick Pope argues that the UK's systematic declassification of its UFO files represents a more transparent model than the US approach.
Loeb Publishes Full Spherule Analysis in Nature Astronomy: "Composition Unlike Known Solar System Material"
The peer-reviewed analysis of metallic spherules recovered from the Pacific Ocean has been published in Nature Astronomy, with authors concluding the isotopic composition is…
Elizondo Urges Trump to Appoint a White House UAP Advisor
In an open memo addressed to the incoming Trump administration, Luis Elizondo outlined a framework for a presidentially-appointed Special Envoy for UAP Affairs.
AARO 2024 Report: 1,600+ UAP Cases, 21 Flagged for Further Analysis
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office released its FY2024 Consolidated Annual Report documenting 757 new UAP reports and 21 cases requiring further analysis.
Luis Elizondo Testifies to Congress: UAP Technologies "Not Made by Our Government"
Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's secret AATIP program, returned to Capitol Hill to testify that UAP are real, pose a national security threat, and include technologies…
Carl Sagan's UFO Skepticism: More Complicated Than His Reputation Suggests
A reassessment of Carl Sagan's actual position on UFOs, distinguishing between his public scientific skepticism and his private acknowledgment that some cases warranted serious…
John Mack's Abduction Research at 30: What Psychiatry Still Won't Discuss
Thirty years after John Mack's "Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens," the book remains simultaneously the most scientifically credentialed and most institutionally…
Christopher Mellon on the UAP Disclosure Act: "We Are One Vote Away"
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Mellon gave an in-depth interview on the UAP Disclosure Act, arguing it had broader bipartisan support than its repeated…
The Center for UFO Studies at 50: Hynek's Institutional Legacy
Fifty years after J. Allen Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies, researchers assess what CUFOS achieved and why its methodological framework still defines the field.
Navy Pilots Report Persistent UAP Activity Over Restricted Airspace in 2024
Multiple active-duty Navy pilots have filed UAP reports describing repeated encounters with objects displaying anomalous performance characteristics over restricted military…
Avi Loeb's Galileo Project Releases First Year Data: 37 Anomalous Cases Unexplained
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb's Galileo Project published its first year of systematic UAP monitoring data, finding hundreds of anomalous tracks — 37 that defy conventional…
Stanton Friedman's Roswell Case: Reassessing 40 Years of Investigation
On the anniversary of the Roswell incident, researchers revisit the investigative framework Stanton Friedman built over four decades.
Vallée's Five Arguments Against Extraterrestrial Origin: Still Standing After 50 Years
A reassessment of Jacques Vallée's 1975 case against the simple extraterrestrial hypothesis, concluding that the behavioral and statistical evidence remains the most rigorous…
Gordon Cooper's Classified UAP Report from 1957 Released Under FOIA
A classified Air Force report filed by Gordon Cooper in 1957 after he and his film crew photographed an unidentified craft landing at Edwards Air Force Base has been released…
The CIA's Stargate Program: Hal Puthoff's Role in Two Decades of Psychic Intelligence
A detailed reconstruction of the CIA and DIA's Stargate program, drawing on declassified documents and interviews with Hal Puthoff, who co-founded the program at SRI International.
Jacques Vallée's Pentacle Memo at 70: The Document That Predicted Everything
As the 1953 Pentacle Memorandum turns 70, researchers re-examine the document Vallée helped surface — a classified Battelle Institute memo urging the Air Force to filter UAP data…
Loeb Team Recovers Mystery Metallic Spherules from Pacific Ocean Floor
Avi Loeb and the Galileo Project recovered metallic spherules from the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea, at the site of a 2014 fireball that may have been an interstellar…
Former Intelligence Officer Tells Congress the US Has Recovered Non-Human Craft
David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee that the US government has operated a secret program to retrieve…
Neil Armstrong's Long-Suppressed UAP Comments Surface in Archive Recording
A recording from a 1994 conference has surfaced in which Neil Armstrong states that the answers to some UAP questions "are not what we have been told."
James McDonald's Lost Testimony: The Atmospheric Physicist Who Went Too Far
A reassessment of James McDonald's 1968 congressional testimony and the institutional retaliation that followed, ending his career and his life.
Declassified Files Confirm Donald Menzel's Secret CIA Role in UFO Debunking
Newly released CIA records confirm that Harvard astronomer Donald Menzel was a cleared CIA asset who coordinated the agency's public messaging strategy on the UFO phenomenon.
Edgar Mitchell's Final Interview: "The Universe Is Teeming With Intelligence"
IONS has released a previously unpublished 2015 interview with Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell in which he described his certainty that non-human intelligence had visited Earth.