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The Department of War's 14 September waiver voids UAP nondisclosure and Special Access Program agreements — but only for disclosures routed to PURSUE, and it leaves the Espionage Act entirely untouched.
A USAF spy jet's crew watched a light pace their wingtip while their own ECM gear and an independent ground radar tracked the same intruder for 90 minutes. The Condon Report never explained it.
Shinjiro Koizumi is expected to keep the defence job in this month's reshuffle. He is also secretary-general of Japan's cross-party UAP caucus — and Japan's UAP material remains entirely unpublished.
Fell and Loeb calculated what a warp drive would look like crossing our atmosphere: a terawatt of light and air at 220 billion Kelvin. The Pentagon's orbs look nothing like it.
Avi Loeb wants the Galileo Project's next observatory to be an orb imager — radar cues the target, a telescope slews, a spectrograph reads what it's made of. It is the right question, finally asked properly.
A logger vanished from an Arizona forest for five days in 1975 and returned with an abduction story seven men still tell. We weigh the polygraphs, the deadline, and the sceptic's case.
The Ministry of Defence says it holds nothing on UAP and joins no international group on the subject. A Pentagon document naming Britain at a Five Eyes UAP working group says otherwise — and the wording of the denial is doing a lot of work.
AARO has filed to sole-source a data subscription to North America's largest private UFO archive. The reason is that the government stopped keeping the record itself in 1970.
A new analytic capability let AARO resolve 238 UAP reports as satellite flares in a single year. Here's the specular-reflection science — and exactly where it stops.
Lawmakers want immunity for witnesses who claim knowledge of recovered craft. The instrument they keep naming — a presidential pardon — cannot do that job.
A New Hampshire couple's 1961 drive home became the template for every alien abduction story since. We trace the sighting, the hypnosis tapes, the star map — and why the hypnotist himself didn't buy it.
A peer-reviewed critique says the famous correlation between 1950s Palomar sky-plate transients and US nuclear tests collapses once you normalise for when the telescope was actually observing. Beatriz Villarroel says they tested the wrong catalogue.
Gallup's first UFO survey since the disclosure programme began finds belief in alien spacecraft has slipped to 37% — while the share who think the government knows more has hit a record 78%.
An explosive drone sat on a Leipzig runway for four hours and handed investigators a DNA trail, a modified airframe and a prosecution in Vilnius. Hardware is the one thing the American UAP file never gets.
Temperature inversions, birds and faulty filters routinely fake solid radar targets. Here's the physics behind the false returns — and the radar-visual cases that genuinely don't fit any of it.
A new preprint works through all 112 PURSUE sensor videos looking for the four quantities needed to turn pixels into a speed. Not one clip contains the full set — and the redactions are why.
AARO is drafting custody rules for UAP-derived material while denying the government holds a scrap of it. The latest specimen sent to Oak Ridge came back as ordinary cast aluminium — and the sceptics and the believers both have a point.
Correspondence from the European Commission's defence department, obtained by Euronews, shows Brussels engaging with UAP reports years before it admitted to any interest — while EASA keeps refusing to give pilots a box to tick.
A New Mexico policeman reported a landed craft and two figures beside a highway in 1964. The Air Force, the FBI and J. Allen Hynek all investigated — and the file still reads 'unidentified'.
A declassified FBI interview has been turned into a UAP time anomaly and a Harvard endorsement. We read the file. One analogue watch ran fast, three digital clocks agreed with each other, and nobody measured a thing.
Marco Rubio told a podcast that objects are flying over US military installations and 'they're not ours'. The transcript is official and the quote is real — but the same answer contains a denial, a handover, and an admission worth more than the headline.
The ultimate guide to the TR-3B Astra — four decades of black-triangle sightings, Edgar Fouché's Magnetic Field Disruptor claims, and a best-evidence reconstruction of the craft.
A nuclear-winter pioneer has proposed that glowing orbs are burning meteor dust held together by its own magnetism. The paper is open for review until September, and you can read the referees pull it apart.
Gimbal, GoFast and the Tic Tac video all came from the same family of military infrared sensor. Understanding how that sensor actually works — and where it lies to you — explains more about these cases than any amount of frame-by-frame squinting.
In 1977 an Amazon island reported lights that burned people. Brazil's Air Force spent four months watching, and its Operação Prato files are now public.
In May 1967 a Winnipeg mechanic left the Manitoba bush with a grid of burns on his chest. The RCMP, the RCAF and the USAF all investigated. Nobody explained it.
On 13–14 August 1956 USAF and RAF radars, a C-47 pilot and a Venom night-fighter crew all tracked the same intruder over Suffolk. Even the Condon Report couldn't dismiss it.
The Pentagon's fifth tranche of UAP records runs to 41 files. One of them is an unresolved intelligence report on 25 objects around an AC-130J gunship — and one debunks itself two cables later.
A 26-year air traffic controller has gone on the record about what civil radar does with unidentified targets: filters them out, then wipes the raw data after 45 days. Both rules live in the same FAA order.
Matthew Brown, who wrote the Immaculate Constellation report, says the new PURSUE intake channels are 'more of the same' and possibly a trap. The awkward part is that some of his objection is procedurally correct.
An unclassified memorandum signed on 31 July tells every US intelligence agency that UAP nondisclosure agreements are no longer in force — and that staff who know something should report it. To the government.
Thirty years after Columbia flew the longest shuttle mission ever, three of its photographs have been published as official UAP files. The object in them is genuinely odd — and the release stripped out everything that could have identified it.
Five weeks, six broadcasts and no documents. A deep dive into the row between Luis Elizondo and the researcher UAP Gerb — what was actually alleged, what Elizondo actually said, and why the argument as built cannot be tested.
Hundreds of unidentified objects a year cross restricted airspace over American installations and go unattributed. The obstacle isn't secrecy or physics — it's a 2017 statute, a disputed list, and an office whose remit explicitly excludes drones.
The Pantex incident report has now been released three separate times, each version slightly less redacted than the last. The one thing never released is what Sandia's analysts concluded when they looked at the pictures.
Cattle mutilations, orbs, a billionaire, a $22m Pentagon contract and a hit TV show — Skinwalker Ranch has everything except the one thing that would settle it. Here's what actually holds up.
A year after the third interstellar object was discovered, the last of the radio searches has been published — and none of them heard anything. Even Avi Loeb has quietly marked his own scale down.
Every famous UAP video shares one flaw: no range. Avi Loeb's Galileo Project has built a triangulating observatory network to supply the missing number — and its first published results are a lesson in what honest data looks like.
A newly released transcript puts Edward Teller, Norris Bradbury and meteor expert Lincoln LaPaz in a Los Alamos conference room, arguing about lights over the nuclear stockpile — and failing to agree on what they were.
A congressman says MIT Lincoln Laboratory has agreed to hand over a 1952 recording of a 'flying saucer talk' given by Project Blue Book's Edward Ruppelt. The press has filed it as the missing tape of the Washington flap. The catalogue date says otherwise — and what it probably is instead is more interesting.
Radar tracked it for a week. Four aircrew watched it. A targeting pod filmed it. The Pentagon confirmed the footage. The definitive account of the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac encounter — what happened, what's corroborated, and what isn't.
For the first time, the House has adopted a comprehensive UAP records framework on its own floor — Archives collection, review board, eminent domain and all. Turning that into law is an entirely different problem.
The Pentagon's annual report logs a single maritime UAP event — roughly 100 airborne objects and two apparently uncrewed vessels off the Virginia coast. It gets one paragraph, no date, and no explanation. Here is the full file.
A fifteen-strong panel of scientists, chaired by Avi Loeb, has been asked to resolve the UAP question for the US government — with no budget, no clearances, and access only to material already made public.
Thirty-seven years of claims, court records, phone directories and physics: everything that actually checks out in Bob Lazar's Area 51 story — and everything that doesn't.
In December 1980, US airmen at a nuclear-armed airbase in Suffolk reported a landed craft, pulsing lights and radiation traces — and their deputy commander wrote it all down. Forty-odd years on, how much of Rendlesham actually holds up?
In September 1976 the Imperial Iranian Air Force scrambled F-4 Phantoms at a brilliant object over Tehran. Both jets reported instruments and weapons failing as they closed — and a US intelligence memo called the case 'outstanding.'
For more than a year, tens of thousands of Belgians reported silent black triangles overhead. Their air force scrambled F-16s, released the radar data, and admitted it was stumped — even as the wave's most famous photograph turned out to be a fake.
The annual AARO report catalogues hundreds of fresh military encounters, resolves a chunk of them as balloons and drones, and quietly leaves a stubborn few unexplained.
A rancher found strange debris in the New Mexico desert, an army airfield announced it had a 'flying disc,' and then took it back within hours. Everything else — the bodies, the memory metal, the cover-up — came decades later.
On one night in March 1997, thousands of Arizonans watched lights over the desert. It was really two separate events — a silent V that crossed the state, and a set of hovering lights later pinned on flares. Even the governor came round.
For two weekends in July 1952, unidentified blips appeared on radar over Washington D.C., jets were scrambled, and the Air Force held its largest press conference since the war. The official answer — a heat haze on the radar — has never fully satisfied.
A fireball crossed six US states one December afternoon in 1965. In one Pennsylvania town, witnesses say an acorn-shaped object came down in the forest — and that the military hauled something away and told everyone there was nothing to see.
Airline pilot UAP reports are up. Before you reach for the tinfoil, here's what changed about the reporting system, not necessarily the skies.
A civilian photographer aboard a Brazilian Navy vessel snapped a Saturn-shaped object over a remote South Atlantic island — and the government stood behind the pictures. The trouble is who was holding the camera.
In 1986 the crew of a Japan Airlines 747 reported being paced by lights — and then by something enormous — for the better part of an hour over Alaska. The FAA investigated, the radar was ambiguous, and two bright planets were hanging in exactly the wrong place.
For years in the 1980s, huge silent V-shaped craft drifted over the New York suburbs, watched by thousands and investigated by a founding father of UFO study. Some of it was a stunt by a handful of pilots. Not all of it fits.
Dozens of people around a small Texas town — a police officer and a pilot among them — reported a huge, fast, silent object. Then investigators pulled the FAA radar, and found unexplained tracks the military's shifting story couldn't quite cover.
In 2006, a dozen United Airlines employees at Chicago's O'Hare said a metallic disc hovered over a gate, then shot straight up and left a clean hole in the overcast. The FAA's answer was a 'weather phenomenon' it declined to investigate.
One autumn morning in suburban Melbourne, students and teachers at Westall High poured onto the oval to watch a silver craft descend near their school. It remains one of the largest mass sightings on record — and one of the least explained.
A French farmer said a grey disc landed in his field for a moment and flew off. What makes the 1981 case unusual is what happened next: a government scientific body arrived, took samples, and found the soil and plants had changed.
In a few hours one November night, driver after driver around a small Texas town reported the same thing: a glowing egg-shaped object, and engines and headlights that died as it neared. It's one of the best vehicle-interference cases on record.
In 2013, a US Customs and Border Protection plane filmed a small object skimming over Puerto Rico, dropping into the sea, and apparently splitting in two — all on thermal infrared. It is one of the best-documented modern videos, and one of the most argued-over.
In October 1967, villagers on the Nova Scotia coast watched an object with lights descend and strike the water. The RCMP and the Navy searched for days. Canada's own files still list it as an unsolved UFO case — one of the best-documented on record.
On a March morning in 1967, a flight of nuclear Minuteman missiles at a Montana air base dropped offline within seconds — while security guards reported a glowing object over the site. The officers who were there have talked ever since. The Air Force says the two things aren't connected.
In January 1996, a Brazilian town convulsed with reports of a strange creature loose in the streets — and rumours the military had captured it. It is one of the most beloved cases in South America, and one of the thinnest on hard evidence. Here's why it's both.
One September morning in 1994, dozens of schoolchildren in Zimbabwe said a craft landed beyond their playground and a being looked at them. They drew the same thing, separately, and told a Harvard psychiatrist the same thing, for years. It remains deeply unsettling.
In 1980, two women and a boy on a dark Texas road said they met a diamond-shaped craft belching fire, ringed by military helicopters. Then they got sick — burns, hair loss, illness that looked like radiation. It's the rare UFO case with a medical record.
