160 of 160 FILES

A December 1947 Department of War file compiling internal memorandums and correspondence on flying disc and saucer sightings, treating them as a formal concern for the Air Materiel Command.

• flying disc
• flying saucer
• Air Materiel Command

A 1948 Department of War file containing memorandums, correspondence, and forms related to the reporting and investigation of flying disc sightings.

• flying disc
• 1948
• administrative collection

A NASA-released package containing the 1999 French COMETA report on UFOs and national defense, accompanied by a letter from Carol Rosin identifying herself as Wernher von Braun's spokesperson.

• COMETA
• France
• 1999

A SHAEF file grouping wartime messages and memorandums documenting Allied aircrew observations of 'foofighters,' unidentified cylindrical objects, and blinking lights over Germany in 1944–1945, with repeated reference to the 415th Night Fighter Squadron.

• foofighters
• night phenomena
• cylindrical object

A November 1948 Air Force intelligence report, filed within a Top Secret continuation series on intelligence collection and dissemination, addressing unidentified flying objects and flying saucers over or near the Netherlands.

• flying saucer
• Netherlands
• 1948

A 1955 Air Intelligence Information Report documenting an eyewitness account of an unconventional aircraft ascending and flying over the trans-Caucasus region of the USSR, filed under Department of War numerical filing system.

• unconventional aircraft
• trans-Caucasus
• Azerbaijan

A 1949–1950 Department of War compilation of military and CAA UFO incident reports filed under Flight Service Regulation 200-4, supplemented by MATS and AACS traffic, intelligence annexes, diagrams, and a Japanese weather station report.

• flying disc
• military witness
• CAA witness

A box of 72 UAP incident summaries (cases 101–172) from the Department of War, each built around a standardized 'Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects' form, with many supplemented by witness lists, statements, and narrative reports.

• UAP
• incident-summaries
• checklist-form

A compiled batch of UFO incident summaries (cases 173–233) produced by the Department of War, each built around a standardized 'Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects' form and supplemented in many instances by witness statements and narrative descriptions.

• incident-summary-series
• checklist-form
• witness-statements

A compiled set of the first 100 UAP incident summaries from Box 7, each anchored by a standardized 'Check-List - Unidentified Flying Objects' form and, in many cases, supplemented by witness statements and narrative reports.

• incident summaries
• check-list forms
• witness statements

A July 1963 memorandum from the National Aeronautics and Space Council addresses contingency thinking around the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence, touching on scientific, diplomatic, and policy dimensions including the possibility of life on Mars.

• extraterrestrial intelligence
• Mars
• alien contact contingency

A two-page Department of State memorandum from July 18, 1952 cataloguing explanations for the surge in UFO sighting reports, drawing on technological factors, historical precedent, and U.S. Air Force assessments.

• UAP
• 1952 Washington wave
• Department of State

A 1958 FBI memo documents a Detroit man's report of a circular, dome-topped UAP and recommends routing the account to Air Force authorities.

• circular
• dome
• Detroit

A 1957 FBI interview report in which Wladyslaw Krasuski describes witnessing a large, circular, vertically-rising craft near a German military compound in 1944.

• circular craft
• vertical ascent
• VTOL

FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 compiles investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, photographic evidence, and public reports on UFO/flying disc sightings spanning June 1947 through July 1968, now released in a more complete form than the previously posted FBI Vault version.

• flying disc
• photographic evidence
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a two-decade investigative record spanning June 1947 to July 1968 that aggregates eyewitness reports, photographic evidence, technical propulsion proposals, and press coverage of unidentified flying objects and flying discs.

• flying disc
• UAP
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record of UFO and flying disc reports compiled between June 1947 and July 1968, now released in more complete form than the previously posted FBI Vault version.

• flying disc
• UAP
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 compiles investigative records, eyewitness accounts, and public reports on unidentified flying objects spanning June 1947 through July 1968, including photographic evidence, technical proposals, and media coverage.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 compiles investigative records, eyewitness accounts, photographic evidence, and media coverage related to unidentified flying objects and flying discs spanning June 1947 to July 1968, now released in a more complete form than the previously posted FBI Vault version.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record covering UFO and flying disc reports from June 1947 through July 1968, comprising eyewitness testimony, photographic evidence, and technical analysis of potential propulsion systems.

• flying disc
• UAP
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record spanning June 1947 to July 1968, containing eyewitness testimonies, photographic evidence, public reports, and technical proposals related to UAP and flying disc incidents — more complete than the redacted version on the FBI vault.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photography

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894, Section 7: a multi-decade investigative record covering UAP/flying-disc reports, witness accounts, photographic evidence, and propulsion speculation from June 1947 through July 1968.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 compiles investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports on unidentified flying objects spanning June 1947 to July 1968, including photographic evidence from Oak Ridge, TN and technical proposals on anomalous propulsion.

• flying disc
• Oak Ridge TN
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record of flying disc and UAP reports, eyewitness accounts, photographic evidence from Oak Ridge, TN, and technical propulsion proposals spanning June 1947 to July 1968.

• flying disc
• photographic evidence
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record (1947–1968) of flying disc and UAP reports, including eyewitness testimonies, photographic evidence from Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals on propulsion, now released in more complete form than the redacted version on FBI Vault.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894, Serial 164, is a longitudinal investigative record spanning June 1947 to July 1968 that consolidates eyewitness testimonies, photographic evidence, public reports, and technical proposals related to unidentified flying objects and flying discs.

• flying disc
• photographic evidence
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year span of bureau records on UFOs and flying discs, running from the first wave of 1947 saucer reports through mid-1968, released here in more complete form than the version on the FBI Vault.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record (1947–1968) spanning eyewitness reports, photographic evidence, and technical analysis related to unidentified flying objects and flying discs.

• flying disc
• UAP
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year investigative record spanning June 1947 to July 1968 that aggregates eyewitness accounts, public reports, photographic evidence, and technical proposals related to unidentified flying objects and flying discs.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

FBI case file 62-HQ-83894 is a 21-year bureau dossier on UFO and flying disc reports, running June 1947 through July 1968, and includes eyewitness accounts, photographic evidence from Oak Ridge, TN, technical propulsion proposals, and records of the civilian UFO research community.

• flying disc
• UFO
• Oak Ridge TN

FBI headquarters case file 62-HQ-83894 compiles investigative records, witness accounts, photographic evidence, and media coverage of UFO and flying disc reports spanning June 1947 through July 1968, with this release including newly declassified pages not available on the FBI Vault.

• flying disc
• UAP
• photographic evidence

A U.S. Air Force ISR asset operating over Iraq under Operation Inherent Resolve on 6 May 2022 observed five UAP via full motion video — one assessed as a possible missile, four as possible birds — during a target development mission.

• Iraq
• FMV
• SIGINT

A U.S. Air Force long-endurance reconnaissance aircraft operating over Iraq on 20 May 2022 observed a single UAP flying north to northeast at 2043Z; the screener could not positively identify it.

• UAP unidentified
• north-northeast trajectory
• FMV sensor

A U.S. Air Force ISR Mission Report from a 20.5-hour surveillance flight over the Eastern Mediterranean on 29-30 May 2022, during which one unidentified UAP was observed flying north-northeast with no positive identification obtained.

• UAP unidentified
• single object
• north-northeast trajectory

A U.S. Air Force 89th Attack Squadron ISR asset on a 21-hour Operation INHERENT RESOLVE sortie over Syria filed a MISREP reporting a UAP that moved north to south in under one minute on July 31, 2022.

• UAP direction N-to-S
• sub-minute duration
• no RF signature

A U.S. Air Force ISR mission report documenting a single sighting of one possible UAP/UAV flying west to east over Baghdad, Iraq, during a 19-hour Operation INHERENT RESOLVE sortie on December 1-2, 2022.

• UAP/UAV
• west-to-east trajectory
• FMV

A U.S. Air Force MISREP documenting two UAP sightings — three unidentified objects and one possible balloon — by F-15E crews IVO Shaddadi, Syria, on February 21, 2023, during Operation Inherent Resolve.

• UAP
• possible balloon
• no radar return

A 2-ship F-16CM flight conducting defensive counter-air over Iraq under Operation Inherent Resolve observed 10-20 bright objects above FL600 moving west to east-northeast; a SNIPER LDP targeting pod tracked them for approximately 20 seconds before they dimmed and vanished.

• bright objects
• rapid maneuver
• FL600+

USCENTCOM MISREP documenting two solid, thermally anomalous UAPs observed 41 minutes apart during a 20-hour ISR mission over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023.

• solid-UAP
• thermal-cold-signature
• Persian Gulf

A USCENTCOM MISREP documenting two separate UAP observations by a U.S. Air Force ISR asset during a 20-hour reconnaissance mission over the Persian Gulf on 24 October 2023, with the first UAP registering a cold thermal signature and both assessed as benign solid objects.

• solid UAP
• thermal-cold signature
• 320 MPH

A USCENTCOM MISREP documenting a two-minute SWIR-only observation of a diamond-shaped UAP traveling at approximately 434 knots at FL200 over the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, 2024.

• diamond-shaped
• SWIR-only
• non-maneuvering probe

A SECRET//NOFORN USCENTCOM Mission Report in which a 3rd Special Operations Squadron crew returning from a maritime ISR sortie over the Gulf of Oman on 7 June 2024 observed a glowing spherical UAP with a cylindrical underside appendage flying low over the water at an estimated 140 knots.

• glowing sphere
• cylindrical appendage
• low altitude over water

A USAF special operations aircraft crew observed and recorded a UAP on IR sensors during a live AGM-176 Griffin missile calibration shot over Ayn Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, on 20 September 2024.

• IR lens flare
• high speed transit
• MX-20 IR sensor

A U.S. Air Force MISREP filed under AFCENT documenting a 2020 Arabian Gulf sighting of four UAP observed in sequential formation by an ISR asset.

• 4 objects
• sequential formation
• 1+2+1 pattern

A USCENTCOM/AFSOC mission report documenting a series of anomalous light events observed on Full-Motion Video during a 20-hour ISR sortie over Syria on October 20, 2024, under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.

• white light orb
• plasma
• halo effect

A USAF 12th Special Operations Squadron MISREP documenting repeated FMV-detected light and glare phenomena over Syria on 20 October 2024, assessed by aircrew as benign and categorized on the report form as 'Plasma.'

• white light ball
• plasma (form classification)
• light/glare halo

A 12th Special Operations Squadron MISREP filed under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE documenting an E-4 aircrew member's observation of a misshapen white light/glare phenomenon on FMV feed over Syria at 1559Z on 20 October 2024, formally categorized as Plasma, assessed as benign with no mission impact.

• white light ball
• plasma
• light/glare halo

MISREP 9329374 is a USCENTCOM ISR mission report documenting a three-minute crew observation of a seemingly circular UAP executing sharp 90-degree turns at approximately 80 mph just above the Aegean Sea surface on October 27, 2023.

• circular
• FMV
• Aegean Sea

A USCENTCOM/AFSOC ISR aircraft on a 20-hour mission over the Aegean Sea observed a seemingly circular UAP flying at low altitude above the ocean surface at an estimated 30 MPH before losing it from sensor feed.

• circular
• low-altitude ocean
• sea-skimming

A U.S. Navy Range Fouler Debrief documenting a single solid white round object observed making erratic movements above water during a night ISR mission over the Persian Gulf on May 14, 2020.

• white round object
• FLIR thermal Black Hot
• Persian Gulf

A U.S. military Mission Report documenting a brief airborne observation of a possible UAP in the Arabian Gulf at 1258Z in 2020, during which the object was clocked at an estimated 321 knots before accelerating and turning east.

• UAP
• Arabian Gulf
• 2020

A U.S. Navy O-2 pilot's Range Fouler Debrief documenting sensor-display contact with three UAP of undetermined shape that maneuvered at high relative speed during a dusk sortie in the Arabian Gulf on August 31, 2020.

• three contacts
• sensor display
• Arabian Gulf

A U.S. Navy O-2 aircrew member filed a Range Fouler Reporting Form documenting a roughly 73-second TFLIR encounter with a round, IR-cold object over the Gulf of Aden on October 15, 2020, that made abrupt directional changes at low speed.

• round
• IR-cold
• Gulf of Aden

A 1996 unclassified Air Force contract report developing a statistical methodology to model rare 'Mode-5' launch vehicle failures — sustained off-course turns — within the risk-analysis program DAMP, drawing on 1,186 historical Atlas, Delta, Titan, and Thor launches.

• Mode-5 failure
• launch vehicle
• risk modeling

Official chronological registry of all major launch operations at Vandenberg AFB from 1958 through February 2000, compiled by the 30th Space Wing Office of History — contains no UAP content.

• launch-registry
• Vandenberg-AFB
• 1958-2000

A two-event military MISREP logging a single UAP at constant 40 knots between FL160–170 and, nearly nine hours later, two possible UAPs at an estimated 278 knots that accelerated and turned south, both observed in 2020 over an operationally redacted location.

• multiple UAP
• constant velocity
• speed increase

SECRET//NOFORN email chain between a 12 AF/DET 3 intelligence technician and an Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security disclosure analyst, confirming that two brief INDOPACOM UAP observation tearlines may be released at the UNCLASSIFIED level.

• POSS UAP
• airborne observer
• INDOPACOM

An email chain between a Defense intelligence analyst and an OSI classification officer approving downgrade of a SECRET//NOFORN Intelligence Information Report (IIR) summary to UNCLASSIFIED, covering a civilian's nighttime sighting of a large blue triangular UAP near a national security facility in the Pacific Time Zone in March 2023.

• triangular
• blue
• featureless

A two-email SECRET//NOFORN exchange between 15th Air Force intelligence staff negotiating disclosure approval for the year of a 31 October 2024 mission report in which a U.S. aircraft tracked an oval/orb UAP at low speed for over two hours.

• oval/orb shape
• low speed
• airborne visual observation

A SECRET//NOFORN Mission Report in which a U.S. military operator, returning to base over the Mediterranean, reports observing a single triangular, metallic UAP at 24,989 feet MSL traveling at 168 knots.

• triangular
• metallic
• Mediterranean Sea

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon crew observed an unidentified low-flying object traveling at approximately 500 knots in apparent sea-skim mode northwest of Latakia, Syria on 18 November 2016, detected via EO/IR sensor during monitoring of Russian Carrier Task Group activity.

• sea-skim trajectory
• EO/IR
• Syria

A U.S. Navy O-3 helicopter pilot assigned to HSM-73 filed a Range Fouler Debrief Form documenting a night encounter with three small unidentified air contacts over the North Arabian Sea on 24 August 2020, with all radar, IFF, and electronic support returns negative.

• small air contacts
• wings/airframe
• North Arabian Sea

A U.S. Navy O-3 crew member filed this standardized Range Fouler Reporting Form documenting an eight-minute ATFLIR track of a round, cold, maneuvering UAP over the Gulf of Aden on the night of September 4, 2020.

• round shape
• cold IR signature
• black-hot IR

A U.S. Navy O-3 aviator filed a standardized Range Fouler Debrief documenting a night encounter with two UAP exhibiting anomalous motion, apparent noise jamming, and IR signatures at 26,000 feet during a Defense Combat Air Patrol on 27 October 2020.

• balloon-shaped
• metallic
• reflective

A U.S. military MISREP filed with AARO records one probable UAP observed at 1246Z with no mission impact; six of the document's seven pages contain no extractable text.

• probable UAP
• single object
• MISREP

A U.S. military operator filed a standardized Mission Report documenting a single transiting UAP over the Persian Gulf on August 8, 2020, with no mission impact and degraded full-motion video collection due to cloud cover.

• transiting
• Persian Gulf
• 2020

A USCENTCOM MISREP covering a 21-hour AREC sortie over the Arabian Gulf on August 26-27, 2020, during which aircrew observed an unidentified formation of flying objects traveling along the Persian Gulf coast for approximately two minutes before cloud cover ended all tracking.

• formation
• Persian Gulf
• Arabian Gulf

A USCENTCOM Mission Report (MISREP 4782130) documenting a 482nd Attack Squadron ISR aircraft's FMV observation of a UAP over the Strait of Hormuz on 16 September 2020, during a 20-hour, 56-minute reconnaissance sortie in support of NAVCENT.

• UAP
• FMV observation
• Strait of Hormuz

A U.S. military operator filed a standardized Mission Report documenting a UAP observation over or near the Strait of Hormuz on October 1, 2020.

• Strait of Hormuz
• October 2020
• MISREP

A USCENTCOM Mission Report documenting two FMV-detected UAP observed over the Arabian Gulf during a 20-hour armed reconnaissance sortie on November 2, 2020.

• UAP x2
• FMV
• Arabian Gulf

A U.S. military MISREP documenting three UAP encounters by a single operator in the Persian Gulf on July 16, 2020, at 1830Z, 1920Z, and 2345Z.

• Persian Gulf
• 2020
• MISREP

A U.S. military aircrew over the Arabian Gulf in 2020 achieved a weapons-quality fire control lock on a balloon-like UAP at 31,000 ft MSL and visually confirmed it via TFLIR.

• balloon-like
• TFLIR
• Arabian Gulf

A U.S. Air Force ISR crew operating over Syria under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE reported a solid, spherical UAP traveling at approximately 424 knots for at least seven minutes on November 9, 2023.

• spherical
• bouncy ball shape
• FMV platform

A U.S. Air Force ISR crew operating over the Gulf of Aden filed a SECRET MISREP documenting a single UAP observed at low altitude moving northwest faster than the observing aircraft, assessed as benign, and tracked until it outpaced pursuit.

• straight flight path
• low altitude
• speed anomaly

A U.S. military MISREP documenting a 1653Z observation of two round, white-hot UAPs traveling south at approximately 240 knots over a grid location consistent with the eastern Mediterranean.

• round
• white hot
• IR thermal

A SECRET USCENTCOM mission report documenting a U.S. Air Force ISR platform's observation of five UAP over the Middle East during Operation INHERENT RESOLVE on 6 May 2022, with the first assessed as a possible missile and four as possible birds, captured on FMV sensors.

• possible missile
• possible birds
• FMV/infrared

A USCENTCOM recommendation to AARO for an unresolved 2022 UAP report from Iraq, consisting of a single digitally annotated still image of an elongated anomalous object, signed by MG Richard A. Harrison on 8 October 2025.

• still image
• elongated contrast
• north-to-northeast movement

A May 2022 USCENTCOM Mission Report covering a 20.5-hour ISR sortie over the Eastern Mediterranean in which a sensor screener observed one small UAP flying north-northeast at 0117Z that could not be positively identified, amid dense Russian and Syrian military activity near Latakia.

• UAP unidentified
• FMV/infrared sensor
• Eastern Mediterranean

A USCENTCOM mission report documenting a brief, unresolved UAP sighting over Syria at 0239Z on July 31, 2022, observed during a 21-hour armed reconnaissance sortie flown by the 89th Attack Squadron under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.

• UAP
• Syria
• north-to-south trajectory

A USCENTCOM mission report from the 482nd Attack Squadron documenting a brief, uncharacterized observation of a single UAP/UAV flying west-to-east near Baghdad at FL180 during a December 2022 ISR mission under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.

• UAP/UAV
• infrared/FMV
• Iraq

A USCENTCOM mission report documenting two UAP sightings by a U.S. Air Force ISR aircraft operating over the UAE during a 20-hour, 43-minute OP SPARTAN SHIELD mission on October 24, 2023.

• infrared
• thermal-cold
• solid

A USCENTCOM mission report documenting two UAP contacts observed by an airborne ISR platform over the Persian Gulf on October 24, 2023, during a 20-hour IMINT collection mission supporting OP SPARTAN SHIELD.

• IR thermal
• cold thermal return
• solid object

A U.S. Central Command report to AARO documenting a SWIR-only-detectable UAP over Greece in January 2024, accompanied by 65 seconds of multi-sensor video from an unidentified military platform.

• diamond-shaped
• SWIR-only
• Greece

A 21-second U.S. military infrared video from the Gulf of Oman, June 2024, shows an inverted-teardrop-shaped UAP with a vertical trailing structure; the case remains unresolved by AARO.

• inverted teardrop
• vertical trailing structure
• infrared/IR sensor

A SECRET USCENTCOM mission report (MISREP) from the 12th Special Operations Squadron documenting an FMV-camera observation of a light/glare phenomenon of unknown origin during an ISR orbit over Syria on October 20, 2024, submitted to AARO with an accompanying five-second video clip.

• white light ball
• light/glare halo
• plasma classification

A USCENTCOM mission report documenting repeated unexplained light and glare anomalies captured on an FMV camera during a 20-hour ISR sortie over Syria on 20 October 2024, under Operation INHERENT RESOLVE.

• ball of light
• plasma (field-reported)
• halo effect

USCENTCOM mission report documenting a UAP event — formally categorized as plasma, described as a misshapen ball of white light — observed via FMV camera during an AFSOC ISR sortie over Syria on 20 October 2024.

• white light ball
• plasma
• light/glare

A USCENTCOM/AFSOC mission report documenting an airborne infrared and FMV sensor observation of an unidentified, apparently circular object executing multiple 90-degree turns at ~80 MPH just above the ocean surface near Greece on 27 October 2023.

• circular UAP
• FMV sensor
• infrared sensor

A USCENTCOM mission report (MISREP 9337873) documenting an FMV/infrared observation of a small circular UAP flying low over the ocean toward the Greek coastline on 29 October 2023, filed by the 33rd Special Operations Squadron and submitted to AARO.

• circular
• low-altitude
• ocean-surface

A USCENTCOM Range Fouler Debrief Form recording an ISR crew's May 2020 infrared encounter with a single unidentified round object making erratic movements above water in the Middle East.

• solid white
• round
• infrared

USCENTCOM submitted a nine-second infrared video of an unidentified object traversing the Arabian Gulf sensor frame in 2020 to AARO, with no accompanying witness statement.

• infrared
• Arabian Gulf
• 2020

DOW-UAP-PR38 is a CENTCOM-submitted AARO report of 106 seconds of 2013 airborne infrared footage depicting an unidentified eight-pointed star-shaped contrast anomaly over the Middle East, with no analytical conclusion reached.

• eight-pointed star
• alternating-arm morphology
• visible trail

CENTCOM submitted a five-second infrared sensor video of an unidentified aerial object over the Arabian Gulf to AARO in 2020, with no accompanying statement from the reporting unit.

• infrared
• Arabian Gulf
• 2020

A 2020 CENTCOM infrared video from the Arabian Gulf showing an unidentified small thermal signature, submitted to AARO with a source-added annotation and released unedited as an unresolved UAP case.

• infrared sensor
• small thermal signature
• Arabian Gulf

A 94-second infrared video submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO documenting an unidentified area of contrast tracked over the Arabian Gulf in 2020, with no witness description of any kind.

• infrared
• area of contrast
• Arabian Gulf

A 2020 CENTCOM infrared sensor recording of an unidentified aerial object over the Arabian Gulf, submitted to AARO with no accompanying witness statement and no resolution.

• infrared
• Arabian Gulf
• 2020

A two-second infrared clip from a U.S. Africa Command platform near Djibouti captures an unidentified area of contrast traversing the sensor field-of-view; submitted to AARO with no reporter description attached.

• infrared
• Djibouti
• Africa

A five-minute-eleven-second infrared video submitted by U.S. Central Command to AARO documents an uncharacterized thermal anomaly tracked by a U.S. military sensor over the Arabian Gulf in 2020, with no accompanying observer description of any kind.

• infrared sensor
• area of contrast
• Arabian Gulf

A 58-second Department of the Air Force infrared sensor recording of an unidentified area of contrast submitted to AARO in 2020, with no reporter description and no analytic conclusion reached.

• infrared
• area of contrast
• reticle lock

A 9-second infrared sensor clip submitted by INDOPACOM to AARO in 2024 showing an unidentified football-shaped object with three radial projections over the East China Sea; case remains unresolved.

• football-shaped
• tri-radial projections
• infrared

A 1:59 infrared video submitted by INDOPACOM to AARO in 2023 shows three distinct areas of contrast maintaining fixed relative positions, with no accompanying oral or written witness description.

• three contacts
• infrared
• fixed relative formation

A 99-second infrared video submitted by INDOPACOM to AARO in 2024, with no accompanying observer description, showing an uncharacterized area of contrast held at frame center.

• infrared
• area-of-contrast
• Indo-PACOM

A Department of the Army infrared sensor video, 1 minute and 49 seconds long, documenting two unidentified areas of contrast tracked by a U.S. military platform over North America in 2026, submitted to AARO with no accompanying reporter description.

• dual-object
• infrared
• North America

A redacted still image from an unidentified U.S. government system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing a small dark irregular object near a crosshair reticle; no location, date, or mission report was provided.

• dark irregular object
• monochrome still image
• crosshair reticle

An FBI-submitted still image from a redacted U.S. government system shows a dark circular object centered on a crosshair reticle; no location, no mission report, and no identification were provided.

• circular object
• monochrome optical
• crosshair reticle

FBI-submitted single monochrome still image of a dark, circular UAP centered on a crosshair reticle, derived from a redacted U.S. government system with no accompanying mission report or location data.

• circular object
• monochrome imagery
• crosshair reticle

An FBI-submitted monochrome still image of a dark, circular UAP captured by a redacted U.S. government system in late 2025, transmitted to AARO with date, location, and mission context fully withheld.

• circular
• monochrome imagery
• crosshair reticle

An FBI-submitted, redacted still image of an unidentified circular object captured by a U.S. government system in late 2025, forwarded to AARO without location, mission report, or positive identification.

• circular
• monochrome optical
• crosshair reticle

The FBI submitted a single redacted monochrome still image to AARO depicting a dark circular object centered in a crosshair reticle, with date, location, and mission report all withheld.

• circular
• dark object
• monochrome image

An FBI-submitted still image from a redacted U.S. government sensor showing a circular, light-colored object below a crosshair reticle, forwarded to AARO with no location, date, or mission report.

• circular
• monochrome image
• specular highlight

A redacted FBI-submitted still image of a small, dark, irregular object captured by a U.S. government sensor system, forwarded to AARO without mission context, location, or date.

• irregular object
• monochrome imagery
• crosshair reticle

An FBI-submitted single still image of an unidentified circular object captured by a U.S. military sensor over the western United States in late 2025, forwarded to AARO with redactions and no accompanying mission report.

• circular object
• monochrome optical
• western United States

An FBI-submitted, redacted still image from a U.S. military sensor system showing an unidentified small circular object against a mountain range backdrop, forwarded to AARO in 2025 without an accompanying mission report.

• circular object
• military optical imaging
• monochrome still image

A single redacted monochrome still image from an unidentified U.S. military imaging system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing an unidentified dark circular object above an indistinct western-U.S. mountain range in late 2025.

• circular
• dark object
• monochrome still image

A single redacted still image, captured by an unidentified U.S. military system in late 2025 over the Western United States, showing a small dark circular object against a mountain backdrop — submitted to AARO by the FBI with no accompanying mission report.

• circular object
• dark sphere
• monochrome still image

A single redacted still image from an unidentified U.S. military imaging system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing two small dark elongated objects in the bottom-right quadrant of a monochrome frame; no mission report accompanies it.

• elongated objects
• two objects
• monochrome still image

FBI-submitted monochrome still image from a U.S. military sensor system showing two unidentified dark circular objects, filed with AARO without an accompanying mission report.

• circular objects
• two objects
• monochrome still image

A redacted FBI-submitted still image from a U.S. military sensor showing two unidentified circular objects in the western United States, late 2025, released to AARO without a mission report and with an unreliable embedded timestamp.

• circular objects
• two objects
• monochrome still image

A redacted still image from an unspecified U.S. military system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing two dark irregular objects of unknown identity captured over the western United States in late 2025.

• two objects
• irregular shape
• monochrome still image

A single redacted still image from a U.S. military system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing two unidentified circular objects in a monochrome frame; no mission report accompanies it.

• circular
• dual object
• military imaging sensor

FBI Photo B18 is a redacted, monochrome still image from an unidentified U.S. military system showing two small, dark, elongated objects that the operator could not positively identify, submitted to AARO without a mission report.

• elongated objects
• dual objects
• monochrome imagery

A single redacted still image from an unidentified U.S. military sensor system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing an unresolved object at the center of a targeting reticle over the Western United States in late 2025.

• UAP
• monochrome still image
• crosshair reticle

An FBI-submitted still image from a redacted U.S. military optical system, late 2025, shows an unidentified dark circular object against an indistinct background — submitted to AARO without an accompanying mission report.

• circular object
• monochrome still image
• military optical system

A single redacted still image, captured by an unidentified U.S. military system in late 2025 over the Western United States, submitted by the FBI to AARO with no accompanying mission report and an unreliable embedded timestamp.

• dark objects
• monochrome
• crosshair reticle

An FBI-submitted still image from a U.S. military system, transmitted to AARO with redactions applied and no accompanying mission report, showing one or two small dark objects above and right of a crosshair reticle.

• monochrome still image
• crosshair reticle
• small dark objects

An FBI-submitted, redacted still image from a U.S. military system showing two small, dark, elongated objects that the operator could not positively identify, released to AARO with no accompanying mission report.

• elongated objects
• monochrome still image
• military imaging system

A single redacted still image from a U.S. military optical system, submitted by the FBI to AARO in late 2025, shows an unidentified dark elongated object near the right edge of a targeting reticle; no mission report was provided and the embedded timestamp is invalid.

• elongated object
• monochrome still image
• military optical reticle

A single redacted still image from a U.S. military system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing an unidentified dark irregular object above a targeting reticle — no mission report attached and the embedded timestamp is known to be erroneous.

• irregular-shaped object
• monochrome still image
• military imaging system

A single redacted still image from an unidentified U.S. military sensor system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing a small dark circular object near a targeting reticle over a western U.S. background.

• circular object
• monochrome still image
• military optical imaging

An FBI-submitted still image from a redacted U.S. military sensor shows a small, dark, circular object over the western United States in late 2025, with the operator unable to positively identify it.

• circular object
• dark
• monochrome still image

A single redacted monochrome still image captured by an unspecified U.S. military system in late 2025, submitted by the FBI to AARO with no accompanying mission report and an unreliable embedded timestamp.

• UAP
• monochrome still image
• crosshair reticle

A redacted still image from a U.S. military system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing two dark unidentified objects through a crosshair reticle with no accompanying mission report and an unreliable embedded timestamp.

• structured object
• appendage morphology
• secondary circular object

A single redacted still image from an unidentified U.S. military sensor system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing two dark objects — one helicopter-consistent, one circular — with no accompanying mission report and an unreliable embedded timestamp.

• circular object
• helicopter-consistent object
• dual objects single frame

A single redacted still image from a U.S. military system, submitted by the FBI to AARO, showing a small dark circular object near a mountain range in the western United States in late 2025.

• circular
• dark object
• monochrome still image

A single redacted still frame from an unidentified U.S. military imaging system, submitted by the FBI to AARO in 2025, showing a small dark circular object against a mountain backdrop with no accompanying mission report.

• circular object
• dark / monochrome
• still image

An FBI Lab composite sketch overlaid on an actual site photograph documents corroborating eyewitness accounts from September 1, 2023, of an ellipsoid bronze metallic object estimated at 130–195 feet in length that materialized from a bright aerial light and disappeared instantaneously.

• ellipsoid
• bronze metallic
• materialization

FBI FD-302 interview recording a US civilian's first-hand account of a UAP encounter at an undisclosed US test site in September 2023.

• metallic bronze
• US test site
• 2023

FBI 302 interview with a US citizen who provided a first-hand account of a UAP encounter at a US test site on September 1, 2023, describing the object as metallic/gray in color.

• metallic/gray
• test site
• 2023

An FBI FD-302 documenting a September 2023 eyewitness account of a stationary bright UAP observed by multiple individuals at a US test site during a restricted-airspace drone exercise.

• bright light
• stationary
• horizon

Excerpt from the Apollo 12 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (November 1969) documenting two crew-reported anomalies in lunar orbit: unidentified light particles observed through the Alignment Optical Telescope on Day 5, and floating debris illuminated by a tracking light whose operational status was contradicted by ground telemetry on Day 6.

• light particles
• lunar orbit
• AOT observation

A declassified excerpt of the Apollo 17 air-to-ground voice transcript documenting three mission-day intervals in which crew members reported unexplained luminous phenomena: a tumbling fragment field at spacecraft separation, a rhythmically flashing distant rotating object in cislunar space, and a brief surface flash north of Grimaldi crater on the Moon.

• luminous tumbling fragments
• rotating dual-flash object
• cislunar space

A 1965 ground-to-crew transcript from the Gemini 7 mission in which astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell report an unidentified 'bogey' and an associated field of hundreds of luminous particles at an estimated four-mile distance in low Earth orbit.

• particle-swarm
• discrete-bogey
• low-earth-orbit

A declassified NASA audio excerpt from the Gemini 7 mission in which Astronaut Frank Borman reports an unidentified object — a 'bogey' — to Houston mission control from low Earth orbit on December 5, 1965.

• bogey
• Low Earth Orbit
• 1965

An excerpt from the Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing (July 31, 1969) in which Buzz Aldrin describes three separate unexplained observations: an unidentified object near the Moon, interior cabin light flashes, and a bright light on the return trip.

• unidentified object
• lunar transit
• cabin light flashes

An excerpt from the January 8, 1973 Apollo 17 Crew Debriefing for Science in which UV experiment co-investigator Dick Henry reports detecting an unexplained ultraviolet spectrum at high galactic latitudes that matches a hot star, despite the confirmed absence of hot stars in the field of view.

• UV background radiation
• galactic pole survey
• hot star spectrum without source

Excerpt from the January 4, 1973 Apollo 17 Technical Crew Debriefing in which Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt describes persistent light flashes observed during dark-adapted flight, including one instance he attributed to the lunar surface.

• light flashes
• lunar surface
• dark adaptation

Compiled excerpts from technical crew debriefings for all three Skylab missions (1973–1974) documenting unexplained light flashes, a bright reddish object in near-identical orbit to the station, and flashing lights exhibiting definite motion relative to the vehicle.

• light flashes
• reddish object
• near-identical orbit

An archival Apollo 12 surface photograph, released by NASA under the May 2026 DoW UAP disclosure, showing an annotated area of interest above the lunar horizon.

• photograph
• lunar surface
• above horizon

A modified NASA archival photograph from the Apollo 12 lunar surface landing site, released under the May 2026 DoW UAP disclosure, identifying two highlighted areas of unidentified phenomena above the lunar horizon.

• Apollo 12
• lunar surface
• 1969

A modified archival Apollo 12 lunar-surface photograph, released in the 2026 DOW UAP disclosure, showing an annotated area of interest near the right edge of the frame above the lunar horizon.

• lunar surface
• photographic
• Apollo 12

A modified archival NASA photograph from the Apollo 12 lunar landing site (1969) shows an unidentified phenomenon visible above the horizon, released as part of the May 2026 US Department of War UAP disclosure.

• lunar surface
• above horizon
• unidentified aerial phenomenon

An archival Apollo 12 lunar-surface photograph, declassified by NASA, with five labeled areas of interest above the horizon where unidentified phenomena are visible.

• lunar surface
• above horizon
• five labeled areas

A DOW case record opening a formal investigation into a triangular three-dot anomaly visible in a previously public Apollo 17 lunar photograph from December 1972, with preliminary government analysis suggesting a physical object and the original mission film now in custody for full analysis.

• triangular formation
• three dots
• lunar sky

A 1985 U.S. Embassy Port Moresby cable relaying a Papua New Guinea intelligence inquiry about radar and visual sightings of unidentified high-altitude, high-speed aircraft on the night of January 24, with the Embassy confirming no known U.S. aircraft were operating in PNG airspace that evening.

• high-altitude aircraft
• high-speed aircraft
• contrails

A January 31, 1994 U.S. Embassy Dushanbe diplomatic cable reporting that a Tajik Air chief pilot and two American colleagues observed an unidentified aerial object for approximately forty minutes while flying a Boeing 747SP at 41,000 feet over Kazakhstan on January 27, 1994.

• bright light
• bow wave
• contrails at 100,000 ft

A 2001 State Department cable from Moscow reporting Russian officials' categorical denial of airspace violations over Georgia's Kodori Gorge, in which an MFA desk chief dismissed aircraft sighting reports as potentially 'UFOs' — a deflection the cable authors explicitly characterize as a 'bold lie.'

• UAP (rhetorical/diplomatic)
• airspace violation
• Kodori Gorge

A 2004 US Embassy Ashgabat cable reporting on the Union of UFOlogists of Turkmenabat — an NGO that leverages its UFO branding for political goodwill while functioning as one of USAID's most effective civil-society implementers in Turkmenistan.

• Turkmenistan
• airspace anomalies
• Central Asia

A routine U.S. Embassy Mexico weekly political cable that, alongside twelve domestic political items, reports on a September 12, 2023 Mexican congressional hearing where witnesses presented two alleged non-human corpses and pilot encounter videos in support of a proposed law that would make Mexico the first country to formally acknowledge alien life.

• alleged non-human remains
• fast-moving flying objects
• pilot visual encounter

An FBI 302 documenting a senior US intelligence official's first-hand account of a multi-hour UAP encounter at a US military facility in late 2025, during which helicopter crews tracked orbs via FLIR and NVG that split, swarmed, formed repeating horizontal and triangular patterns, and appeared to pursue military aircraft.

• orb
• swarm
• triangle formation

A four-page AARO summary of seven federal law enforcement agents who independently reported four distinct UAP encounter categories — orbs emitting sub-orbs, a large silent hovering orb, and two kite-shaped low-altitude objects — in the western United States over two days in 2023.

• orbs
• sub-orb emission
• kite-shaped