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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

FBI field office memos, teletypes, and civilian correspondence from the summer of 1947 documenting the Bureau's initial nationwide intake of flying disc reports, including witness interviews, inter-agency coordination with Army Air Forces, and one civilian's unsolicited esoteric theory about the craft's origin.

• flying disc
• 1947
• Oregon

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 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

Transcript of the May 17, 2022 House Intelligence Subcommittee open hearing on UAPs, the first such public Congressional session in over half a century, featuring testimony from Under Secretary Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Bray, with two declassified UAP videos shown to the public.

• triangles
• NVG optical artifact
• swarm UAS

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 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 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

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 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

FLIR1 is the first of three declassified U.S. Navy FLIR videos released publicly on 2017-12-16 alongside the New York Times exposé on the Pentagon's secret AATIP program, depicting an unidentified aerial object encountered by naval aviators in 2004.

• FLIR video
• tic-tac / oblong shape
• FLIR infrared 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 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

Public Law 118-31 (NDAA FY2024) establishes a statutory Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection at NARA, mandating that all federal agencies transmit UAP records within 180 days and making public disclosure the default outcome after 25 years absent a Presidential override.

• UAP records
• NARA archive
• 180-day mandate

Official forensic investigation of the January 8, 1981 Trans-en-Provence landing-trace case by GEPAN, the UAP investigation unit of France's national space agency CNES.

The GIMBAL video is the second of three declassified U.S. Navy FLIR recordings released publicly on 2017-12-16, showing an unidentified rotating aerial object tracked by naval aviators in 2015 and described by the DoD as the first official UAP footage authorized for public release.

• rotating object
• no visible propulsion
• FLIR sensor

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

AARO's official case resolution for the 2015 'Go Fast' Navy FLIR video, concluding the object displayed no anomalous propulsion and its apparent speed was an artifact of motion parallax.

• motion parallax
• FLIR
• Navy intercept

The GOFAST file is one of three declassified U.S. Navy FLIR recordings publicly released on 2017-12-16, timed to the New York Times exposé on the Pentagon's covert AATIP program, showing UAP encounters by naval aviators in 2004 and 2015.

• GOFAST
• GIMBAL
• FLIR1

David Grusch's sworn opening and closing statements to the House Oversight National Security Subcommittee, alleging that the U.S. government secretly operates a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program outside congressional oversight.

• UAP retrieval
• reverse engineering
• non-human

The July 26, 2023 House Oversight National Security Subcommittee hearing convened whistleblower David Grusch, retired Navy Commander David Fravor, and pilot-advocate Ryan Graves to take sworn congressional testimony on UAP national security implications, institutional obstruction, and alleged secret retrieval and reverse-engineering programs.

• whistleblower
• retrieval program
• reverse engineering

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

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

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 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

Declassified RNZAF investigation file on the December 1978 Kaikoura UFO sightings, released by Archives New Zealand in December 2010.

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/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 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

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

Defense Intelligence Reference Document released as part of the AATIP DIRD bundle, mirrored from the archive.

AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick's April 2023 Senate Armed Services Subcommittee testimony, accompanied by the first UAP video declassified under the AARO era: a spherical metallic orb captured by an MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Middle East.

• metallic orb
• spherical
• MQ-9 Reaper

A DoD video asset for the Mt. Etna UAP case, released on 2023-08-31 as part of AARO's inaugural eight-case batch at the launch of aaro.mil.

• Mt. Etna
• video asset
• case resolution batch

NARA bulk download package of digitized UAP-related records from the National Archives Catalog, including FAA UAP records released September 2024.

• FAA
• Project Blue Book
• NARA catalog

NARA bulk download package aggregating all digitized UAP-related records in the National Archives Catalog, spanning Project Blue Book case files, photographs, and moving images.

• Project Blue Book
• multi-record-group
• photographs

A NARA bulk download package consolidating digitized UAP-related records, including Project Blue Book case files, photographs, and moving images, from multiple record groups in the National Archives Catalog.

• Project Blue Book
• NARA archive
• bulk download

NARA bulk download package consolidating all digitized UAP-related catalog records, Project Blue Book case files, photographs, and moving images, released September 2024.

• Project Blue Book
• bulk archive
• multi-record-group

A NARA bulk-download ZIP containing digitized Project Blue Book motion-picture footage, released as part of the 2024 UAP records declassification package.

• Project Blue Book
• motion pictures
• film footage

NASA's 16-member independent study team concludes that no evidence exists for extraterrestrial UAP origin and recommends the agency leverage its civilian sensor infrastructure, data curation expertise, and public trust to play a central role in the whole-of-government UAP effort under AARO.

• UAP
• orb
• South Asia

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

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

The ODNI's first congressionally mandated UAP assessment, reviewing 144 USG-sourced reports from 2004–2021 and finding 143 cases unresolved across five proposed explanatory categories.

• multi-sensor detection
• stationary in wind
• movement against wind

ODNI's first statutory annual UAP report, covering 366 newly catalogued cases (247 new + 119 backfilled) that bring the total to 510 reports as of 30 August 2022, while formally introducing AARO as DoD's permanent UAP office.

• balloon-like
• UAS-like
• transmedium

The joint ODNI-AARO FY2023 annual UAP report tallies 801 total reports through 30 April 2023, introduces a formal case-resolution methodology, and presents one fully resolved case in which five military-observed IR lights were attributed to commercial aircraft 300 nautical miles away.

• orb
• lights
• airborne

The FY2023 joint ODNI–AARO consolidated annual report logged 801 total UAP cases and introduced AARO's formal case-resolution and attribution framework.

• AARO
• FY2023
• case-resolution methodology

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

The Pentagon's April 2020 formal declassification and public release of three Navy FLIR infrared videos, FLIR1 (2004), GIMBAL (2015), and GOFAST (2015), with an official statement that the objects depicted remain unidentified.

• FLIR infrared
• Navy
• 2004