157 of 157 FILES

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 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 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 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

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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

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

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 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 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 September 2025 US Department of War UAP disclosure.

• lunar surface
• above horizon
• unidentified aerial phenomenon

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 NASA archival photograph from the Apollo 12 lunar surface landing site, released under the September 2025 DoW UAP disclosure, identifying two highlighted areas of unidentified phenomena above the lunar horizon.

• Apollo 12
• lunar surface
• 1969

An archival Apollo 12 surface photograph, released by NASA under the September 2025 DoW UAP disclosure, showing an annotated area of interest above the lunar horizon.

• photograph
• lunar surface
• above 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 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

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

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 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

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 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/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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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+

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

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 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

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

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