157 of 157 FILES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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. 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 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

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 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

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

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