The 2010s. The Tic Tac videos leak, AATIP is reported, and a small set of Navy aviators go on the record. Most of the decade's record is partial; the findings here mark the public surface that later releases made retrievable.
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The GIMBAL clip shows an unidentified rotating aerial object tracked by Navy aviators in 2015, captured on the F/A-18's forward-looking infrared. It was released to the public on December 16, 2017 through To The Stars Academy, accompanied by the New York Times exposé that revealed AATIP. The DoD-sanctioned filename, Gimbal_The_First_Official_UAP_Footage_from_the_USG_for_Public_Release, embeds the 'first' claim directly into the file's metadata.
→ GIMBAL: 'First Official UAP Footage,' 2017
FLIR1, the Tic-Tac video, captured by USS Nimitz strike group F/A-18 aircrews in November 2004, was one of three Navy FLIR clips declassified and released through TTSA on December 16, 2017. The release was the first time the USG publicly authorized a UAP video, and it came alongside the NYT story revealing the existence of AATIP, the previously secret Pentagon program funded at $22 million over five years beginning in 2007.
→ FLIR1: Tic Tac Encounter, December 2017 Release
The GoFast video, captured in January 2015 from an F/A-18, shows an object that appears to skim the ocean at hypersonic speed. AARO would later (February 2025) resolve the case with high confidence as an ordinary object at approximately 13,000 feet altitude moving 5–92 mph, the perceived speed entirely an artifact of motion parallax from the aircraft's own velocity.
→ GoFast: 2015 Atlantic Encounter Released, 2017
Gerald K. Haines's institutional retrospective on CIA UFO study from 1947 to 1990, anchoring the CREST collection. Haines served as historian for the National Reconnaissance Office before writing this study, giving the piece a rare dual-agency vantage point, the kind of source that's hard to dismiss as fringe and harder to dismiss as definitive.
→ CIA's Cold War UAP Analysis, 1947 to 1990
Part 1 of the FBI Vault UFO release covers FBI field office memos, teletypes, and civilian correspondence from the summer of 1947, the Bureau's initial nationwide intake of flying-disc reports. Bureau Bulletin No. 42 (July 30, 1947) directed every FBI field office to investigate. Among the items: a 19-inch disc-shaped object with a wooden rudder, an apparent RCA photo-electric cell, and a small electric motor recovered at the Jackson County fairgrounds near Black River Falls, Wisconsin on July 10, 1947, tentatively attributed to a juvenile.
→ FBI Vault UFO Files, Part 1 of 16
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