Pentagon programs, agencies, key incidents, and themes. Each topic aggregates the primary documents, hand-curated findings, and scholarly papers that touch it.
Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, established 2022. Primary intake for U.S. military UAP sightings. AARO submissions, MISREPs, and AARO-authored historical reviews indexed here, with primary documents and page-cited quotes.
Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (2008-2012). DIA-managed UAP analysis effort that produced the 38 DIRDs and led to the public emergence of the 2017 Tic Tac story. Primary AATIP documents, references, and successor-program records.
Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (2008-2010). Parent contract under which AATIP-related analysis was conducted at BAASS / Bigelow. AAWSAP documents and successor-program references.
Navy-led Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (2020-2022). Predecessor to AOIMSG/AOIMEXEC/AARO. UAPTF preliminary assessments and intake documents indexed alongside the Senate language that authorized it.
U.S. Air Force's 1952-1969 systematic study of UFO reports, 12,618 sightings, 701 of which Blue Book never identified. Primary Project Blue Book documents, the predecessor Project Sign and Project Grudge records, and the closing Condon-era findings.
1948 U.S. Air Force project to evaluate UFO reports, the first formal investigative program, replaced within a year by Project Grudge and ultimately Project Blue Book. Primary Project Sign records and the Estimate of the Situation references.
Top-secret 1947 U.S. high-altitude balloon program designed to detect Soviet atomic tests, the official explanation for the Roswell debris. Primary Project Mogul documents and the Air Force review that named it as the Roswell source.
CIA-convened January 1953 panel of scientists charged with reviewing the UFO problem and recommending public-information policy. Primary Robertson Panel records, the recommendations, and subsequent Air Force adoption documents.
May 2026 Department of War UAP disclosure, the public release of 60+ Mission Reports (MISREPs) and historical UAP records covering 2020-2025 operational sightings, AARO submissions, and the Pentagon's standardized UAP reporting structure.
FBI's declassified UFO and UAP records, including the Hottel memo, Bureau correspondence on the late-1940s and 1950s flying-disc wave, and modern FOIA releases. Primary FBI documents, page-cited and indexed.
NASA's UAP-related records, including the 2023 independent study, Apollo-program observations, the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection, and the agency's official position on UAP investigation.
Sustained pattern of UAP sightings around the Oak Ridge nuclear facility in Tennessee, appears repeatedly in the Department of War disclosure and historical FBI records. Primary documents, witness reports, and the broader nuclear-site-proximity pattern.
November 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UAP encounter. Cmdr. David Fravor's F/A-18 visual contact, USS Princeton SPY-1 radar tracks, and the FLIR1 video that surfaced in the 2017 New York Times disclosure.
July 1947 Roswell, New Mexico incident. The Roswell Army Air Field flying-disc press release, the official Project Mogul explanation, the FBI and Air Force Materiel Command correspondence, and the 1994-1997 Air Force review.
The pattern of UAP activity around nuclear weapons facilities, ICBM fields, and nuclear-research sites. Oak Ridge, Malmstrom, the 1947 wave around Los Alamos, and the modern AARO submissions documenting nuclear-site-proximity sightings.
U.S. military's standardized UAP Mission Reports, the form structure adopted around 2020 and used across CENTCOM, INHERENT RESOLVE, and other commands. Primary MISREP documents from the Department of War disclosure with page-cited observations.
Observed UAP performance characteristics, instantaneous acceleration, trans-medium travel, low observability, anti-gravity hypotheses. Primary observation reports and the scholarly papers analyzing the kinematics, propulsion physics, and instrumentation evidence.