Manhattan Project and UAP records disclosure

Primary documents · 30

• PDFAARO HRR Vol I, Wikimedia MirrorDoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
• AUDApollo 12 Cosmic Ray Retinal Flash Medical DebriefingNASA
• PDFTriangular Metallic UAP Over AegeanDepartment of War
• PDF434-Knot SWIR-Only Diamond Over MediterraneanDepartment of War
• PDFUAP Disclosure Act in Congressional Record, 2023U.S. Senate
• PDFS.Amdt.797 UAP Disclosure Act PDFU.S. Senate
• PDFSenate Uap Disclosure Act Amendment 2023 Uap Amendment 2–
• PDFISR Sortie Over Eastern Mediterranean, May 2022Department of War
• PDFDefense Intelligence Analysis of Private Versus Corporate InnovationDefense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• PDFAARO's First SASC Briefing, April 2023All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), U.S. Department of Defense
• VIDMiddle East Metallic Orb, MQ-9 FootageAll-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), U.S. Department of Defense
• PDFAARO Historical Record Report, Volume I, 2024DoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
• PDFAARO Case-Resolution Briefing Slides, Senate Armed Services Committee (19 November 2024)All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) / U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services
• PDFUnidentified Flying Objects, Hearing by Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives (89th Congress, 2d Sess, No. 55)U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
• PDFTwo Round White-Hot UAPs at 240 KnotsDepartment of War
• PDFDIA Biomaterials Report, Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification ProgramDefense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• PDFDefense Intelligence Survey of Biological Sensor TechnologyDefense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• PDFAARO Resolves Aguadilla Sphere as Sky LanternsDoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
• PDFAARO HRR Vol I, Pentagon Canonical PDFDoD / All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)
• PDFAARO Aguadilla Resolution Report, March 2025All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), U.S. Department of Defense
• PDFRadioactive Landing Site, Falcon Lake Manitoba 1967Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Royal Canadian Air Force / Department of National Defence
• PDFUFO Sightings at Weapons Testing Site, Woomera Rocket RangeRoyal Australian Air Force / National Archives of Australia
• PDFGEIPAN Case 1952-06-00004, PORT-GENTIL (GA.8) 01.06.1952GEIPAN / CNES
• PDFGEIPAN Case 2015-01-09080, SAINT-ZACHARIE (83) 12.01.2015 (part 2)GEIPAN / CNES
• PDFAeronautica Militare OVNI Annual Report 2005Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), Stato Maggiore
• PDFAeronautica Militare OVNI Annual Report 2023Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force), Stato Maggiore
• PDFDIA's Biosensor Survey for Advanced Sensing Applications–
• PDFKONA BLUE, History and Origin of KONA BLUE (AARO declassification)DHS / AARO
• VIDCENTCOM Three Timed Transits September 2020Department of War
• PDFSoviet Biologist Queries the One Percent ProblemCIA

Findings · 8

• War.gov May 22nd 2026Apollo 12 light flashes became a retinal-physics case.
• 2020sAARO's mandated 1945–2023 historical review: no verifiable evidence of any extraterrestrial recovery program, and the famous 1961 SNIE document is a fabrication.
• War.gov May 8th 2026An Air Force ISR crew over the Mediterranean tracked a diamond-shaped object at 434 knots that was visible only on short-wave infrared, invisible to optical sensors.
• 2020sAARO director Sean Kirkpatrick's April 2023 SASC briefing, the first time the office laid out its full UAP mission to a Senate committee, with declassified Middle East orb video.
• 2020sAARO Historical Record Vol I, same conclusion as the v2 mirror, with ~30 interviews behind it: no extraterrestrial recovery program found, persistent claims traced to circular reporting since at least 2009.
• 2020sSame AARO Historical Record Vol I, mirrored at media.defense.gov, the canonical DOPSR-cleared release.
• 2020sAARO closed the 2013 Aguadilla 'transmedium splitting object' video in March 2025: two sky lanterns at 656 ft drifting at wind speed, splitting was parallax.
• 2020sSame Aguadilla resolution, mirrored under AARO's case-resolution roll-up directory.

Scholarly research · 7

• PAPERThe Prospect of Executive Branch UAP Secrecy: The Harm to Congress and Potential RemediesSkafish · 2024
• PAPEROccupational Safety and Reporting Guidance: Reviewing UAP Safety EventsBurstein et al. · 2024
• PAPERAn Ocean Expedition by the Galileo Project to Retrieve Fragments of the First Large Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08Siraj et al. · 2022
• PAPERTiming and Likelihood of the Origin of Life Derived from Post-Impact Highly Reducing AtmospheresWogan et al. · 2024
• PAPERBeneath the Surface: We May Learn More about UAP by Looking in the OceanGallaudet · 2023
• PAPERA Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15-1.73 GHzMargot et al. · 2023
• PAPERA Green Bank Telescope search for narrowband technosignatures between 1.1-1.9 GHz during 12 Kepler planetary transitsSheikh et al. · 2022

Lore encounters · 33

• United StatesBig Sur Missile Film Claim
• Latin AmericaVarginha Case
• Latin AmericaUruguay CRIDOVNI Flight Encounter
• Latin AmericaCaptain Hollanda Interview
• Middle East / AsiaKumburgaz Turkey Videos
• OceaniaKaikoura Lights
• Russia / USSRPetrozavodsk Jellyfish Object
• US Disclosure-AdjacentImmaculate Constellation Claim
• United StatesMaury Island Incident
• CanadaCanadian CIRVIS UAP Logs
• Continental EuropeGreifswald Lights
• Latin AmericaChilean Navy FLIR Video
• Latin AmericaBrazil 2009 UFO Declassification
• Middle East / AsiaKofu Boys Encounter
• OceaniaWestall School Sighting
• OceaniaTom Drury Film
• US Disclosure-AdjacentDavid Grusch Debrief Story
• United StatesMariana UFO Film
• United StatesTremonton Film
• Latin AmericaMexican Air Force FLIR Case
• Latin AmericaPeru DIFAA Relaunch
• Middle East / AsiaJASDF UAP Scrambles
• Middle East / AsiaVietnam DMZ Fireball Reports
• OceaniaKnowles Family Nullarbor Encounter
• Russia / USSRVoronezh Park Landing
• Continental EuropeItalian Air Force OVNI Archive
• Continental EuropeIreland 2018 Pilot Reports
• Latin AmericaOperação Prato
• Middle East / AsiaLadakh UAP Reports
• Middle East / AsiaSinai Border Veterans Sighting
• OceaniaSea Fury Pilot Sighting
• United KingdomSolway Firth Spaceman Photo
• United StatesAllagash Abduction Claim

Quick facts

Why does the Manhattan Project appear in UAP disclosure legislation?

The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023 (S.Amdt.797, introduced by Senators Schumer, Rounds, Rubio, and Gillibrand) lists the Manhattan Project among the historical programs whose records must be searched and included in the NARA UAP Records Collection. The rationale is that UAP activity documented near nuclear facilities beginning in 1945 may trace to records held under Manhattan Project-era filing systems.

What corpus documents reference the Manhattan Project?

Three documents reference the Manhattan Project in the UAP disclosure context: the Congressional Record S2953 of July 13, 2023 (the Schumer amendment text), the full 64-page uap_amendment.pdf (S.Amdt.797), and the second uap_amendment filing. AARO's 2024 Historical Record Report also addresses early nuclear-era UAP sightings.

What is the nuclear-site-proximity UAP pattern?

The pattern of UAP sightings near nuclear weapons facilities, including Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Malmstrom, is documented separately in the nuclear-sites-and-uaps topic hub. The Manhattan Project's inclusion in the 2023 disclosure legislation reflects the Senate's assessment that wartime nuclear-program files may hold relevant records.