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Disclosure in the United States
The United States has produced more on-record acknowledgement of UAP activity since 2017 than the entire preceding seventy years combined. The journalists, filmmakers, and former officials documenting that record sit at the centre of the modern disclosure conversation worldwide.
What the United States Has Done
The US public record on UAP transformed in December 2017 with the New York Times article by Helene Cooper, Leslie Kean, and Ralph Blumenthal revealing the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The Department of Defense released the FLIR1, Gimbal, and GoFast videos officially in April 2020. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence delivered the Preliminary Assessment on UAP to Congress in June 2021. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was established in 2022. The House Oversight Subcommittee held public sworn-testimony hearings on 26 July 2023, 13 November 2024, and 17 September 2025.
On 12 July 2024 Congress passed the UAP Disclosure Act of 2024, establishing a presumption of declassification for UAP records. The Trump administration launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) document release programme in 2026, with the first tranche of files made public on 14 May 2026 and a second tranche shortly after.
Whatever assessment one makes of the substance of these releases, the institutional acknowledgement that UAP are a national-security topic worthy of formal investigation is a transformation of the US position. The questions debated today are about scope, sincerity, and depth, not about whether the topic is real.
What the Whistleblowers Say Remains Hidden
On 26 July 2023 former intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath before the House Oversight Subcommittee that the United States operates a multi-decade UAP retrieval and reverse-engineering programme. Former Pentagon AATIP director Luis Elizondo has stated publicly that the US possesses recovered craft of non-human origin. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon has corroborated the existence of compartmented programmes outside congressional oversight. Karl Nell, a retired Army colonel and AAWSAP/AATIP consultant, signed the public statement confirming the substance of Grusch's allegations.
The Department of Defense and AARO have rejected these claims. Director Sean Kirkpatrick's March 2024 historical-record report found "no empirical evidence" of extraterrestrial activity or reverse-engineering programmes. The contradiction between sworn whistleblower testimony and official AARO findings is the central unresolved fact of the current US disclosure conversation. Both positions are on the public record.
Congressional Activity
Cross-party congressional engagement on UAP has been one of the structural features of the post-2017 era. Senator Marco Rubio chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee when the original UAP language was inserted into appropriations. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand co-authored the establishing legislation for AARO. Senator Chuck Schumer co-sponsored the UAP Disclosure Act of 2024 with Senator Mike Rounds. In the House, Representatives Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna, Eric Burlison, Andre Carson, Mike Gallagher, Robert Garcia, Jared Moskowitz, and Glenn Grothman have all conducted public hearings or made on-record statements pursuing UAP transparency.
Anchors of the US Community
The journalists, filmmakers, and former officials whose work on UAP in the United States is documented on the public record. Each name links to a full profile page.
In the Archive
The US record in the archive: government reading rooms, congressional hearings, and Tier 1 exhibitions that the Disclosure Network references.
