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Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Disc: November 2020: Thermal Infrared Imagery
Thermal infrared imaging captured footage of a massive disc-shaped object along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on November 23, 2020, estimated at 200-400 metres in diameter,...
Seventeen Shallow Quakes in a Day: The Area 51 Swarm of 29 April 2026
A magnitude 4.4 main shock and sixteen aftershocks struck within forty kilometres of the Nevada Test and Training Range on 29 April. The depth was unusual. The week's commentary...
Unauthorized Drone Swarms Breach Barksdale Air Force Base Over Six-Day Period
Between March 9 and 15, 2026, multiple waves of 12, 15 custom-built drones breached restricted airspace over Barksdale AFB, a strategic nuclear-capable installation housing B-52...
Coast Guard C-144 Captures 'Tic Tac' Thermal Signature in April 2024 Encounter
U.S. Coast Guard thermal infrared imaging documents two objects matching 'Tic Tac' characteristics previously observed in 2004 Nimitz incident
Four Craft Diamond Formation Over Gulf of Mexico
Military pilots documented four aircraft flying in coordinated diamond formation alongside a large floating orb over the Gulf of Mexico in January 2023, with radar systems...
Iran UAP Formations: August 2022
Military sensors recorded four cigar-shaped objects in formation over Iranian airspace, part of a documented pattern of Middle East UAP activity.
The Iraq 'Jellyfish' UAP: 2018
Surveillance footage from an Iraqi military base captured an unidentified floating object with a jellyfish-like morphology and three dangling appendages.
The Mosul Orb
A U.S. reconnaissance aircraft captured four-second footage of a metallic sphere flying alongside it over Mosul, Iraq in April 2016, with the object later designated unexplained by...
Persian Gulf UAP Encounters: 2020 ('Hackney' Series)
MQ-9 Reaper drones tracked multiple UAP formations over the Persian Gulf in 2020, documented under Pentagon classification code 'Hackney'
Submarine USO Encounters: Evidence of Transmedium Objects, 2019-2022
Congressional demand for submarine-recorded footage of unidentified submerged objects references documented encounters with spherical objects observed transitioning between air and...
Syria MQ-9 Reaper Encounter: 2021: UAP Over the Middle East Theatre
A comprehensive accounting of the 2021 encounter between an MQ-9 Reaper drone and an unidentified object over southern Syria, including the sensor lock, object characteristics, and...
MQ-9 Reaper Drones Record Spherical Object Over Yemen: AGM-114 Hellfire Strike Deflects Without Detonation
Military witnesses testified that a missile strike on an unidentified spherical object over Yemen produced a deflection effect that witnesses described as inconsistent with...
Case files (11)
The Cash-Landrum Incident | Texas, 1980
On 29 December 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and seven-year-old Colby Landrum encountered a diamond-shaped object emitting intense heat on a Texas highway. Military helicopters...
The Kecksburg Incident | Pennsylvania, 1965
On 9 December 1965, a fireball streaked across six US states and Ontario before an acorn-shaped object was recovered from woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Military trucks...
Malmstrom AFB Nuclear Missile Shutdown | Montana, 1967
On 16 March 1967, all ten Minuteman I nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base's Echo Flight went offline simultaneously. A guard reported a large round object overhead. Eight...
Operacao Prato | Colares, Brazil, 1977
In 1977, luminous objects attacked villagers across the Amazon delta, leaving burns and puncture wounds on dozens of people. The Brazilian Air Force sent a covert intelligence...
The 1952 Pentagon Press Conference | July 29, 1952
Major General John Samford convened the largest US Air Force press conference since World War Two on 29 July 1952, ten days after the Washington DC radar contacts forced UFOs onto...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident | Suffolk, 1980
Over two nights in December 1980, US Air Force personnel at RAF Woodbridge witnessed a craft in Rendlesham Forest. Deputy base commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt recorded the events...
The Roswell Incident | Foster Ranch, 1947
In July 1947, debris from an unknown craft was recovered on the Foster Ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The Army issued and retracted a flying disc press release within hours. The...
The Shag Harbour Incident | Nova Scotia, 1967
On 4 October 1967, multiple witnesses including RCMP officers saw an illuminated object crash into the waters of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. Divers found nothing. Canadian military...
The Tehran UFO Incident | Iran, 1976
On 19 September 1976, Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept a brilliant object over Tehran. Both jets lost instruments and weapons systems on approach. A DIA...
The USS Nimitz Tic Tac | Pacific Ocean, 2004
In November 2004, Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz carrier group encountered a Tic Tac-shaped object off San Diego that outperformed every known aircraft. The 2017 Pentagon...
The Washington, DC Flap | 1952
On two consecutive weekends in July 1952, UFOs appeared on radar at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base. F-94 jets were scrambled. The sightings prompted the...
Biographies (31)
Al Worden | Biography
Al Worden (1932 to 2020), United States Air Force test pilot and Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot. The 1971 mission, the deep-space EVA on the return leg, the Apollo 15 commemorative...
Arthur C. Clarke | Biography
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 to 2008), Royal Air Force radar officer, author of the 1945 paper that specified the geostationary communications satellite, novelist of Childhood's End...
Barney Hill | Biography
Barney Hill Jr., WWII US Army veteran, US Postal Service employee, NAACP legal officer, and co-experiencer in the 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 in New Hampshire. His...
Bruce Maccabee | Biography
Bruce S. Maccabee, optical physicist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center for thirty-six years who applied photographic and video analysis methods to UAP cases including...
Buzz Aldrin | Biography
Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), United States Air Force fighter pilot, MIT doctor of astronautics, NASA astronaut, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot. Second human to walk on the Moon, 20 July...
Charles Halt | Biography
Colonel Charles Irwin Halt, USAF Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters in 1980 who led the second-night patrol into Rendlesham Forest on 27 to 28 December 1980 and dictated...
Charles Hickson | Biography
Charles E. Hickson, Korean War US Army veteran, Jones County constable, and foreman at F. B. Walker's shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. On 11 October 1973 he and...
Christopher Mellon | Biography
Christopher K. Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations. Twenty-one years on the Senate Select Committee on...
Daniel Dunglas Home | Biography
Daniel Dunglas Home, the Scottish-born Connecticut-raised medium of the Victorian period who produced phenomena across the drawing-rooms of London, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Rome...
David Fravor | Biography
David Fravor, retired Commander, United States Navy. Commanding officer of Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-41, the Black Aces, during the 14 November 2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter....
David Grusch | Biography
David Charles Grusch, former senior intelligence officer at the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. US Air Force combat veteran....
Edgar Allan Poe | Biography
Edgar Allan Poe, the Boston-born American writer whose 1838 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket anchors the hollow-Earth Antarctic tradition that runs forward through...
Eric Davis | Biography
Dr. Eric W. Davis, theoretical physicist and aerospace consultant. Senior contractor at EarthTech International under Hal Puthoff. Co-author of multiple AAWSAP Defense Intelligence...
Fife Symington | Biography
John Fife Symington III, Harvard 1968, USAF captain (Vietnam-era, Bronze Star), Phoenix real estate developer, and 19th Governor of Arizona 1991 to 1997. Held the June 1997 press...
Henry Steel Olcott | Biography
Henry Steel Olcott, the American Civil War officer, agricultural-investigation journalist, and lawyer who became the first President of the Theosophical Society at its founding in...
J. Allen Hynek | Biography
Josef Allen Hynek, astrophysicist and scientific consultant to the United States Air Force UFO programmes Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969....
James Clapper | Biography
James R. Clapper (b. 1941), United States Air Force Lieutenant General (retired), Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 2001 to 2006, Under Secretary of Defense...
Jay Stratton
Retired Defense Intelligence Senior Executive who directed the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019 to 2022, overseeing the investigation that produced the...
Jesse Marcel | Biography
Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. Recovered debris from the Foster Ranch on 7 July 1947 with Captain Sheridan Cavitt and was...
Jim Lorenzen | Biography
Leslie James 'Jim' Lorenzen, WWII US Army Air Forces combat radio operator, civilian engineer at Holloman Air Force Base and the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and co-founder in...
Jim Penniston | Biography
James W. Penniston, USAF Security Police staff sergeant and Night 1 first responder to the Rendlesham Forest incident of 26 December 1980. Conducted a close-range examination of a...
Jules Verne | Biography
Jules Verne, the Nantes-born French writer whose Voyages Extraordinaires across the 1863 to 1905 period are the substantive cultural-grammar source of three documented...
Karl Nell | Biography
Colonel Karl E. Nell, retired US Army. Former senior consultant to the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...
L. Ron Hubbard | Biography
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the Nebraska-born American pulp-fiction writer who served as a US Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, attended the January...
Lonnie Zamora | Biography
Dionicio Eduardo 'Lonnie' Zamora, Socorro Police Department officer whose 24 April 1964 encounter south of Socorro, New Mexico, became Project Blue Book Case 8766 and one of fewer...
Lord Hill-Norton | Biography
Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton (1915 to 2004), Chief of the Defence Staff 1971 to 1973, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1974 to 1977, and from the late 1980s...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd | Biography
Richard E. Byrd (1888 to 1957), United States Navy polar aviator. The contested 1926 North Pole flight, the 1929 South Pole flight, the 1934 Advance Base winter that nearly killed...
Ryan Graves | Biography
Ryan Graves, former United States Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, ten-year service across VFA-11 'Red Rippers' and the East Coast 2014 to 2015 incidents. First commissioned naval...
Scott Bray | Biography
Scott W. Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence during the establishment of the post-2020 institutional UAP response. The senior US Navy intelligence official who narrated the...
Stanton Friedman | Biography
Stanton Terry Friedman, nuclear physicist who spent fourteen years on classified nuclear propulsion programmes before lecturing publicly on UFOs from 1967. His February 1978...
Tim Gallaudet | Biography
Retired Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, United States Navy. Former Oceanographer of the Navy, former acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....
