Summary
The U.S. government's stance on UAP has shifted from denial to mandated disclosure across nine years and 39 milestones. On May 8, 2026, the Department of War launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), releasing the first batch of declassified UAP files at war.gov/UFO in a coordinated interagency effort spanning the White House, ODNI, DOE, AARO, NASA, and FBI. The release follows President Trump's February directive, the Pentagon's missed April 14 deadline on 46 specific videos demanded by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Luna's April 29 SCIF testimony of "nonhuman origin and creation," and FBI Director Patel's May 5 confirmation of an active interagency process. AARO's caseload has reached 2,400+ reports. To date, AARO's own assessments report no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology; the significance traced below is institutional — the building of a formal disclosure apparatus — rather than any confirmed finding.
The U.S. government's approach to unidentified anomalous phenomena has undergone a structural transformation. What was once dismissed as fringe has become a matter of presidential directive, Congressional legislation, and institutional preparation. The following timeline traces that trajectory through primary sources. For the scientific dimension of this convergence, see our coverage of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object. For the global context — thirteen national governments have run formal UAP investigation programs — see our reference on international UAP disclosure efforts. For profiles of the credentialed scientists and former officials shaping the conversation, see our reference on UAP researchers.
Latest Developments
- July 22, 2026The House of Representatives adopts Rep. Eric Burlison's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act as an amendment to the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, including the eminent domain provision over recovered technologies and biological evidence held by private entities. It is the furthest the full UAPDA has advanced in the House. The measure must still survive House–Senate conference — the identical eminent domain language was stripped in conference in 2023, and the act has failed to become law three times.
- September 18, 2026BREAKING: The Department of War publishes the sixth PURSUE tranche — 71 files (55 documents, 15 videos, 1 audio), including, for the first time, four from local law enforcement. The centerpiece is documentation of the DIA's 2008–2012 Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program: its Statement of Objectives and 37 reference documents on warp drives, wormholes, and negative-mass propulsion (previously public via FOIA, now with formerly withheld details restored), plus a 2010 study of unexplained injuries to three engineers. The Pentagon's own notes state the documents "should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed." Also: a 1952 recording of Capt. Edward Ruppelt, later head of Project Blue Book. Coverage →
- September 14, 2026The Department of War issues a legal waiver authorizing current and former service members, civilians, and contractors to disclose UAP-related national defense information directly to PURSUE representatives. Announced in an official DoW press release, the waiver supersedes civil and administrative enforcement of nondisclosure agreements and Special Access Program indoctrination agreements — strictly for communications to the PURSUE team. It is the Department's implementation of the July presidential directive, complementing the ODNI memorandum that covered the intelligence community. Disclosures route to cleared PURSUE representatives for review and "potential declassification," not to the public.
- September 2, 2026AARO moves to issue a sole-source contract to the National UFO Historic Records Center, a New Mexico nonprofit, for subscription access to its pre-1990 archives — reportedly the largest private collection of UAP historical records in North America, including files once belonging to Project Blue Book scientific consultant Dr. J. Allen Hynek. Documented in a Department of War contracting notice on SAM.gov and first reported by DefenseScoop. The purchase supports AARO's FY2023 NDAA mandate to compile a comprehensive historical record of U.S. government UAP involvement dating to 1945.
- August 11, 2026Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses UAP in a podcast interview, the transcript of which is published by the State Department: "I don't know who it is, I don't know what it is, but there are things flying over our military installations and they're not ours, and we should look into this." In the same exchange he explicitly rejects the premise of a cover-up: "if we knew, the President would be all over it. Like, there would be a primetime address. He'd be showing the pictures and the videos." Rubio also states he has handed the UAP portfolio to another senior official.
- August 7, 2026BREAKING: The Department of War publishes the fifth PURSUE tranche — 41 files (documents, images, videos) from the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, State Department, and Executive Office of the President, spanning 1950 to 2026. Reported items include a 2002 Afghanistan triangle account and a September 2021 Gulf of Oman incident in which AC-130J personnel reported ~25 "cold orb" encounters, unresolved by AARO. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell states further releases are in preparation. CBS characterized most of the batch as the familiar class of grainy sensor footage. Coverage →
- July 21, 2026President Trump directs the Department of War and the intelligence community to waive prior nondisclosure agreements for former government employees and contractors with UAP-related information, enabling them to come forward through AARO or the PURSUE task force. Senior officials emphasize it is not a declassification order — information is routed to cleared government representatives, not the public. The implementing ODNI memorandum, signed July 31, has since been published in full on Rep. Eric Burlison's official House website.
- July 2026AARO releases its Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP — the congressionally mandated caseload analysis, published several months after the customary reporting cycle. Of 319 reports received, 114 were resolved as prosaic objects (balloons, birds, satellites, aircraft, drones) and 238 were attributed to satellite flaring; nine remain flagged for further analysis. AARO again states that no resolved case indicates advanced foreign capabilities or breakthrough technologies. One unresolved maritime case — roughly 100 airborne objects and two likely uncrewed surface systems off the Virginia coast — is under active investigation. Details below →
- July 10, 2026BREAKING: The U.S. military releases the fourth PURSUE tranche — 40 files (14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio, 3 images) from the Pentagon, NASA, CIA, FBI, and Energy Department. It resumes the rolling-release cycle after a ~4-week pause that a Science Advisory Council member (Mike Gold) attributed to the shift from already-public material to newly declassified records. No conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life; AARO maintains it has found none. Coverage →
- June 16–20, 2026Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, the FBI, and Intelligence Community members to assemble and chair a new UAP Science Advisory Council, an ~11-member panel (including Stanford's Garry Nolan and, notably, skeptic Michael Shermer) applying rigorous scientific analysis to UAP data. Now reported by NY Post, NBC News, and DefenseScoop. Notably, Loeb has confirmed the council is advisory only — its members hold no access to classified information and no legal authority — supporting a government-side interagency UAP Governance Board. Some disclosure advocates have flagged that this adds a layer between raw data and the public.
- June 12, 2026BREAKING: The Department of War releases the third PURSUE tranche — per CBS News, 53 documents and 10 images plus 6 videos and 3 NASA audio recordings (NBC News counted 70+ files), including orb videos, Apollo 16 audio, and a CIA admission that secret U-2 and OXCART flights caused over half of all UFO reports in the late 1950s–1960s. Portal hits surpass 1.7 billion. No conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life; AARO maintains it has found none. Coverage →
- May 22, 2026The Department of War releases the second PURSUE tranche — a core 64 files (6 PDFs, 7 audio, 51 videos) per CBS News, including newly released Lake Huron shootdown footage, Coast Guard infrared video, Apollo 12 audio, and a 116-page Sandia, New Mexico file. Coverage →
- May 18, 2026NSA compelled to release 334 pages of TOP SECRET UMBRA UAP records via FOIA appeal — a disclosure channel parallel to PURSUE. Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell separately confirms war.gov/UFO has surpassed 1 billion users. Coverage →
- May 11, 2026Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara becomes first allied-government cabinet official to formally respond to PURSUE — confirms Japan possesses UAP data and signals coming disclosure. Context →
- May 8, 2026PURSUE program launches. Department of War releases first declassified UAP files at war.gov/UFO. Live coverage →
The Timeline
December 2017
The New York Times Pentagon UFO Story
The New York Times published a front-page investigation revealing the Pentagon's secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which had been studying UAP since 2007 with $22 million in funding secured by Senator Harry Reid. The story included the first officially released military footage of unexplained aerial encounters.
April 2020
Pentagon Officially Releases UAP Videos
The Department of Defense formally released three Navy videos showing encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena — the "FLIR1," "Gimbal," and "GoFast" recordings. The Pentagon confirmed the videos were authentic and depicted objects that remained unidentified.
August 2020
Pentagon Establishes the UAP Task Force
Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist approved the establishment of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, led by the Department of the Navy under the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, with a mission "to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security." The task force supplied the case data behind the June 2021 ODNI preliminary assessment and was succeeded by the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group in November 2021, which became AARO in July 2022.
June 2021
ODNI Preliminary Assessment
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence published its preliminary assessment on UAP, confirming 144 reports from military personnel between 2004 and 2021. The report stated that UAP "clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. national security" and that most incidents remained unexplained.
May 2022
First Congressional Hearing in 50 Years
The House Intelligence Subcommittee held the first open Congressional hearing on UAP since 1970. Pentagon officials presented declassified footage and confirmed that reported incidents had grown to over 400.
July 2022
AARO Established
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was established within the Department of Defense, mandated by the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act. AARO was tasked with detecting, identifying, and attributing objects of interest in all domains.
July 2023
Grusch Whistleblower Testimony
Former intelligence official David Grusch testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee that the U.S. government possesses retrieved non-human craft and biological material. Navy pilots Ryan Graves and David Fravor also testified about direct encounters with unexplained objects demonstrating capabilities beyond known technology.
September 2023
NASA Independent Study: No Evidence of Extraterrestrial Origin
NASA released the report of its independent UAP study team, a 16-member panel chaired by astrophysicist David Spergel and convened in 2022 to examine how unclassified data could be used to study the phenomena. The team found no evidence that UAP are extraterrestrial in origin and identified poor data quality and the stigma that discourages reporting as the main obstacles to resolving cases. It recommended reducing that stigma, collecting commercial-pilot reports through the Federal Aviation Administration, and applying artificial intelligence to large datasets. NASA simultaneously created a new position of Director of UAP Research.
December 2023
FY2024 NDAA: UAP Records Collection
The FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act mandated the National Archives establish a dedicated UAP Records Collection. Federal agencies were required to review, identify, and organize UAP records for disclosure and transfer. The National Archives established Record Group 615 for this purpose.
March 2024
AARO Historical Report: No Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technology
AARO released Volume I of its congressionally mandated review of U.S. government involvement with UAP since 1945. Its central finding: AARO "found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology." The report remains the most detailed official statement of the government's position, and the baseline against which every later disclosure claim, including those in the PURSUE releases, is measured.
November 2024
House Hearing "Exposing the Truth" and the Immaculate Constellation Dispute
Two House Oversight subcommittees, chaired by Reps. Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothman, held a joint hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth." The witnesses were retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo, former NASA associate administrator Michael Gold, and journalist Michael Shellenberger. Mace entered into the record a 12-page whistleblower document, provided by Shellenberger, describing "Immaculate Constellation," an alleged unacknowledged special access program that consolidates UAP imagery and sensor data.
The official record on the program consists of a denial and a non-answer. Pentagon spokesperson Sue Gough stated that the Department "has no record, present or historical, of any type of SAP called 'Immaculate Constellation.'" The NSA has refused to confirm or deny holding related records, and The Black Vault reported in September 2026 that the agency had denied its appeal of that response, a refusal that cannot be read as confirmation. In April 2025, Matthew Brown, who describes himself as a former Defense and State Department official, publicly identified himself as the document's author. He was one of the three claimed witnesses who petitioned the President in September 2026 for a broader disclosure waiver (see September 14, 2026, below).
September 2025
House Task Force Hearing on UAP Transparency
The House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a hearing titled "Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection." Four witnesses testified about firsthand encounters and concerns about government concealment of UAP-related information from Congress.
December 2025
FY2026 NDAA: Three UAP Provisions Enacted
The FY2026 NDAA included three UAP-related provisions: mandatory Pentagon briefings on UAP intercepts by NORAD and NORTHCOM dating to 2004; a directive for AARO to account for UAP-related classification guides; and streamlined federal reporting processes. Two parallel bills advanced: the UAP Transparency Act (H.R. 1187) requiring declassification within 270 days, and the Senate UAP Disclosure Act with eminent domain provisions over recovered non-human technologies.
January 2026
Bank of England Contingency Warning
A former senior analyst at the Bank of England formally urged the Bank's governor to develop contingency plans for potential economic disruption following confirmation of non-human intelligence — the first known instance of a major central bank being formally petitioned to prepare for an extraterrestrial contact scenario.
February 19, 2026
Presidential Disclosure Directive
President Trump directed the Pentagon and all relevant federal agencies to "begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."
February 23, 2026
Hegseth Confirms Active Compliance
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly confirmed that Pentagon teams are actively working to comply with the presidential directive, stating "we're digging in" and hinting at a formal executive order. AARO's caseload has exceeded 2,000 reports, and its 2025 annual report remains unpublished.
March 7, 2026
ODNI Confirms Imminent Declassification
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated publicly that files related to UAP and extraterrestrial life will be declassified "soon." Interagency meetings commenced to discuss how AARO, the military, and other defense departments might publicize highly classified photographs and information.
April 1, 2026
Congress Demands 46 Specific UAP Videos
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Hegseth demanding 46 specific military UAP video files by April 14. Unlike previous general requests, Luna named individual files by title, date, and location — including footage described as spherical objects over Afghanistan, Tic Tac-style encounters, transmedium vehicles, coordinated formations near U.S. warships and nuclear submarines, and a 2023 shoot-down over Lake Huron. Whistleblowers had informed the Task Force that AARO already possesses the recordings.
April 14, 2026
Pentagon Misses Congressional Deadline
The Pentagon failed to deliver the 46 requested UAP videos by the April 14 deadline. Luna responded: "No one from the Pentagon had responded until we reached out, and it appears that someone did not pass the letter to the appropriate authorities. How convenient." She added: "The president has authorized the release, so whoever is trying to be cute at the Pentagon can take a hike." Luna confirmed she expects to receive the files regardless of the missed deadline.
April 15, 2026
Pentagon Confirms White House Coordinating "Never-Before-Seen" UAP Release
A senior War Department official confirmed to Liberation Times that AARO is "working in close coordination with the White House and across federal agencies to consolidate existing UAP records collections and facilitate the expeditious release of never-before-seen UAP information." Separately, Rep. Tim Burchett stated that "names, dates, people, and locations" tied to UAP are set to emerge in upcoming Congressional briefings. AARO's caseload has grown to over 2,400 reports.
April 29, 2026
Luna: "Things of Nonhuman Origin" Viewed in SCIF
Speaking on the record, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — chair of the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — stated: "I have seen evidence in a SCIF that leads me to believe there are things we cannot explain. I have observed things that are of nonhuman origin and creation. That's my opinion." The statement is the most specific public claim made by a sitting member of Congress with task force authority regarding classified UAP evidence personally viewed in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. Separately, at an Oval Office event with the Artemis II crew, President Trump publicly reiterated that the administration would release "as much information as possible" through what he described as a centralised digital platform.
May 5, 2026
FBI Director Confirms Interagency Release Process Active
FBI Director Kash Patel publicly confirmed on the Hang Out with Sean Hannity podcast that the Trump administration has stood up a formal interagency process to release UAP and extraterrestrial-related records. Patel: "[Trump] stood up an interagency process with the Department of War leading that effort to get out the documentation related to everything that you're talking about, not just from the FBI, from the IC and everywhere else. They're going to be publicly releasing this information very soon. We are all for it." Patel's statement is the first on-record confirmation by a sitting Cabinet-level law enforcement official that an active interagency process exists, expanding the institutional commitment from the Department of War / AARO to include the FBI and the broader Intelligence Community.
May 8, 2026
PURSUE Program Launches: First UAP Files Released at war.gov/UFO
The Department of War launched the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE) and released its first batch of declassified UAP files at war.gov/UFO. The interagency effort coordinates the White House, ODNI, Department of Energy, AARO, NASA, FBI, and additional intelligence agencies. The first tranche includes Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 mission imagery showing unexplained lights, FBI infrared stills from September 2025, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command imagery of a football-shaped object near Japan, and a 17-asset image carousel covering decades of unresolved UAP cases. Cabinet-level statements from Secretary Hegseth, DNI Gabbard, FBI Director Patel, and NASA Administrator Isaacman framed the release as the first in a rolling declassification series.
May 11, 2026
Japan Becomes First Allied Government to Formally Respond to PURSUE
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara — the Japanese government's top spokesman — addressed PURSUE at a regular news conference, becoming the first allied-government cabinet-level official to publicly respond to the U.S. PURSUE program. Kihara confirmed Tokyo is "analyzing with great interest" the U.S. release, which included two videos of UAP near Japanese airspace. He stated Japan is "constantly gathering and analyzing information... maintaining close coordination with the United States and other countries." Most significantly, Kihara confirmed that Japan possesses UAP data including video footage, and signaled that public disclosure of Japanese UAP files will begin within the limits of national security restrictions. On May 12, former AATIP director Luis Elizondo publicly confirmed that Japan has been seeking a bilateral UAP information-sharing agreement with the U.S. The Kihara statement represents the first formal, on-the-record allied-government commitment to UAP disclosure in coordination with the PURSUE framework. Full context on Japan's institutional UAP architecture →
May 14, 2026
Rep. Burchett Says Clearer Videos Remain Withheld From Congress
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a member of the House Oversight Committee, told the Ruthless podcast (Fox News Media) that significant additional footage remains unseen: "There are 30 or 40 videos that we need to see that we know that they have that we have not seen that are much clearer." He attributed the claim to "pretty high-ranking people" and stated that other members of Congress had privately described their own UAP encounters during military service without going on record. In a related post, Burchett characterized the first PURSUE tranche as comparatively modest against what is still to come: "The 1st drop will be big but in comparison to what is coming they will be a drop in the bucket... I would say 'Holy Crap' is coming." The statement, made four days before the Pentagon's own confirmation of an imminent second tranche, reflects sustained congressional pressure for fuller disclosure and aligns with Rep. Luna's earlier demand for 46 specific classified videos.
May 18, 2026
Pentagon Officially Confirms Second PURSUE Tranche Imminent
Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell — Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and senior advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — confirmed in an official post on his verified X account that the second PURSUE tranche is in active production: "Over 1 BILLION users around the world have visited https://war.gov/UFO. The second release of UAP files are actively being processed for publication on the site. More to come very soon!" The statement is the first official Pentagon confirmation of imminent second-tranche release, ten days after the May 8 launch. The over-one-billion-users statistic — building on the 340 million hits captured in the first 12 hours — establishes war.gov/UFO as the most heavily-trafficked institutional UAP communication channel in U.S. government history. The Parnell announcement consolidates the rolling-tranche framework as operational reality and confirms the disclosure cycle is sustaining at scale beyond the initial launch. See live PURSUE coverage →
May 18, 2026
NSA Compelled to Release 334 Pages of TOP SECRET UMBRA UAP Records
In a disclosure channel running parallel to PURSUE, the National Security Agency released more than 330 pages of historical UAP-related records following a Freedom of Information Act appeal by the Disclosure Foundation, a UAP transparency advocacy organization whose advisory board includes physicist Dr. Harold Puthoff and historian Dr. Carlos Eire. Many of the records carried the TOP SECRET UMBRA classification — among the most sensitive markings in the U.S. signals-intelligence system. The NSA's own appeals authority ruled that its original blanket denial of the request had been improper. The case traces to a 1980 FOIA lawsuit against the NSA; while the agency's defending affidavit (the "Yeates Memo") was declassified in 2009, the underlying intelligence material had never been released until now. The records document multiple unresolved cases — including objects described with measured azimuth and bearing data, an object "brighter than the sun," and at least eight instances of fighter aircraft scrambled to intercept unidentified objects. The Disclosure Foundation stated it will continue challenging remaining redactions on material dating to the 1960s. The release demonstrates that institutional UAP disclosure is now advancing through multiple parallel channels simultaneously — the administration's voluntary PURSUE program and legally-compelled FOIA litigation — broadening the disclosure landscape beyond a single executive-branch initiative.
May 22, 2026
Second PURSUE Tranche Released — Rolling Disclosure Proven Operational
The Department of War published the second PURSUE tranche on war.gov/UFO, fourteen days after the first release and exactly as Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell had confirmed on May 18. The core release comprises 64 files — 6 PDF documents, 7 audio files, and 51 videos — per CBS News, with some outlets reporting higher totals including supporting assets. The most widely reported item is an Office of the Director of National Intelligence memo documenting a 2025 account from a senior U.S. intelligence officer who, on a helicopter mission, described "countless orange orbs swarming" near a mountain range and two large orbs — "orange with a white or yellow center" — that flared up beside the aircraft; after fighter jets were scrambled, the officer reported the orbs appeared to be "chasing" the jets, concluding "we were virtually speechless after these observations." Other reported content includes a U.S. Coast Guard infrared sensor video from April 2024; newly released Pentagon footage of the February 2023 shootdown of an unidentified object over Lake Huron, Michigan (an event publicly acknowledged at the time), which AARO describes as "likely derived from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. military platform"; a 116-page file documenting 209 reports at the Sandia, New Mexico facility from 1948 to 1950; and Apollo 12 mission audio describing "streaks of lights." The Pentagon attached an explicit caveat that the descriptions should not be read as "reflecting an analytical judgment, investigative conclusion, or factual determination." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated: "It's time the American people see it for themselves." The official statement confirmed a third release is already in active production, to be "announced in the near future." This was the pivotal structural milestone of the disclosure cycle: with two tranches public and a third confirmed, the administration's "rolling release" framework shifted from stated intention to demonstrated operational reality. See live PURSUE coverage →
June 12, 2026
Third PURSUE Tranche Released
The Department of War published the third PURSUE tranche on war.gov/UFO. Per CBS News, the release comprises 53 documents and 10 images — drawn from the CIA, FBI, NASA, the Department of Defense, and other agencies — alongside 6 videos and 3 NASA audio recordings; NBC News counted roughly 70+ files in total, dating from the 1940s to the present. The videos depict orb-like objects, with an accompanying set of images and clips offering "artistic interpretations" of reported sightings; several documents detail 2023 encounters reported by federal law enforcement officers, and the release included over two hours of Apollo 16 mission debrief audio and a 1962 Gordon Cooper–Walter Cronkite interview. A report dated June 5 attributed to AARO director Dr. Jon Kosloski has been widely cited — notably by Harvard's Avi Loeb, who reviewed the release on CBS News — as describing still-unresolved cases and indicating that a substantial share of analyzed phenomena lack a conventional explanation. Notably, the tranche also surfaced a CIA internal-history admission that secret U-2 and OXCART spy-plane flights accounted for more than half of all UFO reports during the late 1950s and 1960s, with Project Blue Book offering the public alternative explanations to protect the programs — a documented instance of mundane origins behind a large share of historical sightings. The Pentagon stated that war.gov/UFO has received over 1.7 billion hits worldwide since its May 8 launch, with further releases in preparation. Consistent with prior tranches, reporting noted no conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life or government cover-up; AARO's standing position remains that it has found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology. See live PURSUE coverage →
June 16, 2026
UAP Science Advisory Council Announced
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb — who leads the Galileo Project — was tasked by the White House, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and other Intelligence Community members to assemble and chair a new UAP Science Advisory Council. The roughly 11-member panel draws on astrophysics, oceanography, molecular biology, anthropology, psychology, artificial intelligence, and instrumentation — members include Stanford's Prof. Garry Nolan, former NOAA head Dr. Tim Gallaudet, and, notably, prominent skeptic Dr. Michael Shermer — and is tasked with applying rigorous scientific analysis to UAP data, supporting a government-side interagency UAP Governance Board. The development was reported across mainstream outlets including the New York Post, NBC News, and DefenseScoop. Its significance is as institutional infrastructure: the government building a permanent scientific apparatus around the question rather than confirming any finding. Two sober qualifications are important and well-documented: the council's stated mandate is to determine the nature of unexplained phenomena — explicitly an open scientific question, not a conclusion — and Loeb has confirmed the body is purely advisory, with no access to classified information and no legal authority. Its members can recommend better sensors and analyze data the government chooses to share, nothing more. Some disclosure advocates have noted this introduces an additional layer between raw evidence and the public. See researcher profiles →
July 10, 2026
Fourth PURSUE Tranche Released
The U.S. military released the fourth PURSUE tranche at war.gov/UFO (Release 04). Per CBS News, the batch comprises 40 files in total — 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio files, and 3 images — drawn from the Pentagon, NASA, the CIA, the FBI, and the Department of Energy. The release resumed the rolling-disclosure cycle after a roughly four-week gap following the June 12 third tranche — the first visible pause in the cadence since the program began. Ahead of the release, Mike Gold, a member of the White House-tasked UAP Science Advisory Council, had characterized the delay as a transition rather than a halt: the earlier tranches drew largely on already-public or "low-hanging" material, whereas the continuing work involves the slower formal declassification of still-classified records. Notable items reported in the batch include a 2020 "floating brain"/"jellyfish"-type object over the Atlantic, a 2023 Yellow Sea video in which sensor footage appears to progressively degrade, a 2019 report of an object "unlike anything [seen] in 28 years" of service, and historical documents including a 1949 Los Alamos "green fireball" conference and a 1996 STS-80 NASA image. Consistent with all prior tranches, reporting noted no conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life or government cover-up — The Debrief noted that none of the PURSUE material to date shows objects clearly attributable to unknown or advanced technology; AARO's standing position remains that it has found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology. See live PURSUE coverage →
July 2026
AARO Publishes FY2025 Annual UAP Report
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office released its Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, the caseload analysis mandated by Congress under the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY2023. The 14-page report covers incidents from June 2, 2024 through May 30, 2025, and — as The Black Vault noted — arrived several months later than the reporting cycle Congress contemplated, with prior editions generally published in the fall. AARO received 319 UAP reports over the period, 284 of them from within the reporting window, bringing total case holdings to 1,870 as of May 30, 2025.
The findings are, on balance, strongly prosaic. AARO resolved 114 of the 319 reports as ordinary objects — balloons, birds, satellites, aircraft, uncrewed aerial systems, and single instances of a rocket launch and a manned jet pack — and a newly onboarded three-dimensional modeling capability allowed analysts to attribute 238 reported UAP to satellite flaring, the well-documented effect of sunlight reflecting off satellite surfaces. Most unresolved reports were moved to an "active archive" for insufficient data; nine were flagged as warranting further analysis by intelligence and scientific partners. Critically, AARO reiterated that none of the cases it has resolved to date "indicate advanced foreign adversarial capabilities or breakthrough technologies in any domain."
Several items in the report drew attention. The single maritime-domain case AARO received described U.S. Navy assets off the coast of Virginia reporting approximately 100 airborne UAP and two likely uncrewed surface systems; AARO states it is "actively investigating this event in coordination with the reporting unit." Two cases described electronic or avionic interference near operational aircraft, though AARO has not determined whether those effects were attributable to UAP. The office also recorded 50 notifications of unmanned aerial systems near U.S. nuclear infrastructure, weapons, and launch sites — a substantial increase over the 18 noted in the FY2024 report — but classified none of them as UAP. AARO further noted that some narrative reports "were suggestive of phenomena whose performance characteristics exceed the known state-of-the-art," while stating plainly that "no technical data accompanied these reports," and that a persistent "lack of timely and actionable sensor data continues to constrain AARO's ability to resolve cases." Separately, the office disclosed that it is developing a formalized process for handling UAP-derived materials "should such materials ever come into" government possession — a procedural step, explicitly conditional, not an indication that any such materials exist.
July 21, 2026
Trump Directs Waiver of UAP Nondisclosure Agreements
President Trump directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to waive prior nondisclosure agreements for former government employees and contractors holding UAP-related information, enabling them to come forward through AARO or the PURSUE task force without legal exposure under those agreements. First reported by Fox News citing a senior administration official, the directive was subsequently referenced in an official press release from Rep. Eric Burlison and acknowledged by Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas, who indicated ODNI would issue implementing guidance.
The scope is narrower than early coverage implied, and the qualifications matter. Senior officials emphasized that this is not a declassification directive: it permits former personnel to disclose information to cleared government representatives, not to the public or the press. Initial reporting preceded publication of the implementing guidance, and Burlison's office had at that stage requested to review the directive text. Burlison also advised prospective whistleblowers to consider retaining an attorney and involving a member of Congress, a signal of some caution regarding the process. The development is nonetheless structurally significant: the removal of NDA constraints was among the specific measures advocates and legislators had been publicly demanding at the June Capitol events, making this an instance of an advocacy demand converting into executive action. The implementing memorandum has since been published in full: signed by Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas on July 31, 2026 (ES 2026-00818), it is hosted as a primary document on Rep. Burlison's official House website. It directs all Intelligence Community members to coordinate with ODNI within 30 days of receipt to establish a "PURSUE designee" within each agency, to inform their workforces of the President's order, and to ensure personnel understand that any previous or existing nondisclosure agreements prohibiting disclosure to the President or designees such as PURSUE "are no longer in force." Detailed reporting procedures were to be disseminated to IC components within the same 30-day window. The Department of War issued its own parallel legal waiver on September 14, 2026, extending the same relief to DoW personnel and explicitly covering Special Access Program indoctrination agreements.
July 22, 2026
House Adopts UAP Disclosure Act as NDAA Amendment
The House of Representatives adopted Rep. Eric Burlison's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027. The measure would establish an independent review board empowered to advise the President on declassification and release of UAP records, apply a presumption of disclosure to federal UAP records, and — most consequentially — authorize the federal government to exercise eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence held by private persons or entities. The framework is modeled on the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
This is a meaningful legislative advance and warrants proportionate framing. It is the furthest the full UAPDA — eminent domain provision included — has progressed in the House, and it moves the disclosure question forward on the legislative track, which had lagged well behind the executive track represented by PURSUE. The qualifications are equally important: adoption by one chamber is not enactment. The amendment must still survive House–Senate conference, and the legislative history here is unfavorable. A materially identical version passed the Senate 84–0 in July 2023, only for the eminent domain authority and several other core powers to be stripped during conference on the FY2024 NDAA; the act was again excluded from the FY2026 NDAA in October 2025, marking a third consecutive failure to become law. Congressional researcher Douglas Dean Johnson has further noted that no amendment explicitly addressing UAP disclosure has ever received a stand-alone roll-call vote in either chamber — such provisions have advanced only within negotiated packages. Whether the eminent domain language survives conference this time is the question that determines the amendment's practical significance.
Conference has not yet begun, because the Senate has not passed its own version of the bill. A motion to proceed to the Senate FY2027 NDAA failed 50–46 on July 14, 2026, amid disputes over U.S. military operations against Iran and an Israel defense-cooperation provision, and the Senate had taken no further floor action when the fiscal year began on October 1. Late enactment is the norm for defense bills, which have historically become law about six weeks into the fiscal year, but the eminent domain question cannot be settled until the Senate acts.
August 7, 2026
Fifth PURSUE Tranche Released
The Department of War published the fifth PURSUE tranche at war.gov/UFO. Per CBS News, the release comprises 41 files — a mix of documents, images, and videos — drawn from the Pentagon, the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, and the Executive Office of the President, with the oldest records dating to 1950 and the most recent to 2026. Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell stated that the Department "will release additional files on a rolling basis" and that it and its agency partners are "actively working on the next release."
Reported contents include an FBI interview summary in which a former military pilot described a large, silent triangular object that blocked out the stars over Afghanistan in 2002; a September 2021 incident over the Gulf of Oman in which U.S. Special Operations personnel aboard an AC-130J gunship reported approximately 25 encounters with objects characterized in an intelligence report as "cold orbs" flying between 250 and 1,300 mph in formation, maneuvering aggressively, and appearing to react after the aircraft fired its main cannon; a 2025 U.S. Central Command clip showing an object crossing a populated area in the Middle East; and an FBI account from a former Pentagon employee describing a nearly translucent triangular object over his Colorado home in October 2023. The Gulf of Oman and CENTCOM incidents both remain unresolved by AARO. The release also includes FBI-created renderings based on firsthand witness accounts.
The counterweight is consistent with every prior tranche and worth stating plainly. CBS News characterized the bulk of the release as "the type of grainy videos that have been the hallmark of past disclosures." AARO's standing position is unchanged — no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology — and AARO director Dr. Jon Kosloski told TIME in August: "Great claims require great evidence, and the evidence just isn't there yet." An unresolved case is not an anomalous one: AARO's FY2025 annual report attributed the substantial majority of its resolved caseload to balloons, birds, satellites, aircraft, drones, and satellite flaring, and Avi Loeb — who chairs the White House-tasked UAP Science Advisory Council — has stated that his working null hypothesis is that such objects are human-made and operated by adversarial nations. See live PURSUE coverage →
August 11, 2026
Secretary of State Addresses UAP — and Rejects the Cover-Up Premise
Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed unidentified anomalous phenomena during an interview on The Katie Miller Podcast, a full transcript of which was published by the U.S. Department of State. Rubio, who pressed the issue for years as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, framed it as a national security question rather than an extraterrestrial one: "I don't know who it is, I don't know what it is, but there are things flying over our military installations and they're not ours, and we should look into this, be serious about it." He noted that he has since handed the UAP portfolio to another senior administration official. The State Department's official account subsequently amplified the remarks.
The second half of the exchange is equally significant and less widely reported. Asked about the belief that the government is concealing proof of extraterrestrial contact, Rubio rejected the premise directly: "I don't call it a conspiracy. I don't know the answer to any of it. I'm just asking the questions about we should know what's flying over our airspace... people do believe we're covering something up. And I assure you, like, in this administration, if we knew, like, the President would be all over it. Like, there would be a primetime address. He'd be showing the pictures and the videos." Taken together, the two statements are a useful marker of the official posture at cabinet level: unidentified objects over sensitive airspace are treated as a legitimate and unresolved security concern, while the existence of withheld proof of non-human intelligence is explicitly disclaimed. This is consistent with AARO's standing position and with the Department of War's own characterization of its released files as unresolved for want of sufficient data.
September 2, 2026
AARO Moves to Buy Access to a Private UAP Archive
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office moved to issue a sole-source contract to the National Unidentified Flying Object Historic Records Center (NUFOHRC), a New Mexico-based nonprofit, for a commercial data subscription providing access to its archives — with particular interest in materials predating 1990. The arrangement was documented in a Department of War contracting notice published on SAM.gov and first reported by DefenseScoop. The proposed structure is a one-year base period with four subsequent one-year options; the estimated cost was not disclosed. A department official stated that market research indicated no other organization possessed "the historical depth, volume of unique records, and specialized analytical expertise" to meet AARO's requirements, and that NUFOHRC holds "hundreds of thousands of unique case files that exist exclusively within its archives."
The purchase serves a statutory obligation rather than a new line of inquiry: the FY2023 NDAA directed AARO to compile a comprehensive historical record of all U.S. government UAP-related intelligence and military activity from 1945 onward, and the FY2024 NDAA established the UAP Records Collection at the National Archives, requiring federal agencies to transfer their UAP records for eventual public release. NUFOHRC was founded by researcher David Marler and has absorbed several major legacy collections over the past six years, including the complete files of one of the earliest civilian scientific UFO research organizations and personal papers of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who served as scientific consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book.
The implication is worth stating plainly, because it runs counter to the intuitive reading. That the government must purchase access to a private collection in order to reconstruct its own history reflects the condition of mid-century federal record-keeping rather than the existence of withheld material: records from that era were fragmented, decentralized, and in many cases preserved only by civilian researchers after official programs such as Project Blue Book were terminated. The step is administrative and archival in character. It expands the historical record available to AARO's congressionally mandated review; it does not bear on the question of what that record contains.
September 14, 2026
Department of War Issues Legal Waiver for UAP Disclosures to PURSUE
In an official press release, the Department of War announced a targeted legal waiver establishing what it describes as "an authorized, legally protected disclosure mechanism" for current and former DoW service members, civilian personnel, and contractors to provide UAP-related National Defense Information directly to designated PURSUE representatives. The release states that the waiver "supersedes civil and administrative enforcement provisions contained within Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements (SAPIAs) previously executed within the United States, strictly for communications directed to the PURSUE team," and frames the measure as "in direct alignment with President Trump's mandate for comprehensive transparency."
This is the Department of War's implementation of the July 21 presidential directive, and it completes the second half of that directive's execution: the ODNI memorandum of July 31 covered the intelligence community, and this waiver covers the Department of War. The explicit inclusion of Special Access Program indoctrination agreements is the notable element. SAPIAs govern access to the most compartmented programs in the defense enterprise and carry their own enforcement regime beyond ordinary NDAs; individuals who have claimed knowledge of UAP-related special access programs have consistently cited SAPIA liability as the barrier to coming forward. The release acknowledges this directly, noting that such individuals "cited concerns regarding potential legal liability, loss of clearances, or administrative prosecution stemming from standard NDAs and SAP indoctrination terms," and states the waiver "removes those barriers."
The scope remains as bounded as the July directive. Disclosures are authorized only to PURSUE representatives — the release describes "an authorized pipeline for systematic review, security evaluation, and potential declassification," which is a government channel, not a public one, and "potential" declassification is not a commitment. Whether the waiver produces testimony that materially changes the record is the open question, and it is now a testable one: the legal barrier most frequently cited by prospective witnesses has been removed by the department that imposed it. The first response came within a week: on September 19, three of the most prominent claimed witnesses — David Grusch, Dylan Borland, and Matthew Brown — publicly petitioned the President for a broader waiver, stating that disclosure to PURSUE representatives does not meet their objective of informing the public directly. The existing waivers cover disclosure to the government only; the petition asks for authorization to speak openly. As of this writing no such authorization has been granted, and none of the three has stated that he has provided his information through the channel now legally open to him.
There is a published baseline against which to test it. AARO’s FY2025 annual report states that between June 2, 2024 and May 30, 2025, seven individuals contacted the office with UAP claims that it determined “warranted a request for a follow-on interview.” The same report notes that AARO was already “legally authorized to receive all UAP-related information, including military or intelligence materials, at any level of classification regardless of any restrictive access controls, special access controls, or compartmented access programs.” The government’s authority to receive such information was therefore never the constraint; what the waivers change is the legal exposure of the person providing it. The first annual report whose reporting period includes both waivers will show whether that change moves the number.
September 18, 2026
Sixth PURSUE Tranche Released — AAWSAP Documents
The Department of War published the sixth PURSUE tranche at war.gov/UFO. Per CBS News, the release comprises 71 files — 55 PDF documents, 15 videos, and one audio recording — 67 from the Department and four from local law enforcement in Colorado, the first non-federal contributions to the program. Sixty-four files contain redactions; dates span 1952 to 2025. The release came four days after the Department's legal waiver for UAP disclosures and 42 days after the fifth tranche, the longest interval to date.
The centerpiece is documentation of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), which ran from 2008 to 2012 with the stated objective of understanding "the physics and engineering" of advanced aerospace weapon applications "as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from now through the year 2050." The release includes the program's July 2008 Statement of Objectives and all 37 of its "Defense Intelligence Reference Documents" — contractor-produced surveys of speculative physics including warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative-mass propulsion, and invisibility cloaking. These have been publicly available for years through FOIA; the new versions restore previously withheld details such as the DIA offices that commissioned them. The most-discussed single item is a 2010 study, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, describing three "antennae engineers" who suffered skin injury, hair loss, and in one case "signs of radiation illness" and later "malignant transformations" after an unexplained aerospace event. The study did not identify the source of exposure; its analytical frame is conventional radiofrequency injury, and its author's stated hypothesis — that "some advanced systems are already deployed, and opaque to full US understanding" — is consistent with undisclosed terrestrial systems.
The Pentagon's framing of its own release is the essential context. Notes accompanying the documents state that the DIRDs are "best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research" and "should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed" — the most explicit disclaimer the Department has attached to any tranche. AAWSAP's existence has been public since 2017 and its documents have circulated widely; what this release adds is institutional provenance, not new evidence. The remaining material follows the established pattern: grainy sensor footage of unresolved objects over the Middle East in 2022 and 2025, cellphone clips of flashing lights over Colorado in 2023, and historical Project Blue Book files including an hour-long 1952 recording in which Captain Edward Ruppelt, who would go on to lead Blue Book, states that of roughly 800 reports investigated, "about 20% are very good reports offered by very reliable people and … just absolutely no conclusions can be drawn." AARO's standing position is unchanged: no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial activity or technology. See live PURSUE coverage →
What This Trajectory Means
What distinguishes the current moment is that disclosure has moved from demand to machinery — and the machinery has proven durable. Between May and September 2026, the executive branch published six tranches of declassified UAP files, pausing and resuming twice. A presidential directive waived nondisclosure agreements for former personnel, implemented by an ODNI memorandum requiring a PURSUE designee in every intelligence agency and, in September, by a Department of War legal waiver that also covers Special Access Program agreements. The White House tasked a science advisory council. The House adopted the UAP Disclosure Act, eminent domain provision included, as an amendment to the FY2027 defense authorization. AARO delivered its congressionally mandated annual report and moved to acquire a private historical archive to complete its statutory review. The Secretary of State addressed the subject on a government-published transcript. Every branch is now engaged, on the record, with process that continues in the absence of headlines.
What has not changed is the evidentiary picture, and the honest reading of the record requires holding both facts together. AARO's FY2025 report resolved the substantial majority of its caseload as balloons, birds, aircraft, drones, and satellite flaring, and reiterated that no resolved case indicates breakthrough technology. Its director has said the evidence "just isn't there yet." The Department of War's own portal defines its released material as unresolved for want of sufficient data. The Secretary of State, asked directly about withheld proof, said that if the government knew, "there would be a primetime address." The most striking items in six releases — a gunship crew reporting objects that appeared to react to cannon fire, a Navy report of roughly a hundred objects off Virginia, a 2010 contractor study of unexplained injuries with no identified source — remain officially unresolved, and unresolved is not anomalous. For context on what "first contact" means as a concept, see What Is First Contact?
For the First.Contact domain, this is the strategic landscape as it actually stands: an institutional disclosure apparatus that is real, funded, multi-branch, and rolling, producing a record that is so far overwhelmingly prosaic. The open questions are concrete — whether the eminent domain provision survives conference, whether the NDA waiver produces testimony that changes the record, what the next tranche contains. The asset's positioning rests on the process, not on any answer to those questions. To understand how premium domains are valued in comparable situations, see The Largest Domain Name Sales in History.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is UAP disclosure?
UAP disclosure refers to the formal release by the U.S. government of classified information regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena — the current official term for what were historically called UFOs. Disclosure encompasses the declassification of videos, sensor data, witness testimony, and program records collected by the military and intelligence community over decades. The 2026 disclosure effort follows President Trump's February 19 directive ordering agencies to begin identifying and releasing such files.
What did Trump's disclosure directive do?
On February 19, 2026, President Trump directed the Pentagon and all relevant federal agencies to "begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly confirmed his teams are actively working on compliance. The directive triggered the current declassification process now coordinated between AARO and the White House.
What has PURSUE actually released?
Six tranches between May 8 and September 18, 2026 — approximately 445 files in total — drawn from the Pentagon, NASA, the CIA, the FBI, the DIA, the State Department, the Department of Energy, and local law enforcement, with records spanning the 1940s to 2026. Contents include military sensor footage, FBI witness interview summaries and artist renderings, Apollo-era audio and imagery, documentation of the DIA's 2008–2012 AAWSAP program, and historical documents such as the CIA's internal history of U-2 and OXCART flights, the 1952–53 Robertson Panel, and Project Blue Book files. Mainstream reporting has characterized the bulk of the footage as grainy and inconclusive. The Department of War's portal states that the archived material consists of unresolved cases — meaning the government could not make a definitive determination, frequently for lack of sufficient data.
What is AARO?
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is the Department of Defense office responsible for receiving, processing, and investigating UAP reports across all military branches and intelligence agencies. As of April 2026, AARO has accumulated over 2,400 case reports. On April 15, a senior War Department official confirmed AARO is "working in close coordination with the White House and across federal agencies to consolidate existing UAP records collections and facilitate the expeditious release of never-before-seen UAP information."
What is the UAP Disclosure Act?
The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act is legislation, modeled on the 1992 JFK Records Act, that would establish an independent review board to advise on declassification of UAP records, apply a presumption of disclosure, and — most consequentially — authorize the federal government to exercise eminent domain over recovered technologies of unknown origin held by private entities. A version passed the Senate 84–0 in 2023 but had its core provisions stripped in conference; it was excluded from the FY2026 defense bill. On July 22, 2026, the House adopted the full act as an amendment to the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act. The Senate has not yet passed its version of that bill (a July 14 procedural vote failed 50–46), so House–Senate conference has not begun. Whether the eminent domain provision survives conference is the open question.
What did the NDA waiver do?
In July 2026, President Trump directed the intelligence community to waive prior nondisclosure agreements for former government employees and contractors holding UAP-related information, enabling them to report through AARO or the PURSUE task force. The implementing ODNI memorandum, signed July 31, required each intelligence agency to establish a PURSUE designee within 30 days, and on September 14 the Department of War issued a parallel legal waiver for its own personnel that also covers Special Access Program indoctrination agreements. It is not a declassification order: reports are routed to cleared government representatives, not to the public. Its significance is that a longstanding advocacy demand became executive action, now implemented on both the intelligence and defense sides. The measurable baseline is small: AARO’s FY2025 annual report counted seven individuals, over the twelve months to May 30, 2025, whose claims warranted a follow-on interview. Later reports will show whether the waivers change that figure.
When is the next UAP file release?
The Department of War has published tranches on May 8, May 22, June 12, July 10, August 7, and September 18, 2026, and has stated that additional files will be released on a rolling basis. The interval between releases has lengthened over time, from two weeks to six. A four-week pause in June was attributed by officials to the transition from already-public material to the slower formal declassification of still-classified records. Releases have consistently been published on Fridays at war.gov/UFO and covered by major outlets within hours.
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