Unidentified anomalous phenomena, the official name for what used to be called UFOs, have moved from late-night radio to hearings in the U.S. Congress. This page collects our reports on UFOs and UAP: official records, military sightings, hearings, whistleblower claims, and the fight over what governments still keep secret. Every story links to its original source, so you can read the document or report yourself.
From rumor to record
For decades, governments treated the subject as a joke or a cover story. That changed in December 2017, when The New York Times revealed the Pentagon’s secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and published Navy videos of objects that pilots could not identify. In June 2021, the U.S. intelligence community released its first public assessment: of 144 reports from military personnel, it could explain only one.
In 2022, the Pentagon set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to collect and investigate reports. In July 2023, former intelligence officer David Grusch told a House committee under oath that the U.S. runs a decades-long program to retrieve crashed craft of “non-human” origin. The Pentagon denies this. AARO’s historical report of March 2024 found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology, while its annual report later that year listed hundreds of new cases, many of them still unresolved.
A second House hearing in November 2024 heard further claims, including about an alleged secret UAP program called “Immaculate Constellation”. Since then, new releases of government files, more hearings in the U.S. and abroad, and new testimony keep the question alive: what do officials know that the public does not?
How we cover UFOs and UAP
- Documents first. We link the primary source wherever there is one: official reports, hearing records, released files, court papers.
- Claims are marked as claims. A whistleblower’s testimony is not proof, and an official denial is not the last word. We say who claims what, and what is confirmed.
- Unexplained means unexplained. When a sighting has a likely ordinary cause, such as drones, balloons, or satellites, we report that too.
Primary sources
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), U.S. Department of Defense: reports, case resolutions and released records
- Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, June 2021
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight: hearings of July 2023 and November 2024
