Significant UFO & UAP Events
A curated index of major UFO and UAP events, sightings, and disclosure milestones, cross-referenced with video testimonies and experiencer profiles from the archive.
Cash-Landrum Incident
Piney Woods, Texas
Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum encountered a diamond-shaped object emitting intense heat on a Texas road. All three suffered radiation-like symptoms requiring hospitalization.
Rendlesham Forest Incident
Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
Over two nights, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge reported seeing strange lights and a triangular craft in Rendlesham Forest. Deputy base commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt recorded observations on audio tape.
Parliament discussion on the Menace incident
The sighting was dismissed as a series of freak optical illusions.
Call for Federal Investigation by Senator Harrison Schmidt
It needed more investigation.
Schmidt Conference on Cattle Mutilations
The status of our intelligence community right now is such that something of this nature would not stay secret very long.
FBI Response to Senator Haskell
I regret to inform you that these actions do not constitute a violation of federal law.
UN General Assembly Decision 33426
What is missing so far is a UN member nation to introduce the implementing resolution.
UFO Hearing at the United Nations
This was the only truly official UFO event at the United Nations.
Ground Saucer Watch vs. CIA
We could be on the verge of gaining insight into UFOs that few individuals ever had.
Establishment of JAPON
The French government established the JAPON group in 1977 to study unidentified aerospace phenomena.
Alternative 3 Documentary
This fiction was in part based on solid evidence that Alternatives 1, 2, and 3 were seriously proposed programs.
House Resolution 151
The Puerto Rican people have a right to know the truth about this matter.
Tehran UFO Incident
Tehran, Iran
Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets were scrambled to intercept a bright object over Tehran. Pilots reported instrument malfunctions and weapons system failures when approaching the object.
Travis Walton Abduction
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona
Logger Travis Walton was allegedly struck by a beam of light from a hovering craft and disappeared for five days. Six coworkers witnessed the event and passed polygraph tests.
Request for Federal Investigation into Cattle Mutilations
I'm asking that the Federal Bureau of Investigation enter the case.
Senator Floyd Haskell's letter to the FBI regarding cattle mutilations
It seems to have progressed little except for the recognition at long last that the incidents must be taken seriously.
Privacy Act Amendments
The Privacy Act amendments give somebody the right to see government records about themselves.
Pascagoula Abduction
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being taken aboard an egg-shaped craft by robotic-looking beings while fishing on the Pascagoula River.
Project Blue Book Declassification
701 cases were officially labeled as unexplained.
House Committee on Sciences and Astronautics Symposium on UFOs
The Congress should investigate the rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects.
Symposium on UFOs
We recommend that Congress create an interdisciplinary mobile task force.
House Science and Astronautics Committee Symposium on UFOs
UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed surveillance.
Congressional Inquiry into UFOs
The Exeter case was brought up as an example of unexplained sightings.
Freedom of Information Act
It was a much more broad robust way for the public to access government information.
Gerald Ford's recommendation for a committee investigation
I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena.
Westall UFO Encounter
Westall, Melbourne, Australia
Over 200 students and teachers at two schools in Westall witnessed a grey saucer-shaped object descend into a field, hover, and then rapidly ascend.
House Armed Services Committee Hearing
Bluebook had no radar cases that were unexplained.
Congressional hearings on UFO phenomena
I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena.
House Armed Services Committee Closed Session on UFOs
As I expected some persons have ridiculed my call for a congressional investigation into unidentified flying objects.
House Armed Services Committee Meeting
The limited Project Blue Book staff did not possess the technical competence to properly identify the phenomena.
Hill Abduction
White Mountains, New Hampshire
Betty and Barney Hill reported being abducted by extraterrestrial beings while driving through rural New Hampshire. Their account, retrieved partly through hypnosis, became the first widely publicized alien abduction case.
Indictment of Harold J. Bernie
obtained money and property by fraudulently representing that his magnetic flux modulator was capable of producing energy from the atmosphere
Robertson Panel
A broad educational program should be put into place to strip the unidentified flying objects of the special status they have been given.
Executive Memorandum NSC 5510
This granted MJ-12 total autonomy and absolute secrecy.
Project Second Story
Project Second Story sought to recommend UFO action to the Canadian government.
Project Magnet
Canada began its first official investigation into UAP.
National Security Act
The National Security Act created America's first peacetime civilian intelligence organization.
General Accounting Office investigation into Roswell crash
The General Accounting Office was to later inform Jack Anderson that they felt they were getting a runaround.
National Security Act of 1947
The National Security Act of 1947 created the CIA without congressional oversight.
Roswell Incident
Roswell, New Mexico
An object crashed on a ranch near Roswell. The U.S. military initially reported recovery of a "flying disc" before retracting the statement. Decades later, witnesses came forward describing non-human debris and bodies.
Funding for Admiral Bird's Expedition
The government was prepared to take the position that any attempts by foreign powers to establish bases west of the 180th Meridian in the Antarctic would be considered an unfriendly act.
Congressional Briefing on UAP Technology
The United States government is in possession of technology that is not of this world.
Senate hearings on UAPs
Senator Gillibrand stated that nearly two dozen whistleblowers have testified.
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
No funds authorized to be appropriated... may be obligated or expended... for any activity relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena that is controlled under a classified program.
Congressional Briefing on UAPs
These objects have been flying over us for years; we don't know what most of them are.
UAP report every 90 days
Congress mandates a UAP report every 90 days.
Senate Select Subcommittee for Intelligence Review
They wanted input from everybody we supported.
Governo japonês admite dados de UAP
O governo japonês admite possuir dados de UAP, incluindo filmagens e vídeos.