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2020The Pentagon releases the videosA2020 · Department of Defense 2020The UAP Task ForceA2020 · U.S. Department of Defense (Office of Naval Intelligence)2020A UAP near the Strait of Hormuz whose observation line is missing from the release (2 October 2020)B2020 · Strait of Hormuz area (war.gov title); exact location not released 2020One UAP on full-motion video off Bushehr, Iran, on a mission with two lost-link events (16 September 2020)B2020 · Persian Gulf off Bushehr, Iran (MGRS 39R VM; war.gov says Strait of Hormuz)2020Three separate UAP observations on one ISR mission over the Persian Gulf (16 July 2020)B2020 · Persian Gulf (war.gov title; MGRS 39R VM and 39R UN)2020Tracking UAP over IranB2020 · Iran 2020Two range foulers circle each other, vanish "in 1/30th of a second", with strobes and noise jamming (27 October 2020)B2020 · not released (bullseye "ZIM 248/17"; war.gov title: "NA")2020"3 fast moving UAPs": two contrasts share the frame for 15 seconds (29 October 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020"Dual UAP" over the Gulf of Arabia: one contrast resolves into several (5 May 2020)C2020 · "Gulf of Arabia" (uploader title); CENTCOM 2020"Looks like a balloon": a weapons-quality track on a UAP at 31,000 ft (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")C2020 · "IVO 323'S" (location redacted; war.gov title says Arabian Gulf)2020"NAG UAP": a contrast tracked, lost and reacquired over the North Arabian Gulf (1 June 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility; "NAG" in the title probably means North Arabian Gulf (inference)2020"U/I small thermal signature": an operator-annotated infrared track (Arabian Gulf, 2020)C2020 · Arabian Gulf (CENTCOM)2020A "formation of unknown flying objects" tracked along the coast for two minutes (27 August 2020)C2020 · Persian Gulf, along a coast (MGRS 39R VM)2020A "spherical UAP" moving in and out of clouds over Afghanistan, replayed enhanced (23 November 2020)C2020 · Afghanistan, CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A 40-knot UAP and a pair at 278 knots in one mission report (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")C2020 · MGRS 34SCE7566990098 (Ionian Sea, about 36.05°N 19.62°E) and 35TQK1580995057 (Danube delta near Sulina, Black Sea coast, 45.08°N 29.74°E)2020A Navy helicopter crew sees three unknown small air contacts with no radar, IFF or ES returns (24 August 2020)C2020 · North Arabian Sea; war.gov title: Arabian Sea 2020A contrast crosses and is tracked (8 August 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A contrast drops through the frame over the Persian Gulf and fades into the grain (21 August 2020)C2020 · Persian Gulf (uploader title)2020A contrast that fades in and out and survives two sensor-mode switches (Arabian Gulf, 2020)C2020 · Arabian Gulf (CENTCOM)2020A contrast that fades in infrared and reappears in electro-optical (13 February 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A contrast that grows as the aircraft closes in (2020; "Middle East" in the title, "Southern United States" in the listing)C2020 · disputed: the file title says Middle East, but the war.gov listing location (as carried by the mirror) says Southern United States 2020A contrast that leaves and re-enters the frame several times (24 August 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A contrast tracked for three minutes until it fades; then a second appears (7 October 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A faint contrast clips the corner of an infrared frame (Arabian Gulf, 2020)C2020 · Arabian Gulf (CENTCOM)2020A five-minute infrared track with reticle cycling, then loss of track (Arabian Gulf, 2020)C2020 · Arabian Gulf (CENTCOM)2020A five-second diagonal crossing in AFRICOM (18 October 2020)C2020 · AFRICOM area of responsibility 2020A full-motion video of a UAP zoomed and tracked (16 September 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A one-second crossing in AFRICOM (16 October 2020)C2020 · AFRICOM area of responsibility 2020A possible UAP speeds up and turns east at 321 knots (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")C2020 · MGRS 34SDG9041417044 (the grid zone 34S lies in the central Mediterranean region, not the Arabian Gulf)2020A two-second crossing on full-motion video (17 September 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020An ISR crew records one UAP "transitting" over the Persian Gulf (8 August 2020)C2020 · Persian Gulf (MGRS 39R WL)2020An infrared track held centre-frame for a minute and a half (Arabian Gulf, 2020)C2020 · Arabian Gulf (CENTCOM)2020An object crosses the frame bottom to top three times (5 September 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020Eight separate crossings of the sensor view in five minutes (20 October 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020Four UAP pass beneath an ISR aircraft (MISREP 8799515, war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")C2020 · Arabian Gulf per war.gov title (location redacted in the report)2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: auto-tracked contrast grows in angular size (Eastern U.S., 2020)C2020 · Eastern United States 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: auto-tracked contrast leaves frame left (Western U.S., 2020)C2020 · Western United States 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: contrast repeatedly leaving and re-entering frame (Eastern U.S., 2020)C2020 · Eastern United States 2020NORTHCOM infrared clip: several small contrasts, one auto-tracked (Eastern U.S., 2020)C2020 · Eastern United States 2020Nine seconds of infrared: a contrast crosses the frame in two seconds (Arabian Gulf, 2020)C2020 · Arabian Gulf (CENTCOM)2020One "probable UAP", no mission impact (war.gov "Arabian Gulf, 2020")C2020 · grid given as "3SKT4255899519" (incomplete MGRS zone; location cannot be fixed)2020Range Fouler: maroon "deformed balloon" off the Atlantic coast (2020)C2020 · Atlantic Ocean (working area redacted)2020Range Fouler: small reflective object, sensor-tracked (Eastern U.S., 2020)C2020 · Eastern United States (working area redacted)2020The nuclear-submarine bait missionC2020 · Off the US East Coast 2020Two parts of an infrared recording of several contrasts (31 August 2020)C2020 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2020A round, cold object tracked in infrared making abrupt turns over the Gulf of Aden (4 September 2020)D2020 · Gulf of Aden (MGRS 38P LT)2020Range Fouler: a round, cold object with abrupt turns off Mirbat, Oman (15 October 2020)D2020 · Arabian Sea off Mirbat, Oman (MGRS 40Q BD 6.. 19..; the report says Gulf of Aden)2020Range Fouler: a solid white object makes "erratic moments" over the northern Gulf (14 May 2020)D2020 · northern Persian Gulf (contact at 28 31 4 N, 49 52 4 E as written, 20,000 ft)2020Range Fouler: one object overtaken by another, then three on screen (31 August 2020)D2020 · MGRS 39R WL 2.. (Persian Gulf region); war.gov title says "Japan, 2023"2020The two admirals and the blocked debriefD2020 · A US Navy training compound (Top Gun, NAS Fallon per a YouTube recap, unconfirmed)2021The ODNI's preliminary assessmentA2021 · Office of the Director of National Intelligence 2021American Airlines 2292 "Cylindrical Object"B2021 · northeastern New Mexico, near J-134 about 50 nm east of the Cimarron (CIM) VORTAC 2021Cold orbs versus an AC-130B2021 · Gulf of Oman 2021Corbell's pyramids and the diving sphereB2021 · Off San Diego 2021'Syrian UAP instant acceleration'C2021 · Syria (CENTCOM)2021A contrast tracked for 17 seconds over the East China Sea (9 June 2021)C2021 · East China Sea (INDOPACOM)2021A contrast tracked near the top of the frame for a minute (3 January 2021)C2021 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2021Four clips of a "spherical UAP" from one platform on 12 April 2021C2021 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2021The Galileo Project (Harvard, Avi Loeb)C2021 · Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts; observatory sites in Massachusetts, Colorado and near Las Vegas, Nevada (a Pennsylvania site is reported)2021PIA PK-304: the shiny object over Rahim Yar KhanD2021 · Near Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, Karachi–Lahore route 2022First UAP hearing in 50 yearsA2022 · House Intelligence subcommittee 2022Cheyenne Mountain "Potato" ObjectB2022 · Fort Carson / Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado 2022Gulfstream G650 "Racetrack" LightsB2022 · Pacific coast west of Los Angeles, en route to Hawaii 2022Iraq, 5 May 2022: two ISR sorties report 1-2 m "UAPs" at 80-180 mphB2022 · Iraq per war.gov's title for D106 (D109 is titled "Middle East"); Operation Inherent Resolve; MGRS grid zone 38S 2022Protection for UAP whistleblowersB2022 · U.S. Congress (FY2023 NDAA, section 1673)2022Screener "could not get a positive ID": a UAP over Iraq, 20 May 2022B2022 · Iraq (aircraft at MGRS 38S MC 85..; war.gov PR20 title says Kuwait)2022"Possible UAP/UAV" near Baghdad, not followed (1 December 2022)C2022 · near Baghdad, Iraq (MGRS 38S MB 4.8..)2022"Spherical UAP erratic movement": a EUCOM clip whose apparent performance AARO says was distorted by digital alteration (August 2022)C2022 · EUCOM area of responsibility 2022A "possible small UAP" off the Syrian coast on a night of Russian air activity (30 May 2022)C2022 · Eastern Mediterranean off Syria (aircraft at MGRS 36S XD; UAP first seen 37S BV 28..)2022A 21-second, slowed-down, altered clip of a "cigar shaped or fast spherical" UAP (15 October 2022)C2022 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2022A 29-second F/A-18 FLIR clip with a brief reticle lock (2022)C2022 · NORTHCOM area of responsibility 2022A UAP event lasting under a minute over Syria (31 July 2022)C2022 · Syria (MGRS 37S FU 2.., "KP 9")2022A phone video of a luminous phenomenon near Karaganda airport, Kazakhstan (March 2022)C2022 · near Karaganda International Airport, Kazakhstan 2022Five UAP cross an ISR feed over Iraq; one like a missile, four like birds (6 May 2022)C2022 · Iraq (MGRS 38S MC 53/54; war.gov title says "Middle East")2022Several UAP encountered near Columbus, Ohio (November 2022)C2022 · vicinity of Columbus, Ohio (uploader title); NORTHCOM 2022Spheres in and out of the water near a submarineC2022 · At sea (location withheld)2022Ancient Apocalypse on NetflixD2022 · Netflix 2022Four areas of contrast cross an infrared view over water: "4 UAP Formation Iran" (26 August 2022)D2022 · CENTCOM area of responsibility; the uploader title says "Iran ... over water"2022Four small contrasts among several tracked targets (13 June 2022)D2022 · CENTCOM area of responsibility 2022Kyiv observatory's 'Cosmics' and 'Phantoms'D2022 · Kyiv and Vinarivka, Ukraine 2023Colorado officers film silent lightsA2023 · Colorado 2023Federal agents' two-day encounterA2023 · Near a sensitive site, western U.S.2023"Several bright objects" above FL600 seen by a 77 EFS flight (31 March 2023)B2023 · North-east Syria, north-east of 'RLZ', probably Rmeilan Landing Zone (aircraft at MGRS 37S GA; war.gov title says 'Southern United States, 2020')2023366 more reportsB2023 · ODNI / AARO 2023An F-16 shoots down a UAPB2023 · Lake Huron, Michigan 2023Compton-Belkovich heat anomalyB2023 · Lunar far side 2023Four tic tacs off the USS JacksonB2023 · W-291 warning area, off Southern California 2023Imphal airport closed; the IAF sends RafalesB2023 · Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, Imphal, Manipur, India 2023NASA's UAP studyB2023 · NASA 2023Ninety-degree turns over the AegeanB2023 · Aegean Sea, Greece 2023The UAP Disclosure ActB2023 · U.S. Senate 2023The swarm over LangleyB2023 · Joint Base Langley-Eustis and Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia 2023Three people driving to a U.S. test site see a bright light and a silent bronze or metallic object vanish (September 2023)B2023 · a restricted test site in the United States (name and state redacted)2023A "bouncy ball"-shaped UAP keeps pace at about 424 knots for seven minutes (9 November 2023)C2023 · Syria (war.gov title; the narrative grid reads "37D ST 69...", likely 37S)2023A fifth-generation fighter films two infrared contrasts (20 January 2023)C2023 · NORTHCOM area of responsibility 2023CENTCOM infrared clip: 30-second track, partly occluded by the platform (Middle East, 2023)C2023 · Middle East (USCENTCOM area)2023CENTCOM infrared clip: 51-second track (Middle East, 2023)C2023 · Middle East (USCENTCOM area)2023CENTCOM infrared clip: two bright contrasts and a reticle-tracked dark one (Middle East, 2023)C2023 · Middle East (USCENTCOM area; no location given)2023CENTCOM infrared clip: two contrasts cross in one second (Middle East, 2023)C2023 · Middle East (USCENTCOM area; no location given)2023Colorado Springs: black triangle with red corner lights emerging from a "pixelated" cloud (October 2023)C2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado (exact site redacted)2023Colorado Springs: low, silent, "almost see-through" triangle over a back porch (October 2023)C2023 · Colorado Springs, Colorado (residence redacted)2023David Grusch comes forwardC2023 · The Debrief & NewsNation 2023Eglin AFB aircrew film a UAP (13 February 2023)C2023 · Eglin AFB area, Florida (uploader title); NORTHCOM 2023F-15E pair sees three possible UAP and a possible balloon near Shaddadi, Syria (21 February 2023)C2023 · near Shaddadi, north-east Syria 2023Grusch, Fravor and Graves under oathC2023 · House Oversight subcommittee 2023Italy 2023: 'drones' at airliner cruise altitudeC2023 · Italian airspace: near Milan (FL380), Brindisi (FL340), Olbia, Padova, Turin 2023Rizhao: 'preparing to shoot down' an unidentified objectC2023 · Sea off Rizhao and Qingdao, Shandong; Shijiazhuang Zhengding airport, Hebei, China 2023Romania and Moldova: MiG-21s scramble at a balloon-like objectC2023 · South-east Romania and Soroca, Moldova 2023Ross Coulthart's witnessesC2023 · NewsNation 2023The Las Vegas backyard beingsC2023 · Northwest Las Vegas, Nevada 2023Three infrared contrasts held in a fixed formation for two minutes near Japan (2023)C2023 · Japan (war.gov listing; INDOPACOM)2023Two UAP, one "thermal showed cold", logged by an ISR aircraft from Al Dhafra (24 October 2023)C2023 · Gulf of Oman / UAE area (aircraft at MGRS 39R YJ and 39R XK; war.gov title: United Arab Emirates)2023A civilian reports a large blue triangle hovering near a national security facility (March 2023)D2023 · Pacific Time Zone, USA (facility not named)2023A committee of 27 and a threat to killD2023 · Washington, D.C.2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 19-second track (Yellow Sea, 2023)D2023 · Yellow Sea 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 49-second track (Yellow Sea, 2023)D2023 · Yellow Sea 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 59-second track (East China Sea, 2023)D2023 · East China Sea 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: 98-second track (Yellow Sea, 2023)D2023 · Yellow Sea 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: contrast tracked until platform occludes sensor (Yellow Sea, 2023)D2023 · Yellow Sea 2023INDOPACOM infrared clip: magnified track (Yellow Sea, 2023)D2023 · Yellow Sea 2023Marshall Space Flight Center ISS feed, May 2023D2023 · Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville 2023Three lights from Cyprus to the BalkansD2023 · South of Cyprus to the Balkans, in flight 2024A diamond-shaped UAP with a "probe", seen only in short-wave infrared, at about 434 knots (25 January 2024)B2024 · eastern Mediterranean south of Greece (aircraft at MGRS 35S QT, flying from Larissa, LGLR); war.gov title: Greece 2024A glowing hot sphere with a vertical "pole" skims the Gulf of Oman at 140 knots (7 June 2024)B2024 · Gulf of Oman (aircraft at MGRS 40R FM 60..); war.gov title: United Arab Emirates, October 2023 2024A hot object "flies" through the sensors during a Griffin missile shot near Ayn al-Asad (20 September 2024)B2024 · Ayn al-Asad Air Base restricted operating zone "RAINDROP", Iraq (aircraft at MGRS 38S KC 55..)2024A low UAP outpaces the ISR aircraft following it over the Gulf of Aden (14 July 2024)B2024 · Gulf of Aden (MGRS 38P MT)2024Drones over U.S. bases in EuropeB2024 · RAF Lakenheath, UK; Ramstein, Germany 2024Spheres over the Yellow and East China SeasB2024 · Yellow Sea, East and South China Seas 2024The FBI's northeastern orbsB2024 · Northeastern United States 2024The New Jersey dronesB2024 · New Jersey, New York and beyond 2024'Exposing the Truth' hearingC2024 · House Oversight 2024A "football-shaped" object with three radial projections over the East China Sea (2024)C2024 · East China Sea (INDOPACOM)2024A "spherical UAP pulsing over water", held centre-frame (date not given)C2024 · not given (over water, per uploader title)2024A Coast Guard C-144 records "tic tac", IR-hot objects near Tyndall AFB (24 April 2024)C2024 · near Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida (uploader titles); "Southeastern United States" (war.gov listing)2024A U.S. aircraft keeps "eyes on" an oval or orb-shaped possible UAP for over two hours (31 October 2024)C2024 · not released (war.gov title: "NA")2024About 100 objects off the Virginia coastC2024 · Off the coast of Virginia 2024An infrared contrast tracked for 1 min 39 s (INDOPACOM, 2024)C2024 · INDOPACOM area of responsibility (no closer location)2024Greenland: the Narsarsuaq lightsC2024 · Narsarsuaq, South Greenland 2024Poland's radar object that was never foundC2024 · Entered opposite Chervonohrad, faded near Tyszowce, Lublin province, Poland 2024An 8-minute, digitally altered clip of four contrasts titled "UAP USO Formation" (date not given)D2024 · not given 2024An INDOPACOM UAP clip reissued at 8x speed, stabilised and enhanced (date not given)D2024 · INDOPACOM area of responsibility 2024Elizondo's book: ImminentD2024 · Book 2024Glare and a "misshapen ball of white light" cross an ISR camera over Syria (20 October 2024)D2024 · Syria (aircraft orbiting at MGRS 37S FU 44.., 20,088 ft)2024Jesse Michels' guestsD2024 · American Alchemy 2024The 'Jellyfish' over IraqD2024 · Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq 2025Carbon nanotubes in far-side soilB2025 · Apollo basin, lunar far side 2025Drones close Europe's airportsB2025 · Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Brussels 2025Jake Barber and the golden eggB2025 · NewsNation 2025Orbs around a helicopterB2025 · Near a sensitive military site, western U.S.2025The Age of DisclosureB2025 · SXSW, then Prime Video 2025The El Paso airspace closuresB2025 · El Paso and Sierra Blanca, Texas 2025The Hellfire video hearingB2025 · House Oversight Task Force 2025The White Sands lure and the shoot-down questionB2025 · White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (alleged)2025A two-second, barely visible infrared contrast over Djibouti (2025)C2025 · Djibouti (AFRICOM)2025Blue Ghost's unexplained lightingC2025 · Mare Crisium 2025CENTCOM EO/IR clip: contrast moving left to right (Middle East, 2025)C2025 · Middle East (USCENTCOM area)2025CENTCOM infrared clip: three-second crossing (Middle East, 2025)C2025 · Middle East (USCENTCOM area)2025Middle East, 29 July 2025: AFSOC crew reports six small spheres changing direction "simultaneously"C2025 · Middle East (USCENTCOM; Operation Inherent Resolve; location redacted)2025Middle East, 29 October 2025: ISR crew tracks a "white round orbit" at up to 500 mphC2025 · Middle East (USCENTCOM; Operation Inherent Resolve; location redacted)2025Two round, white-hot UAPs heading south at about 240 knots (war.gov "Djibouti, 2025")C2025 · MGRS 35SQT3423692957 (eastern Mediterranean by grid zone); war.gov title says Djibouti 2025Genkai nuclear plant: three lights and Japan's first UAP policy pushD2025 · Kyushu Electric's Genkai nuclear power plant, Saga, Japan 2025Two brief "possible UAP" sightings by a U.S. aircraft in INDOPACOM (10-11 April 2025)D2025 · U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility (no closer location released)2026Red lights and slow moversA2026 · Western United States 2026war.gov/ufo: the files come outA2026 · Department of War 2026Federal agents' black triangle at a national-security site (2026)B2026 · A withheld national-security site in the western United States 2026The Arab al-Aramshe objectB2026 · Arab al-Aramshe, Western Galilee, Israel 2026The UAP Governance Board and Loeb's science councilB2026 · Washington, DC 2026Unidentified drones over Toulon during exercise TyphonB2026 · Toulon naval base, DGA Toulon and the 54e régiment d'artillerie at Hyères (Var), France; restricted zone LF-P 62 2026An Army sensor tracks two infrared contrasts (North America, 2026)C2026 · North America (war.gov listing); reported by the Department of the Army 2026Drones over Australia's F-35 baseC2026 · RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales, Australia 2026Elizondo back in government, under a crash-retrieval oathC2026 · Washington, DC 2026Kennedy, Bigelow and the February 2026 directiveC2026 · Washington and Palm Beach 2026Taiwan's CCK air base closed by an unidentified droneC2026 · Ching Chuan Kang air base, Taichung, Taiwan 2026Unknown objects pass within feet of a BA airliner and RAF jets (UK Airprox Board, 2026)C2026 · Guildford, Surrey; North Sea off Cromer; danger area D323 off the Yorkshire coast; United Kingdom 2026Gimhae airport closed for lights over the baseD2026 · Gimhae International Airport, Busan, South Korea 2026Grusch on Rogan: retrievals, beings and the threatsD2026 · The Joe Rogan Experience #2560 2026Lublin's flying object: heard by residents, caught on military radar, never found (Poland, 2026)D2026 · Zalew Zemborzycki and gmina Niedrzwica Duża, south of Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland 2026Three pilots report an unknown object at Nuremberg airport at night (Germany, 2026)D2026 · Albrecht-Dürer-Airport Nürnberg (NUE/EDDN), Bavaria, Germany 2026Ukraine's armed forces UAP procedureD2026 · Ukraine