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War.gov
98 records: 77 cases, 14 documents, 4 organizations, 3 people · 1944–2026
Its 77 cases
Strength
A 23B 29C 19D 6
Plausibility
Very high 14High 52Moderate 11
On a line of years
19442026
Most connected
Central Intelligence AgencyAAROWright-Patterson AFB & 'Hangar 18'Luis ElizondoWitness profilePURSUE Release 07 (war.gov, 23 October 2026)Government release · 1949-2026 (documents); released 23 October 2026Project Blue BookA1959 · Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohiowar.gov/ufo: the files come outA2026 · Department of WarHal PuthoffWitness profile
Related topics
Cases 77
1944Foo fighters over EuropeA1944 · Rhine valley and the Pacific1946Ghost rockets over SwedenC1946 · Sweden and Scandinavia1947Kenneth Arnold sees nine 'saucers'B1947 · Mount Rainier, Washington1947Roswell: the Army's 'flying disc'A1947 · Roswell, New Mexico1947Twining memo and Project SignA1947 · Wright Field, Ohio1948Air Force Study 203: 'some object has been seen'B1948 · Air Intelligence, Washington1949Catalina Island reports, 1949-1955D1949 · Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro, California1949Green fireballs over the atomic labsA1949 · Los Alamos and Sandia Base, New Mexico1950The Great Falls filmB1950 · Great Falls, Montana1952Professor's luminous sphere over SassariC1952 · Sassari, Sardinia, Italy1952Saucers over the CapitolA1952 · Washington, D.C.1952The Tremonton filmA1952 · Tremonton, Utah1953Humming light over a B-29 at Prince GeorgeC1953 · Prince George airport, British Columbia, Canada1953Lights facing Soviet Chukotka from Little Diomede and GambellD1953 · Little Diomede and Gambell (St Lawrence Island), Alaska, facing the USSR1953Red lights in the Berlin air corridorC1953 · Berlin air corridor over the Soviet Zone, near Genthin, Germany1953Shape-changing radar returns in MoroccoC1953 · Detachment 2, 737th AC&W Squadron radar site, French Morocco1953The CIA's Robertson PanelA1953 · Washington, D.C.1953Transair DC-3 crew see a metallic disc over HassleholmC1953 · Over Hassleholm, southern Sweden1953Two ringed craft in formation over Seymour, IndianaD1953 · Seymour, Indiana1955Senator Russell's flying saucersA1955 · Between Baku and Tbilisi, USSR1956F-86D pilot outclimbed and circled by a light over GuamC1956 · Over Guam, Mariana Islands1956Objects over BudapestC1956 · Hungary1957B-52 paced by a radar unknown over Saudi ArabiaC1957 · Over Saudi Arabia, about 27N 47E1957F-86D ordered to fire on a giant radar target near ManstonB1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston, England1959Project Blue BookA1959 · Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio1962The Mercury astronauts' 'fireflies'A1962 · Earth orbit1964A 4,400 mph contact near Puerto RicoB1964 · Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range1965Astronauts see companyA1965 · Earth orbit1966Project Northern Tier: incursions at northern nuclear bases, 1966-1977B1966 · Minot AFB (North Dakota), Wurtsmith AFB (Michigan), Loring AFB (Maine) and other northern-tier SAC bases1967Missiles shut down at MalmstromB1967 · Malmstrom AFB, Montana1967The Soviet side of the storyA1967 · USSR1968UFOs over the HimalayasD1968 · Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan1969Apollo 11's unknown companionA1969 · Between Earth and the Moon1969Apollo 12 lights released by war.gov (VM001-VM005)B1969 · Ocean of Storms, Moon1969Apollo 12: lights 'escaping the Moon' and the tracking-light puzzleA1969 · Lunar orbit and ascent1972Apollo 17 three dots (war.gov VM006)B1972 · Taurus-Littrow, Moon1972Apollo 17: tumbling fragments and Cernan's distant 'flasher'A1972 · Translunar space1973Skylab's red objectB1973 · Earth orbit1976Jets lose weapons over TehranA1976 · Tehran, Iran1985Papua New Guinea's night of lightsC1985 · Papua New Guinea1993Lights in the Shuttle footageB1993 · Earth orbit1994Corkscrews at 41,000 feetC1994 · Over Kazakhstan1994The Ariel School encounterB1994 · Ruwa, Zimbabwe1996STS-80's unidentified objectB1996 · Low Earth orbit, Space Shuttle Columbia2002Bagram Airborne Triangle (FBI PURSUE file)C2002 · Bagram, Afghanistan2004The Nimitz 'Tic Tac'A2004 · Pacific, off Baja California2007Blue orb passes through a driver near DavisC2007 · Near Davis, California2008AAWSAP and AATIP: the secret Pentagon studyA2008 · Defense Intelligence Agency2009200-ft rotating cigar stops a car at Port JervisD2009 · Port Jervis, New York2009B-1-size triangle near Arkansas Nuclear One power linesD2009 · Near Dardanelle and Mount Nebo, Arkansas2009Boomerangs, missing time and a military search near NAS FallonC2009 · Near NAS Fallon, Nevada2009Landing, entity and jet search grids at Versailles, MissouriC2009 · Versailles, Missouri2009The Pentagon on the ranch: BAASS and the hitchhikersB2009 · Skinwalker Ranch, Utah; visitors' homes in Virginia, Maryland, Las Vegas and North Carolina2013The CIA admits Area 51 existsB2013 · Groom Lake, Nevada2020Tracking UAP over IranB2020 · Iran2021'Syrian UAP instant acceleration'C2021 · Syria (CENTCOM)2021Cold orbs versus an AC-130B2021 · Gulf of Oman2021The ODNI's preliminary assessmentA2021 · Office of the Director of National Intelligence2022Cheyenne Mountain "Potato" ObjectB2022 · Fort Carson / Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado2022Spheres in and out of the water near a submarineC2022 · At sea (location withheld)2023An F-16 shoots down a UAPB2023 · Lake Huron, Michigan2023Colorado officers film silent lightsA2023 · Colorado2023Federal agents' two-day encounterA2023 · Near a sensitive site, western U.S.2023Ninety-degree turns over the AegeanB2023 · Aegean Sea, Greece2024Drones over U.S. bases in EuropeB2024 · RAF Lakenheath, UK; Ramstein, Germany2024Spheres over the Yellow and East China SeasB2024 · Yellow Sea, East and South China Seas2024The FBI's northeastern orbsB2024 · Northeastern United States2024The New Jersey dronesB2024 · New Jersey, New York and beyond2025Orbs around a helicopterB2025 · Near a sensitive military site, western U.S.2025The Hellfire video hearingB2025 · House Oversight Task Force2025The White Sands lure and the shoot-down questionB2025 · White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (alleged)2026Elizondo back in government, under a crash-retrieval oathC2026 · Washington, DC2026Federal agents' black triangle at a national-security site (2026)B2026 · A withheld national-security site in the western United States2026Kennedy, Bigelow and the February 2026 directiveC2026 · Washington and Palm Beach2026Red lights and slow moversA2026 · Western United States2026The UAP Governance Board and Loeb's science councilB2026 · Washington, DC2026war.gov/ufo: the files come outA2026 · Department of War
Documents 14
AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs' (Twining memo, 23 September 1947)Government record · 23 September 1947BAASS monthly reports to DIA (March, April, June and November 2009)Government record · March-November 2009BAASS Project Management Plan for DIA (2 December 2008)Government record · 2 December 2008BAASS Summary Report on UAP Analysis Capabilities (23 November 2010)Government record · 23 November 2010BAASS Utah Ranch Investigation Report (April 2010)Government record · April 2010 (deployments 22-26 March and 19-23 April 2010)Final personnel record of Col. Howard M. McCoy, USAF (1954)Government record · 1930-1954 (retired 31 August 1954)MUFON white papers prepared for BAASS (November 2008)Government record · November 2008Project Capella: the BAASS UAP data warehouse proposal (10 December 2008)Government record · 10 December 2008PURSUE Release 07 (war.gov, 23 October 2026)Government release · 1949-2026 (documents); released 23 October 2026Review of UFO Transparency (ufotransparency.com)10 October 2026Sealed affidavit of the 1947 Roswell base public information officer (2002), as a DIA contract exhibitGovernment record · 2002 (attached to the BAASS plan, 2 December 2008)Space Council file on recovering space-vehicle fragments (1962-1964)Government record · 1962-1964 (EOP memo 29 May 1963)war.gov NASA-UAP-D001: Apollo 12 transcript (1969)1969 (released May 8, 2026)war.gov NASA-UAP-D002: Apollo 17 transcript (1972)1972 (released May 8, 2026)