Documented sightings involving military witnesses.
The signed FY2026 NDAA required Pentagon briefings on UAP intercepts by NORTHCOM/NORAD since 2004, a classification matrix, and streamlined reporting to AARO.
Late-2025 first-hand account by a serving senior U.S. intelligence official of oval orange light-emitting objects seen from a military helicopter; released May 22, 2026.
Military whistleblowers testified about UAP encounters at Vandenberg, aboard USS Jackson, and at Langley, while dramatic Yemen orb video was shown publicly for the first time.
Unidentified objects forced a police helicopter into emergency evasive action over US air bases in England, with 20+ objects reported over three nights.
AARO's annual report logged 757 new UAP cases with 21 'truly anomalous' incidents, as new director Kosloski admitted cases he cannot explain.
Video showed a US MQ-9 Reaper firing a Hellfire missile at an orb off Yemen -- the object appeared to absorb the strike and continue flying.
Two orange, semi-transparent irregular shapes observed for ~2 seconds over Syrian airspace; declassified May 8, 2026 via the PURSUE program.
Unidentified objects shut down Tianjin's international airport for three consecutive nights, grounding flights and prompting fighter jet scrambles across China.
Four oblong objects flying in rapid formation over the ocean near Iran; declassified May 22, 2026 via PURSUE Release 02.
Football-shaped UAP captured on INDOPACOM video in Pacific waters near Japan; declassified May 8, 2026 via the PURSUE program.
Unidentified drones repeatedly penetrated airspace over Langley AFB for 17 days, evading F-22s and prompting a multi-agency investigation.
CENTCOM infrared footage of a UAP near the ocean surface off Greece making 90-degree turns at ~80 mph; declassified May 8, 2026 via PURSUE.
Infrared tracking of a UAP off the UAE coast in October 2023; declassified May 8, 2026 via the PURSUE program.
Navy pilot Ryan Graves testified to Congress about daily UAP encounters off the East Coast, including a cube-in-sphere object, and founded Americans for Safe Aerospace.
F-16 weapon-system footage of the February 12, 2023 shootdown of an unidentified object over Lake Huron; declassified May 22, 2026 via PURSUE Release 02.
Infrared footage of an object over Columbus, Ohio that tilts and vanishes (Nov 1, 2022); declassified May 22, 2026 via PURSUE Release 02.
MQ-9 Reaper achieved a weapons-quality lock on a UAP that instantly accelerated and changed direction near the Jordan-Syria border; declassified May 22, 2026.
A small spherical object filmed crossing a countryside landscape (Oct 7, 2020), location undisclosed; declassified May 22, 2026 via PURSUE Release 02.
The USS Omaha tracked and filmed a spherical object that flew at 160 mph before submerging into the ocean, demonstrating 'transmedium' capabilities confirmed by the Pentagon.
Night vision footage from the USS Russell showed pyramid-shaped objects hovering over Navy destroyers during multi-ship encounters the Pentagon confirmed as genuine.
Pentagon intelligence officer Lue Elizondo resigned as AATIP director and became the leading public advocate for UAP disclosure.
Classified military footage captured a metallic sphere flying through the Mosul combat zone, shown to Congress as part of UAP briefings.
A Navy F/A-18 ATFLIR pod captured a small, fast-moving object skimming over the ocean — one of three officially released Pentagon UFO videos.
Navy pilots from the USS Roosevelt captured the Pentagon-confirmed 'Gimbal' and 'GoFast' infrared videos of objects displaying anomalous flight characteristics.
A Chilean Navy helicopter captured 9 minutes of infrared video showing an unidentified object expelling unknown material, which Chile's official UAP agency could not explain after 2 years of analysis.
A US Customs aircraft captured IR video of an object entering the ocean and splitting in two near Puerto Rico, analyzed in a 160-page scientific report.
Dozens of Texas residents observed a massive silent craft with military jets in pursuit, later confirmed by radar data showing the object near the presidential ranch.
Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz encountered and filmed a 'Tic Tac'-shaped object displaying physics-defying capabilities, confirmed by Pentagon-released video.
A Mexican Air Force surveillance plane recorded 11 objects on FLIR and radar that were invisible to the naked eye - and Defense Minister Gen. Vega García released the footage on Mexican TV in May 2004, the first state-sanctioned military UAP video release in the Americas.
Leaked notes allege a DIA Director was denied access to a program reverse-engineering non-human craft — consistent with later whistleblower claims.
Three women encountered a strange being in daylight in Varginha; military reportedly captured creatures, and a policeman who handled one died weeks later.
A commercial airliner was paced by a luminous UFO for 15 minutes while the entire city of Bariloche suffered a simultaneous blackout and airport instruments failed, with the Argentine government fully declassifying the investigation.
Military personnel at two RAF bases observed a massive triangular craft with a searching beam of light; investigated by the MoD's Nick Pope.
Two hikers photographed a diamond-shaped craft with a Harrier jet nearby in Scotland. The UK government classified the photos for over 30 years before one was released in 2022.
Over 13,500 witnesses across Belgium reported massive silent triangular craft, confirmed by police, radar, and Belgian Air Force F-16 intercepts.
Brazil scrambled five fighters to intercept 21 radar targets; the Air Minister held a press conference confirming 'we have technical evidence that something was there.'
Three witnesses encountered a diamond-shaped craft with military helicopter escort; all suffered severe radiation-like injuries and sued the US government.
US Air Force personnel at a NATO base in England reported close encounters with a triangular craft over multiple nights, supported by physical evidence and an official memo.
A Spanish airliner with 109 passengers made an emergency landing at Valencia after being shadowed by two bright objects; the Spanish Air Force scrambled a Mirage F1 that could not catch them - and the MoD's 1992 declassified file confirms the radar tracks.
A TV film crew captured footage of luminous objects simultaneously tracked on Wellington radar off New Zealand's coast, investigated by the RNZAF.
Brazilian Air Force 'Operation Saucer' investigated UFOs reportedly attacking residents with beams of light, producing over 500 photographs.
Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept a UFO over Tehran experienced weapons and electronics failures, documented by a declassified DIA report.
Thousands across the Canary Islands witnessed a massive luminous sphere; the Spanish Air Force investigation found no conventional explanation.
UFOs repeatedly hovered over nuclear missile silos at Malmstrom AFB, tracked by NORAD radar, as part of a broader wave at northern-tier military bases.
Unknown craft repeatedly hovered over the nuclear weapons storage area at Loring AFB during a wave of UFO incursions at nuclear bases across the US.
An alleged midair collision between a small plane and a UFO near Coyame, Mexico, reportedly led to a covert U.S. military crash retrieval operation.
A US Army helicopter was pulled upward 2,100 feet by an unknown force while a cigar-shaped object bathed it in a green beam, confirmed by ground witnesses.
Three NASA astronauts aboard Skylab 3 observed and photographed a bright red rotating object from orbit for over 10 minutes, with NORAD unable to identify any known object in the vicinity.
On December 11, 1972 the Apollo 17 crew described 'jagged angular fragments' tumbling past the spacecraft windows - 'the Fourth of July out of Ron's window.' The Pentagon re-classified the photographs from 'insulation' to 'potentially physical object' on May 8, 2026.
The Air Force allegedly filmed a UFO landing at Holloman AFB and offered the footage for a documentary before withdrawing it at the last moment.
Apollo 14 lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell - the sixth man on the Moon - became the most prominent US astronaut to publicly assert that the Roswell incident was real and that ETs visit Earth.
Apollo 12 photographs of bright unidentified objects above the lunar horizon were re-classified by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 from 'photographic artifact' to 'potentially the result of a physical object.'
Apollo 11 crew observed a luminous object pacing their spacecraft during translunar coast; the apocryphal 'they're warning us off' Armstrong transmission is the most-repeated UFO claim of the lunar era.
A B-52 crew and ground personnel at Minot AFB simultaneously tracked a large luminous object on radar that disrupted UHF communications near nuclear missile sites.
Multiple witnesses including RCMP officers saw an illuminated object crash into Shag Harbour; official Canadian government documents call it a 'UFO.'
A glowing UFO hovered over Malmstrom AFB while 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles simultaneously went offline with no technical explanation found.
A controlled fireball landed near Kecksburg, PA; witnesses described an acorn-shaped craft with hieroglyphics before the Army removed it under secrecy.
An Air Force tracking-station film of a 1964 Atlas-F missile test reportedly captured a disc-shaped object firing four light-flashes that knocked the dummy warhead off-trajectory - one of the foundational nuclear-UAP-interaction cases.
French soldiers during the Algerian War observed an enormous elliptical craft estimated at 250-350 meters wide, emitting green light and a concentrated beam, part of a pattern of wartime UFO sightings.
A photographer aboard a Brazilian Navy ship captured photos of a Saturn-shaped UFO over Trindade Island, endorsed by the Navy and the President of Brazil.
A USAF RB-47 reconnaissance bomber tracked an object on radar, electronic countermeasures, and visually for 700+ miles across multiple states.
Multiple radar stations and a fighter jet tracked UFOs over two RAF bases; the Condon Committee called it 'the most puzzling case in the radar-visual files.'
A secret CIA-sponsored panel of scientists met for four days in 1953 and recommended systematic debunking of UFO reports, establishing government policy that shaped the cover-up narrative for decades.
During NATO's first major maritime exercise, US, UK, Danish, and other allied crews logged multiple radar+visual UFO sightings across the North Sea - one of the earliest multinational military UAP clusters.
UFOs tracked on radar over the nation's capital on two consecutive weekends, triggering jet scrambles and the largest Pentagon press conference since WWII.
Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse filmed bright maneuvering objects over Utah; Navy analysis concluded they were 'intelligently controlled vehicles.'
USAF pilot George Gorman engaged in a 27-minute aerial dogfight with a maneuvering light over Fargo that outperformed his P-51 Mustang.
A Soviet pilot was scrambled to intercept a silver object over the USSR's most secret missile base; the object reportedly disabled his aircraft with a beam.
Captain Thomas Mantell died pursuing a large metallic UFO over Kentucky, becoming the first pilot death attributed to a UFO chase.
Declassified file documenting 209 green-orb and disk sightings around the Sandia Base atomic-weapons complex, 1948-1950; released May 22, 2026 via PURSUE Release 02.
The US military initially announced recovery of a 'flying disc' near Roswell, NM before retracting the statement, creating the most famous UFO controversy in history.
Over 800 UFO sightings in just two weeks during the summer of 1947 created a nationwide phenomenon that launched government investigations and permanently changed American culture.
Over 2,000 reports of rocket-shaped objects over Scandinavia prompted a Swedish military investigation that concluded 80% were unexplained.
Mysterious luminous spheres paced Allied bomber crews over Europe and the Pacific during WWII, feared as Axis weapons but never explained.
The US military fired over 1,400 anti-aircraft rounds at unidentified objects over LA weeks after Pearl Harbor, with a famous searchlight photo capturing the event.
Thousands of South Africans reported an advanced aerial vehicle performing impossible maneuvers in the weeks before WWI, part of the mysterious global 'phantom airship' wave that predated modern UFO sightings by decades.