AARO reports, government disclosure, historical case files and sightings — covered without the hype
UAP research has a credibility problem, and it's mostly self-inflicted — decades of grainy photos and wild claims have made it easy to dismiss the whole subject. We take a different approach. Every article here works from what's actually documented: AARO's public reports, declassified files, congressional hearings, and named witnesses on the record, rather than anonymous forum posts.
That means covering the genuinely strange cases — the ones the Pentagon itself admits it can't explain — alongside the mundane ones, like a sighting that turns out to be a Starlink launch train or a weather balloon. We're as interested in ruling things out as we are in the unresolved cases, because that's what makes the unresolved ones worth taking seriously.
You'll find ongoing coverage of official disclosure efforts, deep dives into historical incidents, and analysis of new reports as they land. If you're here for the science of watching the sky rather than the unexplained, our space news and observing guides sections might be more your speed.
NASA has UFO images it can't explain, administrator Jared Isaacman has confirmed. What he actually said, and why his Mars comment might be the bigger story.
The Pentagon's fourth UFO file release covers a nuclear site lockdown, the 1949 green fireballs and new footage from near China. Here's what's really in it.
A new UFO whistleblower is talking to Congress — behind closed doors first. Why the SCIF-first strategy is a deliberate break from the Grusch playbook.
Avi Loeb is leading the White House's new UFO council, and scientists are pushing back. Here's what the critics say and why it matters.
UFOs over military bases forced F-22s to relocate from Langley, says ex-Pentagon official Christopher Mellon. Hundreds of incursions a year, and no answers.
A 1952 'flying saucer talk' by Project Blue Book chief Edward Ruppelt has sat in a private lab's archive for 74 years. Congressman Eric Burlison says MIT Lincoln Laboratory has now agreed to hand it over.
On 25 June, two US senators, four members of Congress and Harvard's Avi Loeb gather in a Senate hearing room for an all-day, on-the-record forum on UAP — and you can watch it live from the UK.
The White House has set up a UAP Governance Board and given Avi Loeb a science council to advise it. Here's what it is — and the catch nobody mentions.
The Pentagon's third UFO release describes orange 'mother orbs' launching red orbs over a US security site, plus Cold War spy-plane secrets and a recovered Himalayan disc. I've read the lot — here's what the files really say.
US lawmakers have named the 1996 Varginha UFO incident — Brazil's Roswell — in their demand for declassified files. Here's what they want, and why now.
David Grusch and four members of Congress stood on the Capitol steps today with three specific demands for President Trump — name the files, pass the law, protect the witnesses.
The US government released 57 UAP sensor videos in May 2026. We reviewed all 11 DoD-flagged 'Interesting' clips. Most show nothing. Three don't.
The US government just released six declassified UAP documents and 57 videos. We've read every page. Here's what's actually in them.
Hundreds of pages of formerly Top Secret NSA documents on UFO encounters have just been released. Cold War MiG scrambles, objects brighter than the sun, and spiralling blue lights — here's what was inside.
The Pentagon's first PURSUE release covered 162 files. A US lawmaker says the second batch will make that look like 'a drop in the bucket' — and it may focus on underwater UAP encounters.
The US just released 160+ declassified UAP files. Japan is already scanning them for local sightings. Here's why British UAP watchers should be paying very close attention.
Six annotated NASA photographs from Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 show luminous anomalies above the lunar surface. They appear in declassified government documents. Nobody has officially explained them.
Released via war.gov: Six federal agents in three independent teams watched an orange UFO orb repeatedly launch red orbs at dusk. Here's what the US government slides actually show.
The US government has published its first-ever batch of complete UAP case files — covering Apollo moon missions, military infrared footage, FBI witness interviews and incidents spanning eight decades. We've gone through them all.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Sean Hannity that the Bureau has delivered its 'first tranche' of UFO-related documents to a White House interagency committee — and that public release is coming 'very soon'.
Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' opens June 12. He says it has more truth than fiction, was sparked by a real Navy UAP report, and may answer questions posed by Close Encounters in 1977. Here's the real-world backdrop that makes this film unlike any UFO movie before it.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has personally reviewed classified materials of 'nonhuman origin' and is promising a public press conference once declassification completes. Here's exactly what she claimed — and what it means for UAP disclosure.
Kacey Musgraves watched three glowing orbs trail her flight from Texas to Nashville, changing colour, forming triangle patterns and keeping pace for 45 minutes. When she landed, both pilots told her: 'We see these every single night.'
Speaking at a public event in Phoenix on April 18, President Trump confirmed the Pentagon's UFO file review has turned up 'many very interesting documents' — and promised the first batch will be released 'very, very soon'.
The April 14 deadline for 46 classified UAP videos has passed with nothing released. Rep. Luna says 'nobody passed the letter to the appropriate authorities — how convenient.' The Pentagon says it's working on it. The pattern continues.
Rep. Tim Burchett has introduced a bill to permanently abolish AARO — while Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's demand for 46 classified UAP videos expires tomorrow. Two colliding congressional actions are putting the Pentagon's UFO programme under the most pressure it has ever faced.
Congress gave the Pentagon a hard deadline to release 46 classified UAP videos — Lake Huron shootdown footage, Coast Guard Tic Tac recordings, and a spherical craft filmed near a US submarine. The deadline passed. Here's what the videos show and why they're still hidden.
AARO's caseload has surged past 2,000 reports. A secret workshop brought 40 government, academic, and civilian researchers together. And a new whitepaper reveals the Pentagon is using AI to hunt for patterns in decades of sighting data.
Scientists re-examining 1950s Palomar Observatory sky survey photographs have found mysterious objects that appeared and vanished before any human satellite existed. Their peer-reviewed conclusions are impossible to dismiss.
The US government quietly registered two new .gov domains — alien.gov and aliens.gov — on March 18, 2026. The White House's only response: a smiling alien emoji and 'Stay tuned.'
Retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland — who commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson and briefly worked with Tom DeLonge's UAP research group — has been missing for three weeks. The FBI is involved, clothing has been found in Colorado, and a US congressman says he 'has a lot to say' about UFOs.
A whistleblower report delivered to Congress alleges the Pentagon has been running a secret programme called Immaculate Constellation for years — hoarding thousands of high-resolution UAP images and videos that the public has never seen.
A metallic sphere with no welds, unknown etchings, and nine internal microspheres landed in Buga, Colombia in March 2025. Is it alien technology, an art project, or something else entirely?
Trump's UAP disclosure order is real and recent. But claims that religious fundamentalists inside the Pentagon are currently blocking the release deserve careful scrutiny. Here's what's verified — and what isn't.
There's been a massive surge in public interest surrounding UFOs and UAPs, alongside renewed rumours that the U.S. government may finally be ready to disclose what it knows. We unpack what's real, what's rumour, and what Trump's announcement actually means.
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