UAP/UFO Research
Evidence-Based Investigation of Unexplained Aerial Phenomena
Exploring documented encounters, declassified government files, and scientific analysis of UAP cases. We present the facts, examine the evidence, and let you draw your own conclusions.
Our Approach to UAP Research
We maintain a balanced, evidence-based approach to UAP research. Our coverage focuses on well-documented cases with official records, credible witnesses, and verifiable evidence. We present both conventional and unconventional explanations, allowing readers to evaluate the data for themselves.
📂 Explore the UAP Document Archive
We hold and are working through nearly 29GB of official government UAP files: the 2026 US DoD PURSUE releases, the UK MOD X-files, and the Brazilian Varginha and Operação Prato records. Our archive hub explains what's in each collection and links every analysis we've published so far.
Browse the document archive →UAP Cases
The Roswell Incident
The US Army announced it had recovered a flying disc. Hours later it became a weather balloon. The intelligence officer who handled the debris spent 30 years saying that was a lie.
Read the Full Case →The Green Fireball Incidents
Brilliant green fireballs appeared repeatedly over America's nuclear weapons sites. Manhattan Project physicists investigated. The US government launched Project Twinkle and Project Grudge. After four years and hundreds of sightings, the files were classified. No explanation was ever given.
Read the Full Case →The Newfoundland KC-97 Incident
A tanker crew watched an unidentified object while ground radar tracked what appeared to be the same thing. The Air Force committee wrote that it was "unable to explain" the match, then told commanders to scramble fighters next time.
Read the Full Case →The Senator Russell Sighting
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee watched a flying disc rise vertically over Soviet territory. The CIA debriefed his party, stamped the file Top Secret, and spent a month working out whose it was.
Read the Full Case →RAF Lakenheath 1956
Three independent radar systems tracked a UFO over East Anglia for six hours. An RAF Venom night fighter locked onto it, then found it sitting on its tail. Called "the most puzzling radar-visual case" by the official Condon Report.
Read the Full Case →The RB-47 Encounter 1957
A USAF RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft was tracked by an unidentified object across four states for over 700 miles. Three independent sensors (visual, electronic, and ground radar) all confirmed the same target simultaneously.
Read the Full Case →Apollo 17's Unknown Companion
Astronauts Cernan and Schmitt tracked a rhythmically flashing, rotating object for 24 hours during the Apollo 17 mission. Houston tried to locate it. The crew rejected the official explanation. The exchange is in the NASA transcript verbatim.
Read the Full Case →The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident
Two Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantoms scrambled to intercept a brilliant UFO over Tehran. Both aircraft lost weapons systems and communications when closing to attack. Rated "an outstanding report" by DIA analysts.
Read the Full Case →The Chupa-Chupa Attacks
Villagers said beams of light were burning them at night. A doctor treated dozens of them, and Air Force investigators took their statements: names, ages, injuries. The cause was never found.
Read the Full Case →Operação Prato
Villagers said lights were burning them at night, so the Brazilian Air Force sent an intelligence team to watch the sky. Its signed conclusion: the objects were "intelligently directed". The mission files are public.
Read the Full Case →The 1978 Amazon Pilot Encounters
A Cessna pilot reported a near-collision with a metallic double oval; three weeks later another aircraft was paced for four minutes. The two reports are how Brazil's official UFO file ends.
Read the Full Case →Rendlesham Forest Incident
Britain's most famous UAP encounter involving U.S. Air Force personnel, physical trace evidence, and official military documentation. Multiple witnesses reported a triangular craft near a NATO base.
Read Full Case →The Art Wallace Narrative
A controversial alternative account of Rendlesham featuring staged encounters, alien beings, and underground facilities. Differs dramatically from official records. Presented for historical completeness.
Read Alternative Account →The Varginha Incident
Three girls saw a creature with red eyes in broad daylight. The army said it was a local man, then spent months investigating its own officers. The full 357-page inquiry is now online: Brazil's Roswell, with the paperwork to read.
Read the Full Case →The Ariel School Incident
Around 60 schoolchildren said a craft landed beside their playground and a being walked towards them. Interviewed within days by the BBC, Cynthia Hind and Harvard's John Mack, and disputed ever since.
Read the Full Case →The STS-80 Incident
Space Shuttle Columbia's crew photographed a bright, tumbling object on three frames of film during the longest shuttle mission ever flown. NASA released the photographs in 2026, still labelled unidentified.
Read the Full Case →The Phoenix Lights
Thousands of Arizona residents, including the state Governor, watched a silent, mile-wide V-formation cross the sky. The official flare explanation covers only half of what happened that night.
Read the Full Account →Types of Aliens & the Evidence
Every reported type of alien, sorted by the only thing that matters: real witnesses and evidence. The cases that hold up, the ones explained by owls and iguanas, and the confessed hoaxes we left out.
Read the Evidence →USS Nimitz: The Tic-Tac Encounter
Four US Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz strike group intercept a white, wingless craft performing manoeuvres beyond any known aircraft. The DoD officially confirmed the FLIR1 footage in 2020. The object has never been explained.
Read the Full Account →The Bagram Triangle Incident
Two pilots watched the stars go out over a wartime airbase as a silent 500-foot triangle passed overhead. One of them told the FBI 22 years later, and mentioned the lights he still sees on North Atlantic flights.
Read the Full Case →The Gulf of Oman Gunship Encounter
An AC-130J crew logged 25 "cold orbs" during live-fire training. Two hovered over a flare and left in the fraction of a second between the trigger pull and the cannon's recoil. The onboard recorder failed.
Read the Full Case →The Black Triangle Files
Four FBI witness interviews describing huge silent triangles, including two independent Colorado Springs sightings in the same month, both witnesses reporting visual distortion around the object.
Read the Full Case →The Tremonton Film Analysis
The Navy's photo interpreters measured the two most famous UFO films frame by frame and found 1,479g decelerations. Their verdict: birds, aircraft and balloons ruled out.
Read the Full Case →The Puerto Rico Encounters
A destroyer filmed its radar scope and an F-8 pilot watched a delta-shaped object leave him at Mach 3. The CIA's own spy-plane office put in writing that it wasn't theirs.
Read the Full Case →Project SIGN: The 1947–48 File
245 pages from the birth of official UFO investigation: the Twining memo, the order creating Project SIGN, and the letter admitting "vehicles from another planet" had not been ruled out.
Read the Full Case →The Pantex Plant Incident
A diamond-shaped object was tracked by ground surveillance radar and photographed over America's only nuclear weapons assembly facility. Sandia National Laboratories enhanced the images. Their conclusions remain classified.
Read the Full Case →The Northeastern Orb Cluster
Red and white plasma orbs appeared hundreds of times near one home over five years: caught on authenticated video, reported with radiation spikes, and finally witnessed by two FBI agents themselves.
Read the Full Case →The Cheyenne Mountain Incident
Five soldiers watched a matte, potato-shaped object hang silent over Cheyenne Mountain, then vanish when they looked away. The official "sunlight backscatter" theory was offered at low confidence, and the case stays open.
Read the Full Case →The Western U.S. Event
Over two nights, six federal agents in three separate teams watched an orange orb spit out smaller red orbs, formations hover for hours, and objects mimic cars. AARO could explain about 60%, and no more.
Read the Full Case →The Hellfire Missile & The Orb
Two U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones fired an AGM-114 Hellfire missile at an unidentified metallic orb over the Red Sea. The missile struck, and bounced off. Shown to Congress in September 2025.
Read Full Case →The 2025 Military UFO Encounter
A senior US intelligence officer watched orange orbs approach within ten feet of their helicopter, split into multiple objects, and then follow arriving fighter jets. Radar confirmed the contacts. This is their declassified account.
Read the Account →UAP & Nuclear Weapons: A 70-Year Pattern
From green fireballs over Los Alamos to missiles going offline at Malmstrom: a seven-decade, two-superpower pattern of UAP activity at nuclear weapons sites, documented in declassified records and military testimony.
Explore the Pattern →From the Blog
The latest UAP news, document releases, and ongoing investigations
Pentagon Buys Access to Hynek's UFO Files
AARO is buying access to the largest private UFO records collection in North America, including Hynek's Blue Book files.
Pentagon's 19 New UAP Videos
The fourth PURSUE release: 19 infrared clips, a 1996 tape that was "digitally altered", and three pilot debriefs.
Alaska UFO History: JAL 1628
JAL Flight 1628 in 1986, three objects shot down in 2023, and a new airline clip near the Aleutians.
Brazil's Secret Service Colares File
A confidential SNI report names a doctor, a priest and a photo of Venus. Here's what it actually says.
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About Our UAP Coverage
Watch The Stars has expanded beyond traditional astronomy to include evidence-based coverage of unexplained aerial phenomena. We believe that serious investigation of UAP encounters deserves the same rigorous, scientific approach we apply to astronomical research.
Our UAP research focuses exclusively on well-documented cases with verifiable evidence, official records, and credible witnesses. We present multiple perspectives and let the evidence speak for itself.