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A July 2023 House Oversight hearing featured public testimony from three former military officials, including David Grusch, alleging a decades-long government UAP retrieval and reverse-engineering program.
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AARO's first historical record report reviewed U.S. government UAP-related investigations back to 1945, finding no evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, crash retrievals, or reverse-engineering programs.
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Thousands of reports and radar-visual confirmations of triangular craft over Belgium, including a jet-scramble incident.
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Swiss farmer whose claimed decades-long telepathic and physical contact with extraterrestrial beings produced widely circulated but heavily disputed photographic evidence.
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Bob Lazar claims to have worked reverse-engineering alien craft at a secret 'S-4' site near Area 51; his account and educational credentials remain unverified and disputed.
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Artist turned self-taught UFO researcher whose hypnosis-based investigation methods for alleged abduction cases became widely influential and widely criticized.
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A silver metallic sphere filmed near Buga, Colombia; a radiologist-led team claimed it showed no welds and 'AI-decoded' symbols, but critics linked the footage to a metal-detector company's marketing campaign.
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University of Colorado study commissioned by the Air Force concluded UFOs did not warrant further scientific study, effectively ending Project Blue Book.
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Self-described secret space program whistleblower whose extensive claims of decades of covert off-world activity remain entirely unverified and widely disputed.
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Former intelligence official David Grusch publicly alleged the existence of a decades-long, multi-agency program retrieving crashed non-human craft; the claims remain uncorroborated.
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Temple University historian who spent decades using hypnosis-based interviews to research self-described alien abduction accounts, developing controversial theories about their purpose.
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Wisconsin farmer Joe Simonton claimed men aboard a landed craft gave him pancakes; a famously odd contact claim never substantiated.
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Astrophysicist who has worked on theoretical exotic propulsion concepts for Pentagon-adjacent programs and has publicly discussed UAP-related briefings he says he received.
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A widely circulated 2015 Navy infrared video appears to show a UAP rotating in place as it travels, a motion pilots involved described as inconsistent with a known aircraft.
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Former Roswell funeral home employee whose widely disputed testimony about small caskets and injured nurses became a significant source for later 'alien bodies' claims.
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Navy F/A-18 infrared footage of a fast-moving object over water off Florida; some analysts argue the apparent speed is a parallax illusion.
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Thousands of witnesses across New York reported boomerang-shaped light formations over several years; some researchers attribute the wave to organized ultralight-aircraft flights.
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Self-described former special operations contractor whose testimony to Congress in 2024 alleged personal knowledge of secret UAP-related retrieval activity.
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Former Defense Intelligence Agency official who managed the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program and later co-authored a controversial book on UAP retrieval claims.
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Unusual lights filmed from a cargo plane and TV crew off New Zealand's coast were later partly attributed to squid-boat lights and the planet Venus.
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Retired Army colonel and former national-security space official who has publicly supported David Grusch's account of a secret UAP retrieval program.
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A series of videos filmed from a Istanbul-area coastline allegedly show a formation of small metallic craft; widely regarded by video analysts as a probable hoax.
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A V-shaped formation of lights was photographed repeatedly over Texas; officially attributed to streetlight reflections off birds, an explanation some researchers contest.
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A farm couple's two photos of a disc-shaped object are among the most analyzed UFO images from the era.
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Former American University professor who left academia to found the field of 'exopolitics' and has promoted extensive claims about secret space programs.
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A wave of Michigan sightings that astronomer J. Allen Hynek initially attributed to swamp gas, a controversial explanation that spurred congressional hearings.
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Former Canadian Defence Minister who later became one of the most senior former government officials in the world to publicly assert that extraterrestrials visit Earth.
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A jellyfish-like light formation appeared over the Soviet city, later linked by some analysts to a contemporaneous rocket launch.
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Retired Army colonel whose posthumously controversial 1997 book claimed he personally oversaw the reverse-engineering of alien technology recovered at Roswell.
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Thousands witnessed a V-shaped formation of lights over Arizona; the Air Force attributed part of the display to flares from a training exercise.
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USAF personnel at RAF Bentwaters reported landed lights and radiation readings in nearby woods over several nights, documented in the Halt Memo.
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Retired Air Force officer who has spent decades publicizing his claim that a UFO caused nuclear missiles to shut down at Malmstrom AFB in 1967.
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Debris recovered from a New Mexico ranch in 1947, first announced as a 'flying disc' then a weather balloon; USAF later attributed it to Project Mogul.
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Decades of reported anomalous events at a Utah ranch studied by NIDS, BAASS, and later a government-linked program; no findings have been independently verified.
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Numerous Texas residents, including a former police officer, reported large bright lights; the Air Force initially denied and later confirmed a training exercise was underway.
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Emergency room physician who left clinical medicine to found the Disclosure Project and CSETI, advocating meditation-based contact initiatives with extraterrestrial beings.
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Arizona logger Travis Walton says he was abducted for five days in 1975, an account later dramatized in the film 'Fire in the Sky'.
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A Brazilian Navy photographer captured images of an object over a South Atlantic island, producing some of the most formally analyzed UFO photos.
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Brazilian residents and possibly military personnel reported encountering strange creatures after a reported UFO crash.
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Soviet state press reported children in a city park witnessing a landed craft and a giant humanoid figure; most researchers consider the account exaggerated by Soviet media.
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Radar and visual sightings over the capital twice in one month triggered a major press event and Air Force response.
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Co-author of an influential early Roswell investigation who later publicly admitted to working with intelligence sources in ways that fueled controversy over disinformation in ufology.