"I think disruption is good. Because disruption leads to truth.” Congresswoman Nancy Mace Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee member

TIMELINE

The Outcome Counseling UAP Timeline offers a U.S.-based 187-entry chronology dating to 2004, the year of the infamous Tic-Tac incident. For an incident to be included, statements and evidence could be traced to multiple trustworthy sources. For a publication to be included, it needed to be published by a reputable journal or publisher or shared on an open-access repository dedicated to scholarly articles.

*A guide to initialisms and acronyms is found blow this timeline

** A guide to using "UAP" and "UAPs" is found below that

May 2025  For the first time ever, AARO releases a video of a UAP, and this eight-minute video shows an orb "captured by an infrared sensor aboard a U.S. platform in the Middle East in 2023"

 May 2025  Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp air the third interview with "Immaculate Constellation" author Matthew Brown, who reports, "Humanity to some level is a resource to" UAP occupants

May 2025  Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp air the second of three interviews with Matthew Brown, and this time this guest shares, "We live in a dream, a carefully-constructed reality"

May 2025  Among more than 2,500 Joe Rogan Experience episodes, most viewed is the June 2019 interview of filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and alleged Area 51 S-4 scientist Bob Lazar (64 million views)

May 2025  Physicist and EarthTech International leader Hal Puthoff appears on Joe Rogan Experience and reports the U.S. possesses more than ten UAPs, and other nations have their own recovered craft

April 2025  Harald Malmgren, senior aide to five presidents, confesses on his deathbed he was briefed by the CIA that the U.S. has craft, and when he held UAP material it telepathically communicated with him

April 2025  Investigative journalist George Knapp reports UAPs have visited all facilities where nuclear assets are researched, designed, developed, processed, built, stored, fueled, tested, deployed, or detonated

April 2025  Astrophysicist and AATIP subcontractor Eric Davis reports to politicians and researchers that recovered UAPs "are not of Earth" and "are not made by human hands"

April 2025  Congressman Eric Burlison reports whistleblower David Grusch provided HOC with names of twenty people read-in to programs and adds they're active or retired but most he has "never heard of"

April 2025  Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp air the first of three interviews with Matthew Brown, who shares he went public because, "My biggest fear is what humanity will do to itself out of fear and greed"

April 2025  Eric Burlison comments on David Grusch being added to UAP Caucus, "We were kind of operating in the dark.... And now we've got somebody who's turned on a flashlight"

April 2025  SAFIRE video of a Tic-Tac recorded by USS Jackson sailors in 2023 is leaked, and retired senior chief operations specialist Alexandro Wiggins confirms the video is real and he saw four craft

April 2025  Jeremy Corbell reports the author of the "Immaculate Constellation" document met with members of Congress and confirmed "there are thousands of videos" of UAPs secreted from the public

April 2025  OSTP director Mike Kratsios reports at Endless Frontiers Retreat, "Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space," though it's undetermined if his comments were figurative or literal

April 2025  Skywatcher UAP research and contact endeavor classifies UAPs into nine categories including Tetra, Tic-Tac, Blob, Beam, Manta Ray, Bright Star, Jellyfish, Hornet, and Egg

March 2025  Former Navy fighter pilot Alex Dietrich reports the Tic-Tac "didn't adhere to our understanding of physics and gravity and all the aerodynamics that we study and really live and die by"

March 2025  The paper "The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena" by Philippe Ailleris et al. is shared on the open-access repository arXiv 

March 2025  SCU reports AAWSAP "produced more than 100 research papers on UAPs, some of them more than 100 pages long," but none "have ever been seen by Congress or the public"

March 2025  Former AATIP director Lue Elizondo confirms "biological samples" were recovered from crashes before he worked for AATIP and expands, "It may sound crazy, but that doesn't mean it's not true"

February 2025  Existence of the FBI UAP Working Group is confirmed, and it's mission is to "gather, share, and analyze intelligence to combat security threats facing the U.S."

February 2025  HCOGR announces formation of a task force dedicated to declassifying government information and presenting "information for Americans to determine the truth" in "the dawn of a new era"

February 2025  The paper "How Much Time Do We Have Before Catastrophic Disclosure Occurs?" by Matthew Szydagis is published in the journal Limina

January 2025  White House policy briefing given to the incoming Trump administration proposes appointment of an EADT senior advisor within the NSC to monitor UAPs capable of "kinetic strikes"

January 2025  Congressman Tim Burchett reports an admiral observed through SONAR a UAP "the size of a football field" traveling "hundreds of miles an hour," yet the fastest U.S. sub tops out at 40 miles per hour

January 2025  In his policy brief Lue Elizondo warns UAPs can't "be distinguished entirely from UAS and other EADT" and "the presence of UAPs and UASs around U.S. nuclear facilities is especially disturbing"

January 2025  Lue Elizondo reports AARO remains "mired in bureaucracy, overly siloed, and unable to achieve its mission" of tracking and analyzing UAPs "across the air, space, and sea domains"

December 2024  NUFORC receives 3,988 reports this year (609 fewer than year prior)

November 2024  "The Prospect of Executive Branch Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Secrecy" by Peter Skafish is published as a Sol Foundation white paper

November 2024  Reports of "drones" begin, objects are spotted over ten military and three nuclear facilities, no anti-drone measures are effective, anomalous behavior is recorded, and ten federal agencies respond

November 2024  Retired Army colonel Karl Nell presents "The UAP Hilbert Problems" at a Sol Foundation symposium and offers a five-phase disclosure campaign that concludes with "NHI Engagement" 

November 2024  AARO director Jon Kosloski reluctantly admits to SASC Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee members, "We do have some very anomalous objects"

November 2024  AARO publishes its 2024 annual report, and of the 757 cases reported, 465 (61%) remain unexplained, including two cases of military pilots "being trailed or shadowed by UAPs"

November 2024  Lue Elizondo, Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold, and Michael Shellenberger testify under oath within a congressional hearing, confirming much information about a governmental secret program

November 2024  Lue Elizondo warns that UAPs are not domestic or foreign adversary craft and "are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe"

November 2024  Retired Navy rear admiral Tim Gallaudet reports the government is "engaging in a disinformation campaign to include personal attacks designed to discredit UAP whistleblowers"

November 2024  Former associate administrator of NASA's OIIR Mike Gold observes that "for decades this topic has been suffering from a stigma that has prevented much needed study and public discourse"

October 2024  Journalist Michael Shellenberger confirms "the U.S. government is not being straight with the American people," and UAPs are surveilling "sensitive military assets, including nuclear missile silos"

October 2024  A former or current DOD employee submits a twelve-page document to Michael Shellenberger detailing the government's UAP USAP Immaculate Constellation

October 2024  Congresswoman Nancy Mace vets the Immaculate Constellation document, posts it on her official website, and wryly states, "Come at me, Bro" if threatened with a FISA warrant for surveillance

August 2024  The paper "Eye on the Sky" by Gerald Tedesco and John Tedesco is published in Open Journal of Applied Sciences

August 2024 Lue Elizondo's book Imminent is published 

July 2024  NUFORC receives its 150,000th report since 1974, and adjusting for hoaxes and explainable sightings, this organization at this point has received 15,000 authentic yet unexplainable reports

June 2024  UAP Disclosure Fund is founded and led by Lue Elizondo, Karl Knell, and Garry Nolan with a mission "to bring truth to the public about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena"

June 2024  The paper "UAP Indications Analysis, 1945-1975, United States Atomic Warfare" by Sean Grosvenor et al. is published in Limina

June 2024  "Anomalous Health Threats Health Security Considerations for UAPs" by Sol Foundation is published as a Sol Foundation white paper

June 2024  Major City Chiefs Association publishes an eleven-page document to guide police officer UAP reporting, noting these craft "represent a domain awareness gap" and "a clear and present danger"

May 2024  Karl Nell presents his talk "The Real Black Swan Event" and says, "Nonhuman intelligence has been interacting with humanity" and these interactions "are not new" and have been "ongoing"

May 2024  The paper "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure as Ontological Shock?" by Tim Lomas is published in Journal of Humanistic Psychology

April 2024  The paper "Who Sees UFOs?" by Sophie Ali et al. is published in Journal of Scientific Exploration

April 2024  NASA publishes a report that, in part, recommends furthering research programs and destigmatizing the UAP conversation to encourage open discourse and information sharing

April 2024  Congressman Rob Wittman reveals he learned of "a very disturbing trend at Langley AFB" in which UAPs "hovered over critical assets with utter impunity" and were uneffected by anti-drone measures

April 2024  The Pentagon releases declassified documents that demonstrate there indeed was a proposed DHS program called Kona Blue, which intended to retrieve UAPs and their occupants

March 2024  AARO publishes its annual report and grudgingly admits that "some UAPs still defied conventional explanation, warranting ongoing study"

March 2024   "Beneath the Surface" by Tim Gallaudet is published as a Sol Foundation white paper

March 2024  Eight members of congress pen a letter to House leaders, demanding further examination of UAPs and complaining of the DOD and IC's "lack of cooperation" being a "major barrier" to progress

March 2024  Former DOD analyst Marik von Rennenkampff states AARO's report is "misleading" and "like so much government UFO-related propaganda... tells the reader just to move on, nothing to see here”

March 2024  AARO publishes "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP," to which critics quickly comment, "The whole thing is a joke" 

February 2024  A football-sized Tic-Tac rapidly approaches, and nearly collides with, a DHS Beechcraft King Air 350C at 20,000 feet and then travels sixty, twenty, thirty, and ten miles "all within seconds"

January 2024  IGIC Thomas Monheim briefs HOC National Security Subcommittee members who are seeking "to track down exactly what the military thinks" UAPs are

January 2024  Jeremy Corbell releases the Chandelier FLIR video that was leaked to him, and it shows a bizarre star-shaped UAP airborne over the Persian Gulf Region in 2018

January 2024  Eric Davis shares that he worked with David Grusch from 2020 to 2022 and that Grusch "heard no rumors" about UAPs but instead got correct information

January 2024  Jeremy Corbell releases the Jellyfish FLIR video that was leaked to him, and it shows a strange and sinister-looking UAP flying over Al Taqaddum Air Base in Iraq in 2018

December 2023  NUFORC receives 4,597 reports this year (726 fewer than year prior)

December 2023  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposes UAP transparency legislation and comments, "It's clearly in the public interest to get to the bottom of" incidents

December 2023  USMC publishes a document that explains UAP reporting procedures, which includes chronicling attempts to "destroy the phenomenon" and recover downed UAPs

December 2023  Chuck Schumer shares, "We have also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which if true is a violation of laws"

December 2023  Tim Gallaudet reports during an interview with Ross Coulthart that when it comes to UAPs the "genie's out of the bottle" and Americans have the "right to know the new nature of reality"

November 2023  Sources reveal to Daily Mail that the U.S. has recovered at least nine UAPs, "some wrecked from a crash, and two completely intact," with the CIA's OGA coordinating recoveries since 2003

November 2023  Space Force publishes Space Domain Awareness that notes guardians must respond to "objects that exhibit abnormal... patterns of life" and "cannot be correlated to any owner or point of origin"

October 2023  A group of Boeing contractors at a Vandenberg SFB launch facility witness a "football-field-sized" red square approach the site from the Pacific, hover, and then dart over the nearby Purisima Hills

October 2023  DOD and ODNI release their annual report on UAPs that concludes these objects "present potential safety of fight concerns" and exhibit "one or more concerning performance characteristics"

September 2023  CBP release twelve FLIR videos of UAPs, and one of them shows a high-temperature orb chasing an A-10 Thunderbolt, the chase filmed from ground-based FLIR under 2x zoom

September 2023  The book In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart is published as a revised and updated edition

August 2023  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff general Mark Milley reports "a lot" of UAP sightings can be explained, but "there are some that are really kind of weird and unexplainable”

August 2023  Tim Burchett forms the bipartisan UAP Caucus, a congressional group "dedicated to the study, disclosure, and policy development surrounding" UAPs

August 2023  Whistleblowers speak with congressman Marco Rubio, who comments, "Most of these people have held very high clearances and high positions within our government"

July 2023  Congressman Matt Gaetz watches the military Gulf of Mexico incident video and states he is unable to attribute what he sees "to any human capability that I am aware of"

July 2023  Tim Burchett attends a classified meeting in a SCIF in regard to the military Gulf of Mexico incident and later describes it as "a great briefing on some really scary stuff" but won't elaborate

July 2023  David Fravor, Ryan Graves, and David Grusch testify under oath within a congressional hearing, reporting the U.S. has retrieval and back-engineering programs and UAPs pose flight safety risks

July 2023  Former Navy pilot and flight instructor Ryan Graves reports, "I have witnessed advanced UAPs on multiple sensor systems firsthand," and they "are a national security and an aviation safety problem"

July 2023  Former Navy pilot David Fravor states the Tic-Tac he engaged "was far superior in performance" to his F/A-18F Super Hornet and did not operate within "known aerodynamic principles"

July 2023  Former UAPTF member and NGIA intelligence officer David Grusch reports the U.S. is running a clandestine "multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program"

June 2023  NASA's UAP Independent Study Team publicly discusses its preliminary observations and reports the field is challenged by overall stigma and witnesses being fearful of ridicule

June 2023  The Debrief publishes Blumenthal and Kean's article on David Grush, the first time this man's name is heard, and this former intelligence officer claims the U.S. has retrieved UAPs and nonhuman pilots

June 2023  National security and counterterrorism official Mike Waltz warns UAPs must be taken "incredibly seriously," and they're either adversarial tech "we can't explain" or are "other worldly"

May 2023  USMC issues orders that Marines are to report incidents, notes UAPs are craft that "exceed known performance envelopes," and warns they may cause "physiological [and] psychological effects"

May 2023  AARO publicly discusses its structure and initial findings, dismisses most sightings as "airborne clutter," and frustratingly admits "a significant number of incidents remained unexplained"

May 2023  Members of the Applied Physics team analyze the 2006 Chicago O’Hare incident and deduce it could have been a warp drive UAP that can manipulate the spacetime continuum 

May 2023  The RAND Corporation's "Not the X Files" is published and concludes that "being located near an MOA was associated with predicted increases in the rate of UAP sightings"

April 2023  Kelleher, Knapp, and Lacatski's book Skinwakers at the Pentagon is published, and in the intro they lament those who study UAPs are "often ridiculed as ignorant rubes," which bars intelligent dialog

April 2023  AARO releases a full-color video of a metallic orb flying over an active Middle Eastern combat zone, its appearance and behavior being consistent with other "orb observations in the region"

April 2023  SCU research concludes that from 1947 to 1951 UAP activities were focused on nuclear weapons assembly, production, stockpile, test, an deployment sites, especially if ICBMs were present

March 2023  "UAP Pattern Recognition Study, 1945-1975, U.S. Military Atomic Warfare Complex" by Larry Hancock et al. is published as an SCU white paper

February 2023  Ryan Graves establishes Americans for Safe Aerospace "to raise awareness of UAPs as an aviation safety and national security issue"

February 2023  The book UFO of God by Chris Bledsoe is published

January 2023  Jeremy Corbell releases a full-color screenshot of the Mosul Orb from a video recorded by U.S. reconnaissance aircraft during April 2016 and leaked to him 

December 2022  NUFORC receives 5,323 reports this year (1,546 more than year prior)

December 2022  Congress approves Public Law 117-263 that protects "current or former government employees or contractors who held security clearances" who wish to speak openly of their UAP work

December 2022  President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA that seeks to standardize "collection, reporting, and analysis" of UAPs, and it includes the term "non-human intelligence" for the first time in legislative history  

November 2022  "The Hermetic Penetrator" and Daniel Elizondo's 45,000-word paper "Loose Threads" that centers on people involved in UAP SAPs is made available to the public for free

October 2022  NASA forms its sixteen-member UAP Independent Study Team to examine unclassified data in an attempt to "shed light on these phenomena" while embracing transparency

September 2022  David Fravor reports Navy aircrews recovering training weaponry above the Puerto Rico Trench had a submerged object the size of a small island take the weaponry and descend into the depths 

August 2022  Lue Elizondo confirms he is now working for Space Force, a branch reportedly "taking the topic of UAPs very seriously"

September 2022  The Navy admits it possesses UAP-related videos and photographs but denies public access because these images "contain sensitive information pertaining to UAPs and [remain] classified"

July 2022  AARO supersedes AOIMSG with a mission to examine "unidentified objects in space, underwater, and transmedium" and mitigate "threats to operations, security, and national safety"

June 2022  Institute for Exotic Science cofounder Amy Eskridge mysteriously dies, and former SOF officer Franc Milburn claims she was killed by a private aerospace company via directed energy weapon

June 2022  NASA announces its intention to conduct an independent study on UAPs to "advance the scientific understanding of these phenomena" that pose "flight safety and national security concern"

June 2022  The article "UAP Survey and Recon of the 1947 U.S. Atomic Capability" examines 850 sightings from 1947 and concludes UAPs mostly visited military and nuclear sites and the rail lines connecting them

May 2022  Canada Parliament member Larry Maguire holds a private Zoom call with David Grusch about when disclosure should happen, intelligence sharing, and "NORAD's role in UAP data collection"

April 2022  Forensic neurologist Christopher Green reports to Daily Mail he worked for the DOD to examine "hundreds of patients who were injured or died after interacting with" UAPs

April 2022  The FAA issues an alert to its operations managers that a commercial aircraft over West Virginia experienced a double altitude and double autopilot failure when a UAP flew above it

February 2022  UAPTF group led by ODNI's NIM-A travels to Canada to give a classified briefing to ten officials within that nation's Royal Air Force, Intelligence Command, and National Defense organizations

December 2021  NUFORC receives 3,777 reports this year (3,742 fewer than year prior)

December 2021  Former CIA director John Brennan states UAPs may be "something that we don’t yet understand" and could involve what "some might say constitutes a different form of life"

November 2021  SECDEF deputy secretary Kathleen Hicks announces creation of the Pentagon's AOIMSG, which replaces UAPTF, and its mission is to synchronize efforts to detect and identify airborne objects

October 2021  Lue Elizondo comments on Theories of Everything Podcast that people should be prepared to question "the very history of our species, the meaning of what it means to be a human being"

September 2021  Congressman Ruben Gallego pushes through House legislation requiring the SECDEF to oversee "the timely and consistent reporting" of incidents that will replace "a total lack of focus"

August 2021  It's revealed the FAA "captures data related to UAPs" and provides it to UAPTF, admitting, "FAA generally ingests this data when pilots and other airspace users report unusual or unexpected events"

July 2021  The Galileo Project is founded with a mission "to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures… to the mainstream of transparent, validated, and systematic research"

July 2021  Lue Elizondo alludes to an "extremely clear" 23-minute video recorded by an MQ-1 Predator UAV at a foreign nuclear facility that shows three luminous orbs "tormenting" the UAV from fifty feet away

July 2021  David Grusch reports to OIG the government is studying UAPs, there's no formal reporting of observations and investigations, and OIG should inquire with USAF regarding recoveries

June 2021  Former ODNI and CIA director John Ratcliffe reports UAPs have been detected on satellites and are "technologies that we don’t have and frankly that we are not capable of defending against"

June 2021  ODNI releases a report that shows 143 of 144 (99%) incidents examined could not be explained and that a flight safety issue is present

April 2021  Former CIA director James Woolsey recounts an incident in which a friend of his had his aircraft flying at 40,000 feet "paused" and "stopped operating as a normal aircraft," as if frozen in space and time

February 2021  American Airlines Airbus A320 traveling at 36,000 feet at 460 miles per hour encounters a cylindrical UAP, the FBI investigates, and the DOD becomes involved in the investigation

January 2021  BAASS founder Robert Bigelow reports phenomena follow experiencers, calling the enigmas "hitchhikers" and admitting, "Things happened to my wife and to me in different places"

December 2020  NUFORC receives 7,519 reports this year (1,013 more than year prior)

September 2020  Former assistant SECDEF Christopher Mellon reports SBIR "has recorded unidentified objects that entered Earth’s atmosphere" and then "maneuvered or changed direction"

August 2020  UAPTF is formed "to improve the understanding of UAPs and assess their potential threats to U.S. national security" by examining aerial encounters, especially those experienced by military pilots

July 2020  Public affairs leads Joseph Gradisher of the Navy and Susan Gough of OSD seek to control UAP FOIA requests, admitting "FOIA offices coordinate with us on UAP-focused FOIA responses"

July 2020  Eric Davis shares that he gave a classified briefing to a DOD agency about the successful retrievals of "off-world vehicles not made on this Earth"

July 2020  Blumenthal and Kean's The New York Times article "No Longer in Shadows" is published and reports AATIP members know objects of unknown origin crashed on Earth and were retrieved

April 2020  The DOD authorizes the official release of the "FLIR 1," "Gimbal," and "Go Fast" FLIR videos already leaked to the public

March 2020  UAPTF and ONI compose a briefing for HASC that includes at least seven photos of UAPs and states the military must "destigmatize reporting of nearly daily incursions"

February 2020  UAPTF and ONI compose a briefing for HPSCI that communicates UAPs are a national security and flight safety risk and are "most common around U.S. training and testing areas"

December 2019  NUFORC receives 6,506 reports this year (2,872 more than year prior)

December 2019  Orbs traveling in groups of up to twenty are witnessed across Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska, and despite 57 agencies investigating these sightings, the objects remain unexplained

December 2019  Knuth, Powell, and Reali's paper "Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles" analyzes the Tic-Tac that appears "to violate the laws of physics"

September 2019  Congressman Mark Walker accuses the Navy of withholding UAP reports and comments, "There is frustration with the lack of answers to specific questions about the threat that [UAPs]… pose"

October 2019  Eric Davis gives classified briefings on "retrievals of unexplained objects" to SASC and SIC members, likely speaking of back-engineering efforts and exotic materials analysis

July 2019  USS Omaha off the coast of San Diego tracks a UAP on FLIR, and control room staff watch it "seamlessly transition from air to sea without a splash or crash debris," and a search for it proves fruitless

July 2019  Three airborne triangles harass the USS Russell at night and then slip effortlessly into the Pacific, Jeremy Corbell leaks night vision footage of this incident, and the Pentagon admits the footage is authentic

July 2019  The FBI, Coast Guard, and Navy investigate incidents in which UAPs swarmed at least five naval ships, these events being "far more extensive in scale than previously understood"

June 2019  Senator Mark Warner, then SIC vice chairman, and other senators attend a classified Pentagon briefing "about a series of reported encounters by the Navy with unidentified aircraft"

June 2019  The War Zone reports that in 2014 and 2015 military surveillance and fighter aircraft encountered UAPs on an almost daily basis, one of them being a charcoal cube inside a translucent sphere

April 2019  The Navy drafts "new guidelines for pilots and other personnel to report encounters with unidentified aircraft," thus creating "a formal process to collect and analyze the unexplained sightings"

April 2019  LLNL staff report a "round silver drone" flying over this DOE NNSA facility that develops and tests explosives and electron beams  for military applications, and the craft disappears "really high up"

March 2019  Lue Elizondo is asked at an SCU conference, "Have we attempted to shoot down any UAPs... recovered any tech or beings, dead or alive?" and replies, "I can’t answer those questions"

March 2019  Weapons systems officer aboard an F/A-18 Hornet operating in Virginia takes a series of daytime photos of three UAPs resembling a "sphere," an "acorn," and a "metallic blimp"

February 2019  Diane Pasulka's book American Cosmic is published

December 2018  NUFORC receives 3,634 reports this year (1,579 fewer than year prior)

December 2018  John Burroughs, 1985 Rendlesham Forest experiencer, reports he was given "a briefing on remote viewing" by Hal Puthoff and Christopher Green "to enhance his psychic abilities"

October 2018  Eric Davis states a UAP crashed in Del Rio, Texas, in 1955 and there was "a successful crash retrieval" of this downed UAP first seen by USAF F-86 Sabre pilot Robert Willingham

June 2018  The paper "A Study on Reported Contact with Non-Human Intelligence Associated with Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" by Robert Davis, et al. is published in Journal of Scientific Exploration

June 2018  UAPx member and former NASA researcher Kevin Knuth warns that "strange flying objects that outperform the best aircraft in our inventory and defy explanation may indeed be visitors from afar"

February 2018  A Phoenix Air Learjet 36, American Airlines Flight 1095, and an Airbus A321 over Arizona have "independent close encounters with a strange craft flying at around 40,000 feet"

December 2017  NUFORC receives 5,213 reports this year (625 fewer than year prior)

December 2017  Cooper, Blumenthal, and Kean's The New York Times article "Glowing Auras and Black Money" is published and regarded as an expose of the DOD's retrieval and back-engineering programs

December 2017  Existence of AATIP is made public, and it's revealed this program was established in 2007 with intelligence operative Lue Elizondo as director

October 2017  Lue Elizondo resigns from AATIP in protest, stating, “There remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation”

October 2017  SCU is formed to "conduct, promote, and encourage rigorous scientific examination" of UAPs and "share credible data with the public, the media, the government, and scientific institutions"

December 2016  NUFORC receives 5,838 reports this year (1,228 fewer than year prior)

December 2015  NUFORC receives 7,066 reports this year (1,761 fewer than year prior)

February 2015  John Podesta, former White House aide to two presidents, admits, "My biggest failure of 2014 [was] not, again, securing the disclosure of the UFO files"

January 2015  It's revealed that early in the following year MUFON will create a new database to archive "size, shape, color, flight characteristics, date, and location" related to incidents

December 2014  NUFORC receives 8,827 reports this year (500 more than year prior)

June 2014  In Independence, Missouri, a security guard and a deputy sheriff watch two balls of light and a UAP hover near Army Ammo Plant, a fighter jet arrives, circles twice in search of something, and leaves

December 2013  NUFORC receives 8,327 reports this year (1,821 more than year prior)

May 2013  Stanford School of Medicine immunologist and pathologist Garry Nolan begins working for the DOD to examine physical injuries people have sustained from being near UAPs  

April 2013  Crew members aboard a DHS DHC-8 capture the Aguadilla UAP on FLIR as it flies over Rafael Hernández Airport, Puerto Rico, and then seamlessly merges into the Atlantic at 100 miles per hour

December 2012  NUFORC receives 6,506 reports this year (785 more than year prior)

December 2011  NUFORC receives 5,721 reports this year (850 more than year prior)

February 2011  In conjunction with AAWSAP and DIA, DHS proposes the SAP Kona Blue to retrieve UAPs and "non-human biologics" and back-engineer recovered craft

December 2010  NUFORC receives 4,871 reports this year

October 2010  USAF personnel at Francis E. Warren AFB in Wyoming see a large UAP above a missile field, and later that day the missile site loses communication with fifty Minuteman III ICBM nuclear weapons

September 2010  Former USAF captain Robert Salas and five other veterans compose and sign affidavits that state UAPs "can neutralize nuclear missiles at U.S. and Russian bases"

August 2010  The book UFOs by Leslie Keen is published

March 2010  The DIA document "Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues" discusses the physical and psychological injuries experiencers have sustained

February 2009  BAASS forms a relationship with MUFON in which BAASS is to be notified of all UAP reports and given investigation information and physical evidence "within hours" of an incident

February 2009  AAWSAP now consists of "a fifty-strong team of PhD and master's-level scientists, technicians, engineers, analysts, military intelligence professionals, program managers"

January 2009  AAWSAP investigates the Tic-Tac incident, and naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Axelrod and his team conclude in a thirteen-page report that it wasn't U.S., Chinese, or Russian tech

November 2008  BAASS is awarded a Documatica Research contract and classifies and analyzes sightings and Skinwalker Ranch anomalies, and the database has 248,141 reports beginning 593 BC

September 2008  AAWSAP is established by the DIA as "a research program that investigated various unexplained aerial phenomena and advanced aerospace technologies"

January 2008  The Stephenville, Texas, incident takes place in which witnesses watch orbs that look like "burning magnesium," while radar tracks acceleration from 0 mph, to 532 mph, to 49 mph in 40 seconds

November 2006  United Airlines flight pilots descend toward Chicago O'Hare, encounter the UAP ground personnel were watching, and report it has "no visible markings… no openings for windows or doors"

November 2006  A disc is observed by a dozen United Airlines ground personnel at Chicago O'Hare, it climbs instantaneously, punches a perfect hole through a cloud at 1,900 feet elevation, and disappears

January 2006  MUFON institutes a database system, inputting 70,000 alleged incidents "that had been submitted by the public and investigated by certified MUFON field investigators"

November 2004  USS Princeton radar technicians state two unknown individuals reached the ship via helicopter, retrieved the data recordings of the Tic-Tac encounter, and left as quickly as had arrived

November 2004  CSG Eleven naval pilots encounter the Tic-Tac that outmaneuvers the group with ease, at one point traveling from a hover at 28,000 feet to a hover at sea level in 0.78 seconds

November 2004  As part of CSG Eleven, the USS Princeton detects "as many as twenty anomalous aerial vehicles, which could not be identified" on its radar systems

April 2004  Former HUD assistant secretary Catherine Austin Fitts and economist Chris Sanders determine $3.4 trillion of Pentagon spending up to 2001 remains undocumented and claims some "was UAP related"

March 2004  A large red orb follows the USS Ronald Reagan along the East Coast and hovers above its flight deck, but commanders "continued normal operations" and ordered ship log pages destroyed

Guide to initialisms and acronyms

AARO ("arrow") = All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office

AATIP ("A-tip") = Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

AAWSAP ("AWW-sap") = Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program

AFB = Air Force Base

AOIMSG ("OHM-sog") = Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group

BAASS ("bass" – like the fish) = Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies

CBP = Customs and Border Protection

CIA = Central Intelligence Agency

CSG = Carrier Strike Group

DHS = Department of Homeland Security

DIA = Defense Intelligence Agency

DOD = Department of Defense

EADT = Emerging All-Domain Technologies

FAA = Federal Aviation Administration

FISA ("FIE-zuh") = Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 

FLIR ("fleer") = Forward-looking Infrared

FOIA ("FOY-yuh") = Freedom of Information Act

HASC ("hask") = House Armed Services Committee

HCOGR = House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

HOC = House Oversight Committee

HPSCI ("HIP-see")= House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

HUD ("hud") =  Department of Housing and Urban Development

IC = Intelligence Community

ICBM = Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

IGIC = Inspector General of the Intelligence Community 

LLNL = Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

MOA = Military Operations Area

MUFON ("MOO-fonn") = Mutual UFO Network

NASA ("NASS-uh") = National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NDAA = National Defense Authorization Act

NGIA = National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

NHI = Non-human Intelligence

NIM-A ("NIM-uh") = National Intelligence Manager for Aviation

NNSA = National Nuclear Security Administration

NSA = National Security Agency

NSC = National Security Council

NUFORC ("NEW-fork") = National UFO Reporting Center

ODNI = Office of the Director of National Intelligence 

OGA = Office of Global Access

OIIR = Office of International and Interagency Relations

ONI = Office of Naval Intelligence

OSD = Officer of the Secretary of Defense

OSTP = Office of Science and Technology Policy

OUSD(I&S) ("O-U-S-D I and S") = Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security

SAFIRE ("SA-fire") = Stabilized Advanced Field of View Imaging and Reconnaissance Equipment

SAP ("sap") = Prospective Special Access Program

SASC = Senate Armed Services Committee 

SBIRS ("SIBB-errs") = Space Based Infrared System

SCIF ("skiff") = Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SCU = Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

SECDEF ("SEKK-def") = Secretary of Defense

SFB = Space Force Base

SIC = Senate Intelligence Committee

SOF = Special Operations Forces

SONAR ("SO-narr") = Sound Navigation And Ranging

UAPTF = UAP Task Force

UAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

USAF = U.S. Air Force

USAP ("U-sap") = Unacknowledged Special Access Program

USMC = United States Marine Corps

USO = Unidentified Submersible Objects

Guide to correctly using "UAP" and "UAPs"

From to Reuters, to AARO, to NewsNation, writers cannot grasp correct use of "UAP" and "UAPs." Their misstep stems from thinking that since UAP means "unidentified anomalous phenomena" this initialism "is already plural." Actually, initialisms are singular lexical units. Thus writing "He observed two UAPs" is just as correct as writing, "The engine exploded at 7,000 RMPs, [revolutions per minute]," "The player batted in four RBIs [runs batted in]," and "The POWs [prisoners of war] were fed MREs [meals ready to eat]."