"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 US-based 234-entry chronology dating to 2004, the year of the infamous Tic-Tac UAP incident. For an entry 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 below the timeline.  A cantankerous guide to the proper use of "UAP" and "UAPs" is found below that.

November 2025  Former AAWSAP director James Lacatski completes part two of a Weaponized interview and reveals UAPs incorporate "abnormal aspects of reality" to perhaps "teach us something"

November 2025  James Lacatski completes part one of a Weaponized interview and reveals Kona Blue is operating secretly, AARO is a disinformation campaign, and the US is attempting to back-engineer UAPs

October 2025  USAF veteran and whistleblower Dylan Borland reports he attended a briefing where he saw photographs of a Tic-Tac UAP that was reportedly recovered during an archaeological dig

September 2025  Among more than 2,400 JRE episodes, the most viewed one remains the June 2019 interview of Jeremy Corbell and alleged Area 51 S-4 scientist Bob Lazar (65.2 million views and counting)

September 2025  Five pure UAP podcasts now have 180,000+ YouTube subscribers: Steven Greer Official (815k), Area 52 (419k), Weaponized (368k), Eyes on Cinema (222k), Richard Dolan Disclosure (188k)

September 2025  "Immaculate Constellation" author Matthew Brown reports on Weaponized that his home was broken into and evidence suggested it was meant to intimidate him and his family

September 2025  Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna confirms the US has been in contact with Russia in hopes to learn more about UAPs, Luna stating, "We're not the only country that's actually looked into this"

September 2025  Within a congressional UAP hearing, congressman Eric Burlison shares a leaked FLIR video from an MQ-9 Reaper drone of a Hellfire missile bouncing off an orb over Yemen in 2024

September 2025  Within a congressional UAP hearing, Dylan Borland testifies that those who hold UAP knowledge have had their careers sabotaged and been assaulted or murdered by gatekeepers

September 2025  Dylan Borland, George Knapp, Jeffrey Nuccetelli, and Alexandro Wiggins testify under oath within a congressional UAP hearing, reporting UAP activity and whistleblower character assassination

August 2025  During his JRE appearance, Garry Nolan comments on UAP occupants, "They could be post-biological or even some form of consciousness that doesn’t require a body”

August 2025  During her JRE appearance, congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna attests UAPs embody technology well beyond human capabilities and exist in an alternate spacetime continuum  

August 2025  Vice president J.D. Vance comments, "I'm obsessed with the whole UFO thing.... What were those videos all about? What's actually happening? I haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet"

July 2025  Former F-15 pilot and incoming USAF under secretary Matthew Lohmeier shares his sighting of an orange orb that "wasn't manmade" and was "buzzing with life" in the mountains of Arizona

June 2025  After being sued by UAP Register, USAF releases a video of a disk UAP, recorded by an MC-12 Liberty reconnaissance aircraft, flying at high altitude while emitting no traditional thermal signatures

June 2025  Jeremy Corbell releases a full-color segment of the Mosul Orb video recorded by an MC-12W Liberty reconnaissance aircraft or MQ-9 Reaper drone over Mosul, Iraq, during April 2016 

May 2025  For the first time ever, AARO releases a video of a UAP, and the eight-minute video shows an orb "captured by an infrared sensor aboard a US 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 the guest shares, "We live in a dream, a carefully constructed reality"

May 2025   During his JRE appearance, physicist and EarthTech International leader Hal Puthoff reports the US possesses more than ten intact UAPs, and other nations have their own recovered craft

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

April 2025  George Knapp reports UAPs have visited all US 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 the names of twenty people read-in to programs and adds they're active or retired but most he's "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 his "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 UAP 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: Tetra, Tic-Tac, Blob, Beam, Manta Ray, Bright Star, Jellyfish, Hornet, Egg

March 2025  Former USN fighter pilot Alex Dietrich reports the Tic-Tac UAP "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 says, "It may sound crazy, but that doesn't mean it's not true"

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

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 is given to the incoming Trump administration that 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 US 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 US 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"

January 2025  DOE releases a video of a diamond UAP breaching the perimeter of the Texas Nuclear Weapons Site during September 2015, and it's reported a security team pursued it for several miles 

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 report, and of the 757 cases examined, 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 UAP 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 USN 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 US government is not being straight with the American people," and UAPs are surveilling "sensitive military assets, including nuclear missile silos"

October 2024  Though it's not revealed until almost a year later, an MQ-9 Reaper drone fires a Hellfire missile air-to-air at an orb off the coast of Yemen, and the orb is not downed despite a direct hit

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 300-page Imminent is published by William Morrow and soon ranked on Amazon as sixth in UAP books, eighth in space science books, and eighth in unexplained mysteries books

July 2024  NUFORC receives its 150,000th report since 1974, and adjusting for hoaxes and explainable sightings, this organization has received 15,000 authentic and 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 the journal 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 officers on UAP reporting, noting craft "represent a domain awareness gap" and "a clear and present danger"

May 2024  Karl Nell presents "The Real Black Swan Event" and states, "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  AARO releases declassified documents that demonstrate there indeed was a proposed DHS program called Kona Blue, which intended to study UAPs NHI, and accompanying phenomena

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 US Government Involvement with UAP," to which critics quickly comment, "The whole thing is a joke" 

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

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 and instead got accurate 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" UAP incidents

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

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 US 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  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 fight concerns" and exhibit "one or more concerning performance characteristics"

September 2023  CBP releases 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 at 2x zoom

September 2023  Ross Coulthart's 380-page In Plain Sight is published by Harper Collins and is soon ranked on Amazon as 30th in ancient and controversial knowledge books and 41st in UAP books

August 2023  Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, comments, "There is a lot of unidentified aerial phenomena... difficult to explain... 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  DOD IG releases a report critical of DOD data collection and analysis, reporting a "lack of a comprehensive, coordinated approach," which threatens our military and national security

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's Gulf of Mexico incident video and 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's Gulf of Mexico UAP 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 UAP hearing, reporting the US has retrieval and back-engineering programs and UAPs pose flight safety risks

July 2023  Former USN 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 USN pilot David Fravor states the Tic-Tac UAP 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 US 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 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 the former intelligence officer claims the US 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 manipulated the spacetime continuum 

May 2023  "UAP Reporting and Material-Disposition" is distributed to all military branches, combatant commands, Joint Chiefs of Staff members, NORAD, and Cyber Command, seeking UAP reports

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  General John Olson, mobilization assistant to the chief of Space Operations, reports UAP sightings have "occurred globally, and I think we’re collecting that information, we’re sharing information"

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 shows that from 1947 to 1951, UAP activities were focused on nuclear weapons assembly, production, stockpile, test, and deployment sites, especially when ICBMs were present

March 2023  "UAP Pattern Recognition Study, 1945-1975, US 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  Chris Bledsoe's 360-page UFO of God is published and is soon ranked on Amazon as 1st in angels and spirit guides books, 27th in religious faith books, and 41st in Christian faith books

January 2023  Jeremy Corbell releases a full-color screenshot of the Mosul Orb from a video recorded by reconnaissance aircraft during April 2016 and subsequently 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 about of UAP-related work

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

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 to "shed light on these phenomena" while embracing transparency

September 2022  Oke Shannon, former special projects manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory, states he and others studied UAPs and accepted the idea that these craft are interdimensional 

September 2022  David Fravor reports a USN aircrew recovering training weaponry above the Puerto Rico Trench had a submerged object "the size of an island" take the weaponry and descend into the depths 

September 2022  USN admits it possesses UAP-related videos and photographs but denies public access because the images "contain sensitive information pertaining to UAPs"

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

July 2022  A paper by Hal Puthoff in part communicates an ultraterrestrial hypothesis in which a nonhuman "unidentified phenomenon" is interacting with humanity

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 of 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 US Atomic Capability" examines 850 sightings from 1947 and concludes UAPs mostly visited military and nuclear sites and rail lines connecting them

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

April 2022  Forensic neurologist Christopher "Kit" 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  FAA issues an alert to operations managers that a commercial aircraft over West Virginia experienced a double altitude and double autopilot failure when a UAP flew above it

March 2022  Tim McMillan reports the US is conducting operations to lure in UAPs, using the occupants' "interest in nuclear materials" as bait, and other respectable voices confirm this to be true

February 2022  UAPTF 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 units

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

November 2021  Nine white orbs are seen flying near a formation of F-16s participating in a Leavenworth, KS, Veterans Day celebration, and the objects rapidly accelerate away

October 2021  Colm Kelleher, George Knapp, and James Lacatski's 250-page Skinwalkers at the Pentagon is published and soon ranked on Amazon as ninth in UAP books and tenth in unexplained mysteries books

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

May 2021  Former DASD(I) Christopher Mellon states on a podcast that if he was the president and was looking for UAP information, he'd probe the "Department of Energy, all of their Special Programs"

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 pilot over NM reports a long, cylindrical object that looked like a cruise missile passed over this aircraft, but FAA ATC has no reports of objects on radar

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 DASD(I) 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 US national security" by examining aerial encounters, especially those experienced by military pilots

July 2020  Public affairs leads Joseph Gradisher of USN 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 US 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"

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

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"

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 triangle UAPs harass the USS Russell at night and then slip effortlessly into the Pacific, Jeremy Corbell leaks night vision footage of the incident, and the Pentagon admits the footage is authentic

July 2019  FBI, USCG, and USN investigate incidents in which UAPs swarmed at least five USN 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, surveillance and fighter aircraft encountered UAPs on an almost daily basis, one of the craft being a charcoal cube inside a translucent sphere

May 2019  The New York Times article "Wow, What Is That?" reveals USN pilots briefed AATIP about their encounters with high altitude UAPs off the East Coast during 2014 and 2015 

April 2019  USN 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 a 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 near Virginia takes a series of daytime photos of three UAPs resembling a "sphere," an "acorn," and a "metallic blimp"

February 2019  Diane Pasulka's age page American Cosmic is published by Oxford University Press and is soon ranked on Amazon as eighth in sociology and religion books and eleventh in UAP books

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 Kit 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 discovered 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  Phoenix Air Learjet 36, American Airlines Flight 1095, and Airbus A321 pilots over Arizona have "close encounters with a strange craft flying at around 40,000 feet," but ATC sees nothing on radar

January 2018  DIA responds to an inquiry by senators John McCain and Jack Reed regarding 38 AAWSAP projects, revealing who some of the project leaders were

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)

January 2016  USAF generals Neil McCasland and Michael Carey, Lockheed Martin EVP Rob Weiss, and Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, and musician Tom DeLonge meet to discuss UAPs

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

March 2015  Former federal contractor Bob Fish reports to John Podesta that USAF DSP collects data on UAPs and has a recording of a craft entering our atmosphere from deep space

March 2015  Kit Green states that VA medical records of USAF veteran John Burroughs, witness to the Rendlesham Forest UAP incident of 1985, are inaccessible because they're classified

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"

February 2015  "Go Fast" and "Gimbal" videos are shot aboard an F/A-18 Super Hornet flying from the USS Theodore Roosevelt off the East Coast in the vicinity of Jacksonville, FL

January 2015  It's revealed that in early 2016, MUFON is slated to create a new database to archive "size, shape, color, flight characteristics, date, and location" of reported UAPs

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

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

April 2014  Pilot of an F/A-18F Super Hornet flying out of a Virginia naval air station encounters multiple UAPs and tracks them on ATFLIR, though they remain undetectable on the fighter's radar

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

November 2013  Pilot of an F/A-18E Super Hornet flying out of a Virginia naval air station spots a white object with a 5-foot wingspan but "no distinguishable features” at 12,000 feet and can't identify it

May 2013  Stanford School of Medicine immunologist and pathologist Garry Nolan begins working for the DOD to examine physical injuries people 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)

September 2012  Fergus County Sheriff's Department call logs reveal a civilian reported seeing two silent V-shaped UAPs near Malmstrom AFB's Oscar-01 Missile Alert Facility and Launch Control Center

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," study accompanying phenomena, 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 ICBMs

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

August 2010  Leslie Kean's 350-page UFOs is published by Crown Archetype and is soon ranked on Amazon as 31st in UAP books and 82nd in evolution books

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

March 2010  Ellsworth AFB ATC detects a UAP eighteen miles south of a runway, a pilot reports it's 2,000 feet above him, the object disappears from visual and radar, then reappears behind the pilot's aircraft

March 2010  BAASS has remote viewer Joe McMoneagle observe target 22610, which is Skinwalker Ranch, and he identifies personnel there as well as a small humanoid "invisible to ranch personnel"

January 2010  While off the coast of Haiti aboard the USS Carl Vinson, petty officer John Baughman spots a twenty-foot-long white Tic-Tac UAP under the surface before it quickly darts into the depths

August 2009  Pentagon technical analyst Juliett Witt visits Skinwalker Ranch and "experiences a cone of silence," sees "a weird pig-like creature," and an odd phenomena follows her to her home in Virginia

June 2009  A package handler at Louisville International Airport sees a rotating object at the end of a runway, the object changes from a cylinder to a diamond, and then rises to disappear among the clouds

June 2009  Senator Harry Reid reports AAWSAP has made "much progress," asks for additional security for program personnel, and requests it be made a restricted SAP

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

January 2009  CUFOS creates an updated version of its UFOCAT database containing more than 200,000 UAP reports and related information

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

November 2008  BAASS leader Robert Bigelow hires biochemist Colm Kelleher as deputy administrator, thus Kelleher becomes BAASS's first full-time employee

November 2008  BAASS is awarded a Documatica Research contract and classifies and analyzes sightings and Skinwalker Ranch anomalies, and the database has 248,141 entries 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"

June 2008  New Mexico governor Bill Richardson is denied access by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the DOD when he asks to examine possible Roswell crash recovery evidence at the lab and beyond

May 2008  Disc UAP is seen over a Surry, Virginia, nuclear power station in which the craft was "hovering or drifting slowly, and made a very leisurely circuit of the power plant"

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

July 2007  James Lacatski and Robert Bigelow meet at Skinwalker Ranch, and during the two-hour visit Lacatski sees "a bizarre tubular object hovering in the kitchen of the Homestead"

June 2007  James Lacatski contacts Robert Bigelow for permission to visit today's Skinwalker Ranch in Utah to initiate a DIA study to examine "potential threat aspects of the phenomena"

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

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

May 2006  A giant boomerang UAP with a single front light and tiny lights along its edges flies over USMC base Twenty-Nine Palms

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

January 2005  Kit Green builds a database of more than 100 military and aerospace personnel who sustained injuries due to being near UAPs, and in five to seven years a quarter of them are dead

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

November 2004  CSG Eleven USN pilots encounter the Tic-Tac UAP 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 radar systems

October 2004  Military jet crew operating near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, observes a dark, egg-shaped UAP approximately 60 feet long engage in high-speed maneuvers at 45,000 feet

September 2004  Five witnesses observe multicolored lights hover 500 to 1,000 feet above a canal adjacent to Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, then both lights vanish at the same time

April 2004  Former HUD assistant secretary Catherine Austin Fitts and economist Chris Sanders determine $3.4 trillion of Pentagon spending to 2001 is undocumented, and some claim it went to UAP programs

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

AGL = Above Ground Level

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

ATFLIR ("AT-fleer") = Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared

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

CBP = Customs and Border Protection

CIA = Central Intelligence Agency

CSG = Carrier Strike Group

CUFOS ("KOO-fose") = Center for UFO Studies

DASD(I) → Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

DHS = Department of Homeland Security

DIA = Defense Intelligence Agency

DOD = Department of Defense

DSP = Defense Support Program 

EADT = Emerging All-Domain Technologies

EVP = Executive Vice President

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 

JRE = Joe Rogan Experience

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-a") = 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 = Office 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 ("SAH-fire") = Stabilized Advanced Field of View Imaging and Reconnaissance Equipment

SAP ("sap") = Prospective Special Access Program

SASC = Senate Armed Services Committee 

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

SCIF ("skiff") = Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

SCU = Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

SECDEF ("SEK-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

UFO = Unidentified Flying Object

UFOCAT ("U-F-O cat") = UFO Catalog

US = United States

USAF = United States Air Force

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

USCG = United States Coast Guard

USMC = United States Marine Corps

USN = United States Navy

USO = Unidentified Submersible Objects

"UAP" OR "UAPs"

From Reuters, to AARO, to NewsNation, writers still 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." However, initialisms are singular lexical units. Writing, "He observed two UAPs" is just as correct as writing, "The engine exploded at 7,000 RPMs" (revolutions per minute), "He nailed four RBIs" (runs batted in), and "The POWs were fed 200 MREs" (prisoners of war, meals ready to eat).