The Outcome Counseling UAP Timeline offers a robust 112-entry chronology that dates to 2004, the year of the infamous Tic-Tac UAP incident. To be included, two criteria were met. One, statements and evidence could be traced to reputable sources. Two, the event was U.S.-based and significant.
*A guide to initialisms and acronyms is offered at the bottom of this timeline.
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 Lue Elizondo reports that 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"
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 UAP 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 on UAPs, and of the 757 cases reported, 465 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 government secret UAP program
November 2024 Former AATIP director 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 that 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 Gerald and John Tedesco's paper "Eye on the Sky" presents findings on detecting UAPs at Long Island that displayed "unusual flight characteristics" and "unusual physical characteristics"
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"
May 2024 Karl Nell presents his UAP talk "The Real Black Swan Event" and says, "Nonhuman intelligence has been interacting with humanity. This interaction is not new and has been ongoing"
April 2024 In their paper "Who Sees UFOs?" Sophie Ali, Daniel Stubbings, and Alexander Wong report that only 28% of people who see UAPs report the incidents and only 14% submit reports to UAP organizations
April 2024 NASA publishes a report that, in part, recommends furthering UAP 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 was a proposed DHS program called Kona Blue, which intended to retrieve UAPs and their occupants and back-engineer craft
March 2024 AARO publishes its annual report and grudgingly admits that "some UAPs still defied conventional explanation, warranting ongoing study"
March 2024 Tim Gallaudet's "Beneath the Surface" that addresses USOs is published, and he writes that "unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering U.S. water space"
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"
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 UAP documentarian Jeremy Corbell releases the Chandelier UAP 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 Astrophysicist and AATIP subcontractor 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 UAP 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 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 The Marine Corps composes 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 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 UAP approach the site from the Pacific, hover, and then dart off over the 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 UAP chasing an A-10 Thunderbolt, the chase filmed from ground-based FLIR under 2x zoom
August 2023 Congressman Tim Burchett forms the bipartisan UAP Caucus, a congressional group "dedicated to the study, disclosure, and policy development surrounding" UAPs
August 2023 UAP 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 UAP 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 UAP incident and later describes it as "a great briefing on some really scary stuff" but won't comment further
July 2023 David Fravor, Ryan Graves, and David Grusch testify under oath within a congressional hearing, reporting that the U.S. has retrieval and back-engineering programs and that 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 that 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 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 that the UAP 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
May 2023 AARO publicly discusses its structure and initial findings, dismisses most sightings as "airborne clutter," and frustratingly admits that "a significant number of incidents remained unexplained"
May 2023 Members of the Applied Physics team analyze the 2006 Chicago O’Hare UAP 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 Skinwakers at the Pentagon is published, and in the intro they lament those who study UAPs are "often ridiculed as ignorant rubes," which squashes intelligent dialog
April 2023 AARO releases a full-color video of a metallic orb UAP flying over an active Middle Eastern combat zone, its appearance and behavior being consistent with other "orb observations in the region"
February 2023 Ryan Graves establishes Americans for Safe Aerospace "to raise awareness of UAPs as an aviation safety and national security issue"
January 2023 Jeremy Corbell releases a full-color screenshot of the Mosul Orb UAP, the screenshot being from a video that was recorded by U.S. reconnaissance aircraft during April 2016 and leaked to Corbell
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
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 that is reportedly "taking the topic of UAPs 'very seriously'"
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 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"
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 expert Christopher "Kit" Green, MD reports to Daily Mail that 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 attitude 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 Former CIA director John Brennan states that 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 theorizes 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 UAP incidents that will replace "a total lack of focus"
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
June 2021 Former ODNI and CIA director John Ratcliffe reports the U.S. is facing "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 UAP incidents examined could not be explained and that a flight safety issue is present
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 UAP experiencers, calling the enigmas "hitchhikers" and admitting, "Things happened to my wife and to me in different places"
September 2020 Former assistant SECDEF Christopher Mellon reports that 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 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 that AATIP members know that 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 that had already been 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" with these craft
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 A series of 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 UAP 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
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 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 U.S. military surveillance and fighter aircraft encountered UAPs on an almost daily basis, one of them being a charcoal cube inside a translucent sphere
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 A 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"
October 2018 Eric Davis states that a UAP crashed in Del Rio, Texas, in 1955 and that there was "a successful crash retrieval" of this downed UAP first seen by Air Force F-86 Sabre pilot Robert Willingham
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 that it 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"
May 2013 Stanford School of Medicine immunologist and pathologist Garry Nolan, MD begins working for the DOD to examine the 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
February 2011 DHS, in conjunction with AAWSAP and DIA, proposes the SAP Kona Blue to retrieve UAPs and "non-human biologics" and back-engineer recovered craft
October 2010 Air Force 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 nuclear weapons
September 2010 Former Air Force captain Robert Salas and five other veterans compose and sign affidavits that state UAPs "can neutralize nuclear missiles at U.S. and Russian bases"
March 2010 The DIA document "Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues" discusses the physical and psychological injuries UAP experiencers have endured
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 a UAP 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 UAP 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 UAP 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"
November 2006 A silver disc UAP is watched by a dozen United Airlines employees at Chicago O'Hare, it climbs instantaneously, punches a perfect hole through a cloud at 1,900 feet elevation, and disappears
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 naval 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 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 remain undocumented, "some of which 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 be destroyed
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
HASC ("hask") = House Armed Services Committee
HOC = House Oversight Committee
HPSCI = House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
HUD ("hud") = Department of Housing and Urban Development
IGIC = Inspector General of the Intelligence Community
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 ("NIM-uh") = National Intelligence Manager for Aviation
NSA = National Security Agency
NSC = National Security Council
ODNI = Office of the Director of National Intelligence
OIIR = Office of International and Interagency Relations
ONI = Office of Naval Intelligence
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
UAPTF = UAP Task Force
UAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
USAP ("U-sap") = Unacknowledged Special Access Program
USO = Unidentified Submersible Objects
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