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UFO / UAP
Unidentified aerial phenomena documented in officially released government archives.
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AARO assessed with high confidence that the objects did not exhibit anomalous behavior or transmedium capabilities, and with moderate confidence that the objects were a pair of sky lanterns.
NASA released 92 pages in full and 6 in part in response to a FOIA request for Administrator Bill Nelson's emails containing UAP/UFO keywords, including calendar entries for an 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Meeting' and a May 2022 email from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb urging open scientific analysis of UAP data.
A declassified Office of Naval Intelligence briefing dated 27 Feb 2020 describes a joint interagency task force led by ONI to 'collect, exploit, and analyze operational and scientific and technical data of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP),' framing UAP as both a safety-of-flight and national security concern.
Army correspondence released under FOIA states that TTSA 'has conveyed that they have mature technologies that can be extrapolated for military purposes' in the camouflage, concealment, deception, and obscuration area, and that the Army 'successfully executed a few tests on miniscule materials' under the CRADA.
Internal Army public affairs emails released under FOIA show that a media query about the Army's CRADA with To The Stars Academy was shifted to a Department of Defense task force 'set up to work the various UFO-related topics,' while the Army maintained its interest in TTSA materials was purely scientific.
A redacted May 2021 briefing from the Director of the UAP Task Force to Naval Intelligence states that UAP 'may pose serious counterintelligence risk' and 'may represent significant technology advantage by adversary,' while noting that multi-sensor detections make up 55% of 144 reports from USG over the past 16 years.
The CIA History Staff's 1992 monograph on the U-2 and OXCART programs lists a section titled 'U-2s, UFOs, and Operation BLUE BOOK' — an official acknowledgment of the link between secret reconnaissance flights and Cold War UFO reports.
Two separate DoD FOIA releases — case 21-FR-0964 and case 21-F-0946 — surface internal 2017 AATIP records and 2019 email exchanges in which Pentagon public affairs officials gave journalists conflicting accounts of the program and Luis Elizondo's role.
The FAA has replaced 'UFO' with 'UAP' in its air traffic control directives and now requires controllers to notify supervisors and the Domestic Events Network of any reported or observed unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Out of approximately 800 historical cases reviewed by the Air Force, approximately 20% remained unexplained after technical analysis, according to a newly released 1952 transcript of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt.
The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) Statement of Objectives, dated 18 July 2008, tasked contractors with studying breakthrough technologies including 'spatial/temporal translation' to assess foreign threats through 2050.
Newly released FOIA documents show AARO convened a two-day workshop in August 2025 with experts from government, academia, and civilian UAP organizations to tackle the challenges of integrating disparate UAP data — and hosted Uruguay's CRIDOVNI at the Pentagon for briefings on their respective investigative methods.