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 "site": "https://ufonn.com",
 "publisher": "UFONN",
 "generated": "2026-08-08",
 "license": "Reporting by UFONN. Cite the linked sources when quoting.",
 "count": 41,
 "stories": [
  {
   "slug": "fifth-release-triangle",
   "title": "Something 500 Feet Wide Crossed Bagram in Silence",
   "summary": "The Pentagon's fifth tranche runs to 41 files from five agencies. The account everyone is reading is a pilot describing an equilateral triangle blotting out the stars over Afghanistan in 2002.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/fifth-release-triangle/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2026-08-07",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files: \"Did you see that?\"",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-pentagon-5th-release-documents-videos/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Fifth Batch of UFO Files Features Triangle-Shaped Craft, Dead Crewman Report",
     "outlet": "Theepochtimes",
     "url": "https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fifth-batch-of-ufo-files-features-triangle-shaped-craft-dead-crewman-report-6072748"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases fifth batch of UFO files, including reports of mysterious objects and massive triangle",
     "outlet": "Insiderpaper",
     "url": "https://insiderpaper.com/pentagon-releases-new-ufo-files-5th/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases 5th batch of UFO files, with more documents and videos",
     "outlet": "AOL News",
     "url": "https://www.aol.com/articles/pentagon-releases-5th-batch-ufo-130600000.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Releases Fifth Batch of Declassified UFO Records, Including Unresolved Military Encounters",
     "outlet": "YourNews",
     "url": "https://yournews.com/2026/08/07/7148390/pentagon-releases-fifth-batch-of-declassified-ufo-records-including-unresolved/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases fifth tranche of UFO files",
     "outlet": "Uapdisclosurereads",
     "url": "https://uapdisclosurereads.com/pentagon-ufo-files-release-05/"
    },
    {
     "title": "New UFO Files Detail FBI Records of 2026 Sightings",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/new-ufo-files-details-fbi-records-of-2026-sightings-12296595"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "black-hot-anomalies",
   "title": "Two Federal Agents, One Thermal Camera",
   "summary": "Buried under the triangle story: U.S. government special agents are now filing their own UAP reports — one with thermal video of two slow-moving shapes reading black-hot against the sky.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/black-hot-anomalies/",
   "desk": "sightings",
   "date": "2026-08-07",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "New UFO Files Detail FBI Records of 2026 Sightings",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/new-ufo-files-details-fbi-records-of-2026-sightings-12296595"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files: \"Did you see that?\"",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-pentagon-5th-release-documents-videos/"
    },
    {
     "title": "2026 UFO Files Released: FBI, Pentagon Documents and Claims",
     "outlet": "Procapitas",
     "url": "https://www.procapitas.com/news/world/ufo-files-released-2026-government-disclosure"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases 5th batch of UFO files, with more documents and videos",
     "outlet": "Yahoo News",
     "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/pentagon-releases-5th-batch-ufo-130600526.html"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "time-cover",
   "title": "The Beat Made the Front Page of TIME",
   "summary": "Four tranches, more than 450 reports, and now a magazine cover. The subject has stopped being a fringe assignment — which is its own kind of test.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/time-cover/",
   "desk": "culture",
   "date": "2026-08-06",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "America Is Finally Taking Extraterrestrials Seriously",
     "outlet": "TIME",
     "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/08/06/america-taking-extraterrestrials-seriously/"
    },
    {
     "title": "International News Briefs for Thursday, August 6, 2026",
     "outlet": "Havanatimes",
     "url": "https://havanatimes.org/news/international-news-briefs-for-thursday-august-6-2026/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO transparency takes center stage at Disclosure Forum",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/ufo-experts-lawmakers-disclosure-forum/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Watch live: Washington talks UFOs at UAP Disclosure Forum",
     "outlet": "The Hill",
     "url": "https://thehill.com/video-clips/5939109-watch-live-washington-talks-ufos-at-uap-disclosure-forum/"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Pentagon Just Released Its UFO Files. Here's What's Inside",
     "outlet": "TIME",
     "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/05/11/whats-inside-new-government-ufo-files/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "hundred-objects-virginia",
   "title": "One Hundred Objects Off Virginia. Nobody Will Say What They Were.",
   "summary": "Disclosed in a footnote to the annual report: the Navy logged roughly one hundred airborne objects and watercraft operating off the Virginia coast, and the Pentagon still cannot say what they were.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/hundred-objects-virginia/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2026-07-21",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon investigating mysterious UAP event reported by the Navy near Virginia's coast",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/07/21/pentagon-investigating-ufo-uap-event-near-virginia-coast/"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO Releases FY2025 UAP Report Months After Deadline, Citing 319 New Cases",
     "outlet": "The Black Vault",
     "url": "https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/aaro-releases-fy2025-uap-report-months-after-statutory-deadline-citing-319-new-cases-and-expanded-satellite-analysis/"
    },
    {
     "title": "What Does UAP Knowledge in 2026 Actually Show?",
     "outlet": "New Space Economy",
     "url": "https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2026/07/21/what-does-uap-knowledge-in-2026-actually-show/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Congress wants to know more about the military's UAP intercepts around North America",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2025/12/10/uap-ufo-military-intercepts-north-america-fy-2026-ndaa/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "aaro-fy2025-report",
   "title": "319 Cases. 114 Answers. And One Sentence That Matters More.",
   "summary": "AARO's annual report landed months late and resolved every case it could into balloons and birds. The more revealing number is how many it could not touch at all.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/aaro-fy2025-report/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2026-07-20",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "AARO Releases FY2025 UAP Report Months After Deadline, Citing 319 New Cases",
     "outlet": "The Black Vault",
     "url": "https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/aaro-releases-fy2025-uap-report-months-after-statutory-deadline-citing-319-new-cases-and-expanded-satellite-analysis/"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO's Latest UAP Report Finds No Evidence of Exotic Technology, But Mysteries Remain",
     "outlet": "The Debrief",
     "url": "https://thedebrief.org/aaros-latest-uap-report-finds-no-evidence-of-exotic-technology-but-mysteries-remain/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UAP Office Reports 202 New Unresolved Sightings",
     "outlet": "Sentinel News",
     "url": "https://www.sentinel-news.org/p/pentagon-uap-office-reports-202-new"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon investigating mysterious UAP event reported by the Navy near Virginia's coast",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/07/21/pentagon-investigating-ufo-uap-event-near-virginia-coast/"
    },
    {
     "title": "What Does UAP Knowledge in 2026 Actually Show?",
     "outlet": "New Space Economy",
     "url": "https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2026/07/21/what-does-uap-knowledge-in-2026-actually-show/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "third-release-red-orbs",
   "title": "“Are You Seeing This?” Inside the Pentagon's Red Orb Files",
   "summary": "The third batch of Pentagon files leaned on eyewitnesses rather than fighter jets — federal agents describing glowing spheres over the northeast, and a whistleblower alleging the money never touched Congress.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/third-release-red-orbs/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2026-06-12",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Department of War Publishes Third Release of UAP Files on WAR.GOV/UFO",
     "outlet": "Dept. of War",
     "url": "https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4515408/department-of-war-publishes-third-release-of-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-f/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases 3rd batch of UFO files, detailing mysterious orb sightings",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-files-pentagon-3rd-release-documents-videos/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's third UFO release has fish-scaled potatoes and red orbs. Still no aliens",
     "outlet": "Fortune",
     "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/06/15/pentagon-ufo-uap-disclosure-files-potato-red-orb-2026/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases UFO files showing glowing orbs seen by federal agents",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-files-reveal-agents-reports-orbs-launching-orbs-near-sensitive-us-security-site"
    },
    {
     "title": "Department of War Releases New UFO Files Showing Multiple Northeast Orb Sightings",
     "outlet": "YourNews",
     "url": "https://yournews.com/2026/06/12/7050449/department-of-war-releases-new-ufo-files-showing-multiple-northeast/"
    },
    {
     "title": "FBI Photos Show Orbs Beneath Helicopter During Alleged ODNI UAP Luring Operation",
     "outlet": "Liberation Times",
     "url": "https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/us-conducted-successful-ufo-luring-operation-advocate-claims-as-government-files-detail-orb-encounters"
    },
    {
     "title": "UAP whistleblower David Grusch accuses agencies of hiding billions",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ufo-whistleblower-claims-billions-secret-spending-hidden-from-congress"
    },
    {
     "title": "Military UAP Encounters Detailed in Newly Released Files",
     "outlet": "UFO Matrix",
     "url": "https://www.ufomatrix.org/2026/06/military-uap-encounters-new-files.html"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "pentagon-opens-the-vault",
   "title": "Eighty Years Sealed. The Pentagon Just Opened the Vault.",
   "summary": "After eighty years of refusal, the Department of War began publishing its UAP holdings to a public website — and the first thing the files proved is how little anyone agrees on what they show.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/pentagon-opens-the-vault/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2026-05-08",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases declassified UFO files from various federal agencies",
     "outlet": "ABC News",
     "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-begins-release-decades-unresolved-ufo-files/story?id=132780534"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases declassified UFO files including videos and photos held for decades",
     "outlet": "NBC News",
     "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/science/ufos-and-anomalous-phenomena/ufo-uap-files-pentagon-release-trump-rcna344204"
    },
    {
     "title": "Make up their own minds: Pentagon releases first tranche of UFO files",
     "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/8/make-up-their-own-minds-pentagon-releases-first-tranche-of-ufo-files"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases initial batch of declassified files detailing UFOs",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/politics/ufo-files-pentagon-release-aliens"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Pentagon Just Released Its UFO Files. Here's What's Inside",
     "outlet": "TIME",
     "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/05/11/whats-inside-new-government-ufo-files/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon releases trove of new UFO files, but skeptics aren't impressed",
     "outlet": "Scientific American",
     "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pentagon-releases-trove-of-new-ufo-files-but-skeptics-arent-impressed/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's latest UFO files spark reactions from Avi Loeb and top scientists",
     "outlet": "The News International",
     "url": "https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1401948-pentagons-latest-ufo-files-spark-reactions-from-avi-loeb-and-top-scientists"
    },
    {
     "title": "Hegseth Shares Update on Government Release of UFO Files",
     "outlet": "AOL News",
     "url": "https://www.aol.com/articles/hegseth-shares-government-release-ufo-150859756.html"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "trump-orders-the-files-open",
   "title": "One Signature, Eighty Years of Files — and Three Months of Nothing",
   "summary": "Trump ordered federal agencies to identify and release everything they hold on UAP. The order was the easy part; three months later, almost nothing had moved.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/trump-orders-the-files-open/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2026-02-19",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Trump says he will direct agencies to release files related to UFOs",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/politics/aliens-ufos-trump"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump says he's directing Pentagon to release any files on UFOs",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ufo-alien-and-extraterrestrial-life-files-pentagon/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump orders federal agencies to identify and release files on UFOs",
     "outlet": "Malay Mail",
     "url": "https://www.malaymail.com/amp/news/world/2026/02/20/trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-identify-and-release-files-on-ufos-and-aliens/209702"
    },
    {
     "title": "Transparency proponents meet Trump's UAP disclosure tease with hope and caution",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/20/trump-ufo-uap-government-files-disclosure/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Hegseth doubles down on Trump's UAP disclosure promise as AARO's caseload exceeds 2,000",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/25/hegseth-ufo-disclosure-trump-aaro-uap-caseload/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump vowed to release government files on UFOs. Why haven't they been publicized yet?",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/us/aliens-ufos-files-release-trump"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump's order to release evidence obscures the scientific search for extraterrestrial life",
     "outlet": "Scientific American",
     "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-order-to-release-evidence-for-aliens-obscures-the-scientific-search/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump directs agencies to waive NDAs for UAP whistleblowers",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/long-hidden-ufo-information-center-trump-push-free-former-officials"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "age-of-disclosure",
   "title": "34 Insiders. One Camera. Still No Evidence.",
   "summary": "\"The Age of Disclosure\" put dozens of named government insiders on camera alleging an eighty-year cover-up. It became Prime Video's highest-grossing documentary, and it proves nothing.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/age-of-disclosure/",
   "desk": "culture",
   "date": "2025-11-21",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "The Age of Disclosure (2025 documentary)",
     "outlet": "Wikipedia",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Disclosure"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Age of Disclosure premieres at SXSW",
     "outlet": "SXSW",
     "url": "https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2206293"
    },
    {
     "title": "New documentary reveals UAP claims with former government officials",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-age-disclosure-new-documentary-explores-claims-80-year-cover-up-non-human-life"
    },
    {
     "title": "Age of Disclosure documentary examines alleged 80-year UAP cover-up",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/us/ufo-documentary-pulls-back-curtain-psychological-operation-after-decades-government-cover-up-expert"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Aliens Are Here (Again): A Review of The Age of Disclosure",
     "outlet": "Skeptic",
     "url": "https://www.skeptic.com/article/the-aliens-are-here-again-a-review-of-the-age-of-disclosure/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Age of Disclosure trailer: Everything to know about the UFO doc",
     "outlet": "Gold Derby",
     "url": "https://www.goldderby.com/film/2025/age-of-disclosure-trailer-everything-to-know/"
    },
    {
     "title": "In The Age of Disclosure, military servicemen expose more details about UFOs at Vandenberg",
     "outlet": "Santa Barbara Independent",
     "url": "https://www.independent.com/2025/12/28/in-new-doc-the-age-of-disclosure-military-servicemen-expose-more-details-about-ufos-at-vandenberg/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "europe-drone-siege",
   "title": "The Autumn Europe Stopped Calling Them Unidentified",
   "summary": "Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Brussels. Eighteen drones in three weeks, one NATO member invoking Article 4 — and a continent deciding very quickly that \"unidentified\" was a diplomatic word, not a technical one.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/europe-drone-siege/",
   "desk": "drones",
   "date": "2025-09-25",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Drones And Cyberattacks Plague European Airports",
     "outlet": "Forbes",
     "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2025/09/25/drones-and-cyberattacks-plague-european-airports/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Mystery Drone Incursions in NATO Airspace Spark Europe-Wide Concerns Over Hybrid Warfare",
     "outlet": "The Debrief",
     "url": "https://thedebrief.org/mystery-drone-incursions-in-nato-airspace-spark-europe-wide-concerns-over-hybrid-warfare-threats/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Is Russia testing NATO with aerial incursions in Europe?",
     "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/25/is-russia-testing-nato-with-aerial-incursions-in-europe"
    },
    {
     "title": "Denmark Says Drone Incursions Were A Deliberate Attack",
     "outlet": "Yahoo News",
     "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/denmark-says-drone-incursions-were-155803397.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Munich airport resumes operations after more drone sightings halted flights",
     "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/4/munich-airport-resumes-operations-after-more-drone-sightings-halted-flights"
    },
    {
     "title": "More unidentified drones in Europe halt flights at Munich airport",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/munich-drones-europe-belgium-military-base-russia-threat-nato"
    },
    {
     "title": "Emergency Briefing on Drone Incursion into Poland",
     "outlet": "Security Council Report",
     "url": "https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/whatsinblue/2025/09/emergency-briefing-on-drone-incursion-into-poland.php"
    },
    {
     "title": "NATO Downs Russian Drones over Poland",
     "outlet": "Arms Control Assoc.",
     "url": "https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2025-10/news/nato-downs-russian-drones-over-poland"
    },
    {
     "title": "Europe's Airports Under Siege: Why Drone Incursions Are Becoming the New Airspace Threat",
     "outlet": "Modern Diplomacy",
     "url": "https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/10/10/europes-airports-under-siege-why-drone-incursions-are-becoming-the-new-airspace-threat/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Complete List of Drone Incursions Across Europe (Sept-Nov 2025)",
     "outlet": "Strange Sounds",
     "url": "https://strangesounds.org/2025/11/drone-incursions-europe-list-sept-nov-2025.html"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "vandenberg-testimony",
   "title": "A Glowing Red Square Over the Missile Fields — Under Oath",
   "summary": "A House task force heard sworn accounts of a glowing red square over Vandenberg's missile defense sites — and watched footage of a Hellfire missile hitting an orb that kept going.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/vandenberg-testimony/",
   "desk": "politics",
   "date": "2025-09-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Military whistleblowers share new evidence of alleged UAP at transparency hearing",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2025/09/09/military-whistleblowers-share-new-evidence-alleged-uap-ufo-hearing/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency-and-whistleblower-protection/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Witness List for the UAP September 9, 2025 House Oversight Committee Hearing",
     "outlet": "Unidentified Phenomena",
     "url": "https://unidentifiedphenomena.com/topics/witness-list-for-the-uap-september-9-2025-house-oversight-committee-hearing/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Congress hears veterans' testimony about UAPs",
     "outlet": "Spectrum News",
     "url": "https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/news/2025/09/09/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-task-force-hearing"
    },
    {
     "title": "Group of military whistleblowers testify under oath they've seen UFOs",
     "outlet": "AOL News",
     "url": "https://www.aol.com/news/group-military-whistleblowers-testify-under-000635783.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Declassified Video Shows US Trying to Shoot Down UFO",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-video-congress-drone-strike-uap-2127452"
    },
    {
     "title": "Next UAP disclosure hearing set, as lawmakers consider new whistleblower protections",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2025/09/03/uap-ufo-disclosure-congress-hearing-whistleblower-protection-act/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Hearing Wrap Up: Government Must Be More Transparent About UAPs",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-government-must-be-more-transparent-about-uaps/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "rest-of-the-world",
   "title": "France Has Been Investigating UFOs Since 1977. Quietly.",
   "summary": "France has run a civilian UAP investigation for nearly fifty years. Japan formed a parliamentary caucus. Canada's chief science advisor recommended a federal agency. The American argument is not the global one.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/rest-of-the-world/",
   "desk": "world",
   "date": "2025-07-31",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "How Countries Handle UAPs: A Global Survey",
     "outlet": "New Space Economy",
     "url": "https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2025/07/31/how-other-countries-handle-uaps-a-global-survey/"
    },
    {
     "title": "International UAP Disclosure: Government UFO Programs Around the World",
     "outlet": "First Contact",
     "url": "https://first.contact/blog/international-uap-disclosure/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Japan Lawmakers Want Govt to Guard Against Security Risks of UFOs",
     "outlet": "U.S. News",
     "url": "https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-05-29/japan-lawmakers-want-govt-to-guard-against-security-risks-of-ufos"
    },
    {
     "title": "Japan lawmakers probe UFO security threat",
     "outlet": "Gulf News",
     "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/japan-lawmakers-probe-ufo-security-threat-1.1717656688733"
    },
    {
     "title": "Canada needs agency to manage public UFO sightings, says new federal report",
     "outlet": "CBC",
     "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sky-canada-project-report-ufo-uap-1.7586922"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFOs: 5 takeaways from latest Sky Canada Project report",
     "outlet": "CP24",
     "url": "https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2025/07/14/canadas-top-scientist-releases-new-ufo-report-heres-what-you-need-to-know/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Sky Canada Project: Management of Public Reporting of UAP in Canada",
     "outlet": "Govt. of Canada",
     "url": "https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/office-chief-science-advisor/sky-canada-project/management-public-reporting-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-canada"
    },
    {
     "title": "5,000 UFO sightings in Europe in One Year and no EU System to track them",
     "outlet": "UAP Check",
     "url": "https://www.uapcheck.com/news/id/3329/5000-ufo-sightings-in-europe-in-one-year-and-no-eu-system-to-track-them-march-20-european-uap-day/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Brazilian Air Force Reports 80 UFO Sightings in 2023",
     "outlet": "Newsworthy",
     "url": "https://www.newsworthy.ai/curated/brazilian-air-force-reports-80-ufo-sightings-in-2023-sparking-sc/20246569"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "pentagon-made-the-myth",
   "title": "The Pentagon Helped Build the Myth It Now Denies",
   "summary": "A Wall Street Journal investigation found the Defense Department seeded UFO stories for decades to screen classified aircraft — and that the Air Force stripped the admission out of AARO's own report.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/pentagon-made-the-myth/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2025-06-08",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "US Pentagon fueled UFO rumors for decades, Wall Street Journal reports",
     "outlet": "Semafor",
     "url": "https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/us-pentagon-fueled-ufo-rumors-for-decades-wall-street-journal-reports"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds",
     "outlet": "Gizmodo",
     "url": "https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-has-been-pushing-americans-to-believe-in-ufos-for-decades-new-report-finds-2000614615"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon fueled UFO myths around Area 51 to hide secret weapons programs, WSJ reports",
     "outlet": "The Jerusalem Post",
     "url": "https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-856910"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon planted UFO myths to hide secret weapons programs, report finds",
     "outlet": "LiveNOW from FOX",
     "url": "https://www.livenowfox.com/news/ufo-disinfo-cold-war-stealth-coverup"
    },
    {
     "title": "Using the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon is Gaslighting the Public on UFOs Again",
     "outlet": "New Paradigm Institute",
     "url": "https://newparadigminstitute.org/learn/library/using-the-wall-street-journal-the-pentagon-is-gaslighting-the-public-on-ufos-again/"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Volume 1",
     "outlet": "AARO",
     "url": "https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "egg-shaped-craft",
   "title": "The Man Who Says He Flew the Retrievals",
   "summary": "A contracted helicopter pilot told NewsNation he lifted a white, egg-shaped object the size of an SUV. The Pentagon says it has found nothing to substantiate the claim — and confirms it is investigating him.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/egg-shaped-craft/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2025-01-17",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Exclusive footage shows egg-shaped craft",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-recovery-video-shows-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Full special: Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/hfr-uap-recovery-video-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO Whistleblower Details Recovery Of Giant Egg-Like Object",
     "outlet": "HuffPost",
     "url": "https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ufo-egg-video_n_678e0a53e4b075fe15efd14f"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO whistleblower Jake Barber's claims being investigated by Pentagon",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/pentagon-investigates-ufo-claims/"
    },
    {
     "title": "New UFO Whistleblower Jake Barber, What We Learned From Him",
     "outlet": "Anomalien",
     "url": "https://anomalien.com/jake-barber-ufo-whistleblowers-and-a-new-point-for-disclosure/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "new-jersey-drone-wave",
   "title": "The Month New Jersey Looked Up",
   "summary": "Thousands of people reported nightly drones over the most heavily monitored corridor in America. The federal government said most were lawful aircraft. Almost nobody on the ground believed it.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/new-jersey-drone-wave/",
   "desk": "drones",
   "date": "2024-12-12",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey prompt security concerns: Here's what we know",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/us/new-jersey-drone-sightings/index.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "What we know about mysterious drone sightings",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/us/drone-sightings-east-coast/index.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "What do we know about mystery drones flying over New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania?",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drones-new-jersey-what-we-know/"
    },
    {
     "title": "New Jersey drone mystery: What to know and what can be done",
     "outlet": "ABC News",
     "url": "https://abcnews.com/US/new-jersey-drone-mystery/story?id=116719847"
    },
    {
     "title": "Mystery drones: Where have they been spotted?",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/mystery-drones-where-they-have-been-spotted/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Trump says Biden admin knows what's happening with the drones",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-biden-admin-knows-what-happening-drones"
    },
    {
     "title": "Newly released documents show what the feds knew about the New Jersey drone scare",
     "outlet": "Reason",
     "url": "https://reason.com/2025/05/09/what-the-feds-knew-about-the-new-jersey-drone-scare/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Drone mystery persists in New Jersey despite federal explanation and FAA authorizations",
     "outlet": "CBS Austin",
     "url": "https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/drone-mystery-persists-in-new-jersey-despite-federal-explanation-and-faa-authorizations"
    },
    {
     "title": "2024 United States drone sightings",
     "outlet": "Wikipedia",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_drone_sightings"
    },
    {
     "title": "Mystery Drones Forced New York Airport to Shut Down",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/drone-sightings-new-york-stewart-airport-kathy-hochul-2000891"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "aaro-shows-its-work",
   "title": "The Pentagon Took GoFast Apart on Camera",
   "summary": "The Pentagon's UAP office took three celebrated cases apart in front of a Senate subcommittee — including GoFast and the Aguadilla video. Not everyone accepted the reconstruction.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/aaro-shows-its-work/",
   "desk": "science",
   "date": "2024-11-19",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's UAP office reviews findings on Go Fast, Puerto Rico, Mt. Etna incidents in Senate hearing",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2024/11/19/uap-aaro-findings-go-fast-puerto-rico-mt-etna-objects/"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO Puerto Rico UAP Case Resolution report",
     "outlet": "AARO",
     "url": "https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/case_resolution_reports/AARO_Puerto_Rico_UAP_Case_Resolution.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon claims to debunk famous GOFAST UFO radar video",
     "outlet": "AOL News",
     "url": "https://www.aol.com/news/pentagon-claims-debunk-famous-gofast-043921996.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "SCU Announcement on the AARO Investigation of the Aguadilla Video",
     "outlet": "SCU",
     "url": "https://www.explorescu.org/post/scu-announcement-on-the-aaro-investigation-of-the-aguadilla-video"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UFO chief tells Senate very anomalous objects need careful study",
     "outlet": "Space.com",
     "url": "https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/pentagon-ufo-chief-tells-senate-very-anomalous-objects-need-careful-study-video"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Mission, Activities, Oversight, and Budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
     "outlet": "U.S. Congress",
     "url": "https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/LC74346/text"
    },
    {
     "title": "Gillibrand opening statement at Senate hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena",
     "outlet": "Sen. Gillibrand",
     "url": "https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/video-gillibrand-opening-statement-at-senate-hearing-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO Director Presents Latest Findings on UAP Investigation",
     "outlet": "Medium",
     "url": "https://medium.com/@Cristina_Gomez/aaro-director-presents-latest-findings-on-uap-investigation-09a8632dcfe3"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "757-reports",
   "title": "757 Reports. 21 Still Strange.",
   "summary": "The Pentagon's annual UAP accounting resolved everything it touched into balloons, birds and drones — and quietly conceded that a fifth of the caseload never gets touched at all.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/757-reports/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2024-11-14",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena",
     "outlet": "U.S. Dept. of Defense",
     "url": "https://media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/14/2003583603/-1/-1/0/FY24-CONSOLIDATED-ANNUAL-REPORT-ON-UAP-508.PDF"
    },
    {
     "title": "Annual UFO report finds 21 cases of more than 700 received need more analysis",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/annual-ufo-report-21-cases-need-more-analysis-2024/"
    },
    {
     "title": "2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (ODNI)",
     "outlet": "ODNI",
     "url": "https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2024/4020-uap-2024"
    },
    {
     "title": "The truly anomalous: New AARO chief unveils Pentagon's annual UAP caseload analysis",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2024/11/14/uap-aaro-chief-unveils-pentagon-annual-caseload-analysis-new-efforts/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's Latest UFO Report Identifies Hotspots for Sightings",
     "outlet": "Universe Today",
     "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/pentagon-ufo-hotspots"
    },
    {
     "title": "Middle East UFO cases included in Pentagon report",
     "outlet": "The National",
     "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2024/11/14/middle-east-ufo-cases-included-in-pentagon-report/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UFO office received more than 700 reports in past year",
     "outlet": "AOL News",
     "url": "https://www.aol.com/news/pentagon-ufo-office-received-more-185444075.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's latest UFO report charts global hotspots",
     "outlet": "Cosmic Log",
     "url": "https://cosmiclog.com/2024/11/14/pentagons-latest-ufo-report-charts-global-hotspots/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "exposing-the-truth-hearing",
   "title": "\"UAP Are Real\": The Hearing That Named a Program",
   "summary": "Four witnesses told a joint House subcommittee the government has hidden UAP information for decades. One of them arrived with the name of an alleged Pentagon photo archive.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/exposing-the-truth-hearing/",
   "desk": "politics",
   "date": "2024-11-13",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth (House Oversight hearing)",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth"
    },
    {
     "title": "UAP hearing witnesses claim U.S. government has hidden information from the public for decades",
     "outlet": "Medill on the Hill",
     "url": "https://medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu/2024/11/uap/"
    },
    {
     "title": "At packed UFO hearing, calls for transparency ring loud",
     "outlet": "Roll Call",
     "url": "https://rollcall.com/2024/11/13/at-packed-ufo-hearing-calls-for-transparency-ring-loud/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UAP are real: Congress pushes quest for transparency on UFOs",
     "outlet": "The American Legion",
     "url": "https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/news/2024/november/uap-are-real-congress-pushes-quest-for-transparency-on-ufos"
    },
    {
     "title": "Written testimony by Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Updated-Testimony-Gallaudet.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "Written testimony of Michael Shellenberger to House Oversight",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-ShellenbergerM-20241113.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO hearing: ex-Pentagon official says government cabal hiding the truth",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ufo-hearing-ex-pentagon-official-says-government-cabal-hiding-the-fact-we-not-alone"
    },
    {
     "title": "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth (Congress.gov)",
     "outlet": "U.S. Congress",
     "url": "https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/joint-event/LC73860/text"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "langley-seventeen-nights",
   "title": "Seventeen Nights Over Langley",
   "summary": "A swarm of drones flew over one of the Air Force's most important fighter bases every evening for more than two weeks. The Air Force moved its F-22s. Ten months later nobody would say who sent them.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/langley-seventeen-nights/",
   "desk": "drones",
   "date": "2024-10-15",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Mysterious Drones Swarmed Langley AFB For Weeks",
     "outlet": "The War Zone",
     "url": "https://www.twz.com/air/mysterious-drones-swarmed-langley-afb-for-weeks"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon confirms unidentified drones flew over Langley Air Force Base over 17 days",
     "outlet": "13News Now",
     "url": "https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/national/military-news/pentagon-confirms-that-unidentified-drones-flew-over-langley-air-force-base-over-17-days-last-december/291-cbad5a35-0a5a-4297-864d-9cd8e551a37c"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Pentagon confirmed a swarm of drones violated Langley airspace",
     "outlet": "WHRO",
     "url": "https://www.whro.org/military-veterans/2024-10-15/the-pentagon-confirmed-a-swarm-of-drones-violated-langley-airspace"
    },
    {
     "title": "What we know about the Langley Air Force Base drone incident",
     "outlet": "The Washington Times",
     "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/16/what-we-know-about-langley-air-force-base-drone-in/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Drones swarmed an air base for days. They're still a mystery",
     "outlet": "Task & Purpose",
     "url": "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/mystery-drones-langley-afb/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Map shows multiple incursions of mystery drones near US military sites",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/us-air-force-langley-drones-mystery-map-1969811"
    },
    {
     "title": "Mystery drones fly over Langley for 17 days, DOD looks to protect aircraft",
     "outlet": "WAVY",
     "url": "https://www.wavy.com/news/military/report-mystery-drones-fly-over-langley-for-17-days-now-dod-is-looking-to-protect-aircraft/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Mystery drones swarmed Langley Air Force Base for weeks",
     "outlet": "Washington Examiner",
     "url": "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/2923903/mystery-drones-swarmed-langley-air-force-base-for-weeks/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "immaculate-constellation",
   "title": "The Archive That May Not Exist",
   "summary": "A whistleblower described a Pentagon program that collects and quarantines every high-quality UAP image the government takes. It has a name, a described purpose, and no confirmed existence.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/immaculate-constellation/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2024-10-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Immaculate Constellation UAP program named in report",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/report-immaculate-constellation-uap-journalist/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Shellenberger: Pentagon's Immaculate Constellation Program Is About Reverse Engineering UFO Technology",
     "outlet": "RealClearPolitics",
     "url": "https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/10/shellenberger_pentagons_immaculate_constellation_program_is_about_reverse_engineering_ufo_technology.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Immaculate Constellation: What is the alleged Pentagon program on UAPs?",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/what-is-immaculate-constellation/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Immaculate Constellation reports describe UFO encounters",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/immaculate-constellation-ufo-encounters/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Written testimony of Michael Shellenberger to House Oversight",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO12/20241113/117721/HHRG-118-GO12-Wstate-ShellenbergerM-20241113.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "Immaculate Constellation: The Alleged Secret Pentagon Program Hiding UAP Evidence",
     "outlet": "UFOUAP",
     "url": "https://www.ufouap.com/articles/immaculate-constellation-alleged-pentagon-uap-program/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "historical-record-volume-one",
   "title": "The Government Investigates Itself and Finds Nothing",
   "summary": "AARO's historical review went through Project Blue Book and eight decades of records to answer one question: was there ever a cover-up? Its answer was no. Its omissions became the story.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/historical-record-volume-one/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2024-03-08",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "AARO Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Volume 1",
     "outlet": "AARO",
     "url": "https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO Historical Record Report Volume 1 (DoD)",
     "outlet": "U.S. Dept. of Defense",
     "url": "https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-2024-0263-AARO-HISTORICAL-RECORD-REPORT-VOLUME-1-2024.PDF"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UFO office finds no empirical evidence for alien technology in new report",
     "outlet": "Space.com",
     "url": "https://www.space.com/pentagon-ufo-office-aaro-historical-report-no-emprical-evidence-alien-technology"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UAP Report Says No Evidence of Alien Tech",
     "outlet": "MeriTalk",
     "url": "https://www.meritalk.com/articles/pentagon-uap-report-says-no-evidence-of-alien-tech/"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO's Historical UAP Report - Volume 1 analysis",
     "outlet": "Metabunk",
     "url": "https://www.metabunk.org/threads/aaros-historical-uap-report-volume-1.13375/"
    },
    {
     "title": "US Pentagon fueled UFO rumors for decades, Wall Street Journal reports",
     "outlet": "Semafor",
     "url": "https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/us-pentagon-fueled-ufo-rumors-for-decades-wall-street-journal-reports"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "jellyfish-over-iraq",
   "title": "The Jellyfish Over Iraq, and the Marine Who Says It Was a Ghost Story",
   "summary": "A thermal video from a U.S. base in Iraq showed a drifting, tendrilled shape. Then a Marine who was there offered a duller explanation, and the two accounts have never been reconciled.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/jellyfish-over-iraq/",
   "desk": "sightings",
   "date": "2024-01-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Jellyfish UFO Reportedly Recorded over U.S. Joint Operations Base in Iraq",
     "outlet": "Singular Fortean",
     "url": "https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2024/1/9/jellyfish-ufo-reportedly-recorded-over-united-states-joint-operations-base-in-iraq"
    },
    {
     "title": "Video: Jellyfish UFO seen over Iraq",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/jellyfish-uap-video/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Leaked jellyfish UFO video leaves the internet enthralled",
     "outlet": "Global News",
     "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/10216527/jellyfish-ufo-iraq-video-uap/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Jellyfish UAP response raises questions",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/jellyfish-ufo-video-pentagon-response/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Jellyfish UFO sighted in Iraq was ghost story at base, says Marine",
     "outlet": "Arab News",
     "url": "https://www.arabnews.com/node/2442101/offbeat"
    },
    {
     "title": "Marine says jellyfish UAP video was ghost story of the base",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/marine-speaks-jellyfish-uap/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "kirkpatrick-exit",
   "title": "The Only Honest Position Had No Constituency",
   "summary": "Sean Kirkpatrick built the Pentagon's UAP office, told everyone what they did not want to hear, and was gone in eighteen months. His successor inherited the same impossible brief.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/kirkpatrick-exit/",
   "desk": "people",
   "date": "2023-11-30",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UFO chief to step down next month",
     "outlet": "The Hill",
     "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4300252-pentagon-ufo-chief-to-step-down-next-month/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's UAP investigation chief to depart Dec. 1",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2023/11/30/pentagons-uap-investigation-chief-to-depart-dec-1/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Confirms Retirement of AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick",
     "outlet": "The Debrief",
     "url": "https://thedebrief.org/pentagon-confirms-retirement-of-aaro-director-sean-kirkpatrick-as-new-deputy-director-is-named/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Statement by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on the Upcoming Departure of AARO Director",
     "outlet": "U.S. Dept. of Defense",
     "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3583248/statement-by-deputy-secretary-of-defense-kathleen-hicks-on-the-upcoming-departu"
    },
    {
     "title": "Controversial UAPTF Head Sean Kirkpatrick is Stepping Down as AARO Director",
     "outlet": "Unknown Country",
     "url": "https://unknowncountry.com/headline-news/controversial-uaptf-head-sean-kirkpatrick-rumored-to-be-stepping-down-as-aaro-director-by-years-end/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon appoints new director of UAP investigative office AARO",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/pentagon-director-ufo-uap-office-aaro/"
    },
    {
     "title": "A New Era Begins: Get to Know the New AARO Director",
     "outlet": "MUFON",
     "url": "https://mufon.com/2024/11/04/a-new-era-begins-get-to-know-the-new-aaro-director/"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO functioning at full operational capability as lawmakers prep for classified UAP briefing",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2024/12/05/aaro-full-operational-capability-lawmakers-prep-classified-uap-briefing/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "nasa-takes-the-file",
   "title": "NASA Takes the File, and Names the Real Problem",
   "summary": "Sixteen scientists spent nine months on UAP and reported that the data is the obstacle. Then the agency declined to name its new research director, because of the threats.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/nasa-takes-the-file/",
   "desk": "science",
   "date": "2023-09-14",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director",
     "outlet": "NASA",
     "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director/"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA UAP report finds no evidence of extraterrestrial UFOs, but some encounters defy explanation",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-ufo-report-uap-study/"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA releases independent report on UAP research",
     "outlet": "SpaceNews",
     "url": "https://spacenews.com/nasa-releases-independent-report-on-uap-research/"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA's UAP Study Team Releases Its Final Report",
     "outlet": "Sci.News",
     "url": "https://www.sci.news/space/nasa-uap-report-12270.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA Releases UFO Report, Warns Against Stigma",
     "outlet": "U.S. News",
     "url": "https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-09-14/nasa-releases-ufo-report-warns-against-stigma"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial",
     "outlet": "Nextgov/FCW",
     "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2023/09/nasa-report-finds-no-evidence-ufos-are-extraterrestrial/390350/"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA appoints new head of UAP research as it eyes deeper cooperation with Pentagon",
     "outlet": "DefenseScoop",
     "url": "https://defensescoop.com/2023/09/14/nasa-appoints-new-head-of-uap-research-as-it-eyes-deeper-cooperation-with-dods-aaro/"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA UFO team calls for higher quality data in first public meeting",
     "outlet": "Science",
     "url": "https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-ufo-team-calls-higher-quality-data-first-public-meeting"
    },
    {
     "title": "NASA Makes Mark McInerney Director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Research",
     "outlet": "ExecutiveGov",
     "url": "https://www.executivegov.com/articles/nasa-makes-mark-mcinerney-director-of-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-research"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "grusch-under-oath",
   "title": "Two Pilots Saw It. One Man Was Only Told.",
   "summary": "Two Navy pilots described what they had seen. A former intelligence officer described what he had been told. The difference between those two things has defined everything since.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/grusch-under-oath/",
   "desk": "politics",
   "date": "2023-07-26",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAPs",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-hearing-congress-uap-takeaways-whistleblower-conference-david-grusch-2023/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Whistleblower testifies U.S. salvaged material from UFO crash sites",
     "outlet": "NPR",
     "url": "https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps"
    },
    {
     "title": "Key takeaways from the US congressional hearing on UFOs",
     "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/key-takeaways-from-the-us-congressional-hearing-on-ufos"
    },
    {
     "title": "Congressional UAP hearing features David Grusch whistleblower claims",
     "outlet": "ABC11",
     "url": "https://abc11.com/post/ufo-hearing-uap-david-grusch-whistleblower-claims/13551080/"
    },
    {
     "title": "House Oversight Committee UAP Hearing",
     "outlet": "UAP Ledger",
     "url": "https://www.uapledger.com/hearings/house-oversight-uap-hearing-2023"
    },
    {
     "title": "National Security Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/release/national-security-subcommittee-to-hold-hearing-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena%ef%bf%bc/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Analysis: Whistleblower testimonies did not change our basic understanding of UFOs",
     "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
     "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/analysis-whistleblower-testimonies-did-not-change-our-basic-understanding-of-ufos"
    },
    {
     "title": "Congressional UFO Hearing Shows Need for More Transparency",
     "outlet": "Scientific American",
     "url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whistleblower-calls-for-transparency-as-congress-digs-for-the-truth-about-ufos/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Close encounters with UFOs described to Congressional committee",
     "outlet": "Gulf News",
     "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/close-encounters-with-ufos-described-to-congressional-committee-1.1690386161284"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-jfk-model",
   "title": "They Wrote a UFO Law Modelled on the JFK Files. Then They Gutted It.",
   "summary": "Schumer and Rounds proposed a records board with subpoena power and eminent domain over recovered materials. What survived into law was a filing requirement.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/the-jfk-model/",
   "desk": "politics",
   "date": "2023-07-13",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Schumer and Rounds introduce legislation to declassify government records on UAP",
     "outlet": "Senate Democrats",
     "url": "https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rounds-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-and-ufos_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act--as-an-amendment-to-ndaa"
    },
    {
     "title": "Senators Rounds and Schumer submit UAP Disclosure Act as possible amendment to NDAA",
     "outlet": "Douglas Johnson",
     "url": "https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senators-rounds-and-schumer-uapda/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Young co-leads amendment to declassify information, including UFOs",
     "outlet": "Sen. Young",
     "url": "https://www.young.senate.gov/news/press-releases/young-colleagues-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-ufos-and-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act-as-an-amendment"
    },
    {
     "title": "Congress scraps provision to declassify information about UFOs",
     "outlet": "Straight Arrow News",
     "url": "https://san.com/cc/congress-scraps-provision-to-declassify-information-about-ufos-aliens/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Implications of the UAP Amendment in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act",
     "outlet": "Inside Government Contracts",
     "url": "https://www.insidegovernmentcontracts.com/2024/01/implications-of-the-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-uap-amendment-in-the-2024-national-defense-authorization-act-ndaa/"
    },
    {
     "title": "The UAP Disclosure Act: The proposed Pentagon/AARO re-write of November 2023",
     "outlet": "Douglas Johnson",
     "url": "https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/uap-disclosure-act-pentagon-rewrite-nov-2023/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Sen. Rounds will renew push for UAP disclosure legislation",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/senator-rounds-uap-disclosure-act/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Rep. Burlison Introduces UAP Disclosure Act of 2025 as Amendment to NDAA",
     "outlet": "Newstalk KZRG",
     "url": "https://www.newstalkkzrg.com/2025/08/29/rep-burlison-introduces-uap-disclosure-act-of-2025-as-amendment-to-ndaa/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-debrief-story",
   "title": "The Story That Started the Modern Fight",
   "summary": "On June 5, 2023, two veteran reporters published a former intelligence officer's claim that the United States holds craft of non-human origin. Everything since has been argument about that sentence.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/the-debrief-story/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2023-06-05",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin",
     "outlet": "The Debrief",
     "url": "https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Military whistleblower claims US has UFO retrieval program",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/military-whistleblowe-us-ufo-retrieval-program/"
    },
    {
     "title": "We are not alone: The UFO whistleblower speaks",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/we-are-not-alone-the-ufo-whistleblower-speaks/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO whistleblower makes explosive claims, but wary of divulging details",
     "outlet": "Yahoo News",
     "url": "https://news.yahoo.com/ufo-whistleblower-makes-explosive-claims-205417135.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Crashed UFOs? Bold claims from a former intelligence officer",
     "outlet": "EarthSky",
     "url": "https://earthsky.org/human-world/crashed-ufos-whistleblower-uap/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Marco Rubio Claims Top U.S. Officials Coming Forward With UFO Claims",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/marco-rubio-ufo-uap-top-us-officials-investigation-1809201"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO whistleblower deserve serious investigation, Rubio says",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/ufo-whistleblower-deserve-serious-investigation-rubio/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "kirkpatrick-no-credible-evidence",
   "title": "The Metallic Orb, and the Man Who Said It Was Nothing",
   "summary": "AARO's first director told the Senate he had found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity — then declassified drone footage of a silver sphere moving over the Middle East.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/kirkpatrick-no-credible-evidence/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2023-04-19",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "No credible evidence of UFO activity has been found, Pentagon official tells senators",
     "outlet": "The American Legion",
     "url": "https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/newsletters/2023/april/no-credible-evidence-of-ufo-activity-has-been-found-pentagon-official-tells-senators"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon's UFO tracking efforts focus of Senate hearing",
     "outlet": "ABC News",
     "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagons-ufo-tracking-efforts-focus-senate-hearing/story?id=98691663"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UFO chief: No credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity found",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/pentagon-ufo-chief-to-testify-before-congress/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Says Reaper Drone Spotted Metallic Orb UFO in Middle East",
     "outlet": "VICE",
     "url": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/pentagon-says-reaper-drone-spotted-metallic-orb-ufo-in-middle-east/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Newly released UFO video broken down frame by frame by Pentagon official: Truly anomalous",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/us/newly-released-ufo-video-sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-aaro-truly-anomalous"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon video shows mysterious flying orb, says 650 UFOs are being tracked",
     "outlet": "Global News",
     "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/9640141/pentagon-ufo-video-flying-orb/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO Senate hearing: Pentagon official concerned about China and Russia's advanced tech",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/us/ufo-senate-hearing-pentagon-official-concerned-about-chinas-and-russias-advanced-tech"
    },
    {
     "title": "Middle East Metallic Orb, MQ-9 Footage, AARO Senate briefing",
     "outlet": "UFO Transparency",
     "url": "https://ufotransparency.com/files/decade-2020s-aaro-senate-sasc-briefing-april-2023-dod-109584445"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "shootdown-fortnight",
   "title": "The Fortnight America Shot at the Sky",
   "summary": "A Chinese surveillance balloon came down off South Carolina. Then, over eight days, U.S. and Canadian fighters destroyed three more objects nobody has ever identified.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/shootdown-fortnight/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2023-02-10",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "U.S. Downs 3 Unidentified Flying Objects Nearly a Week After Chinese Spy Balloon",
     "outlet": "USNI News",
     "url": "https://news.usni.org/2023/02/10/u-s-downs-flying-object-near-alaska-nearly-a-week-after-shooting-down-chinese-surveillance-balloon"
    },
    {
     "title": "US jet shoots down unidentified object over northern Canada",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/norad-additional-object-northern-canada/index.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "NORAD shoots down unidentified object over Yukon",
     "outlet": "CBC",
     "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/norad-monitoring-airborne-object-north-1.6745575"
    },
    {
     "title": "Biden says three recently downed aerial objects were not linked to Chinese spy program",
     "outlet": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/china-spy-balloons-biden-addresses-nation-on-shootdowns-of-aerial-phenomena.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "US military calls off recovery for spy balloon and objects downed over Alaska, Lake Huron",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/china-spy-balloon-recovery/index.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "What you need to know about the four high-altitude objects shot down over North America",
     "outlet": "NBC News",
     "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/need-know-four-high-altitude-objects-shot-north-america-rcna70281"
    },
    {
     "title": "What we know so far about the Chinese spy balloon and the other objects the U.S. shot down",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/chinas-spy-balloon-unidentified-objects-shot-down-what-we-know-so-far/"
    },
    {
     "title": "F-16s Find Balloons, Not UFOs, After Sunday Scramble: NORAD",
     "outlet": "The War Zone",
     "url": "https://www.twz.com/air/f-16s-find-balloons-not-ufos-after-sunday-scramble-norad"
    },
    {
     "title": "2023 Lake Huron high-altitude object",
     "outlet": "Wikipedia",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Lake_Huron_high-altitude_object"
    },
    {
     "title": "2023 Yukon high-altitude object",
     "outlet": "Wikipedia",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Yukon_high-altitude_object"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "cosmics-and-phantoms",
   "title": "Cosmics and Phantoms Over Kyiv",
   "summary": "Astronomers at Ukraine's Main Astronomical Observatory pointed calibrated cameras at the sky during a war and published what they found. It is the most instrumented UAP dataset anyone has produced — and the hardest to interpret.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/cosmics-and-phantoms/",
   "desk": "science",
   "date": "2022-09-13",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Cosmic and phantom UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies, government report claims",
     "outlet": "Live Science",
     "url": "https://www.livescience.com/ukraine-ufo-uap-report"
    },
    {
     "title": "Cosmic and phantom UFOs are all over Ukraine's skies",
     "outlet": "Space.com",
     "url": "https://www.space.com/ukraine-ufo-uap-report"
    },
    {
     "title": "Ukraine's Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv",
     "outlet": "VICE",
     "url": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/ukraines-astronomers-say-there-are-tons-of-ufos-over-kyiv/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Unidentified aerial phenomena II. Evaluation of UAP properties (arXiv)",
     "outlet": "arXiv",
     "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17085"
    },
    {
     "title": "Cosmics and Phantoms: Ukrainian Independent Study Reveals UAP Observations",
     "outlet": "The Debrief",
     "url": "https://thedebrief.org/cosmics-and-phantoms-ukrainian-independent-study-reveals-observations-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Astronomers Report a High Number of UFO Sightings in the Sky of Kyiv, Ukraine",
     "outlet": "Science Times",
     "url": "https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/39936/20220915/astronomers-discover-high-number-ufo-sightings-kyiv-ukraine.htm"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFOs over Kyiv",
     "outlet": "Skeptical Inquirer",
     "url": "https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/12/ufos-over-kyiv/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Characterization of Dark UAPs (arXiv)",
     "outlet": "arXiv",
     "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05627"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "aaro-stood-up",
   "title": "The Pentagon Wrote “Submerged and Transmedium” Into a Founding Document",
   "summary": "In July 2022 the Pentagon created a permanent body to chase unidentified objects in the air, in space, underwater and across the boundaries between them. The word \"aerial\" was dropped on purpose.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/aaro-stood-up/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2022-07-20",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (DoD memo)",
     "outlet": "U.S. Dept. of Defense",
     "url": "https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jul/20/2003039074/-1/-1/1/ESTABLISHMENT-OF-THE-ALL-DOMAIN-ANOMALY-RESOLUTION-OFFICE.PDF"
    },
    {
     "title": "DoD Announces the Establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
     "outlet": "HSToday",
     "url": "https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/intelligence/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Department Of Defense Establishes All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
     "outlet": "Potomac Officers Club",
     "url": "https://www.potomacofficersclub.com/news/dod-establishes-all-romain-anomaly-resolution-office/"
    },
    {
     "title": "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
     "outlet": "Wikipedia",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office"
    },
    {
     "title": "The truth is out there: DoD announces the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office",
     "outlet": "Military News",
     "url": "https://www.militarynews.com/norfolk-navy-flagship/news/quarterdeck/the-truth-is-out-there-dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution/article_335a9bc6-0dc8-11ed-b1e8-d72a0bd93aa7.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Established",
     "outlet": "Leonard David",
     "url": "https://www.leonarddavid.com/all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office-established/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick: AARO's Founding Director and His Impact on UAP Investigations",
     "outlet": "UFOPulse",
     "url": "https://ufopulse.com/dr-sean-kirkpatrick-aaros-founding-director-and-his-enduring-impact-on-uap-inves/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "first-hearing-in-fifty-years",
   "title": "Fifty-Two Years of Silence, Ninety Minutes of Questions",
   "summary": "In May 2022 Congress held its first public UFO hearing since Project Blue Book closed. The most important number in the room was 400.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/first-hearing-in-fifty-years/",
   "desk": "politics",
   "date": "2022-05-17",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon officials testify at first public UFO hearing in more than 50 years",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://cbsnews.com/news/ufo-hearing-congress-pentagon-watch-live-stream-today-2022-05-17"
    },
    {
     "title": "Five things to know about the congressional UFO hearing",
     "outlet": "ABC4",
     "url": "https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/five-things-to-know-about-the-congressional-ufo-hearing/"
    },
    {
     "title": "US Congress Looks at UFOs Through Security Lens",
     "outlet": "VOA",
     "url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/us-congress-looks-at-ufos-through-security-lens-/6578039.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "1st UFO hearing in Congress in 50 years",
     "outlet": "EarthSky",
     "url": "https://earthsky.org/human-world/ufo-hearing-congress-house-intelligence-committee/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena hearing transcript, May 17 2022",
     "outlet": "U.S. Congress",
     "url": "https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-Transcript-20220517.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "Congress holds first UFO hearing in half a century",
     "outlet": "LongIsland.com",
     "url": "https://www.longisland-ny.com/2022/05/17/congress-holds-first-ufo-hearing-in-half-a-century/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon pilots have reported 11 near misses with UFOs",
     "outlet": "Breaking Defense",
     "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2022/05/pentagon-pilots-have-reported-11-near-misses-with-ufos/"
    },
    {
     "title": "2022 United States Congress hearings on UFOs",
     "outlet": "Wikipedia",
     "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Congress_hearings_on_UFOs"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "galileo-project",
   "title": "Half a Million Objects. Zero Anomalies. Published Anyway.",
   "summary": "Avi Loeb's answer to unreliable UFO data was to stop arguing about other people's footage and collect his own. Five years on, the instruments work and the discoveries have not arrived.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/galileo-project/",
   "desk": "science",
   "date": "2021-07-26",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Harvard astronomer launches Galileo Project to examine UFO reports",
     "outlet": "The Boston Globe",
     "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/27/metro/are-we-smartest-kid-our-cosmic-block-harvard-astronomer-launches-galileo-project-examine-ufo-reports/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Harvard-led team to search cosmos for extraterrestrial space tech and UFOs",
     "outlet": "Live Science",
     "url": "https://www.livescience.com/galileo-project-hunts-alien-tech.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Harvard professor launches new project to discover unidentified aerial phenomena",
     "outlet": "Boston.com",
     "url": "https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2021/07/30/harvard-professor-launches-new-project-to-discover-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Why is a Harvard astrophysicist working with UFO buffs?",
     "outlet": "Science",
     "url": "https://www.science.org/content/article/why-is-harvard-astrophysicist-working-with-ufo-buffs"
    },
    {
     "title": "Galileo Project Releases Commissioning Data on Half a Million Aerial Objects",
     "outlet": "The Debrief",
     "url": "https://thedebrief.org/galileo-project-releases-commissioning-data-on-half-a-million-aerial-objects-are-any-of-them-uap/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Commissioning Data on Half a Million Objects in the Sky from the Galileo Project Observatory",
     "outlet": "Avi Loeb",
     "url": "https://avi-loeb.medium.com/commissioning-data-on-half-a-million-objects-in-the-sky-from-the-galileo-project-observatory-are-a23bd084233a"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Galileo Project: What Harvard's UFO Observatory Has Actually Built and Found",
     "outlet": "UFOUAP",
     "url": "https://www.ufouap.com/articles/galileo-project-scientific-alternative-uap-disclosure-2026/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Avi Loeb's Galileo Project posts first results",
     "outlet": "Metabunk",
     "url": "https://www.metabunk.org/threads/avi-loebs-galileo-project-posts-first-results-to-near-total-silence.13795/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "preliminary-assessment",
   "title": "144 Cases. One Answer. It Was a Balloon.",
   "summary": "The intelligence community's first public UAP assessment explained exactly one of 144 incidents. It was a deflating balloon. The other 143 became the foundation of everything that followed.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/preliminary-assessment/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2021-06-25",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (ODNI)",
     "outlet": "ODNI",
     "url": "https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon task force's UFO report released - many cases remain unexplained",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-ufo-report-released-many-uap-cases-remain-unexplained/"
    },
    {
     "title": "ODNI 2021 Report: The Preliminary Assessment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena",
     "outlet": "New Space Economy",
     "url": "https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2025/11/28/odni-2021-report-the-preliminary-assessment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/"
    },
    {
     "title": "How the Pentagon learned to start worrying and investigate UFOs",
     "outlet": "National Geographic",
     "url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-the-pentagon-report-says-about-ufos"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO top-secret research grips Washington: Here's what they're saying",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/secret-ufo-research-washington/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon UFO Rapid Response Teams Ordered Up by Congress",
     "outlet": "Military.com",
     "url": "https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/12/07/pentagon-ufo-rapid-response-teams-ordered-congress.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Rubio says national security is more important than UFO stigma",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-national-security-ufo"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon pilots have reported 11 near misses with UFOs",
     "outlet": "Breaking Defense",
     "url": "https://breakingdefense.com/2022/05/pentagon-pilots-have-reported-11-near-misses-with-ufos/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "every-day-for-two-years",
   "title": "\"Every Day For At Least a Couple of Years\"",
   "summary": "A Navy lieutenant went on 60 Minutes and said his squadron saw unidentified objects off Virginia Beach essentially every day. He is now the most durable witness in the file.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/every-day-for-two-years/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2021-05-16",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "UFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace, report due next month",
     "outlet": "CBS News",
     "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-16/"
    },
    {
     "title": "60 Minutes UFOs: Ryan Graves says he saw them every day",
     "outlet": "The Washington Post",
     "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/17/ufo-sightings-navy-ryan-graves/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Ryan Graves, Ex Navy Lieutenant, Says Pilots Have Seen UFOs Every Single Day for Years",
     "outlet": "The Daily Beast",
     "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/ryan-graves-ex-navy-lieutenant-says-pilots-have-seen-ufos-every-single-day-for-years/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves on UFO shapes and the military",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/navy-fighter-pilot-ryan-graves-ufos-shape-military"
    },
    {
     "title": "US Navy pilots describe seeing UFO in unsettling documented incident",
     "outlet": "Global News",
     "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/7863024/ufo-navy-pilot-uap-nimitz-virginia-beach/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Fleet of UFOs Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says",
     "outlet": "Space.com",
     "url": "https://www.space.com/ufo-sightings-us-pilots.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Recommendations to Improve Acquisition and Management of Aviation-Related UAP Data",
     "outlet": "NARCAP",
     "url": "https://www.narcap.org/faa-reporting-recommendation"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "into-the-water",
   "title": "The Sphere That Flew Into the Ocean",
   "summary": "Navy sensors aboard the USS Omaha recorded a spherical object descending into the Pacific. The Pentagon confirmed the footage was real, then said nothing else about it for five years.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/into-the-water/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2021-05-14",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "New video from USS Omaha shows unknown aerial sphere vanishing into ocean",
     "outlet": "WAVY",
     "url": "https://www.wavy.com/news/strange/new-video-from-uss-omaha-shows-unknown-aerial-sphere-vanishing-into-ocean/"
    },
    {
     "title": "New Footage Shows UFOs Circling U.S. Navy Ship",
     "outlet": "TMZ",
     "url": "https://www.tmz.com/2021/05/28/ufos-swarming-navy-ship-uss-omaha/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Confirms Authenticity of Another UFO Video",
     "outlet": "ComicBook.com",
     "url": "https://comicbook.com/irl/news/pentagon-ufo-sighting-confirmed-underwater/"
    },
    {
     "title": "USS Omaha UFO Video - George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell",
     "outlet": "Mystery Wire",
     "url": "https://www.mysterywire.com/video/mystery-wire-uss-omaha-ufo-video-george-knapp-and-jeremy-corbell/6628394/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Ex-Navy Admiral Says Transmedium UFOs Are Nothing Short Of World Changing",
     "outlet": "BroBible",
     "url": "https://brobible.com/culture/article/navy-admiral-transmedium-ufos/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Forget the Skies, the U.S. Military Is Looking for UFOs Below the Waves",
     "outlet": "The National Interest",
     "url": "https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-skies-us-military-looking-ufos-below-waves-210129"
    },
    {
     "title": "Spheres in ocean: Declassified 2022 video shows UAPs shadowing a US submarine",
     "outlet": "WION",
     "url": "https://www.wionews.com/photos/spheres-in-the-ocean-declassified-2022-video-shows-uaps-shadowing-us-submarine-1779559612170"
    },
    {
     "title": "Written testimony by Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)",
     "outlet": "House Oversight",
     "url": "https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Updated-Testimony-Gallaudet.pdf"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "lockdown-skies",
   "title": "The Year Everyone Was Home and Looking Up",
   "summary": "UFO reports surged in 2020, and again in 2025. Both surges have prosaic explanations — which is exactly why the sighting statistics are worth understanding before anyone cites them.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/lockdown-skies/",
   "desk": "sightings",
   "date": "2021-04-09",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "With more time to look up, sightings of UFOs surged in the pandemic",
     "outlet": "The Baltimore Sun",
     "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nyt-ufo-sightings-20210409-ztqchqcgzrcflbfedk3c7wjkk4-story.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "2020 UFO sightings spike during lockdowns",
     "outlet": "WRIC",
     "url": "https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/2020-ufo-sightings-spike-during-lockdowns/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Survey suggests Canadians looked to the skies, saw more UFOs during pandemic",
     "outlet": "CBC",
     "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rutkowski-ufo-sightings-up-pandemic-1.5970304"
    },
    {
     "title": "New study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UFO reporting",
     "outlet": "Phys.org",
     "url": "https://phys.org/news/2023-03-impact-covid-pandemic-ufo.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO group reports more than 2,000 sightings in first half of 2025",
     "outlet": "NewsNation",
     "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/2000-ufo-sightings-first-half-2025/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO group reports more than 2K sightings in first half of 2025",
     "outlet": "The Hill",
     "url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5397562-ufo-sighting-increase-report/"
    },
    {
     "title": "These states have the most UFO sightings in 2023: report",
     "outlet": "WATE",
     "url": "https://www.wate.com/news/watercooler/how-many-ufo-sightings-have-been-reported-in-your-state-this-year/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO/UAP Sightings Report, First Half of 2025",
     "outlet": "Other Worlders",
     "url": "https://otherworlders.com/ufo-sightings/ufo-uap-sightings-report-first-half-of-2025/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "swarmed-off-california",
   "title": "They Swarmed the Destroyers for Days. The Logs Prove It.",
   "summary": "In 2019 unidentified drones shadowed U.S. warships off California for a week — matching course, hovering over flight decks, shining lights on the bridge. FOIA released the ship logs two years later.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/swarmed-off-california/",
   "desk": "drones",
   "date": "2021-03-23",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Mystery drones hovered over U.S. Navy destroyers off California coast",
     "outlet": "NBC News",
     "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mystery-drones-hovered-over-u-s-navy-destroyers-california-coast-n1261970"
    },
    {
     "title": "Mystery Drones Kept Buzzing US Destroyers During Exercises Off California",
     "outlet": "Forbes",
     "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/03/24/mystery-drones-kept-buzzing-us-destroyers-during-exercises-off-california/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Swarmed Navy Destroyer Had Its Bridge Illuminated By Mysterious Drones",
     "outlet": "The War Zone",
     "url": "https://www.twz.com/mystery-drones-swarming-navy-destroyer-shined-lights-on-its-bridge"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFOs Swarmed Navy Destroyers Off California, Records Show",
     "outlet": "Coffee or Die",
     "url": "https://www.coffeeordie.com/article/navy-ufos"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFOs or Drones: What Is Swarming U.S. Navy Warships?",
     "outlet": "The National Interest",
     "url": "https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ufos-or-drones-what-swarming-us-navy-warships-181110"
    },
    {
     "title": "Leaked Video: Pyramid-like UFOs swarm Navy destroyer",
     "outlet": "American Military News",
     "url": "https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/04/leaked-video-pyramid-like-ufos-swarm-navy-destroyer/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Confirms Pyramid-Shaped UFO Video Footage Is Authentic",
     "outlet": "ScienceAlert",
     "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/pentagon-confirms-pyramid-shaped-ufo-video-footage-is-authentic"
    },
    {
     "title": "Did Pentagon Confirm Leaked Pics of UFOs Were Taken by Military Personnel?",
     "outlet": "Snopes",
     "url": "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ufo-pyramid-shaped/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "cia-opens-the-drawer",
   "title": "The CIA Sold Its UFO Files on a CD-ROM",
   "summary": "Before the disclosure era there was a filing-cabinet era. Its defining artifact is the collection the CIA sold on a disc, which a researcher scanned and put online for free.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/cia-opens-the-drawer/",
   "desk": "files",
   "date": "2021-01-13",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "CIA releases entire collection of UFO-related documents to truth-seeking website",
     "outlet": "Space.com",
     "url": "https://www.space.com/cia-declassified-ufo-archives.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "You Can Now Explore the CIA's Entire Collection of UFO Documents Online",
     "outlet": "Smithsonian",
     "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-now-explore-cias-entire-collection-ufo-related-documents-180976756/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFOs and invisible ink: CIA shares trove of declassified files online",
     "outlet": "Fox News",
     "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/science/ufos-and-invisible-ink-cia-shares-trove-of-declassified-files-online"
    },
    {
     "title": "Britain's National Archives releases documents detailing work of UFO desk",
     "outlet": "NPR",
     "url": "https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/07/12/156695886/britains-national-archives-releases-documents-detailing-work-of-ufo-desk"
    },
    {
     "title": "Ministry of Defence files on UFO sightings released",
     "outlet": "BBC News",
     "url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/uk-14486678"
    },
    {
     "title": "AARO Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with UAP, Volume 1",
     "outlet": "AARO",
     "url": "https://www.aaro.mil/Portals/136/PDFs/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf"
    },
    {
     "title": "Third batch of declassified UFO files reveals sightings around the world were investigated",
     "outlet": "NBC News",
     "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/third-batch-declassified-ufo-files-reveals-sightings-world-investigate-rcna349775"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "uap-task-force",
   "title": "The UFO Deadline Hidden in a Pandemic Relief Bill",
   "summary": "In August 2020 the Navy was told to catalogue UAP that might threaten national security. Four months later, buried in a pandemic spending package, Congress gave the intelligence community 180 days to explain itself.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/uap-task-force/",
   "desk": "military",
   "date": "2020-08-14",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force",
     "outlet": "U.S. Navy",
     "url": "https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/2314280/establishment-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon creates UFO task force to see if unidentified aerial phenomena pose threat",
     "outlet": "Military Times",
     "url": "https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/08/14/pentagon-creates-ufo-task-force-to-see-if-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-pose-threat/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon forms new task force to investigate UFOs",
     "outlet": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/15/pentagon-forms-new-task-force-to-investigate-ufos.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Launches New Task Force to Study UFOs",
     "outlet": "Nextgov/FCW",
     "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2020/08/pentagon-forms-new-task-force-investigate-ufos/167756/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Navy Tapped to Lead UFO Task Force",
     "outlet": "Seapower",
     "url": "https://seapowermagazine.org/navy-tapped-to-lead-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-task-force/"
    },
    {
     "title": "COVID-19 Bill Wants Unclassified UFO Report From UAP Task Force",
     "outlet": "SlashGear",
     "url": "https://www.slashgear.com/covid-19-bill-wants-unclassified-ufo-report-from-uap-task-force-30652994/"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Pentagon has 180 days to disclose UFO information",
     "outlet": "WILX",
     "url": "https://www.wilx.com/2020/12/30/the-pentagon-has-180-days-to-disclose-ufo-information/"
    },
    {
     "title": "UFO Report Could Be Published by Government Agencies in 180 Days",
     "outlet": "Newsweek",
     "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-report-government-agencies-180-days-1557945"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon should release UFO report, Senate intelligence committee argues",
     "outlet": "Space.com",
     "url": "https://www.space.com/senate-pentagon-ufo-report.html"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "slug": "three-videos",
   "title": "The Day the Pentagon Stopped Denying the Tapes",
   "summary": "FLIR, GIMBAL, GOFAST. The footage had leaked years earlier. In April 2020 the Department of Defense formally released it — mostly to stop people arguing about whether it was real.",
   "url": "https://ufonn.com/story/three-videos/",
   "desk": "disclosure",
   "date": "2020-04-27",
   "sources": [
    {
     "title": "Pentagon officially releases UFO videos",
     "outlet": "CNN",
     "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos"
    },
    {
     "title": "Here's Why The Pentagon Officially Released UFO Video Footage",
     "outlet": "Forbes",
     "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/04/27/heres-why-the-pentagon-officially-released-ufo-video-footage/"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon declassifies three UFO videos taken by Navy pilots",
     "outlet": "CNBC",
     "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/pentagon-declassifies-ufo-videos-taken-by-navy-pilots.html"
    },
    {
     "title": "The US military has officially published three UFO videos. Why doesn't anybody seem to care?",
     "outlet": "The Conversation",
     "url": "https://theconversation.com/the-us-military-has-officially-published-three-ufo-videos-why-doesnt-anybody-seem-to-care-137498"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon declassifies three UFO videos",
     "outlet": "Global News",
     "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/6873561/ufo-videos-pentagon-declassified"
    },
    {
     "title": "The Skeptic's Guide to the Pentagon's UFO Videos",
     "outlet": "VICE",
     "url": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wjzg/the-skeptics-guide-to-the-pentagons-ufo-videos"
    },
    {
     "title": "Pentagon Releases Old 'UFO' Videos, with Expected Results",
     "outlet": "Skeptical Inquirer",
     "url": "https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/06/pentagon-releases-old-ufo-videos-with-expected-results/"
    },
    {
     "title": "When Top Gun Pilots Tangled with a Baffling Tic-Tac-Shaped UFO",
     "outlet": "HISTORY",
     "url": "https://www.history.com/articles/uss-nimitz-2004-tic-tac-ufo-encounter"
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}