Pilot encounters, warships, radar, intercepts — 7 UFONN reports, 97 sources on file.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.