7 UFONN reports, 69 sources logged.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.