7 UFONN reports, 137 sources logged.
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.
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.
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.
Schumer and Rounds proposed a records board with subpoena power and eminent domain over recovered materials. What survived into law was a filing requirement.
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.
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.