Famous UFO videos & documentaries

🎯 The Navy UFO videos (FLIR1, Gimbal, GoFast)

The infrared videos recorded by U.S. Navy jets and later released — the encounters, the pilots and the people who made them public:

🛸 Case · 10 min readGimbal and GoFast videosThe Navy infrared videos of UAP released in 2017–2020.🛸 Case · 9 min readNimitz Tic Tac encounterThe November 2004 encounter between Navy pilots and a white Tic Tac-shaped object off California.👤 Person · 7 min readChad UnderwoodNavy pilot who filmed the FLIR1 video in 2004.🏢 Organization · 9 min readTo The Stars AcademyThe company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.👤 Person · 10 min readChristopher MellonFormer deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.🗓️ Event · 5 min readKevin Thomas and the Nimitz black triangleA Nimitz petty officer says he saw a huge black triangle rise out of the ocean.

📼 Classic UFO films and famous footage

The films and footage that shaped UFO history, from the 1950s on:

🛸 Case · 7 min readMariana UFO filmA 1950 film of two bright objects over Great Falls, Montana.🛸 Case · 10 min readTremonton filmA July 1952 film of bright objects shot near Tremonton, Utah.🗓️ Event · 6 min readHolloman cigar-shaped object film (1950)A Holloman AFB contractor films a cigar-shaped metallic object and hands the film to the base.🛸 Case · 9 min readKaikoura lightsThe December 1978 lights filmed from a cargo plane off New Zealand.🛸 Case · 8 min readPhoenix LightsThe mass sighting over Arizona on 13 March 1997.🛸 Case · 9 min read2004 Mexican Air Force UFO incidentA 2004 infrared video of lights over Campeche, attributed to oil-well flares.🎬 Book or film · 6 min readAlien autopsy filmA 1995 film of an alleged alien autopsy, admitted in 2006 to have been staged.

🏛️ Official government UFO videos

133 videos from the U.S. government’s official UFO file releases, with their official descriptions. The most-upvoted:

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🔒 Films said to have been taken away

Accounts of UFO film that witnesses say was handed over and never released:

🗓️ Event · 8 min readBig Sur UFO filmAn officer says he studied film of a UAP downing a test warhead over the Pacific; the CIA took it.🗓️ Event · 7 min readJohn Mills and the Vandenberg warhead filmsAn Air Force technician says he saw film of UAP interacting with test warheads.🗓️ Event · 6 min readGun-camera films sent to the CIA claimResearcher Richard Hall says jet gun-camera UAP films were routinely sent to the CIA.🗓️ Event · 6 min readAlbert Chop and the Tremonton film releaseAir Force spokesman Albert Chop claims the CIA killed a press release and ordered a debunking campaign.🗓️ Event · 5 min readFort Monmouth desert-disc filmA radar technician says he was shown a film of a silver disc embedded in the desert at Fort Monmouth.

🎬 UFO documentaries and TV series

🎬 Book or film · 6 min readThe Age of DisclosureA 2025 documentary in which former officials allege a UFO cover-up.🎬 Book or film · 4 min readUnidentified: Inside America's UFO InvestigationA 2019 History channel series following Luis Elizondo and To The Stars Academy.🎬 Book or film · 5 min readMirage MenA 2010 book and 2013 film about the Bennewitz affair.🎬 Book or film · 4 min readProject Blue Book (TV series)A 2019–20 History Channel drama.🎬 Book or film · 5 min readThe X-FilesThe 1993–2002 Fox television series about FBI agents investigating the paranormal.

🍿 UFO movies

🎬 Book or film · 6 min readClose Encounters of the Third KindSteven Spielberg's 1977 UFO film.🎬 Book or film · 5 min readThe Day the Earth Stood StillA 1951 film in which an alien visitor warns humanity about nuclear weapons.🎬 Book or film · 4 min readFire in the SkyThe 1993 film based on Travis Walton's abduction claim.🗓️ Event · 8 min readHangar 18 (film)The film Hangar 18 depicts a government cover-up of a crashed UAP.

📚 UFO books

• The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsEdward Ruppelt's 1956 book.
• The Flying Saucers Are RealDonald Keyhoe's 1950 book arguing that saucers were alien craft.
• Passport to MagoniaJacques Vallée's 1969 book comparing UFO encounters with fairy folklore.
• Messengers of DeceptionJacques Vallée's 1979 book on manipulation of UFO beliefs.
• Communion (book)Whitley Strieber's 1987 best-seller about his encounters with "visitors".
• Night SiegeA 1987 book on the Hudson Valley sightings.
• Above BlackDan Sherman's 1997 book.
• The Hunt for Zero PointNick Cook's 2001 book on secret anti-gravity research.
• Witness to RoswellA 2007 book by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt.
• UFOs and NukesRobert Hastings's book on UFOs at nuclear sites.
• Skinwalkers at the PentagonA 2021 book about AAWSAP by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp.
• In Plain SightRoss Coulthart's 2021 book on UFO secrecy.
• ImminentLuis Elizondo's 2024 memoir.
• Forbidden ScienceJacques Vallée's published journals.

📡 Shows, sites and the people who analyse the videos

• The New York TimesThe newspaper that revealed AATIP in December 2017.
• The DebriefA news site covering UAP and science.
• Coast to Coast AMThe late-night radio show known for paranormal topics.
• EarthfilesLinda Moulton Howe's website.
• Jeremy CorbellFilmmaker who made documentaries on Bob Lazar and Skinwalker Ranch and released leaked Navy UAP videos.
• Mick WestBritish-born former video game developer and leading skeptical analyst of UFO videos.

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