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Richard Doty — Richard C. Doty is a retired U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent who, while stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico in the late 1970s and 1980s, fed false information about UFOs and aliens to researchers, most notably physicist Paul Bennewitz. He has acknowledged spreading disinformation, though he has also claimed that some of what he passed on was true. His story is central to…
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- $21 trillion unsupported adjustmentsCatherine Austin Fitts and an economist report $21 trillion in unsupported government spending.
- 1561 celestial phenomenon over NurembergA sky display described in a 1561 broadsheet from Nuremberg.
- 1947 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1947 on the UAP Timeline: 12 events.
- 1948 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1948 on the UAP Timeline: 4 events.
- 1949 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1949 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1950 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1950 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 1951 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1951 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1952 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1952 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 1953 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1953 on the UAP Timeline: 13 events.
- 1954 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1954 on the UAP Timeline: 6 events.
- 1955 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1955 on the UAP Timeline: 9 events.
- 1956 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1956 on the UAP Timeline: 11 events.
- 1957 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1957 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1958 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1958 on the UAP Timeline: 11 events.
- 1959 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1959 on the UAP Timeline: 1 event.
- 1960 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1960 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1960s disc hovercraft inquiryPuthoff and Davis look into a 1960s Lockheed hovercraft that looks like a disc.
- 1961 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1961 on the UAP Timeline: 6 events.
- 1962 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1962 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1962 nuclear test UFO records replyA FOIA reply suggests files exist on UFOs and a 1962 nuclear test but need expert review.
- 1963 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1963 on the UAP Timeline: 2 events.
- 1964 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1964 on the UAP Timeline: 4 events.
- 1965 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1965 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1966 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1966 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 1967 British flying saucer hoaxSix fake saucers placed across southern England by apprentices in 1967.
- 1967 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1967 on the UAP Timeline: 4 events.
- 1968 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1968 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 1969 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1969 on the UAP Timeline: 2 events.
- 1970 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1970 on the UAP Timeline: 2 events.
- 1971 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1971 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1972 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1972 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 1973 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1973 on the UAP Timeline: 6 events.
- 1974 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1974 on the UAP Timeline: 9 events.
- 1975 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1975 on the UAP Timeline: 4 events.
- 1976 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1976 on the UAP Timeline: 1 event.
- 1976 Tehran UFO incidentThe 1976 Iranian Air Force F-4 intercept of an unidentified light over Tehran.
- 1977 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1977 on the UAP Timeline: 4 events.
- 1978 House SETI hearingA NASA official testifies to the House about searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
- 1978 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1978 on the UAP Timeline: 14 events.
- 1979 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1979 on the UAP Timeline: 11 events.
- 1980 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1980 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 1980s CIA programs email inquiry 🚧A researcher emails a former CIA science official about 1980s UAP programs.
- 1981 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1981 on the UAP Timeline: 1 event.
- 1982 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1982 on the UAP Timeline: 8 events.
- 1983 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1983 on the UAP Timeline: 3 events.
- 1984 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1984 on the UAP Timeline: 8 events.
- 1985 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1985 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 1986 Brazilian UFO incidentA 1986 night when Brazilian fighters chased unidentified radar contacts.
- 1986 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1986 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 1987 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1987 on the UAP Timeline: 2 events.
- 1988 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1988 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 1989 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1989 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 1990 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1990 on the UAP Timeline: 12 events.
- 1991 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1991 on the UAP Timeline: 16 events.
- 1992 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1992 on the UAP Timeline: 8 events.
- 1993 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1993 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 1994 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1994 on the UAP Timeline: 14 events.
- 1995 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1995 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 1996 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1996 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 1997 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1997 on the UAP Timeline: 11 events.
- 1998 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1998 on the UAP Timeline: 11 events.
- 1999 in UFO historyWhat happened in 1999 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 2000 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2000 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 2001 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2001 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 2002 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2002 on the UAP Timeline: 17 events.
- 2003 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2003 on the UAP Timeline: 12 events.
- 2004 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2004 on the UAP Timeline: 14 events.
- 2004 Mexican Air Force UFO incidentA 2004 infrared video of lights over Campeche, attributed to oil-well flares.
- 2005 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2005 on the UAP Timeline: 6 events.
- 2006 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2006 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 2007 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2007 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 2008 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2008 on the UAP Timeline: 15 events.
- 2009 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2009 on the UAP Timeline: 6 events.
- 2010 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2010 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 2011 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2011 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 2012 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2012 on the UAP Timeline: 6 events.
- 2013 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2013 on the UAP Timeline: 5 events.
- 2014 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2014 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 2015 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2015 on the UAP Timeline: 8 events.
- 2016 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2016 on the UAP Timeline: 9 events.
- 2017 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2017 on the UAP Timeline: 7 events.
- 2018 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2018 on the UAP Timeline: 10 events.
- 2019 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2019 on the UAP Timeline: 12 events.
- 2020 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2020 on the UAP Timeline: 16 events.
- 2021 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2021 on the UAP Timeline: 21 events.
- 2022 House UAP hearingRep. Mike Gallagher asks a Pentagon official about the 'Admiral Wilson memo' at a hearing.
- 2022 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2022 on the UAP Timeline: 44 events.
- 2023 in UFO historyWhat happened in 2023 on the UAP Timeline: 4 events.
- 2024 New Jersey drone sightingsA wave of drone reports across the north-eastern United States in late 2024.
- 2026 UAP records releaseThe release of government UFO and UAP files that began in May 2026 under a presidential directive.
- 4602d Air Intelligence Service SquadronAn Air Force unit that investigated UFO reports in the 1950s.
- 4602d AISS crashed-object claim (1954)A Marine aviator says he was told an Air Force intelligence squadron ran a crashed-object program.
- 509th Bomb GroupThe nuclear-armed bomber group based at Roswell in 1947.
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- A.D.A.M. projectTo The Stars Academy launches the A.D.A.M. project to study claimed exotic materials.
- AAROThe Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
- AARO Historical Record ReportAARO's 2024 report on government involvement with UAP since 1945.
- AATIPThe Pentagon UAP effort associated with Luis Elizondo, revealed in December 2017.
- AAWSAPThe Defense Intelligence Agency's UAP research program of 2008–2010, carried out by Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space St…
- AAWSAP begins (2008)Bigelow tells Vallée the DIA's AAWSAP project has started but promised access hasn't arrived.
- AAWSAP denied access to legacy programsColm Kelleher says the DIA sponsor still hasn't delivered access to legacy UAP programs.
- AAWSAP DIRD releaseThe DIA releases 37 research papers from the AAWSAP program.
- AAWSAP special access program requestBAASS gets clearances, but the Air Force won't talk without a special access program.
- Above BlackDan Sherman's 1997 book.
- Advanced Deep Space Transport groupA deep-space propulsion study group examines exotic propulsion.
- Advanced Theoretical Physics groupA secure facility hosts a conference on whether UAP evidence supports a research program.
- Aetherius SocietyA UFO religion founded in London by George King in the 1950s.
- Afghanistan saucer reports (1956)Wright-Patterson monitors a reported saucer landing in Afghanistan and plans an overflight.
- AGARDograph 313 and gyroscopic drivesA NATO aerospace study discusses a gyroscopic device said to counteract gravity.
- The Age of DisclosureA 2025 documentary in which former officials allege a UFO cover-up.
- Aimé MichelFrench writer whose 1958 book proposed that UFO sightings fall along straight lines.
- Air Force 2025An Air Force research paper imagines future air and space capabilities by 2025.
- Air Force colonel harassed over a UFO group (1982)An Air Force colonel says he was harassed after founding a UFO group.
- Air Force Manual 190-4A former Air Force spokesman says a manual governed all official statements about UFOs.
- Air Force Office of Special InvestigationsThe Air Force's criminal investigation and counterintelligence agency.
- Air Force officer's crash-retrieval remark (1952)A source says an Air Force officer told an aerospace meeting he had been at a crash retrieval scene.
- Air Force proposals to improve UFO work (1961)Asked how to improve UAP work, the Air Force suggests a raise for adviser J. Allen Hynek and a new camera.
- Air Force Regulation 200-2Air Force Regulation 200-2 tightens UAP reporting and routes key reports away from Project Blue Book.
- Air Technical Intelligence CenterThe Air Force intelligence center at Wright-Patterson that housed Project Blue Book.
- Aircraft as pilot prosthetic (Forgotten Languages)An anonymous website publishes an article about making aircraft an extension of the pilot.
- Airline pilots and the "Big Brother" gag rules (1958)About 50 airline pilots criticize the Air Force's UAP gag rules as 'Big Brother'.
- Alaska pyramid claimDeLonge says he was told of a large pyramid beneath Alaska.
- Albert ChopAir Force press officer for UFO matters in 1952–53 who later joined NICAP.
- Albert Chop and the Tremonton film releaseAir Force spokesman Albert Chop claims the CIA killed a press release and ordered a debunking campaign.
- Albert CollinsMetallurgist described by author Tim Cooper as having studied recovered crash material; his existence is unconfirmed.
- Albert Collins metal samples claimScientist Albert Collins claims he studied strange recovered metal samples that the Army later took away.
- Albert K. BenderFounder of the International Flying Saucer Bureau whose 1953 silencing story began the Men in Black legend.
- Albert StubblebineArmy intelligence commander who championed psychic research.
- Alex DietrichNavy pilot who saw the 2004 Tic Tac object.
- Alexander on Edward TellerCol. John Alexander says physicist Edward Teller would be among the few who knew the truth.
- Alexander's A-12 explanation for HollomanCol. John Alexander says the Holloman landing story covered up a failed spy-plane test.
- Alexander's no-secret-program conclusionAlexander says there was no secret UAP project at the Pentagon or the energy labs.
- Alfonso RuedaPhysicist who co-developed the zero-point field theory of inertia.
- Alfred O'Donnell 🚧Former EG&G manager named by George Knapp.
- Alfred O'Donnell's Area 51 saucer storyGeorge Knapp says a former Area 51 contractor manager told him of a recovered saucer.
- ALH84001 Mars meteorite announcementNASA announces possible signs of past life in Mars rock ALH84001.
- Alien abductionThe claimed taking of people by non-human beings.
- Alien autopsy filmA 1995 film of an alleged alien autopsy, admitted in 2006 to have been staged.
- Alien implantsObjects that claimed abductees say aliens placed in their bodies.
- Allagash abductionsAn alleged 1976 alien abduction of four canoeists in northern Maine.
- Allan HendryChief investigator for CUFOS in the late 1970s and author of The UFO Handbook.
- Alleged CIA report on recovered disc technology (1949)An alleged CIA report names a secret Defense Department program for exploiting recovered disc technology.
- Allen DullesCIA director from 1953 to 1961.
- Allende letters and the Philadelphia ExperimentMorris Jessup receives letters claiming a secret Navy experiment at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
- America West Flight 564 sightingAn airliner crew and an F-117 both see a huge cigar-shaped object over the Southwest.
- American CosmicDiana Pasulka's book describes a scientist, 'Tyler', who handled claimed non-human artifacts.
- Americans for Safe AerospaceRyan Graves's nonprofit supporting pilot reports of UAP.
- Amy EskridgeCo-founder of the Institute for Exotic Science in Huntsville.
- Ancient astronautsThe belief that aliens visited Earth in ancient times.
- Andrea Rossi and suppressed energy claimsSteven Greer alleges the Army shelved alternative energy inventions.
- Andrew BasiagoLawyer who claims he took part in a secret time-travel program called Project Pegasus.
- Andrew Basiago and Project PegasusAndrew Basiago claims he took part in a secret time-travel project.
- Andrew KissnerFormer New Mexico legislator who looked into the 1947 crash stories.
- Andrew Kissner and the 1947 crashesA former New Mexico legislator says sources told him 1947 disc crashes caused deaths.
- Angel hairA cobweb-like substance said to fall from the sky during UFO sightings.
- Anna Paulina LunaFlorida congresswoman who led a 2025 House task force on declassification that held a UAP hearing.
- Annie JacobsenJournalist and author of Area 51 and Phenomena.
- Ansel TalbertHerald Tribune aviation writer who reported on corporate gravity research in 1955.
- Antarctic Navy flight engineer's accountA Navy flight engineer says he saw an entrance to an underground site near the South Pole.
- Anthony MirarchiAir Force scientist behind Project Twinkle who publicly challenged the balloon explanation in 1951.
- Anthony Mirarchi's challenge to the balloon explanationThe head of Project Twinkle tells reporters the Navy is misleading the public and real UAP show controlled motion.
- Anti-gravityThe idea of cancelling or controlling gravity for propulsion.
- Antônio Vilas-Boas abductionA Brazilian farmer's 1957 claim to have been taken aboard a craft.
- APROA civilian UFO research group founded by Coral and Jim Lorenzen in 1952.
- Area 2 encounters at NellisA security airman at a Nevada nuclear depot describes a UAP encounter.
- Area 29 and Omega operations claimA remote viewer claims targets were linked to 'Omega' operations involving advanced propulsion.
- Area 51The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
- Area 6The nuclear security agency publicly describes Area 6 activities in Nevada for the first time.
- Ariel School UFO incidentThe 1994 Zimbabwe report by about 62 schoolchildren of a landed craft and beings.
- Arlington InstituteThe futurist think tank founded by John Petersen in 1989.
- Arlington Institute board meeting (1999)A defense think tank with former CIA chief James Woolsey holds a board meeting.
- Arlington Institute contact scenario exercisesPuthoff took part in a think tank's role-play of possible alien contact scenarios.
- Army helicopters and cattle mutilations (2001)Vallée hears of cattle mutilations linked to Army helicopters.
- Army manual and high-technology devices (1996) 🚧An Army manual lists a unit that responds to incidents involving 'high technology devices'.
- Army missile exercise phenomena (1973–74)An Army spokesman says unexplained aerial phenomena were seen during missile exercises.
- Art McQuiddyEditor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch in July 1947 who later described receiving the base's "flying disc" press releas…
- Art McQuiddy and the Roswell press releaseRoswell newspaper editor Art McQuiddy says the base announced a recovered disc, then asked him to call it a weather bal…
- Arthur ExonAir Force general who said he heard Roswell debris and bodies were studied at Wright Field.
- Arthur Exon's Roswell statementsGen. Arthur Exon says he was told Roswell was an alien craft recovery.
- Arthur LundahlDirector of the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center from 1953 to 1973.
- Arthur Lundahl and presidential briefingsResearcher Grant Cameron says the CIA's Arthur Lundahl may have briefed presidents on UAP.
- Arthur StancilEngineer who, as "Fritz Werner", signed an affidavit describing the 1953 Kingman crash recovery.
- Arthur SylvesterPentagon spokesman who defended the government's right to withhold information in 1962.
- Arthur Sylvester's "right to lie" remarksA Pentagon spokesman defends withholding information when it's in the public interest.
- Arthur TrudeauHead of Army Research and Development in the early 1960s and Philip Corso's boss.
- Atomic Energy Commission UFO materials claimA journalist's source says the Atomic Energy Commission had UAP materials as early as 1947.
- ATP meeting notes releaseThe former Los Alamos manager publishes notes from a 1985 advanced physics meeting.
- Aurora budget line (1985)Budget papers suggest the Pentagon planned large spending on an 'Aurora' program.
- Avi LoebHarvard astrophysicist who founded the Galileo Project to look for alien technology.
- Aviation Week secret aircraft report (1990)Aviation Week reports 45 sightings of craft in the Southwest that hover, then go supersonic.
- Aztec UFO crashAn alleged 1948 crash near Aztec, New Mexico, now generally considered a hoax.
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- BAASSThe Bigelow Aerospace division that carried out the AAWSAP contract.
- BAASS "back door" approachA BAASS team member says he tried to get 'back door' access to an aerospace contractor.
- BAASS investigationsA BAASS investigator for the DIA program looks into UAP cases.
- BAE SystemsThe British defence company that funded Project Greenglow.
- BAE Systems executive claim (2006)Kit Green says a BAE Systems executive is involved in the UAP issue.
- Barry GoldwaterU.S. senator and Air Force Reserve general who said he was denied access to UFO material at Wright-Patterson.
- Barry Goldwater and the Wright-Patterson roomSen. Barry Goldwater says he was refused access to a UAP 'room' at Wright-Patterson.
- Bases & Area 51 (topic)Overview of bases & area 51 on the UAP Timeline: 39 events.
- Battelle Memorial InstituteThe Ohio research institute that analysed Air Force UFO reports.
- Battle of Los AngelesThe February 1942 anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles at unidentified targets.
- Bearden's vacuum energy claim (2013)Thomas Bearden claims he saw energy extracted from the quantum vacuum.
- Beings & bodies (topic)Overview of beings & bodies on the UAP Timeline: 186 events.
- Belgian UFO waveSightings of large triangles over Belgium in 1989–90.
- Bell Labs free-energy devices claimGreer claims a witness saw many 'free energy' devices at Bell Labs.
- Bell Labs source on 1950 crash filesA Bell Labs source says a former NASA employee had technical files on a 1950 crash retrieval.
- Ben Guerir guards' sighting (1960)An airman in Morocco says glowing UAP prompted jet fighters to scramble.
- Ben RichHead of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991.
- Bennewitz affairDoty gives physicist Paul Bennewitz a forged document to confuse him.
- Berkshire UFO incidentA claimed 1969 UFO encounter in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, later marked by a disputed monument.
- Bernard HaischAstrophysicist at Lockheed who co-developed the zero-point field theory of inertia.
- Bernard Haisch on legacy programsLockheed astrophysicist Bernard Haisch comments on alleged 'legacy' UAP programs.
- Bernard SchrieverAir Force general who led the ballistic missile program and Air Force Systems Command.
- Bernard Schriever and Wright Field technical intelligenceGen. Bernard Schriever's testimony describes close work with technical intelligence at Wright Field.
- Berwyn Mountain UFO incidentLights and a bang in north Wales in 1974, explained as an earthquake and a meteor.
- Betty and Barney Hill incidentThe 1961 New Hampshire case, the first widely publicised alien abduction claim.
- Big Sur UFO filmAn officer says he studied film of a UAP downing a test warhead over the Pacific; the CIA took it.
- Bigelow AerospaceRobert Bigelow's space habitat company.
- Bigelow recruits consciousness experts (1996)Bigelow tells Vallée he is hiring experts on consciousness.
- Bigelow's contact contingency planning (1999)Bigelow discusses the need for a plan if alien contact were confirmed.
- Bigelow's expectation of a UFO announcement (1998)Bigelow tells Vallée he feels a dramatic UAP development is coming soon.
- Bill Clinton42nd U.S. president, lobbied about UFO files by Laurance Rockefeller.
- Bill CooperAuthor of Behold a Pale Horse.
- Bill Cooper and Behold a Pale HorseBill Cooper claims underground bases host cooperation between aliens and humans.
- Bill EnglishFormer Army captain who claimed he read "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13".
- Bill English and Grudge/Blue Book Report 13Bill English claims he saw a memo saying Blue Book officials knew of crash recoveries.
- Bill RichardsonNew Mexico governor who asked for Roswell records to be opened.
- Bill Richardson and the Roswell recordsBill Richardson says Los Alamos and the Pentagon refused his questions about Roswell.
- Bill UhouseA retired Marine captain says he tested exotic aircraft and worked on alien technology.
- Billy MeierSwiss contactee whose 1970s photos of alien "beamships" are widely regarded as faked.
- Black budgetClassified government spending on secret programs.
- Black Knight satelliteA modern legend of an ancient alien satellite orbiting the Earth.
- Black triangleA large, dark, triangular craft often reported since the 1980s.
- The Black VaultJohn Greenewald's online archive of government documents.
- Blackburn–Warmkessel drag reduction patentLockheed's Ron Blackburn patents a technology to improve vehicle efficiency.
- Blue Book Special Report No. 14Blue Book Special Report No. 14 analyzes 3,200 sightings and finds no proof of advanced craft.
- Bob FishFormer defense contractor who emailed John Podesta about UFO data.
- Bob Fish email on a Blue Book veteranThe same contractor tells Podesta about a Blue Book veteran he met.
- Bob Fish email on DSP dataA former contractor tells John Podesta an Air Force satellite system collects hard UAP data.
- Bob LazarMan who claimed in 1989 that he worked on alien craft at S-4 near Area 51.
- Bob Lazar goes publicBob Lazar goes public, claiming he worked on alien craft at S-4 near Area 51.
- Bob OechslerUFO researcher who recorded a conversation with Adm. Bobby Ray Inman.
- Bobby Ray InmanFormer NSA director and CIA deputy director.
- Bobby Ray Inman on plausible explanations (2022)Adm. Bobby Ray Inman says he found plausible explanations for all UAP.
- BoeingThe aerospace company whose Phantom Works looked at gravity research in 2002.
- Boeing and Podkletnov (BBC report, 2002)BBC News reports Boeing researchers are looking at a Russian scientist's antigravity work.
- Boeing engineer's LeMay story 🚧An anonymous former Boeing engineer claims Gen. Curtis LeMay told him of a UAP crash.
- Bolender memoThe 1969 Air Force memo saying important UFO reports would bypass Project Blue Book.
- BonnybridgeA Scottish village known as a UFO hotspot since 1992.
- Boscombe Down incidentA magazine reports an object crash-landed at Boscombe Down, UK, followed by unmarked jets.
- Boyd BushmanLockheed Martin engineer who gave a disputed deathbed interview about aliens.
- Boyd Bushman magnetic beam patentLockheed scientist Boyd Bushman patents a magnetic device.
- Boyd Bushman's final interviewLockheed scientist Boyd Bushman says before his death that he worked on UAP technology.
- Brad Sorensen 🚧Friend of Mark McCandlish who said he saw secret discs at Norton AFB.
- Brad SparksUFO analyst known for his catalogue of Blue Book unknowns and work on the CIA lawsuit.
- Bradshaw Ranch black site claimSteven Greer suggests a ranch near Sedona was turned into a black site.
- Brandon FugalOwner of Skinwalker Ranch.
- Brandon Fugal's convictionSkinwalker Ranch owner Brandon Fugal says senior figures convinced him reverse engineering is real.
- Breakthrough Propulsion PhysicsNASA's 1996–2002 study of speculative propulsion ideas.
- Brilliant BuzzardA researcher claims Project Brilliant Buzzard was used to track objects during SDI.
- British embassy report on triangles (1992)The British embassy reports on the U.S. reaction to triangular UAP sightings.
- Broad Haven UFO sightingsA 1977 wave of UFO reports in Pembrokeshire, including a sighting by schoolchildren.
- Brown Mountain lightsLights reported near Brown Mountain, North Carolina, explained by the USGS as distant headlights and fires.
- Bruce MaccabeeNavy optical physicist and leading analyst of UFO photographs.
- Bruce Maccabee's CIA talk (1987)Navy physicist Bruce Maccabee says he lectured about UAP at CIA headquarters.
- Budd HopkinsArtist and abduction researcher.
- Burned Kennedy MJ memoAn alleged JFK-era 'MJ' memo is sent to a researcher.
- Burroughs and Kit Green's meditation adviceRendlesham witness John Burroughs says Kit Green suggested meditation practices to him.
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- C. B. "Scott" JonesFormer naval officer and Senate aide who worked on the Rockefeller Initiative.
- C. Richard D'AmatoSenate Appropriations Committee counsel who looked into black budgets for Sen. Robert Byrd.
- C. Richard D'Amato's warning to Vallée (1991)Senate counsel Dick D'Amato tells Vallée that a secretive group spreading false information is breaking the law.
- Cabo Rojo jet disappearance (1988)A Navy sailor says F-14 pilots chased a UAP near Puerto Rico.
- Calvin ParkerShipyard worker in the 1973 Pascagoula abduction case.
- Calvine UFO photographResearcher David Clarke publishes the 1990 'Calvine' UFO photo from MoD files.
- Camp HeroA former military base at Montauk, New York, linked to the Montauk Project legend.
- Camp Pendleton Marine's crash-site claim (1967)A Marine says he flew to a crash retrieval site in the desert in 1967.
- Cape Canaveral Chronicles 🚧An alleged former NASA employee claims a saucer landed near Kennedy Space Center.
- Carl JungSwiss psychiatrist whose 1959 book treated flying saucers as a modern myth.
- Carl Meredith AllenLetter writer behind the Philadelphia Experiment story and the Varo edition annotations.
- Carl SaganAstronomer who sat on the 1966 Blue Book review panel and co-organised the 1969 AAAS UFO symposium.
- Carter request and NASA's UFO decision (1977)A NASA safety chief writes that a possible UFO fragment was studied at Los Alamos.
- Cash–Landrum incidentThe 1980 Texas report of a fiery craft escorted by helicopters, followed by illness in the witnesses.
- Catherine Austin FittsFormer HUD official who argues trillions flow to secret programs.
- Catherine Austin Fitts and the missing moneyCatherine Austin Fitts writes that huge sums are being diverted into secret programs.
- Cattle mutilationsA wave of livestock deaths with unusual wounds in the 1970s.
- CAUS lawsuit and the CIA UFO papersResearchers claim the CIA ran secret emergency UAP studies during sighting waves.
- CAUS Phoenix Lights lawsuitA civilian group sues for records on the Phoenix Lights.
- Cedar Breaks radar site crash claimA radar technician reportedly saw a disc crash at a Utah radar site linked to Area 51.
- Center for UFO StudiesThe research center founded by J. Allen Hynek in 1973.
- Central Intelligence AgencyThe U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Chad UnderwoodNavy pilot who filmed the FLIR1 video in 2004.
- ChameleoA man claims a Marine deserter told him about secret UAP material.
- CHANI ProjectA magazine claims researchers in Africa contacted an entity from a parallel universe.
- Charles Bowsher audit claimA consultant says a former U.S. comptroller general found a 'crashed UFO program' in an audit.
- Charles Chase 🚧Former Lockheed Skunk Works fellow who runs the UnLAB.
- Charles FortAmerican collector of unexplained phenomena whose books inspired the term Fortean.
- Charles HallFormer airman who wrote about the "Tall Whites" at Nellis.
- Charles Hall and the Tall WhitesFormer airman Charles Hall writes he was watched by 'tall whites' at Nellis AFB in the 1960s.
- Charles HaltDeputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters during the Rendlesham Forest incident.
- Charles HicksonShipyard worker in the 1973 Pascagoula abduction case.
- Charred body in Colorado claim (1978)An Air Force technician says he saw a charred alien body at an underground site in Colorado.
- Chase Brandon's Roswell boxRetired CIA officer Chase Brandon says he saw a box labelled 'Roswell' at the agency.
- Chester GrusinskiNavy veteran who described a cigar-shaped object near the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1958.
- Chester Lytle 🚧Manhattan Project engineer who described a UFO at Kirtland.
- Chester Lytle's Kirtland sightingA Manhattan Project contractor says he saw a domed disc through a telescope during a nuclear test.
- Cheyenne MountainThe NORAD command complex in Colorado.
- Cheyenne Mountain and Lake Kickapoo sighting (1986)A Navy officer says sensors at Cheyenne Mountain detected a UAP.
- Chilean destroyer encounter (1969) 🚧A Chilean informant says a navy destroyer was approached by six objects, one larger than the ship.
- Chiles–Whitted UFO encounterThe 1948 sighting of a cigar-shaped craft by two Eastern Air Lines pilots.
- China LakeThe Navy's weapons test center in the California desert.
- China Lake surveyors' sighting (1966) 🚧Two surveyors at China Lake see a UAP pass low overhead and maneuver.
- Chris Cabrera 🚧Former Air Force security officer who described encounters at Area 2.
- Christopher "Kit" GreenCIA physician and analyst who became a long-time contact of Jacques Vallée and studied UAP-related injuries.
- Christopher MellonFormer deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence who helped release the Navy UAP videos.
- Christopher Mellon goes public (2016)Former Pentagon intelligence official Christopher Mellon speaks publicly about UAP for the first time.
- Christopher Sharp 🚧Journalist at Liberation Times.
- Chuck SchumerSenate Democratic leader who co-wrote the 2023 UAP Disclosure Act.
- Chuck Wade's seven New Mexico crashesA researcher presents claims from military sources about UAP crash recoveries.
- CIA Domestic Collection Division memo (1976)A CIA teletype says agency staff monitor UAP unofficially.
- CIA memo on Civilian Saucer InvestigationA CIA officer admits monitoring a public UAP meeting in Los Angeles.
- CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90A CIA history by Gerald Haines covers the agency's role in UAP study from 1947 to 1990.
- CIA–MIT talks on UFO study (1952)A CIA science chief meets MIT leaders about studying UAP through Project Lincoln.
- Citizens Against UFO SecrecyA civilian group that sued U.S. agencies for UFO records.
- Civilian Saucer InvestigationA Los Angeles UFO research group of the early 1950s.
- Claims of CIA funding of UFO researchersThe same researchers claim the CIA secretly funded selected UAP researchers.
- Clements McMullenStrategic Air Command deputy commander named in the DuBose affidavit.
- Cliff BoothEngineer named in an APRO account of a cigar-shaped object filmed at Holloman AFB in 1950.
- Clinton witness order claim (1995)Vallée says he was told President Clinton signed an order protecting certain witnesses.
- Close encounterHynek's term for a UFO sighting at close range.
- Close Encounters of the Third KindSteven Spielberg's 1977 UFO film.
- Clyde TombaughDiscoverer of Pluto who reported a UFO sighting in 1949.
- Coast Guard silver disc claimA Coast Guard retiree says he saw a silver disc pulled from the ocean.
- Coast to Coast AMThe late-night radio show known for paranormal topics.
- Cold fusion and the Energy Department (1999)A journalist reports concerns about the Energy Department and cold fusion research.
- Collins EliteNick Redfern's source says a group of officials believed UAP were demonic.
- Colm KelleherBiochemist who helped run NIDS and BAASS and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
- Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace IndustryA federal commission on the aerospace industry delivers its final report to Congress.
- Committee for Skeptical InquiryThe skeptics' organisation that publishes Skeptical Inquirer.
- Committees told more than the public (2022)A journalist says certain congressional committees have been told more than the public.
- Communion (book)Whitley Strieber's 1987 best-seller about his encounters with "visitors".
- Condon ReportThe Air Force-funded Condon Report concludes that UAP study has added nothing to science.
- Congress & law (topic)Overview of congress & law on the UAP Timeline: 69 events.
- ContacteeA person who claims friendly contact with extraterrestrials, especially the 1950s claimants.
- Contractor guard breakdown claim (1974) 🚧A defense contractor employee claims a guard broke down after seeing a non-human being.
- Contractor speculation dinner (2004)Vallée's circle speculates about which contractors handle real UAP projects.
- Cooper documentsMJ-12-style documents that Tim Cooper said he received in the 1990s.
- Coral LorenzenCo-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO).
- Corso's doubts about autopsy reports (1997)Philip Corso tells Vallée he may have received disinformation about alien autopsies.
- Cosford incidentA 1993 wave of UFO reports across western Britain, largely explained by a Russian rocket re-entry.
- Cosmos Club MJ-12 forerunner claimWarner's son describes a 'Cosmos Club' as a forerunner of a group like MJ-12.
- Coulthart on contractor scientists (2022)Coulthart describes scientists said to work on secret UAP research.
- Coulthart on divested UAP technologyCoulthart says UAP technology was moved into private aerospace companies.
- Coulthart on Elizondo's oversight roleJournalist Ross Coulthart says a source described Elizondo's role reviewing secret programs.
- Coulthart on Huntsville physicists and BAE 🚧Ross Coulthart says some physicists in Huntsville disappeared and BAE deserves scrutiny.
- Coulthart's sources go quiet (2021) 🚧Coulthart says his sources have gone quiet amid an intense security effort.
- Coyne helicopter incidentA 1973 near collision between an Army Reserve helicopter and an unknown object over Ohio.
- Craig WeitzelCivil Air Patrol member whose 1980 UFO photos led to the forged Weitzel letter.
- Crash retrievalThe alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Crashes & retrievals (topic)Overview of crashes & retrievals on the UAP Timeline: 141 events.
- Crop circlesPatterns flattened into crops, linked to UFOs in the 1980s and largely shown to be human-made.
- Cryptoterrestrial UFO hypothesisThe idea that UFOs come from a hidden civilisation native to Earth.
- CSETIThe organization founded by Steven Greer in 1990.
- CSETI energy briefing (2009)CSETI allegedly briefs Obama officials and senators on breakthrough energy.
- CSETI on unacknowledged special access programsCSETI says a covert group using unacknowledged programs manages the UAP issue.
- CSETI site list for Congress (1996)Greer's CSETI allegedly briefs Congress with a list of sites tied to UAP.
- Curtis LeMayAir Force chief of staff who reportedly refused Barry Goldwater access to UFO material.
- Cussac close encounterTwo French children's 1967 report of small figures beside a sphere.
- Czysz–Froning advanced technology paperA paper for the Air Force Research Laboratory explores quantum vacuum propulsion.
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- D'Amato and untraceable black budgetsDick D'Amato reportedly says $40–80 billion a year went to programs that couldn't be traced.
- Dale GraffPhysicist who managed remote viewing at Wright-Patterson and later the Stargate program.
- Dale Graff and Wright-Patterson remote viewingDale Graff is said to have run a remote viewing program at Wright-Patterson, then moved to the DIA.
- Dan BurischMan who claims he studied an alien called J-Rod at S-4.
- Dan Burisch and J-RodDan Burisch claims he studied an extraterrestrial being at the S-4 facility.
- Dan Morris 🚧Air Force veteran who gave Disclosure Project testimony about covert UFO work.
- Dan Morris testimonyAir Force Sgt. Dan Morris says he was part of a group gathering UAP information.
- Dan ShermanFormer Air Force sergeant who claimed in Above Black that he was trained to communicate with aliens.
- Dan Sherman and abduction messagesSherman says his messages seemed to involve alien abductions.
- Dan Sherman and the telepathy breeding claimAir Force Sgt. Dan Sherman says he was told of a program breeding people with telepathic abilities.
- Dan Sherman on programs above special accessSgt. Dan Sherman says some secret programs are hidden above the usual special access level.
- Dan Sherman's first communication (1994)Sherman claims he received his first alien communication while on duty.
- Dan Sherman's July 1994 communicationSherman describes a more intense communication with a non-human source.
- Dan Sherman's NSA analyst trainingDan Sherman claims his NSA analyst training was cover for communicating with extraterrestrials.
- Dan Sherman's Project Preserve Destiny recruitmentSherman says the NSA recruited him into Project Preserve Destiny.
- Dan Sherman's second assignment (1995)Sherman says he moved to a second Preserve Destiny location.
- Dan Sherman's September 1994 exchangeSherman describes another exchange with the non-human source.
- Dan Sherman's transfer papersDan Sherman provides transfer papers he says relate to Project Preserve Destiny.
- Daniel Brad MacBolen IIIA man claiming to be a former Air Force sergeant describes 'jump room' technology.
- Daniel SheehanConstitutional lawyer who said he saw classified Blue Book photos and later represented Luis Elizondo.
- Daniel Sheehan and the Blue Book photosAttorney Daniel Sheehan says he was shown classified Blue Book material at the Library of Congress.
- Daniel Sheehan on post-war control of UAP informationElizondo's lawyer Daniel Sheehan describes how UAP information has been controlled since WWII.
- DARPAThe Pentagon's advanced research agency.
- DARPA Advanced Aerospace System ConceptsA DARPA budget line describing advanced aerospace concepts becomes public.
- DARPA zero-point energy test (2007)Haisch tells Vallée a DARPA-funded zero-point energy test is negative so far.
- David AdairMan who claims he saw an alien engine at Area 51 as a teenager.
- David Adair's Area 51 engine claimEngineer David Adair says he saw a strange craft at Groom Lake.
- David ClarkeBritish historian of the UK Ministry of Defence UFO files.
- David FravorNavy pilot who saw the 2004 Tic Tac object.
- David GruschFormer intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
- David JacobsHistorian and abduction researcher.
- David RudiakPhysicist who analyzed the Ramey memo.
- The Day After RoswellPhilip Corso claims he helped seed recovered UAP technology into U.S. industry.
- The Day the Earth Stood StillA 1951 film in which an alien visitor warns humanity about nuclear weapons.
- Death of Amy EskridgeScientist Amy Eskridge dies in Huntsville; a former UK officer makes claims about it.
- Death of Max SpiersUFO researcher Max Spiers dies of an apparent overdose; authorities investigate.
- The DebriefA news site covering UAP and science.
- December 2022 Pentagon UAP briefingPentagon officials say they've seen no evidence that crashed UAP are from another world.
- Defense Intelligence AgencyThe Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- Del Rio crash claimA retired airman says he learned of a 1950 crash near Del Rio, Texas.
- Delbert NewhouseNavy photographer who filmed the 1952 Tremonton, Utah, UFO footage.
- DeLonge on hidden crashesDeLonge says advisers told him of multiple crashes hidden by counterintelligence.
- DeLonge on pooled crash materialTom DeLonge says his advisers told him crash material was pooled among government and industry.
- DeLonge's advisers on Joe RoganDeLonge suggests on a podcast that senior officials and executives advise him.
- DeLonge's research groups (2016)Tom DeLonge says he became involved with groups studying crashed craft and biology.
- Demonic UFO hypothesisThe belief that UFOs and alien encounters are the work of demons.
- Denise McKenzie 🚧Former SAIC employee who gave Disclosure Project testimony.
- Denise McKenzie's SAIC accountA former SAIC employee says she learned of UAP-related work there.
- Dennis KucinichOhio congressman who confirmed in a 2007 presidential debate that he had seen a UFO.
- Department of EnergyThe U.S. department that runs the nuclear weapons laboratories.
- Dewey FournetPentagon Air Force intelligence liaison to Project Blue Book who produced a 1952 study of UFO motions.
- Dewey Fournet's motion study and Navy inquiryA Blue Book officer reportedly runs a private, Navy-assisted inquiry into undersea and aerial UAP.
- DIA interest in Skinwalker RanchBigelow says the DIA expressed interest in strange events at Skinwalker Ranch.
- DIA source notes on fake MJ-12 papers (2004)Davis receives notes from a DIA source about fake MJ-12 papers and a secret project.
- Diana Walsh PasulkaReligious studies professor and author of American Cosmic.
- Die GlockeA supposed secret Nazi anti-gravity device described from 2000.
- Diego Garcia hangar accountAn Air Force veteran describes secretive Navy operations in a hangar on Diego Garcia.
- Disappearance of Frederick ValentichThe 1978 disappearance of a young pilot over Bass Strait after he reported a strange aircraft.
- DisclosureThe official release of government information about UFOs.
- Disclosure ProjectSteven Greer's campaign for UFO disclosure, best known for its May 2001 press conference.
- Disclosure Project briefing to Congress (2001)CSETI briefs members of Congress that a covert group controls parts of the UAP issue.
- Disguised UFO sensor network claimKit Green says hidden UAP sensors were disguised as environmental monitoring stations.
- DisinformationFalse information spread deliberately to mislead.
- Disinformation & hoaxes (topic)Overview of disinformation & hoaxes on the UAP Timeline: 31 events.
- Don Phillips 🚧Engineer who gave Disclosure Project testimony about Lockheed.
- Don Phillips testimonyFormer contractor Don Phillips claims Lockheed studies extraterrestrial technology.
- Don SchmittRoswell researcher and co-author of Witness to Roswell.
- Donald FlickingerAir Force physician and space medicine pioneer named as a source by Kit Green.
- Donald KeyhoeRetired Marine officer, author and director of NICAP who campaigned against UFO secrecy.
- Donald MenzelHarvard astronomer and the leading scientific skeptic of UFOs from the 1950s to the 1970s.
- Donald RumsfeldWhite House chief of staff and Secretary of Defense who reportedly told Hynek he had no need to know.
- Donald TrumpU.S. president who ordered the 2026 release of government UFO files.
- Doty on Serpo believers (2020)Richard Doty allegedly says some DIA members believe parts of the SERPO 'exchange' rumor.
- Doty worked for PuthoffPuthoff says Richard Doty worked for him on a program before AATIP.
- Doty's five Area 51 projects claimRichard Doty claims five UAP-related projects at Area 51.
- Doty's psychological operations claimDoty says an Air Force unit ran psychological operations on people who saw secret aircraft.
- Douglas Aircraft unconventional propulsion studyAn aerospace executive claims he worked in a UAP group at Douglas Aircraft from 1955.
- Drake equationFrank Drake's 1961 formula for estimating the number of detectable civilisations.
- DSP "fast walker" detection (1984)An anonymous source says a U.S. spy satellite detected a UAP passing close by.
- DuBose affidavit (1991)Gen. Thomas DuBose says the Roswell balloon story was a cover and the event was above Top Secret.
- DulceA New Mexico town linked to legends of an underground alien base.
- Dulles–Kennedy meeting of 28 June 1961A declassified calendar shows CIA chief Allen Dulles met President Kennedy on 28 June 1961.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower34th U.S. president, named in the MJ-12 briefing document.
- Dyess AFB weapons storage incident (1973)A security policeman at Dyess AFB says his squadron encountered a UAP near nuclear bombers.
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- E-Systems reverse-engineering claimSteven Greer claims an E-Systems executive told him the firm did UAP reverse engineering.
- Eagle River encounterA Wisconsin plumber's 1961 claim that saucer occupants gave him pancakes.
- Earl ZimmermanRoswell radio operator who signed a 1993 affidavit.
- Earl Zimmerman affidavitA radio operator's affidavit describes 1947 flying saucer rumors at his base.
- EarthfilesLinda Moulton Howe's website.
- EarthTech InternationalHal Puthoff's research company in Austin, Texas.
- EarthTech–BAASS industry collaboration claimEric Davis says BAASS and EarthTech collaborated with a major aerospace company.
- Ed BaloccoMarine fighter pilot who chased a red-lit object near Edenton, North Carolina, in 1953.
- Ed Balocco's night chase near Edenton (1953)A Marine pilot scrambled near North Carolina reports a disc with red lights coming within 350 feet.
- Ed DamesFormer Army remote viewer who founded Psi-Tech.
- Ed Dames and Psi-Tech anti-gravity workEd Dames claims a firm asked his remote viewing company for antigravity work.
- Edgar FouchéMan who claimed to have worked on the TR-3B and other secret aircraft.
- Edgar Fouché and the TR-3BAn Air Force sergeant claims a secret facility lies beneath Groom Lake.
- Edgar MitchellApollo 14 astronaut who spoke about UFOs and whose estate held the Wilson–Davis notes.
- Edmund GomezRancher near Dulce, New Mexico, who reported cattle mutilations.
- Edmund Gomez and DulceA New Mexico rancher claims he saw troops and an aircraft crash near Dulce.
- Edward BurkhalterRetired admiral named in AAWSAP-era discussions.
- Edward CondonPhysicist who led the University of Colorado UFO study (1966–68).
- Edward DudgeonNavy veteran who linked the Philadelphia Experiment to degaussing.
- Edward Dudgeon and the Philadelphia Navy YardA Navy veteran tells Vallée about his time at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
- Edward RuppeltHead of Project Blue Book in 1952–53 and author of The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.
- Edward TellerPhysicist known as the father of the hydrogen bomb.
- Edwards Air Force BaseThe Air Force flight test center in California.
- EG>he contractor that ran support services at the Nevada Test Site and Area 51.
- EG&G Special Projects manager meeting (2005)A former Nevada Test Site manager tells Vallée, Puthoff and Davis about secret work.
- Eisenhower Briefing DocumentThe MJ-12 document dated 1952, received on film in 1984.
- Ekuk, Alaska sighting (1960)Alaska residents report a silver object hovering and dragging trash cans; the Air Force investigates.
- ElectrograviticsThe claimed link between electricity and gravity promoted by Thomas Townsend Brown.
- Electrogravitics Systems report (1956)A study of electrogravitics, the link between electricity and gravity, is delivered to Wright-Patterson.
- Elizabeth KlarerSouth African contactee who said she bore a child to a spaceman named Akon.
- Elizondo and the Mansfield AmendmentElizondo highlights the Mansfield Amendment, which limited military research funding.
- Elizondo on a 1962 nuclear test retrievalElizondo responds to a question about an ocean crash retrieval during a 1962 nuclear test.
- Elizondo on interference with AATIPElizondo says some officials interfered with AATIP's work.
- Elizondo on rogue programs (2021)Elizondo says he saw no UAP programs in secret program oversight; any would be rogue.
- Elizondo on shoot-downs and recoveries (2019)Lue Elizondo is asked about shoot-downs and recoveries and doesn't answer directly.
- Elizondo on unfair corporate advantageElizondo says alien technology could give one company an unfair advantage over another.
- Elizondo's secure-room meetings (2020)Lue Elizondo says he met lawmakers in a secure room about UAP.
- Elizondo's Space Force contractThe Pentagon confirms Elizondo works for the U.S. Space Force.
- Emilcin abductionA Polish farmer's claim to have been taken aboard a craft in 1978.
- End of Stargate (1995)The CIA ends Star Gate, its remote viewing program.
- Energy Department custody claim (2022)Coulthart says non-human material was held by the Energy Department before moving to industry.
- Energy Department labs as analysts claimEric Davis says Energy Department labs analyzed UAP materials for another owner.
- Enigma LabsA company running an app and platform for reporting UAP sightings.
- Eric BurlisonMissouri congressman who hired David Grusch as an adviser in 2025.
- Eric Davis asks George H.W. Bush about CorsoEric Davis says he asked George H.W. Bush about Philip Corso's claims.
- Eric Davis on an existing crash-retrieval programEric Davis says a crash retrieval program still exists.
- Eric Davis on recovered hardware (2019)Eric Davis says the government holds recovered crashed and landed UFO hardware.
- Eric Davis on the Del Rio crashEric Davis says the 1950s Del Rio, Texas crash was a real retrieval.
- Eric Davis on underfunded reverse-engineeringEric Davis says crashes happened and reverse engineering is split into small, underfunded efforts.
- Eric GairyPrime Minister of Grenada who pushed the United Nations to study UFOs in 1977–78.
- Eric HaseltineFormer NSA research director.
- Eric Haseltine on UAP-like weaponsA former NSA officer says the U.S. lacks weapons that could create UAP-like effects.
- Eric W. DavisPhysicist who worked on AAWSAP and has said the U.S. holds recovered craft.
- Eric WalkerPenn State president and Institute for Defense Analyses chairman named in MJ-12 claims.
- Eric Walker and the Penn State alumnusA Penn State alumnus says former university president Eric Walker attended secret UAP meetings.
- Eric Walker interviewAn interview attributed to scientist Eric Walker discusses secret UAP knowledge.
- Eric WeinsteinMathematician who has speculated about suppressed physics.
- Eric Weinstein and Renaissance TechnologiesEric Weinstein speculates a hedge fund may hold math advances relevant to gravity.
- Erich von DänikenSwiss author of Chariots of the Gods? who popularised the ancient astronauts idea.
- Estimate of the SituationA 1948 Project Sign report said to have favoured an interplanetary explanation.
- Eugene PodkletnovRussian engineer who claimed spinning superconductors reduce gravity.
- Eugene YeatesNSA official whose 1980 affidavits explained why UFO records were withheld.
- Exeter incidentThe 1965 New Hampshire sighting by a teenager and two police officers.
- Expected 1974 disclosure rumorA sergeant says a retired Army official told him crash and occupant information would soon be released.
- Extraterrestrial HighwayNevada's State Route 375, named for UFO tourism in 1996.
- Extraterrestrial hypothesisThe idea that UFOs are spacecraft from other planets.
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- F. Robert NakaMITRE radar scientist and later chief scientist of the Air Force.
- F. Robert Naka and NORAD space tracksA MITRE scientist tells the Condon study that NORAD radars have tracked UAP arriving from space.
- F.E. Warren Air Force BaseA Wyoming Minuteman missile base linked to UFO reports.
- F.E. Warren missile communications outage (2010)F.E. Warren AFB personnel see a cigar-shaped UAP; 50 Minuteman missiles briefly lose contact.
- F.E. Warren missile site sightings (1965)An Air Force memo logs 148 objects reported by 143 personnel at F.E. Warren missile sites.
- Falcon Lake incidentA 1967 Manitoba case in which prospector Stefan Michalak said he was burned by a landed craft.
- FastwalkerA nickname for fast-moving unknown objects detected by space sensors.
- FBI denials of UFO interestThe FBI tells citizens UAP have never been its concern, contradicting its own files.
- FBI MJ-12 espionage fileThe FBI says it has a closed 'Majestic-12' file labelled espionage.
- Federal Bureau of InvestigationThe U.S. federal police agency, which helped check flying disc reports from 1947 to 1950.
- Fergus County sheriff's log sightings (2012)A sheriff's log records a report of two silent V-shaped UAP near a Montana missile site.
- Fermi paradoxThe puzzle of why no evidence of alien civilisations has been found.
- Fire in the SkyThe 1993 film based on Travis Walton's abduction claim.
- Five observablesLuis Elizondo's list of five unusual flight traits reported in UAP encounters.
- Flatwoods monsterThe 1952 West Virginia report of a tall glowing creature after a light fell from the sky.
- Flickinger autopsy material claimKit Green says an Air Force physician told him he saw alien autopsy material.
- Florenz MansmannAir Force major who confirmed parts of Robert Jacobs's Big Sur story.
- Flying Saucer Working PartyA 1950–51 British Ministry of Defence committee that studied flying saucer reports.
- The Flying Saucers Are RealDonald Keyhoe's 1950 book arguing that saucers were alien craft.
- Foo fightersUnexplained lights reported by aircrews in the Second World War.
- Forbidden ScienceJacques Vallée's published journals.
- Foreign Technology DivisionThe Air Force unit at Wright-Patterson that analysed foreign technology.
- Former colonel's underground facilities claim (1998) 🚧A researcher says a former colonel claims he worked in underground facilities.
- Former TRW employee reverse-engineering claimVallée, Davis and Puthoff discuss a claim of a secret reverse-engineering project at a contractor.
- Fort Dix–McGuire incidentAn alleged Air Force form describes a UAP incident and body recovery at Fort Dix and McGuire AFB.
- Fort Hood hidden opening claimAn Air Force captain describes a pilot seeing a hidden opening in the ground at a Texas airfield.
- Fort Monmouth desert-disc filmA radar technician says he was shown a film of a silver disc embedded in the desert at Fort Monmouth.
- Fort Polk crash claim (1953)An Army source says he saw an egg-shaped craft crash-land at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
- Fort Riley incident (1964)A Fort Riley guard says soldiers were marched toward a large object lit by a helicopter.
- Fort Sill sightings (2015)An Oklahoma witness reports diamond- and donut-shaped objects near Fort Sill.
- Fort WorthThe Texas city where the Roswell debris was shown to the press in 1947.
- Fort Worth HFGW jamming claimAn anonymous website claims UAP communications jamming was tested near Fort Worth.
- Four "iron post" sourcesA consultant tells Vallée that four trusted insider sources back Puthoff and Davis.
- Franc Milburn 🚧Former British Army officer who writes about UAP.
- Franc Milburn's directed-energy claimA former UK officer claims directed-energy weapons were used against UAP scientists.
- Frank PressPresident Carter's science adviser.
- Frank RandAide who described an informal UFO study for President Lyndon Johnson.
- Frank ScullyVariety columnist whose 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers told of crashed saucers and dead aliens.
- Franklin MeadAir Force propulsion engineer who edited Project Outgrowth and commissioned advanced propulsion studies.
- Fred CrismanTacoma man behind the 1947 Maury Island hoax, later drawn into Kennedy conspiracy theories.
- Frederick BenthalArmy photographer who said he photographed Roswell bodies.
- Frederick Benthal's Roswell photographs claimArmy photographer Frederick Benthal says he photographed the Roswell crash and bodies.
- Freedom of Information ActThe 1966 U.S. law that lets the public request government records.
- French scientist Mr. L at Wright-PattersonA French scientist claims he was asked to work at Wright-Patterson on recovered material.
- FY2023 NDAA UAP provisionsThe UAP sections of the 2023 defense bill are published with late changes.
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- Gabe ValdezNew Mexico State Police officer who investigated cattle mutilations near Dulce.
- Gabe Valdez and the Dulce cattle mutilationsAn FBI memo relays a police officer's claim of a cover-up of New Mexico cattle mutilations.
- Galileo ProjectAvi Loeb's Harvard-based research project, founded in 2021, searching for evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
- GAO Roswell records reportRep. Steven Schiff says Roswell base records were destroyed, per a GAO audit.
- GAO testimony on special access programs (1986)A GAO official testifies about secret 'black' defense programs.
- Garrett's suspicion of secret U.S. tests (1947)An Air Force officer tells the FBI he suspects secret U.S. military tests explain some flying disc reports.
- Garrison, Utah crash and burial claim (1953)An anonymous Air Force official claims a craft crashed and was buried near Garrison, Utah.
- Garry NolanStanford immunologist who studies UAP-related injuries and claimed materials.
- Garry Nolan on crash materials and contractorsStanford's Garry Nolan discusses claims that crash materials went to aerospace companies.
- Gary Gochnour 🚧Inventor of a patented plasma-based aircraft design.
- Gary Gochnour plasma aircraft patentAn Army veteran patents a saucer-shaped plasma aircraft design.
- Gary McKinnonHacker Gary McKinnon is arrested and claims he saw a UAP image in NASA files.
- Gary VoorhisTechnician aboard the USS Princeton in 2004.
- GE contractor taken underground claimA man's daughter says he was blindfolded and taken underground at Wright-Patterson.
- GEIPANThe French space agency's office for studying unidentified aerospace phenomena.
- General Accounting OfficeThe investigative arm of Congress.
- George "Jud" RobertsManager of radio station KGFL in Roswell in 1947.
- George AdamskiThe best-known 1950s contactee, who claimed to have met a man from Venus.
- George FilerRetired Air Force major who promoted the Fort Dix–McGuire story.
- George GarrettAir Force intelligence officer who compiled the 1947 "mini estimate" of flying disc reports.
- George H.W. Bush and the Trudeau briefingEric Davis says George H.W. Bush recalled a briefing about recovered material.
- George KnappLas Vegas journalist who broke the Bob Lazar story and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
- George Knapp's four legacy programsGeorge Knapp says he knows of at least four 'legacy' UAP programs.
- George SchulgenAir Force intelligence general who asked for the 1947 Twining memo and issued the Schulgen memo on flying discs.
- George TrimbleGlenn L. Martin Company executive who backed gravity research in the 1950s.
- Georgia witness visited by agents (2009)A Georgia UAP witness says government agents visited him twice.
- Gerald FordU.S. congressman and later president who called for UFO hearings in 1966.
- Gerald Ford's call for UFO hearingsRep. Gerald Ford is told an upcoming UAP study won't be tied to the Air Force.
- Gerald HainesHistorian who wrote the CIA's 1997 history of its role in UFO study.
- Ghost rocketsRocket-shaped objects reported over Sweden and other countries in 1946.
- Gimbal and GoFast videosThe Navy infrared videos of UAP released in 2017–2020.
- Glenn DennisRoswell funeral director whose story of a nurse and alien bodies was found to include false information.
- Goldwater letter to Shlomo Arnon (1975)Goldwater writes that UAP information is classified above Top Secret.
- Gordon CooperMercury astronaut who spoke publicly about UFOs.
- Gorman dogfightA 1948 night encounter between a North Dakota Air National Guard pilot and a light over Fargo.
- Government programs (topic)Overview of government programs on the UAP Timeline: 228 events.
- Gradisher–Gough FOIA coordination emailsA Navy spokesman's email shows efforts to coordinate FOIA replies about UAP across agencies.
- Graduate Research Center of the SouthwestTexas Instruments sets up a research center that hires gravitational physicists.
- Grant CameronCanadian researcher of UFOs and U.S. presidents.
- Grant Cameron's UFO pilot accountsGrant Cameron publishes accounts of people who say they piloted a UFO.
- Gray BarkerWest Virginia writer who introduced the Men in Black to UFO lore.
- Great Lakes shoot-down claim (1973)A Navy instructor claims a UAP was shot down by a missile and secretly moved by rail to Great Lakes.
- Green fireballsBright green lights seen over New Mexico's atomic sites in 1948–49.
- Greer meets Albert Stubblebine (1992)Steven Greer says he met Gen. Stubblebine and people tied to covert programs at a 1992 conference.
- Greer's Elizondo vehicle storySteven Greer says he heard Elizondo was in a facility holding an alien vehicle.
- Greer's underground facilities listSteven Greer names underground facilities he claims are tied to secret programs.
- Grey alienThe popular image of a small being with a large head and dark eyes.
- Groom Range land withdrawal (1984)The Air Force admits it restricted public access to land near Area 51 without legal authority.
- Ground Saucer WatchA civilian UFO group that sued the CIA for UFO records in the 1970s.
- Ground Saucer Watch and the State Department (1982)A civilian FOIA group gets no answer from the State Department about UAP records.
- Gulf Breeze UFO incidentThe 1987–88 Florida UFO photographs by Ed Walters, later linked to a model.
- Gun-camera films sent to the CIA claimResearcher Richard Hall says jet gun-camera UAP films were routinely sent to the CIA.
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- H. Marshall ChadwellHead of the CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence who organized the 1953 Robertson Panel.
- Hampton Roads bodies claim (1979)A source says 13 bodies and two saucers were stored at a base in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- Hangar 18The legendary hangar at Wright-Patterson said to hold alien craft and bodies.
- Hangar 18 (film)The film Hangar 18 depicts a government cover-up of a crashed UAP.
- Hans-Adam IIPrince of Liechtenstein said to have co-funded the 1991 Roper survey.
- Harold BrownAir Force Secretary who testified at the 1966 House UFO hearing.
- Harold PuthoffPhysicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Harrison SchmittApollo astronaut and New Mexico senator who pressed for a cattle mutilation inquiry.
- Harry H. PrettyArmy intelligence officer in Berlin who wrote the December 1947 memo on the Horten brothers.
- Harry ReidSenate Majority Leader who arranged funding for AAWSAP.
- Harry Reid on Lockheed's UFO fragmentsFormer Sen. Harry Reid says he was told Lockheed held UAP fragments and was refused access.
- Harry S. Truman33rd U.S. president (1945–53), in office during the first flying disc wave and the start of official UFO studies.
- Havana SyndromeHealth incidents reported by U.S. diplomats from 2016.
- Heaven's GateA UFO religion whose 39 members died in a mass suicide in 1997.
- Hebgen Lake disc report (1949)An Air Force base reports an informant's account of seven discs and two crashed ones; a lake search finds nothing.
- Hector QuintanillaLast head of Project Blue Book (1963–69).
- Henderson UFO briefing (1958)The Air Force briefs members of Congress on handling constituent questions about UAP.
- Henry Dakin's San Francisco buildingVallée describes a building in San Francisco renting to paranormal research groups.
- Henry Deacon 🚧A physicist using a pseudonym claims secret physics is decades ahead of public science.
- Henry Diamond 🚧Laurance Rockefeller's associate who wrote to the White House in 1995.
- Henry Diamond letter to John Gibbons (1995)A letter to the White House science adviser discusses Laurance Rockefeller's UAP efforts.
- Henry J. TaylorRadio commentator who announced in 1950 that flying saucers were secret U.S. weapons.
- Henry J. Taylor secret-weapon broadcast (1950)A broadcaster announces saucers are secret U.S. weapons; the story is later called CIA disinformation.
- Herald Tribune "Conquest of Gravity" seriesA newspaper reports on research into the 'secret of gravity' at top U.S. laboratories.
- Herbert ScovilleCIA scientific intelligence director who commented on the 1957 Mach 3 radar target.
- Hessdalen lightsUnexplained lights seen in the Hessdalen valley in central Norway, studied with permanent scientific instruments.
- Hewitt WhelessAir Force general whose 1967 memo warned of impostors visiting UFO witnesses.
- High-frequency gravitational wavesProposed gravitational waves at high frequencies, studied by JASON in 2008.
- High-level Arlington workshops (2005)Puthoff describes high-level workshops on the UAP question.
- Hilary EvansBritish picture archivist and author who championed the psychosocial view of UFOs.
- Hill AFB glowing disc (2010)Two alleged Hill AFB workers report a glowing disc above the flight line.
- Hill AFB landing claim (1958)An anonymous military source claims a UAP deliberately landed at Hill AFB.
- Hillenkoetter letter of 24 September 1947A letter attributed to the CIA director allegedly names Air Force and Navy intelligence units as leads on recovered obj…
- Hillenkoetter MJ-12 memo of 19 September 1947A disputed memo attributed to CIA Director Hillenkoetter calls for a presidential directive and scientific study of the…
- Hillenkoetter's 1960 call for hearingsFormer CIA Director Hillenkoetter tells a newspaper UFOs are under intelligent control.
- Holloman Air Force BaseAn Air Force base next to White Sands.
- Holloman cigar-shaped object film (1950)A Holloman AFB contractor films a cigar-shaped metallic object and hands the film to the base.
- Holloman landing and hangar claim (1964)A claimed UFO under guard at Holloman AFB; the same day a pilot reports an egg-shaped object.
- Homeland Security and BAASS (2011)Homeland Security officials explore setting up BAASS as a UAP program in the government.
- Homer Rowlette 🚧Roswell airman who reportedly told his son he saw a crashed saucer.
- Homer Rowlette deathbed accountA man says his father told him on his deathbed about the Roswell crash.
- Horten brothersGerman aircraft designers of the Ho 229 jet flying wing, investigated in 1947 as a possible source of the discs.
- Hottel memoA 1950 FBI memo relaying a claim of three saucers recovered in New Mexico.
- House Armed Services CommitteeThe House committee that held a UFO hearing in 1966.
- House Armed Services Committee UFO hearing (1966)The Blue Book chief tells Congress there are no unexplained radar cases, contradicted by records.
- House Oversight CommitteeThe House committee that held UAP hearings in 2023 and 2024.
- Howard BlumJournalist and author of Out There (1990).
- Howard C. CrossBattelle scientist who wrote the 1953 "Pentacle" memo.
- Howard Cross's own sightingA researcher finds a Blue Book file showing a Battelle scientist reported his own sighting.
- Howard P. RobertsonCaltech physicist who chaired the CIA's 1953 Robertson Panel.
- Howell McConnellNSA official who told Jacques Vallée of continued UFO analysis at Wright-Patterson.
- Howell McConnell and post-Blue Book analysisAn NSA official tells Vallée a Wright-Patterson office kept secretly analyzing UAP after Blue Book.
- Hudson ValleyThe New York region where a wave of boomerang sightings occurred in the 1980s.
- Hudson Valley sightingsHudson Valley residents report a boomerang-shaped craft flying at treetop level.
- Hugh DrydenAerodynamicist and NASA deputy administrator named in a claim about 1943 UFO studies.
- Hughes Aircraft paintingCameron shares photos of a painting inside the old Hughes Aircraft building.
- The Hunt for Zero PointNick Cook's 2001 book on secret anti-gravity research.
- Hunter AFB "UFO crash" letter (1958)An Air Force colonel writes about a 'UFO crash' near Hunter AFB, Georgia.
- Hutchison EffectAn Army intelligence group studies the 'Hutchison Effect', claimed to produce antigravity.
- Hynek autopsy rumor (1994)Vallée and a filmmaker discuss a rumor about Hynek and autopsies, calling it disinformation.
- Hynek on the Robertson Panel's legacyHynek says the Robertson Panel set an unwritten Air Force rule to play UAP down.
- Hynek's The UFO ExperienceBlue Book adviser J. Allen Hynek writes that Blue Book was a cover-up and the problem was glossed over.
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- Ilkley Moor UFO incidentA 1987 photograph of a small green figure on a Yorkshire moor.
- Immaculate ConstellationAn alleged unacknowledged special access program for UAP imagery, described in Michael Shellenberger's 2024 report to C…
- ImminentLuis Elizondo's 2024 memoir.
- In Plain SightRoss Coulthart's 2021 book on UFO secrecy.
- Indian Point nuclear plant sighting (1984)Guards at the Indian Point nuclear plant reportedly see a UAP as security systems fail.
- Inertial mass reductionThe idea of reducing an object's inertia for propulsion.
- Ingo SwannArtist and psychic whose tests at SRI led to the government's remote-viewing program.
- Ingo Swann's magnetometer test (1972)Ingo Swann's remote-viewing test with SRI leads to a CIA contract months later.
- Inman recording in DreamlandIn a recorded call, Adm. Bobby Ray Inman names a CIA official as the best person to ask about UAP.
- Insider on oversight without access (2021) 🚧An anonymous insider tells a researcher that officials with oversight lack access to UAP information.
- Interdimensional UFO hypothesisThe idea that UFOs come from other dimensions or realities rather than other planets.
- InterNASA lawsuitA TV producer sues former officials over a company called InterNASA.
- Interplanetary Phenomenon UnitAn Army FOIA reply says an informal 'Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit' once studied UAP.
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- J. Allen HynekAstronomer and Air Force UFO consultant from 1948 to 1969 who later founded the Center for UFO Studies.
- J. M. HungerfordAuthor of the 1950 RAND memorandum on exploiting superstition for psychological warfare.
- Jack BushongNational Weather Service meteorologist who tracked unknown radar returns in 1994.
- Jack PickettAviation journalist who said he saw Air Force disc craft at MacDill AFB.
- Jack Pickett and the MacDill discsA retired pilot and a journalist say they saw Air Force-marked disc craft at MacDill AFB.
- Jack SarfattiPhysicist known for unconventional theories about UFO propulsion.
- Jacques ValléeComputer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Jaime ShanderaTV producer who received the MJ-12 film in 1984.
- Jake BarberAir Force veteran and helicopter pilot who said in 2025 he helped recover non-human craft.
- James Cox antigravity classification (1998)An antigravity newsletter proposes seven possible types of antigravity devices.
- James E. McDonaldUniversity of Arizona atmospheric physicist who campaigned for serious UFO research in the 1960s.
- James GoodallAviation historian of Area 51 and the Skunk Works.
- James KopfNavy yeoman who described a 1971 encounter aboard the USS John F. Kennedy.
- James LacatskiDIA official who started AAWSAP and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
- James McCampbellEngineer and author of Ufology (1973).
- James ObergSpace journalist and former NASA engineer who explains many space-related UFO reports.
- James Shannon 🚧Former Los Alamos special projects manager.
- James WoodwardPhysicist who proposed the Mach effect thruster.
- Jan AldrichResearcher behind Project 1947.
- JANAP 146(C)Directive JANAP 146(C) covers UAP reports and bars civilian pilots from discussing them.
- Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 incidentThe 1986 sighting of lights by a JAL cargo crew over Alaska.
- Jared MoskowitzFlorida congressman and outspoken Democratic advocate of UAP disclosure.
- JASONAn elite group of scientists that advises the U.S. government.
- JASON Havana Syndrome studyThe JASON advisers find no single energy source that explains 'Havana syndrome' symptoms.
- JASON report on high-frequency gravitational wavesThe JASON science advisers evaluate high-frequency gravitational waves for national security.
- Jean Kisling's airline strangerA French officer tells Vallée a stranger on a 1950s flight claimed to work on recovered craft.
- Jeffrey KripalRice University religious studies professor behind the Archives of the Impossible.
- Jeffrey MorseAir Force security policeman linked to the 1978 Fort Dix–McGuire story.
- Jehovah teletype (Cooper documents)An allegedly leaked CIA teletype is given to a researcher.
- Jenny RandlesBritish UFO researcher and BUFORA's director of investigations from 1982 to 1994.
- Jeremy CorbellFilmmaker who made documentaries on Bob Lazar and Skinwalker Ranch and released leaked Navy UAP videos.
- Jerome ClarkAuthor of The UFO Encyclopedia.
- Jerome NelsonAtlas missile launch officer who described a glowing object over his site near Roswell.
- Jerome Nelson's Atlas missile site sightingAn Atlas missile launch officer's affidavit describes a glowing round UAP over his site in New Mexico.
- Jesse MarcelIntelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group who recovered the Roswell debris in 1947.
- Jesse Marcel Jr.Physician who said his father showed him Roswell debris in 1947.
- Jesse Marcel Jr.'s account of the Roswell debrisJesse Marcel Jr. says his father showed him strange Roswell debris in 1947.
- Jessica UttsStatistician who reviewed the Stargate program in 1995.
- Jim Goodall and Groom Lake black programsWriter James Goodall says at least eight secret programs fly from Groom Lake.
- Jim PennistonAir Force witness in the Rendlesham Forest incident.
- Jim Penniston meets Kit GreenCameron describes a meeting between Rendlesham witness Jim Penniston and Kit Green.
- Jim SemivanFormer CIA officer who co-founded To The Stars Academy.
- Jim Semivan's DARPA lab sampleFormer CIA officer Jim Semivan says material about his experience went to a DARPA lab.
- Jim WestwoodFormer CIA consultant who studied the MJ-12 papers.
- Jim Westwood's MJ-12 disinformation theoryA former CIA consultant suggests the MJ-12 briefing document was a fake to fool the KGB.
- Jimmy Carter39th U.S. president, who reported a UFO sighting and asked NASA about UFO research.
- Joe NickellSkeptical investigator of paranormal claims.
- John B. AlexanderRetired Army colonel who organized the 1985 Advanced Theoretical Physics group and wrote UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and …
- John Baughman 🚧Navy veteran who described an underwater Tic Tac near Haiti.
- John BrandenburgPlasma physicist who made claims about Mars and the Moon.
- John Brandenburg's theoriesEngineer John Brandenburg discusses theories tied to his space program work.
- John BurroughsAir Force witness in the Rendlesham Forest incident.
- John Burroughs's medical recordsKit Green says Rendlesham witness John Burroughs' medical records were classified.
- John C. LillyNeuroscientist who invented the isolation tank and later claimed contact with cosmic intelligences.
- John E. HendersonOhio congressman briefed by the Air Force on UFOs in 1958.
- John F. Kennedy35th U.S. president, named in disputed MJ-12 memos.
- John FordFounder of the Long Island UFO Network.
- John GibbonsPresident Clinton's science adviser.
- John GreenewaldFounder of The Black Vault FOIA archive.
- John Herrington briefing storyAn author relays a story told by a neighbor of a former Energy Secretary.
- John HomerFort Bliss commander who investigated the 1947 Mexican "mystery missile".
- John HutchisonCanadian inventor of the claimed "Hutchison Effect".
- John KeelWriter and author of The Mothman Prophecies who popularized the Men in Black.
- John LearPilot and son of Bill Lear who spread claims of alien treaties in the late 1980s.
- John Lear's ParaNet statement (1987)Pilot John Lear claims the government has worked with gray aliens since the 1960s.
- John Lear's source Mike (1989)John Lear says a source was flown to an underground site to photograph a saucer and autopsy.
- John Lennon UFO sightingJohn Lennon and May Pang's 1974 sighting from their New York terrace.
- John Lilly and the alleged hypnosis projectAn alleged Air Force project used drugs and hypnosis; one participant believed he contacted aliens.
- John MackHarvard psychiatrist who studied abduction experiences.
- John Maynard 🚧Self-described Army intelligence analyst who gave Disclosure Project testimony.
- John Maynard testimonyAn alleged Army/DIA official names contractors said to be involved in the UAP matter.
- John McClellanSenator whose Government Operations subcommittee was persuaded not to hold UFO hearings in 1958.
- John McCormackHouse Majority Leader and Speaker who chaired a 1958 UFO briefing and doubted the Air Force.
- John McCormack's doubts about the Air Force (1961)House leader John McCormack says the Air Force isn't sharing all it knows about UFOs.
- John MillsAir Force technician who described films of UFOs near test warheads.
- John Mills and the Vandenberg warhead filmsAn Air Force technician says he saw film of UAP interacting with test warheads.
- John MossCalifornia congressman who led the push for the Freedom of Information Act.
- John Moss and Special Report 14 (1956)Rep. John Moss asks why the unclassified Blue Book Special Report 14 isn't public.
- John PetersenFuturist who founded the Arlington Institute.
- John PodestaClinton campaign chairman with a long interest in UFO disclosure.
- John RamirezFormer CIA officer who has spoken about UAP.
- John Ramirez finds no CIA program (2022)A former CIA analyst says he never found an official UAP program.
- John Ramirez on a Navy compartmentA retired CIA official describes a Navy compartment as sensitive as the Manhattan Project.
- John Warner and AUTECFormer Navy Secretary John Warner's son says his father saw something at a Navy test center.
- John Warner IV 🚧Son of former Navy Secretary John Warner.
- Jon KosloskiNSA scientist who became director of AARO in August 2024.
- Jonathan Weygandt 🚧Former Marine who claimed he guarded a crashed craft in Peru.
- Jonathan Weygandt's Peru crash claimMarine Jonathan Weygandt says he guarded a crashed craft in a cliffside.
- Jorge MartínPuerto Rican UFO researcher.
- Joseph Bryan IIIReported head of CIA psychological warfare in the early 1950s who later sat on NICAP's board.
- Joseph GradisherNavy spokesman on UAP matters.
- Joseph RalstonFormer Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs named in the Wilson–Davis notes.
- Joseph Ralston on the Wilson notesGen. Joseph Ralston says he met Vice Adm. Wilson daily but doesn't recall UAP discussions.
- Joshua GoldbergPhysicist who managed Air Force funding for general relativity research from 1956 to 1963.
- Joshua Goldberg and Air Force gravity researchWright-Patterson's labs hire physicist Joshua Goldberg to manage relativity and gravity contracts.
- Jud Roberts and the Mac Brazel interviewA Roswell radio manager says he interviewed rancher Mac Brazel and was warned off broadcasting it.
- Julius StrattonMIT provost consulted by the CIA in 1952 about a scientific UFO review.
- Jump room school claimA man alleges he attended a 'jump room' school with a future DARPA director.
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- Kaikoura lightsThe December 1978 lights filmed from a cargo plane off New Zealand.
- Karl PflockRoswell researcher who concluded the debris was from Project Mogul.
- Karson Kammerzell 🚧Former Navy technician aboard the USS Princeton in 2004.
- Karson Kammerzell's Tic Tac accountA Navy communications operator describes the Tic Tac event from the USS Princeton.
- KecksburgThe Pennsylvania village where an object was said to fall in 1965.
- Kecksburg incidentThe December 1965 fall of an object near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.
- Kelly JohnsonLockheed Skunk Works designer of the U-2 and SR-71 who reported a UFO sighting in 1953.
- Kelly–Hopkinsville encounterThe 1955 Kentucky report of small creatures besieging a farmhouse.
- Kennedy MJ-12 memo of June 1961An alleged Kennedy memo asks the CIA to review 'MJ-12' operations.
- Kenneth ArnoldPilot whose 1947 sighting gave rise to the term "flying saucer".
- Kenneth RommelFormer FBI agent whose 1980 report attributed most cattle mutilations to natural causes.
- Kevin DayRadar operator aboard the USS Princeton in 2004.
- Kevin RandleRoswell researcher and author of many books on crash-retrieval claims.
- Kevin ThomasNavy photographer who described a black triangle rising from the sea near the USS Nimitz in 1991.
- Kevin Thomas and the Nimitz black triangleA Nimitz petty officer says he saw a huge black triangle rise out of the ocean.
- Kingman UFO crashAn engineer using the pseudonym Fritz Werner swears he investigated a crashed craft near Kingman, Arizona.
- Kingston GeorgeEngineer who argued the Big Sur film showed ordinary missile hardware.
- Kirsten GillibrandNew York senator who helped create AARO and chaired a 2023 hearing on its work.
- Kirtland Air Force BaseThe Albuquerque air base at the center of the Bennewitz affair.
- Kit Green on Basiago's claimsKit Green tells Vallée that Basiago's time-travel claims are exaggerated.
- Kit Green on MJ-12 (1988)Kit Green tells Vallée that 'MJ12' was real.
- Kit Green psychic interview tapeCameron releases a tape of Kit Green interviewing a psychic about UAP hotspots.
- Kit Green's Air Force physician sourceKit Green says a retired Air Force physician told him crash recovery stories are true.
- Kit Green's autopsy tissue packageKit Green says he received an anonymous package of supposed alien autopsy tissue.
- Kit Green's injury databaseKit Green begins a database of people injured in close encounters.
- Kit Green's three landings briefing claimThey also discuss Kit Green's claim of a briefing on three alien landings.
- Kit Green's Wayne State encounter studyKit Green shows Vallée a study of people who believed they had encounters.
- Kona BlueA BAASS director reports to the DIA program about UAP studies.
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- Lake Michigan TriangleA legendary zone of Lake Michigan said to have unexplained losses and UFO reports.
- Lakenheath–Bentwaters incidentThe 1956 radar and visual UFO reports at two U.S.-run bases in England.
- Laredo UFO crash claim (1948)An anonymous retired colonel claims a craft crashed near Laredo, Texas, and witnesses were sworn to secrecy.
- Larry Lemke's father and unusual hardwareA NASA engineer says his father worked on hardware that seemed to come from beyond Earth.
- Larry RogersAir Force dog handler who described UFOs over Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco, in 1960.
- Larry W. and the 1968 capture claimA source says a former soldier witnessed a UAP capture in 1968.
- Las Vegas data-gathering meeting (1996)Military, scientific and corporate figures meet in Las Vegas about gathering UAP data.
- Laurance RockefellerPhilanthropist who lobbied the Clinton White House for UFO disclosure.
- Laurance Rockefeller's two UFO projectsVallée says Laurance Rockefeller funded two UAP projects.
- Lead masks caseThe unexplained 1966 deaths of two Brazilian men found wearing lead masks.
- Legacy programA term for alleged long-running secret programs said to hold recovered non-human craft.
- Lemoore triangle sightingsA Navy maintenance worker sees a glowing triangle above Lemoore Naval Air Station.
- Leonard StringfieldFormer Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 t…
- Leslie KeanJournalist who co-wrote the 2017 New York Times story on AATIP.
- Levelland UFO caseThe November 1957 Texas reports of a glowing object that stalled car engines.
- Liberation Times whistleblower hearings reportInsiders tell a journalist that congressional whistleblower hearings are coming.
- Lincoln LaPazMeteor expert who argued the 1948–49 green fireballs over New Mexico were not ordinary meteors.
- Linda Moulton HoweJournalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Livermore scientists' paranormal experiencesKit Green says he worked with scientists who reported orbs and entities in their homes.
- Lockbourne AFB object and KecksburgAn Air Force guard says he watched over an object brought from Pennsylvania before it went to Wright-Patterson.
- Lockheed MartinThe aerospace company whose Skunk Works built the U-2, SR-71 and F-117.
- Lockheed–Kelly Johnson sighting (1953)Lockheed test crew members flying a Navy aircraft follow a flying saucer over the Pacific.
- Long Beach undercover approach claimCoulthart writes a source was asked to go undercover inside an aerospace company.
- Lonnie ZamoraPolice officer who reported the 1964 Socorro landing.
- Los Alamos National LaboratoryThe New Mexico laboratory where the atomic bomb was designed.
- Los Alamos nurse claimA retired nurse says bodies were flown into Los Alamos after the war.
- Louis WittenPhysicist who joined the Glenn L. Martin Company's research institute in 1955 to study gravity.
- Louis Witten and the Martin gravity institutePhysicist Louis Witten says he was recruited into a Glenn L. Martin institute studying gravity.
- Lubbock LightsThe 1951 Texas sightings of formations of lights, photographed by Carl Hart Jr.
- Luis AlvarezNobel physicist who sat on the 1953 Robertson Panel and was a member of the JASON group.
- Luis ElizondoFormer Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- Lyndon Johnson36th U.S. president, said to have requested an informal UFO study.
- Lyndon Johnson's informal UFO studyA study for President Johnson reportedly says UAP are real and under intelligent control.
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- Mac BrazelRancher who found the Roswell debris in 1947.
- Mach 3 radar target alert (1957)The Air Force intelligence chief warns of a radar target crossing the U.S. at Mach 3.
- Mach effectJames Woodward's proposed propellant-free thrust effect.
- Mach effect experimentsResearchers publish an experiment on changing the mass of test samples.
- Malmstrom Air Force BaseA Montana Minuteman missile base linked to UFO reports.
- Malmstrom missile incidentsThe 1967 shutdowns of Minuteman missiles at Malmstrom AFB linked to UFO reports.
- Malmstrom Romeo-29 incident (1974)A large glowing object hovers over a Minuteman launch facility at Malmstrom AFB, Montana.
- Man in Space SoonestThe Air Force's pre-NASA 'Man-In-Space-Soonest' program funds a Lockheed spacecraft, later cancelled.
- Manises UFO incidentA 1979 case in which a Spanish airliner diverted to Valencia after seeing red lights.
- MARAUDERThe Air Force tests its MARAUDER plasma railgun in public.
- Marc MillisNASA engineer who led the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program.
- Marcel family Roswell debrisJesse Marcel's grandson says his family held unusual Roswell debris.
- Marcia SmithCongressional Research Service analyst who prepared UFO reports in the 1970s.
- Marco RubioFormer Florida senator and Secretary of State who pushed for the 2021 UAP report.
- Marconi director claim (2004)A Marconi director is said to have worked on a communication system and an unlimited power source.
- Marfa lightsLights seen near Marfa, Texas, most of which studies have traced to car headlights.
- Mariana UFO filmA 1950 film of two bright objects over Great Falls, Montana.
- Mario WoodsAir Force security policeman who described a 1977 encounter at an Ellsworth AFB missile site.
- Mario Woods incident at Ellsworth AFB (1977)An Ellsworth AFB security airman says a UAP answered his spotlight signals.
- Mark McCandlishAerospace illustrator who drew the alleged "Alien Reproduction Vehicle".
- Mark McCandlish and the Alien Reproduction VehicleIllustrator Mark McCandlish says gravity propulsion was reverse-engineered from recovered craft.
- Mark SkidmoreEconomist who co-wrote the $21 trillion analysis with Catherine Austin Fitts.
- Mark Sokol and Falcon SpaceA company founder says he built a device to detect gravity changes in light.
- Mark WalkerNorth Carolina congressman who pressed the Navy on UAP in 2019.
- Mark Walker and the Navy (2019)Rep. Mark Walker accuses the Navy of withholding UAP information.
- Martin Marietta engineer's papers (1965)Jacques Vallée says a Martin Marietta engineer was upset when his papers were seen.
- Martin ShoughAnalyst who reconstructed the 1953 Lockheed–Kelly Johnson sighting and other radar cases.
- Martin TajmarPhysicist who tested claimed exotic propulsion devices.
- Martins–Pinheiro inertia papersLisbon physicists suggest electric and magnetic fields could alter inertial mass.
- Mary Elizabeth Elliot inquiryResearchers ask sources about a name in the alleged Wilson memo.
- Mathew BevanWelsh hacker arrested in 1996 for breaking into U.S. military computers.
- Mathew Bevan (Kuji) arrestA British hacker is arrested over intrusions into U.S. military and NASA systems.
- Maury Island incidentThe 1947 Washington State claim of doughnut-shaped craft and debris, later judged a hoax.
- Max SpiersBritish conspiracy researcher who died in Poland in 2016.
- McCandlish documentary account (2014)Mark McCandlish says a friend saw a man-made disc at Norton AFB.
- McClellan subcommittee persuaded against hearings (1958)An Air Force general says informal talks persuaded Senate investigators no UAP hearings were needed.
- McCormack subcommittee UFO briefing (1958)The Air Force tells a House committee civilian UAP groups are its biggest UAP-related challenge.
- McDonnell DouglasThe aerospace company that ran several quiet studies of UFOs and propulsion.
- McDonnell Douglas caller to Vallée (1978)A McDonnell Douglas caller tells Vallée a secret UAP project is monitored by the CIA.
- McDonnell Douglas close-encounter database (1978)A McDonnell Douglas engineer tells Vallée of a well-funded secret UAP project.
- McMinnville UFO photographsTwo 1950 Oregon photographs of a disc-shaped object taken by Paul Trent.
- Mellon on conflicting insider claimsMellon says credible people claim a cover-up, and equally credible people deny it.
- Mellon on off-the-books operation allegationsMellon says there are many allegations of an off-the-books aerospace UAP operation.
- Mellon on the Majestic documentsMellon says the 'Majestic' documents are very controversial.
- Mellon's first steps as presidentChristopher Mellon says what he would do first about UAP if he were president.
- Men in BlackMysterious visitors said to intimidate UFO witnesses.
- Mendel RiversChairman of the House Armed Services Committee during the 1966 UFO hearing.
- Messengers of DeceptionJacques Vallée's 1979 book on manipulation of UFO beliefs.
- MetamaterialAn engineered material with unusual properties.
- Mexican mystery missile (1947)An unknown missile allegedly crashes in Mexico and the State Department is said to seek the wreckage.
- Michael JenkinsAir Force security policeman who described a 1973 incident at Dyess AFB.
- Michael RiconosciutoWitness in the Inslaw affair who made claims about secret technology.
- Michael SchrattResearcher of secret aircraft programs.
- Michael ShellenbergerJournalist whose 2024 congressional testimony described the alleged Immaculate Constellation program.
- Michael SmithAir Force radar controller who gave Disclosure Project testimony.
- Michael Smith's NORAD reporting accountAn Air Force radar controller says UAP events were only to be reported to NORAD.
- Michael SwordsHistorian of the Air Force UFO projects.
- Michigan swamp gas UFO reportsA 1966 wave of UFO reports in Michigan that J. Allen Hynek suggested might be marsh gas.
- Mick WestBritish-born former video game developer and leading skeptical analyst of UFO videos.
- Midwest engineers group claim (1974)Kit Green tells Vallée 15 engineers in the Midwest secretly research UAP for the CIA.
- Mike GallagherWisconsin congressman who asked about the Wilson memo at the 2022 hearing.
- Mike RoundsSouth Dakota senator who co-wrote the UAP Disclosure Act.
- Military encounters (topic)Overview of military encounters on the UAP Timeline: 72 events.
- Minot Air Force Base UFO incidentA 1968 case in which a B-52 crew and missile guards reported a UFO around Minot, North Dakota.
- Miracle of the SunThe 1917 "dancing sun" at Fátima, Portugal, which some ufologists call a UFO sighting.
- Mirage MenA 2010 book and 2013 film about the Bennewitz affair.
- Mississippi UFO resolution (1979)A Mississippi resolution calling for a Senate UAP investigation dies in committee.
- MITRE CorporationA federally funded research center that administers the JASON group.
- MITRE high-frequency gravitational wave workshopMITRE hosts a conference on high-frequency gravitational wave research.
- MJ-12Disputed documents describing a secret committee managing crashed saucers.
- MJ-12 Fifth Annual ReportA disputed, possibly hoaxed 'Majic' report describes the 1947 recovery of craft and five bodies.
- MKULTRAThe CIA's mind-control research program, begun in 1953.
- Montauk chairNichols also claims Montauk mind experiments produced a chair that turned thoughts into reality.
- Montauk Phoenix and Rainbow claimsAlleged Montauk projects reportedly used radio and microwaves in mind experiments.
- Montauk ProjectPreston Nichols claims he worked on exotic projects at Camp Hero in Montauk, New York.
- Moon Dust, Blue Fly and UFO draft policy (1961)An Air Force draft policy names intelligence teams for Projects Moon Dust, Blue Fly and 'UFO'.
- Moriches Bay crash claimAn anonymous colonel claims a Star Wars weapon downed a UAP in Long Island's Moriches Bay.
- Morris K. JessupAstronomer and author of The Case for the UFO (1955), linked to the Varo edition and the Philadelphia Experiment.
- Morristown UFO hoaxRed lights over New Jersey in 2009 made with flares and balloons as a social experiment.
- Movement and Maneuver in Deep SpaceAir Force doctrine officers publish a framework on using emerging technologies.
- Mrs. G and the Wright-Patterson catalogueA Wright-Patterson worker reportedly said she catalogued about 1,000 incoming UAP items.
- MUFONThe largest civilian UFO organization in the United States.
- MUFON–BAASS contractMUFON forms a technical team that signs a contract with Bigelow's company.
- Muskegon radar sightings (1994)Weather radar in Muskegon, Michigan tracks three objects that residents also see.
- Mystery airships of 1896-97A wave of reported airship sightings across the United States in 1896 and 1897.
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- Nancy MaceSouth Carolina congresswoman who has led House hearings on UAP.
- NARCAPAn aviation safety group founded by Richard Haines in 2000.
- NASAThe U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
- NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics workshop (1997)NASA holds a breakthrough propulsion physics workshop.
- NASA physical evidence policy (1978)A NASA memo describes a program to analyze physical UAP evidence.
- NASA UAP Independent Study TeamA NASA panel that studied unidentified anomalous phenomena in 2022–23.
- NASA–NNSA planetary defense partnershipThe nuclear security agency discloses its planetary defense partnership with NASA.
- Nash-Fortenberry UFO sightingEight glowing discs seen by airline pilots over Chesapeake Bay in 1952.
- Nat Kobitz 🚧Former Navy science and technology director named by Ross Coulthart.
- Nat Kobitz's read-in remarkCoulthart says a Navy science director told him he was read into a crash program.
- Nathan TwiningCommander of Air Materiel Command who wrote the 1947 memo calling the flying discs "something real".
- National Aero-Space Plane contracts (1986)Defense contractors receive contracts to develop a hypersonic single-stage-to-orbit plane.
- National Bureau of Standards 1943 UFO claimA former intelligence officer tells Vallée the National Bureau of Standards studied UAP as early as 1943.
- National Defense Authorization ActThe yearly U.S. defense law, which has carried UAP provisions since 2021.
- National Photographic Interpretation CenterThe CIA-run center that analysed spy-plane and satellite images.
- National Reconnaissance OfficeThe U.S. agency that builds and operates spy satellites.
- National Security AgencyThe U.S. signals intelligence agency, which holds UFO-related intercepts.
- National UFO Reporting CenterA US non-profit that has collected public UFO sighting reports since 1974.
- NATO science grants and anti-gravity claimNATO begins supporting anti-gravity research through its science grants.
- Naval Research Laboratory parapsychology claim 🚧A journalist claims the Naval Research Laboratory had a parapsychology unit.
- Navy FLYOBRPT reporting instruction (1954)A new Navy directive orders UAP sighting reports sent to several intelligence commands.
- Navy linguist and the Soviet crash reportA Navy linguist says he decoded a Soviet report of a crash split between England and Germany.
- Navy metamaterials research (2014)A Navy budget document mentions research on metamaterials to control electromagnetic waves.
- Navy officer on the Montauk claimsAn anonymous forum poster says a Navy officer dismissed some Montauk claims as nonsense.
- Navy pilots' shoot-down orders claim (1956)Unnamed Navy pilots claim standing orders to shoot down hostile UAP over the Pacific.
- Navy reserve pilot's Wright-Patterson saucer claim (1962)A Navy reserve pilot says he saw a saucer at Wright-Patterson in 1962.
- Navy UAP briefing cardsA Navy briefing card tells staff to say 'UAP', not 'UFO'.
- Navy underwater-object program claim (2017)An astronomer with Navy contracts claims the Navy runs a secret underwater-object project.
- Nazi UFOsClaims that Nazi Germany built flying saucers.
- Needles crash reports (2008)Residents near Needles, California report a crash followed by helicopters and convoys.
- Neil McCaslandRetired Air Force major general named in the Podesta emails.
- Nellis Air Force BaseThe Nevada air base next to the Nevada Test and Training Range.
- Nepal space debris (1968)The DIA tracks a crashed circular metal disc recovered in Nepal, later tied to Project Moon Dust.
- Nevada Test SiteThe U.S. nuclear testing ground in Nevada.
- Nevada weapons storage orb (2002)A three-foot orb is reported moving along fences at a Nevada nuclear weapons storage area.
- The New York TimesThe newspaper that revealed AATIP in December 2017.
- NICAPThe leading U.S. civilian UFO group of the 1950s and 1960s.
- NICAP fed a fake crash story (1957)Civilian group NICAP is fed a fake UAP crash story by a source with NSA ties.
- Nick CookJane's Defence Weekly aviation editor and author of The Hunt for Zero Point.
- Nick Cook's Skunk Works chartAuthor Nick Cook claims he glimpsed a chart of secret Skunk Works projects.
- Nick PopeFormer UK Ministry of Defence official who ran its "UFO desk" in the early 1990s.
- Nick RedfernBritish author of books on government UFO secrecy including Final Events.
- Nick Redfern's Air Force contact (2011) 🚧Nick Redfern says an Air Force investigator offered to meet him about UAP.
- NIDSRobert Bigelow's research institute (1995–2004) that studied UFOs and other anomalies.
- NIDS black triangle studyOver 150 black triangle sightings are tallied at a NIDS meeting.
- Niemtzow declines McDonnell studyA retired colonel tells Vallée he declined to join a secret McDonnell UAP study.
- Night SiegeA 1987 book on the Hudson Valley sightings.
- Nimitz Tic Tac encounterThe November 2004 encounter between Navy pilots and a white Tic Tac-shaped object off California.
- Ning LiPhysicist who tested superconductor gravity claims at NASA Marshall.
- Ning Li superconductor gravity testNASA and university scientists publish gravity-related experiment results.
- NNSA rescues the JASON groupThe nuclear security agency takes over the JASON advisory group contract.
- Noel LonguemareFormer Pentagon acquisition official who sat on special access program oversight.
- Noel Longuemare on the Wilson notesA former Pentagon acquisitions official describes how secret programs were overseen.
- Non-human intelligenceA term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
- NORADThe U.S.–Canadian air defence command.
- NORAD's $294,157 search feeNORAD says a search for UAP tracking data would cost $294,157.
- Nordic aliensTall, fair-haired aliens described by 1950s contactees.
- Northrop electroaerodynamics research (1968)Northrop researchers publish work on reducing drag with electric fields.
- Norton AFB diamond-shaped craft claim (1988)A researcher claims a diamond-shaped craft was tested at Norton AFB.
- Norton AFB UFO files claimA couple tells Vallée they saw a large collection of UFO files at Norton AFB in 1985.
- Norton Air Force BaseA California air base linked to claims of secret aircraft displays.
- NRO "no UFO records" reply (2015)The NRO tells a FOIA requester it has no UFO records.
- NRO Blue Fire documentAn alleged NRO document warns of UFO-group protests near Area 51.
- NRO Sentient systemAn NRO FOIA reply describes its AI system 'Sentient' detecting a Tic Tac-shaped object in 2021.
- NRO underwater objects claim (Forgotten Languages) 🚧An anonymous website posts claims about the NRO and underwater objects.
- NSA Yeates affidavits (1980)In a lawsuit, the NSA files a public and a secret affidavit about its UAP records.
- NSC 5412 Special GroupA secret National Security Council group is formed to coordinate covert operations.
- Nuclear & missile sites (topic)Overview of nuclear & missile sites on the UAP Timeline: 74 events.
- Nuclear lure plan claimA reporter says a plan exists to draw UAP out using nuclear materials.
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- O'Hare Airport UFO sightingThe FAA calls a disc seen over O'Hare airport a weather phenomenon despite many reports.
- Obama White House meeting interest (2008)Puthoff tells Vallée the White House is interested in a meeting about the phenomenon.
- Ocean & underwater (topic)Overview of ocean & underwater on the UAP Timeline: 16 events.
- ODNI Preliminary Assessment on UAPThe ODNI's preliminary UAP assessment is published (see the Library record).
- Oechsler on Navy EMP experimentsBob Oechsler links Navy EMP experiments to UAP recoveries.
- Oechsler–Inman phone callA NASA mission specialist meets a retired admiral about a group said to manage UAP information.
- Office of Naval ResearchThe U.S. Navy's research funding office.
- Office of the Director of National IntelligenceThe office that oversees U.S. intelligence agencies.
- Ohio crash with survivor claim (1978)An Air Force officer reportedly heard of a crash with two dead and one live occupant near Ohio.
- Oke Shannon and Los Alamos UAP interestA former Los Alamos manager says staff studied UAP unofficially.
- Oliver HendersonRoswell transport pilot who reportedly told his family he flew crash debris and bodies.
- Oliver Henderson and the Roswell flightOliver Henderson's widow swears he told her he flew Roswell crash debris and bodies.
- One black UFO operation claim (2003)Puthoff and Petersen tell Vallée there is only one 'black UFO operation', about hardware.
- ONR intuition and sensemaking researchThe Office of Naval Research studies 'sixth sense' and intuitive decision-making.
- Operation PaperclipThe postwar U.S. program that brought German scientists to America.
- Operation PratoThe 1977 Brazilian Air Force investigation of lights at Colares island.
- Osedacz thesis on fastwalkers (1989)An Air Force captain writes that a database of UAP in near-Earth orbit has long existed.
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- P. G. StrongCIA scientific intelligence officer who met MIT leaders about UFO study in 1952.
- Pahute Mesa vault claimSteven Greer claims a rogue group hides money in a vault at Pahute Mesa.
- Pandolfi's "another world" storyCameron says a CIA officer spoke of an entrance to 'another world' in a desert.
- Pantex nuclear plant sightings (1957)Guards at the Pantex nuclear plant in Texas report three flashing objects landing nearby.
- PascagoulaThe Mississippi town where the 1973 abduction case took place.
- Pascagoula abductionCharles Hickson and Calvin Parker say they were taken aboard a craft near Pascagoula, Mississippi.
- Passport to MagoniaJacques Vallée's 1969 book comparing UFO encounters with fairy folklore.
- Pat PriceRemote viewer at SRI who described four alleged alien bases in 1973.
- Pat Price's alien base reportsThe Army's remote viewing chief finds 1973 reports of claimed underground UAP bases.
- Paul BennewitzAlbuquerque physicist targeted by Air Force disinformation in the Bennewitz affair.
- Paul CzyszHypersonics engineer at McDonnell Douglas and Saint Louis University.
- Paul Czysz and the zero-point energy claimA former McDonnell Douglas employee says a friend found a way to tap zero-point energy.
- Paul HellyerFormer Canadian defence minister who said in 2005 that he believed in UFOs.
- Paul Murad's energy deviceA retired Pentagon analyst says a company helped him build an electromagnetic energy device.
- Pentacle memoA Battelle scientist suggests using Project Stork to reassure the public that everything is under control.
- Pentagon accounting plugsA defense accountant says she was told to enter false numbers in Navy budgets.
- Pentagon audit discovery story (2000)Puthoff tells Vallée a story about a secret program uncovered in a Pentagon audit.
- Peter GerstenLawyer who directed Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and sued federal agencies for UFO records.
- Peter MoonCo-author of The Montauk Project books.
- Peter SturrockStanford physicist who organized the 1997 Pocantico UFO review.
- Peter Sturrock on zero-point energy (2003)Stanford's Peter Sturrock tells Vallée he doubts Puthoff's zero-point energy work.
- Petrozavodsk phenomenonA glowing object seen over the Soviet city of Petrozavodsk in September 1977.
- Pharis WilliamsPhysicist with an unconventional theory of gravity cited in UFO propulsion debates.
- Philip Corso's Roswell claimsArmy Col. Philip Corso claims he handled autopsy reports and recovered alien artifacts.
- Philip ImbrognoCo-author of Night Siege about the Hudson Valley sightings.
- Philip J. CorsoArmy officer who claimed in The Day After Roswell that he seeded alien technology into industry.
- Philip KlassAviation journalist and leading UFO skeptic.
- Philip MooreAtlas launch officer at Walker AFB who described a UFO near his capsule.
- Philip Moore's Atlas missile site sightingAn Atlas launch officer reports a UAP near his missile site in New Mexico.
- Phoenix LightsThe mass sighting over Arizona on 13 March 1997.
- Plains of San AgustinA New Mexico plain named in some Roswell crash accounts.
- Podesta–McCasland emailsTwo Air Force generals and a Skunk Works executive appear in emails with Podesta's team.
- Podkletnov gold-layer claim (2020)Russian engineer Eugene Podkletnov claims an effect resembling gravity modification.
- Politico "Skull and Bones" faction reportAn official tells Politico a 'secret society' withholds UAP information from Congress.
- Preston NicholsEngineer who claimed in The Montauk Project that he worked on secret experiments at Camp Hero.
- Pretty memo on the Horten brothers (1947)A U.S. Army officer reports locating the German Horten brothers, designers of flying-wing aircraft.
- Privatized control group claim (1999)An alleged CIA source says the UFO control group became privately funded after 1969.
- Project AquariusDisputed documents describing a secret UFO program, linked to Richard Doty.
- Project Blue BookThe Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- Project Blue Book (TV series)A 2019–20 History Channel drama.
- Project Blue FlyAn Air Force effort to rush recovered foreign material to the Foreign Technology Division.
- Project Blue Heaven claimA physicist claims he worked on Project Blue Heaven at Edwards AFB.
- Project CondignA UK Ministry of Defence memo discusses a proposed UAP study.
- Project GRASPJane's reports Boeing's Project GRASP says gravity control would transform aerospace.
- Project GreenglowA BAE engineer discloses Project Greenglow, a UK gravity-control research project.
- Project GrudgeThe Air Force's skeptical UFO project of 1949–51 that replaced Project Sign.
- Project Grudge data and the artifact fileA BAASS team member is said to be retrieving old Project Grudge data from Area 51.
- Project MagnetA Canadian Department of Transport study of magnetism and UFOs run by Wilbert Smith in the early 1950s.
- Project MogulA secret Army Air Forces program using balloon trains to detect Soviet nuclear tests, blamed by the Air Force for the R…
- Project Moon DustAn Air Force program to locate and recover fallen foreign space objects and debris.
- Project Moonstruck brain-stimulation claimAn alleged CIA project is said to study long-range brain stimulation by radio frequencies.
- Project OutgrowthAn Air Force propulsion lab report, Project Outgrowth, examines advanced propulsion ideas.
- Project Pandora and the Moscow SignalThe Pentagon declassifies files on Projects Pandora and Bizarre, about microwaves and the mind.
- Project PegasusThe alleged time-travel program described by Andrew Basiago.
- Project Preserve DestinyThe alleged NSA program Dan Sherman says trained him to communicate with aliens.
- Project SerpoA message board host receives an alleged 3,000-page report on a famous case.
- Project SignThe Air Force's first formal UFO study (1948), whose staff reportedly favoured an interplanetary explanation.
- Project Silver Bug and the AvrocarThe Air Force acknowledges a contract with Avro Canada, later known as the flying-saucer project Silverbug.
- Project SkyliteMcDonnell Douglas papers describe Project Skylite, a failed effort to copy UAP behavior.
- Project StorkBattelle Memorial Institute's classified analysis of Air Force UFO reports from 1952.
- Project TwinkleA 1949–51 Air Force effort to photograph the green fireballs over New Mexico.
- Project Twinkle kept classified (1952)The Air Force's science advisers recommend keeping Project Twinkle, a UAP study at atomic sites, classified.
- Project Windfall claimJohn Keel says the CIA ran Project Windfall, an investigation of UAP contactees.
- Project WinterhavenPhysicist Thomas Townsend Brown proposes Project Winterhaven, a military study of electrogravitic propulsion.
- Project ZodiacEric Davis tells Vallée about a story called 'Zodiac' involving real researchers.
- Projected AAWSAP fundingKit Green tells Vallée AAWSAP funding could reach $240 million.
- Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue BookThe three successive Air Force UFO investigation projects from 1948 to 1969.
- Proposal for a new Project Blue Book (2000)Bigelow tells Vallée of an idea to push Congress for a new Project Blue Book.
- Proposal to collect UFO home movies (1950)An Air Force officer wants to quietly collect UAP home movies from the public with FBI help.
- Propulsion & physics (topic)Overview of propulsion & physics on the UAP Timeline: 71 events.
- Prudence Calabrese 🚧Founder of TransDimensional Systems, a remote-viewing company.
- Prudence Calabrese and TransDimensional SystemsPrudence Calabrese starts a medical remote viewing organization.
- Psi-TechEd Dames's remote-viewing company.
- Psychosocial hypothesisThe view that UFO reports are best explained by psychological and social factors.
- Puerto Rico underwater objectElizondo describes a helicopter crew seeing a dark object underwater near Puerto Rico.
- Puthoff denies threats (2020)Hal Puthoff denies rumors his family was threatened over antigravity information.
- Puthoff leaves SRI (1985)Hal Puthoff leaves SRI to explore alternative energy sources.
- Puthoff locates the hardware program (2007)Puthoff tells Vallée he thinks he knows where the secret UFO hardware program hides.
- Puthoff on black-budget physics (2002)Puthoff tells author Nick Cook there is solid evidence of secret aerospace programs.
- Puthoff on tracking the phenomenon (1989)Puthoff tells Vallée nobody seems to be tracking the phenomenon properly.
- Puthoff on withheld materials sciencePuthoff says private companies withhold materials science information.
- Puthoff pitches vacuum energy (1994)Hal Puthoff says he pitched vacuum energy technology to oil companies.
- Puthoff protects a key source (2003)Puthoff tells Vallée he is holding back details to protect a key insider source.
- Puthoff's "front door" attemptLockheed's Bernard Haisch says Puthoff tried official channels to reach a secret UFO program.
- Puthoff's report of a new secret study (1972)Hal Puthoff tells Vallée a former NSA colleague said a new secret UAP study was underway.
- Puthoff–Green emails on a pseudonymous articlePuthoff emails Kit Green about a UFO magazine story.
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- Rachel, NevadaThe tiny Nevada town nearest Area 51, popular with UFO tourists.
- Radio caller's underground base claim (1991) 🚧A radio caller claims he wired a deep underground site holding military personnel and creatures.
- Raechel's EyesA woman claims her daughter communicated with a hybrid being about secret projects.
- Ralph BlumenthalFormer New York Times reporter who co-wrote the 2017 story on the Pentagon's secret UFO program.
- Ramey memoA 1947 photo of Gen. Ramey holding a message is enlarged, and its text is debated.
- RAND CorporationThe Air Force-funded think tank founded in 1948.
- RAND memorandum RM-365An Air Force-funded RAND paper studies using superstition and the paranormal for psychological warfare.
- Ray BoechePastor and former MUFON director who met two Defense Department scientists in 1991.
- Ray Boeche's meeting with two DoD scientistsTwo scientists tied to the DIA and NSA claim secret programs try to control non-human intelligence.
- Ray HymanPsychologist who reviewed the Stargate program in 1995.
- Raymond A. PalmerEditor of Amazing Stories and co-founder of Fate who promoted flying saucers from 1947.
- Raymond FowlerUFO investigator who published the Kingman affidavit and the Andreasson abduction case.
- RaëlismA UFO religion founded by Claude Vorilhon, who calls himself Raël.
- RB-47 UFO encounterThe 1957 case in which an Air Force RB-47 crew tracked an unknown object by eye, radar and electronic sensors.
- Reagan's diary entry of 11 June 1985President Reagan's diary hints at a large space shuttle capability after lunch with scientists.
- Remote viewers and a military trial anomaly (1984)Alleged CIA documents describe the Army's remote viewers studying an anomaly during military trials.
- Remote viewingThe claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Remote viewing & psi (topic)Overview of remote viewing & psi on the UAP Timeline: 25 events.
- Rendlesham ForestThe English forest where U.S. airmen reported UFOs in December 1980.
- Rendlesham Forest incidentReports of lights and a craft near RAF Bentwaters in December 1980.
- The Report on Unidentified Flying ObjectsEdward Ruppelt's 1956 book.
- ReptiliansShape-shifting reptile aliens of conspiracy theory, popularised by David Icke.
- Request for Vallée's best cases (1966)Vallée receives a request from engineers to send their best cases to unnamed Wright Field scientists.
- Research and Development Board dismisses the discs (1948)A Pentagon research board publicly dismisses flying saucers as mirages and mass self-hypnosis.
- Reverse engineeringStudying a recovered object to learn how it works and copy it.
- Rhodes UFO photographsTwo 1947 photographs of a disc over Phoenix, Arizona.
- Richard Boylan 🚧Psychologist and UFO researcher who interviewed Steve Wilson.
- Richard Dolan on the classified UAP annexResearcher Richard Dolan describes the classified part of the UAP task force report.
- Richard DotyAir Force Office of Special Investigations agent who fed disinformation to UFO researchers in the 1980s.
- Richard HainesNASA Ames scientist who founded NARCAP to study aviation UAP reports.
- Richard Haines's conviction about a secret project (1982)NASA scientist Richard Haines tells Vallée he is sure a secret government UAP project exists.
- Richard HallNICAP assistant director and author of Uninvited Guests.
- Richard NiemtzowAir Force physician interested in UFO-related injuries.
- Richard Niemtzow's Toulouse remarks (1985)A retired Air Force colonel tells Vallée there is a secret government UAP project.
- Richard OsedaczAir Force captain whose 1989 thesis described tracking uncatalogued space objects.
- Richard RussellU.S. senator from Georgia who saw two disc-shaped craft in the Soviet Union in 1955.
- Richard WeaverAir Force officer who wrote the 1994 Roswell report.
- Richard Weaver on MJ-12 (1993)An Air Force colonel calls MJ-12 and its documents bogus but can't say how that was decided.
- Riconosciuto backdoor claim (1992)Michael Riconosciuto, a witness in the Inslaw lawsuit, says he was hired to build a secret software backdoor.
- Rob WeissLockheed Skunk Works executive named in the Podesta emails.
- Robert B. LandryTruman's Air Force aide who said the president asked for quarterly oral briefings on UFOs.
- Robert BigelowBusinessman who founded NIDS and Bigelow Aerospace and ran the AAWSAP contract.
- Robert ByrdSenate leader for whom C. Richard D'Amato and Christopher Mellon investigated black programs.
- Robert EmeneggerProducer of the 1974 documentary UFOs: Past, Present, and Future.
- Robert FroschNASA administrator who declined to start a UFO program in 1977.
- Robert Guffey 🚧Author of Chameleo.
- Robert HastingsResearcher who has collected accounts of UFOs at nuclear weapons sites, author of UFOs and Nukes.
- Robert JacobsAir Force officer who said he filmed a UFO intercepting a test warhead at Big Sur in 1964.
- Robert KiviatTV producer who sued over the InterNASA venture.
- Robert LowProject coordinator of the Condon Committee.
- Robert M. WoodMcDonnell Douglas engineer who ran an in-house UFO study and later promoted the MJ-12 documents.
- Robert MonroeFounder of the Monroe Institute.
- Robert SalasFormer Minuteman officer who described the 1967 Malmstrom incident.
- Robert SarbacherPhysicist who wrote in 1983 that he heard recovered UFO materials were studied.
- Robert Shirkey509th Bomb Group officer who said he watched Roswell debris being loaded onto a B-29 in July 1947.
- Robert Shirkey affidavit on the Roswell debris flightsLt. Robert Shirkey's affidavit says he saw debris loaded for flights from Roswell to Fort Worth and Wright Field.
- Robert Taylor incidentA 1979 Scottish forester's report of spheres that tried to drag him to a dome.
- Robert WillinghamMan who claimed he saw a crashed craft near Del Rio, Texas.
- Robert Wood's McDonnell Douglas studyMcDonnell Douglas physicist Robert Wood says he was tasked with gravity propulsion research.
- Robertson PanelThe CIA's Robertson Panel recommends stripping UAP of special status and reducing public interest.
- Rockefeller InitiativeWhite House science office papers show CIA interest in a UAP researcher's work.
- Roger RameyEighth Air Force commander who presented the Roswell balloon in 1947.
- Ron BlackburnFormer Air Force officer and Lockheed engineer linked to the ATP group and NIDS.
- Ron EvansBAE Systems engineer who led Project Greenglow.
- Ron PandolfiCIA scientist who appears in several UFO stories.
- Ronald MoultrieUnder Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
- Ronald Reagan40th U.S. president whose diary and speeches touched on space and alien threats.
- Roper Organization abduction survey (1991)Vallée says Liechtenstein's prince funded a study of alien abduction claims through Robert Bigelow.
- Roscoe HillenkoetterFirst Director of Central Intelligence (1947–50) and later NICAP board member; named in the disputed MJ-12 papers.
- Ross CoulthartAustralian journalist who reported David Grusch's claims.
- RoswellThe New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- Roswell Army Air FieldThe bomber base at Roswell, home of the 509th Bomb Group in 1947.
- Roswell incidentThe July 1947 recovery of debris near Roswell, New Mexico, announced as a "flying disc" and then explained as a weather…
- The Roswell Report: Case ClosedThe Air Force's 'Case Closed' report says Roswell 'bodies' were crash-test dummies.
- Roswell-area helicopter crash claim (1954)An Air Force helicopter trainee says he was sent to a desert crash near Roswell in 1954.
- Rudolf LusarGerman author of a 1957 book on secret weapons that popularized the Nazi flying disc story.
- Rudolf Lusar and the Nazi disc claimsAn Air Force intelligence group analyzes a German author's claims about Nazi flying discs.
- Rumsfeld's "no need to know" remarkHynek says Donald Rumsfeld told him he had no need to know about any secret UAP study.
- Ruppelt held back before the Robertson PanelAn Air Force colonel stops Blue Book's Edward Ruppelt from sharing strong cases with the CIA before the Robertson Panel.
- Ruppelt's account of the Estimate of the SituationEdward Ruppelt writes he once saw a top-secret 'Estimate of the Situation' on UAP.
- Russell TargPhysicist who co-led the SRI remote-viewing research with Hal Puthoff.
- Ryan GravesFormer Navy F/A-18 pilot who testified to Congress about frequent UAP sightings off the East Coast in 2014–15.
- Ryan WoodResearcher who published the Majestic documents with his father Robert Wood.
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- S-4The site near Area 51 where Bob Lazar said he worked on alien craft.
- SAICA U.S. defence contractor that carried out propulsion studies and remote-viewing work.
- SAIC electric propulsion study (1988)SAIC studies electric propulsion for Edwards AFB.
- SAIC electromagnetic-gravity coupling study (1990)An SAIC study tests whether electromagnetism and gravity can be coupled for space propulsion.
- Salvatore PaisNavy engineer who filed patents for exotic propulsion concepts.
- Salvatore Pais patentsNavy scientist Salvatore Pais files a patent for a triangular craft with claimed antigravity effects.
- Samuel StrattonNew York congressman who questioned the Air Force about base overflights in 1978.
- Samuel Stratton and the SAC base overflightsRep. Samuel Stratton raises concerns over unknown aircraft flying over Strategic Air Command bases.
- Sandia National LaboratoriesA U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory in Albuquerque.
- Sandia uncle crashed saucer story (1982)Puthoff relays a story of a scientist who studied a crashed saucer and copied an antigravity device.
- Sarbacher letter (1983)Physicist Robert Sarbacher writes that he heard of recovered UAP materials while consulting for the Pentagon.
- Sarfatti's slow-light Tic Tac theoryPhysicist Jack Sarfatti suggests the Tic Tac used a metamaterial that slows light.
- Sarfatti–Puthoff zero-point debatePhysicist Jack Sarfatti claims a debate with Puthoff was arranged at the intelligence director's office.
- Saucer-like helicopters claim (1984)Kit Green tells Vallée some military helicopters were designed to look like flying saucers.
- SBIRS UAP detections claimChristopher Mellon says a missile-warning satellite system has recorded unidentified objects.
- Scientific Coalition for UAP StudiesA group of scientists and analysts that studies UAP.
- Scott BrayDeputy Director of Naval Intelligence who testified at the 2022 UAP hearing.
- Sean KirkpatrickFirst director of AARO (2022–23).
- Secrecy & cover-up (topic)Overview of secrecy & cover-up on the UAP Timeline: 264 events.
- Secret project asks about remote viewing (1973)Puthoff tells Vallée a secret UAP project with an official charter asked about remote viewing.
- Sekret MachinesDeLonge publishes the novel Sekret Machines, which he says advisers helped shape.
- Selman GravesPilot who told author Timothy Good he saw a crash recovery near Paradise Valley, Arizona, in October 1947.
- Selman Graves and the Paradise Valley crash claimPilot Selman Graves says he saw a crashed craft and two humanoid bodies recovered in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
- Senator Russell's Soviet sighting (1955)Sen. Richard Russell sees two discs in the Soviet Union; the CIA classifies the case.
- Sgt. M.S. and the Wright-Patterson generalAn Air Force sergeant says a general at Wright-Patterson told him about recovered material.
- Shag Harbour UFO incidentThe 1967 Nova Scotia report of a lit object that crashed into the sea.
- Shlomo ArnonResearcher who received Barry Goldwater's 1975 letter about classified UFO information.
- Skinwalker RanchA Utah ranch known for reports of strange events, studied by NIDS and AAWSAP.
- Skinwalkers at the PentagonA 2021 book about AAWSAP by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp.
- Skip AtwaterHead of the Army's remote-viewing unit in the early 1980s.
- Skunk Works astral projection anecdoteGreer claims a Skunk Works engineer described using astral projection.
- SocorroThe New Mexico town where Lonnie Zamora reported a landing in 1964.
- Socorro landingThe April 1964 landing reported by police officer Lonnie Zamora.
- Socorro rock analysisKit Green says rock from the 1964 Socorro landing was analyzed at NASA Goddard.
- Sol FoundationA UAP research and policy group co-founded by Garry Nolan in 2023.
- Solway Firth SpacemanA 1964 photograph from Cumbria showing an unexplained figure.
- SOM1-01 Special Operations ManualEngineer Bob Wood reportedly suspects the 'SOM1-01' manual was created as Cold War disinformation.
- Southaven Park crash claimA book says locals believed a UAP crashed near Brookhaven Lab on Long Island.
- Southeastern Oregon crash claim (1979)An informant claims a craft crashed in southeastern Oregon and he helped load crates.
- Special access programA U.S. classified program with access limited beyond normal secrecy rules.
- Spread of the Bennewitz disinformationDoty's fake document spreads to the public and into books and media.
- SRI InternationalThe research institute where the government's remote-viewing studies began.
- Stanton FriedmanNuclear physicist and leading Roswell researcher.
- Stargate ProjectThe U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
- State Department "no records" reply (1978)The State Department says it has no UAP records; a requester sends it one of its own documents.
- Stefan PossonyAir Force intelligence analyst cited on German and Soviet disc claims.
- Stephen LovekinWhite House communications soldier who gave Disclosure Project testimony.
- Stephen Lovekin testimonyA White House communications specialist says he received UAP briefings.
- Stephenville UFO sightingsThe January 2008 Texas sightings of large lights, linked to F-16 training flights.
- Steve MillardSilicon Valley investor who hosted a private UFO study group in 1986.
- Steve Millard's Silicon Valley study groupA Silicon Valley investor hosts a private UAP study group including Vallée.
- Steve Wilson 🚧Self-described retired colonel who claimed Project Pounce shot down UFOs.
- Steve Wilson and Project PounceA retired Air Force colonel claims a secret space program shoots down unfriendly UAP.
- Steven GreerPhysician who founded CSETI and the Disclosure Project.
- Steven Greer's 1990s private meetingsSteven Greer alleges he met wealthy and connected figures at a private San Francisco gathering about UAP.
- Steven SchiffNew Mexico congressman who asked the GAO to search for Roswell records.
- Storm Area 51A 2019 internet joke to raid Area 51 that became a real gathering in Nevada.
- Strategic Air CommandThe Air Force command that controlled U.S. nuclear bombers and missiles.
- Strategic Defense InitiativePresident Reagan's 1983 missile defence program.
- Stubblebine's Mars lecture (1992)Gen. Albert Stubblebine allegedly claims there are structures beneath the surface of Mars.
- Submarine encounters study (1952)Air Force and Navy intelligence study nine undersea UAP encounters reported by U.S. submarines.
- Sunnyvale and the Roswell materials theoryEric Davis suggests Roswell materials may have been held at Lockheed in Sunnyvale.
- Sunnyvale hangar saucer claimA Navy radar observer says he saw a large saucer in a hangar at Sunnyvale in 1950.
- Susan GoughPentagon spokesperson on UAP matters.
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- Tajmar spinning superconductor experimentAustrian researchers report possible gravity effects from a spinning superconductor.
- Thomas BeardenRetired Army officer who promoted "scalar" free-energy claims.
- Thomas Bearden's list of energy researchersThomas Bearden lists researchers he says work on related energy technology.
- Thomas ConrowAir Force intelligence officer who investigated the 1960 Ekuk, Alaska, sighting.
- Thomas DuBoseEighth Air Force chief of staff in 1947 who appears in the Fort Worth balloon photos and later called the balloon story…
- Thomas DuBose affidavit on the Roswell debrisCol. Thomas DuBose's affidavit says the Roswell debris went via Fort Worth to Wright Field and the balloon photos were …
- Thomas MantellAir National Guard pilot who died chasing a UFO in 1948.
- Thomas Townsend BrownPhysicist and inventor who promoted "electrogravitics" and proposed Project Winterhaven.
- Thomas WilsonFormer DIA director named in the Wilson–Davis notes.
- Three air bases claim (1978)A source tells Leonard Stringfield that three air bases held alien craft or bodies.
- Tim BurchettTennessee congressman and outspoken advocate of UAP disclosure.
- Tim CooperCalifornia researcher who said he received many MJ-12-style documents from anonymous sources in the 1990s.
- Tim Cooper's German saucer source (1991)A retired colonel says early UAP were first thought to be German and used unknown materials.
- Tim GallaudetRetired Navy rear admiral and former acting NOAA head who testified about UAP in 2024.
- Tim McMillanJournalist and co-founder of The Debrief.
- Timothy GoodBritish author of books on UFO secrecy including Above Top Secret and Need to Know.
- Tinley Park lightsThree red lights in a triangle seen over Chicago's south suburbs in 2004–06.
- To The Stars AcademyThe company founded by Tom DeLonge in 2017 that released the Navy UAP videos.
- Todd ZechelResearcher who co-founded Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and sued the CIA in the 1970s.
- Tom CareyRoswell researcher and co-author of Witness to Roswell.
- Tom DeLongeMusician who founded To The Stars Academy.
- Tompkins's secret space program claimsTompkins also describes alleged secret underground bases tied to a hidden space program.
- Torbitt DocumentAuthor 'William Torbitt' claims a group ran counterintelligence for advanced aerospace programs.
- Toronto dematerialization claim (1953) 🚧An RAF instructor claims he saw a successful 'dematerialization' experiment in Toronto.
- Trans-en-Provence caseThe 1981 French landing report studied by the government agency GEPAN.
- Transdimensional TechnologiesAn Alabama company says it is developing antigravity technology and mentions UAP.
- Transfer of the Blue Book files (1975)Blue Book files are withdrawn from public access; some papers are allegedly destroyed or redacted.
- TransmediumAble to move between air, space and water.
- Travis Walton incidentThe 1975 Arizona case in which a logger said he was abducted for five days.
- Tremonton filmA July 1952 film of bright objects shot near Tremonton, Utah.
- TRESTLE facility and Ron BlackburnA Lockheed engineer tells Vallée he helped build the TRESTLE facility.
- Trindade Island UFO photographsPhotographs taken from a Brazilian Navy ship in 1958 of a ringed object.
- Truman's oral UFO briefingsPresident Truman reportedly asks for spoken-only quarterly briefings on UAP research, with no records kept.
- TRWA U.S. aerospace and defence contractor often named in UFO claims.
- TTSA Senate briefingsDeLonge says To The Stars spent 18 months briefing the Senate and committees.
- TTSA technical collaborations (2019)To The Stars announces technical collaborations with aerospace companies.
- TTSA–EarthTech contractsTo The Stars hires Puthoff's EarthTech to study potentially exotic materials.
- Twelve officials to study UFOs (1974)Puthoff relays that 12 senior officials have decided to focus on UAP study.
- Twin Falls saucer hoaxA homemade flying disc planted in an Idaho yard by teenagers in July 1947.
- Twining memo (1947)Gen. Nathan Twining writes that the flying discs are real and could be a secret U.S. or Soviet project.
- Two Roswell materials claim (2002)A general reportedly tells Eric Davis two unusual materials were recovered at Roswell.
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- U.S. Air ForceThe U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- U.S. NavyThe U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- UAP Disclosure ActA 2023 Senate proposal by Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds to release UAP records.
- UAP Task ForceThe Navy-led Pentagon task force on UAP set up in 2020.
- UFOs and NukesRobert Hastings's book on UFOs at nuclear sites.
- UFOs and Nukes press conferenceFormer military officers hold a press conference about UAP at nuclear weapons sites.
- UFOs: Past, Present, and Future documentaryTwo Air Force colonels reportedly encourage filmmakers to make a UAP documentary.
- UK Ministry of DefenceThe British defence department, which ran a UFO desk until 2009.
- Ultraterrestrial hypothesisThe idea that UAP come from an unknown intelligence on Earth.
- Ultraterrestrial hypothesis paperPuthoff releases a paper on the 'ultraterrestrial' hypothesis.
- Unacknowledged special access programA special access program whose very existence is not acknowledged.
- Unarius Academy of ScienceA UFO religious group founded in Los Angeles in 1954.
- Uncle's 1946–47 project claimA woman says her uncle worked on a 1946–47 government project linked to a crash.
- Underwater Tic Tac near HaitiA Navy sailor sees a Tic Tac-shaped object under the water near Haiti.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomenaThe U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying objectAn object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Unidentified: Inside America's UFO InvestigationA 2019 History channel series following Luis Elizondo and To The Stars Academy.
- United Nations decision 33/426A UN draft resolution to create a UAP study body fails; Hynek and Vallée speak at the UN.
- University of South Carolina gravity generatorUniversity of South Carolina scientists say they are developing a 'gravity generator'.
- Unmarked helicopter claim (1975)An Air Force officer says unmarked helicopters are sent to UAP-related sites.
- Uri GellerIsraeli psychic tested at SRI in the 1970s.
- Urner LiddelOffice of Naval Research physicist who said in 1951 that Skyhook balloons explained saucer reports.
- Urner Liddel's Skyhook balloon explanationA Navy physicist publicly says all UAP reports are mirages or balloons.
- USS Franklin D. Roosevelt sighting (1958)A Navy veteran says he saw an orange cigar-shaped object with figures inside near Cuba.
- USS John F. Kennedy encounter (1971)A Navy yeoman says the USS John F. Kennedy's systems failed during a UAP encounter in the Caribbean.
- USS Princeton data recordings claimUSS Princeton radar staff say two men took the Tic Tac encounter data recordings.
- USS Ronald Reagan orange orbUSS Ronald Reagan crew members report a fiery orange UAP above the deck.
- USS Russell drone swarm logsLogs from the USS Russell UAP incident are heavily redacted.
- Utsuro-buneA strange boat said to have washed ashore in Japan in 1803.
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- Val Johnson incidentA 1979 report by a Minnesota deputy that his patrol car was struck by a ball of light.
- Valdamar ValerianPseudonymous author of the Matrix books.
- Valdamar Valerian's Matrix booksA writer using a pseudonym publishes books claiming 'grey aliens' are involved in human affairs.
- Valensole UFO incidentA French farmer's 1965 report of a small craft and two beings in his lavender field.
- Vallée meets D'Amato on secret programs (1992)Vallée writes he met Senate counsel Dick D'Amato about secret programs.
- Vallée meets Kit Green (1974)Vallée meets Kit Green, who describes officials interested in UAP.
- Vallée on a contractor controlling the issue (2020)Vallée says a private contractor controls the UAP issue.
- Vallée on privatized UFO research (2002)Vallée writes that UFO research has likely been privatized in the U.S.
- Vallée on the disinformation campaign (1989)Vallée writes there is a large disinformation campaign around UAP.
- Vallée's 1979 conclusions on government involvementVallée says he is convinced the government still monitors UAP groups and stages false sightings.
- Vallée's doubts about Kit Green (1974)Vallée wonders whether his UAP talks with Kit Green are a CIA cover story.
- Vandenberg Space Force BaseThe California missile and space launch base.
- Vannevar BushWartime science leader named in the MJ-12 papers.
- Varginha UFO incidentThe 1996 Brazilian report of a strange creature, often called "Brazil's Roswell".
- Varo edition of The Case for the UFONavy researchers receive an annotated copy of Morris Jessup's UFO book with strange handwritten notes.
- Veritay propulsion report (1988)A contractor submits a propulsion report to the Air Force led by Franklin Mead.
- Victor MarchettiFormer CIA executive assistant who wrote about the agency's view of UFOs in 1979.
- Victor Marchetti's Second Look articleFormer CIA official Victor Marchetti writes that the government is hiding alien contact.
- Vietnam "enemy helicopters" and HMAS HobartA former analyst says some Vietnam-era 'enemy helicopters' were actually UAP.
- Voronezh UFO incidentA 1989 report by Soviet children of a landed craft and a three-eyed being.
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- Walter HautPublic information officer at Roswell Army Air Field who wrote the July 1947 "flying disc" press release and left a dis…
- Walter Haut sealed affidavitRoswell press officer Walter Haut's affidavit says his commander told him the base had recovered crash debris from a di…
- Walter RiedelGerman rocket engineer from Peenemünde who was a member of the Civilian Saucer Investigation group.
- Walter WebbInvestigator of the 1995 America West sighting.
- War Department denial of a U.S. disc program (1947)The War Department says it knows of no U.S. program that could explain the flying discs.
- Warrant officer and the crates of bodies (1953)A former Army warrant officer claims he saw crates of small humanoid bodies at Wright-Patterson.
- Washington, D.C. UFO incidentThe July 1952 radar and visual sightings over the U.S. capital.
- Weather balloonA balloon carrying weather instruments, used to explain the Roswell debris.
- Weitzel letter (1980)Air Force counterintelligence officer Richard Doty delivers a forged letter to a civilian UAP group.
- Wesley ClarkRetired general and 2004 presidential candidate who spoke about faster-than-light travel.
- Wesley Clark on faster-than-light travelGen. Wesley Clark says faster-than-light travel is possible.
- Westall UFO incidentThe April 1966 sighting by students and teachers at a Melbourne high school.
- Westwood on MJ-12 disinformation (2001)A consultant tells Vallée the MJ-12 documents are disinformation.
- Wheless memo on UFO impostors (1967)An Air Force memo warns of men in uniform telling UAP witnesses to stay silent.
- White SandsThe New Mexico missile test range.
- White Sands blown-window crash claim (1948)An anonymous source claims a disc crashed at White Sands with its occupants dead from a blown-out window.
- White Sands landing reports (1956)Unconfirmed reports describe a domed disc landing in front of personnel at White Sands.
- White Sands tracking-camera saucer claimA retired sergeant says tracking cameras recorded a saucer resting on the White Sands range.
- Whitley StrieberAuthor of Communion (1987) who has written about abduction experiences and childhood memories.
- Whitley Strieber's childhood memoriesAuthor Whitley Strieber says he may have been tested at a Texas air base during childhood encounters.
- Wilbert SmithCanadian radio engineer who ran Project Magnet and recorded talks with Robert Sarbacher.
- Wild Weasel UFO detections claimA former contractor tells Vallée Vietnam-era aircraft detected UAP with special equipment.
- Will MillerRetired Navy commander who discussed UFO secrecy with researchers.
- Will Miller on senior officials kept in the darkA retired Navy commander says senior officials are kept away from UAP knowledge.
- Will Miller's offer to Davis and PuthoffA retired Navy commander offers his services researching crash retrievals.
- Will Miller's secret groups claim (2020)Retired Navy commander Will Miller says he believes secret groups control advanced craft.
- William BlanchardRoswell base commander in 1947 who later became Air Force vice chief of staff.
- William ColemanFormer Air Force spokesman linked to official UFO policy and the 1974 Emenegger documentary.
- William MooreResearcher who admitted in 1989 that he cooperated with intelligence agents in the Bennewitz affair.
- William SteinmanResearcher who corresponded with Robert Sarbacher and Eric Walker.
- William TompkinsDouglas Aircraft draftsman who claimed late in life that he worked on a secret space program.
- William Tompkins and the Douglas documentsDocuments from engineer William Tompkins suggest Douglas studied unconventional propulsion.
- Wilson–Davis notesEric Davis allegedly meets Vice Adm. Thomas Wilson about a secret UAP program.
- Wingless Electromagnetic Air VehicleThe Air Force funds research on a wingless electromagnetic air vehicle.
- Witness to RoswellA 2007 book by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt.
- Wolfgang KlempererDouglas Aircraft missile engineer who led a 1954–55 study of unconventional propulsion.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force BaseThe Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
- Wright-Patterson guard and the tarp-covered craft (1952)A former guard is said to have seen a tarp-covered craft taken into a secure area at Wright-Patterson.
- Wycliffe WellAn outback roadhouse that called itself the UFO capital of Australia.
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- Zanfretta UFO incidentAn Italian night guard's 1978 report of tall beings and later abductions.
- Zecharia SitchinAuthor who claimed the Sumerians were created by aliens from the planet Nibiru.
- Zero-point energyThe lowest possible energy of a physical system, which some hope to tap for power.
- Zero-point field theory of inertia paper (1998)Puthoff and Lockheed researchers publish a paper on inertia and vacuum energy.
- Zurich AAWSAP meetingVallée meets possible AAWSAP partners in Zurich.
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