https://thephenomenonfiles.com/ New and updated UFO and UAP records: the Pentagon’s file releases, congressional hearings and the latest disclosure news, each linked to its sources. en Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-a-council-member-no-verifiable-evidence-yet https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-a-council-member-no-verifiable-evidence-yet Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT Michael Shermer, the Skeptic magazine publisher who sits on the administration’s UAP Science Advisory Council, writes in The Boston Globe that ‘so far, in my opinion, we have found no verifiable evidence’ of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. He says the council has met weekly since July, and that redactions in the released videos hide the distance, speed and size data needed to judge them. It is one member’s opinion; the council has issued no formal findings. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-nasa-wants-a-seat-at-the-table https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-nasa-wants-a-seat-at-the-table Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman tells NewsNation that NASA has been part of the administration’s UAP effort and that ‘if it’s aliens, I think NASA should have a seat at the table.’ He adds that natural phenomena or advanced human technology remain possible explanations. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-06.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-06.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War published 75 files at war.gov/UFO: 59 documents · 15 videos · 1 audio recording. Every one is listed with the government’s description and a link to the original. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-wormholes-tremonton-and-six-spheres https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-wormholes-tremonton-and-six-spheres Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT The sixth release adds about 71 files, including 37 AAWSAP research papers on topics such as warp drives and wormholes, which the Pentagon says does not mean the concepts were validated. It also includes the 1952 Tremonton, Utah film, Capt. Edward Ruppelt’s 1952 Blue Book briefing, and a 2025 military report of six spheres moving at about 480 mph. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-legal-relief-for-whistleblowers https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-legal-relief-for-whistleblowers Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War waives civil and administrative penalties under non-disclosure and special-access agreements for current and former personnel and contractors who share UAP information with the officials running the release effort. The waiver covers talking to those officials, not speaking publicly, and officials have not said it protects against criminal prosecution. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-aaro-turns-to-a-private-archive https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-aaro-turns-to-a-private-archive Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMT AARO moves to buy access to the National UFO Historic Records Center, a New Mexico nonprofit that holds astronomer J. Allen Hynek’s papers and early civilian research files. A Pentagon official says AARO needs the older records to finish its required review of government UAP involvement since 1945. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-05.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-05.html Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War published 41 files at war.gov/UFO: 22 documents · 16 videos · 3 images. Every one is listed with the government’s description and a link to the original. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-gunship-video-from-the-gulf-of-oman https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-gunship-video-from-the-gulf-of-oman Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT The fifth release adds 41 files, including six videos from a 2021 AC-130J gunship mission whose report describes about 25 objects moving at an estimated 250–1,300 mph, and a pilot’s account of a roughly 500-foot triangle over Bagram, Afghanistan, in 2002. The Pentagon lists these as unresolved cases, not confirmed anomalies. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-the-house-backs-a-uap-records-board https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-the-house-backs-a-uap-records-board Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT The House adopts Rep. Eric Burlison’s UAP Disclosure Act as an amendment to the FY2027 defense bill, then passes the bill 216–212. The amendment would create an independent, Senate-confirmed review board with subpoena power and extend disclosure rules to government contractors. The Senate has not passed its version, so the provision is not yet law. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-04.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-04.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War published 40 files at war.gov/UFO: 19 videos · 14 documents · 4 audio recordings · 3 images. Every one is listed with the government’s description and a link to the original. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-aaros-fy2025-report https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-aaros-fy2025-report Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT Months after its legal deadline, AARO publishes its annual report: 319 new reports, and 370 cases resolved — all to ordinary causes. It says AARO held 1,870 reports as of May 30, 2025, and moved 191 of the new ones to an inactive archive for lack of data. It again says it has found no evidence of recovered UAP material. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-a-science-council-for-uap https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-a-science-council-for-uap Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb announces a UAP Science Advisory Council of about a dozen outside scientists to advise the government on resolving UAP cases. An intelligence official confirmed the council to DefenseScoop, saying it supports a new UAP governance board set up by ODNI, the FBI and the Pentagon. Members include the well-known skeptic Michael Shermer; some scientists have criticized the selection. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-03.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-03.html Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War published 72 files at war.gov/UFO: 53 documents · 10 images · 6 videos · 3 audio recordings. Every one is listed with the government’s description and a link to the original. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-02.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-02.html Fri, 22 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War published 64 files at war.gov/UFO: 51 videos · 7 audio recordings · 6 documents. Every one is listed with the government’s description and a link to the original. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-01.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/pursue-files/release-01.html Fri, 08 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT The Department of War published 158 files at war.gov/UFO: 116 documents · 27 videos · 14 images · 1 audio recording. Every one is listed with the government’s description and a link to the original. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-the-president-orders-release https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2026-the-president-orders-release Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMT In a Truth Social post, President Trump says he will direct the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and other agencies to ‘begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life’, UAP and UFOs. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2025-the-fy2026-defense-bill https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2025-the-fy2026-defense-bill Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT The annual defense law again leaves out the full UAP Disclosure Act, but requires briefings on U.S. and Canadian military intercepts of unidentified objects over North America since 2004, and directs AARO to account for UAP security classification guides. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/uap-transparency-whistleblower-hearing-2025.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/uap-transparency-whistleblower-hearing-2025.html Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMT The September 2025 House task force hearing on UAP transparency and whistleblowers, where Rep. Burlison played a video of a Hellfire missile hitting an orb. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2025-the-age-of-disclosure https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2025-the-age-of-disclosure Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMT A documentary featuring 34 current and former U.S. government, military and intelligence officials premieres at SXSW on March 9 and reaches Prime Video and theaters on November 21, bringing the insider testimony to a mass audience. In Congress, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets takes up UAP. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2024-aaro-1-652-reports https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2024-aaro-1-652-reports Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:00:00 GMT AARO’s annual report says it received 757 new reports in a year, bringing its total to 1,652. Most were resolved as ordinary objects or archived for lack of data; 21 were flagged as meriting further analysis due to anomalous characteristics. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/exposing-the-truth-uap-hearing-2024.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/exposing-the-truth-uap-hearing-2024.html Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:00:00 GMT The November 2024 ‘Exposing the Truth’ hearing with Elizondo, Gallaudet, Shellenberger and Gold, and the ‘Immaculate Constellation’ report the Pentagon denied. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2024-the-new-jersey-drone-wave https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2024-the-new-jersey-drone-wave Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:00:00 GMT Weeks of sightings of large drone-like objects over New Jersey and the East Coast spark national alarm and temporary FAA flight restrictions. Officials later say most were authorized drones, aircraft or misidentifications. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2024-aaros-historical-report https://thephenomenonfiles.com/timeline/#t-2024-aaros-historical-report Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:00:00 GMT AARO’s Volume 1 historical review finds ‘no evidence’ that any U.S. government investigation has confirmed extraterrestrial technology, or that a secret reverse-engineering program exists. Supporters of disclosure call the report incomplete. A promised second volume has not been released as of October 2026. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/grusch-graves-fravor-uap-hearing-2023.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/grusch-graves-fravor-uap-hearing-2023.html Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:00:00 GMT The July 2023 House hearing where David Grusch alleged a secret UAP crash-retrieval program, alongside Navy aviators Ryan Graves and David Fravor. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/senate-aaro-uap-hearing-2023.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/senate-aaro-uap-hearing-2023.html Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:00:00 GMT AARO director Sean Kirkpatrick’s April 2023 Senate testimony: 650 cases, no credible evidence of alien technology, and two declassified MQ-9 videos. https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/house-intelligence-uap-hearing-2022.html https://thephenomenonfiles.com/hearings/house-intelligence-uap-hearing-2022.html Tue, 17 May 2022 16:00:00 GMT The May 2022 House Intelligence hearing, the first open UAP hearing in over 50 years: Pentagon officials Moultrie and Bray on 400 reports and 11 near misses.