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January
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March
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May
- 1950McMinnville (Trent) photographs
- 1955Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
- 1967Falcon Lake incident (Stefan Michalak)
- 1977France's CNES creates GEPAN
- 1980Peruvian Air Force intercept at La Joya
- 1986Brazil's 'Official UFO Night'
- 1989Bob Lazar interview on KLAS-TV
- 2006UK Project Condign report released
- 2008UK begins releasing MoD UFO files
- 2019NYT: 'Wow, What Is That?' Navy pilots report unexplained objects
- 202160 Minutes: 'UFOs regularly spotted in restricted U.S. airspace'
- 2022First public UAP hearing in decades
June
July
- 1946Swedish ghost rockets and the Lake Kolmjarv impact
- 1947Roswell debris recovery
- 1948Chiles-Whitted Eastern Air Lines sighting
- 1952Washington, D.C. radar sightings
- 1952Samford press conference on the D.C. sightings
- 1957RB-47 radar and electronic intercept case
- 1968House symposium on UFOs
- 2021Harvard's Galileo Project launched
- 2022AARO established
- 2023Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act introduced
- 2023David Grusch testifies
August
September
- 1947Twining memo calls flying discs 'something real'
- 1961Betty and Barney Hill encounter
- 1965Exeter, New Hampshire sightings
- 1976Tehran jet intercept
- 1993The X-Files premieres on Fox
- 1994Air Force report attributes Roswell debris to Project Mogul
- 1994Ariel School sighting, Ruwa, Zimbabwe
- 1996Bigelow buys the Sherman ranch
- 1997Sturrock scientific review panel (Pocantico)
- 2008DIA awards the AAWSAP contract
- 2023NASA UAP study team publishes its report
- 2025House Oversight task force UAP hearing
October
November
- 1953Kinross F-89 disappearance
- 1957Levelland, Texas sightings
- 1975Travis Walton disappearance
- 1977Close Encounters of the Third Kind premieres
- 1979Manises incident: airliner diverts, Spanish Air Force Mirage scrambled
- 1986JAL Flight 1628
- 1989Belgian UFO wave begins
- 2004USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac'
- 2006O'Hare Airport sighting
- 2024House hearing: Elizondo, Gallaudet, Gold, Shellenberger
- 2024AARO FY2024 consolidated annual report
December
- 1947Project Sign begins
- 1969Blue Book shuts down
- 1978Kaikoura lights, New Zealand
- 1980Rendlesham Forest incident
- 1980Cash-Landrum incident
- 1981Hessdalen lights wave
- 2009UK Ministry of Defence closes its UFO desk
- 2017AATIP revealed by the New York Times
- 2021FY2022 NDAA writes a permanent UAP office and annual reports into law
- 2023FY2024 NDAA creates the National Archives UAP Records Collection