About this project

Disclosure Archives is a public database of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — the contemporary term for what was historically called UFO activity. It catalogs government hearings, declassified documents, official reports, named witness testimony, and the major sightings that produced them. Coverage is international: U.S. material from AARO, ODNI, the Department of War, Congress, and NASA sits alongside the foreign government records that have shaped the global record — France's GEIPAN, the UK MoD release, Japan's evolving disclosure track, the Latin American air-force programs (CEFAA, DIFAA, CRIDOVNI, CEFAe), and the major historical archives in Brazil, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Northern Europe.

The site exists to make the public UAP record easier to find, cite, and compare. Each entry is dated, sourced, and linked to its primary source — congressional transcripts, agency publications, declassified documents, and official statements. Journalists, researchers, congressional staff, and members of the public are the intended audience.

Coverage spans 1947 to the present. New entries are added as official sources publish them; an automated monitor checks AARO News, Department of War releases, ODNI publications, congressional UAP hearings, NASA UAP outputs, and related primary sources daily.

There are five primary surfaces, each tuned to a different way of asking the same question:

• Timeline — every event in chronological order. The default entry point.
• Globe — a 3D world view with two coexisting layers: every event placed at its incident location, and every official UAP-investigation agency placed at its headquarters. Click an event marker for the case file; click an agency marker to jump to its archive.
• Government archives — the official-program hub. State-run UAP investigation bodies organised by country, with direct links to each agency's primary-source archive. The U.S. agencies (AARO, ODNI, DoW, congressional hearings, FOIA) each have their own dedicated pillar pages and are linked from the hub's United States panel.
• Witnesses and Locations — the cross-cut indexes. Useful when you're chasing one named source or one geographic cluster across many events.
• Library — the canonical books cited across the site. Insider accounts, long-form investigations, and the standard secondary references for the modern record.

The topical pillar pages — AARO releases, ODNI UAP reports, Department of War files, Congressional hearings, and others — auto-aggregate the timeline by source. They function as standing reference pages on a single agency or programme.

Disclosure Archives is a primary-source-first publication. Every entry is built around a verifiable public record: a congressional transcript, an agency document, a FOIA release, an official press statement, or a named, on-the-record witness account. Secondary reporting is used to add context, never as a sole factual basis.

Witness statements are presented as claims, attributed to the person making them and dated to when they were made. Speculation is named as speculation; analysis is labelled as analysis (see the Briefings section). The site's epistemic-class taxonomy — visible on every entry — communicates the evidentiary weight of each record at a glance. Read the taxonomy →

Where multiple sources disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than papered over. Anonymous sourcing is avoided. AI tooling is used for monitoring, transcription, and document triage; every published entry is reviewed by an editor before it goes live.

Disclosure Archives does not pay sources, accept gifts from subjects of coverage, or grant pre-publication review to anyone named in the record. Affiliate revenue (Amazon Associates, Bookshop.org) is disclosed inline on the pages where it appears and never influences which sources, witnesses, or books are covered. The editorial team writes about books on the merits of the books themselves; the affiliate links exist because we are recommending books readers would otherwise have to find on their own.

Where a story is about a member of government, a military officer, or an agency contractor, the relevant office or individual is given an opportunity to comment before publication when feasible. Where a public record is the basis of the entry, we publish on the strength of the record itself.

Three kinds of material are prioritised:

1. Official government documents and statements — congressional transcripts, AARO releases, ODNI annual reports, agency FOIA disclosures, foreign government publications.
2. On-the-record witness testimony from named individuals with verifiable institutional positions — pilots, intelligence officers, scientists, elected officials.
3. Long-running historical case files where a contemporaneous primary-source paper trail exists in a public archive.

Anonymous claims, unsourced rumours, and material that cannot be tied to a verifiable public record are not catalogued, even when they are widely discussed.

Disclosure Archives is owned and operated by Theophilus Ventures LLC, an independent holding company. The site has no investors, no institutional backers, and no government funding. Operating costs are covered by a combination of display advertising (delivered through Ezoic), affiliate commissions (Amazon Associates, Bookshop.org — disclosed on every page where they appear), and direct reader support. None of these revenue sources have editorial input.

The site is not affiliated with any government agency, contractor, advocacy organisation, or research institute.

Disclosure Archives is edited and published from the United States. The newsroom operates as a single editorial voice; contributing reporting, transcription review, and translation work are credited inline on the entries where they apply. Editorial enquiries — corrections, source verification, missed coverage — go to editor@disclosurearchives.com.

UAP coverage has historically been dominated by U.S. military and intelligence sources, which over-represent one set of cultural, professional, and national perspectives. Disclosure Archives actively works to widen the record: international government programs (France, UK, Japan, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others) are catalogued with the same weight as the U.S. material, and witnesses from outside the military-intelligence complex — scientists, pilots, indigenous observers, journalists — are included on the same evidentiary terms.

Where the U.S. or another government has issued a public statement, the entry quotes that statement and links to the underlying document. Government work products of the United States are in the public domain in the United States. Foreign government materials and third-party imagery are used under the relevant fair-use or licensing terms, with credit lines on every photograph or video where required. Each agency entry on the Government archives hub links direct to the primary-source archive on the issuing government's own site; where a primary URL is known to rot, a secondary mirror is named and credited.

To suggest a primary source, a corrected detail, or a missing event for inclusion, email tips@disclosurearchives.com. Tips are read by an editor and verified against publicly available records before publication. We will not publish unverifiable claims and we do not publish material that identifies confidential sources without their consent.

To report a factual error, write to corrections@disclosurearchives.com. Substantive corrections are made promptly and the change is recorded on the relevant entry with the date of correction. Material errors of fact result in a visible correction note; minor copy edits do not. Where an entry is significantly revised after publication, its last updated date reflects the revision.