Eight decades of the public UAP record, indexed end-to-end.
From the 1944 foo fighters and the 1947 Roswell incident through the May 2026 Department of War PURSUE Release 01. Each decade page sets the historical frame, names the anchor incidents, and lists every event in the database from that period.
The 1940s
The decade the modern UAP record begins. From foo fighters over the European and Pacific theatres in 1944–45, through the 1946 Scandinavian ghost-rocket wave, Kenneth Arnold's June 1947 Mount Rainier sighting, the July 1947 Roswell incident, and the establishment of Project Sign at Wright-Patterson in 1948.
The 1950s
The Cold War decade. Project Blue Book opens at Wright-Patterson in 1952; the Robertson Panel reviews the UFO problem for the CIA in January 1953; UFO objects are tracked by air-traffic-control radar over the National Capital Region during the July 1952 Washington flap.
The 1960s
The decade Project Blue Book ends. The Air Force commissioned the University of Colorado UFO Project — the 'Condon Report' — in 1966 to provide the scientific cover for closing Blue Book. The report was delivered in January 1969 and Blue Book was terminated on 17 December 1969.
The 1970s
The decade the international record opens. France's GEPAN is established in 1977 within CNES, becoming the world's first state-run UFO investigation programme to publish its files. Brazil's Operação Prato investigates the Amazonian 'chupa-chupa' wave in the same year.
The 1980s
The decade the cabinet-level acknowledgment arrives. On 23 May 1986 Brazil's Minister of Aeronautics holds a formal press conference acknowledging the unresolved 19–20 May 1986 radar/visual engagement — the only on-the-record, real-time, cabinet-level military UAP acknowledgment in the modern record.
The 1990s
The decade closes with two enduring landmarks: the 1997 Phoenix Lights — the most widely witnessed UAP event in modern American history — and the publication of the COMETA report in France in 1999 by a panel of retired generals and aerospace officials.
The 2000s
The decade the modern military record begins. On 14 November 2004 Cmdr. David Fravor and Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich, flying F/A-18Fs from the USS Nimitz strike group, intercept what the USS Princeton's radar had been tracking for several weeks — the Tic Tac. The Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) opens at the request of Sen. Harry Reid in 2007.
The 2010s
The decade modern disclosure begins. The Navy's 2014–2015 east-coast incursions produce the GIMBAL and GO FAST sensor recordings; the December 2017 New York Times investigation by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean reveals AATIP and names Luis Elizondo as its director.
The 2020s
The decade the institutional record consolidates. The April 2020 release of FLIR1, GIMBAL, and GO FAST; the June 2021 ODNI Preliminary Assessment; the July 2022 establishment of AARO under Section 1683 of the FY2022 NDAA; the July 2023 Grusch–Fravor–Graves House Oversight hearing; the November 2024 'Eyes Wide Open' hearing; and the May 2026 PURSUE Release 01.