Anchor incidents include the 11 November 2014 El Bosque/CEFAA Chile case (helicopter FLIR recording released by the Chilean Air Force's UAP unit), the East Coast Navy incursions of 2014–2015 (reported by Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-11 and others), the December 2017 NYT story, and the 2019 Navy reporting-pipeline reform that formalised UAP incident submission and ATFLIR data preservation.
The 2010s is also when the academic literature begins to engage. Wendt and Duvall's 'Sovereignty and the UFO' had appeared in Political Theory in 2008; through the 2010s the political-theory, IR, religious-studies, and history-of-science treatments multiply (Eghigian 2014, 2017; Pasulka 2019; Dodd 2018). The peer-reviewed physics treatment opens with Knuth et al. 2019 ('Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles', Entropy).
Why this matters. The 2010s is when the modern public UAP record stops being a curiosity and becomes a research domain. The institutional infrastructure of UAPTF and AARO that defines the 2020s is impossible without the 2017 NYT story, which is impossible without the 2004 Tic Tac.