Every U.S. Department of War release, hearing, and official statement on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), in chronological order. Each entry links back to the primary government source.
The Department of War — the cabinet department known until 2025 as the Department of Defense — is the single largest U.S. government source of UAP-related material. That includes releases from the Office of the Secretary, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the service branches (Air Force, Navy, Army, Space Force), and the various Combatant Commands.
This hub aggregates every event in Disclosure Archives whose primary source is the DoD or its successor. New entries appear here automatically as soon as they're published in our database.
Why we maintain it. The volume of UAP material from the DoD/DoW has grown sharply since the 2017 NYT/Pentagon AATIP story, the 2020 release of three Navy FLIR videos, the 2022 establishment of AARO, and the 2024 House Oversight 'Eyes Wide Open' hearing. AARO alone now publishes annual transparency reports to Congress. Cataloging this systematically, with primary-source citations, is more useful than any single press write-up.
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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office releases the first volume of its congressionally directed historical record of U.S. government involvement with UAP. The 63-page report concludes that no verifiable evidence has been found of extraterrestrial technology in U.S. government possession.
The Pentagon publicly releases three U.S. Navy gun-camera videos — 'FLIR1' (2004), 'GIMBAL' (2015), and 'GO FAST' (2015) — and confirms that the objects depicted remain unidentified. The release marks the first formal U.S. government acknowledgment of authentic military UAP imagery.
F/A-18F crews assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 11, operating from Naval Air Station Oceana, report routine encounters with UAP off the U.S. East Coast. Two of the three Pentagon-released videos — 'GIMBAL' and 'GO FAST' — are recorded during this period.
Aircrews from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group report repeated radar contacts and a daylight visual encounter with a small, white, smooth, Tic Tac–shaped object during a training exercise in the Pacific. One of three Pentagon videos later released by the Department of Defense (FLIR1) documents a portion of the event.
The Roswell Army Air Field public information officer issues a press release stating that the 509th Bomb Group has come into possession of a 'flying disc' recovered from a nearby ranch. Within twenty-four hours the Army retracts the statement and identifies the debris as a weather balloon.
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