Government UAP archives, country by country
Every state-run UAP/UFO investigation program with a public archive — what it is, where its files live, and how to read them at the primary source. France's GEIPAN remains the working standard against which other programs are usually measured; the UK MoD release of 2008-2017 remains the single largest one-off declassification. Japan's parliamentary caucus is the program currently moving fastest.
We link directly to each agency's official archive page. Where a primary source is known to rot, we add a backup mirror and note who hosts it. Curated, not auto-generated.
United States
Dedicated pillarsU.S. agencies are catalogued individually elsewhere on the site — each has its own dedicated pillar with the full release record:
- AAROAll-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Statutorily established 2022. The DoD/DoW office consolidating U.S. UAP investigation across all domains.
- ODNIOffice of the Director of National Intelligence — UAP reports
Annual unclassified UAP reports to Congress (2021 preliminary assessment, 2022 annual, ongoing).
- DoWDepartment of War (formerly Department of Defense)
All DoD/DoW releases, hearings, and statements on UAP — the largest single U.S. source.
- Congressional UAP hearings
House and Senate hearings on UAP — Oversight 2023, House Oversight 2024 'Eyes Wide Open', and continuing.
- FOIA-released UAP documents
FBI vault, Project Blue Book, NICAP, and other materials released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Active programs
Government bodies currently investigating UAP, accepting reports, or publishing case files.
- 🇫🇷France· 1977 → present
GEIPAN — Groupe d'Études et d'Informations sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés
Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES)France's national space agency operates the world's most transparent state-run UAP investigation program. Every case GEIPAN logs — pilot reports, radar contacts, civilian sightings — is published to a public, searchable database with witness statements, investigator notes, and a final disposition.
View archive →3 landmark documents - 🇯🇵Japan· 2020 → present
MoD — Ministry of Defense — UAP response framework
Ministry of Defense / Cabinet Office Crisis ManagementJapan's UAP track is the program currently moving fastest. The Ministry of Defense entered the modern record in April 2020 when then-Defense Minister Tarō Kōno issued reporting procedures for Self-Defense Forces aircrew. A bipartisan Diet caucus has since pushed past the MoD: in March 2026 it formally proposed a dedicated UAP body under the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management — Japan's clearest move yet toward an AARO-equivalent.
View archive →4 landmark documents - 🇨🇱Chile· 1997 → present
SEFAA — Sección de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (formerly CEFAA, 1997-2022)
Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC)Chile's national UAP investigation body — established 1997 as CEFAA and restructured / renamed SEFAA in 2022 — sits inside the civil aviation authority. The most widely cited South American program alongside France's GEIPAN as a model of methodologically rigorous, openly published state UAP investigation. SEFAA publishes quarterly case reports.
View archive →2 landmark documents - 🇵🇪Peru· 2001 → present
DIFAA — Departamento de Investigación de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos
Fuerza Aérea del Perú (FAP)DIFAA was created in 2001 within the Peruvian Air Force, dissolved in 2008, and reactivated in 2013. Its purpose is to investigate UAP reports involving Peruvian airspace and aircraft, working alongside the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
View archive →1 landmark document - 🇺🇾Uruguay· 1979 → present
CRIDOVNI — Comisión Receptora e Investigadora de Denuncias de Objetos Voladores No Identificados
Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya (FAU)CRIDOVNI is the longest continuously operating military UAP investigation body in South America, founded in 1979 inside the Uruguayan Air Force. Its case archive is one of the few state-run UFO records in the region with formally published statistical summaries.
View archive →1 landmark document - 🇦🇷Argentina· 2011 → present
CEFAe — Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales
Fuerza Aérea ArgentinaCEFAe is Argentina's official UAP investigation commission, created in 2011 within the Argentine Air Force. Its purpose is to evaluate reports involving the country's airspace through a panel of military officers and civilian scientific advisors.
View archive →1 landmark document
Historical programs and declassified archives
Closed or dormant programs whose files have been transferred to national archives or released under FOI processes.
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom· 1950-2009
MoD — Ministry of Defence UFO Desk
Ministry of DefenceThe UK Ministry of Defence ran a continuous UFO investigation desk from 1950 to 2009. After the desk closed, the MoD released roughly 60,000 pages of files to the National Archives in batches between 2008 and 2017, making it one of the largest single-state UFO disclosures on record.
View archive →3 landmark documents - 🇧🇷Brazil· 1977-1978
FAB — Força Aérea Brasileira — Operação Prato and FOI releases
Força Aérea BrasileiraBrazil ran one of the most actively documented military UAP operations of the 20th century: Operação Prato (Operation Saucer), a four-month 1977-78 Air Force investigation into 'chupa-chupa' incidents in the Pará region of the Amazon. The full file was declassified in 2005 and released to the National Archives.
View archive →3 landmark documents - 🇨🇦Canada· 1950-1954
Project Magnet and Canadian UFO records
Department of Transport / Library and Archives CanadaProject Magnet was a small Department of Transport study (1950-54) led by senior radio engineer Wilbert B. Smith — Canada's official, government-funded UFO research program. The full Magnet correspondence and the broader DND/RCMP UFO holdings are now available through Library and Archives Canada.
View archive →3 landmark documents - 🇦🇺Australia· 1950-1996
RAAF — Royal Australian Air Force UFO records
Royal Australian Air Force / National Archives of AustraliaThe Royal Australian Air Force formally collected and investigated UFO reports from 1950 until 1996. The records — covering pilot reports, radar contacts, and citizen sightings across the Cold War — are now in the National Archives of Australia and can be searched directly through RecordSearch.
View archive →2 landmark documents - 🇳🇿New Zealand· 1952-1984
NZDF — New Zealand Defence Force UFO files
New Zealand Defence Force / Archives New ZealandThe New Zealand Defence Force released its full UFO archive — roughly 2,000 pages covering 1952 to 1984 — to Archives New Zealand in December 2010. The release includes the famous 1978 Kaikoura lights radar/visual case investigated by RNZAF.
View archive →2 landmark documents - 🇪🇸Spain· 1962-1992
Ejército del Aire — OVNI declassification programme
Ejército del Aire (Spanish Air Force)Between 1992 and 1999 the Spanish Air Force progressively declassified its complete OVNI (UFO) archive — close to 2,000 pages covering 80+ cases from 1962 to 1995 — making Spain the first NATO state to release its full military UFO record.
View archive →1 landmark document - 🇸🇪Sweden· 1946
Swedish Armed Forces — Ghost Rockets and modern UAP records
Försvarsmakten (Swedish Armed Forces)Sweden's official UAP record begins with the 1946 'ghost rockets' wave — more than 2,000 reports of unidentified projectile-like objects over Scandinavia in the months immediately after WWII. The Swedish Defence Staff investigation file, declassified in stages from the 1980s, remains the most-cited Northern European UAP archive.
View archive →1 landmark document - 🇩🇰Denmark· 1978-2009
Royal Danish Air Force UFO archive
Forsvaret (Danish Defence)The Royal Danish Air Force released its full UFO archive — approximately 329 pages covering 1978-2002 — to the public in January 2009, in cooperation with the Scandinavian UFO Information association.
View archive →1 landmark document - 🇷🇺Russia· 1978-1991
Soviet 'Setka' UAP study programme
Soviet Ministry of Defence / Academy of SciencesSetka-AN (Academy of Sciences) and Setka-MO (Ministry of Defence) were a coordinated 13-year Soviet research effort into anomalous aerial phenomena, running from 1978 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The programme produced a structured archive of military and academic case reports that has been partially released through post-Soviet researchers.
View archive →1 landmark document
Editorial note: this catalog covers state-run programs with a public archival output. Civilian organisations (MUFON, NICAP, CUFOS, GEPAN-equivalents in private hands) are out of scope here — they appear in event citations and on individual case pages instead.