3 events in the archive
Every documented UAP event from 1996 in the Disclosure Archives record — hearings, document releases, official reports, named witness testimony, and major civilian sightings. Sorted newest to oldest within the year; each entry links to a primary source.
This report describes the Modeling of Unlikely Space-Booster Failures in Risk Calculations, documenting historical launch failure modes and recommending corrective actions to address them using novel modelling techniques.
The Deseret News publishes Terry and Gwen Sherman's account of eighteen months of unexplained phenomena on their Uintah Basin ranch — lights, orbs, and cattle deaths. Within months, Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science purchases the property and stations scientists on it, beginning the longest-running instrumented field study of a single site in UAP history.
Three young women in Varginha, Brazil report encountering a small creature with brown skin and large red eyes in a vacant lot. Claims of a military capture operation follow, the Brazilian Army attributes the reports to a misidentified local man, and the case becomes the most prominent — and most contested — UAP event in Brazilian history.