Every documented UAP event from 2025 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.
Physicists at the University at Albany, New York, have announced the launch of UAlbany Project X (UAPx), a formally endowed, university-backed scientific research program dedicated to the long-term study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). The initiative is led by professors Kevin Knuth, Matthew Szydagis, and Cecilia Levy, and was made possible by a multi-year endowment gift from Albany-area businessman Tony Gorman, which the team states will fund operations for at least five years and support the program in perpetuity thereafter. The project was officially launched in November 2025 and was reported by The Debrief on December 2, 2025.
UAlbany Project X is described as the direct academic continuation of the original nonprofit UAPx organization, which conducted a 2021 field expedition over the Santa Catalina Channel — the site of the 2004 USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" encounter — collecting optical, infrared, and other sensor data. That expedition's findings were subsequently published in the peer-reviewed journal Progress in Aerospace Sciences in 2025, co-authored by Szydagis, Knuth, and Levy. The new university program plans to expand data collection using camera arrays, diffraction gratings for spectral analysis, and magnetic and electric field instrumentation, while also increasing peer-reviewed publication output. Physicist Eric W. Davis has been named as a volunteer adjunct researcher in an advisory capacity.
A first-person USPER narrative published as the centerpiece of PURSUE Release 02 by a currently-serving senior U.S. intelligence officer who describes 'a series of close UAP encounters lasting over an hour' from a U.S. military helicopter in late 2025: two oval orange-with-white-center orbs stationary just above the rotor disk, a swarm of smaller orbs forming a triangular pattern, and a fighter scramble in which the same orbs trailed the responding jets.
The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) convened a private workshop in August 2025 in the Washington, D.C., area to address the standardization of UAP data collection, management, and analysis. The event was coordinated by AARO and hosted by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), and brought together participants from government agencies, academic institutions, and civilian research organizations. A white paper detailing the workshop's proceedings and recommendations was published on AARO's official website in February 2026 and was subsequently reported by The Debrief on February 26, 2026.
The workshop represents a notable shift in AARO's posture under current director Dr. Jon T. Kosloski compared to the more security-focused, limited-engagement approach of AARO's inaugural director, Sean M. Kirkpatrick. Key recommendations produced by the workshop included the development of standardized metadata templates incorporating AI tools with human oversight, open-ended public narrative reporting mechanisms, and the release of de-identified public UAP data to reduce stigma and build trust. Department of War spokesperson Sue Gough confirmed to The Debrief that AARO intends to use public reports to enhance UAP trend analysis, though no timeline was given for a public reporting mechanism.
The United States Africa Command submitted a report of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) consisting of two seconds of video footage from an infrared sensor aboard a U.S
A U.S. military operator reported observing two “white hot UAPs.” The reporter estimated the UAP’s speed as approximately 240 nautical miles per hour (276 mph). All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
On April 27, 2025, The Debrief published an op-ed by Sean Munger — an attorney and former United States Marine Corps intelligence analyst — introducing a proposed legislative framework called the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Registration Act (UAPRA). Munger argues that the UAPRA offers a more effective and transparent path to UAP disclosure than the existing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA), which was co-introduced by Senators Mike Rounds and Charles Schumer but has twice failed to become law in its intended form.
Munger contends that the UAPDA, as currently structured, centralizes control of UAP-related materials within the Executive Branch through a nine-person review board, replicating the opacity it ostensibly seeks to remedy. The UAPRA, by contrast, would require private and government entities to register and submit to inspection of any non-human intelligence (NHI) materials or biological evidence in their possession, embedding oversight within existing regulatory structures rather than creating a new executive-controlled body. Munger draws parallels to established regulatory regimes governing nuclear, pharmaceutical, and aviation industries, and argues the UAPRA would balance national security interests with public transparency while also generating taxable economic activity.
This document is email correspondence describing the content of a mission report and requesting clarification on its content. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon published an op-ed in The Debrief on April 5, 2025, arguing that the Department of Defense is improperly withholding a large volume of unclassified UAP imagery from Congress and the public. Mellon contends that a restrictive classification guide created by the DoD's UAP Task Force — developed in the aftermath of the 2017–2018 Navy UAP video releases — has been applied to material that does not legitimately qualify for classification under Executive Order 13526, and that no official at DoD or in the Intelligence Community has been designated to advocate for or execute the release of unclassified UAP information.
Mellon's piece is directed at Representative Anna Paulina Luna's Congressional Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, as well as the broader Trump administration, urging both to compel a review and release of unclassified UAP videos held by military and intelligence agencies. He references specific prior commitments — including a 2022 pledge by Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray before the House Intelligence Committee — that have not resulted in any meaningful public disclosures beyond a handful of videos on the AARO website. Mellon also notes an encouraging development: AARO, under the direction of Dr. Jon Kosloski, has agreed to locate and submit for declassification review a specific F-18 UAP video he recalled from years prior.