UFO/UAP Event Archive

Significant UFO & UAP Events

A curated index of major UFO and UAP events, sightings, and disclosure milestones, cross-referenced with video testimonies and experiencer profiles from the archive.

663 events8 categories19392026
March 17, 1986Congressional

Joint Resolution for Open UFO Landing

The resolution urges all powers of outer space to give advanced notice to the media of their arrival.

1 video
1984Congressional

Protocol of Cooperation between the Portuguese Air Force and Civilian Researchers

It was absolutely unique for the time and even today.

1 video
1980-12-29Military Encounter

Cash-Landrum Incident

Piney Woods, Texas

Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum encountered a diamond-shaped object emitting intense heat on a Texas road. All three suffered radiation-like symptoms requiring hospitalization.

2 videos3 contactees3 witnesses
1980-09-01Congressional

Parliament discussion on the Menace incident

The sighting was dismissed as a series of freak optical illusions.

1 video
1980-12-26Military Encounter

Rendlesham Forest Incident

Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England

Over two nights, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge reported seeing strange lights and a triangular craft in Rendlesham Forest. Deputy base commander Lt. Col. Charles Halt recorded observations on audio tape.

2 videos3 contactees
1979Congressional

Schmidt Conference on Cattle Mutilations

The status of our intelligence community right now is such that something of this nature would not stay secret very long.

1 video
1978-10Congressional

UFO Hearing at the United Nations

This was the only truly official UFO event at the United Nations.

1 video
1978Congressional

UN General Assembly Decision 33426

What is missing so far is a UN member nation to introduce the implementing resolution.

1 video
1977-09-12Unclassified

Ground Saucer Watch vs. CIA

We could be on the verge of gaining insight into UFOs that few individuals ever had.

1 video
March 17, 1977Congressional

House Resolution 151

The Puerto Rican people have a right to know the truth about this matter.

1 video
1977Congressional

Establishment of JAPON

The French government established the JAPON group in 1977 to study unidentified aerospace phenomena.

1 video
1977Unclassified

Alternative 3 Documentary

This fiction was in part based on solid evidence that Alternatives 1, 2, and 3 were seriously proposed programs.

1 video
1976-09-19Military Encounter

Tehran UFO Incident

Tehran, Iran

Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets were scrambled to intercept a bright object over Tehran. Pilots reported instrument malfunctions and weapons system failures when approaching the object.

1975Congressional

Senator Floyd Haskell's letter to the FBI regarding cattle mutilations

It seems to have progressed little except for the recognition at long last that the incidents must be taken seriously.

1 video
1975-11-05Abduction

Travis Walton Abduction

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona

Logger Travis Walton was allegedly struck by a beam of light from a hovering craft and disappeared for five days. Six coworkers witnessed the event and passed polygraph tests.

7 videos1 contactee7 witnesses
1974Congressional

Privacy Act Amendments

The Privacy Act amendments give somebody the right to see government records about themselves.

1 video
1973-10-11Abduction

Pascagoula Abduction

Pascagoula, Mississippi

Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being taken aboard an egg-shaped craft by robotic-looking beings while fishing on the Pascagoula River.

7 videos1 contactee2 witnesses
1968Congressional

House Committee on Sciences and Astronautics Symposium on UFOs

The Congress should investigate the rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects.

1 video
1968-07-29Congressional

House Science and Astronautics Committee Symposium on UFOs

UFOs are probably extraterrestrial devices engaged in something that might very tentatively be termed surveillance.

1 video
1968-07-29Congressional

Symposium on UFOs

We recommend that Congress create an interdisciplinary mobile task force.

1 video
1966-04-05Congressional

House Armed Services Committee Meeting

The limited Project Blue Book staff did not possess the technical competence to properly identify the phenomena.

1 video
1966Congressional

Freedom of Information Act

It was a much more broad robust way for the public to access government information.

2 videos
1966-03-01Congressional

Congressional Inquiry into UFOs

The Exeter case was brought up as an example of unexplained sightings.

1 video
1966-04-05Congressional

House Armed Services Committee Closed Session on UFOs

As I expected some persons have ridiculed my call for a congressional investigation into unidentified flying objects.

1 video
1966-04-05Congressional

House Armed Services Committee Hearing

Bluebook had no radar cases that were unexplained.

1 video
1966-03-28Congressional

Congressional hearings on UFO phenomena

I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena.

2 videos
1966-04-06Mass Sighting

Westall UFO Encounter

Westall, Melbourne, Australia

Over 200 students and teachers at two schools in Westall witnessed a grey saucer-shaped object descend into a field, hover, and then rapidly ascend.

1 video200 witnesses
1966-03-28Congressional

Gerald Ford's recommendation for a committee investigation

I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena.

1 video
1961-09-19Abduction

Hill Abduction

White Mountains, New Hampshire

Betty and Barney Hill reported being abducted by extraterrestrial beings while driving through rural New Hampshire. Their account, retrieved partly through hypnosis, became the first widely publicized alien abduction case.

1 video2 contactees
1958-05-01Unclassified

Indictment of Harold J. Bernie

obtained money and property by fraudulently representing that his magnetic flux modulator was capable of producing energy from the atmosphere

1 video
1953Unclassified

Executive Memorandum NSC 5510

This granted MJ-12 total autonomy and absolute secrecy.

1 video
1953-01-14Unclassified

Robertson Panel

A broad educational program should be put into place to strip the unidentified flying objects of the special status they have been given.

2 videos
1950Congressional

Project Second Story

Project Second Story sought to recommend UFO action to the Canadian government.

1 video
1950Congressional

Project Magnet

Canada began its first official investigation into UAP.

1 video
1947Congressional

General Accounting Office investigation into Roswell crash

The General Accounting Office was to later inform Jack Anderson that they felt they were getting a runaround.

1 video
1947Congressional

National Security Act of 1947

The National Security Act of 1947 created the CIA without congressional oversight.

1 video
1947-07-08Crash Retrieval

Roswell Incident

Roswell, New Mexico

An object crashed on a ranch near Roswell. The U.S. military initially reported recovery of a "flying disc" before retracting the statement. Decades later, witnesses came forward describing non-human debris and bodies.

23 videos
1947-09-15Congressional

National Security Act

The National Security Act created America's first peacetime civilian intelligence organization.

3 videos
1939-07-08Congressional

Funding for Admiral Bird's Expedition

The government was prepared to take the position that any attempts by foreign powers to establish bases west of the 180th Meridian in the Antarctic would be considered an unfriendly act.

1 video
Date UnknownCongressional

Confirmation Hearing for Robert Storch

I think it's appalling that somebody was coming in for a confirmation hearing to be involved in such a crucial oversight role and they had no bloody idea that the biggest story of all time has been unfolding inside the portfolio that they're administering.

2 videos
Date UnknownCongressional

Congressional Inquiry into UAP Transparency

The Pentagon missed the deadline to deliver those videos to Congress.

1 video
Date UnknownCongressional

UAP Legislation

We need to look into this; Congress is not being told the truth.

2 videos
Date UnknownCongressional

Senate Roundtable on Healthcare Corruption

Eisenhower warned about the corporate capture of our scientific industrial complex.

1 video
Date UnknownUnclassified

Governo japonês admite dados de UAP

O governo japonês admite possuir dados de UAP, incluindo filmagens e vídeos.

1 video
unknownCongressional

Senate Select Subcommittee for Intelligence Review

They wanted input from everybody we supported.

1 video
Date UnknownCongressional

Counter UAS Act

This seems like a thinly veiled attempt to expand State reach into the skies.

1 video
Date UnknownCongressional

House Oversight Subcommittee Hearing on UAPs

We have a substantial progress in the house.

1 video
Date UnknownCongressional

Congressional hearings on crash retrieval program

It's not really in dispute anymore.

1 video