SECTOR // 03 // UAP / UFO
UAP / UFO
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects — craft and lights observed in the sky, on the ground, and underwater that resist conventional explanation.
UAP — Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — is the modern term for what was once UFO. The shift in nomenclature reflects a shift in posture: from popular spectacle to a category the United States Department of Defense, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and at least three congressional inquiries now treat as legitimate.
This file catalogues sightings by reported shape: triangle, disc, sphere, tic-tac, cigar, pyramid, egg. Form correlates with era and region. The radar-confirmed cases sit at the top of our evidential hierarchy; the multi-witness ground reports next; the single-witness anonymous reports at the foot.
We hold every claim against the documentary record. Where conventional explanation exists — a Maryland Air National Guard flare drop, a SpaceX launch, a Starlink train — we say so. Where it does not, we say that too.
SUB-CATEGORIES
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Triangle
Black triangular craft, often silent and slow-moving, with lights at three or more points. The single most-reported UAP form of the past forty years.
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Disc / Saucer
Classic flying-saucer morphology — disc-shaped, often with a domed upper section.
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Spheres / Orbs
Spherical or orb-like UAP, often metallic, often without visible propulsion.
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Pyramid
Pyramid-shaped UAP, observed by US Navy assets including the 2019 USS Russell pyramid sighting.
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Tic-Tac
Elongated, smooth, white, oval UAP — the morphology of the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter.
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Egg
Egg-shaped UAP, observed in multiple modern military and civilian encounter reports.
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Cigar
Cigar-shaped or tubular UAP, often large-scale and reportedly silent.
RECENT FILES IN THIS CATEGORY
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UF-26022 // Disc / Saucer
GEIPAN and the 1999 COMETA Report
France runs GEIPAN, a permanently staffed, publicly funded unidentified aerospace phenomena unit inside its civil space agency CNES, created as GEPAN in 1977 and publishing its case files online since 2007. Separately, in July 1999 a private committee of retired French generals, admirals and engineers — COMETA — published a ninety-page report, *Les OVNI et la Défense*, arguing the extraterrestrial hypothesis could not be dismissed. GEIPAN remains operational; COMETA was a one-off private association and no official French response to its recommendations has been located.
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CS-26010 // Project Stargate // also tagged
Project Blue Book and the 1968 Condon Report
Project Blue Book was the US Air Force's UFO investigation office at Wright-Patterson AFB, running from March 1952 until December 1969 and logging 12,618 sightings, of which 701 were never identified. It was closed after a US$313,000 Air Force-funded study at the University of Colorado, directed by the physicist Edward U. Condon, concluded in 1968 that further UFO study was unlikely to advance science — a conclusion endorsed by a National Academy of Sciences panel on the eighth of January 1969. The case files were transferred to the US National Archives in 1975 and are public today.
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UF-26020 // Spheres / Orbs
Immaculate Constellation
"Immaculate Constellation" is the name of an alleged Unacknowledged Special Access Program said to collect and quarantine high-quality imagery of unidentified anomalous phenomena outside congressional oversight. It entered the public record on the thirteenth of November 2024, when a twelve-page whistleblower report was submitted to a joint House Oversight subcommittee hearing by the journalist Michael Shellenberger and entered into the Congressional Record by Rep. Nancy Mace. The Department of Defense states it has no record of any such programme, and no primary document establishing the programme's existence has been located.
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UF-26021 // Spheres / Orbs
The Betz Mystery Sphere
In April 1974 the Betz family of Fort George Island, Florida, reported finding a seamless polished stainless-steel sphere roughly eight inches across and weighing 21.34 pounds on their wooded property, and said it rolled, hummed and changed direction unaided. The U.S. Navy examined and X-rayed it at Jacksonville Naval Air Station that month and reported a hollow, non-radioactive, non-explosive, earth-made ball — a Navy metallurgist identified it as a large ball bearing used as a check valve in industrial piping. A National Enquirer-convened panel including Dr J. Allen Hynek reached the same "man-made" conclusion, though the manufacturer was never established and no full Navy report has surfaced publicly.
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UF-26019 // Spheres / Orbs
The Exeter Incident
In the early hours of the third of September 1965, an eighteen-year-old hitchhiker and two Exeter, New Hampshire police patrolmen reported a large, silent object carrying five pulsating red lights manoeuvring at roughly one hundred feet over a field three miles south-west of the town. The US Air Force's Project Blue Book investigated the case, proposed a Strategic Air Command exercise as the cause, then conceded in writing that the officers' post-two-a.m. observation could not be identified. The Project 10073 record card carries the conclusion "UNIDENTIFIED".
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RA-26003 // Missing Time // also tagged
The Betty and Barney Hill Encounter
On the night of the nineteenth to twentieth of September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported an unidentified object while driving south on US Route 3 through the White Mountains, and could not account for roughly two hours of the journey. The sighting was logged through Pease AFB into Project Blue Book, where the stated conclusion moved through several explanations before settling on "insufficient data". The abduction narrative itself emerged later, in hypnosis sessions conducted in 1963–64.
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UF-26018 // Cigar
The 1933 Magenta Incident and Mussolini's Gabinetto RS/33
A body of documents that surfaced anonymously in Italy from 1996 onwards claims a metallic craft came down near Magenta, Lombardy, on the thirteenth of June 1933, and that Benito Mussolini created a secret scientific body — "Gabinetto RS/33" — under Guglielmo Marconi to study it. No copy of any RS/33 record has ever been located in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato or any other official archive; every document traces to a single anonymous sender known only as "Mr X". This archive admits the file as a documented case of disputed papers, not as a documented landing.
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UF-26017 // Triangle
The Lubbock Lights
On the evening of the twenty-fifth of August 1951, four Texas Technological College professors reported a formation of soft bluish-green lights crossing the sky over Lubbock, Texas; similar sightings recurred for roughly two weeks and a student photographed a V-formation of lights on the thirty-first of August. The US Air Force investigated the reports under Project Grudge, later Project Blue Book, and its project head recorded that all the sightings bar one radar contact were carried in the files as "unknowns".
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UF-26016 // Spheres / Orbs
UAP Tranche 5 — The PURSUE Release of 7 August 2026
On the seventh of August 2026 the U.S. Department of War published the fifth tranche of records under PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Contemporary reporting describes 41 records spanning 1950 to 2026, the headline item being six videos of cold orbs recorded from an AC-130J gunship over the Gulf of Oman. No source located by this archive supports the widely repeated figure of 517 files.
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AL-26005 // Greys // also tagged
The Ariel School Encounter
On the morning of the sixteenth of September 1994, around sixty pupils at Ariel School near Ruwa, Zimbabwe, reported that one or more disc-shaped craft descended over the scrub beside their playground and that small dark-clad beings with very large eyes emerged. Interviews and drawings were collected within days by a BBC correspondent and a southern-African investigator, and two months later by a Harvard psychiatrist. No government, military or intelligence record of the event was located; the case rests entirely on witness testimony, contemporaneous journalism and private investigator files, and remains disputed.
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UF-26015 // Disc / Saucer
The 1991 Mexican UFO Wave
On the eleventh of July 1991, during the longest total solar eclipse of the twentieth century, numerous observers in and around Mexico City filmed a stationary or slow-moving object in the eclipse-darkened daytime sky. Journalist Jaime Maussan aggregated the amateur footage on national television within about a week, catalysing a multi-year Mexican UFO "wave"; the leading conventional explanation is that most of the videos captured the planet Venus, which was documented shining at magnitude −4.8 during totality.
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CS-26008 // Project Stargate // also tagged
Project Palladium
Project Palladium was a Cold War CIA electronic-warfare programme, founded around 1960 by engineer S. Eugene "Gene" Poteat, that intercepted an enemy radar's own signal, passed it through a variable delay line, and re-transmitted it to inject fully controllable "ghost aircraft" into Soviet and Soviet-client air-defence radars. Its existence rests on Poteat's own published firsthand accounts and a declassified CIA Studies in Intelligence article; the popular claim that Palladium "manufactured UFOs" is a secondary interpretation Poteat's accounts do not make.
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