Unresolved
does not mean
extraterrestrial.
The UAP problem is not a shortage of cases. It is a shortage of data. This database separates what was recorded at the time from what was added in the decades after — case by case, claim by claim.
cases
in the corpus
on the ledger
programmes
Established
- — UAP are a real category of reported observation, in government files from the 1940s to the present.
- — A dozen-plus states ran or still run their own investigative programmes.
- — The Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of three US Navy recordings.
- — Some cases remain unresolved despite rigorous investigation.
- — The phenomenon is global, not American.
Not established
- — That any case involves an extraterrestrial craft.
- — That any non-terrestrial craft or material was ever recovered.
- — That a confirmed reverse-engineering programme exists.
- — That any artefact has been scientifically shown to be non-terrestrial.
- — That the extreme performance in the accounts was ever measured.
Both columns are true at the same time. The entire difficulty of this field sits between them — and most public argument consists of pretending only one of them exists.
Evidence on record
Cases where the files hold a measurement or a physical trace that the record does not explain
The Washington Wave
On two consecutive July weekends, civilian and military radars around Washington tracked unidentified targets over restricted airspace, correlated with visual sightings by pilots. Intercep…
Socorro
Police officer Lonnie Zamora, pursuing a speeding car, saw a white ovoid object on the ground and two small figures beside it. The object departed with a roar and a flame. The ground was l…
Hessdalen
Unknown lights began to show up in the Hessdalen valley in December 1981. With no state institution taking it up, five people set up Project Hessdalen, and from 21 January to 26 February 1…
Trans-en-Provence
On 8 January 1981, at about 5 pm, a man working on a terrace behind his house in the Var saw a craft come down, rest on the ground for a few seconds and leave. Next morning he showed his w…
Minot AFB
In the early hours of 24 October 1968 airmen at missile sites around Minot AFB in North Dakota reported a bright light, and a B-52 flying practice approaches near the base had an unidentif…
USS Nimitz / Tic Tac
On 14 November 2004, by the sworn testimony of Cdr. David Fravor in 2023, two F/A-18Fs from USS Nimitz, due to fly a training exercise under the control of USS Princeton, were sent instead…
Bentwaters–Lakenheath
On the evening of 13 August 1956 the GCA radar at RAF Bentwaters in England tracked targets that its operators put at up to “more than 4,000 miles per hour”. After midnight the radar centr…
RB-47H from Mississippi to Oklahoma
Early on 17 July 1957 an RB-47H electronic reconnaissance aircraft of the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, callsign Lacy 17, was flying over the southern United States. Near Meridian, M…
East Coast: the W-72 Reports
Between June 2013 and April 2014 three Navy F/A-18 squadrons flying from NAS Oceana filed seven hazard reports from warning area W-72 off Virginia; the Navy’s FOIA reading room holds them…
GIMBAL
In January 2015 a US Navy F/A-18 crew recorded an object with an infrared sensor. The Department of Defense released the 34.5-second clip in 2020, after it had circulated since 2017, and s…
Source layer
Documents first, assessment second
450 records the Department of War has released under PURSUE, each with the link to the material at the publisher. 92 of them are cited by a case so far. The bottleneck in this subject was never the number of sightings: it is that almost nobody reads the paperwork.
Claim ledger
Myth versus document
Not cases — individual sentences. Each with its origin, its status, and what exactly would settle it.
Under oath in 2023, Fravor said they saw whitewater, not an object in the water.
The 1957 records do not bear it out.
AARO assessed in February 2025 that the object flew about 13,000 feet above the sea and showed “no anomalous performance characteristics”.
Intelligence officers at McChord Field told the FBI that “THERE IS NO QUESTION OF THE CRASH OF THE B- TWENTYFIVE AT KELSO … HAVING BEEN CAUSED BY ANY SABOTAGE” and gave the cause: “THE LEFT ENGINE BURNED OUT AN EXHAUST STACK WHICH CAUSED THE WING TO BURN AND BREAK OFF” (Seattle teletype of 6 August 1947).
The number 701 is correct: of 12,618 reports investigated, that many remained in the ‘unidentified’ category.
The UK Ministry of Defence file is unambiguous on this point: no radar confirmation of an unidentified object in that area and timeframe was found.
Source tiers
Every sentence has a level
Primary document
Operational report, case file, gendarmerie protocol, lab result — produced close to the event.
Official statement
Institutional confirmation: ministry statement, authenticity release, agency determination.
Sworn testimony
Witness account given under legal weight — congressional testimony, sworn statement.
Later account / reconstruction
Interview, memoir or reconstruction produced years after the event. The layer most prone to growth.
Media claim
A claim circulating without documentary backing. Recorded because it shapes how a case is read.
Roswell and Rendlesham are built mostly from T4 and T5. Tehran 1976 and Trans-en-Provence stand on T1. That difference matters more than the shape of the object.
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