Following in the footsteps of other countries re transparency regarding unidentified aerial phenomena UAP or UFO’s, Australia’s Department of Defence has released a 10-page dossier detailing its communications and stance on UFOs. This release was prompted By The UFO Chronicles 4-11-2024 by a Freedom of Information (FOI) request and includes documents created between July and October 2023. The dossier seemingly reveals that the Australian Defence has not actively monitored reports of UFOs since 1996, citing a lack of “scientific or other compelling reason ..read more

On May 19, 2023, the Joint Staff (J3, Operations; J36 Homeland Defense Division) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff disseminated to all unified military commands worldwide a set of uniform procedures to be followed for gathering data and reporting on contemporary military encounters with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), using a detailed standard reporting template. [...]      The Joint Staff message was designated as "GENADMIN Joint Staff J3 Washington DC 191452ZMAY23 Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Reporting and Material Disposition." The entire nine-page docu ..read more

DOD developing ‘Gremlin’ capability to help personnel collect real-time UAP data      The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is producing and refining a new deployable surveillance capability — the Gremlin System — to enable personnel to capture real-time data and more rapidly respond to unidentified anomalous By Brandi Vincent defensescoop.com 3-8-2024 phenomena (UAP) incidents as they occur, the acting chief of the office told DefenseScoop during a press briefing Wednesday. Tim Phillips, AARO’s acting director on assignment from the Office of th ..read more

Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I February 2024 "AARO found no evidence that any USG investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology."      This report represents Volume I of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s (AARO) Historical Record Report (HR2) which reviews the record of the United States Government (USG) By AARO Feb. 2024 pertaining to unidentified anomalous ph ..read more

A former government official calls for investigating unidentified anomalous phenomena without succumbing to conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials      Little else titillates and piques the national interest like unidentified flying objects and space aliens. After more than a century of films featuring intelligent creatures from other worlds, and over seven decades after the U.S. government began investigating them, UFOs remain a flashpoint for conspiracy By Sean Kirkpatrick www.scientificamerican.com 3-6-24 theorists and science deniers. By any name, UF ..read more

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"We have been attempting to verify the veteran's military service from the information that has been provided. We have conducted extensive searches of every records source and alternative records source at this Center; however, we have been unable to locate any information that would help us verify the veteran's military service." TWO STORYTELLERS DECEIVE AN ICON OF UFOLOGY      In their years of promoting the story of a 1945 alien-craft crash and recovery, Jacques Vallee, Ph.D., and Paola Leopizzi Harris constructed a towering skyscraper of speculation on a thin ..read more

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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWo_ZPR7MaZVb-R5jB0ToDc20J3VUZW2ZcrEOwLNX9D5640qm5GfJ_ZMeJPKl_ysCIEUF1MGwfnXP7Y1OJUIjcEEpeqsNvs3F8XQPKZWf0_w9yt3mMItIiB_2KcL1iVS6x9ClgPdb75hpKppNWtKkW4Sujo9Vdl-wr461R4j3HY-gdp-8SRHzy/s1600/Government%20UFO%20Whistleblower%20Sees%20Big%20Sur%20UFO%20Film.png"> Confirms the Existence of a Recording of a UFO Interfering with a Dummy Nuclear Warhead in Flight in September 1964 BACKGROUND:      According to two former US Air Force officers—Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann—a USAF photogra ..read more

Origin Stories      Recently, colleague and noted researcher Curt Collins reached out and inquired about “a claim that the Aztec hoax was inspired by a joke newspaper story in the Aztec Independent Review by George Bawra.” [sic] Curt discovered a blurb (See below) in Garrett M. Graff's new book, "UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There," which precipitated the question. . (For the record, the more common, long held precept for the origins of the Aztec UFO crash narrative is that the story was created out of By Fra ..read more