Every documented U.S. Navy encounter with unidentified anomalous phenomena, from the 2004 Nimitz/USS Princeton 'Tic Tac' encounter forward. Includes the FLIR videos officially released by DoD in April 2020, the routine east-coast incidents reported by Carrier Strike Group 12 pilots from 2014-2015, and named-pilot testimony.
The U.S. Navy is the most documented service-branch source of modern UAP encounters. Three factors drive that: the Navy's high-quality FLIR/ATFLIR sensor data on Super Hornet aircraft, the ATFLIR data sharing pipeline that the Navy formalized in 2019 to encourage incident reporting, and the willingness of named Navy pilots (Cmdr. David Fravor, Lt. Ryan Graves, Lt. Cmdr. Alex Dietrich) to testify publicly.
This hub aggregates every Navy-source incident in the database — the original 2004 Nimitz/USS Princeton 'Tic Tac' encounter, the 2014-2015 east-coast incursions reported by Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-11 and others, the three FLIR videos (FLIR1, GIMBAL, GO FAST) declassified and released by DoD on April 27, 2020, and the post-2022 incidents reported through the AARO portal.
Why the Navy specifically. Navy pilots fly extensive over-water training routes off both coasts where the absence of civilian air traffic surfaces anomalous tracks more cleanly than Air Force interior airspace, and Navy ATFLIR pods produce sensor recordings that survive declassification review better than other intelligence imagery.
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The Trump administration launches PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — and the Department of War publishes 160 declassified UAP-related files in the first tranche: 117 PDFs, 29 sensor videos, and 14 photographs spanning 1944 to 2026. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the goal is 'maximum transparency.'
The most recently dated video in PURSUE Release 01 — DOW-UAP-PR49, captured in 2026 by a U.S. Department of the Army sensor — runs 1 minute 49 seconds and shows infrared tracking of an unresolved aerial object.
A 2-minute-57-second AARO video from a U.S. military sensor records an unidentified object over Greece performing multiple sharp 90-degree turns at speed — flight characteristics that exceed publicly disclosed performance of known aircraft. Released as DOW-UAP-PR34 in PURSUE Release 01.
Former intelligence officer David Grusch, retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor, and retired Navy Lt. Ryan Graves testify under oath before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. Grusch states that the U.S. government operates a long-running classified program to retrieve and reverse-engineer non-human craft.
The House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation holds the first open congressional hearing on UAP in fifty-three years. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray testify.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence delivers to Congress a nine-page 'Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' covering 144 reports collected primarily by U.S. Navy aviators between 2004 and 2021. The report concludes that the U.S. government cannot identify 143 of the 144.
A U.S. Navy Range Fouler debrief from May 14, 2020 documents a 'solid white object' performing erratic movements above the water of the Persian Gulf — a close-proximity encounter with active U.S. military training. Released as DOW-UAP-D38 with companion video DOW-UAP-PR36.
The Pentagon publicly releases three U.S. Navy gun-camera videos — 'FLIR1' (2004), 'GIMBAL' (2015), and 'GO FAST' (2015) — and confirms that the objects depicted remain unidentified. The release marks the first formal U.S. government acknowledgment of authentic military UAP imagery.
Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal, and Leslie Kean publish a front-page New York Times investigation revealing the existence of the Department of Defense's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The story includes a release of the 'FLIR1' video and on-the-record statements from former AATIP director Luis Elizondo.
F/A-18F crews assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 11, operating from Naval Air Station Oceana, report routine encounters with UAP off the U.S. East Coast. Two of the three Pentagon-released videos — 'GIMBAL' and 'GO FAST' — are recorded during this period.
The oldest sensor video in PURSUE Release 01 — a 1-minute-46-second AARO clip from 2013 — shows what military observers described as an 'eight-pointed star formation' of objects over a Middle Eastern theater of operations.
Aircrews from the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group report repeated radar contacts and a daylight visual encounter with a small, white, smooth, Tic Tac–shaped object during a training exercise in the Pacific. One of three Pentagon videos later released by the Department of Defense (FLIR1) documents a portion of the event.
Non-fiction titles by named witnesses, Pentagon insiders, and investigative journalists referenced in this archive.
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U.S. material is the single largest body in the public UAP record, but it isn't the only one. France's GEIPAN has run a transparent case database since 1977; the UK MoD released ~60,000 pages between 2008 and 2017; Japan's evolving track is the program currently moving fastest in 2026. Every state-run UAP-investigation body with a public archive — fifteen countries to date — is catalogued in one place.
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