Sightings, government investigations, and the modern wave of disclosures. The terminology has shifted — "unidentified flying object" became "unidentified aerial phenomenon" became "unidentified anomalous phenomenon" — but the underlying question hasn't: there are things in the documented record that the responsible agencies have not been able to explain. This pillar takes those documented cases seriously without overstating what they prove.
UFOs and UAPs sit at an unusual intersection. On one side, this is the most active vertical in the entire archive — the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office releases new documents almost monthly, the 2026 PURSUE portal is publishing previously-classified material faster than analysts can review it, and congressional hearings produce sworn testimony with national-security implications on a regular cadence. On the other side, this is the vertical with the deepest folklore and the largest population of unreliable witnesses, hoaxers, grifters, and well-meaning people who genuinely misidentified Venus.
The case-file format helps here more than anywhere. A reader landing on a UAP file should be able to tell, immediately, whether they're looking at a sighting with radar correlation, multiple military witnesses, and FLIR footage, or whether they're looking at a single-witness 1947 newspaper account with no follow-up investigation. Both deserve files. They don't deserve the same weight.
Cases planned for this pillar, organized by era and category. Files marked ✓ are published; the rest are in research or queued.
Not all UAP cases are created equal. The Tic-Tac event has FLIR footage, multiple military witnesses, radar correlation, and the testimony of named pilots given under oath. Aurora, Texas in 1897 has a single newspaper article and a gravestone that was added decades after the alleged event. Both go in the catalogue. The reader will be able to tell them apart from the file's confidence tags.
Where the modern era differs from the classic era is the documentary base. The 2017–2026 case files draw on DoD records released under FOIA, sworn congressional testimony, and primary investigative material from named office holders. The 1947–1969 case files draw, in many cases, on a newspaper clipping and a witness's later memoir. We cite both kinds and label what's what.