Congressional hearings, Pentagon briefings, and other public events related to UAP disclosure.
The FY2026 NDAA requires AARO to deliver detailed briefings to Congress on NORTHCOM and NORAD UAP intercepts, including the number, location, and nature of each encounter. The legislation also mandates improved interagency data-sharing protocols. Exact briefing deadline TBD but expected in the first half of 2026.
The annual Contact in the Desert conference returns as the world's largest gathering dedicated to UAP research, disclosure, and contact phenomena.
Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Chair Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Trump administration’s tenuous plans to fund key parts of the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request and for alienating U.S. allies amid several major world conflicts. McConnell objected to putting crucial Pentagon programs — such as the Golden Dome...
Files released include images from U.S. military reports on UAPs and archival imagery from NASA’s Apollo missions.
Although Skylab anomalies have been discussed previously, the documents released Friday are considered new to the public.
The late U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Matthew Sullivan, who died in 2024 before he could, according to Representative Eric Burlison, testify in a federal UFO whistleblower case, is understood by Liberation Times to have been involved in an alleged legacy UFO program.
The FY2026 NDAA requires the Deputy Secretary of Defense to brief Congress on AARO's strategic vision across the Future Years Defense Plan by March 1, 2026.
Trump last week took to social media to say he’ll ask executive agencies to identify and release files that pertain to alien life, UFOs, and UAPs.
Trump orders UFO files released—but without declassification, the most sensitive evidence could remain hidden from public view.
A two-day online summit focused on the science, technology, and policy of UAP detection and tracking, featuring researchers and technologists working on the problem.
Award-winning investigative filmmaker James Fox convened a landmark UAP press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, bringing together firsthand witnesses, medical experts, government officials, and insiders to present new evidence related to alleged non-human encounters and crash-retrieval programs. The event drew major media attention and renewed calls for government transparency.