The modern era, in order
Disclosure didn't happen in a moment — it happened in a sequence, each step grudging, each one on the record. Here's the chronology, newest first, every entry linked to a primary source or a deep dive.
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The PURSUE files
A fresh document wave reignites the cycle. We read the strangest of it so you don't have to wade through the dump.
→ Inside PURSUE -
AARO's historical report lands — and is disputed
AARO's Historical Record Report Volume 1 concludes it found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Disclosure advocates contest its scope and access. The argument is the point.
→ AARO -
The UAP Disclosure Act is gutted
The Schumer–Rounds amendment — eminent domain over recovered material, a records-review board — is stripped down before passing in the NDAA. What survived still matters.
→ Why it still matters -
Grusch testifies under oath
At a House Oversight hearing, former intelligence officer David Grusch swears the U.S. operates a decades-long crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program. Navy pilots Ryan Graves and David Fravor corroborate the encounter record.
→ The biology question -
AARO is established
The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is created to investigate UAP across air, sea, space and trans-medium domains — a standing office, not a task force.
→ DoD establishment memo -
Congress holds its first UAP hearing in 50+ years
A House Intelligence subcommittee questions Pentagon officials on the record — the first open congressional UAP hearing since the Project Blue Book era.
→ Decode the acronyms -
ODNI's preliminary assessment
The intelligence community delivers an unclassified assessment of 144 military UAP reports. It explains away exactly one. The rest stay open — and it declines to rule anything out.
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The Pentagon releases the Navy videos
The Department of Defense formally declassifies and releases FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast — officially confirming footage that had already leaked, and that the objects in them remain unidentified.
→ DoD statement -
AATIP goes public
The New York Times reveals the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, and the first U.S. Navy encounter videos reach the public. The topic moves from fringe to front page.
→ The five observables this produced
The cycle is still running. New disclosure as it lands: the Disclosure desk, or have it delivered — the Briefing.