SECTOR // 03 // UAP / UFO
UAP / UFO
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Unidentified Flying Objects — craft and lights observed in the sky, on the ground, and underwater that resist conventional explanation.
UAP — Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — is the modern term for what was once UFO. The shift in nomenclature reflects a shift in posture: from popular spectacle to a category the United States Department of Defense, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and at least three congressional inquiries now treat as legitimate.
This file catalogues sightings by reported shape: triangle, disc, sphere, tic-tac, cigar, pyramid, egg. Form correlates with era and region. The radar-confirmed cases sit at the top of our evidential hierarchy; the multi-witness ground reports next; the single-witness anonymous reports at the foot.
We hold every claim against the documentary record. Where conventional explanation exists — a Maryland Air National Guard flare drop, a SpaceX launch, a Starlink train — we say so. Where it does not, we say that too.
SUB-CATEGORIES
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Triangle
Black triangular craft, often silent and slow-moving, with lights at three or more points. The single most-reported UAP form of the past forty years.
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Disc / Saucer
Classic flying-saucer morphology — disc-shaped, often with a domed upper section.
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Spheres / Orbs
Spherical or orb-like UAP, often metallic, often without visible propulsion.
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Pyramid
Pyramid-shaped UAP, observed by US Navy assets including the 2019 USS Russell pyramid sighting.
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Tic-Tac
Elongated, smooth, white, oval UAP — the morphology of the 2004 USS Nimitz encounter.
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Egg
Egg-shaped UAP, observed in multiple modern military and civilian encounter reports.
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Cigar
Cigar-shaped or tubular UAP, often large-scale and reportedly silent.
RECENT FILES IN THIS CATEGORY
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UF-26015 // Disc / Saucer
The 1991 Mexican UFO Wave
On the eleventh of July 1991, during the longest total solar eclipse of the twentieth century, numerous observers in and around Mexico City filmed a stationary or slow-moving object in the eclipse-darkened daytime sky. Journalist Jaime Maussan aggregated the amateur footage on national television within about a week, catalysing a multi-year Mexican UFO "wave"; the leading conventional explanation is that most of the videos captured the planet Venus, which was documented shining at magnitude −4.8 during totality.
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CS-26008 // Project Stargate // also tagged
Project Palladium
Project Palladium was a Cold War CIA electronic-warfare programme, founded around 1960 by engineer S. Eugene "Gene" Poteat, that intercepted an enemy radar's own signal, passed it through a variable delay line, and re-transmitted it to inject fully controllable "ghost aircraft" into Soviet and Soviet-client air-defence radars. Its existence rests on Poteat's own published firsthand accounts and a declassified CIA Studies in Intelligence article; the popular claim that Palladium "manufactured UFOs" is a secondary interpretation Poteat's accounts do not make.
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UF-26014 // Disc / Saucer
The 1954 French UFO Wave — the Saint-Rémy Landing Where the Occupant "Spoke Russian"
On the night of the twentieth to twenty-first of October 1954, during an intense autumn wave of French UFO reports, construction worker Louis (Lazlo) Ujvari said an armed occupant of a small grounded craft at Saint-Rémy in the Vosges addressed him and, when he answered in Russian, conversed with him in Russian before the craft rose and departed. The case survives only through contemporaneous 1954 newspaper coverage and official questioning; it was never physically corroborated and remains a witness-testimony case.
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LO-26002 // Area 51 // also tagged
Bob Lazar, S-4 and Element 115
In May and November 1989, Las Vegas television station KLAS-TV broadcast interviews by reporter George Knapp with a man — first disguised as "Dennis", later named as Robert "Bob" Lazar — who said he had worked at a facility he called S-4, near Area 51, reverse-engineering extraterrestrial craft powered by a stable superheavy element with atomic number 115. Element 115 was later synthesised for real and named moscovium, but the isotopes produced survive for tens of milliseconds, not indefinitely. The claim of a reverse-engineering programme rests on Lazar's testimony alone; the US Department of Defense reported in March 2024 that it found no empirical evidence for any such programme.
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UF-26013 // Spheres / Orbs
Stephenville Lights
On the evening of the eighth of January 2008, residents around Stephenville and Dublin in rural Erath County, Texas reported a large, silent, brightly lit object moving at high speed. A civilian radar study drawing on FAA and National Weather Service data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reported an uncorrelated target that at one point tracked toward President George W. Bush's Crawford ranch. The U.S. Air Force first said no military aircraft were airborne, then confirmed F-16 training flights; the object itself was never officially identified.
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UF-26012 // Disc / Saucer
The Montana UFO Film (Great Falls)
On the fifteenth of August 1950, Nick Mariana, general manager of the Great Falls minor-league baseball team, filmed roughly sixteen seconds of 16mm colour footage showing two silvery objects crossing the sky — among the earliest surviving motion-picture footage of a reported UFO. The film was examined by the US Air Force, the 1953 Robertson Panel and the University of Colorado (Condon) study, which catalogued it as Case 47. Condon's analyst concluded that aircraft "strain credibility" as an explanation, while conceding they could not be entirely ruled out.
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UF-26011 // Disc / Saucer
The Wytheville UFO Wave
Between October and December 1987, roughly 1,500 UFO sighting reports were logged in and around the small town of Wytheville, Virginia, after WYVE radio newsman Danny Gordon began broadcasting them. The wave was documented contemporaneously by local journalists and later by NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, but — occurring nearly two decades after the U.S. Air Force closed Project Blue Book — it produced no known official government investigation file. It remains publicly unexplained.
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UF-26008 // Spheres / Orbs
Los Alamos Green Fireballs and Project Twinkle
Between late 1948 and 1951, brilliant green fireballs were repeatedly observed on near-horizontal, silent paths over New Mexico's most sensitive nuclear installations. The sightings alarmed the Atomic Energy Commission, the FBI and the Air Force enough to convene a secret conference at Los Alamos on the sixteenth of February 1949 and to launch a dedicated observation study, Project Twinkle. Twinkle's final report of November 1951 closed the effort, with the official conclusion that the objects were likely natural in origin.
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UF-26009 // Disc / Saucer
Project Sign
Project Sign was the United States Air Force's first formal study of unidentified flying objects, run by the Technical Intelligence Division of Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It evaluated 243 reported sightings and concluded in its February 1949 final report that no definite and conclusive evidence was yet available that would prove or disprove the objects as real aircraft of unknown configuration. The report is declassified and publicly available; the far more famous "Estimate of the Situation" said to have preceded it is not, and its existence rests on testimony rather than on any retrievable document.
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UF-26010 // Disc / Saucer
Thomas Mantell Incident
On the seventh of January 1948, Captain Thomas F. Mantell of the Kentucky Air National Guard died when his F-51D Mustang broke up during a high-altitude climb in pursuit of an unidentified object seen over Godman Army Airfield, Fort Knox. The US Air Force attributed his death to oxygen deprivation; Project Blue Book later identified the object as a then-classified Skyhook research balloon. The case survives in the Blue Book files held by the US National Archives and is one of the earliest deaths connected to a UFO sighting.
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UF-26006 // Disc / Saucer
The Roswell Incident
In early July 1947 the Roswell Army Air Field publicly announced it had recovered a crashed "flying disc," an identification the Army retracted within about a day in favour of a weather balloon and radar reflector. Two later U.S. government reviews concluded the 1947 debris came from the classified Project Mogul balloon programme and that subsequent "alien body" accounts matched 1950s anthropomorphic test dummies. No primary government record documents the recovery of an extraterrestrial craft or bodies.
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UF-26007 // Disc / Saucer
The Wilbert Smith Memo (1950)
On the twenty-first of November 1950, Wilbert B. Smith, a senior radio engineer at Canada's Department of Transport, wrote a memorandum titled "Geo-Magnetics" recommending a classified study of flying saucers. Reporting discreet inquiries made through the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Smith wrote that saucers were real and were "the most highly classified subject in the United States Government." The memo led directly to Project Magnet, approved on the second of December 1950.
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