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-26021 // Spheres / Orbs
The Betz Mystery Sphere
In April 1974 the Betz family of Fort George Island, Florida, reported finding a seamless polished stainless-steel sphere roughly eight inches across and weighing 21.34 pounds on their wooded property, and said it rolled, hummed and changed direction unaided. The U.S. Navy examined and X-rayed it at Jacksonville Naval Air Station that month and reported a hollow, non-radioactive, non-explosive, earth-made ball — a Navy metallurgist identified it as a large ball bearing used as a check valve in industrial piping. A National Enquirer-convened panel including Dr J. Allen Hynek reached the same "man-made" conclusion, though the manufacturer was never established and no full Navy report has surfaced publicly.
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RA-26003 // Missing Time // also tagged
The Betty and Barney Hill Encounter
On the night of the nineteenth to twentieth of September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill reported an unidentified object while driving south on US Route 3 through the White Mountains, and could not account for roughly two hours of the journey. The sighting was logged through Pease AFB into Project Blue Book, where the stated conclusion moved through several explanations before settling on "insufficient data". The abduction narrative itself emerged later, in hypnosis sessions conducted in 1963–64.
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UF-26018 // Cigar
The 1933 Magenta Incident and Mussolini's Gabinetto RS/33
A body of documents that surfaced anonymously in Italy from 1996 onwards claims a metallic craft came down near Magenta, Lombardy, on the thirteenth of June 1933, and that Benito Mussolini created a secret scientific body — "Gabinetto RS/33" — under Guglielmo Marconi to study it. No copy of any RS/33 record has ever been located in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato or any other official archive; every document traces to a single anonymous sender known only as "Mr X". This archive admits the file as a documented case of disputed papers, not as a documented landing.
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UF-26016 // Spheres / Orbs
UAP Tranche 5 — The PURSUE Release of 7 August 2026
On the seventh of August 2026 the U.S. Department of War published the fifth tranche of records under PURSUE, the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Contemporary reporting describes 41 records spanning 1950 to 2026, the headline item being six videos of cold orbs recorded from an AC-130J gunship over the Gulf of Oman. No source located by this archive supports the widely repeated figure of 517 files.
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AL-26005 // Greys // also tagged
The Ariel School Encounter
On the morning of the sixteenth of September 1994, around sixty pupils at Ariel School near Ruwa, Zimbabwe, reported that one or more disc-shaped craft descended over the scrub beside their playground and that small dark-clad beings with very large eyes emerged. Interviews and drawings were collected within days by a BBC correspondent and a southern-African investigator, and two months later by a Harvard psychiatrist. No government, military or intelligence record of the event was located; the case rests entirely on witness testimony, contemporaneous journalism and private investigator files, and remains disputed.
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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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