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Timeline of Disclosure
Key events in UAP disclosure, NHI research, consciousness science, and the architecture of secrecy — from 1947 to the present.
- 1947Roswell incident; modern UAP era begins
- 1952Washington, D.C. UAP flap; Robertson Panel convened
- 1969Vallée publishes Passport to Magonia, proposing interdimensional hypothesis
- 1977Brazil's Operation Prato; Monroe Institute's Gateway program assessed by Army Intelligence
- 1982–199025+ Marconi/GEC defense scientists die under suspicious circumstances
- 1984Vallée publishes Messengers of Deception, extending the control-system hypothesis
- 1989Bob Lazar goes public; cold fusion announced and suppressed
- 1994Sherman family begins experiencing phenomena at Utah ranch
- 1995Project Stargate terminated by CIA
- 1996Robert Bigelow purchases Skinwalker Ranch
- 1999France's COMETA report concludes UAP are "almost certain physical reality"
- 2002Wilson-Davis conversation (alleged)
- 2004USS Nimitz Tic Tac encounter; Eugene Mallove murdered
- 2007Chris Bledsoe's Cape Fear River encounter; DIA scientist visits Skinwalker Ranch
- 2008AAWSAP/BAASS created with $22M DIA funding; Vatican astronomer discusses ET "brothers"
- 2012Bledsoe's first encounter with "The Lady"
- 2017NYT reveals Pentagon's secret UAP program; TTSA founded
- 2019Pasulka publishes American Cosmic (Oxford UP)
- 2020Pentagon officially declassifies three Navy UAP videos
- 2022AARO established; Nolan-Vallée materials analysis published in peer review
- Jul 2023David Grusch testifies before Congress under oath
- Dec 2023UAPDA gutted in FY2024 NDAA; eminent domain clause removed
- Mar 2024AARO historical report finds "no evidence" — widely disputed
- May 2024Karl Nell states "zero doubt" NHI exists at SALT conference
- Aug 2024Elizondo publishes Imminent, #1 NYT bestseller
- Nov 2024House hearing reveals Immaculate Constellation; AARO reports 21 "true anomalies"
- Dec 2024UAPDA blocked for second consecutive year
- Mar 2025Grusch hired as Congressional adviser; Matthew Brown self-identifies as IC report author
- Apr 2025COGITATE study published in Nature; Koch loses 1998 bet with Chalmers
- May 2025Mellon states "the world is not ready"; Nell presents 72 NHI hypotheses
- Jun 2025European UAP/NHI Disclosure Summit held
- Jul 20253I/ATLAS discovered by ATLAS survey in Chile; third confirmed interstellar object enters solar system
- Jul 2025Coulthart claims "Tic-Tac is Lockheed Martin"
- Aug 2025UBC LENR results published in Nature
- Sep 2025New whistleblowers testify; George Knapp testifies under oath
- Oct 2025Sol Foundation 2025 Symposium held at Lake Maggiore, Italy — first time outside the United States; Karl Nell delivers "What the Five Good Roman Emperors Reveal About UAP Disclosure"
- Nov 2025Strømme publishes consciousness field paper in AIP Advances (selected as best paper of issue)
- Nov 2025The Age of Disclosure documentary releases on Amazon Prime Video; 34 senior U.S. officials testify on camera; Jay Stratton: "I have seen, with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings"
- Nov 2025Wiest publishes "A quantum microtubule substrate of consciousness is experimentally supported" in Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford UP); independent experimental support for Orch-OR
- Dec 2025UAPDA blocked for third time; McConnell staffer identified
- Dec 2025FY2026 NDAA passes ($900.6B); three UAP provisions enacted, but the full UAPDA stripped at conference for the third consecutive year
- Dec 20253I/ATLAS reaches closest approach to Earth at 269 million kilometers; Hubble imaging reveals three equally-spaced collimated mini-jets with 7.2-hour wobble
- Dec 2025Loureiro, MIT plasma physicist, killed by former PhD classmate; case later cited within the broader "missing scientists" narrative
- Dec 2025Dec 9, 2025 — Hal Puthoff and Carlos Eire join the Disclosure Foundation Advisory Board, bringing the Stargate/AAWSAP operational record into the foundation's institutional structure
- Jan 2026Erich von Däniken dies at 90 (cancer-related)
- Jan 20263I/ATLAS reaches rare "full moon" Sun-Earth opposition alignment (0.69° offset); Loeb-Barbieri paper documents anti-tail jet anomalies
- Jan 2026House Oversight subcommittees hold joint hearing "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth"; Immaculate Constellation document entered into the Congressional Record
- Feb 2026Feb 14, 2026 — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on NYT Interesting Times: "We don't know if the models are conscious"; Claude Opus 4.6 system card documents 15–20% self-assigned consciousness probability in welfare assessments
- Feb 2026Feb 19, 2026 — Trump directs federal agencies to declassify UAP records; Department of War rebrands DoD; war.gov/UFO portal goes live
- Feb 2026Feb 25, 2026 — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth states AARO caseload exceeds 2,000 reports
- Feb–Mar 2026Feb–Mar 2026 — Connecticut General Assembly advances HB 5422 (An Act Concerning a Study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena); UConn College of Engineering named study lead; testimony from Tim Gallaudet, Chris Mellon, Michael Gold, and Kirk McConnell
- Mar 2026Mar 10, 2026 — Disclosure Foundation issues public call for review of arXiv's handling of peer-reviewed UAP-related research
- Mar 2026Mar 16, 2026 — 3I/ATLAS reaches closest approach to Jupiter at 53.6 million km, precisely the Hill radius boundary
- Mar 2026Mar 22, 2026 — Luna formally recommends to DOGE that AARO be disbanded and defunded; same week, AARO announces it is coordinating PURSUE declassification
- Mar 2026Mar 30, 2026 — Japan Diet UAP caucus formalizes proposal for a national UAP intelligence office under the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management
- Apr 2026Lazar returns to Joe Rogan; new S-4 documentary released
- Apr 2026Apr 20, 2026 — David Wilcock dies in Boulder County, Colorado; family attributes cause to depression and financial circumstances; death amplifies the missing-scientists narrative regardless of underlying causation
- Apr 2026Apr 4, 2026 — Cann arXiv preprint (2604.06234) reports dose-dependent geomagnetic-storm suppression of VASCO Palomar transient detections (Z = −3.391, p = 0.0007)
- Apr 2026Apr 25, 2026 — Avi Loeb publishes "We have a Missing Science problem, not a Missing Scientists problem," pushing back on the conspiracy framing of the scientist-death cluster
- May 2026May 8, 2026 — PURSUE Release 01: 162 declassified files (120 PDFs, 28 videos, 14 images) published at war.gov/UFO; 340 million hits in the first 12 hours; sources span FBI, Department of War, NASA, State Department
- May 2026May 8, 2026 — Steven Greer holds 25th-anniversary Disclosure Project briefing at the National Press Club; new whistleblower testimony on Indiana underground facility and 29 Palms triangular craft; Buga Sphere analysis presented
- May 2026May 11, 2026 — Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan confirms PURSUE Release 01 contains files referencing Japanese airspace and the East China Sea
- May 2026May 14, 2026 — DefenseScoop: senior UAP figures converge on "data alone is not disclosure" critique of PURSUE Release 01 (redactions, missing metadata, 46 Luna-requested videos not included)
- May 2026May 14–15, 2026 — Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet (Ret.) on Tomi Lahren Is Fearless: "We are aware of higher order non-humans intelligence that direct the movement of these phenomena"
- May 2026May 18–20, 2026 — NSA produces 300+ pages of historical UAP records after Disclosure Foundation FOIA appeal; many pages previously classified TOP SECRET UMBRA
- Aug 12, 2026Aug 12, 2026 — Total Solar Eclipse traverses Arctic Circle, Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain