Unresolved
does not mean
extraterrestrial.
The UAP problem is not a shortage of cases. It is a shortage of data. This database separates what was recorded at the time from what was added in the decades after — case by case, claim by claim.
cases
in the corpus
on the ledger
programmes
Established
- — UAP are a real category of reported observation, in government files from the 1940s to the present.
- — A dozen-plus states ran or still run their own investigative programmes.
- — The Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of three US Navy recordings.
- — Some cases remain unresolved despite rigorous investigation.
- — The phenomenon is global, not American.
Not established
- — That any case involves an extraterrestrial craft.
- — That any non-terrestrial craft or material was ever recovered.
- — That a confirmed reverse-engineering programme exists.
- — That any artefact has been scientifically shown to be non-terrestrial.
- — That the extreme performance in the accounts was ever measured.
Both columns are true at the same time. The entire difficulty of this field sits between them — and most public argument consists of pretending only one of them exists.
Evidential core
Cases that survived verification
Tehran
After a series of civilian reports, the Iranian air force scrambled two F-4s. According to a Defense Intelligence Agency report, the first aircraft lost instruments and communications on a…
Hessdalen
Since 1981 the Hessdalen valley has produced recurring luminous phenomena — at peak, more than a dozen times a week. In 1984 an expedition deployed radar, a spectrograph, a magnetometer, a…
RB-47H over the Gulf of Mexico
The crew of an RB-47H electronic reconnaissance aircraft reported a simultaneous correlation: a signal on the passive ELINT receivers, a visual sighting of a bright light, and a reported g…
USS Nimitz / Tic Tac
During carrier strike group exercises, SPY-1 radar operators aboard USS Princeton tracked unusual contacts over several days. On 14 November two F/A-18Fs were vectored to one of them. Four…
The Washington Wave
On two consecutive July weekends, civilian and military radars around Washington tracked unidentified targets over restricted airspace, correlated with visual sightings by pilots. Intercep…
Minot AFB
Over several hours, missile security teams reported a luminous object near launch facilities, ground radar tracked a target, and a returning B-52 both saw the object and recorded it on its…
Trans-en-Provence
A witness watched from about thirty metres as an object descended onto the terrace of his property, rested for several seconds and departed vertically. The gendarmerie secured the site the…
Roosevelt / East Coast
Following an upgrade to AESA radars, US Navy pilots began routinely recording objects in Atlantic training areas — in some accounts almost daily. The series led to changed reporting proced…
Bentwaters–Lakenheath
On the night of 13–14 August 1956 the radars of two USAF bases in England tracked targets correlated with visual sightings from the ground and from the air. A scrambled RAF fighter obtaine…
Source layer
Documents first, assessment second
450 records the Department of War has released under PURSUE, each with the link to the material at the publisher. 88 of them are cited by a case so far. The bottleneck in this subject was never the number of sightings: it is that almost nobody reads the paperwork.
Claim ledger
Myth versus document
Not cases — individual sentences. Each with its origin, its status, and what exactly would settle it.
Contradicted by the witness himself.
The RB-47H’s onboard equipment was an ELINT / direction-finding suite — a passive receiver of other emitters, not a radar returning echoes off objects.
The data needed to work it out is on the video itself: viewing angle and range to target are displayed on the HUD.
Intelligence officers at McChord Field told the FBI that “THERE IS NO QUESTION OF THE CRASH OF THE B- TWENTYFIVE AT KELSO … HAVING BEEN CAUSED BY ANY SABOTAGE” and gave the cause: “THE LEFT ENGINE BURNED OUT AN EXHAUST STACK WHICH CAUSED THE WING TO BURN AND BREAK OFF” (Seattle teletype of 6 August 1947).
The number 701 is correct: of 12,618 reports investigated, that many remained in the ‘unidentified’ category.
The UK Ministry of Defence file is unambiguous on this point: no radar confirmation of an unidentified object in that area and timeframe was found.
Source tiers
Every sentence has a level
Primary document
Operational report, case file, gendarmerie protocol, lab result — produced close to the event.
Official statement
Institutional confirmation: ministry statement, authenticity release, agency determination.
Sworn testimony
Witness account given under legal weight — congressional testimony, sworn statement.
Later account / reconstruction
Interview, memoir or reconstruction produced years after the event. The layer most prone to growth.
Media claim
A claim circulating without documentary backing. Recorded because it shapes how a case is read.
Roswell and Rendlesham are built mostly from T4 and T5. Tehran 1976 and Trans-en-Provence stand on T1. That difference matters more than the shape of the object.
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