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Guide · Nov 10, 2026

UFO Sightings: How Many Are Reported and How Many Are Explained

The U.S. government has logged 1,870 UAP reports and explains about a third of each year's new ones. Here are the official counts from Project Blue Book to AARO's 2025 report, what the explained sightings turned out to be and why most of the rest stay open.

Guide · Nov 4, 2026

Project Blue Book: What the Air Force Records Say

The Air Force logged 12,618 UFO sightings from 1947 to 1969 and couldn't explain 701. Here's who ran Project Blue Book, what it concluded, why it was shut down and where to read the files.

Guide · Nov 2, 2026

Betty and Barney Hill: The 1961 Abduction Account, Sourced

In 1961 a New Hampshire couple reported a light that followed their car. The abduction story came out under hypnosis three years later. Here's what the earliest records say, what's only claimed, and what's still open.

Guide · Oct 29, 2026

What Is at Area 51? What the CIA Documents Confirm

Area 51 is real, and the CIA's own history explains why it was built at Groom Lake and what flew there. Here's what the declassified records confirm, what's only claimed, and what's still secret.

Guide · Oct 26, 2026

UAP News This Week: Releases, Hearings and What Changed

The Pentagon's seventh batch of UFO files leads with a silent black triangle, a former UAP official's memoir draws pushback, and a hearing still has no date. Here's what's documented this week and what's only been claimed.

Guide · Oct 22, 2026

Bob Lazar: His Claims, What Was Checked and What Wasn't

In 1989 a Las Vegas man said he'd worked on alien craft at a secret site south of Area 51. Here's what the lab letters, court records and Pentagon reviews show, and what still rests on his word alone.

Guide · Oct 16, 2026

Did a Hellfire Missile Really Bounce Off a UFO?

A congressman played a clip of a Hellfire missile hitting an “orb” off Yemen. Here’s what the record shows, what the Pentagon said, and why analysts say balloon.

Guide · Aug 3, 2026

How Likely Is Extraterrestrial Life?

The honest answer has two halves: microbial life elsewhere looks increasingly plausible — and none of that is evidence about UAP.

Guide · Aug 3, 2026

How Do You Report a UFO Sighting?

There are real channels — civilian and military — and a good report is mostly about what you write down in the first five minutes.

Guide · Aug 3, 2026

What Actually Happened at Roswell?

What happened at Roswell, as a document timeline: the July 1947 press release and retraction, the 1994 Air Force Mogul report and the 1997 follow up report.

Guide · Aug 3, 2026

What Do UAP Actually Look Like?

The credible record clusters into a few recurring shapes — spheres, oblongs, and silent triangles — and the clusters have moved with the decades.

Guide · Aug 3, 2026

What Does a UFO Sound Like?

In the credible record, overwhelmingly: nothing. Across decades and continents, the recurring detail is silence — and silence is harder to explain than a roar.