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2004 Nimitz UAP Incident

A series of encounters between US Navy personnel and unidentified aerial objects detected by the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group off the coast of California and Mexico during November 2004.

Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program

A classified US Department of Defense programme, administered by the Defense Intelligence Agency, that investigated unidentified anomalous phenomena and related topics between 2008 and 2012.

Elizondo Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) Claims Investigation

An ongoing journalistic and governmental investigation into whether Luis Elizondo actually led or worked for the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), as he publicly claimed.

Grusch Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Whistleblower Disclosure, 2023 description: 'A 2023 public disclosure in which former intelligence official David Grusch alleged that the US government and defence contractors possess retrieved craft of non-human origin, and that classified information about these programmes has been illegally withheld from Congress.'

Non-Human Craft Recovery Programs

A body of alleged covert programmes in which the United States government and private defence contractors are claimed to have retrieved, stored, and attempted to reverse-engineer craft assessed to be of non-human origin.

Pentagon Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) UFO Program, 2007–2017

A covert US Department of Defense programme that investigated reports of unidentified flying objects from 2007 to 2012, with claimed continuation thereafter until at least 2017.

UAP Biological Effects

A documented category of physical and physiological harm reported by individuals who have had close encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena, ranging from radiation-like burns to neurological injury.