UAP DISCLOSURE TIMELINE

2017–2021 — THE RECORD GOES PUBLIC

Modern disclosure began in December 2017, when the New York Times revealed a Pentagon UAP program (AATIP) and three Navy infrared videos surfaced. In 2019 the Navy issued formal guidelines for pilots to report sightings. In April 2020 the Department of Defense officially released the FLIR1, Gimbal and GoFast clips, confirming they were authentic and unexplained. In June 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a Preliminary Assessment cataloguing 144 incidents, only one of which it could explain.

2022–2024 — OFFICES AND OATHS

In 2022 the Pentagon stood up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to centralize UAP investigation, and Congress held its first open UAP hearing in over fifty years. In July 2023 a House Oversight subcommittee took sworn testimony from whistleblower David Grusch and Navy aviators Ryan Graves and David Fravor, and Congress wrote UAP records provisions into the annual defense bill. In 2024 AARO published its historical report on the U.S. government's involvement with UAP. Year by year, the question shifted from "is there a record?" to "when does the public get to read it?"

NOW — THE PURSUE PUBLIC RELEASE

That is where PURSUE comes in: the U.S. government's public release of its UAP record — documents, images, and military sensor footage — published in tranches at war.gov. Umbra is the independent reader that indexes every release and renders it natively, so the timeline above ends not with another headline but with the files themselves, in your pocket.