NASA chief keeps an open mind on UFOs, without confirming alien origins
NASA’s chief calls for serious investigation of unexplained phenomena without confirming an extraterrestrial origin.
Oct 6, 2026Open file →
NASA’s chief calls for serious investigation of unexplained phenomena without confirming an extraterrestrial origin.
Explore the latest briefings, scientific questions and historic cases. Each article provides context for the claims it covers.
NASA’s chief calls for serious investigation of unexplained phenomena without confirming an extraterrestrial origin.
David Grusch describes alleged UFO recoveries and non-human beings. His new accounts remain unverified.
The sixth PURSUE release makes more historical UAP records public. Publication does not establish alien origins.
A targeted waiver addresses certain secrecy-agreement barriers for internal UAP reporting, not public disclosure.
The White House denies plans for a speech confirming aliens. UFO-community speculation is not a confirmed schedule.
NASA's new research network is coordinating the search for life in seas beneath alien ice. Here is what scientists know—and what the headlines overstate.
A larger official archive gives researchers more evidence to inspect, but “unresolved” still does not mean “extraterrestrial.”
Researchers are revisiting how to verify, announce, and respond to a credible extraterrestrial signal in an age of instant misinformation.
The interstellar object received a direct radio check for technology. The null result is narrow, useful, and consistent with a natural comet.
Large molecules survived in ancient mudstone, and tested non-biological sources may not explain all of them. Intriguing is not the same as alive.
A day-by-day account of how the U.S. Army's explanation shifted from "flying disc" to "balloon" in under 48 hours, and why that reversal still fuels the case today.
Three of the most-cited UAP videos, explained frame by frame — what the Navy confirmed, what pilots said, and what still isn't explained.
A silent, triangular formation of lights reported by three independent witnesses on the same night. We map the sightlines and check the flight logs.
Frank Drake's famous formula for estimating intelligent life, rebuilt with current exoplanet data. The odds move — just maybe not the way you'd expect.
We trace the theory back to its original forum posts and test its central claims against the architectural and archival record.
A preview of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's upcoming findings, and which past cases are reportedly being reopened.
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What actually came down outside a New Mexico ranch in July 1947 — and why the story changed three times in one week.
Declassified Open file →Congressional hearings, Pentagon task forces, and whistleblower testimony — tracking the slow, official admission that something is up there.
Active Open file →Pilot reports, radar returns, and civilian footage from every decade since Kenneth Arnold coined "flying saucer" in 1947.
Open Open file →From Grey abduction lore to the Drake Equation — the science, the folklore, and everything in the blurry space between.
Unverified Open file →The alternate-history theory that a lost, advanced civilization was erased from the record. We dig through the claims, for and against.
Disputed Open file →In July 2023, a former intelligence officer testified to Congress that the U.S. government has recovered "non-human" craft and biological material — claims the Pentagon has neither confirmed nor fully denied. We break down what was said, what wasn't, and what a formal Inspector General review actually found.
Our disclosure file tracks every hearing, leaked memo, and official statement since 2017, translated out of bureaucratic language and into plain English.
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Books and documentaries our community keeps coming back to — a mix of believers, skeptics, and journalists.
| Title | Author / Director | Format | Take |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Roswell Report | U.S. Air Force (declassified) | Document | The official 1997 explanation, straight from the source — worth reading even if you don't buy it. |
| UFOs: The Secret History | Various contributors | Book | A skeptic-friendly survey of sightings from 1947 to today, heavy on primary sources. |
| Nimitz Encounters (2004) | U.S. Navy pilot testimony | Case study | The case that restarted mainstream UAP coverage in 2017 — still the most cited. |
| Communion | Whitley Strieber | Memoir | The book that shaped modern abduction narratives — read as culture as much as claim. |
| Are We Alone? | Paul Davies | Book | A physicist's grounded take on the odds and implications of contact. |
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