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Customs and Border Protection UAP records added to the National Archives catalog

CBP records are added to the National Archives Catalog and, by September 22, to the UAP Records Collection topics page.

Comer says a planned House Oversight UAP hearing was cancelled

Oversight Chairman James Comer says a UAP hearing planned for the third week of September was cancelled by GOP leaders and that he hopes to revive it in November.

Department of War issues legal waiver for UAP disclosures to PURSUE

The department announces a waiver letting current and former personnel and contractors share UAP information with PURSUE representatives despite NDAs and SAP indoctrination agreements; it does not authorize public disclosure.

AARO plans sole-source access to a private UAP records archive

A contracting notice shows AARO intends a sole-source data subscription to the National UFO Historic Records Center, with interest in material from before 1990.

ODNI issues preliminary guidance on UAP disclosure

An ODNI memorandum tells intelligence agencies to set up a PURSUE designee within 30 days and to inform their workforce that NDAs no longer bar reporting UAP information to AARO or PURSUE.

House adopts the UAP Disclosure Act as an FY2027 NDAA amendment

The House adopts Rep. Eric Burlison's amendment creating a permanent UAP Records Collection and an independent UAP Records Review Board; the NDAA then moves to the Senate.

President directs agencies to waive NDAs for former personnel with UAP information

Fox News reports that the president has directed the Department of War and intelligence agencies to waive prior NDAs so former employees and contractors can brief AARO or the PURSUE task force.

AARO releases its FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on UAP

The report covers 319 new UAP reports and 370 resolved cases, notes nine cases still under review by partners, and includes a Navy report of about 100 airborne objects off Virginia that AARO is investigating.

UAP Science Advisory Council announced under the Governance Board

Harvard's Avi Loeb announces a multidisciplinary council to give scientific guidance on UAP, reporting to the Governance Board and working only with unclassified data.

Interagency UAP Governance Board confirmed by ODNI

An ODNI official says ODNI, the FBI and the Department of War created a UAP Governance Board, which met for the first time the day before, to coordinate investigations and declassification under the president's directive.

Second batch of State Department UAP cables added to the collection

Five State Department cables, first published on war.gov, are added to the National Archives UAP Records Collection; FBI records also appear in the catalog.

War Department says AARO is working with the White House to consolidate UAP records

A War Department official says AARO is coordinating with the White House and other agencies to combine UAP record collections and release unseen material, and that records have already gone to the National Archives.

Pentagon passes Luna's deadline for the requested UAP videos

The Pentagon does not deliver the requested videos by April 14; Luna says the files will be released and that the department has promised a briefing.

Luna asks Hegseth for AARO's UAP video files

Task Force chair Rep. Anna Paulina Luna sends Secretary Hegseth a letter requesting UAP video files that whistleblowers say AARO holds, citing inadequate responses from AARO.

AARO workshop on standardizing UAP narrative data reported

DefenseScoop reports that AARO sponsored an invite-only workshop of about 40 researchers in August 2025 on capturing and sharing UAP narrative data, with a whitepaper posted online the month before.

AARO caseload reported above 2,000

A Pentagon spokesperson says AARO is examining over 2,000 UAP cases, about 1,000 of them in the Active Archive for lack of data, and that the office has not yet published its 2025 annual report.

Hegseth says the Pentagon will comply with the UAP directive

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says in Colorado that the department will comply with the president's order, will work with ODNI, and that more details on the process will follow.

Department of State series appears in the UAP Records Collection

Eight Department of State records appear on NARA's public file server for Record Group 615, the first State Department material in the collection.

Presidential directive to identify and release UAP files

President Trump directs the Pentagon and other federal agencies to identify and release government files on extraterrestrial life, UAP and UFOs, announced in a social media post that night.